1. Esha Gupta
2. Ileana D Cruz
Ileana D'Cruz made her debut in Telugu film "Devadasu" with Ram Pothineni, which fetched her the Filmfare best female debut award in 2006. After working in the Telugu film industry for nearly six years, Ileana made her Bollywood debut with "Barfi"(2012), co-starring with Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra.
Southern film actresses (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada) have made their mark in Bollywood over the years and went on to become the leading ladies of B-town. The trend of South Indian actresses migrating to Hindi film industry is not new. Bollywood has always welcomed film stars from down south. Ileana D’Cruz is the latest so...
3. Tinu Suresh Desai
Tinu Suresh Desai is a Bollywood director who entered the film industry with the Hindi flick 1920 London. The 2016 film had Sharman Joshi and Meera Chopra in the lead roles. His other 2016 release was the Akshay Kumar starrer Rustom. It also had Ileana D Cruz, Esha Gupta and Arjan Bajwa in the cast. While 1920 London didn’t make it big in the box office, Rustom was highly appreciated by critics and fans.
...4. Neeraj Pandey
Neeraj Pandey is an Indian movie producer, director and screenplay writer. He is known for the picture named A Wednesday which got released in 2008. He received acceptance for his work from the critics as well as the audience. He went on to win Indira Gandhi Award under the category Best First Film of a Director (debut). He also received Star Screen Award for the best story as well as film for A Wednesday. His second movie named Special 26, starring Akshay Kumar, received the same reaction from both the audience as well as the critics.
His third venture, Baby (2015), starring Akshay Kumar, became a commercial as well as critical success. He was born in 1973 in Kolkata and is aged 43. He was also brought up in the same city. His father was originally from Bihar, but he mo...
5. Shital Bhatia
Shital Bhatia is an Indian filmmaker who is the co-founder of his production house Friday Filmworks. He also runs Plan C Studios, which is a joint ve nture between his productions and Anil Ambani’s Reliance Entertainment. His most notable movies include A Wednesday, Special 26, Baby, etc.
Shital Bhatia was born and grew up in a Punjabi family in Mumbai. He studied at Mithibai College, graduating with a degree in Bachelors of Commerce. Later, Shital went on to pursue a diploma in Fashion Designing and graduated in 1995. While early on in his career he worked as a fashion and costume designer, he soon started as a supervisor of the transportation department for the movie The Curse of King Tut's Tomb in 2006. He was also a crew member for The Memsahib in the same ...
6. Shiv Pandit
Shiv Pandit was born on 21 June 1984. He is an extremely talented and versatile Bollywood actor and a TV host too. After working on a few TV advertisements for some of the most famous brands like Colgate, Airtel, Sprite, etc.
It was the year 2006 that brought some happier news for this budding actor. He was given the opportunity to play the lead part in the show FIR. In the year 2008, he has likewise been approached to play the role of a host in 'Extra Innings T20' for the first edition of the much popular Indian Premier League. He marked his Bollywood debut with the successful movie “Shaitan”. Shaitan received much appreciation from the film critics. It was because of this movie that he eventually got noticed in Bollywood industry. Shiv was also nominated for Filmfare Award for her role in Shaitan. Thereafte...
7. Vipul K Rawal
He is an Indian writer, scriptwriter and an entrepreneur. He came in lime light through his latest film Rustom(2016). Besides movies, he has also left his impression on television industry with Vicky Ki Taxi. His documentary named Audi Alteram Parten got nominated at the Stuttgart Film Festival, Germany for the Best Documentary and Audience Choice award. Apart from these, he also writes for magazines, newspapers, websites and has also written a book "Film Ki Kahani Kaise Likhe" under Rajkamal Prakashan publishing house.
He was born on 7 November 1968 in Surendranagar, Gujrat. Before landing into the writer's world, he worked as a sailor in Indian Navy. He took his basic training at INS Chilika. Soon he came in the film industry to try his h...
8. Santosh Thundiyil
Santosh Thundiyil is a cinematographer, who keeps on working hard behind the camera without any expectations, and it is the hard work of cinematographers like him, that movie’ s become superhits. We are going to share with you about one of the most popular Cinematographers the industry has ever had. He is a part of many successful films of the cinema world. Some of them are Kuch Kuch Hota Hain starring Shah Rukh Khan against Rani Mukherjee and Kajol, Hello Brother, Pinjar, Kaal, Krrish, Luck, Rowdy Rathore, Jai Ho, Rustom. He was born in Changanassery, Kerala, India. He completed his Schooling from Sacred Heart English Medium School and did his Graduation in Chemistry from St. Berchman’s College, Changanassery.
In 1994, after completing his graduation, he went to the reputed Film and Television Institute of India(FT...
9. Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar was born on 9th September 1967 and his birth name is ‘Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia’. He is a great Bollywood actor who has acted in more than 100 movies. He is also a producer and martial artist. He has won The Filmfare awards a couple of times. He started off his career as an actor in 1990s, where he had stricken with action based movies initially. He has been greatly appreciated for his drama, romance and comic roles. He is considered to be the only Bollywood actor whose net box office collection is 20 million rupees. He has done a lot of dangerous stunts in movies without a body double. This did gain a name for him as 'Indian Jackie Chan'.
In the year 2008, Akshay Kumar was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of law by the University of Windsor for his contribution in acting. This was a huge pride f...
10. Arjan Bajwa
11. Brijendra Kala
Born in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, Brijendra Kala is a very talented though underrated artiste and he stepped into mainstream cinema during the year 2005 with the film “Haasil”. The movie had Jimmy Shergill in the lead and it was a success. Brijendra Kala donned the character of a new vendor in the movie. He had also acted in successful movies, including “Jab We Met” and “Agneepath”. In Jab We Met he took up the character of Taxi Driver and his performance was recognized. Some of his other famous movies include “ Karthik calling Karthik”, Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, “Paan Siingh Tomar”, “Bhootnath Returns” etc.
Though Brijendra Kala acted in minor roles he made his presence felt. His recent work was in “PK” wherein he enacted the role of a vendor at th...
12. Kanawaljit Singh
Kanwaljit Singh is an Indian Television and film actor born on 21st October 1944 in Uttar Pradesh. He comes from a Sikh family of Saharanpur. He got married to Anuradha Patel. After completing his graduation he joined Film and Television institute of India in Pune. He made his Bollywood debut from the movie Daastan-e-Laila Majnu. After that he was seen in the movie Hum Rahe Na Hum, both of his movies did not do good business. After this failure he turned to Television industry and started to make his career in Television industry.
He got offer from Ramesh Sippy’s drama Buniyad in which he played the role of illegitimate child as Satbir. His role in Buniyad was appreciated by the audience and gave him limelight. After Buniyad he was approached to popular TV dramas Saans, Family no. 1, Dard and Siski. He chos...
13. Parmeet Sethi
Parmeet Sethi came to limelight as Kuljeet in the super hit film DDLJ (Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge). The film starred some big names in the Bollywood such as Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Anupam Kher, Amrish Puri, and Farida Jalal amidst others. Character of Kuljeet, an arrogant alpha male betrothed to the heroine Simran (Kajol) and competes with Raj the protagonist played by Shahrukh Khan. The Indian film director as well as TV actor completed his education in Mumbai from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics. On the 30th June 1992, Parmeet married his live-in partner Archana Puran Singh. The couple was in a live-in relationship for several years before they tied the knot. Archana Puran Singh too is a film and TV actress. The couple has two sons together, Aaryamann and Ayushmaan. In terms of his fami...
14. Pavan Malhotra
Pavan Malhotra is a famous actor and is seen on television and in the Indian movies. He was born on July 1958 and has worked in many movies and dramas. He has played lead roles in many movies and has also fetched many awards. His work in the movie Bagh Bahadur has made him able to win the National Film Award. Similarly, he also played lead roles in many other movies like the one in Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro, which was released in 1989. He not only worked in the Hindi movies, but also in Telugu movies. His role as a don of a mafia in the Telugu movie Aithe became very famous. Another Telugu famous movie named AnukoKunda Oka Roju portrayed him in the role of Tantric, and this movie also got a huge fan following.
15. Sachin Khedekar
Actor Sachin Khedekar is very much known to Indian audience for portraying the role of national leader Subhas Chandra Bose in a biopic directed by Shyam Benegal. Bengal chose this actor because he had so much resemblance in look and personality that Khedeker tried to get into the mind and heart of viewers with his versatile acting.
This artiste was predominantly acting in Marathi cinema, and Benegal had discovered him to essay the role of freedom fighter Bose. Later, he played Tabu’s husband in Astitva and also performed in Ajay Devgan’s Singham and Hrithik Roshan’s Krrish-3. In the quest for good roles, the actor then took a break from Hindi cinema and switched to Marathi Cinema and Television. This actor started his film journey in 1990 with the...
16. Virendra K Arora
Virendra.K.Arora is an Indian film producer known for “Amar Hai,” in which he worked with Kamal Haasan (an Indian actor & director) and Saif Ali Khan (an Indian actor & director). He was on a mission to entertain & captivate his audiences. He drew inspiration from films including “Khatta Meetha (1981),” “Angoor (1982),” “Baton Baton Mein (1979),” “Chupke Chupke (1975),” and “Katha (1983).” Arora aims at the idea of producing a clean, multi-starrer film for family entertainment.
...