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Top 10 Indian Celebrities Died In 2020.
Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of an individual or group, or occasionally a character or animal, as a result of the attention given to them by mass media. A person may attain a celebrity status from having great wealth, their participation in sports or the entertainment industry, their position as a political figure, or even from their connection to another celebrity. ‘Celebrity’ usually implies a favorable public image, as opposed to the neutrals ‘famous’ or ‘notable’, or the negatives ‘infamous’ and ‘notorious’.
Pranab Mukherjee:
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee Bengali pronunciation. About this sound listen); 11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian statesman who served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017. In a political career spanning five decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader in the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012. He was awarded India’s highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 2019, by the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind.
Ram Vilas Paswan:
Ram Vilas Paswan was an Indian politician from Bihar who served in the first and second Modi administrations as the Cabinet Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution. Paswan was also the president of the Lok Janshakti Party, as well as a nine-time member of the Lok Sabha and a member of the Rajya Sabha. He began his political career as a member of the Samyukta Socialist Party, which he joined in 1969 and was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Paswan later became the general secretary of the Lok Dal after it was established in 1974. Around this time, he was arrested for opposing the emergency. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1977 as a member of the Janata Party from Hajipur and was re-elected in 1980, 1989, 1991 (from Rosaro), 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, and 2014.
Jaswant Singh:
Major Jaswant Singh 3 January 1938 – 27 September 2020) was an Indian Army officer and a Minister in the Indian Cabinet. He was a founder member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and one of India’s longest-serving parliamentarians, having served in the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha almost continuously from 1980 to 2014. In the 2012 Indian vice presidential race, he was the NDA’s vice presidential nominee. Singh was the first Rajasthani politician to hold the positions of Minister of External Affairs, Finance, and Defense.
Ahmed Patel:
Ahmed Bhai Mohammedbhai Patel (August 21, 1949 – November 25, 2020) was an Indian politician and Member of Parliament for the Indian National Congress (INC). He was Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s parliamentary secretary. Patel served in India’s Parliament for eight years, three times in the lower house (Lok Sabha) (1977–1989) and five times in the upper house (Rajya Sabha) (1993–2020). He was also the All India Congress Committee’s treasurer from 2018 to 2020.
Soumitra Chatterjee:
Soumitra Chatterjee (also spelled Chattopadhyay) was an Indian film actor, director, playwright, writer, artist, and poet who lived from 19 January 1935 to 15 November 2020. His collaborations with director Satyajit Ray, with whom he collaborated on fourteen films, are his most well-known. Starting with his debut film, Apur Sansar (The World of Apu, 1959), the third part of The Apu Trilogy, as adult Apu, he went on to work in several films with Ray, including Abhijan (The Expedition, 1962), Charulata (The Lonely Wife, 1964), Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1969), Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder, 1973), Sonar Kella (The Fortress, 1974) and Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God, 1978) as Feluda, Hirak Rajar Deshe (1980), Ghare Baire (The Home and The World, 1984), Shakha Proshakha (1990) and Ganashatru (Enemy of the People, 1989).
SP Balasubrahmanyam:
Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam, also known as S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. P. B. or Balu, was an Indian playback singer, television personality, music director, actress, dubbing artist, and film producer who primarily worked in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam films. Balasubrahmanyam has received six National Film Awards for Best Male Playback Singer for his performance in four languages – Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi – as well as 25 Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Awards for his Telugu movie work and various other state awards from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. He also received the Filmfare Award, as well as six Filmfare Awards in the South.
Saroj Khan:
Saroj Khan (born Nirmala Nagpal; November 22, 1948 – July 3, 2020) was a Hindi film dance choreographer. She was born in the Indian state of Bombay (now Maharashtra). She was the first woman choreographer in Bollywood and was best known for Dance Form Mujra. She choreographed over 3000 songs over the course of her forty-year career. She died of a sudden heart arrest on July 3, 2020.
Irrfan Khan:
Irrfan Khan (born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan on January 7, 1967, and died April 29, 2020) was an Indian actor who appeared in Hindi films as well as British and American productions. Khan’s career spanned over 30 years and won him various accolades, including a National Film Award, an Asian Film Award, and six Filmfare Awards. He was given the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian honor, in 2011. He received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 2021.
Sushant Singh Rajput:
Sushant Singh Rajput (January 21, 1986 – June 14, 2020) was an Indian actor who was best known for his work in Hindi films. M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016), Kedarnath (2018), and Chhichhore (2018) were among his critically successful Bollywood films (2019). He won a Screen Award and was nominated for the Filmfare Awards three times for his contributions to the industry. Rajput started his career after dropping out of his engineering course at the Delhi College of Engineering and entering the theatre industry in Mumbai. He moved on to feature in Hindi television serials, his debut show was the romantic drama Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil (2008), followed by the lead role in the soap opera Pavitra Rishta (2009–2011). He made his Bollywood debut in the film adaptation Kai Po Che! (2013) which became a commercial and critical success.
Rishi Kapoor:
Rishi Raj Kapoor (4 September 1952 – 30 April 2020) was an Indian actor, director, and producer who worked in Hindi films. He has received several accolades, including winning four Filmfare Awards, three Zee Cine Awards, and a National Film Award. Kapoor is considered one of the most successful and greatest actors in the history of Indian cinema. Born into the Kapoor family, he made his debut, as an adolescent, in his father Raj Kapoor’s film Mera Naam Joker (1970), for which he won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist. As an adult, his first lead role was opposite Dimple Kapadia in the teen romance Bobby (1973), which won him the Filmfare Award for Best Actor. Between 1973 and 2000, Kapoor starred as the romantic lead in 92 films.