Sharmila Tagore biography: born in 1944, the actress began in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar, became a top star of Hindi cinema and…
Sivaji Ganesan biography: born in 1928, the actor known as Nadigar Thilagam dominated Tamil cinema for four decades with performances of great…
Nutan biography: born in 1936, the actress of Seema, Sujata and Bandini won five Filmfare Awards for Best Actress and is regarded…
Pran biography: born in Delhi in 1920, the actor was Hindi cinema's greatest villain for two decades and then its favourite character…
Sanjeev Kumar biography: born in Surat in 1938, the actor of Koshish, Aandhi and Sholay was among the most versatile performers in…
Ashok Kumar biography: born in 1911, the actor known as Dadamoni was Hindi cinema's first great star and worked in films for…
Himanta Biswa Sarma biography: born in 1969, the former Congress minister joined the BJP in 2015, built its base across the North-East…
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer biography: born in 1908, the Malayalam writer known as the Beypore Sultan turned a wanderer's life into short novels…
Kalki Krishnamurthy biography: born in 1899, the Tamil journalist and freedom fighter wrote Ponniyin Selvan, the most popular historical novel in the…
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay biography: born in 1894, the Bengali novelist wrote Pather Panchali, the story of the boy Apu that Satyajit Ray made…
Gulzar biography: born in 1934, the poet, lyricist and film-maker has written songs for Hindi cinema for more than sixty years and…
Sahir Ludhianvi biography: born in Ludhiana in 1921, the Urdu poet brought the language of protest and of serious poetry to Hindi…
