List of Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipients
by user-272-769207 | created - 26 Jan 2021 | updated - 28 Sep 2022 | Public
1. Devika Rani
Producer | Achhut Kanya
Devika Rani Chaudhuri, usually known as Devika Rani (30 March 1908 - 9 March 1994), was an actress in Indian films who was active during the 1930s and 1940s. Widely acknowledged as the first lady of Indian cinema, Devika Rani had a successful film career that spanned 10 years.
Born into a wealthy, ...
3. Prithviraj Kapoor
Actor | Mughal-E-Azam
Prithviraj Kapoor was born on November 3, 1906 in Samundri, Punjab, British India. He was an actor and director, known for Mughal-E-Azam (1960), Maharathi Karna (1944) and Bidyapati (1937). He was married to Rama Kapoor. He died on May 29, 1972 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
4. Pankaj Mullick
Composer | Zalzala
Pankaj Mullick was born on May 10, 1905 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was a composer and actor, known for Zalzala (1952), Maya (1936) and Didi (1937). He died on February 19, 1978 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
6. Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy
Director | Pooja phalam
Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy is known for Pooja phalam (1964).
7. Dhirendranath Ganguly
Director | Kamanar Aagun
Dhirendranath Ganguly was born on March 26, 1893 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was a director and actor, known for Kamanar Aagun (1930), Takay Ki Na Hay (1931) and Shesh Nibedan (1948). He was married to Premika Devi. He died on November 18, 1978 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
8. Kanan Devi
Actress | Haar Jeet
Kanan Devi was born in 1916 in Howrah, Bengal Presidency, British India. She was an actress and producer, known for Haar Jeet (1940), Parajay (1939) and Abhinetri (1940). She was married to Haridas Bhattacharya and Maitra, Ashok. She died on July 17, 1992 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
9. Nitin Bose
Director | Gunga Jumna
Nitin Bose was born on April 27, 1897 in Calcutta, Bengal, British India [now India]. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Gunga Jumna (1961), Desher Mati (1938) and Dharti Mata (1938). He died on April 14, 1986 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
10. Rai Chand Boral
Composer | Hamrahi
Rai Chand Boral was born on October 19, 1903 in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was a composer and director, known for Hamrahi (1944), Sapurey (1939) and Maya (1936). He died on November 25, 1981 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
11. Sohrab Modi
Director | Mirza Ghalib
Sohrab Modi was born on November 2, 1897 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India. He was an actor and director, known for Mirza Ghalib (1954), Pukar (1939) and Jailor (1938). He died on January 28, 1984 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
12. Paidi Jairaj
Actor | Sholay
Paidi Jairaj was born on September 28, 1909 in Karimnagar, Hyderabad State, British India [now India]. He was an actor and director, known for Sholay (1975), Shahjehan (1946) and Pratima (1945). He was married to Savitri. He died on August 11, 2000 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
13. Naushad
Composer | Gunga Jumna
Regarded as a pioneer of Indian music, Naushad Ali was one of the one of the first and foremost composers in the history of Bollywood. Since 1937, he was composing music for films that, along with his music, formed the very foundation and core of Bollywood. He is also known for introducing the ...
14. L.V. Prasad
Director | Jai-Vijay
L.V. Prasad was born on January 17, 1908 in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was a director and producer, known for Jai-Vijay (1977), Bidaai (1974) and Jeene Ki Raah (1969). He was married to Soundarya Manoharamma. He died on June 22, 1994.
15. Durga Khote
Actress | Mughal-E-Azam
Durga Khote was born on January 13, 1905 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India. She was an actress, known for Mughal-E-Azam (1960), Bidaai (1974) and Anand (1971). She died on September 22, 1991 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
16. Satyajit Ray
Writer | Pather Panchali
Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta on May 2, 1921. His father, Late Sukumar Ray was an eminent poet and writer in the history of Bengali literature. In 1940, after receiving his degree in science and economics from Calcutta University, he attended Tagore's Viswa-Bharati University. His first movie ...
17. Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre
Director | Do Ankhen Barah Haath
Rajaram has been married twice. His second marriage was to actress Jayashree. Jayashree passed away on the 19th of October, 2004 in Bombay, at the age of 84. Jayashree and Rajaram are survived by their son, Kiran Shantaram, former Sheriff of Bombay, and daughter, Rajashree, well-known former ...
18. B. Nagi Reddy
Producer | Deva
B. Nagi Reddy was born on December 2, 1912 in Pottimpadu, Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was a producer and director, known for Deva (1989), Gundamma Katha (1962) and Pathala Bhairavi (1951). He died on February 25, 2004 in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
19. Raj Kapoor
Actor | Mera Naam Joker
Raj Kapoor was the son of well-known Indian actor Prithviraj Kapoor, who acted both in film and on stage. After apprenticing in the Bollywood production studios of the 1940's, at 24 years of age Raj Kapoor produced, directed and acted in Aag (1948), with his new company, RK Films. His next ...
20. Ashok Kumar
Actor | Mahal
The Grandfather & Great Custodian of Indian Motion Pictures!
Ashok Kumar was one of India's most famous actors for over half a century, from before independence to the cusp of the new millennia!
As a young assistant to Bengali film-maker Himanshu Rai, he got his start in acting by accident when he ...
21. Lata Mangeshkar
Music_department | Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
Lata Mangeshkar was born in Indore on September 28, 1929, and became, quite simply, the most popular playback singer in Bollywood's history. She sung for over 50 years for actresses from Nargis to Preity G Zinta, as well as recorded albums of all kinds (ghazals, pop, etc). Until the 1991 edition, ...
22. Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Actor | Meghasandesam
Akkineni Nageswara Rao was born on September 20, 1923 in Venkataraghavapuram, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was an actor and producer, known for Meghasandesam (1983), Laila Majnu (1949) and Devadasu (1953). He was married to Annapurna Akkineni. He died on January 22, 2014 in Hyderabad...
23. Bhalji Pendharkar
Director | Thoratanchi Kamla
Bhalji Pendharkar was born on May 3, 1898 in Kolhapur, Bombay Presidency, British India. He was a director and writer, known for Thoratanchi Kamla (1941), Netaji Palkar (1939) and Shyam Sundar (1932). He died on November 28, 1994 in India.
24. Bhupen Hazarika
Music_department | Chameli Memsaab
Bhupen Hazarika is one of the most well-known personalities from Assam, India. Born in 1926, in Sadiya, Assam, he holds an M. A. in Political Science in 1946. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from Beranes Hindu University, and a PhD in Mass Communication from the Columbia University, New York,...
25. Majrooh Sultanpuri
Music_department | Andaz Apna Apna
Majrooh Sultanpuri's reputation as a poet was ironically overshadowed by his being a lyricist for popular Bollywood films. It has happened very frequently that the real merit of a person is pushed into the background by some lesser work that is done for a medium with a bigger outreach or for some ...
26. Dilip Kumar
Actor | Gunga Jumna
Dilip Kumar (1922-2021) is widely considered the greatest acting exponent India ever produced. Born Muhammad Yusuf Khan on December 11, 1922, in Qissa Khwani Bazaar, Peshawar, British India (present-day Pakistan), he is better known by his stage name Dilip Kumar given to him by actress and owner of...
27. Rajkumar
Actor | Gandhada Gudi
Dr. Rajkumar was born in 1929 in Gajanur and brought up in a poor family. He only studied up to 3rd standard before he dropped out of school. He wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father, a traveling actor who performed in various villages. He joined the Gubbi Veeranna drama company to play ...
28. Shivaji Ganesan
Actor | Thevar Magan
Tamil superstar from a poor family in Tamil Nadu, India. His father worked on the railways.
On the day of his birth his father, Chiniah Pillai, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, was jailed for participating in the Independence movement in Nellikuppam (Tamil Nadu, India). He was frequently in and out of ...
29. Kavi Pradeep
30. B.R. Chopra
Producer | Kanoon
One of India's most respected film personalities, Baldev Raj Chopra (better known as B.R. Chopra) has been an architect of what is now known as the golden era of the Bollywood industry. Having converted offbeat stories into immortal classics like Waqt (1965) and Naya Daur (1957), he commands high ...
31. Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Director | Anand
By no means is he any glamorous director, yet Hrishikesh Mukherjee is one of the most popular and beloved filmmakers in Indian cinema. His magic lay not in the glamor or largeness so often associated with cinema, but in its simplicity and warmth.
He began his career in Bombay, 1951, as an editor and...
32. Asha Bhosle
Music_department | Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
One of the greatest playback singers in Bollywood history, Asha Bhosle has recorded over 10,000 songs for over 800 movies. Although every class (ghazals, pop, etc) of song was within her vocal range, her specialty was in sensual songs or Western-styled songs--she had an uncanny knack for making ...
33. Yash Chopra
Producer | Veer-Zaara
Labeled the eternal romantic and with one of the best musical senses in the business, Yash Chopra is arguably India's most successful director of romantic films. Although he made action-oriented films like the ever-popular Deewaar (1975), it is in tackling love and its various aspects that he has ...
34. Dev Anand
Actor | Kala Bazar
One of the most beloved, charismatic and accomplished actors as well as one of the most imaginative and pathbreaking directors in the history of Indian cinema, Dev Anand was a leading man for more than five decades in over 110 motion pictures and continues to bestride Indian film fraternity even ...
35. Mrinal Sen
Director | Chorus
Sen is one of his nation's most politically active filmakers. After having studied physics at university in Calcutta, Sen worked as a freelance journalist, a salesman of patent medicines and a sound technician in a film studio. In the mid-1940s he joined the Indian People's Theatre Association and ...
36. Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Director | Mathilukal
Adoor Gopalakrishnan is India's most acclaimed contemporary filmmaker. Born in 1941 in Kerala, a state in south India, he belongs to a family with strong links to the performing arts, especially Kathakali, a highly-stylised form of dance drama. From the age of eight Adoor began acting for the stage...
37. Shyam Benegal
Director | Ankur
Shyam Benegal was born on December 14, 1934 in Tirumalagiri, Hyderabad State, British India. He is a director and producer, known for Ankur: The Seedling (1974), Bhumika (1977) and Trikal (Past, Present, Future) (1985). He is married to Nira Benegal.
38. Tapan Sinha
Director | Apanjan
Born in 1924. Science graduate from University of Calcutta. Sinha began his film career as a sound engineer in Calcutta's New Theatre in 1946. Four years later, he received an invitation to the London film festival and the opportunity of working at Pinewood Studios. He was in the UK for two years. ...
39. Manna Dey
Music_department | Sholay
Manna Dey was born on May 1, 1919 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was a music artist and composer, known for Sholay (1975), Mera Naam Joker (1970) and Anand (1971). He was married to Sulochana Dey. He died on October 24, 2013 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
40. K. Balachander
Writer | Ek Duuje Ke Liye
K. Balachander was born on July 9, 1930 in Nannilam, Madras Presidency, British India. He was a writer and director, known for Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981), Thaneer Thaneer (1981) and Apoorva Raagangal (1975). He was married to Rajam. He died on December 23, 2014 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
41. D. Rama Naidu
Producer | Asukh
Daggubati Ramanaidu is a multilingual Indian film producer. He is the founder of Suresh Productions and holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the most films produced by an individual, having produced more than 150 films in 13 Indian languages.
He has also served as a member of parliament for ...
42. V.K. Murthy
Cinematographer | Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
V.K. Murthy was born on November 26, 1923 in Mysore, India. He was a cinematographer, known for Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Paper Flowers (1959) and Baaz (1953). He died on April 7, 2014 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
43. Soumitra Chatterjee
Actor | Apur Sansar
Soumitra Chatterjee is an Indian actor, playwright and poet. World-renowned film director Satyajit Ray has acted in multiple shadow films. He has made Bengali film a place in the court of the world. In his long acting career, he has received many awards from home and abroad. His films have also won...
44. Pran Sikand
Actor | Zanjeer
Pran was one of the leading character actors of Indian cinema. He was born on 12 February,1920 at Delhi. Pran was educated at different places namely Kapurthala, Unnao, Meerut, Dehradun and Rampur as his father late Lala Kewal Krishnan Sikand was a Government Civil Contractor for the construction ...
45. Gulzar
Music_department | Raazi
Gulzar is a writer, a lyricist, a director and, at heart, a poet. His films, sensitive, lyrical, and yet successful, were a welcome relief from the violent films that filled the 1970s and 1980s.
Born Sampooran Singh Kalra in Deena, in the Jhelum District in what is now Pakistan, he came to Delhi ...
46. Shashi Kapoor
Actor | Deewaar
Shashi Kapoor is one of the leading actors of Indian cinema having appeared in 160 movies - 12 in English and 148 in Hindi. He has appeared in 148 Hindi films - of them played the solo lead hero in 61 films, was lead hero in 53 released multi star cast Hindi films, 2 unreleased multi star film and ...
47. Manoj Kumar
Actor | Roti Kapada Aur Makaan
Manoj Kumar, born Harikrishna Giri Goswami, is an Indian film actor, director, and screenwriter best known for his work in Hindi films.
Born in Abbottabad, a small town in the North-West Frontier Province, British India (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan), he and his family shifted to Delhi during ...
48. K. Viswanath
Writer | Sagara Sangamam
K. Viswanath was born on February 19, 1930 in Peddapulivarru, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was a writer and director, known for Sagara Sangamam (1983), Sutradhaarulu (1990) and Sruthilayalu (1987). He was married to Kasinadhuni Jayalakshmi. He died on February 2, 2023 in Hyderabad, ...
49. Vinod Khanna
Actor | Dilwale
At the start of his career, he played supporting or villainous characters in films such as Purab Aur Paschim, Sachaa Jhutha, Aan Milo Sajna, and Mastana in 1970, and in Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Elaan and Aan Milo Sajna in 1971.He got his first break as the solo lead hero in the film Hum Tum Aur Woh (...
50. Amitabh Bachchan
Actor | Black
Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, British India (present-day Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India) to legendary poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan & Teji Bachchan. He also has a brother named Ajitabh. He completed his education from Uttar Pradesh and moved to Bombay to find work as a ...
51. Rajinikanth
Actor | Enthiran
Rajinikanth has been a superstar in the Tamil movie industry since the 70s. He is one of the highest earning actors in Asia. Primarily starring in Tamil movies, he has also worked in Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, and Hollywood movies. He was born in Bangalore (India), and was employed as a bus conductor ...
52. Asha Parekh
Actress | Sajan
Asha Parekh was born in a middle-class Gujarati household to a Hindu father, Pranlal Parekh, and a Muslim mother Sudha Parekh on October 2, 1942 in India. Since she was an only child, she became the center of her parents' lives. Her mother enrolled her in classical dance classes at an early age, ...
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