Tag Archives: Greatest Film Directors of India

Kishore Kumar Biography For Students And Children

Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar was an Indian playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most successful playback singers in the Hindi film industry. Apart from Hindi, he sang in many Indian languages including Bengali, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Urdu. He has also sung in private albums in several languages especially in …

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Bhupen Hazarika Biography For Students

Bhupen Hazarika Biography For Students

Name: Bhupen Hazarika (Sudha Konthi) Born: 8 September 1926 Sadiya, Assam Province, British India Died: 5 November 2011 (aged 85) Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Occupation: Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter, Composer, Singer, Music Director, Filmmaker Spouse(s): Priyamvada Patel (1 Child) Awards: Bharat Ratna (2019) (posthumously) Padma Vibhushan (2012) (posthumously) Padma Shri (1977) Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1992) Padma Bhushan (2001) …

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Aamir Khan Biography, Film Career, Personal Life

Aamir Khan - Biography, Film Career & Personal Life

Name: Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan (आमिर हुसैन ख़ान) Birth: 14 March, 1965 – Bombay, Maharashtra, India Spouse(s): Reena Dutta ​(married: 1986; divorced: 2002)​ Kiran Rao ​(married: 2005; separated 2021) Honours: Padma Shri (2003) Padma Bhushan (2010) National Treasure of India, Government of China (2017) Occupation: Actor Director Producer Writer Singer Talk-show host Aamir Khan — Aamir Khan born on March …

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Karan Johar Biography For Students

Karan Johar Biography For Students

Born: Rahul Kumar Johar Date Of Birth: 25 May 1972 Bombay, Maharashtra, India Occupation: Actor, director, producer, screenwriter, costume designer, television host Parent(s): Yash Johar (Father) Awards: Padma Shri (2020) Karan Johar is a son of the late Yash Johar and a popular Indian film director, producer, and TV celebrity. Karan studied at the Greenlawns High School and attended H. R. …

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Hrishikesh Mukherjee Biography For Students

Hrishikesh Mukherjee Biography For Students

Hrishikesh Mukherjee (September 30, 1922–August 27, 2006) was a Hindi film director known for a number of films, including Anand, Abhimaan, Guddi, Gol Maal, Aashirwad, Bawarchi, Satyakam, and Namak Haraam. He was popularly known as Hrishi-da. Hrishikesh Mukherjee studied science in college, and graduated in chemistry. He taught mathematics and science for some time, but chose to begin working, initially …

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Rajkumar Hirani Biography For Students

Rajkumar Hirani

Rajkumar Hirani (born 1965) is a National Award and Filmfare Award winning Indian Director, screenwriter and film editor of Hindi films, best known for the films Munna Bhai MBBS (2003), Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006) and 3 Idiots (2009). Early Life & Education of Rajkumar Hirani: Rajkumar Hirani was born in Nagpur to a Sindhi family. His father Mr Suresh Hirani had …

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Shashi Kapoor Biography, Film Career & Personal Life

Shashi Kapoor

Shashi Kapoor was born Balbir – Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Kolkata. He is an award winning Indian film actor and producer and a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India‘s Bollywood cinema, is the younger brother of Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor, the son of Prithviraj Kapoor, the widower of Jennifer Kendal, and …

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Raj Kapoor Biography For Students

Raj Kapoor Biography For Students

Raj Kapoor (December 14, 1924 – June 2, 1988) was a legendary Indian actor, director, and producer of Bollywood movies. Raj Kapoor began his career as a clapper boy assisting Kidar Sharma. At age eleven, he appeared in films for the first time, in the 1935 film Inquilab. Raj Kapoor’s big break, however, came when he played the hero’s role …

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Rahul Bose Biography For Students and Children

Rahul Bose

Rahul Bose was born on 27 July 1967. He is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player. Bose has appeared in Hindi films such as Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats. Time magazine named him “the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema” for his work in parallel cinema films like English August and Mr. and Mrs. …

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