Johnny Lever

This expansive bundle of talent has very modest roots. Johny Lever, India’s answer to Jim Carrey, was only an ordinary mill worker in Hindustan Lever, and hence the suffix attached to his first name. Johny Lever was only performing in stage -shows doing mimicries and imitations until he was indoctrinated to try his luck in … Read more

Shabana Azmi

Shabana Azmi was born on 18th September 1950 in Delhi. She is daughter of poet and Urdu writer Kaifi Azmi and stage heroin Shaukat Azmi. Baba Azmi is her brother who is a cinematographer. She took degree in Psychology from the St. Xavier’s College and acting course from FTII, Pune. At the starting of her … Read more

Sadashiv Amrapurkar

Born into an affluent Brahmin business family. His father was a wellknown personality in Ahmednagar. Sadashiv, fondly known as Tatya in his family and friend circle, grew up in Ahmednagar in a loving family with his parents and a younger brother. He was an active child with lot of friends from all walks of life. … Read more

Anjan Srivastava

He is the quintessential common man. And he made his mark playing that role in a TV series that characterised The Times of India cartooning legend R.K. Laxman’s creation. Anjan Shrivastav was a public sector bank employee who lived and breathed theatre in the eighties when the role of the common man for the series … Read more

Victor Banerjee

Sensitive Indian actor in several films by Satyajit Ray and best known for his finely calibrated performance opposite Judy Davis in David Lean’s “A Passage to India” (1984). Banerjee began his career on the Calcutta stage as a child actor and appeared frequently in amateur theatrical productions. After attending university, he was introduced to director … Read more