Famous Personalities

Singing songs in 16 languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi, Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam, popularly known as SPB, worked alongside the greatest geniuses of Indian film music through the 1960s, '70s, '80s, '90s and in the 21st century as well.

Not many may know Jitendra Kumar—a 30-year-old actor from Khairthal, Rajasthan, of the Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan fame—was initially an IITian on his way to become a civil engineer.

More than anything else, what many Indian fans remember is the joy he gave them. As Maradona once said, "When you're on the field, life goes away, the problems go away, everything goes away!”

"If sharing my heartbreaks and failures gives people hope, then there’s nothing quite like it," says the actor recently featured in 'Shakuntala Devi', 'Breathe: Into The Shadows', and 'Avrodh: The Siege Within'.

“I have seen media houses showing a rope knot, bloody knife, syringes or chemical cans. These are deeply triggering images. They must be avoided because it gives people ideas to those already contemplating suicide.”

Casting first-time actors, children and even people from her native village, Rima Das has completely changed the way we look at filmmaking.

"Parents should not project their own insecurities and anxieties on their children. The children have enough anxiety as it is", says Nobel laureate 'Venki' Ramakrishnan.

It was particularly hard on Dev Anand, against whom the government set up multiple hurdles during the shooting of Des Pardes. But he was fearless.

By the time she was 13, Akhtar's father had abandoned her, her twin sister had died of poisoning and she had suffered sexual abuse that resulted in pregnancy.

Although it was Patel who created the initial framework to influence the Indian princes to accede, it was Menon who did the actual groundwork of coaxing them.