As one of the largest cinema hubs in the world, the Indian film industry is renowned for its glitz, vibrancy, and drama. The city of Mumbai is especially relevant in this context as the birthplace and namesake of “Bollywood” in India. And while Hindi language cinema dominates the multi-billion-rupee industry in terms of net worth, there are many other film hubs across the country differentiated by regional languages including Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Bhojpuri, and Bengali to name a few.
Film Directors/Makers
| Dadasaheb Phalke | Satyajit Raj | Mehboob Khan | Chetan Anand |
| BR Chopra | Hrushikesh Mukherjee | Bimal Roy | Ritwick Ghatak |
| Jyothi Prakash Agarwal | L.V. Prasad | V. Shantaram | S.S. Vasan |
| B Nagi Reddy | Chetan Anand | Avichi Meiyappan | K Subrahmanyam |
| Harakh Chand Nahata | Guru Dutt | ||
Movie Actors
| Shivaji Ganeshan | N T Rama Rao | Rajkapoor | Prithviraj Kapoor |
| Uttam Kumar | M G Ramachandran | Utpal Dutt | Rajesh Khanna |
| Prem Nazir | Shammi Kapoor | Gemini Ganesan | Shivaji Ganeshan |
| Rajkumar | Jaishankar | Ashok Kumar | Dev Anand |
| Rajendra Kumar | Sanjeev Kumar | Vishnu Vardhan | |
Movie Actress
| Devika Rani | Kanan Devi | Leela Naidu | Meena Kumari |
| Nutan | Savitri | Nargis Dutt | Leila Naidu |
| Madhubala | Durga Khote | Ruby Myers (Sulochana) | Smita Patil |
| Suraiya |
Music Directors
| S D Burman | Dinanath Mangeskar | Shankar Jaikishan | Naushad |
| R D Burman | Salil Chowdhury | ||
| Kishore Kumar | Mukesh | Mohamad Rafi | Hemant Kumar |
| Kundan Lal Saigal | Jagjit Singh | Talat Mehmood | Manna Dey |
| Geetha Dutt | Shamshad Begum | Bupen Hazarika | T M Soundararajan |
| Pankaj Kumar Mallick | Ghantasala | M.S. Subbulakshmi | |
Writers
| Kannadasan | |||
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