Shonali Bose
Priyanka Chopra
Juhi Chaturvedi
Monisha R Baldawa
Zaira Wasim
Nancy Nisa Beso
Antara Mitra
Aradhana Seth
Samvedna Suwalka
Devika Dave
Yasmin Sethi
Rachita Kapoor
Ronnie Screwvala
Siddharth Roy Kapur
Nilesh Maniyar
Pritam Chakraborty
Farhan Akhtar
Shubhagat Chowdhury
John Penotti
Gulzar
Arijit Singh
Anish John
Sarit Chatterjee
Gyana Mishra
Tiya Tejpal
Abhishek Banerjee
Anmol Ahuja
Manas Mittal
Brian Nathan
Rohit Saraf
Anubhav Chopra
Sarath Mohan
1. Shonali Bose
Shonali Bose, who was born in the year 1965, is a Bengali woman, who started her career in Indian film industry as Director, Producer and Screenwriter. She is well known for her film Amu that explores attacks on Sikhs in the year 1984 in Delhi.
Shonali was born in Calcutta, and she grew up in Delhi and Bombay. When she was a student at Miranda House, she has been an activist. She completed her Bachelors of Arts from Delhi University and Masters in Political Science from Columbia University, New York. She got married to Bedabrata Pain, who is a filmmaker.
For a year she had worked as an organizer at National Lawyers Guild and she directed a live community television in Manhattan. Her short films like Undocumented, Lifting the Veils and The Gendarme Is Here have screened in many festivals throughout the world.
Wit...
2. Priyanka Chopra
Born on 18 July 1982, Priyanka Chopra is an established actress and ex Miss World. She is also a talented singer. She is one of the richest actresses of Indian film industry and is a celebrated diva of Bollywood. Priyanka Chopra is bestowed with numerous credits; she has won the Filmfare awards 4 times and National Award once.
Born in Jamshedpur, Priyanka’s parents were doctors in Indian Army. It was during the year 2000, that this actress stepped into the Femina Miss India contest and from then on her journey to success is indeed commendable. She was the runner up in the contest and eventually won the Miss World title in 20...
3. Juhi Chaturvedi
Juhi Chaturvedi is a screenwriter from India and had an advertising profession in Mumbai. She was born in the year 1975 in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. In her career she wrote scripts for Bollywood movies like Vicky Donor and Piku. In the year 2013, she won the Film fare award for the best story for Vicky Donor. She was felicitated with National Film Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Dialogues, and 2016 Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Piku. She graduated from Lucknow College Of Arts.
Chaturvedi started her career as a freelance illustrator with Times of India, Lucknow. After that she was shifted to Delhi in 1996, when she joined advertising with Ogilvy and Mather as an art director in 1999. Then she moved to the Mumbai office o...
4. Monisha R Baldawa
Monisha R. Baldawa is a well-known editor in the Bollywood industry. She has worked in many hit films and songs, specifically known for Badla in 2019, Fanney Khan in 2018 and Dhadak in 2018, Mom, Chutney and many more. She has got Filmfare awards for best editing in 2017.
...5. Zaira Wasim
Zaira is an Indian Television and Movie Actress. She was born on the 23rd of October in the year 2000. She belongs to the controversial state of Jammu and Kashmir and is a Kashmiri by birth. She turned 16 in 2016 and is currently studying in 10th standard in a missionary school in Kashmir. She has been in front of the cameras even as a child and can be seen in numerous television ad campaigns. She can be seen in an Indian satellite TV provider commercial of Tata Sky and an advertisement for Nokia smartphone commercial, Nokia Lumia. She rose to fame with her performance in ‘Dangal’.
The highest grossing flick of India brought her international attention. She is also the female protagonist in Aamir Khan’s 2017 production – ‘Secret Superstar’. Her career in Bollywood started in ...
6. Nancy Nisa Beso
Nancy Nisa Beso is an India and UK based producer. She has worked in both indie and commercials films. Nancy has experience in the areas of Film, Television, and TVC production. Her qualifications in the field of film making include studies in the University of Westminster, where she acquired a BA Hons in Film Theory, Analysis, and Practice, from 2007 to 2009.
Her area of specialization is production and cinematography. Before attending the University of Westminster in the UK, Beso did BA Economics, Political Science, Education from 2003 to 2006 from the Delhi University. And in 2005 she did a diploma course in Film, Television, and Journalism from the Asian Academy of Film and Television.
Beso started her career in the area of media at a young age. She began working with local radio and television and eventually worked...
7. Antara Mitra
Antara Mitra was born on 10th July 1987 in the state of West Bengal. She is a very famous playback singer, who is absolutely good with her vocals. The solid platform which gave her an avenue to the Bollywood film industry was her participation in a reality show of Sony TV. The name of the show is Indian Idol of season two which took place in the year 2006. She was an active participant of the show, which turned out to be the key reason for her entry into playback singing.
Antara Mitra had an absolute enthusiasm in singing and her father was the one who motivated her. This had moulded her to become the finalist of the shows Indi...
8. Aradhana Seth
Aradhana Seth is an Indian director, producer, production designer, and photographer. She has made over 18 documentary films. Her films include The Darjeeling Limited, released in 2007, and The Bourne supremacy, released in 2004. Aradhana’s production design works include The Sweet Requiem released in 2018, Chuskit released in 2018; Angry Indian Goddesses released in 2015, and Don in 2006.
Aradhana is currently residing in Goa, but she lived in America and Europe before moving to Goa. Aradhana was a producer of films like A Suitable Boy in 2020, Dam/ Age: A Film with Arundhati Roy in 2002, A women’s place in 1998, What is our Choice in 1995, and Omnibus in 1994. Aradhana directed films like Dam/Age, The Magnificent Ruin, What is our Choice, Omnibus, Art for Cry, Satish Gujral, Juvenile Justice, Hanging by a thread. ...
9. Samvedna Suwalka
Samvedna Suwalka is an Indian actress who was born in the city of Jamnagar, Gujarat. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs in around 55 KG. Her hair color is black. She has completed his MBBS. Her hobbies are Travelling, Dancing & Writing. She learned to dance at an early age of 3. She started performing on stages at the age of 5. She has received multiple awards for acting & dancing during her school days. Samvedna was a writer as well as a director during her school time, and she was directing a play in which she played the role of Petruchio- a male protagonist in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
Her group won the inter-house play competition, and she won the best actor award. She also joined the Gujarati theatre group in Jamnagar. After she completed her MBBS, Samvedna did a two-year degree in film studi...
10. Devika Dave
13. Ronnie Screwvala
Born in the city of Mumbai to a family of Parsi religion, Rohinton Soli Screwvala is an Indian philanthropist, entrepreneur, CEO, and founder of UTV Group, which included Bloomberg UTV, UTV Software Communications, etc. Since school time Ronnie had an interest in films and theater. He also acted in some skits in Bombay theater like Alyque Padamsee and Pearl. But he did not like working for others, so his stage career ended as he wished to initiate his business. Ronnie started on a small scale in the year 1981.
He worked as a cable TV operator in the city Mumbai under the network company. It provided a video channel for three hours to people who lived in the Cuffe Parade area which is the affluent area of Mumbai. The channel became famous, and craze grew among people there. In the year 1990, Ronnie found the UTV...
14. Siddharth Roy Kapur
Siddharth Roy Kapur is an Indian businessman, film producer and managing director of Disney India. He hails from a film background; his mother was a film choreographer and his brothers being well known film actors. His father was a Punjabi and mother, Salome Roy Kapur, was a Jew and former Miss India. He is a two time divorcee and is currently married to actress Vidya Balan. He finished his Bachelors in Commerce from the Sydenham College in Mumbai and got his MBA from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), where he was a part of the hallowed Placement Committee.
He joined UTV in 2005 as a senior vice president and headed the Marketing and Communications divisions. He let marketing programs for many cult classics and successful projects such as Rang De Basanti, Khosla Ka Ghosla and &ls...
15. Nilesh Maniyar
Nilesh Maniyar is an Indian film director or assistant director. He was born in 1984 in Pune. His first film was Margarita with A Straw in 2014, and The Sky is Pink in 2019. His films are always on different subjects. His two films has been shown in Big festivals, and found many praises from all over the India. He puts 100% in every step of film making like directory of photography, casting, story writing and directions.
His view of thinking and working is also different from any director. He is foody and loves Punjabi food. He is also a co-writer and co-producer. He is a very gentle and intelligent person who worked with passion. Nilesh works closely with his script before every film. He also considers the casting of the film very carefully. Before becoming a successful director, he has worked as an assistant director in many ...
16. Pritam Chakraborty
17. Farhan Akhtar
One of the most recognized young director of Indian cinema. In fact, he is the most versatile person in the industry as of now. He is Farhan Akhtar, a film director, actor, singer, writer, producer, screenwriter everything you name it, he has it. Son of the famous writer Javed Akhtar & actress Honey Irani was born on 09 Jan, 1974 in Mumbai.
As he was growing, he found the film industry around him. At home, the atmosphere of arts, literature influenced him to become creative man. He did his schooling from Maneckji Cooper & Graduated from HR College, Mumbai. After then, he started his career in films, first as ass...
18. Shubhagat Chowdhury
As we read about new coming actors and directors, Shubhagat Chowdhary is a name for his assistant director. He doesn’t tell us about him that he is a director. He introduced himself as an assistant. He is not of more age but had a mature mind. He is a learning man. Shubhagat Chowdhary is living in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He is about twenty- five years old. He had his schooling from Bhakti Vedanta Swami Mission School, Mumbai. He takes graduation from Jai Hind College, Mumbai in 2011 from BA (Arts) in History. When he completed his studies, he directs the Hindi movie Char Din Ki Chandni with Top Angle Productions, Rajasthan.
Sameer Karneek is the director. Here is a situation of brother’s wedding and Chandni came to join it. Kulraj Randhawa is playing the ...
19. John Penotti
John Penotti is the President of SK Global, a business formed by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE), a Hollywood-based independent film finance and production company, and Ivanhoe Pictures, a globally oriented local-language content company. Since his first collaboration with famous filmmaker Sidney Lumet, John has created over 45 films and has been a major industry executive. Crazy Rich Asians, an adaptation of Kevin Kwan's best-selling novel directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Michelle Yeoh, Constance Wu, and Henry Golding, was produced and co-financed by John & Ivanhoe Pictures, Warner Bros., and Color Force.
John also produced the Chinese film My Other Home, which tells the actual story of NBA and CBA player Stephon Marbury. In 2016, John was the Executive Producer of filmmaker Na Hong-Korean Jin's sensation The ...
20. Gulzar
Gulzar is the pen name of the author, poet and popular lyricist Sampooran Singh Karla. He was born on the 18th of August in 1934 in Dina, Jhelum district of British India to parents Makhan Singh Karla and Sujan Kaur. His career kicked off under the directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His songwriting career began with the movie Bandini, released 1963, for the tunes composed by music director Sachin Dev Burman. From then on, he went on to write the lyrics for many memorable songs of the Bollywood industry. He worked with magnanimous music directors like R. D. Burman, S. D. Burman, A. R. Rahman, Lakshmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan and Anu Malik to name a few. The work of the trio Maniratnam, A. R .Rahman and Gulzar is much remembered in the industry. He has also given dialogues and scree...
21. Arijit Singh
Most famous for his songs in Aashiqui 2, Arijit Singh has established himself as a prominent playback singer and music programmer. He was the runner-up in Fame Gurukul, a singing competition, in 2005. He then went on to win another singing reality show, 10 Ke 10 Le Gaye Dil.
Born in 1987 in West Bengal, Arjit was trained in classical music by his aunt and mother. He had a passion for music from an early age and his parents decided to get him a professional trainer, Rajendra Prasad Hazari for classical music and Dhirendra Prasad Hazari to train him at tabla. His teachers encouraged Arijit to try out for Fame Gurukul in 2005 and chose to promote the Indian classical music genre.
Pritam Chakraborty gave Arjit a chance and signed him for three films; Crook, Golmaal 3, and Action R...
22. Anish John
Anish John is an Indian movie sound designer and mixer. He is a National Award winner for Best Sound Design or Best Audiography in the film ‘Labour of Love.’ John also won a Filmfare Award at their 63rd Annual edition, where he gained a nomination for the category of Best Sound Design. Anish also gained a Jagran Film Award for Best Sound Design, in the 8th Jagran Film Festival in 2017. It was his second victory in this same category, as he also bagged an award at the 6th Jagran Film Festival, in the year 2015. John also gained high critical acclaim for his work as the Sound Designer in the first Indian Netflix original series, Sacred Games.
‘Newton,’ the 2017 Bollywood movie selected for the category of Best Foreign Language Film (Indian entry) for the 90th Annual Academy Awards, had Anish John’s p...
23. Sarit Chatterjee
Sarit Chatterjee is also known as Sarit Sekhar Chatterjee, was born in 1987 in Kolkata, India. He cherishes in Kalimpong- a hill town in West Bengal. Sarit did his schooling from there itself. His mother was a vocalist, and his father used to be a respected session drummer, which led Sarit to be interested in Music, and he began to play Drums and Guitar at a very young age. He used to participate in all the school events and after which he started playing drums professionally. For further he chose to do a diploma in Audio Production from SAE Institute, Sydney, Australia. He has worked as a Sound Engineer and Audio Editor at Yash Raj Films. Some of his great works are- ‘Gunday’ released in 2014, ‘Ek Tha Tiger in 2012, ‘Fan’ in 2016, ‘Sultan’ in 2016, &lsqu...
24. Gyana Mishra
Gyana Mishra is a well-known sound recordist from the Bollywood industry. He has worked in the sound department as a sound recordist and boom operator in various hit films in Bollywood. He started his career with Lekroo in 2000, The Taj of Apollo Bunder in 2004, Dev in 2004, Aga Bai Arecha in 2004, Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets in 2005, Red Mercury in 2005, Rockin' Meera in 2006, Eik Dasttak in 2007, Strangers in 2007, Ugly Aur Pagli in 2008, 3 Idiots in 2009, Lafangey Parindey in 2010, Knock Out in 2010, Guzaarish in 2010, Katha Screenplay Darsakatvam: Appalaraju in 2011, Deool in 2011, Ferrari Ki Sawaari in 2012, Cocktail in 2012, Ek Thi Daayan in 2013, Oonga in 2013, D-Day in 2013, Madras Cafe in 2013, The Coffin Maker in 2013, Ek Hazarachi Note in 2014, PK in 2014, Tevar in 2015, Piku in 2015, B...
25. Tiya Tejpal
Tiya Tejpal is a well-known production designer in the Indian film industry. She was born and raised in India and went on to study at Hampshire College in the United States, where she graduated in 2009. After completing her education, Tiya returned to India and began her career in the Bollywood film industry as an Assistant Director. While working as an AD on the film Life of Pi, Tiya discovered her passion for the work done in the Art department. She decided to pursue her interest in production design and went on to work on a variety of films, television shows, advertising campaigns, and web series projects.
Over the years, Tiya has worked on several notable projects, including the films The White Tiger, Raman Raghav 2.0, and Karwaan. Her work on The White Tiger received critical acclaim and was praised for its attention to de...
26. Abhishek Banerjee
Abhishek Banerjee is a writer and actor in Indian cinema. He has worked even in Bengali movies. It was for a movie 'Ashbo Aar Ekdin', a Bengali film went on the floors from December 2011, he began his writing journey. He was the co-writer of the story along with Dr. Kalyan Bose who was a producer and Abhijit Das Gupta who was the director.
The film starred Abir Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee, RupaGanguly, ArindamSil, Gaurav Chakrabarty, Ridhima Ghosh, Alokananda Roy.It was for another web series 'Permanent Roommates', he was the casting director for the episode '"The Parents"' which was directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra and DiswapatiSamrk. The show was telecast on February 14.2017.
He was also part of a movie Ajji which was a Hindi language drama film directed by DevashishMakhija. I...
27. Anmol Ahuja
Anmol Ahuja is a Casting Director and an amazing assistant Director. Casting Director plays a very important role in any movie because he should get someone who can fit into the role completely. Casting Director should know the capabilities of the person and whether the person would be able to do the role or not. Anmol is a very good casting director.
Anmol Ahuja generally works with Abhishek Banerjee as casting director. People know him for the movie Dirty Picture which got released in the year 2011; he was the casting director in the movie and did a great job as all the characters were according to the role. He is the casting Director of the movie Gabbar Is Back which got released in the year 2015, Bombay Talkies which got release in the year 2013 and the movie Margari...
28. Manas Mittal
Manas Mittal is a film editor who hails from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is known for his works on ‘A Death in the Gunj,’ ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy,’ and ‘Class of ‘83.’ He did his schooling at Mother’s International School. He graduated from Delhi University and did his Post Graduation at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute. He worked as a film editor of the Bengali film ‘Gandu.’ Later, he became the post-production supervisor at Oddjoint Pvt. Ltd. He has worked as a film editor at different companies like Starfire Movies Private Limited, Yash Raj Films, Riley productions, Red Carpet Moving Pictures LLP, Macguffin Pictures, Rachayita Films Pvt Ltd, Clean Slate Films, Ultra Media and Entertainment Pvt Ltd, Roy Kapur Films, Red Chillies Entertainment, SK Global En...
29. Brian Nathan
Brian Nathan is a supporting actor in the Indian cinemas. He has played roles in high budget movies like Saaho (2019), Zero (2018), Bharat (2019), and Gully Boy (2019). He has worked with the renowned actors in Bollywood like Ranveer Singh, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Prabhas, etc. Brian was born and grew up in New Jersey and California. From his childhood, he was passionate about acting; in school, he used to do acting in school functions.
And he used to make his movies in his home. Brain Nathan graduated from the University of California. He then moved to New York to pursue a career in sales at Yelp for about two years. After completion of the course, he decided to move to the Asian country to teach English. Brian rediscovered his passion for acting and performing by watching several movies.To make his career in films, he shi...
30. Rohit Saraf
Rohit Saraf is a budding Indian small screen actor, who belongs to Dhanbad, a Disrtict of Jharkhand. The actor, who is in his late teens, is very famous among youth for his charisma.
Rohit got his first break wtih a daily teen drama aired on Channel V India. It was Best Friends Forever. It was started in December 2012 and ended in May 2013.
Rohit essayed the role of Sahil in the TV teen drama which was inspired by Pretty Little Liars, an American TV show. The role saw him as a serene person who is sometimes dubious. Rohit did an excellent job in the role. After this show he got an offer in Ek Boond Ishq as the sibling of the male lead. His role was of a joyful guy who wants to...
31. Anubhav Chopra