Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan was born on January 7, 1967, also considered a simple Irrfan Khan. He is an Indian actor, known for his work mainly in Hindi cinema, as well as for his British and Hollywood films. In almost thirty years of film career and more than fifty national films, Khan has received numerous awards, including a National Film Award and Filmfare Awards in four categories. Film critics, contemporaries and other experts consider him one of the best actors in Indian cinema for his versatile and natural game. In 2011, he received the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honor for his contribution to the arts. In 2021, he was posthumously awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.

On February 23, 1995, Khan married Sutapa Sikdar, a writer and NSD graduate. They have two sons, Babil and Ayan.

Sikdar says about him, “He was always focused, I remember when he came home, he would go straight to the bedroom, sit on the floor and read books. trailed in gossip. ” Even now, while reading at least one new Hollywood script per week, he believes it’s good to do homework, stay up until 3 am, take notes and try to understand how to play his character. Sikdar remembers how he would require up to 11 rewrites from him when he made episodes of Banegi Apni Baat. “Once, he dragged me to a police station in Mumbai to understand the procedure,” she recalls. In 2012, he changed the spelling of his name from “Irfan” to “Irrfan” and said he liked the sound of the extra “r” in his name.

In February 2018, Khan was diagnosed with an “undisclosed illness” and many media speculated that he was suffering from “brain cancer”. After much speculation, the actor went to his Twitter account and announced that he would “share his story” in “a week – ten days” and asked the media and fans not to “speculate” anything. On March 16, 2018, Khan announced via Twitter message that he was suffering from a neuroendocrine tumor. He went to London for treatment.

Khan was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour. He died at the age of 53 on 29 April 2020 due to a colon infection. Khan was described by Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian as “a distinguished and charismatic star in Hindi and English-language movies whose hardworking career was an enormously valuable bridge between South Asian and Hollywood cinema“.

Sonu Sood was born July 30, 1973 and is an Indian actor, producer, and humanitarian who stars primarily in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Punjabi films.

In 2009, he received the Nandi State of Andhra Pradesh Award for Best Villain and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Telugu for his work in the blockbuster Telugu Arundhati. In 2010, he won the Apsara Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role and the IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for the Bollywood blockbuster Dabangg. In 2012, he received the SIIMA award for best actor in a negative role for Julayi. He is best known for his roles in blockbuster films such as Yuva (2004), Athadu (2005), Aashiq Banaya Aapne (2005), Ashok (2006), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Dookudu (2011), Shootout at Wadala (2013), Happy New Year (2014), Kung Fu Yoga (2017) and Simmba (2018).

He has also appeared in commercials for Apollo Tires and Airtel.

In July 2016, he created the production house Shakti Sagar Productions, which bears the name of his father, Shakti Sagar Sood. He married Sonali in 1996. They have two sons.

Sonu Sood Social work during the COVID-19 pandemic

In May 2020, during the national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sood helped thousands of stranded Indian migrant workers reach their homes by organizing buses, special trains and charter flights for them. In July 2020, he organized a chartered flight to bring home more than 1,500 Indian students stranded in Kyrgyzstan, transporting them from Bishkek to Varanasi. His charity during the pandemic was praised and he was hailed as a real life hero in India.

On July 25, 2020, a video of a farmer’s daughters plowing a field, like bulls with a yoke on their shoulders, went viral on social media. Sood quickly sent the family a tractor. On August 5, 2020, he helped 101 medical students, mostly from Tamil Nadu, stranded in Moscow during the lockdown, to reach Chennai safely on a chartered flight he organized after contacting his team for help. On his birthday, he launched a website and app called Pravasi Rojgar to help migrant workers find decent jobs amid the pandemic.

Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (May 28, 1923 – January 18, 1996), known as the NTR, was an Indian actor, producer, director, director, and politician who had served as chief minister for seven years for three terms. He is widely regarded as one of the best actors in Indian cinema. N.T. Rama Rao has received three national film awards for its co-productions with Thodu Dongalu (1954) and Seetharama Kalyanam (1960) under the National Art Theater of Madras and for the realization of Varakatnam (1970). NTR received the former Rashtrapati Awards for his performances in the films Raju Peda (1954) and Lava Kusa (1963). He won the Nandi Award for Best Actor for Kodalu Diddina Kapuram in 1970 and the inaugural Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu in 1972 for Badi Panthulu.

In May 1943, at the age of 20, while pursuing his intermediary, NTR married Basava Rama Tarakam, daughter of his maternal uncle. The couple had eight sons and four daughters.

His eldest son, Nandamuri Ramakrishna Sr., died in 1962, shortly after NTR completed the filming of Irugu Porugu. NTR founded the Ramakrishna Studios movie studio in Nacharam. His fourth son, Nandamuri Harikrishna, who died in a tragic car accident on August 29, 2018, was a child actor turned politician elected to the Rajya Sabha and representing the TDP. Harikrishna’s sons, Nandamuri Kalyan Ram and Jr. NTR, are also actors in the Telugu film industry (Tollywood), the latter being one of the major players in the industry today. His sixth son, Nandamuri Balakrishna, has been one of Tollywood’s leading actors since the mid-1980s. He also began his career as a child artist. Balakrishna challenged the 2014 assembly elections as a TDP candidate. He won the constituency of the Hindupur Assembly. His seventh son, Nandamuri Ramakrishna Jr. is a film producer. His third son, theater owner Nandamuri Saikrishna, died in 2004 as a result of diabetes-related complications. The other sons Jayakrishna and Mohanakrishna are well-known filmmakers. Taraka Ratna, the son of Mohanakrishna, is also a Tollywood actor.

NTR’s second daughter, Daggubati Purandeswari, represented the Indian National Congress at Lok Sabha and was a minister of the Union. She changed allegiance to the Bharatiya Janata party.

Basava Tarakam died of cancer in 1985. In her memory, NTR founded the Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital in Hyderabad in 1986. In 1993, NTR married Lakshmi Parvathi, a Telugu writer. She is the author of her two-volume biography of NTR, published in 2004. The first volume, “Eduruleni Manishi”, deals with her childhood as she enters the movies. The second volume, “Telugu Tejam”, deals with his political career.

After his film career, NTR entered politics. He founded the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 1982 and served three tumultuous terms as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 1983 to 1995. He was known for defending the distinct cultural identity of Andhra Pradesh , distinguishing him from the former state of Madras with which he was was often associated. At the national level, he played a key role in forming the National Front, a coalition of non-Congress parties that ruled India from 1989 to 1990.

NTR died of a heart attack on January 18, 1996 at his home in Hyderabad at the age of 72. He was cremated and his ashes were immersed in Srirangapatna by his second wife eight years later, in 2004.