Kanan Devi

 Kanan Devi - legendary actress and singer.. pen sketch 

Majrooh Sultanpuri, lyricist - pen and ink sketch

Here is my pen and ink sketch of Majrooh Sultanpuri, 

Asrar ul Hassan Khan, better known as Majrooh Sultanpuri, was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist in India's Hindi language film industry. He wrote Hindustani lyrics for numerous Hindi film soundtracks.

He was born on 1st October 1919 and died on 24th May 2000

Mrinal Sen - charcoal pencil sketch

My charcoal pencil sketch of "Padmabhushan" Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen was an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and a few Hindi and Telugu language films.

Tapan Sinha - charcoal pencil sketch

Here is my charcoal pencil sketch of legendary film maker Tapan Sinha.

Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema, directing films like Kabuliwala (1957), Louha-Kapat, Sagina Mahato (1970), Apanjan (1968), Kshudhita Pashan and children's film Safed Haathi (1978) and Aaj Ka Robinhood. Sinha started his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with New Theatres film production house in Kolkata, then in 1950 left for England where he worked at Pinewood Studios for next two years, before returning home to start his six decade long career in Indian cinema, making films in Bengali, Hindi and Oriya languages, straddling genres from social realism, family drama, labor rights, to children's fantasy films. He was one of the acclaimed filmmakers of Parallel Cinema movement of India,

(courtesy wikipedia