List of Bollywood film clans
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Within the Hindi film industry, commonly known as "Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

" there is a history of many members of a family over several generations all participating in the film industry.

This page lists some of the more well-known such "clans". For Tamil film families, see List of Tamil film families.

The Akhtar-Azmi family

Lyricist Javed Akhtar married script writer Honey Irani. His second wife is actress Shabana Azmi. Azmi's nieces are actresses Farah Naaz
Farah (actress)
Farah Naaz was one of the most famous Bollywood actresses in the 1980s and early 90s. Her landmark films were Hamara Khandaan , Naqab , Yateem and Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri . She retired from acting at the peak of her career in 1990 at the age of 22...

 and Tabu
Tabu (actress)
Tabu is an Indian film actress. She has mainly acted in Hindi films, though she has also starred in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali language films, as well as one American film...

. Their cousins are Farah and Sajid Khan.
  • Jan Nisar Akhtar
    Jan Nisar Akhtar
    Jan Nisar Akhtar was an important 20th century Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, and a part of the Progressive Writers' Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood....

     (Father of Javed Akhtar)
    • Javed Akhtar
      Javed Akhtar
      Javed Akhtar is a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed...

    • Honey Irani
      Honey Irani
      -Personal life and background:Honey Irani was born into a Zoroastrian family on January 17, 1950. She was married to Javed Akhtar. Although the marriage ended in divorce, it produced two children, son Farhan Akhtar and daughter Zoya Akhtar. Both her children are critically acclaimed Indian...

       (first wife of Javed Akhtar)
      • Farhan Akhtar
        Farhan Akhtar
        Farhan Akhtar is an Indian filmmaker, script writer, actor, playback singer, lyricist, film producer in Hindi cinema and a television host.His directorial debut Dil Chahta Hai won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi...

         (Son of Javed and Honey)
      • Zoya Akhtar
        Zoya Akhtar
        Zoya Akhtar is a contemporary Indian film director. She made her debut as director with critically acclaimed Luck By Chance.-Personal life:Zoya Akhtar was born on January 9, 1974 in Bombay...

         (daughter of Javed and Honey)
  • Kaifi Azmi
    Kaifi Azmi
    Kaifi Azmi was an Indian Urdu poet. He is considered to be one the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jon Eliya and many others he participated in many memorable mushairas of 20th century.-Early life:...

     (father of Shabana and Baba Azmi)
  • Shaukat Azmi (wife of Kaifi Azmi)
    • Baba Azmi
      Baba Azmi
      Baba Azmi is an Indian film cinematographer and member of the Akhtar-Azmi film family. He is the child of the late poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Even though he is not as known as his sister, Shabana Azmi, he has used his lenses in films like, m Arjun, Beta, Dil, Tezaab, Mr. India, Akele Hum Akele...

       (brother of Shabana Azmi)
    • Shabana Azmi
      Shabana Azmi
      Shabana Azmi is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. An alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India of Pune, she made her film debut in 1974 and soon became one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema, an Indian New Wave movement known for its serious content and...

       (second wife of Javed Akhtar)
  • Tanvi Azmi
    Tanvi Azmi
    -Early life and family:Her maiden name before marriage was Saunhita Kher. She is the daughter of famous Marathi-Hindi actress Usha Kiran and Dr. Manohar Kher...

     (wife of Baba Azmi)
  • Usha Kiran
    Usha Kiran
    Usha Kiran was a Hindi and Marathi film actress. In a career spanning of over four decades she has acted in over 300 Hindi and Marathi films, notably Daag , Patita , Baadbaan , Chupke Chupke , Mili and Bawarchi...

     (mother of Tanvi Azmi)
  • Daisy Irani
    Daisy Irani
    Daisy Irani is a television actress, director and producer from Singapore. Born in a Zoroastrian family in India, she is best known for appearing in the role of Daisy in the popular Singapore TV series Under One Roof. She became the executive producer for MediaCorp Studios English Entertainment...

     (sister of Honey Irani)
  • Tabu
    Tabu (actress)
    Tabu is an Indian film actress. She has mainly acted in Hindi films, though she has also starred in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali language films, as well as one American film...

     (niece of Shabana Azmi)
  • Farah
    Farah (actress)
    Farah Naaz was one of the most famous Bollywood actresses in the 1980s and early 90s. Her landmark films were Hamara Khandaan , Naqab , Yateem and Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri . She retired from acting at the peak of her career in 1990 at the age of 22...

     (sister of Tabu)
  • Farah Khan
    Farah Khan
    Farah Khan is an Indian film director and choreographer. She is best known for her choreographical work in numerous Bollywood films. Khan has choreographed dance routines for more than a hundred songs in over 80 Hindi films. Khan has since become a noted Hindi film director as well...

     (niece of Honey Irani & Daisy Irani)
  • Sajid Khan
    Sajid Khan
    Sajid Khan is a former Indian actor. He is the adopted son of Indian film producer Mehboob Khan, founder of Mehboob Studios, in India.-Career:...

     (nephew of Honey Irani & Daisy Irani)

The Anand family

The most prominent member of the family is actor Dev Anand
Dev Anand
Dharam Dev Anand , better known as Dev Anand , is an Indian Hindi Cinema actor, director and film producer. Dev is the second of three brothers who were active in Hindi Cinema. His brothers are Chetan Anand and Vijay Anand. Their sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of renowned Hindi and...

, who has starred in over a hundred films. Another member of the family is internationally known director Shekhar Kapur
Shekhar Kapur
Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director and producer. A critically acclaimed director, he rose to popularity with the movie Bandit Queen...

, he is known for directing the film Elizabeth
Elizabeth (film)
Elizabeth is a 1998 biographical film written by Michael Hirst, directed by Shekhar Kapur, and starring Cate Blanchett in the title role of Queen Elizabeth I of England, alongside Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Sir John Gielgud, Fanny Ardant and Richard Attenborough...

. He was married to actress Suchitra Krishnamurthy
Suchitra Krishnamurthy
Suchitra Krishnamoorthi is an Indian actress, writer, painter and singer.- Career :Suchitra started her career with the TV series Chunauti while still in school. In 1987-88, she acted in a production of Peanuts: The Musical, a musical based on the famous comic strip Peanuts, directed by C Y Gopinath...

.
  • Dev Anand
    Dev Anand
    Dharam Dev Anand , better known as Dev Anand , is an Indian Hindi Cinema actor, director and film producer. Dev is the second of three brothers who were active in Hindi Cinema. His brothers are Chetan Anand and Vijay Anand. Their sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of renowned Hindi and...

  • Kalpana Kartik
    Kalpana Kartik
    Kalpana Kartik is a former Hindi film actress. She starred in five films in the 1950s. She is the wife of Hindi film actor and film maker Dev Anand....

     (Wife of Dev Anand)
  • Suneil Anand
    Suneil Anand
    Suneil Anand is a film actor and is the son of actor/director Dev Anand and former actress Kalpana Kartik. His mother's real name is Mona. He is currently involved in running Navketan Films. He is 5'9" tall, born on June 30, 1956. He has a degree in business administration from American...

     (Son of Dev Anand)
  • Chetan Anand
    Chetan Anand (producer & director)
    Chetan Anand was an acclaimed Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose debut film, Neecha Nagar, bagged the Palme d'Or award, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946....

     (Elder Brother of Dev Anand)
  • Vijay Anand (Younger Brother of Dev Anand)
  • Shekhar Kapur
    Shekhar Kapur
    Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director and producer. A critically acclaimed director, he rose to popularity with the movie Bandit Queen...

     (Nephew of Dev Anand, son of Sheel Kanta Kapur- sister)
  • Suchitra Krishnamurthy
    Suchitra Krishnamurthy
    Suchitra Krishnamoorthi is an Indian actress, writer, painter and singer.- Career :Suchitra started her career with the TV series Chunauti while still in school. In 1987-88, she acted in a production of Peanuts: The Musical, a musical based on the famous comic strip Peanuts, directed by C Y Gopinath...

     (ex-Wife of Shekar)
  • Purab Kohli
    Purab Kohli
    Purab Kohli is an Indian model, VJ and actor.He started his career as an actor with the popular tv show Hip Hip Hurray and earned recognition through video jockeying on Channel V....

     (Nephew of Shekhar Kapur)

The Babbar family

Raj Babbar
Raj Babbar
Raj Babbar is a Hindi & Punjabi film actor since 1977 and the current Member of Parliament from Firozabad which he won by defeating Dimple Yadav, wife of Akhilesh Yadav & daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav. This is his fourth term as MP, in previous terms he was the part of Samajwadi...

 is an India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n actor and has been married twice. His first wife is Nadira Babbar
Nadira Babbar
Nadira Babbar is an Indian theatre actress, director and an actress in Hindi cinema, who is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001. A leading name in Indian theatre, Nadira founded a Mumbai-based theatre group called Ekjute, a known name in Hindi theatre in 1981...

, who became known with her appearance in Bride and Prejudice
Bride and Prejudice
Bride and Prejudice is a 2004 romantic musical film directed by Gurinder Chadha. The screenplay by Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges is a Bollywood-style adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It was filmed primarily in English, with some Hindi and Punjabi dialogue. The film released in...

(2004) with Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian film actress. She worked as a model before starting her acting career, and ultimately won the Miss World pageant in 1994...

. Their children are Arya Babbar
Arya Babbar
Arya Babbar is an Indian actor.-Life:Aarya Babbar was born at Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai into a well-known family; his father is the renowned actor Raj Babbar and his mother the prominent theatre personality Nadira Zaheer Babbar...

 and Juhi Babbar
Juhi Babbar
Juhi Babbar is an Indian film actress and the daughter of actor Raj Babbar. Her brother Arya Babbar is also an actor. She was married to Bejoy Nambiar in 2007 after a two year courtship; the couple divorced in early 2009. She also has a half-brother, Prateik Babbar, who is also an actor.She made...

. Both have ventured into the film industry. Raj's second wife was actress Smita Patil
Smita Patil
Smita Patil was an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Regarded among the finest stage and film actresses of her times, Patil appeared in over 75 Hindi and Marathi films in a career that spanned just over a decade. During her career, she received two National Film Awards and a...

, she died giving birth to their child in 1986. Her son Prateek made his acting debut in 2008 film Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na is a 2008 Bollywood film, written and directed by Abbas Tyrewala. The film stars Imran Khan and Genelia D'Souza in pivotal roles...


  • Raj Babbar
    Raj Babbar
    Raj Babbar is a Hindi & Punjabi film actor since 1977 and the current Member of Parliament from Firozabad which he won by defeating Dimple Yadav, wife of Akhilesh Yadav & daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav. This is his fourth term as MP, in previous terms he was the part of Samajwadi...

  • Nadira Babbar
    Nadira Babbar
    Nadira Babbar is an Indian theatre actress, director and an actress in Hindi cinema, who is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001. A leading name in Indian theatre, Nadira founded a Mumbai-based theatre group called Ekjute, a known name in Hindi theatre in 1981...

     (his first wife)
  • Arya Babbar
    Arya Babbar
    Arya Babbar is an Indian actor.-Life:Aarya Babbar was born at Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai into a well-known family; his father is the renowned actor Raj Babbar and his mother the prominent theatre personality Nadira Zaheer Babbar...

     (their son)
  • Juhi Babbar
    Juhi Babbar
    Juhi Babbar is an Indian film actress and the daughter of actor Raj Babbar. Her brother Arya Babbar is also an actor. She was married to Bejoy Nambiar in 2007 after a two year courtship; the couple divorced in early 2009. She also has a half-brother, Prateik Babbar, who is also an actor.She made...

     (their daughter)
  • Smita Patil
    Smita Patil
    Smita Patil was an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Regarded among the finest stage and film actresses of her times, Patil appeared in over 75 Hindi and Marathi films in a career that spanned just over a decade. During her career, she received two National Film Awards and a...

     (Raj's second wife)
  • Prateek Babbar
    Prateek Babbar
    Prateik is an Indian actor. He is the son of late actress Smita Patil and actor turned politician Raj Babbar.-Career:Earlier Prateik assisted advertisement filmmaker Prahlad Kakkar for a year as a production assistant...

     (Smita Patil and Raj Babber's son)

The Bachchan family

  • Harivansh Rai Bachchan (Hindi poet) father of Amitabh)
  • Teji Bachchan (mother of Amitabh)
  • Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

     (Actor)
  • Ajitabh Bachchan
    Bachchan Family
    The Bachchan family is a prominent Indian family, headed by Amitabh Bachchan, from which many members have participated in the Indian film industry....

     (Actor-Producer, Amitabh's Brother)
  • Jaya Bachchan
    Jaya Bachchan
    Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan is an Indian actress and politician. She is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Bachchan is the wife of Amitabh Bachchan, and is the mother of Shweta Bachchan-Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan...

     (Actress, wife of Amitabh)
  • Abhishek Bachchan
    Abhishek Bachchan
    Abhishek Bachchan is an Indian actor and producer. He is the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan and is married to actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai....

     (Actor, son of Amitabh)
  • Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Actress, wife of Abhishek)
  • Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
    Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
    -Personal life:Shweta married industrialist Nikhil Nanda, the son of Ritu Nanda and Rajan Nanda on February 16, 1997 at Prateeksha, her parents' home. She now resides in Delhi with her husband...

     (Journalist, daughter of Amitabh )

The Barjatya family

The Barjatya family starts with Tarachand Barjatya
Tarachand Barjatya
Tarachand Barjatya was a well known film producer of Indian films. He has produced many successful Hindi films from the 1960s through to the 1980s. He founded Rajshri Productions which continues to produce films even today. His mainstay was family oriented films based on human valuesHe was born...

, who was a film producer and director and set up his Rajshri Productions
Rajshri Productions
Rajshri Productions Pvt. Ltd. is a Hindi film production company. Rajshri partially works as a film distributor also. On 15 August 1947, Tarachand Barjatya established Rajshri Pictures Ltd., the film distribution division of Rajshri....

, in the late 1940s. Tarachand Barjatya had three sons, Kamal Kumar Barjatya, Raj Kumar Barjatya and Ajit Kumar Barjatya, all of whom are active in bringing the Rajshri empire to great heights. The company saw an all time up swing in revenues when Raj Kumar Barjatya's son, Sooraj R. Barjatya
Sooraj R. Barjatya
Sooraj R. Barjatya is an Indian Hindi film director. His films are produced under the Rajshri Productions banner which was first founded in 1947 by his late grandfather Tarachand Barjatya. As a director he is most known for his early hits, Maine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun .-Early...

, started his film making career with the 1989 blockbuster, Maine Pyar Kiya
Maine Pyar Kiya
Maine Pyar Kiya , English: I Fell in Love) is an Indian Bollywood film directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya, starring Salman Khan and Bhagyashree...

 and eventually with, Hum Aapke Hain Koun and Hum Saath Saath Hain. The company is now led by the third generation of Barjatya's, namely, Kavita K. Barjatya, Sooraj R. Barjatya and Rajat A. Barjatya.
  • Tarachand Barjatya
    Tarachand Barjatya
    Tarachand Barjatya was a well known film producer of Indian films. He has produced many successful Hindi films from the 1960s through to the 1980s. He founded Rajshri Productions which continues to produce films even today. His mainstay was family oriented films based on human valuesHe was born...

     (Director, Producer, Writer and Founder, Rajshri Productions
    Rajshri Productions
    Rajshri Productions Pvt. Ltd. is a Hindi film production company. Rajshri partially works as a film distributor also. On 15 August 1947, Tarachand Barjatya established Rajshri Pictures Ltd., the film distribution division of Rajshri....

    )
  • Kamal Kumar Barjatya (First son of Tarachand Barjatya and Producer)
  • Raj Kumar Barjatya (Second son of Tarachand Barjatya and Producer
  • Ajit Kumar Barjatya (Third son of Tarachand Barjatya and Producer))
  • Kavita K. Barjatya (Producer and daughter of Kamal Kumar Barjatya)
  • Sooraj R. Barjatya
    Sooraj R. Barjatya
    Sooraj R. Barjatya is an Indian Hindi film director. His films are produced under the Rajshri Productions banner which was first founded in 1947 by his late grandfather Tarachand Barjatya. As a director he is most known for his early hits, Maine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun .-Early...

     (Director, Producer, Writer and son of Raj Kumar Barjatya)
  • Rajat A. Barjatya (Producer and son of Ajit Kumar Barjatya)
  • Vidhi Kaslival Director - niece of Sooraj Barjatya

The Baweja family

  • Harry Baweja
    Harry Baweja
    Harry Baweja is an Indian film director based in Mumbai and hails from Ludhiana,Punjab, India. He is married to Indian film producer, Pammi Baweja. His son, Harman Baweja made his debut in the film Love Story 2050.- Selected filmography :...

  • Pammi Baweja
    Pammi Baweja
    Pammi Baweja is an Indian film producer based in Mumbai, India. She is the wife of the Indian film director Harry Baweja. Harman Baweja, her son, debuted in the Love Story 2050.- Selected filmography :...

     (Wife of Harry Baweja)
  • Harman Baweja
    Harman Baweja
    Harman Baweja is an Indian actor. He debuted in Bollywood with Love Story 2050. His next films were Victory and What's Your Raashee? in which he performed opposite his Love Story 2050 co-star Priyanka Chopra....

     (Son of Harry and Pammi Baweja)

The Bedi family

  • Kabir Bedi
    Kabir Bedi
    Kabir Bedi is an Indian television and film actor. His career has spanned three continents including India, the United States and many European countries in three mediums: film, television and theatre. He is noted for his role as Emperor Shah Jahan in Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story...

     (actor)
  • Protima Bedi
    Protima Bedi
    Protima Gauri Bedi was an Indian model turned Odissi exponent. In 1990, she established 'Nrityagram', a dance village near Bangalore.-Early life:...

     (dancer, wife of Kabir Bedi)
  • Pooja Bedi
    Pooja Bedi
    Pooja Bedi is a former Bollywood actress and currently a television talk show host. She is the daughter of actor Kabir Bedi. She has also participated in Bigg Boss 5 and was voted out on 26th of November.-Biography:...

     (Actor/model, Kabir and Protima's daughter)

The Bhatt family

  • Nanabhai Bhatt
    Nanabhai Bhatt
    Nanabhai Bhatt was a well-known Indian film director and producer of Bollywood and Gujarati cinema, known for making over a hundred fantasy and mythological films, including Mr. X , Zimbo Comes to Town , Lal Qila and the blockbuster Kangan starring Nirupa Roy and Ashok Kumar...

     (Director, father to Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt)

Mother : Shireen
    • Mahesh Bhatt
      Mahesh Bhatt
      Mahesh Bhatt , is a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.Bhatt's early directional career consisted of acclaimed films, such as Arth, Saaransh, Janam, Naam and Zakhm....

       (Director, Writer)
      • Kiran Bhatt aka Loraine Bright (Mahesh Bhatt's ex-wife)
        • Pooja Bhatt
          Pooja Bhatt
          Pooja Bhatt is an Indian film actress and model, currently devoting time to film production and direction. She is the daughter of Indian film director Mahesh Bhatt.-Early life:...

           (Actor, Producer, Mahesh's daughter)
        • Rahul Bhatt
          Rahul Bhatt
          Rahul Bhatt , is an Indian fitness trainer and an aspiring film actor. The son of famous film director Mahesh Bhatt and Kiran Bhatt, Rahul gained unwitting notoriety in 2009 following revelations that David Headley, an accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, had befriended him.-Biography:The son of...

           (Mahesh's son)
      • Soni Razdan (Mahesh Bhatt's wife)
    • Mukesh Bhatt
      Mukesh Bhatt
      Mukesh Bhatt , is an Indian film producer, who has produced several Bollywood films. He is the younger brother of director, Mahesh Bhatt and also the co-owner of the production company, Vishesh Films, set up in 1986...

       (Mahesh's brother)
  • Vikram Bhatt
    Vikram Bhatt
    Vikram Bhatt is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. He has more than 21 films to his credit. He is also the creative head of a conglomerate called ASA Productions.-Early life:...

     (Director, Producer, Mukesh's son)
  • Emraan Hashmi
    Emraan Hashmi
    Emraan Anwar Hashmi is a Filmfare Award-nominated Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films.- Early life :Hashmi was born to Anwar Hashmi and Maherahh Hashmi. His father is a Muslim while his mother a Roman Catholic. After briefly changing his first name to Farhan, he decided to keep his...

     (Actor, Nephew of both Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt)
  • Onjolee Nair
    Onjolee Nair
    Onjolee Nair is an Indian actress and dancer, as well as a member of the Bhatt family. She plays the lead in the movie Holiday opposite Dino Morea.-External links:...

     (Director, Niece of Mahesh Bhatt)
  • Mohit Suri
    Mohit Suri
    Mohit Suri, is an Indian film director, most known for his films, like Kalyug and Awarapan .He is member of the Bhatt family...

     (Director, Mahesh's nephew)

The Chopra family

Considered to be the most powerful family of the Indian Film Industry, they have produced some of the country's biggest blockbusters and have worked in close quarters with all the leading superstars of the country. The Chopra's form a group of four siblings, born to Vilayati Raj Chopra, all of whom work independently through different leading film production houses. The eldest brother, Baldev Raj Chopra
Baldev Raj Chopra
Baldev Raj Chopra was an Indian director and producer of Bollywood movies and television serials...

, found his B.R.Films in the year 1947, which is now managed and run by his son Ravi Chopra
Ravi Chopra
Ravi Chopra is an Indian movie producer and director.Ravi has directed thus far the movies, Zameer , The Burning Train , Mazdoor , Dehleez , Baghban , and Baabul...

, who is also a director and a producer. Baldev Raj Chopra was assisted by his youngest brother, Yash Chopra
Yash Chopra
Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...

 for a long time with B.R.Films, during which he directed and produced several hits for the company, however eventually branching out to form his own, Yash Raj Films
Yash Raj Films
Yash Raj Films is an Indian Entertainment company set up by Yash Chopra, an Indian film director and producer who is considered an entertainment mogul in India.-Initial years:...

, along with son Aditya Chopra
Aditya Chopra
Aditya Chopra is an Indian film producer, screenwriter and director. He is most known for directing his only three films Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge , Mohabbatein , and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi...

. The second brother Vinod Chopra, found his Vinod Chopra Productions along with his son Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an Indian director and producer. Chopra is the head of his own company, Vinod Chopra Productions, and is particularly known for producing the Munna Bhai films and 3 Idiots.-Early life:Born in a Punjabi family of Kashmir,...

 and never worked with B.R.Films.
  • Baldev Raj Chopra
    Baldev Raj Chopra
    Baldev Raj Chopra was an Indian director and producer of Bollywood movies and television serials...

     (Veteran Hindi Film Producer & Director)
  • Yash Chopra
    Yash Chopra
    Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...

     (Hindi Film Producer & Youngest Brother Of B.R. Chopra)
  • Ravi Chopra
    Ravi Chopra
    Ravi Chopra is an Indian movie producer and director.Ravi has directed thus far the movies, Zameer , The Burning Train , Mazdoor , Dehleez , Baghban , and Baabul...

     (B.R.Chopra's Son & Film Director)
  • Vidhu Vinod Chopra
    Vidhu Vinod Chopra
    Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an Indian director and producer. Chopra is the head of his own company, Vinod Chopra Productions, and is particularly known for producing the Munna Bhai films and 3 Idiots.-Early life:Born in a Punjabi family of Kashmir,...

     (Vinod Chopra's Son & Hindi Film Writer, Producer and Director)
  • Anupama Chopra
    Anupama Chopra
    Anupama Chopra is a noted author, journalist and film critic. She has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a movie reviewer with NDTV and India Today.-Career:...

     (Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Wife & Film Writer)
  • Aditya Chopra
    Aditya Chopra
    Aditya Chopra is an Indian film producer, screenwriter and director. He is most known for directing his only three films Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge , Mohabbatein , and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi...

     (Yash Chopra's Son & Hindi Film Writer, Producer and Director)
  • Uday Chopra
    Uday Chopra
    Uday Chopra is a Bollywood actor, producer, and assistant director.He is the son of Yash Chopra and brother of Aditya Chopra, and worked as assistant director on a number of his father's and brother's movies under the Yash Raj Films banner. In 1994 Chopra produced Yeh Dillagi starring Akshay...

     (Yash Chopra's Youngest Son & Actor)

The Deol family

The Deols start with Dharmendra
Dharmendra
Dharmendra Singh Deol |Punjab]]), better known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Hindi film actor who has appeared in more than 247 Hindi-language films as of 2011. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema and also another Lifetime...

. His sons (Sunny Deol
Sunny Deol
Sunny Deol often credited as "Action King of Bollywood" is an Indian film actor, producer and director. Deol was born to Bollywood actor Dharmendra. He has won two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. He went to England to study acting...

 and Bobby Deol
Bobby Deol
Bobby Deol is a Bollywood actor. Deol is the son of the acclaimed Bollywood actor Dharmendra and the brother of Sunny Deol, also a successful actor in the Mumbai based Indian film industry....

) went on to pursue a successful film career. Esha Deol
Esha Deol
Esha Deol is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. She is the elder daughter of Bollywood actors Dharmendra and Hema Malini.-Personal life:...

 and Ahana Deol are the daughters of Dharmendra and Hema Malini
Hema Malini
Hema Malini is an Indian actress, director and producer, as well as a Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer. Making her acting debut in Sapno Ka Saudagar , she went on to appear in numerous Bollywood films, most notably those with actor and future-husband Dharmendra. She was initially promoted as...

. Esha has pursued a film career, whilst Dharmendra's nephew Abhay Deol
Abhay Deol
Abhay Deol is an Indian actor from Mumbai, India. He is an Indian film actor and producer whose family has a long history in the Hindi film industry. Deol has appeared in films such as Dev.D and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!. He is the nephew of Bollywood actor Dharmendra, and the cousin of Sunny Deol and...

 is in the industry since 2005, giving notable performances.
  • Dharmendra
    Dharmendra
    Dharmendra Singh Deol |Punjab]]), better known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Hindi film actor who has appeared in more than 247 Hindi-language films as of 2011. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema and also another Lifetime...

  • Hema Malini
    Hema Malini
    Hema Malini is an Indian actress, director and producer, as well as a Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer. Making her acting debut in Sapno Ka Saudagar , she went on to appear in numerous Bollywood films, most notably those with actor and future-husband Dharmendra. She was initially promoted as...

     (Actor, Producer, Dancer, Second Wife)
  • Sunny Deol
    Sunny Deol
    Sunny Deol often credited as "Action King of Bollywood" is an Indian film actor, producer and director. Deol was born to Bollywood actor Dharmendra. He has won two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. He went to England to study acting...

     (Actor, Elder Son of Dharmendra-Prakash Kaur)
  • Bobby Deol
    Bobby Deol
    Bobby Deol is a Bollywood actor. Deol is the son of the acclaimed Bollywood actor Dharmendra and the brother of Sunny Deol, also a successful actor in the Mumbai based Indian film industry....

     (Actor, Younger Son of Dharmendra-Prakash Kaur)
  • Esha Deol
    Esha Deol
    Esha Deol is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. She is the elder daughter of Bollywood actors Dharmendra and Hema Malini.-Personal life:...

     (Actor, Classical Dancer, Elder Daughter of Dharmendra-Hema Malini)
  • Ahana Deol (Classical Dancer, Younger Daughter of Dharmendra-Hema Malini)
  • Abhay Deol
    Abhay Deol
    Abhay Deol is an Indian actor from Mumbai, India. He is an Indian film actor and producer whose family has a long history in the Hindi film industry. Deol has appeared in films such as Dev.D and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!. He is the nephew of Bollywood actor Dharmendra, and the cousin of Sunny Deol and...

     (Actor, Nephew)
  • Madhoo
    Madhoo
    Madhoo is an actress in Indian films. She has acted in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. She was named after the late Hindi actress Madhubala. She has acted with almost all leading actors in India...

     (Actor, Niece of Hema Malini)
  • Prakash Kaur (First Wife)
  • Ajit Deol (Older brother and father of Abhay Deol)
  • Veerendra
    Veerendra
    Veerendra was a legendary Punjabi film star who made 25 films in his 12-year career. Some these films were Lambardarni, Sarpanch, Batwara and Yaari Jatt Di. He also tried his hand at Hindi films, dubbed. Those were Khel Muqaddar Ka and Do Chehere .-Family:Veerendra was a cousin of superstar...

     (Cousin)
  • Ajeeta Deol (Daughter from first wife)
  • Vijeeta Deol (Daughter from first wife)

The Devgan family

  • Veeru Devgan
    Veeru Devgan
    Veeru Devgan is a stunt and action choreographer in Bollywood. He is also the father of actor Ajay Devgan and director Anil Devgan. He has choreographed fight and action scenes for over 80 Hindi films...

  • Ajay Devgan
    Ajay Devgan
    Ajay Devgan , born Vishal Veeru Devgan on 2 April 1969, is an Indian film actor, director, and producer.He made his film debut with Phool Aur Kaante in 1991 and received a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut for his performance in the film and for which he won a Filmfare Best Debut Award...

     (Son of Veeru Devgan)
  • Anil Devgan
    Anil Devgan
    Anil Devgan is the son of producer Veeru Devgan, brother of actor Ajay Devgan, and brother-in-law of actress Kajol. Anil Devgan has also tried his hand with directing, and has directed his brother in two of his films: Raju Chacha and Blackmail.- Filmography:...

     (Second son of Veeru Devgan)
  • Kajol Devgan
    Kajol
    Kajol Devgn , better known as Kajol, is an Indian film actress appearing in Hindi films. She is regarded as one of India's most successful and talented female actors....

     (wife of Ajay)

The Dutt family

Jaddanbai, the founder of the family, started as a singer and eventually became a film composer and filmmaker. Her daughter Nargis began her film career at age six when cast by her mother in one of her films. Nargis went on to become a major star in the 1940s and 1950s. Sunil Dutt also acted in the industry in the 1950s. Nargis went into semi-retirement after their marriage in 1958, and full retirement in 1967, but Sunil continued to act until the early 1990s. Their son Sanjay has pursued a successful film career since 1981 and continues to act today. Nargis died from cancer in the year her son made his debut and Sunil Dutt died in May 2005.

The Dutt family is also known for its political involvement. Sunil was elected five times to the Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...

 (the lower house of the Parliament of India
Parliament of India
The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body in India. Founded in 1919, the Parliament alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all political bodies in India. The Parliament of India comprises the President and the two Houses, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha...

) and, at his death, was a cabinet minister under Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh is the 13th and current Prime Minister of India. He is the only Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term. A Sikh, he is the first non-Hindu to occupy the office. Singh is also the 7th Prime Minister belonging to the Indian...

. Nargis was a nominated member of the Parliament's upper house, Rajya Sabha
Rajya Sabha
The Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the Parliament of India. Rajya means "state," and Sabha means "assembly hall" in Sanskrit. Membership is limited to 250 members, 12 of whom are chosen by the President of India for their expertise in specific fields of art, literature,...

, and died in office in 1981. After Sunil's death, their daughter Priya Dutt ran for, and was elected to, Sunil's vacant seat in the Lok Sabha. She continues to serve in that body.
  • Jaddanbai
    Jaddanbai
    Jaddanbai was an early singer, music composer, actress and filmmaker of Bollywood and one of the pioneers of Indian cinema. She was the mother of well-known actress, Nargis and maternal grandmother of Sanjay Dutt.-Biography:...

  • Nargis
    Nargis
    Nargis Dutt , born Fatima Rashid but known by her screen name, Nargis, was an Indian film actress. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema. She made her screen debut as a child in Talash-E-Haq in 1935, but her acting carer began in 1942 with Tamanna...

     (late daughter of Jaddanbai)
  • Anwar Hussain
    Anwar Hussain
    Anwar Hussain Khokhar was a member of Pakistan's first Test team in 1952. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, he played in 4 of the 5 Test matches in Pakistan's inaugural series against India with modest success...

     (actor and son of Jaddanbai)
  • Sunil Dutt
    Sunil Dutt
    Sunil Dutt , born Sunil Balraj Dutt, was an Indian Hindi movie actor , producer, director and politician. He was the cabinet minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government...

     (late husband of Nargis)
  • Sanjay Dutt
    Sanjay Dutt
    Sanjay Dutt is an Indian Hindi film actor and politician. Dutt, son of Hindi film actors Sunil and Nargis Dutt, made his acting debut in 1981.-Personal life:...

     (son of Sunil and Nargis)
  • Priya Dutt
    Priya Dutt
    Priya Dutt Roncon is an Indian politician. She was first time elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from Mumbai North West constituency in Maharashtra on 22 November 2005, representing the Indian National Congress party...

     (politician and daughter of Sunil and Nargis)
  • Richa Sharma
    Richa Sharma (actor)
    Richa Sharma was an Indian actress who acted in Bollywood movies.-Personal life:Her daughter Trishala Dutt lives in the USA. Richa died of brain tumour in 1996 in New York.Richa Sharma...

     (late wife of Sanjay)
  • Kumar Gaurav
    Kumar Gaurav
    Kumar Gaurav is an Indian film actor and son of late actor Rajendra Kumar.-Career:He made his film debut with Love Story produced by his father and directed by Rahul Rawail which was a blockbuster. Many youngsters began to emulate him...

     (husband of Namrata Dutt)
  • Rajendra Kumar
    Rajendra Kumar
    Rajendra Kumar was one of the most successful Indian Bollywood actors in the 1960s and 1970s. He also produced several films in the 1980s starring his son Kumar Gaurav....

     (father of Kumar Gaurav)
  • Rhea Pillai
    Rhea Pillai
    Rhea Pillai is an Indian model. She is a brand ambassador for various products and an instructor for the Art of Living Foundation.-Biography:Her father is Raymond Pillai, a financial controller at IBM Europe...

     (ex-wife of Sanjay Dutt)
  • Manyata Dutt (wife of Sanjay Dutt)
  • Nilesh Sahay (nephew of Sanjay Dutt)

The Ganguly family

Ashok, Kishore and Anoop Kumar have all acted in the industry. Their family is related to the Mukherjee family through the marriage of Sashadhar Mukherjee
Sashadhar Mukherjee
Sashadhar Mukherjee was a producer in Hindi films. He is part of the distinguished Mukherjee clan of Bollywood.Main article: Mukherjee-Samarth family...

 to their only sister Sati Devi.
  • Ashok Kumar
    Ashok Kumar
    Ashok Kumar also fondly called Dadamoni was an Indian film actor. Born Kumudlal Ganguly in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency he attained iconic status in Indian cinema...

  • Kishore Kumar
    Kishore Kumar
    Kishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...

  • Anoop Kumar
    Anoop Kumar
    Anoop Kumar , born Kalyan Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film actor who appeared in over seventy-five Bollywood films.-Personal life:Kalyan was born into a Hindu family in Khandwa, Central Provinces and Berar . His father Kunjalal Ganguly was a lawyer and his mother Gouri Devi came from a wealthy...

  • Ruma Guha Thakurta
    Ruma Guha Thakurta
    -Early life:She was born in 1934 as Ruma Ghosh. She hails from a Brahmo Bengali family. Her father was Satyen Ghosh and her mother was Sati Devi, a singer. Sati Devi's younger sister Bijoya married film director Satyajit Ray. Thakurta had her formal education in many places including Santiniketan...

     (Kishore Kumar's first wife)
  • Madhubala
    Madhubala
    Mumtaz Jahan Begum Dehlavi, known by her stage name Madhubala was a Hindi movie actress. She starred in several successful movies in the 1950s and early 1960s, many of which have attained a classic status...

     (Kishore Kumar's second wife)
  • Yogita Bali (Kishore Kumar's third wife)
  • Leena Chandavarkar
    Leena Chandavarkar
    Leena Chandavarkar was an Indian actress who appeared in Bollywood movies and is now appearing in reality shows.- Biography :She appeared as a guest judge for the first 2 episodes of "K for Kishore", a new reality TV singing show launched by Sony TV during December 2007. She is now appearing again...

     (Kishore Kumar's fourth wife)
  • Preeti Ganguly
    Preeti Ganguly
    Preeti Ganguly is an Indian actress who played several comic roles in Hindi movies in the 1970s and 1980s. She is the daughter of veteran Indian actor Ashok Kumar. She is best known for her comic role as Freni Sethna, the die-hard Amitabh Bachchan fan in Khatta Meetha...

     (Ashok Kumar's daughter)
  • Deven Verma
    Deven Verma
    Deven Varma is an Indian film and television actor, particularly known for his comic roles, with directors like Basu Chatterji, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Gulzar. He has also produced and directed some films including Besharam...

     (Ashok Kumar's son in law)
  • Amit Kumar
    Amit Kumar
    Amit Kumar is an Indian film playback singer, actor, director, and music director. He is the son of famous singer and actor Kishore Kumar and Bengali singer and actress Ruma Guha Thakurta. Like his father he too loved singing since childhood and used to sing in Kolkata during Durga Pooja functions...

     (Kishore Kumar's son from his first wife)
  • Anuradha Patel
    Anuradha Patel
    -Early life:She was born in Mumbai. She is the maternal grand daughter of famous Hindi actor Ashok Kumar.-Personal life:She is married to actor Kanwaljit Singh. They have two sons Sidharth and Aaditya and a god-daughter, Mariam, who resides in the United States....

     (Ashok Kumar's granddaughter)
  • Kanwaljit Singh
    Kanwaljit Singh
    Kanwaljit Singh is an Indian actor who has performed in films as well as television serials. He has acted in Hindi as well as Punjabi films.-Early life and education:Kanwaljit hails from a Sikh family of Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh...

     (Anuradha's husband)

The Haasan-Ratnam family

Originated in South India, Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, screenwriter and director, considered to be one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema. He is widely acclaimed as an actor and is well known for his versatility in acting...

 and Mani Ratnam
Mani Ratnam
Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He made his directorial debut with the Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi starring Anil Kapoor in 1983...

 are two of the biggest names in the industry.
  • Mani Ratnam
    Mani Ratnam
    Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He made his directorial debut with the Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi starring Anil Kapoor in 1983...

  • Suhasini Mani Ratnam
    Suhasini Mani Ratnam
    Suhasini Maniratnam is an Indian actress. She made her film debut in 1980 with the Tamil film Nenjathai Killathe for which she won the Best Actress award. Suhasini has won a National Film Award for Best Actress for Sindhu Bhairavi in 1986...

     (Mani's wife)
  • Charuhasan (Suhasini's father)
  • Kamal Haasan
    Kamal Haasan
    Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, screenwriter and director, considered to be one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema. He is widely acclaimed as an actor and is well known for his versatility in acting...

     (Charuhasan's brother)
  • Sarika
    Sarika
    Sarika was born on 3 June 1962 into a Maharashtrian family in New Delhi, India, and became an acclaimed National Award winning Indian actress.-Career:...

     (Kamal's ex-wife)
  • Anu Haasan
    Anu Haasan
    Anu Hasan is a Tamil actress and TV anchor. She made her film debut in the critically acclaimed film Indira and has since appeared in a few Tamil films, playing supporting roles. She currently hosts the celebrity talk show Koffee with Anu on the Tamil channel Vijay...

     (Charu Haasan's daughter)
  • Shruti Haasan
    Shruti Haasan
    Shruti Haasan is an Indian actress, singer and music composer who has worked in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. Her parents are noted actors, Kamal Haasan and Sarika. As a child artiste, she sang in films and appeared in a guest role, before making her adult acting debut in the 2009 action drama,...

     (Kamal Haasan's daughter)
  • G. Venkateswaran
    G. Venkateswaran
    G. Venkateswaran , popularly known as G.V., was a film producer. He was the older brother of acclaimed director and screenwriter Mani Ratnam and G. Srinivasan. GV was the promoter of G.V...

     (Mani's brother)
  • Gautami (Wife of Kamal Hassan)

The Hussain family

The Hussain starts with Nasir Hussain
Nasir Hussain
Nasir Husain was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter.-Early career:Husain first worked with A. R. Kardar when he joined Filmistan as a writer in 1948. The famous films he wrote for Filmistan include Anarkali , Munimjee , and Paying Guest...

, who is the eldest man in the family. Nasir Hussain
Nasir Hussain
Nasir Husain was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter.-Early career:Husain first worked with A. R. Kardar when he joined Filmistan as a writer in 1948. The famous films he wrote for Filmistan include Anarkali , Munimjee , and Paying Guest...

 is a veteran film writer, producer and director and made his writing debut with the 1953 super hit, Anarkali
Anarkali
Anarkali ; Anārkalī ) was a legendary slave girl from Lahore, Punjab . During the Mughal period, she was supposedly ordered to be buried alive between two walls by Mughal emperor Akbar for having an illicit relationship with the Prince Nuruddin Saleem later to become Emperor Jahangir...

 for Filmistan
Filmistan
Filmistan was a film production company and film studio of Indian film industry from Goregaon, Mumbai. It is located very near to Patkar College on SV road spread over seven acres. Many students have claimed to see superstars in the studio. Patkar College's reputation has increased due to this...

 studios, where he joined as a free lancer. Nasir later went on to start his own production house named Nasir Hussain Films and made evergreen cult films like Teesri Manzil
Teesri Manzil
Teesri Manzil is a Bollywood thriller directed by Vijay Anand and produced by Nasir Hussain. It starred his regular actors Shammi Kapoor and Asha Parekh. Nazima, Premnath, Prem Chopra, Iftekhar, Helen, K. N. Singh and Salim Khan were part of the supporting cast...

 and Yaadon Ki Baraat
Yaadon Ki Baraat
The Music of the movie is by the veteran Rahul Dev Burman, and the lyrics are authored by Majrooh Sultanpuri. The Soundtrack, one of the highlights of the movie with unforgettable compositions and extravagant lyrics, is remembered to Date...

. Nasir Hussain
Nasir Hussain
Nasir Husain was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter.-Early career:Husain first worked with A. R. Kardar when he joined Filmistan as a writer in 1948. The famous films he wrote for Filmistan include Anarkali , Munimjee , and Paying Guest...

’s younger brother, Tahir Hussain
Tahir Hussain
Tahir Hussain was an Indian producer, director and writer of Bollywood movies. He was the younger brother of producer, director, and writer Nasir Hussain, the father of Bollywood actors Aamir Khan and Faisal Khan and of Farhat Khan and Nikhat Khan. Hussain directed his son, Aamir, for the first...

, is also a filmmaker and has been a producer and presenter for a number of films. Nasir Hussain
Nasir Hussain
Nasir Husain was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter.-Early career:Husain first worked with A. R. Kardar when he joined Filmistan as a writer in 1948. The famous films he wrote for Filmistan include Anarkali , Munimjee , and Paying Guest...

 has two children; an elder son Mansoor Khan
Mansoor Khan
Mansoor Khan, son of film maker Nasir Hussain, made his directorial debut with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak which launched the career of his cousin Aamir Khan. The film, a soft Romeo-Juliet inspired romantic drama, was a huge success...

, and a younger daughter, Nuzhat Khan. Nuzhat Khan married Anil Pal, an engineer and had one child, Imran Khan
Imran Khan
Imran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former Pakistani cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics...

. Tahir Hussain
Tahir Hussain
Tahir Hussain was an Indian producer, director and writer of Bollywood movies. He was the younger brother of producer, director, and writer Nasir Hussain, the father of Bollywood actors Aamir Khan and Faisal Khan and of Farhat Khan and Nikhat Khan. Hussain directed his son, Aamir, for the first...

 and his wife Zeenat Hussain have four children; Farhat Khan, Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan
Aamir Hussain Khan is an Indian film actor, director and producer who has established himself as one of the leading actors of Hindi cinema....

, Faisal Khan
Faisal Khan
Faisal Khan is a Bollywood actor. He is the brother of Aamir Khan, Farhat Khan and Nikhat Khan who is a producer. His father Tahir Hussain was a producer; his uncle Nasir Hussain was a director.-Career:...

 and Nikhat Khan. Nasir Hussain
Nasir Hussain
Nasir Husain was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter.-Early career:Husain first worked with A. R. Kardar when he joined Filmistan as a writer in 1948. The famous films he wrote for Filmistan include Anarkali , Munimjee , and Paying Guest...

 launched, both Mansoor Khan
Mansoor Khan
Mansoor Khan, son of film maker Nasir Hussain, made his directorial debut with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak which launched the career of his cousin Aamir Khan. The film, a soft Romeo-Juliet inspired romantic drama, was a huge success...

 and Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan
Aamir Hussain Khan is an Indian film actor, director and producer who has established himself as one of the leading actors of Hindi cinema....

 with the 1988 blockbuster Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak or QSQT is a 1988 Indian Bollywood film written by Nasir Hussain and directed by his son Mansoor Khan. The film starred Hussain's nephew, Aamir Khan, along with Juhi Chawla in their first major roles. Upon release, the film became a box office hit and shot its leading stars...

, which was produced by Nassir Hussain Films and co-written by the two brothers, in their younger days. Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan
Aamir Hussain Khan is an Indian film actor, director and producer who has established himself as one of the leading actors of Hindi cinema....

's younger brother Faisal Khan
Faisal Khan
Faisal Khan is a Bollywood actor. He is the brother of Aamir Khan, Farhat Khan and Nikhat Khan who is a producer. His father Tahir Hussain was a producer; his uncle Nasir Hussain was a director.-Career:...

 is also an actor. Mansoor Khan
Mansoor Khan
Mansoor Khan, son of film maker Nasir Hussain, made his directorial debut with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak which launched the career of his cousin Aamir Khan. The film, a soft Romeo-Juliet inspired romantic drama, was a huge success...

 and Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan
Aamir Hussain Khan is an Indian film actor, director and producer who has established himself as one of the leading actors of Hindi cinema....

, later launched their nephew, Imran Khan
Imran Khan
Imran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former Pakistani cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics...

, with Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na is a 2008 Bollywood film, written and directed by Abbas Tyrewala. The film stars Imran Khan and Genelia D'Souza in pivotal roles...

 in the year 2008. The film was made under the Aamir Khan Productions
Aamir Khan Productions
Aamir Khan Productions is an Indian motion picture production and distribution company, based in Mumbai. The company was founded in 2001 by actor Aamir Khan. The company has produced six films so far, all of which five succeeded commercially and critically.B...

 banner and was a huge hit.
  • Nasir Hussain
    Nasir Hussain
    Nasir Husain was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter.-Early career:Husain first worked with A. R. Kardar when he joined Filmistan as a writer in 1948. The famous films he wrote for Filmistan include Anarkali , Munimjee , and Paying Guest...

     (screenwriter, producer, director)
  • Tahir Hussain
    Tahir Hussain
    Tahir Hussain was an Indian producer, director and writer of Bollywood movies. He was the younger brother of producer, director, and writer Nasir Hussain, the father of Bollywood actors Aamir Khan and Faisal Khan and of Farhat Khan and Nikhat Khan. Hussain directed his son, Aamir, for the first...

     (film producer, younger Brother Of Nasir Hussain)
  • Mansoor Khan
    Mansoor Khan
    Mansoor Khan, son of film maker Nasir Hussain, made his directorial debut with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak which launched the career of his cousin Aamir Khan. The film, a soft Romeo-Juliet inspired romantic drama, was a huge success...

     (screenwriter, producer, director, elder son of Nasir Hussain)
  • Aamir Khan
    Aamir Khan
    Aamir Hussain Khan is an Indian film actor, director and producer who has established himself as one of the leading actors of Hindi cinema....

     (actor, younger son of Tahir Hussain)
  • Kiran Rao
    Kiran Rao
    Kiran Rao is an Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director.-Early life:Rao was born in Bangalore into a Konkani family on November 7, 1973. She was raised in Calcutta where she attended Loreto House and La Martiniere Calcutta. In 1992, her parents decided to leave Calcutta so she shifted to...

     (director, second wife of Aamir Khan)
  • Faisal Khan
    Faisal Khan
    Faisal Khan is a Bollywood actor. He is the brother of Aamir Khan, Farhat Khan and Nikhat Khan who is a producer. His father Tahir Hussain was a producer; his uncle Nasir Hussain was a director.-Career:...

     (actor, second son of Tahir Hussain)
  • Imran Khan
    Imran Khan (actor)
    Imran Khan is an Indian American film actor. He is the nephew of actor Aamir Khan and producer-director Mansoor Khan.Khan rose to stardom for his debut role in the 2008 blockbuster film Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na. The film won him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut...

     (actor, eldest son of Nuzhat Khan)

The Kapoor family (of Jeetendra)

  • Jeetendra
    Jeetendra
    Jeetendra born Ravi Kapoor is an Indian actor and television producer...

     (real name Ravi Kapoor, actor)
  • Shobha Kapoor
    Shobha Kapoor
    Shobha Kapoor is an Indian television and film producer. She is Managing Director of Balaji Telefilms, a famous TV serial production house in Mumbai, India. She is married to Bollywood actor Jeetendra.-Career:...

     (Jeetendra's wife)
  • Tusshar Kapoor
    Tusshar Kapoor
    Tusshar Kapoor is an Indian actor. He is the son of Bollywood actor Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor and brother of Ekta Kapoor. He studied at the University of Michigan and graduated with a BBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.Tushar made his debut with Mujhe kuch kehna hai alongside...

     (Actor, Jeetendra's son)
  • Ekta Kapoor
    Ekta Kapoor
    Ekta Jeetendra Kapoor is an Indian TV and film producer. She is the Creative Director and Joint Managing Director of Balaji Telefilms, her production company.-Biography:...

     (Producer, Jeetendra's daughter)
  • Nitin Kapoor
    Nitin Kapoor
    Nitin Kapoor is a producer of many Indian films. He is cousin to an actor named Jeetendra. His wife is a South Indian actress named Jayasudha.They have two sons, Nihar and Sreyanth.-References:...

     (Jeetendra's cousin)
  • Jayasudha
    Jayasudha
    Jayasudha is an Indian film actress-turned-MLA for the Congress in Secunderabad. She was a famous South Indian actress from the 1970s and 1980s, with most of her films being Telugu films. She has also worked in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and three Hindi films....

     (Actress, Politician, Nitin Kapoor's wife)
  • Abhishek Kapoor
    Abhishek Kapoor
    Abhishek Kapoor is an Indian film actor, writer and director.He started his career as an actor in Uff!Yeh Mohabbat in 1996, opposite Twinkle Khanna, directed by Vipin Handa, and after two more films, he made his directorial début with Aryan in 2006, which despite getting him critical acclaim for...

     (Director, Actor, Jeetendra's Nephew)

The Kapoor family (of Prithviraj Kapoor)

Probably one of the oldest families in the industry, the Kapoor family have been in the industry for years since the 1940s. It is mainly Raj Kapoor's descendants that have carried on with the family tradition of acting. Karisma Kapoor
Karisma Kapoor
Karisma Kapoor , often informally referred to as Lolo, is an Indian actress who made her debut in 1991, and appears in Bollywood films. During her career, she has been part of many commercially and critically successful films, Raja Hindustani being the most notable of them, as it was her biggest...

 was briefly engaged to Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan is an Indian actor and producer. He is the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan and is married to actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai....

 the son of Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

. Amitabh's daughter Shweta is married to Raj Kapoor's grandson.
  • Prithviraj Kapoor
    Prithviraj Kapoor
    Prithviraj Kapoor , 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was a pioneer of Indian theatre and of the Hindi film industry, who started his career as an actor, in the silent era of Hindi cinema, associated with IPTA and who founded Prithvi Theatres, a travelling theatre company based in Mumbai, in...

     (son of Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor) (1906–1972)
  • Raj Kapoor
    Raj Kapoor
    Known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara and Boot Polish were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the...

     (son of Prithviraj, married to Krishna Kapoor) (1924–1988)
  • Premnath
    Premnath
    Premnath Malhotra was an actor in Indian films.-Personal life:Born in Peshawar in a hindkowan Punjabi family, his family moved to Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh after partition, he then had moved to Bombay....

     (brother-in-law of Raj Kapoor)
  • Bina Rai
    Bina Rai
    Bina Rai , , was a leading actress primarily of the black and white era of Hindi cinema. She is most known for her roles in classics such as Anarkali , Taj Mahal , and won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film, Ghunghat .-Early life:Bina Rai born as Krishna Sarin...

     (Premnath's wife)
  • Rajendra Nath (brother of Krishna Kapoor)
  • Shammi Kapoor
    Shammi Kapoor
    Shammi Kapoor was an Indian film actor and director. He was a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema from the late 1950s until the early 1970s....

     (son of Prithviraj) ( 1931 - 2011),
  • Geeta Bali
    Geeta Bali
    Geeta Bali was a popular film actress from Bollywood.-Early life:Bali was born in a Mohyal family in pre-partition Punjab as Harkirtan Kaur, a Sikh. Her family moved to Bombay and were living in near poverty when she started to get breaks in films.-Career:Bali became a star in the 1950s...

      (first wife of Shammi) (1930–1965)
  • Yogita Bali (niece of Geeta Bali)
  • Shashi Kapoor
    Shashi Kapoor
    Shashi Kapoor , born Balbir-Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta , is an award-winning Indian film actor and film producer. He has also been film director and assistant director in Hindi Films. He is a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema...

     (son of Prithviraj) (born 1942)
  • Jennifer Kapoor (wife of Shashi) (1934–1984)
  • Karan Kapoor
    Karan Kapoor
    Karan Kapoor, Indian actor and model of the 1980s, is a member of the famous Kapoor family, an influential film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema.-Career:...

     (son of Shashi)
  • Kunal Kapoor
    Kunal Kapoor (Kapoor family)
    Kunal Kapoor is a former Indian film actor of British and Indian descent. He is the eldest son of Shashi Kapoor and late Jennifer Kendal. Not to be confused with the young Indian actor Kunal Kapoor who starred in Rang De Basanti and Hattrick....

     (Son of Shashi)
  • Sanjana Kapoor
    Sanjana Kapoor
    Sanjana Kapoor is an Indian theatre personality and former Indian film actress, who has been running the Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai since 1993. till 2012 February. -Biography:...

     (daughter of Shashi)
  • Valmik Thapar
    Valmik Thapar
    Valmik Thapar is an Indian natural historian and foremost among Tiger conservationists. He is the author of 14 books and several articles, and has produced a range of programmes for television...

     (married to Sanjana)
  • Randhir Kapoor
    Randhir Kapoor
    Randhir Kapoor is a Bollywood actor, producer and director. His nickname is Daboo.-Early life:Randhir Kapoor hails from the legendary Kapoor family. He is the eldest son of Raj Kapoor. He is a fourth generation Kapoor and comes from a distinguished Punjabi Hindu family who have been part of the...

     (first son of Raj)
  • Rishi Kapoor
    Rishi Kapoor
    Rishi Kapoor is an Indian Bollywood actor, film producer and director.-Early life:Born in Chembur Mumbai, Kapoor is the second son of film director and star Raj Kapoor. He did his schooling with his brothers at Campion School,Mumbai. His brothers are well-known actors: Randhir Kapoor and Rajiv...

     (second son of Raj)
  • Rajiv Kapoor
    Rajiv Kapoor
    Rajiv Kapoor is an Indian film actor, producer, director and a member of the famous Kapoor Family.-Career:He had a short stint in the Hindi film industry, acting in only 13 films. His first film was Ek jaan hain hum , with Divya Rana, Shammi Kapoor, Pran, and Gulshan Grover...

     (third son of Raj)
  • Babita
    Babita
    Babita is an Indian actress. She is now better known as the mother of actresses Kareena Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor and the wife of Randhir Kapoor.- Early life :...

     (wife of Randhir, daughter of hari shivdasani)
  • Sadhna
    Sadhna
    Sadhna is a 1958 Hindi film produced and directed by B. R. Chopra. The film stars Sunil Dutt, Vyjayanthimala and Leela Chitnis.-Awards:* 1958 Filmfare Best Story Award: Mukhram sharma* 1958: Filmfare Best Actress Award : Vyjayanthimala...

     (cousin of Babita)
  • Karishma Kapoor (elder daughter of Randhir)
  • Kareena Kapoor
    Kareena Kapoor
    Kareena Kapoor , often informally referred to as Bebo, is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. During her career, Kapoor has received six Filmfare Awards, among nine nominations, and has been noted for her performances in a range of film genres; these include her work from contemporary...

     (younger daughter of Randhir)
  • Neetu Singh
    Neetu Singh
    Neetu Singh is an Indian Bollywood actress. She worked as a child actor under the name Baby Sonia. She played Roopa in the 1966 movie Dus Lakh and a dual role in the film Do Kaliyaan. Her other notable films were Waris and Pavitra Paapi.-Career:Neetu Singh made her debut as an actress in 1972 with...

     (wife of Rishi)
  • Ranbir Kapoor
    Ranbir Kapoor
    Ranbir Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood movies.Making his acting debut in the 2007 film Saawariya, for which he won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut, Kapoor went on to earn critical praise for his performance in Wake Up Sid...

     (son of Rishi and Neetu)
  • Ritu Nanda
    Ritu Nanda
    Ritu Kapoor-Nanda, currently the Chief Executive Officer of Escolife, is a prominent Indian entrepreneur associated chiefly with the life insurance business...

     (daughter of Raj)
  • Nikhil Nanda
    Nikhil Nanda
    Nikhil Nanda is the Joint Managing Director of Escorts Group, which specializes in agri-machinery, construction & material handling equipment, railway equipment and auto components.-Early life and education:...

     (son of Ritu and Rajan Nanda and married to Shweta Bachchan-Nanda)

The Kapoor family (of Surinder Kapoor)

Surinder Kapoor is also related to the main Kapoor family. His sons have acted and produced in the industry. Producer Boney Kapoor is married to actress Sridevi. Anil Kapoor's daughter, Sonam made her debut in Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an Indian film director. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India...

's film Saawariya
Saawariya
Saawariya is a 2007 Hindi film based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story "White Nights".Co-produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment and released on 9 November 2007, it is the first Bollywood movie to receive a North American release by a Hollywood studio, shortly preceding Walt Disney Pictures'...

(2007).
  • Surinder Kapoor
    Surinder Kapoor
    Surinder Kapoor was a Bollywood film producer and was President of the Film & Television Producers Guild of India from 1995 to 2001. His three sons, Boney, Anil and Sanjay, are also involved in the film industry. He was born in Peshawar, British India. His daughter, Reena, is married to Sandeep...

     (father)
  • Nirmal Kapoor (wife of Surinder Kapoor)
  • Boney Kapoor
    Boney Kapoor
    Boney Kapoor is an Indian film producer and recently he became director of Sahara One Media and Entertainment Limited of Sahara India Pariwar....

     (oldest son)
  • Anil Kapoor
    Anil Kapoor
    Anil Kapoor is an Indian actor and producer who mainly appears in Bollywood films. He won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Yash Chopra's film Mashaal ....

     (middle son)
  • Reena Kapoor Marwah (daughter)
  • Sanjay Kapoor
    Sanjay Kapoor
    Sanjay Kapoor is a Bollywood actor and producer.Son of film producer, Surinder Kapoor, he is the younger brother of actor Anil Kapoor and producer Boney Kapoor and brother-in-law of actress Sridevi...

     (youngest son)
  • Sandeep Marwah (son-in-law & Reena's husband)
  • Mona Kapoor (first wife of Boney Kapoor)
  • Sridevi (Boney Kapoor's second wife)
  • Sunita Kapoor (wife of Anil)
  • Maheep Kapoor (wife of Sanjay)
  • Sonam Kapoor
    Sonam Kapoor
    Sonam Kapoor is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood films. Kapoor made her acting debut in the unsuccessful film Saawariya opposite newcomer Ranbir Kapoor, which earned her a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She earned her first commercial success in I Hate Luv...

     (oldest daughter of Anil)
  • Arjun Kapoor (oldest son of Boney & Mona)
  • Rhea Kapoor
    Rhea Kapoor
    Rhea Kapoor is an Indian film producer who produces Bollywood films. She is the producer of Aisha which is a remake of Jane Austen's Emma stars Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol.-Early life:...

     (daughter of Anil)
  • Harshvardhan Kapoor (son of Anil kapoor)
  • Anshula Kapoor (daughter of Boney & Mona)
  • Mohit Marwah (son of Reena & Sandeep)
  • Akshay Marwah (son of Reena & Sandeep)
  • Shanaya Kapoor (daughter of Maheep & Sanjay)
  • Jehaan Kapoor (son of Maheep & Sanjay)
  • Jahanvi Kapoor (daughter of Boney & Sridevi)
  • Khushi Kapoor (daughter of Boney & Sridevi)

The Kapoor-Pathak-Shah family

  • Dina Pathak
    Dina Pathak
    Dina Pathak or Deena Pathak was a veteran actor and director of Gujarati theatre and also a film actor. She was also a woman activist and remained the President of the 'National Federation of Indian Women'...

     (mother of Supriya Pathak and Ratna Pathak); Shanta Gandhi
    Shanta Gandhi
    Shanta Gandhi was an Indian theatre director, dancer and playwright. She was a founder-member of the central ballet troupe of the Indian People's Theatre Association , and toured the country widely through the 1950s...

     elder sister
    • Supriya Pathak
      Supriya Pathak
      Supriya Pathak Kapur is an Indian actress hailing from a long line of performers. She is famous for her role in the Indian sitcoms Khichdi and Idhar Udhar.-Family:...

       (second wife of Pankaj Kapoor)
    • Ratna Pathak
      Ratna Pathak
      Ratna Pathak Shah is an Indian actress who works in Bollywood films.-Early life:Ratna Pathak was born in Mumbai, India to Bollywood actress, Dina Pathak. Her sister is actress Supriya Pathak. She is a very fine stage actor-Career:...

       (wife of Naseeruddin Shah)
      • Naseeruddin Shah
        Naseeruddin Shah
        Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian / Bollywood film actor and director. He is considered to be one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. In 2003, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian cinema.-Early life:...

         (husband of Ratna Pathak)
        • Imaad Shah
          Imaad Shah
          Imaad Shah, born Imaad-ud-Din Shah, is an Indian actor and musician and also the son of actors Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah, his maternal grandmother was actress Dina Pathak...

           (son of Ratna and Naseeruddin)
        • Vivaan Shah
          Vivaan Shah
          Vivaan Shah is an Indian actor working in the Hindi film industry, who made his film debut with Saat Khoon Maaf to critical acclaim...

           (son of Ratna and Naseeruddin)
        • Heebaa Shah (daughter of Ratna and Naseeruddin)

  • Pankaj Kapoor
    Pankaj Kapoor
    Pankaj Kapur is an Indian theatre, television and film actor from Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He has appeared in several television serials and films. His most acclaimed film roles to date have been that of Dr...

     (husband of Supriya Pathak)
  • Neelima Azeem
    Neelima Azeem
    Neelima Azeem is an Indian film and TV actress.-Biography :Neelima Azeem's father was Anwar Azeem, a prominent Marxist journalist and Urdu author, who was the grand son of film director, screen writer, Urdu novelist and journalist Khwaja Ahmad Abbas....

     (ex-wife of Pankaj Kapoor and great grand daughter of the film director, K. A. Abbas)
    • Shahid Kapoor
      Shahid Kapoor
      Shahid Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films. He is also a trained dancer.Starting off his career by working in music videos and advertisements, Kapoor made his Bollywood debut as a background dancer in Subhash Ghai's Taal . Four years later, he made his acting debut in Ishq...

       (son of Pankaj and Neelima)
    • Ishaan Kapoor
      Ishaan Kapoor
      Ishaan Khattar is an Indian actor and the half-brother of Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor. Khattar is the son of actors Neelima Azeem and Rajesh Khattar who separated in 2001. His first role was in Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! where he appeared opposite Shahid Kapoor...

       (Son of Neelima and her second husband Rajesh Khattar, half-brother of Shahid)
  • Raza Ali Khan
    Raza Ali Khan
    Raza Ali Khan is a Hindustani classical vocalist of the Kasur Patiala Gharana and the current Khalifa of the Gharana. He is also an accomplished music director and composer.-Personal life and education:...

     (Third husband of Neelima Azeem
    Neelima Azeem
    Neelima Azeem is an Indian film and TV actress.-Biography :Neelima Azeem's father was Anwar Azeem, a prominent Marxist journalist and Urdu author, who was the grand son of film director, screen writer, Urdu novelist and journalist Khwaja Ahmad Abbas....

    , grandson of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan)

The Khan family (of Salim Khan)

Story and script writer Salim Khan
Salim Khan
Salim Khan is an Indian Scriptwriter and Actor. He wrote numerous screenplays for Bollywood films. He frequently collaborated with writer Javed Akhtar; the duo is credited as Salim-Javed.-Personal life:...

 has written and produced a majority of the successful movies all through the 1970s and 1980s era. Salim Khan
Salim Khan
Salim Khan is an Indian Scriptwriter and Actor. He wrote numerous screenplays for Bollywood films. He frequently collaborated with writer Javed Akhtar; the duo is credited as Salim-Javed.-Personal life:...

 was earlier a junior technician for various films had not made any considerable mark in the field. Realizing the lack of writers in the movie making industry, he gradually learnt about story telling and writing techniques used in films, along with close friend and then business associate Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar is a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed...

 and began writing short transcripts. Salim-Javed
Salim-Javed
Salim-Javed were a scriptwriter duo who wrote a number of commercially and critically successful Hindi films in the 1970s and early 1980s. The duo, composed of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, made the writer's role popular with their names appearing in the posters of the films, and in some films they...

 (as they are famously called) have scripted innumerable commercially and critically accepted movies for movie making giants like Nasir Hussain
Nasir Hussain
Nasir Husain was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter.-Early career:Husain first worked with A. R. Kardar when he joined Filmistan as a writer in 1948. The famous films he wrote for Filmistan include Anarkali , Munimjee , and Paying Guest...

 (Yaadon Ki Baraat
Yaadon Ki Baraat
The Music of the movie is by the veteran Rahul Dev Burman, and the lyrics are authored by Majrooh Sultanpuri. The Soundtrack, one of the highlights of the movie with unforgettable compositions and extravagant lyrics, is remembered to Date...

), Yash Chopra
Yash Chopra
Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...

 (Deewar
Deewar
Deewaar, or Deewar , is a 1975 Indian drama directed by Yash Chopra, written by Salim-Javed, and starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor...

), Yash Johar
Yash Johar
Yash Johar was an Indian Bollywood film producer. He founded Dharma Productions in 1976 and made Hindi films that were noted for featuring lavish sets and exotic locations, but upheld Indian traditions and family values....

 (Dostana
Dostana
Dostana is a 1980 Hindi movie, produced by Yash Johar and directed by Raj Khosla. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Amrish Puri, Helen, Pran and Paintal. The film was the top grossing hit of 1980...

), Ramesh Sippy
Ramesh Sippy
Ramesh Sippy is an Indian film director, probably best-known for directing the popular and critically acclaimed film Sholay ....

 (Sholay
Sholay
Sholay is a 1975 Indian action-adventure film produced by G.P. Sippy and directed by his son Ramesh Sippy. It is considered among the greatest films in the history of Indian cinema. Released on 15 August 1975, it stars Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri and...

), Shekhar Kapoor (Mr. India) and Farhan Akhtar
Farhan Akhtar
Farhan Akhtar is an Indian filmmaker, script writer, actor, playback singer, lyricist, film producer in Hindi cinema and a television host.His directorial debut Dil Chahta Hai won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi...

 (Don - The Chase Begins Again
Don - The Chase Begins Again
Don: The Chase Begins Again is a 2006 Indian action film directed by Farhan Akhtar. It is a remake of the 1978 film Don. The film is produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani under their home banner Excel Entertainment. The film stars Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Rampal, Ishaa...

). The duo split up in the early 1980s and ended their 15 year professional relationship for unknown reasons. Salim Khan
Salim Khan
Salim Khan is an Indian Scriptwriter and Actor. He wrote numerous screenplays for Bollywood films. He frequently collaborated with writer Javed Akhtar; the duo is credited as Salim-Javed.-Personal life:...

 married his first wife Salma Khan and had four children with her; Salman Khan
Salman Khan
Salman Khan is an Indian film actor. He has starred in more than 80 Hindi films.Khan, who made his acting debut with a minor role in the drama Biwi Ho To Aisi with Rekha in a lead role, had his first commercial success with the blockbuster Maine Pyar Kiya , for which he won a Filmfare Award for...

, Arbaaz Khan, Sohail Khan
Sohail Khan
Sohail Khan is an Indian director, writer, producer and actor working in the Hindi cinema. He is the younger brother of actors Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan...

 and Alvira Khan. Salim Khan later married again and made film star Helen his second wife, while still married to Salma Khan. They adopted a girl child, Arpita Khan, and the family currently lives with their eldest son Salman Khan
Salman Khan
Salman Khan is an Indian film actor. He has starred in more than 80 Hindi films.Khan, who made his acting debut with a minor role in the drama Biwi Ho To Aisi with Rekha in a lead role, had his first commercial success with the blockbuster Maine Pyar Kiya , for which he won a Filmfare Award for...

, in Galaxy Apartments on Bandra Bandstand Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

.
  • Salim Khan
    Salim Khan
    Salim Khan is an Indian Scriptwriter and Actor. He wrote numerous screenplays for Bollywood films. He frequently collaborated with writer Javed Akhtar; the duo is credited as Salim-Javed.-Personal life:...

  • Salma Khan (Salim Khan's First Wife)
    • Salman Khan
      Salman Khan
      Salman Khan is an Indian film actor. He has starred in more than 80 Hindi films.Khan, who made his acting debut with a minor role in the drama Biwi Ho To Aisi with Rekha in a lead role, had his first commercial success with the blockbuster Maine Pyar Kiya , for which he won a Filmfare Award for...

       (Hindi Film Superstar & Eldest Son Of Salim Khan and Salma Khan)
    • Arbaaz Khan (Director, Producer & Writer and Second Son Of Salim Khan and Salma Khan)
      • Malaika Arora Khan
        Malaika Arora Khan
        Malaika Arora Khan , also known as Malaika Arora, is an Indian model, actress, television personality and former MTV VJ. She is one of India's top item girls...

         (Arbaaz Khan's Wife)
    • Sohail Khan
      Sohail Khan
      Sohail Khan is an Indian director, writer, producer and actor working in the Hindi cinema. He is the younger brother of actors Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan...

       (Director, Producer & Writer and Third Son Of Salim Khan and Salma Khan)
      • Seema Khan (Sohail Khan's Wife)
    • Alvira Khan (Eldest Daughter of Salim Khan and Salma Khan)
    • Atul Agnihotri
      Atul Agnihotri
      Atul Agnihotri is a Hindi actor and director.-Career:Agnihorti's career stretches back to 1983 when he made a brief appearance as a child artist in Pasand Apni Apni. He started his film career as an adult in 1993 with Mahesh Bhatt's Sir...

       (Director, Producer & Writer and Alvira Khan's Husband)
  • Helen (Salim Khan's Second Wife)
    • Arpita Khan (First Daughter of Salim Khan and Helen)

The Khan-Roshan family

Rakesh Roshan
Rakesh Roshan
Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan (Hindi: राकेश रोशन (born Rakesh Roshan Lal Nagrath on 6 September 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a producer, director and former actor in Bollywood films who was born in a Punjabi Hindu Kayastha family...

 was an actor from the 60s to the 80s. Towards the 90s he started directing films. His brother Rajesh is a Music director and does the music for Rakesh's films. Rakesh introduced his son Hrithik in 2000 in the film Kaho Na Pyaar Hai which made Hrithik a star overnight.
Most Bollywood film families marry into other families.
  • Roshan
    Roshan (music director)
    Roshanlal Nagrath , better known simply by his first name Roshan, was a Bollywood film music composer. He was the father of the actor and film director Rakesh Roshan and music director Rajesh Roshan and grandfather of Hritik Roshan.-Early life and education:Roshan was born in Gujranwala, Punjab,...

     (father of Rakesh Roshan)
  • J. Om Prakash
    J. Om Prakash
    J. Om Prakash is a famous Indian film producer. His daughter is married to Rakesh Roshan, making him Hrithik Roshan's maternal grandfather.-Director:*Afsana Dilwalon Ka *Aadmi Khilona Hai *Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh...

     (father-in-law of Rakesh Roshan)
    • Rakesh Roshan
      Rakesh Roshan
      Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan (Hindi: राकेश रोशन (born Rakesh Roshan Lal Nagrath on 6 September 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a producer, director and former actor in Bollywood films who was born in a Punjabi Hindu Kayastha family...

       (son of Roshan and father of Hrithik Roshan)
    • Rajesh Roshan
      Rajesh Roshan
      Rajesh Roshan is a Hindi cinema music composer.-Personal life:Rajesh Roshan is the son of Hindi film composer Roshan and younger brother of film director and actor Rakesh Roshan...

       (brother of Rakesh)
      • Hrithik Roshan
        Hrithik Roshan
        Hrithik Roshan is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films.After having appeared in films as a child actor in the 1980s, Roshan made his film debut in a leading role in Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai for which Roshan earned his Filmfare Awards for Best Actor and Best Male Debut...

         (son of Rakesh)
      • Suzanne Khan (Hrithik's wife)
      • Zayed Khan
        Zayed Khan
        -Early life:Khan's parents are former Bollywood actor Sanjay Khan and interior designer Zarine Khan. Khan is the youngest of four children. His older sisters are Simone Khan , Sussanne Roshan , and Farah Khan Ali...

         (Suzanne's Brother)
      • Fardeen Khan
        Fardeen Khan
        Fardeen Khan is an Indian Bollywood actor.-Early life:Fardeen Khan was born to actor turned director Feroz Khan and mother Sundari. Grandson of Sadiq Ali Khan and Fatima Khan. He is the nephew of actors Sanjay Khan and Akbar Khan. He is the cousin of Suzanne Khan and actor Zayed Khan. He lived in...

         (Suzanne's Cousin)
    • Mumtaz
      Mumtaz (actress)
      Mumtaz , fondly called Mumu, is a famous Bollywood actress, best remembered for her roles in Tere Mere Sapne and Khilona . Her performance in Khilona got her the Filmfare Best Actress Award, while the film itself won the Filmfare Best Movie Award...

        (mother-in-law of Fardeen Khan)
    • Sanjay Khan
      Sanjay Khan
      -Career:Khan made his debut in the 1964 Chetan Anand film "Haqeeqat" followed by the Rajshri film Dosti. In the 1960s and 1970s Khan starred in the movies Dus Lakh, Ek Phool Do Mali and Intaqam. He also acted opposite his brother Feroz in three films Upaasna , Mela and Nagin...

       (Suzanne's Father)
    • Feroz Khan
      Feroz Khan
      Feroz Khan was an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director in the Hindi film industry...

        (Suzanne's Uncle & Father of Fardeen Khan)
      • Farah Khan Ali
        Farah Khan Ali
        -Early life:Farah Khan is the eldest of the four children of parents Actor-Producer-Director Sanjay Khan and his wife Interior Designer Zarine Khan. She finished her graduation at Sophia College, Mumbai. Not knowing what she wanted to do, she tried her hand at everything raging from Ad films to...

         (Suzanne's sister)
      • DJ Aqeel
        DJ Aqeel
        DJ Aqeel is a DJ, singer and composer from India. He became known after his "Shake it daddy Mix" song became very popular in early 2000. His popularity grew when his song "Tu hai wahi" song which was a remix of the "Yeh Wada Raha" song from the 1982 movie of the same name became popular in the...

         ( Married Suzanne's sister, Farah)

The Khanna family (of Rajesh Khanna)

Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....

 and Dimple Kapadia
Dimple Kapadia
Dimple Chunnibhai Kapadia is an Indian film actress. She made her acting debut at the age of 16, playing the title role in Raj Kapoor's teen romance Bobby . In that same year she married Indian actor Rajesh Khanna, and retired from acting. Kapadia returned to films in 1984 after her separation...

's daughters Twinkle Khanna
Twinkle Khanna
Twinkle Khanna is an Indian film actress who has acted in Bollywood and Telugu films. She is the wife of Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar and the daughter of established actors, Dimple Kapadia and Rajesh Khanna...

 and Rinke Khanna
Rinke Khanna
Rinke Khanna is an Indian actress. She is the daughter of actor Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia and is the sister of Twinkle Khanna and sister-in-law of actor Akshay Kumar. She made her film debut with Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi , changing her screen name from Rinkle to Rinke...

 have also acted in the industry. Twinkle Khanna left the industry after her marriage to actor Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar is an Indian film actor, producer and martial artist who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films. When he began his acting career in the 1990s, he primarily starred in action films and was particularly known for his appearances in feature films commonly called the "Khiladi series",...

.
  • Rajesh Khanna
    Rajesh Khanna
    Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....

  • Dimple Kapadia
    Dimple Kapadia
    Dimple Chunnibhai Kapadia is an Indian film actress. She made her acting debut at the age of 16, playing the title role in Raj Kapoor's teen romance Bobby . In that same year she married Indian actor Rajesh Khanna, and retired from acting. Kapadia returned to films in 1984 after her separation...

     (Actress, Wife)
  • Twinkle Khanna
    Twinkle Khanna
    Twinkle Khanna is an Indian film actress who has acted in Bollywood and Telugu films. She is the wife of Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar and the daughter of established actors, Dimple Kapadia and Rajesh Khanna...

     (Actress, eldest daughter, real name Tina Khanna)
  • Akshay Kumar
    Akshay Kumar
    Akshay Kumar is an Indian film actor, producer and martial artist who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films. When he began his acting career in the 1990s, he primarily starred in action films and was particularly known for his appearances in feature films commonly called the "Khiladi series",...

     (Actor, Producer, son-in-law, Birth name: Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia)
  • Rinke Khanna
    Rinke Khanna
    Rinke Khanna is an Indian actress. She is the daughter of actor Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia and is the sister of Twinkle Khanna and sister-in-law of actor Akshay Kumar. She made her film debut with Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi , changing her screen name from Rinkle to Rinke...

     (Actress, younger daughter)
  • Simple Kapadia
    Simple Kapadia
    Simple Kapadia was a Bollywood actress and costume designer.Simple Kapadia began her career when she was 18 years old. She made her acting debut in 1977 in the film...

     (Costume Designer, Actress, Sister of Dimple Kapadia)

The Khanna family (of Vinod Khanna)

Vinod Khanna was a popular successful actor in the industry in the 1970s and 80s. His sons Akshaye and Rahul both pursued a film career though Rahul has not been as successful.
  • Vinod Khanna
    Vinod Khanna
    -Early life:Khanna was born to Kamla and Kishanchand Khanna, a textiles, dyes and chemicals businessman of Hindu Punjabi Khatri origin, on 6 October 1946, in Peshawar, British India . He has three sisters and one brother...

  • Rahul Khanna
    Rahul Khanna
    - Early life and background :Khanna was born and raised in Mumbai. His father is Bollywood matinee idol & politician, Vinod Khanna, and his younger brother is Bollywood actor, Akshaye Khanna....

     (eldest son-Gitanjali's Son)
  • Akshaye Khanna
    Akshaye Khanna
    Akshaye Khanna is a critically acclaimed Indian film actor who works in Hindi cinema. Known for his impeccable acting talent and flawless diction, Khanna has worked with the best names in Indian cinema.- Background :...

     (youngest son-Gitanjali's Son)

The Kher family

The Kher family includes the actors Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher is an Indian actor who has appeared in nearly 400 films and 100 plays. Though mainly appearing in Bollywood films, he has had roles in some films from other nations as well...

 and Kirron Kher
Kirron Kher
Kirron Kher is an Indian theatre, film and television actress and a TV talk show host.- Early life :Kirron Kher was born in Bangalore in a JatSikh family of Punjabi background. She was brought up in Chandigarh, Punjab, where she did her schooling and later college from Panjab University, Chandigarh...

. Their son is actor Sikander Kher. Anupam has starred in the international hit film Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 comedy-drama film starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi first released in the United Kingdom. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha...

. He recently won the best actor award given by the Karachi International Film Festival for Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara (2005). Kiron Kher won the Bronze Leopard Award given by the Locarno International Film Festival for Khamosh Pani: Silent Waters (2003).
  • Anupam Kher
    Anupam Kher
    Anupam Kher is an Indian actor who has appeared in nearly 400 films and 100 plays. Though mainly appearing in Bollywood films, he has had roles in some films from other nations as well...

  • Raju Kher
    Raju kher
    Raju Kher is an Indian actor who has worked in Bollywood movies, as well as TV shows.- Personal life :Kher was born in Shimla, India. Ethnically, he is a Kashmiri Pandit. He is the younger brother of actor Anupam Kher.- Bollywood career :...

     (Actor, Brother of Anupam Kher)
  • Kirron Kher
    Kirron Kher
    Kirron Kher is an Indian theatre, film and television actress and a TV talk show host.- Early life :Kirron Kher was born in Bangalore in a JatSikh family of Punjabi background. She was brought up in Chandigarh, Punjab, where she did her schooling and later college from Panjab University, Chandigarh...

     (Actress, Wife of Anupam Kher)
  • Sikander Kher (Actor, Son of Kirron Kher from first marriage)
  • Purvi Kher  (daughter of Anupam Kher & Kirron Kher )

The Kumar family

Gulshan Kumar was the founder of the T-Series (Super Cassettes Industries Ltd.), the best known music label in India, and an Indian Bollywood movie producer.
  • Gulshan Kumar
    Gulshan Kumar
    Gulshan Kumar was the founder of the T-Series music label , the best known in India, and an Indian Bollywood movie producer. T series is now run by his son Bhushan Kumar...

  • Bhushan Kumar
    Bhushan Kumar
    Bhushan Kumar is an Indian film producer. He has produced films such as Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Karzzzz. Currently Bhushan Kumar is the Chairman & Managing Director of famous music company which owns the music label T-Series....

     (Son of Gulshan Kumar)
  • Tulsi Kumar
    Tulsi Kumar
    Tulsi Kumar is an Indian playback singer for Bollywood films.-Early life:Tulsi Kumar is the daughter of the late Gulshan Kumar and the sister of Indian film producer Bhushan Kumar.-Music career:...

     (Singer, Daughter of Gulshan Kumar)
  • Kishan Kumar (Actor, Brother of Gulshan Kumar)

The Mukesh family

Mukesh was an Indian playback singer of Bollywood.
  • Mukesh
  • Nitin Mukesh
    Nitin Mukesh
    Nitin Mukesh is an Indian singer best known for his work as a playback singer in Hindi films as well as Bhajans. He was born to Mukesh...

     (Singer, Son of Mukesh)
  • Neil Nitin Mukesh (Actor, Son of Nitin Mukesh & grandson of Mukesh)

The Mangeshkar family

  • Deenanath Mangeshkar
    Deenanath Mangeshkar
    Dinanath Mangeshkar was a well-known Marathi theatre actor, a renowned Natya Sangeet musician and an exceptional Hindustani classical vocalist....

     (Musician and Theatre Actor)
  • Lata Mangeshkar
    Lata Mangeshkar
    Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional...

     (Eldest Daughter, Famous Singer)
  • Hridayanath Mangeshkar
    Hridayanath Mangeshkar
    Hridaynath Mangeshkar is a composer/singer from India known for his eclectic compositions and a well-respected body of work. He is the younger brother of Indian music icons Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle...

     (Son, Music Composer/Singer)
  • Asha Bhosle
    Asha Bhosle
    Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer. She is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded Hindi playback singers in India, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies...

     (Daughter, Famous Singer)
  • Meena Mangeshkar (Daughter)
  • Usha Mangeshkar
    Usha Mangeshkar
    Usha Mangeshkar is an Indian singer who has recorded many Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati songs soundtracks.She is daughter of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar & Shevanti . She is the younger sister of singers, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle and elder to her music-director brother Hridaynath Mangeshkar...

     (Daughter, Singer)
  • R.D. Burman (Second husband of Asha, Music Composer)
  • S.D. Burman (Father of R.D. Burman, Music Composer)
  • Padmini Kolhapure
    Padmini Kolhapure
    Padmini Kolhapure is an Indian actress who appeared in Bollywood films during the 1970s and 1980s.-Early life:Padmini Kolhapure is from a Maharashtrian family. Her father, Pandharinath Kolhapure is a classical singer whose family was from Kolhapur and Goa. Her mother, whose family hailed from...

     (Niece of Lata Mangeshkar, Actress)
  • Tejaswini Kolhapure
    Tejaswini Kolhapure
    Tejaswini Kolhapure is an Indian film actress, daughter of renowned classic singer pt. Pandharinath Kolhapure, and the sister of popular Bollywood actress Padmini Kolhapure...

     (Sister of Padmini, Actress)
  • Shakti Kapoor
    Shakti Kapoor
    Shakti Kapoor is an Indian Bollywood actor. He is notably known for playing vulgar comic and villainous roles. He is known for acting alongside comedian Kader Khan as his sidekick along with Asrani in over 100 films.-Early life:...

     (Brother in law of Padmini, Actor)

The Mukherjee-Samarth family

The current members of the Mukherjee-Samarth family that are in the industry are Tanuja, Rani Mukerji
Rani Mukerji
Rani Mukerji is an Indian film actress who works in Hindi movies. In the course of her film career, she has received six Filmfare Awards, among twelve nominations....

, Kajol
Kajol
Kajol Devgn , better known as Kajol, is an Indian film actress appearing in Hindi films. She is regarded as one of India's most successful and talented female actors....

, Tanisha, and Mohnish Behl
Mohnish Behl
Mohnish Bahl Mohnish Bahl Mohnish Bahl (Hindi: मोह्निश बहल,(born 14 February 1963) is an Indian actor working in the Bollywood film industry. He is currently playing the role of Dr. Ashutosh in the show Kuch Toh Log Kahenge-Personal life:...

. The family have been acting in the industry since the 1940s. Their family married into the Ganguly brothers. Sashadhar Mukherjee
Sashadhar Mukherjee
Sashadhar Mukherjee was a producer in Hindi films. He is part of the distinguished Mukherjee clan of Bollywood.Main article: Mukherjee-Samarth family...

 was married to Sati Devi who was the sister of three brothers. The Mukherjee and Samarth family are related through the marriage of Tanuja to the son of Sashadhar Mukherjee.
  • Rattan Bai
    Rattan Bai
    Rattan Bai was a courtesan and entertainer who is the ancestress of several Bollywood film stars. She was the mother of actress Shobhna Samarth and thus the grandmother of actresses Nutan and Tanuja...

  • Shobhana Samarth (daughter of Rattan Bai, mother of Nutan and Tanuja)
  • Debashree Roy
    Debashree Roy
    Debashree Roy is a Bengali cinema actress. She acted in more than 100 films and has 40 awards, including a National Film Award for Best Actress for the film Unishe April in 1995. She was also known by the name 'Chintamani' in Tamil Nadu, when she acted in a few Tamil movies.- Early life :She was...

     (aunt of Rani Mukerji)
  • Sashadhar Mukherjee
    Sashadhar Mukherjee
    Sashadhar Mukherjee was a producer in Hindi films. He is part of the distinguished Mukherjee clan of Bollywood.Main article: Mukherjee-Samarth family...

     (grandfather of Kajol and Tanisha, married to Sati Devi)
  • Ashok Kumar
    Ashok Kumar
    Ashok Kumar also fondly called Dadamoni was an Indian film actor. Born Kumudlal Ganguly in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency he attained iconic status in Indian cinema...

     (brother of Sati Devi- also features in Ganguly brothers)
  • Kishore Kumar
    Kishore Kumar
    Kishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...

     (brother of Sati Devi- also features in Ganguly brothers)
  • Subodh Mukherjee
    Subodh Mukherjee
    Subodh Mukerji was a renowned movie-maker of Bengali origin. He was the brother of the leading producer director Sashadhar Mukherjee...

     (brother of Sashadhar)
  • Joy Mukherjee
    Joy Mukherjee
    - Family Background :Main article: Mukherjee-Samarth familyJoy Mukherjee is the son of Sashadhar Mukherjee and Sati Devi. His father was a successful producer and a co-founder of Filmalaya Studios. His paternal uncle is director Subodh Mukherjee, whilst his maternal uncles were Ashok Kumar and...

     (son of Sashadhar)
  • Deb Mukherjee
    Deb Mukherjee
    Deb Mukherjee is a Bengali Indian actor. He is the father of director Ayan Mukerji.He is part of the famous Mukherjee family which spans four generations. His family has been in the Bollywood industry since the 1940s. His family includes his father Sashadhar Mukherjee, the owner of Filmalaya...

     (son of Sashadhar)
  • Ram Mukherjee
    Ram Mukherjee
    Ram Mukherjee is an Indian film director, producer and writer. He belongs to the Mukherjee-Samarth family and is father of Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee.He is the founder of Filmalaya Studios.-Filmography:Director# Raktanadir Dhara...

     (son of Ravidramohan Mukherjee)
  • Nutan
    Nutan
    Nutan Behl , better known as Nutan , was an Indian actress. She appeared in more than 70 Hindi films in a career spanning over four decades...

     (daughter of Shobhana Samarth)
  • Tanuja (daughter of Shobhana Samarth)
  • Mohnish Behl
    Mohnish Behl
    Mohnish Bahl Mohnish Bahl Mohnish Bahl (Hindi: मोह्निश बहल,(born 14 February 1963) is an Indian actor working in the Bollywood film industry. He is currently playing the role of Dr. Ashutosh in the show Kuch Toh Log Kahenge-Personal life:...

     (son of Nutan)
  • Rani Mukerji
    Rani Mukerji
    Rani Mukerji is an Indian film actress who works in Hindi movies. In the course of her film career, she has received six Filmfare Awards, among twelve nominations....

     (daughter of Ram and Krishna Mukherjee)
  • Kajol
    Kajol
    Kajol Devgn , better known as Kajol, is an Indian film actress appearing in Hindi films. She is regarded as one of India's most successful and talented female actors....

     (eldest daughter of Tanuja and Shomu Mukherjee)
  • Tanisha (youngest daughter of Tanuja and Shomu Mukherjee)
  • Sharbani Mukherjee
    Sharbani Mukherjee
    Sharbani Mukherji is an Indian actress working in Bollywood.-Biography:She is the daughter of Rono Mukerji. Her paternal uncles are Joy Mukerji and Deb Mukerji. Her paternal grandfather, Sashadhar Mukerji, was a filmmaker. His wife Satirani Devi was the sister of Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and...

  • Ajay Devgan
    Ajay Devgan
    Ajay Devgan , born Vishal Veeru Devgan on 2 April 1969, is an Indian film actor, director, and producer.He made his film debut with Phool Aur Kaante in 1991 and received a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut for his performance in the film and for which he won a Filmfare Best Debut Award...

     (married to Kajol)

The Oberoi family

  • Suresh Oberoi
    Suresh Oberoi
    Suresh Oberoi is an Indian actor who is also father of Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi. He was born in Quetta, now Pakistan and is a recipient of 1987 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor...

  • Vivek Oberoi
    Vivek Oberoi
    Vivek Oberoi is an Indian actor. He is the son of Bollywood actor Suresh Oberoi and Yashodhara Oberoi.- Early life :Vivek attended Mayo college in Ajmer. At an actors' workshop in London he was spotted by the director of New York University who took Vivek off to New York, where he completed his...

     (second son of Suresh and Yashodhara Oberoi)
  • Umesh Kumar Ray (Father of Suresh Oberoi)
  • Akshay Oberoi
    Akshay Oberoi
    Akshay Oberoi Akshay Oberoi (Punjabi:ਅਕਸ਼ੇ ਓਬੇਰੋਈ)Akshay Oberoi (Punjabi:ਅਕਸ਼ੇ ਓਬੇਰੋਈ)(1 January 1985 is an Indian actor of Punjabi origin who made his Bollywood debut in the Rajshri Productions film Isi Life Mein in December 2010.-Early life and education:...

     Suresh Oberoi's nephew

The Pataudis

Sharmila Tagore is married to Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi who was an Indian cricket captain. She has also acted in Bengali films. Saif Ali Khan is a popular actor and is also a National Award winner.Soha Ali Khan, has just started in the industry.
  • Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
    Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
    Mansoor Ali Khan or Mansur Ali Khan , sometimes M.A.K. Pataudi , nicknamed Tiger Pataudi, was an Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team...

  • Sharmila Tagore
    Sharmila Tagore
    Sharmila Tagore is an Indian film actress. She has won National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances.She has led the Indian Film Censor Board from October 2004 till March 2011...

    • Saif Ali Khan
      Saif Ali Khan
      Saif Ali Khan is an Indian actor known for his work in Bollywood films. He is the son of the late former Nawab of Pataudi, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, and actress Sharmila Tagore. He has two sisters: Saba Ali Khan and actress Soha Ali Khan....

       - Actor, Producer, Son
      • Amrita Singh
        Amrita Singh
        Amrita Singh is an Indian film actress.-Early life:Amrita is the daughter of Rukhsana Sultana. Mohinder Kaur was the daughter of Sir Sobha Singh, who was a noted civil contractor, and made a substantial fortune during the building of New Delhi in the early decades of the 20th century...

         - Actress, His ex-wife
    • Soha Ali Khan
      Soha Ali Khan
      - Early life :Khan was born into the erstwhile princely family of Pataudi. She has Muslim Pashtun ancestry through Nawabs of Pataudi lineage from her father's side and Bengali Hindu ancestry from her mother's side...

       - Actress, Elder Daughter
    • Saba Ali Khan - Younger Daughter

The Puri family

Madan Puri was probably the best known villain in the industry in the 1950 & late sixties. His brothers Chaman Puri and Amrish Puri were also a very successful actors of their time.
  • Chaman Puri (Older brother of Madan Puri and Amrish Puri).
  • Madan Puri
    Madan Puri
    Madan Puri was an actor in Hindi and Punjabi films.-Early life:Madan Singh Puri was born in Nawanshahr, Punjab to S. Nihal Singh Puri and Ved Kaur...

     (Second brother of Chaman Puri and Amrish Puri).
  • Amrish Puri
    Amrish Puri
    Amrish Singh Puri , ; 22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005 was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad...

     (Youngest brother of Chaman Puri and Madan Puri).

The Raj Kumar family

  • Raaj Kumar
    Raaj Kumar
    Raaj Kumar , born Kulbushan Pandit was an Indian actor in Hindi movies. Raaj Kumar started out as sub-inspector of Mumbai police in the late 1940s before he turned to acting with the 1952 film Rangili...

  • Puru Raajkumar
    Puru Raajkumar
    Puru Raajkumar is an Indian film actor. He is the son of the late veteran actor Raaj Kumar. He was also arrested in a hit and run accident in which several sleeping pavement dwellers were killed, although he was never convicted for the same....

     (Actor, Elder son of Raaj Kumar)
  • Panini Raajkumar (Younger son of Raaj Kumar)

The Sen-Dev Varma family

  • Suchitra Sen
    Suchitra Sen
    Suchitra Sen ; or Rama Dasgupta , is an Indian actress who acted in several Bengali films. In particular, the movies in which she paired opposite another legend in Bengali films, Uttam Kumar, became classics in the history of Bengali cinema. She now lives a life of a recluse rarely making any...

    • Moonmoon Sen
      Moonmoon Sen
      Moon Moon Sen is an Indian film actress. She did movies in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Kannada films. Sen is part of a three generational family of actors and was a staple of the Bengali film industry, starring in many hit films...

       (daughter of Suchitra)
      • Raima Sen
        Raima Sen
        -Early life:She is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen and the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen. Her sister, Riya Sen, is also in the Bollywood industry. Their father Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch...

         (elder daughter of Moonmoon, real name Raima Dev Varma)
      • Riya Sen
        Riya Sen
        Riya Sen is an Indian film actress and model. Riya, who hails from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen, began her acting career in 1991 as a child artiste in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was...

         (younger daughter of Moonmoon, real name Riya Dev Varma)

The Sen family

  • Aparna Sen
    Aparna Sen
    Aparna Sen is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indian filmmaker, script writer, and actress. She is the winner of three National Film Awards and eight international film festival awards.-Biography:...

      (Actor & Director)
  • Konkona Sen Sharma
    Konkona Sen Sharma
    Konkona Sen Sharma is an Indian actress. She is the daughter of actress and filmmaker Aparna Sen. Sharma appears primarily in Indian arthouse and independent films, and her achievements in the genre have established her as one of the leading actresses of contemporary parallel cinema.Making her...

     (Actress, daughter of Aparna)
  • Ranvir Shorey
    Ranvir Shorey
    Ranvir Shorey is an Indian actor and former VJ. Since making his debut in Ek Chotisi Love Story , he has starred in a number of high profile films such as Jism and Lakshya...

     (Actor, Konkana's Husband)

The Gulzar family

  • Gulzar  (Lyricist, Writer & Director)
  • Umesh  (Actor)
  • Raakhee (Actress, wife of Gulzar)
  • Meghna Gulzar
    Meghna Gulzar
    Meghna Gulzar is a Hindi Film Director, and is the only daughter of famous lyricist and poet Gulzar and actress Rakhee.She directed her first film Filhaal in 2002, starring Former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen and Tabu. Her second movie was Just Married in 2007.-References:...

    (Director, daughter of Gulzar and Rakhee)

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