Sooni Taraporevala is an Indian screenwriter, photographer, and filmmaker who is the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay!, all directed by Mira Nair. She also adapted Rohinton Mistry's novel Such A Long Journey and wrote the films Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, her directorial debut Little Zizou, and Yeh Ballet, a Netflix original film that she wrote and directed.
Atul Dodiya is an Indian artist.
Vivan Sundaram was an Indian contemporary artist. He worked in many different media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and video art, and his work was politically conscious and highly intertextual in nature. His work constantly referred to social problems, popular culture, problems of perception, memory, identification and history. He was married to art historian and critic Geeta Kapur.
Reena Saini Kallat is an Indian visual artist. She currently lives and works in Mumbai.
Rashid Rana is a Pakistani artist. He has been included in numerous exhibitions in Pakistan and abroad with his works in abstractions on canvas, collaborations with a billboard painter, photographic/video performances, collages using found material, photo mosaics, photo sculptures, and large stainless steel works he is one of the best Pakistani artists.
Chiranjeevi is an Indian actor and politician who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He has also appeared in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada films.
Surekha is a contemporary Indian video artist whose works showcase themes including identity and feminism/ecology. She has been a full-time artist since 1996 and her video works have been shown at galleries outside India since 2001. Her works are known for the mix of video and physical presence, highlighting inherent experiences. Surekha has been exploring the possibilities of the video form, negotiating the public and private, locating the body as a site of contestation and appropriation. She uses photography and video to archive, document and perform. She has shown her works both in India and many international shows. Surekha, a visual artist from India, is exploring artistic forms through installations, video & photography since last two decades. Her works investigates how visuality can engage with gender/ ecology/socio-political aesthetics, negotiating public and private spaces. Surekha has been to international art residencies and also taught in art universities. She has presented talks at Malmo University, Tate Modern etc., She has been involved in visual art collectives like BAR1, Khoj and was a founder curator of Rangoli Metro Art Center, Bangalore. Surekha lives and works in Bangalore.
Geeta Kapur is a noted Indian art critic, art historian and curator based in New Delhi. She was one of the pioneers of critical art writing in India, and who, as Indian Express noted, has "dominated the field of Indian contemporary art theory for three decades now". Her writings include artists' monographs, exhibition catalogues, books, and sets of widely anthologized essays on art, film, and cultural theory.
Hema Upadhyay was an Indian artist based in Mumbai. She was known for photography and sculptural installations. She was active from 1998 until her death in 2015.
Kekoo Gandhy was an Indian art gallerist, art collector and art connoisseur, who pioneered the promotion of Indian modern art from the 1940s. He established Chemould Frames, a frame manufacturing business in 1941, soon he started displaying works of young modern artists K. H. Ara, S. H. Raza, K. K. Hebbar and M. F. Husain in his showroom windows. This led to gradual rise of modern art movement and post-colonial art in India. Eventually Gallery Chemould, India's first commercial art gallery, was opened in 1963 on the first floor of the Jehangir Art Gallery.
Chemould Prescott Road, founded, is the first contemporary art gallery in Mumbai, India.
Shriswara, is an Indian actress from Mumbai who mainly works in Hindi films and television shows. She is best-known for her performances in films like D-Day, Singham Returns, Baaghi 3.
Dhruvi Acharya is an Indian artist known for her psychologically complex and visually layered paintings. She has recently started creating ceramics. She is based in Mumbai, India.
Nilima Sheikh is a visual artist based in Baroda, India.
Venkatesh Maha is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor who works in Telugu cinema. He's known for directing films such as C/o Kancharapalem (2018) and Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya (2020).
Natyam is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language dance romantic drama film written, directed, filmed and edited by Revanth Korukonda. The film is produced by Sandhya Raju who also plays the main lead role.
Ananya Nagalla is an Indian actress who appears in Telugu films. She made her debut in the 2019 film Mallesham and went onto appear in films such as Play Back (2021) and Vakeel Saab (2021). She was nominated for SIIMA Award for Best Female Debut – Telugu.
Anju Dodiya is an Indian contemporary painter. She lives and works in Mumbai. Her paintings feature autobiographical and human relationships, with 'women' usually at the center.
Komalee Prasad is an Indian film actress who predominantly works in Telugu films.
Shakuntala Kulkarni is an Indian contemporary artist whose work highlights the plight of urban women and their spaces.
