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Arijit Singh (born 25 April 1987) is an Indian singer and music composer. He sings predominantly in Hindi, Bengali, and Telugu but has also performed in various other Indian languages. He is the recipient of a National Award and a record of six Filmfare Awards. He is also known as "King of playback singing". Arijit Singh began his career when he participated in the contemporary reality show, Fame Gurukul in 2005, but didn't receive widespread recognition before the release of "Tum Hi Ho" and "Chahun Main Ya Naa" in 2013. He was declared the most-streamed Indian artist of the year 2020 by Spotify. He is the most followed Asian soloist on Spotify.

Jyoti Deshpande is an industry veteran with over three decades of experience in the media and entertainment business. Jyoti joined Reliance Industries in 2018 as President - Media Business to architect and execute RIL's organic and inorganic media strategy across content and distribution value chain. Jio Studios which she incubated ground up, has become the leading Indian content studio in just five years, with over 150 films and web series in multiple Indian languages, signifying the consolidation and 'Jiofication' of the fragmented content industry. In addition to the above role, in 2021, Jyoti was appointed as CEO, Viacom18 to drive its transition into a truly integrated media company across broadcast and digital and across entertainment and sports in over 8 languages. This makes her the first woman leader to be named CEO of a Big 4 media company in India. She also serves on the boards of Network18 and Balaji Telefilms. She is also Chairs Jio Saavn. An industry captain, Jyoti also serves as the Chairman, Media & Entertainment Committee, FICCI and works alongside the government and industry colleagues to champion relevant initiatives. She regularly features among Fortune India as well as Business Today's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business lists, both of which celebrate the journeys and triumphs of women who not only impact their organization but are also thought leaders in their industry. She is a member of the prestigious BAFTA as well as IEMMY.

Vishal Mishra is a Mumbai-based Indian music composer and singer in the film and music industry in India. He first appeared in a television reality singing show aired on DD National. He was then guided through his initial days in the industry by Lalit Pandit of Jatin-Lalit, and then rapidly worked his way up in the industry, bagging a number of projects as a music composer in the Hindi and Marathi film industry. He has composed and sung tracks on albums of movies like Munna Michael, Friendship Unlimited, Tutak Tutak Tutiya and Qarib Qarib Single. He has created songs like "Jaane De" from Qarib Qarib Single (as a composer), "Antaricha", "Pyar Ho" from Munna Michael (as a composer and singer). In 2018, Vishal composed songs for Salman Khan's Race 3. Vishal has a number of other projects to look forward to — Veere Di Wedding; a medley of "Rafta Rafta" (Kahani Kismat Ki), "O Mere Sona Re" (Teesri Manzil), the title track for Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se; Anurag Kashyap’s Saand Ki Aankh, and Aapke Kamre Mein Koi Rehta Hai.

Irshad Kamil is an Indian poet and lyricist. His songs appear in Bollywood films including Jab We Met, Chameli, Love Aaj Kal, Rockstar, Aashiqui 2, Raanjhanaa, Highway, Tamasha, and Jab Harry Met Sejal.

Mukesh Chhabra is a Mumbai-based casting director, acting workshop director and actor who has cast several actors for movies including director Vikas Bahl's Chillar Party, Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur, Abhishek Kapoor's Kai Po Che and Nikhil Advani's D-Day. Chhabra graduated from Delhi University with an acting diploma from the Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts. He completed a six-year acting and teaching stint with the ‘Theatre in Education’ Company (TIE) affiliated with the National School of Drama.(NSD) Chhabra came to Mumbai in 2007 and worked as an Assistant Casting Director before setting up his own casting company. His first film as independent casting director was the small budget film Chintuji. His casting for the film Chillar Party won him accolades based on which director Anurag Kashyap engaged him for the casting of his crime thriller Gangs of Wasseypur and also its sequel. Subsequently, Chhabra did the casting for films of different genres like Kai Po Che, Shahid, Chennai Express, Jai Ho, Hasee To Phasee, Mastram and D-day. Apart from films, he's also done casting for TVCs. In his career, Chhabra has employed several unconventional casting methods. For example, he spotted the budding actor Irfan Khan, who played the character 'Fatka' in the film Chillar Party, on the streets of Mumbai. Chhabra's democratic style of auditioning has previously invited nuisance value from potential actors. Actor Rajkumar Yadav (now Rajkumar Rao) was chosen to play one of the leads for the film Kai Po Che only on Chhabra's insistence. Rao's talent in the film won him critical acclaim and later Chhabra cast him in Shahid as the leading man.

Radikaa Sarathkumar (also known as Radikaa) is an Indian movie and television actress, entrepreneur and producer who works predominantly in the Tamil and Telugu film industries. She is the founder and CEO of the Radaan Mediaworks Pvt. India Limited, which has produced serials such as Chitti, Annamalai, Selvi, Arasi, Chellame, Vaani Rani , Thamarai and Idi Katha Kadu (Telugu).

Pankaj Tripathi is an Indian actor who appears predominantly in Hindi films. Famous for his natural acting, he debuted in 2004 with a minor role in Run and Omkara and has since worked in more than 40 films and 60 television shows. Tripathi's breakthrough came in 2012 for his supporting role in the Gangs of Wasseypur film series. He has since received critical appraisal for multiple films, including Fukrey (2013), Masaan (2015), Nil Battey Sannata (2016), Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017), Newton (2017), Fukrey Returns (2017) and Stree (2018). For Newton, Tripathi earned several awards including a National Film Award – Special Mention.