24th February is celebrated as Central Excise Day every year across India. The birthday of many famous personalities in India is also celebrated on 24 February. Let us see which of the prominent personalities of India’s birthday is celebrated on 24 February.
(1) Late Talat Mahmood ( Born on 24th February, 1924 at Lucknow, Died on 9th May 1998 at Mumbai) – He was an Indian playback singer who is considered one of the popular male Indian film song and ghazal singers. He was particularly famous for singing soft and sombre ghazals in his quivering and silky voice. Romantic and tragic were the moods he liked most and it was he who helped a great deal in shaping the style and method of modern ghazal singing in India during the 1950s and 1960s.
Talat Mahmood received the Padma Bhushan award in 1992, in recognition of his artistic contributions in the spheres of cinematic and ghazal music.
(2) Late Joy Mukherjee (Born on 24th February, 1939 at Jhansi, Died on 9th March 2012 in Mumbai) – Joy Mukherjee was an Indian film actor and director. He was titled as the ‘heart throb of the 1960s and 1970s’. Joy Mukherjee was educated in Col. Brown Cambridge School in Dehra Dun and St. Xavier College. Joy debuted in the film Love in Simla (1960). He then starred for several hits like Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon, Love in Tokyo, Ziddi and Hum Hindustani. Some of his films like Aao Pyar Karen and Shagird, Ek Musafir Ek Haseena with Sadhna, Ishaara and Jee Chahta Hai were superhit movies. Most of his movies had hit music.
(3) Late Ms. Jayalalithaa Jayaram (Born on 24th February, 1948 at Mysore, Died – 5 December 2016 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu)) – Jayaram Jayalalithaa was an Indian politician and actress who served as the Six time Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for more than fourteen years between 1991 and 2016. She was the general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), a Dravidian party whose cadre revered her as their “Amma” (Mother) and “Puratchi Thalaivi” (Revolutionary leader). Jayalalithaa first came into prominence as a leading film actress in the mid-1960s. Though she had entered the profession reluctantly, upon the urging of her mother to support the family, Jayalalithaa worked prolifically. She appeared in 140 films between 1961 and 1980, primarily in the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages. Jayalalithaa received praise for her versatility as an actress and for her dancing skills, earning the sobriquet “Queen of Tamil Cinema”
(4) Mrs. Puja Bhatt (Born on 24th February, 1972 at Mumbai) – Pooja Bhatt is an Indian film director, actress, voice over artist, model, and film maker. The recipient of several accolades, including two National Film Awards. Bhatt played her first leading role in Mahesh Bhatt’s television film Daddy in 1989. For the film, she won the Filmfare Award for Lux New Face of the Year for Best Female Debut. Her biggest solo hit and her big screen debut came with the musical hit Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin (1991). Her most well-known films in the 1990s included Sadak (1991), Junoon (1993), Jaanam (1993), Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee (1993), Sir (1993), Tadipaar (1993), Naaraaz (1994), Guneghar (1995), Hum Dono (1995), Angrakshak (1995), Chaahat (1996), Tamanna (1997), Border (1997) and Zakhm (1998).