Pradeep Sarkar Biography :

Born: Kolkata

He is the man behind Mardani who directed this lady Dabang Movie starring Rani Mukherji. A known director and writer in Bollywood, Pradeep Sarkar hails from Kolkata wherein he was born and brought up at this place. His love for filmmaking made him shifted to Mumbai the hub of filmmaking especially the Hindi Cinema. After a struggle he got the chance to start his career with the known movie called Parineeta. His background of Kolkata helped him to make an incredible movie, which turned out a big hit with lead roles Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt and Dia Mirza.

This movie proved out to be a luck changer for Pradeep Sarkar since he played a number of roles in it. Right from direction, art direction screenplay, he also wrote the script shaping it perfect with the newly introduced Vidya Balan. It was a Vinod Chopra Productions, which is being owned by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. His creativity and hard work for Parineeta was paid back in terms of good box office collection. The fact is his debut direction for the movie Parineeta in 2005 fetched him the national film award under the best direction category. His work was appreciated by critics and audience all across the country and even overseas making it a commercial successful movie at the box office.

This soon turned out a good launch pad for Pradeep Sarkar and soon he was seen with his next venture called Laaga Chunari Mein Daag produced by Yash Raj Films. The said movie was released in October 2007, which turned out an average grosser over the Box office. Apart from direction, he also wrote the story for his second movie along with managing the art direction with creativity and smartness. This followed the other movie Lafangey Parindey again from the YRF production house starring Neil Nitin Mukesh along with Deepika Padukone, which hit the theatres in May 2010. However, after this movie, he took a four-year break with no movies coming any further until he was seen again with YRF making Mardani starring Rani Mukherji.

As far as nominations and awards are concerned, he was recognized for his work at different platforms. As said above, he bagged the National Film Award and Indira Gandhi Award for best direction for his first movie Parineeta. The same movie fetched him awards from Filmfare for Best Art Direction and direction as well along with the Zee Cine Award under the most Promising Director. Though his other movies (direction and screenplay) was not appreciated unlike Parineeta but his latest release Mardaani seems have garnered positive reviews from the audience and critics and you never know he gets another award for this film as well.

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Omung Kumar Biography :

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Birthplace : Mumbai
Height : 5.10

If you know the movie Mary Kom, you would very easily recognize this man. Omung Kumar is director, production designer, and art director of Bollywood Hindi movies, who hails from Bombay. He is born and brought up in Mumbai in a non-filmi background. It took long to carve his niche in Bollywood industry. Since his childhood he wanted to be an actor, however, his desire still remains unfulfilled as he is involved in a number of back end jobs involved in making films. He did his schooling from Mumbai Handique Girls College.

Wiki : Omung Kumar has come a long way in his career of movie making. Starting early working over the Television sets, he tried his luck at various places like anchoring, modelling, art direction production designing and finally reaching to the top seat of director with Mary Kom releasing next month. Though he wanted to become an actor, but he didn’t get any break in acting and hence was often seen working behind the scene, which according to him is a very lengthy and time consuming job.

After trying his hand in the television world, he headed to Bollywood wherein he got Dil Hai Tumhara in 2002 wherein he worked as production designer. Later he worked in some of the popular movies including Saawariya, Just Dance and Black as art director making people realise about his potentials in this domain. While some of his other movies include Ishq Vishk, Chameli, Masti, Fida, Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Yuvvraaj and Krazzy 4, wherein he played the role of production designer and art director.

Mary Kom is his first movie as a director in Bollywood, which is a sportsman centric biopic inspired by the real life of the known boxer of Manipur. He took three long years in researching about the life of Mary Kom and finally embarked with the script. Though he has not heard the name of Mary Kom but was successful enough to write down a comprehensive script portraying the life of this boxer. According to him it was challenging to portray Priyanka Chopra in this role, however, her hard work paid him back with this movie, which is all set to release next month.

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Siddharth Anand Biography :

Born: March 16, 1983
Age : 31
Birthplace : Jalandhar
Height: 1.83 m

Siddharth Raj Anand popularly known as Siddharth Anand is a known film director at Bollywood. He comes from a typical film background with his father Bittu Anand is known to produce the movie Shahenshah with Amitabh Bacchan, while grandfather was the known screenwriter called Inder Raj Anand who wrote more than 120 movies in Bollywood, which include the popular ones called Safar, Ek Duje Ke Liye, Sangam, etc. While his uncle Tinnu Anand is a known actor from the B Town. Being born and brought in the film city, he did his schooling and college from Mumbai only and soon was seen joining the film career to move ahead in his life.

Wiki : Siddharth Anand started his career as assistant director to Rahul Rawail in his movie called Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi, which had the lead role of Kajol. He then helped Kunal Kohli to write the 2004 hit movie called Hum Tum, while also worked as a the executive producer and associate director for the said project. His first movie as director was Salaam Namaste starring Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta, which was loosely based on the movie called Nine Months starring Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore. The movie was one of the biggest blockbusters of 2005, which helped him to carve his niche in the field of direction in the B Town.

His next big venture was the movie Ta Ra Rum Pum, which was released in the year 2007 starring Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherji, which was a semi hit giving accolades for his direction. The third movie was Bachna Ae Haseeno, which starred Ranbir Kapoor, Minisha Lamba, Deepika Padukone and Bipasha Basu in 2008. The movie was a big hit not just in India but all over the world. All these three movies was from Yash Raj Films. His recent movies include Anjaana Anjaani starring Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, which was produced by Sajid Nadiawala and was directed by him. It was released in 2010, which turned out to be an average grosser.

Apart from working as a director, he has also written a couple of movies, which include Hum Tum, Anjaana Anjaani, Bachana Ae Haseeno, etc. Besides, he has even composed movie for the music director Vishal Shekhar in all their movies and music albums and helped them become popular. As far as his personal life is concerned, he is married to Mamta Bhatia Ananad and the couple has a son called Ranveer whom he has named taking the inspiration from his own movie Ta Ra Rum Pum from the character of Saif Ali Khan. Currently he is directing the sequel of Welcome – Most Welcome 2, which is to be released this year.

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Anurag Basu Biography :

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Birthplace : Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India
Height : 5.9

Anurag Basu is among the well-known director, actor and screenwriter of Bollywood who hails from Bengal. He was born in a prestigious family of an award winning theatrical artists. Since his childhood he was connected to theatre company of his father called ABhiyaan. He was born in Kolkata but was brought up in Billai wherein he did his schooling followed by Engineering from Jabalpur Engineering College. However, he left his engineering in the middle and headed to Bombay wherein he pursued his BSc in Physics and later went to FTII Pune to learn cinematography. He then assisted a number of directors for various movies and TV projects. Later, he turned out to be an assistant director to the known TV director called Raman Kumar for the movie called Tara. He is married and has two daughters.

Wiki : Anurag Basu Before entering into Bollywood, he worked in Television assisting Raman Kumar for the serial Tara wherein he remained there for 70 episodes. He then directed a couple of TV serials, which ranges from daily soaps to thrillers, which include Ajeeb Dastaan and Saturday Suspense. Some of his popular and successful projects include Koshish, Kyun Ki Saansh bhi kabhi bahu thi, Kasouti Zindagi Ki, Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, etc. during the year 2001 to 2002. His TV serials including Miit and Manzillien Apni Apni, etc. also was successful to garner positive reviews. He awarded with RAPA (the Radio and TV Advertisers Practitioners Association) Award for the category of Best Director, while also hosted a couple of reality shows as well.

His Bollywood career started with the movie called Kucch To Hai, which was produced by Ekta Kapoor. He then joined Vishesh Films (Mahesh Bhatt’s production house) wherein he did Saaya. The movie failed but he got the chance to do Murder with Emraan Hashmi, which helped him to carve his niche in direction field and then did a number of movies including Gangster, Life in Metro, Tumsa Nahi Dekha, Kites, Barfi, etc. while his upcoming movie include Jagga Jasoos. His last movie Barfi was a big hit in India and abroad and was even presented in different film festival including Busan International Film Festival, Moroco Film Festival, etc. He is currently shooting for the thriller Jagga Jasoos with main leads as Ranbir Kapoor, Govinda and Katrina, which is scheduled to release next August. He was awarded for his direction for Barfi and other movies and for screenwriting as well.

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Farah Khan Biography :

Born: January 9, 1965
Age : 49
Birthplace : Mumbai, India
Height : 5.3

Farah Khan is known in the Tinsel Town for a number of reasons. She is a director, producer, choreographer and actor of Bollywood. She is known the best for her Choreography skills for making out some of the best songs in Bollywood industry in more than 80 different movies. She is born and brought up in Mumbai, doing her college from St. Xaviers College from Mumbai. Since childhood days only, she had keen interest in dancing as she had kept Michael Jackson as her inspiration and thus wanted to make it as her basic profession. She is a self leaner and never took any formal training in this stream. Her brother Sajid Khan is a comedian and a filmmaker Bollywood, while Zoya and Farhan Akhtar are her cousins.

Wiki : Farah Khan had her own dance group, which performed and dealt with choreography to certain extent. She got the chance into this field with the movie Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, which brought laurels to her career giving a number of movies from SRK including Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa. She also worked with overseas projects like Monsoon Weddng, Vanity Fair and Bombay Dreams, which even led her the best Choreography award along with getting a number of awards in the same category from Filmfare for movies like Main Hoon Na, which she even directed. Her second movie as a director was Om Shanti Om, which turned out to be one of the highest grosser of the year. Later she directed the movies like Tees Maar Khan, while did her acting debut with Bela Bhansali Sehgal’s movie called Shirin Farhad Ki To Nikal Padi.

Her current movie with SRK and Deepika Padukone is Happy New Year, which is scheduled to be released this Diwali. However, this was planned earlier in 2005, the multiple delays made the movie hit finally led it appear in November 2014. Apart from directing and choreography, she has trained a number of people including the Columbian pop star called Shakira for her song called Hips Dont Lie, which was showcased in MTV Video Music Awards in 2006. She has also made Kylie Minogue learn dancing steps for the song called “Chiggy Wiggy” appeared in a Akshay Kumar and Sanjay Dutt starrer movie- Blue released in 2009. Besides, she also appears as a judge in a number of reality shows including Indian Idol, Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega, Dance India Dance, Li’l Masters, Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star, along with the other bigwigs of Bollywood.

She has bagged a number of awards including the best Choreography Award six times from Filmfare, three times Star Screen Awards for choreography and once for direction. Also, she won two Zee Cine Awards for direction and choreography. Besides, she has been always awarded with international Indian Film Academy award including twice the for Technical Excellence, once Best Debut Director and best choreography awards for the songs Desi Girl from the movie Dostana and Munni Badnam Hui from the movie Dabangg. She lives in Bombay and married to the Main Hoon Na editor called Shirish Kunder in the year 2004. The couple have triplets – one son named Czar, while the rest are two daughters known as Anya and Diva.

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Homi Adajania Biography :

Born : India
Occupation : Film director, writer
Height: 5.10

What is common in between Being Cyrus, Cocktail and Finding Fanny? Nothing much except the fact that, all these three Bollywood movies are being directed by the man called Homi Adajania. He is a known director and writer of Bollywood, who entered into the stardom right from his first movie called Being Cyrus made in the year 2006. Homi comes from a non-movie background, as his father is a retired army officer and was even the president of Indian Boxing Federation. Since his father was an army officer, hence, he was brought up in different places, but his love for films compelled him to head to the city of dreams called Mumbai- the Tinsel Town. He is married to Anaita Shroff Adajania the Fashion Director of the popular magazine called Vogue India. The couple has two kids.

Wiki : Homi Adajania made his entry into Bollywood as a co writer to the popular English based psychological drama called Being Cyrus released the year 2006 wherein Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia, Boman Irani and Naseeruddin Shah were in the lead roles. The movie was successful to garner positive reviews despite being a flop over the box office. Most of the critics were seen giving positive reviews about the movie, with one calling it a stylish thriller, which was showcased in one of the most captivating fashion. His second project was the romantic comedy called Cocktail starring Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone and Diana Penty along with Boman Irani and Dimple Kapadia. The movie was declared as a big hit in both India and overseas market. Both critics and audience appreciated his directorial work.

His next directorial project is Finding Fanny, which is releasing on 12^th September 2014 in two languages – English and Hindi. It is basically a satirical comedy, which features Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Pankaj Kapur and Naseerudding Shah. Apart from directing the movie, Homi has even written the script for the same. His ventures in Bollywood have been restricted with just three films. While he gives credit to enter into this domain to his father who according to him was a great story teller. His father was an army officer and he also visited a number of countries, which helped him to get loads of stories from him. During his college days, he was active in TV ads, while is also a certified CMAS Scuba diver. He did a couple of odd jobs as well like working on a petrol pump for around an year in Bombay and working as a Scuba diving instructor to earn to meet his expenses. Home Adajania enjoys a good net worth yardstick in the celebrity circles.

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Habib Faisal Biography :

Born: Mumbai, India

Awards : Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue, National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi

With Daawat-e-Ishq releasing this Friday, it would be simple to recognize this man. Yes, Habib Faisal is associated with this movie as a writer and director. He is known for these two things in Bollywood apart from jotting down interesting and incredible dialogues. Though is associated with this industry since past 22 years, however, his break of ten years has his stay in B Town a smaller one. Yet he is known as one of the competent directors, screen writer of Bollywood giving some really good movies, which has given him applauds in the form of Filmfare and other prestigious awards.

Habib Faisal is born and brought up in New Delhi, and did his Mass Communications from Jamia Milia Islamia University. Later he shifted to Mumbai only, the city of dreams to fulfil his dreams. He comes from a non cinema background as his father was a teacher. He started his career by working as a cameraman in NDTV, which he did for five long years. He then started directing a number of TV serials including Kareena-Kareena, Lavaynya, etc. Later he then graduated to writing script for a number of Bollywood movies. The movies for which he did script writing include, Salaam Namaste, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Ta Ra Rum Pum, etc. However, after writing the script for the movie Do Dooni Chaar, he realised that he should be directing the movie. So at the age of 44, when many people think of retiring he did his debut directorial venture. According to him, many of the incidences in the movie belongs to his own personal life.

Besides, he has even written dialogues for various movies, which include Tara Ra Tum Pum, Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl, Band Baaja Baaraat, while for Bewakoofiyaan he penned the script for it and the upcoming movie Daawat-e-Ishw, he is both the writer and director starring Parineeti Chopra and Aditya Roy Kapur. He has worked with Parineeti as well in her debut movie Ishaqzaade wherein he directed the said movie, while he is also writing script for the SRK starrer movie called Fan, which is to be released next year. As far as awards are concerned, he has bagged a couple of awards, which include the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue Do Dooni Chaar, while the same movie was adjusted for the National Awards under the Best Hindi Feature Film. He also got the Screen Award for Best Dialogues for the movie Band Baja Baaraat.

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Shashanka Ghosh Biography :

You very well know about the movie Khoobsurat starring Fawad Khan and Sonam Kapoor. Well, Shashanka Ghosh is the man behind making this incredible romantic comedy, which hit on 19^th September 2014. This man has come a long way. Right away working with Ad world as copywriter to making different programs and shows for MTV and doing things like screenwriting and other things, his journey to the world of direction in Bollywood has been long. He hails from New Delhi and was born in a family of Air Force as his father was an air force officer. He did his schooling from Air Force Bal Bharti School, later after his graduation, he did his PG in management and later tried doing business with his friend but soon left to work as a copy writer with Hindustan Thompson.

He worked in India and Hongkong in this field and later got an opportunity to work with MTV and soon he entered into the creative field seen making different shows and films for the music channel. Some of his films at MTV even fetched him awards and for his channel, while later served as creative director for around 7 years for Channel V. Here also, he headed a number of projects including the feature called Waisa Bhi Hota Hai, which garnered good response from the audience and critics not only in India but from abroad as well. He is the man who developed the quirky character called Quick Gun Murgun, which helped a lot the Channel V to get its Indian version in the market, which was earlier known as a typical western music channel.

Based on the same character, he later made a movie called Quick Gun Murgun making it an iconic south Indian spoof of one western cowboy. The next movie, which he made with the help of a number of directors called Mumbai Cutting. It is basically a 2010 based anthology, which was based on different characters from Mumbai city. He also wrote a couple of movies including Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II in the year 2003 and Nyay Anyay made in 2009. His current movie includes Khoobsurat, which has recently hit the theatres.

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Tigmanshu Dhulia Biography :

Born: July 3, 1967
Age : 47
Birthplace : Allahabad

Tigmanshu Dhulia is a known man in Bollywood, who has tried everything there, right from acting, direction, screen writing and even casting direction. He hails from Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh in a family of judge as his father worked in this prestigious position in Allahabad High Court, while her mother was Sankrit professor in the university. He did his schooling from St Joseph, while his college was completed from Anglo Bengali Intermediate College in Allahabad. After his graduation in literature, he went to NSD (national school of drama), New Delhi wherein he did his acting and direction course from 1989. His younger brothers work in Navy and as a judge in Uttrakhand High Court respectively.

Wiki : Tigmanshu Dhulia After his graduation from NSD, he headed to Mumbai wherein he got the chance to work as a casting director in a movie called Bandit Queen (biopic of Phoolan Devi). His next project was Stiff Upper Lips, wherein he played the same role while also got the chance to do a cameo as a stallholder. However, his direction career started with the movie called The Warrior released in 2000 wherein he assisted the director – Asif Kapadia. Later he also assisted the director of Electric Moon called Pradip Krishen and Ketan Mehta for the movie called Sardar. Meanwhile he also worked for TV working on a number of TV serials both before entering into Bollywood and even in the later stage.

If you remember the Sony based channel called Just Mohabbat, he was the man who directed the same. His other work include Ek Sham Ki Mulaqat”, “Hum Saath Saath Hain Kya”, “Fursat Main”, “Musafir”, “Bhawaron Ne Khilaya Phool” and “Anekon Hitler”. His work was applauded by his audience and critics. He then got the chance to direct his first film called Haasil in the year 2003, which is basically a love story based on students politics of Northern India. It turned out a big hit and was applauded by few awards and nominations. His next directorial venture was Charas, while his movie Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster brought applauds for him and his performance.

His next venture was Paan Singh Tomar, starring Irrfan Khan, which even bagged the National Film Award in the best feature film category. His other recent movies include the sequel of Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster, Milan Talkies, Bullet Raja, Jai Ramji and Begum Samru. He has the privilege of getting the lifetime membership for the International Film and Television Club of Asian Academy of Film and TV by the president himself. Last year, he did a movie with Kangana Ranaut and Vir Das called Revolver Rani, which was basically a B grade movie, yet was liked by everyone. Currently he is filming Yaara.

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Vishal Bhardwaj Biography :

Born: August 4, 1965
Age : 49
Birthplace : Bijnor

Can you guess a competent director in Bollywood who is known to make movies based on William Shakespeare’s plays. He is a known director, writer, producer, screenwriter apart from being even a playback singer and music composer. He is know to make movies under a number a banner VB Pictures. He hails from Bijnor but was brought up in Meerut, UP in poet and lyricist family. He soon headed to Delhi for his graduation from Hindu College, wherein he soon got involved in Delhi theatres. He started his career by playing harmonium for a couple of Ghazal singers in one of the food festivals in Delhi and soon got the chance to work in CBS Music Company owned by RV Pandit.

Wiki : Vishal Bhardwaj then headed to Mumbai wherein he got the chance to work with Gulzar wherein he worked with the TV serials including Alice in Wonderland, Gubbare and The Jungle Book. He then got the chance to compose the music for movie Maachis, which was directed by Gulzar, which was applauded by the Best Music Director award at the National Film Awards. Some of his hit movies wherein he gave movies include Ishqiya, Omkara, 7 Khoon Maaf, Chachi 420, etc. While he even gave playback singing with singers like Yesudas, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Udit Narayan, KK, Anuradha Paudwal, Kumar Sanu, etc.

Despite trying things like playback singing and music composition or even screenwriter, he is best known in the B Town as a director. His first direction venture was Makdee, which was critically accepted. He then headed to make movies like Macbeth and Macbeth, which are loosely based on Shakespeare dramas and plays. He also made movies based on Ruskin Bond stories, while Omakara was another Shakespearean play, which brought him to limelight. He got the chance to work with legends like Francis Ford Coppola and other veterans. Some of his movies as a director include Ishqia, 7 Khoon Maaf, Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mann Dola, Kamine and Blood Brothers. While his upcoming movie is Haider (another adaption from Shakespeare’s story called Hamlet) for which he has done a number of things including Music Composition, Direction, production and Dialogue along with the Screenplay. Also, he has recently announced Breaking Dreamz as a director.

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Nikhil Advani Biography :

Born: April 28, 1971
Age : 43
Birthplace : Mumbai

This name belongs to a popular Bollywood movie director and ace screen writer of Hindi Cinema. He is born and brought in Mumbai; in a non-Bollywood, background with his father was into a pharmacy business and mom the advertising professional. He was brought up in a Sindhi-Marathi blend background making him a typical Mumbai guy. He did his schooling from Green Lawns High School, while had his masters in Chemistry from the popular college of Mumbai called St. Xaviers. Interestingly, he was not very much keen to make his career in films, hence was even doing his masters in a different subject, but destiny has its own plan for him.

Wiki : Nikhil Advani career in Bollywood was accidental when he just got the chance to be an assistant director for the film Raat Ki Subah Nahin assisting the director Sudhir Mishra. In fact, he even helped the director with the movie’s screenplay. He then headed to Dharma Productions wherein he assisted Karan Johar’s father Yash Johar and later even to Karan Johar in a couple of movies including Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham. He even had a small cameo in of the movies of Johar wherein he is seen with Farah Khan in the Neelam’s show in the movie Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. He also assisted Karan Johar in Kal Ho Naa Ho starring SRK and Preity Zinta. This movie was one of the biggest hits of Bollywood in 2003 giving him a boost as well.

His debut directorial venture was a movie called Salaam E Ishq, which happens to be a multi-starrer movie with so many actors from B Town, including Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, John Abraham, Akshay Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Govinda, Priyanka Chopra, Ayesha Takia, Vidya Balan, etc. The movie got a mixed review about the script and his direction as well. his next movie was Akshay Kumar starrer Chandni Chowk To China in 2009, which was simply a big bizarre. He also produced one movie called Jaane Kaha Se Aayi Hai, which went average at the box office. His other movies include Patiala House, Delhi Safari, D Day, etc. while his upcoming movies include Hero and Katti Batti. The former is all set to hit this December, while the latter is in making. Most of the movies he directed, he also was seen giving its script as well. Apart from directing movies and writing scripts, he is also seen over the judge panel of few beauty pageants and festivals like India Film Project last year (2013).

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Divya Khosla Kumar Biography :

Born: November 27, 1981
Age : 32
Birthplace : Delhi
Height : 5.7

Divya Khosla Kumar, who is no more a unpopular name in B Town claims to call herself talented than a pretty face. This is the reason, you would find her hiding her gorgeous looks behind her specs. Known to be simple, strong and sensitive, she is a known director, producer and actor of Bollywood who loves to be pampered by her husband Bhusan Kumar the owner and Managing Director of T Series Cassettes. The couple has a two-year son called Ruhan. She was born and brought in New Delhi to a non film background parents. After her B Com Honours, she started doing modelling for print media and then headed to Mumbai on her mom’s advice to make her dreams comes true for entering in the modelling world.

After doing her course in Editing and Cinematography, she entered into the Bollywood world with the movie called Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Sathiyo in 2004, directed by Anil Sharma while was produced by Akshay Kumar. It was a multi-starrer movie with stars like Big B, Akshay Kumar, Divya K Kumar, Bobby Deol, Nagma, etc. The movie was a big hit, however, didn’t gave her much in the B Town. The very same year, she got the chance to work in a Telugu movie called Love Today. However, after one year, she got married to Bhushan Kumar. Al though the actress said that she had many dreams to pursue while migrating to Mumbai and working in Bollywood, however, she got married to shelve her dreams.

However, after her marriage, Divya Khosla Kumar got the chance to direct a couple of music videos for Agam Nigam, Tulsi Kumar and Jermaine Jackson along with directing a couple of ad films as well. in her career, she has directed more than 20 music videos, which finally gave her the chance to strike her directorial venture called Yaariyan in the year 2014. Apart from directing the movie starring Himanshu Kohli and Nicole Faria, she choreographed all the five songs in the movie including Maa, Baarish, Allah Wariya, Zor Lagake, etc. Her background of directing music videos helped her a lot. The movie had a mixed review, which helped her carve her niche in direction. Currently, she is currently directing Roy, which is all set to hit the theatres in February 2015. The movie has Ranbir Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez and Arjun Rampal in the lead roles.

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Vidhu Vinod Chopra Biography :

Born: September 5, 1952
Age : 62
Birthplace : Srinagar
Awards : Filmfare Award for Best Film

This name is a brand in Bollywood, who is known to produce some of the best movies in Bollywood. Apart from being a producer, he is also an ace director and screenwriter. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan but was brought in Srinagar, Kashmir in India. He comes from a rich Bollywood family as his own uncle Ramanand Sagar was an ace filmmaker. He did his schooling from Sri Nagar and then headed to Pune to do his course from Film and Television Institute of India. Seeing his interest in filmmaking and direction, his family supported him and sent him to Pune to do a course from FTII. Currently, he is among the top filmmaker of Bollywood, who is known to make different movies in Indian Cinema.

Since his own uncle was in Filmmaking, he didn’t find any hassle in entering into Bollywood. Hence, his very first tele-film called Murder at Monkey Hill was a big hit, which even helped him to bag National Film Award under the Best Short Experimental Film, while he even received the Guru Dutt Memorial Award for Best Student Film. He then entered into the domain of short films wherein he made a couple of short documentaries, which showcased the plight of destitute kids known as An Encounter With Faces. This short documentary was even nominated to Academy Award under the category of Documentary Short Subject in 1979. Later it was awarded with Grand Prix at the known film festival of Tampere in the year 1980.

After doing really good with making short documentary films, he then headed to feature films. He then made black and white tight budget movie called Sazaa E Maur, which was a thrillers starring Naseeruddin Shah and Renu Saluja. These actors were not too popular at that time and were close friends of his. His next movie was Parinda, which was a big time hit with Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit. Some of his popular movies include 1942: A Love Story, Munna Bhai MBBS, Mission Kashmir, Lage Rahi Munna Bhai, Eklavya, Parineeta, and the blockbuster called Munna Bhai. In fact, his movie 3 Idiots with Aamir Khan, Sharan Joshi and Madhavan made a whopping 3 billion business worldwide turning out to be an all time hit movie. Some of his forthcoming movies include PK, Chittyan, Munna Bhai Chale Delhi and Taalismaan. As far as awards are concerned, he has bagged 7 National awards for making different big time movies, and a number of so many other awards.

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Ketan Mehta Biography :

Born: 1952, Navsari
Spouse: Deepa Sahi
Siblings: Yatin Mehta, Nirad Mehta
Books: Bhavni bhavai
Awards :  ITA Award for Best Mini Series

There is some connection of this man with the upcoming movie called Rang Rasiya, what’s that? Well, yes Ketan Mehta is the director of this movie based on an legend artist and a class painter of his time called Ravi Raj. He is a known director of Bollywood movies and short documentaries along with TV serials since so many years. Born in Navsari based in Gujarat, he was brought up in different cities including mostly in New Delhi. He did his schooling from the known school called Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and later headed to FTII in Pune for learning direction and filmmaking.

As far as his personal life is concerned, he is married to the known actress called Deepa Sahi. The couple has worked together in several projects including promoting the institute called Maya Academy of Advance Cinematics. He is the nephew of Gandhain family and hails from a clan of freedom fighter Usha Mehta. His younger brother is a known doctor called Dr. Yatin Mehta who happens to be the chairperson of popular hospital based in Gurgaon called Medanta Institute of Critical Care and Anesthesiology, while his youngest brother too is a noted radiologist at Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai.

Now talking about his career, after graduating from the prestigious FTII Pune, he joined the esteemed group called ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) as a TV producer. During this job, he travelled all over the state to make different short films and documentaries, which he often called as one of the most incredible experience he had in his professional life. After spending for a couple of years, he thought of using his experience in filmmaking as an independent filmmaker. So, he left ISRO and started with making documentaries and short films, later went to direct TV serials including Captain Vyom and Mr. Yogi. Later moved to make and direct Bollywood movies. He is competent in handling a number of themes while making all types of movies including satire, comedy, romance, rebellion and violent.

His first movie was a Gujarati film called Bhavni Bhaval, which was applauded by all the camps of critics. His movie was even presented in a number of film festivals including at Moscow and France wherein it bagged a number of awards. Some of his successful ventures include Mirch Masala, which even gave him the Best Film Award based at Hawaii. It was released more than 50 screen in the United States and participated in different international film festival. Some of his other movies include Hero Hiralal, Maya Memsaab, Sardar, Mangal Pandey: The Rising, and the upcoming movie Rang Rasiya. His films Bhavni Bhaval and Sardar bagged the best Feature Film award at National Film Award, while he won all the major awards for his movies and documentaries.

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Born: November 22, 1948
Age  : 66
Awards : National Film Award for Best Choreography

Saroj Khan wiki

Saroj Khan is originally known as Nirmala Kishanchand Sadhu Singh Nagpal, however, to cut the name short she penned a new name in the industry. And as you know how the title of Khan has been popular and hit in Bollywood apart from the Kapoors and Khannas, she found a suitable name in the form Saroj Khan to start her career of choreography especially when she got married to a Muslim called Sardar Roshan Khan. Currently she is among the top choreographer of Indian Film Industry. She hails from Pakistan and was born to the couple – Kishanchand Sadhu Singh and Noni Sadhu Singh.

After participation, her parents headed to India. After settling down in India, she got the chance to work as child artist when she was barely of three years in the movie called Nazarana in a character of Shyma and later seen in other movie a background dance in the late fifties. She formally learnt dance from the known choreographer called B Sohanlal. She had worked with him for a while and soon started working as an independent choreographer with the movie called Geeta Mera Naam in the year 1974. But her choreography failed to garner the positive response from the critics and audience. Finally, in 1987, with the movie Mr. India, she strikes the chord with the song called Hawa Hawai. It turned out a big hit with Sri Devi and since then it was no looking back for her.

Some of her popular movies include that rocked for her incredible piece of choreography including Chandani, Nagina, Tezab with Madhuri Dixit in the famous Ek, Do, Teen, Char, the Tamma Tamma song for the movie Thanedar and not to forget the Beta song – Dhak Dhak Karne Laga. With all these hit movies encompassing one of the best songs and choreography, she rocked the world of Bollywood. Some of the recent movies include Gulab Gang (again with Madhuri Dixit), Rowdy Rathore, ABCD, Agent Vinod, Khatta Metha, etc. Apart from movies, she is also involved in a number of dance reality shows as judge. These include Nach Baliye (Star One – 2005), Ustaadon ka ustaad (Sony TV), Nachle Ve with Saroj Khan (NDTV Imagine), Boogie Woogie (TV Series), Jhalak Dikhla Jaa (Sony TV), Nach Baliye, etc.

Currently, she is judging the show called Nachle Ve With Saroj Khan and has recently completed the same as well. In 2012, a documentary called The Saroj Khan Story, which was produced by Film Division of India and PSBT and directed by the lady called Nidhi Tuli. Apart from the choreography she has also tried her luck in writing scripts. She started this as Veeru Dada in 1990 and has done more than 10 movies as writer. To name a few – Khanjar, Benaam, Hote Hote Pyar Hogaya, Judge Mujrim, Daava, Dil Tera Diwana, etc. As far as awards and applauds, she has been appreciated with national awards and others. She won the National Film Award for the Best Choreography category include Devdas (Dola Re Dola song), Sringaram and Jab We Met consequently in two rows – 2006 and 2007. At Filmfare, she has been awarded eight times and an international award called American Choreography Award in 2002 for her one of the song in Lagaan.

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Shaad Ali Biography :

Spouse: Aarti Patkar
Education: Welham Boys’ School
Parents: Muzaffar Ali, Subhashini Ali

Shaad Ali is not an unknown now in the list of successful directors of Bollywood. Well, Shaad Ali is a popular film director who has directed some selected but unique movies in Bollywood. Born and brought up in Kanpur in a politician family of Muzaffar Ali and Subhashini Ali. However, his father is also a popular filmmaker, while his mother is an active member of CPI (Marxist). He happens to be the grandson of the Lakshmi Sehgal the commander of infamous Azad Hind Fauj being formed by Netaji Subash Chandra Bose during the Freedom Movement of India. He went to Welham Boys’ School and later headed to Lawerence School, Sanwar in Shimla to complete his schooling. Later did his graduation from Shimla University.

Since his father is a popular filmmaker, artist, poet and fashion designer, who gave him a good base for filmmaking. His interest for filmmaking led him to Mumbai the city of dreams. He soon got the chance to work as an assistant director to veteran director Mani Ratnam with his movie Dil Se in 1998. He then assisted Mani Ratnam for several movies including Guru, Ravan and Ravaan. He then did his directorial debut with the movie Saathiya the Yash Raj Films in the year 2002 starring Vivek Oberoi and Rani Mukherji Chopra. The movie did a good business and was commercially a big hit giving positive review to the director – Shaadi Ali.

His next movie was Bunty Aur Babli again with Rani Mukherji and Abhishek Bachchan and his father Big B. With these two movies, Shaad Ali was successful in carving his niche in the industry of Bollywood. His next movie was Jhoom Barabar Jhoom starring Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol, Lara Dutta and Preity Zinta. As far as his personal life is concerned, he was married to Shahzneen Hussain, however, after her divorce he then got married to the stylist Aarti Patkar. His upcoming movie is Kill Dil, which is releasing on 14^th November 2014. Though he was nominated at couple of awards, however, was not given any award for any of his movies.

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Neeraj Pandey Biography :

Born : 1973
Age  : 41–42
Birthplace : Kolkata, India
Nationality : Indian
Occupation  : Film Director, Writer , Producer
Awards: IIFA Award for Best Story

Yes, you guess it right; he is a great director of the much hyped and popular movie Baby of Akshay Kumar. Neeraj Pandey is also known as a popular producer and screenwriter of B Town apart from being a known director of many good movies like A Wednesday and Special 26. He comes from a typical Brahmin family away from the film background from Kolkata. His father, however, has the origin from Bihar who came to Calcutta all way from Bosch to find work. He did his schooling from a local school in Kolkata and then headed to New Delhi to pursue his graduation in English. After his studies, he started working with a Delhi based company called Legacy Entertainment owned by Dalmia group, which worked in making TV program.

This is the place wherein he learnt the basics of filmmaking. In the year 2000, he shifted to Mumbai, the city of dreams wherein he got the chance to produce a documentary for a friend. This helped him enter the world of making a number of documentaries followed by ad films. He soon embarked with his own production company called Quarter Inch Productions along with one of his colleagues called Shital Bhatia, who used to make TV programs, documentaries and ad films. The duo later formed another company called Friday Filmworks, which is the group that produced his debut movie A Wednesday. The movie was inspired by the 11^th July 2006 Mumbai Train blasts as a number of incidents and info was used in the movie from this incident following the bomb blasts.

He then did a Bengali feature movie called The Royal Bengal Tiger with the Bengali star Jeet. His next regional production was a venture called Saat Ucchakey wherein the actors like Manoj Bajpayee, K.K Menon, Aditi Sharma and Anu Kapoor were roped in to make the movie. He then made Total Siyapaa with Ali Zafar, while his next venture is Baby, which is just released. His upcoming project is a biopic on Indian Cricket Captain MS Dhoni called MS Dhoni: The Untold Story starring Shushant Singh Rajput. As far as awards are concerned, he has received a number of awards. These include the National Film Award for his debut movie A Wednesday.

He also received other awards for this film including the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director. This movie also helped him earn awards from Star Screen Award in 2009 for Best Film and Best Story categories, while IIFA awards for Best Story and Best Dialogue. He was also nominated in Filmfare awards for the same, but couldn’t get the award from there. His next movie Speical 26 too was very much appreciated, however, it didn’t see any nomination or award for the same. Apart from making movies, he has also written his debut novel called Ghalib Danger, which was launched way back in December 2013.

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R. Balki Biography :

Born: Kumbakonam
Spouse: Gauri Shinde (m. 2007)
Occupation : Chairman and CEO Lowe Lintas, film director, screenwriter

Wiki : R Balki is a popular name in Bollywood Industry for making some of the best movies. He was born with a name R. Balakrishnan but fondly called as R Balki in the industry. He was born in Kumbakonam, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu. He married to a talented filmmaker and ad film maker and director. As far as his career is concerned, he started his career with Mudra at the age 23, however, his passion simply laid into filmmaking, which laid him to try his luck in Madras Film Institute for a course on film direction, however, he disliked the way the panel handled him in the interview. He then was seen doing his post graduation in Computer Applications (MCA), which was just the adjacent to the Film Institute.

Though he always liked computers and Information Technology hence thought of doing this program, however, in the last year, he was shown exit door for the lack of attendance. According to him, it was his involvement in cricket and movies, which kept him away from the college. One fine day, he came across an ad in newspaper for Mudra wherein he was asked to describe himself the best. He remembered the same after watching the serial Buniyaad owing to his love for the serial from Ramesh Sippy. He tried emulating Sippy in the ad and thus got the chance one fine day got the chance to meet him.

Some of the popular phrases for different brands like Daag Achche Hain for Surf Excel and Tata Tea’s Jaago Re and the Idea cellular add called Walk When you Talk made him popular in the ad world. He then entered in script writing jotting down a good script for the movie called Cheeni Kum in 2007. The movie was a big hit starring Amitabh Bachchan and Tabu. His second movie Paa starring Amitabh, Abhishek and Vidya Balan was again a big hit helping him to carve his niche in Bollywood as a competent filmmaker. His next venture is Shamitabh wherein he has Amitabh Bachchan, Dhanush and Akshara Haasan. The movie is an average grosser at box office. As far as his personal life is concerned, he is married to Gauri Shinde in 2007, who is also a script writer and director who made the movie English Vinglish. He is the CEO and Chairman of Lowe LIntas, Film director and screenwriter.

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Satish Kaushik Biography :

Born : April 13, 1956
Age  : 59
Birthplace : Mahendragarh district
Education: National School of Drama (1978)
Kirori Mal College (1972), Film and Television Institute of India

Wiki : Satish Kaushik is not an unknown name in Bollywood. He is a popular film director, actor and producer in B Town who is also associated with theatres. He hails from a small village called Dhanounda, district Mohindergarh in Haryana, India, while was brought up in Naiwala gali, Karolbagh, Delhi. After his schooling, he headed to Kirori Mal College where he did his graduation in New Delhi. Later he went to National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi and graduated from there in filmmaking in 1978 batch. He then went to FTII (Film and Television Institute of India), Pune before finally moving to Bombay to try his luck in Bollywood industry.

As far as his career is concerned, he entered in Bollywood with the role of assistant director assisting Shekhar Kapoor for the film Masoom in 1983. He was also seen in a cameo in this film. However, as a director his first movie was Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja in 1993 starring Sridevi and Anil Kapoor, which was followed by another project called Prem in 1995, which also gave Tabu a break in Bollywood. His first hit over box office was Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain in the year 1999. Some of the roles, which gave him recognition include the character called Calendar from Anil Kapoor starrer film Mr. India, while his other known character is Pappu Pager from the comedy movie called Deewana Mastana of 1997, which was directed by 1997.

He has co-authored and anchored a TV countdown show called Philips Top Ten, which gave him the Screen Videocon Award. In the year 2007, he along with his NSD batch mate Anupam Kher embarked with his own production company called Karol Bagh Productions. He then directed his first movie under his production house called Tere Sangh in 2008. This was followed by another, which was based on the life of Tansen one of the gems in Akbar’s court. The movie is in pipeline, which is supposed to go on the floors soon. He also appeared as the main case in The Great Indian Family Drama, which was produced by productions as Nawaab Jung Bahadur.

Apart from being active in the film line, he is also known to have his own business ventures. He is a partner in Chandigarh Film City project in alliance with a real estate company called Parsavnath Developers. The company had procured a land in Sarangpur Village near Chandigarh at a very nominal price. The real estate company had to leave this project after getting exposed by the media for the foul play witnessed in the project. In a career span of 30 plus years he has worked in more than 100 movies in different roles, which include assistant direction, acting, production and TV.

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Shonali Bose Biography :

Born: June 3, 1965 (age 49), Kolkata
Children: Ishan Pain, Vivan Pain
Books: Amu: A Novel
Education: Columbia University, University of Delhi
Awards: National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English

Shonali Bose is a popular name in filmmaking. She is a known director, screenwriter and producer and best known for her movie Amu, which has exposed the suppressed history of genocidal attacks over the Sikh Community in 1984 after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Shonali Bose is from Calcutta, while was brought up in cities like Delhi and Bombay. She did her graduation in humanities from the known Miranda House College followed by moving to the New York to get her masters in Political Science from the known Columbia University. During her college days, she was involved in activism and theaters as well and acted in a number of school/college plays and dramas.

Her career started with a role of an organizer at National Lawyers Guild wherein she directed live community TV in Manhattan in the US. This was soon recognized by the MFA Directing Program at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Her short films like The Gendarme Is Here and Undocumented along with the feature documentary called Lifting the Veil were screened in a couple of prestigious festivals and several other venues of the world. She has produced limited number of films, which include Amu through which she started her directorial debut along with doing the writing of script and production as well.

This film was a big success in India getting positive reviews. She has won seven national and international awards for this film, which include FIPRESCICritics Award, Gollapudi Srinivas Award for best first-time director and National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English. The book called Amu was written by her only, which became the screenplay of the film. She brought both the movie and her book with same title at the same time. In the year 2012, she co-authored Chittangong, which was directed by her ex husband. It revolved around the Chittagong armory raid of 1930. The movie has Manoj Bajpai as Masterda Surya Sen. Next is her recently released movie Margarita with a Straw starring the talented Kalki Koechlin, which showcases a girl having cerebral palsy. As far as her personal life is concerned, she was married to filmmaker Bedabrata Pain, however, she has now separated.

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