

New Delhi: India is considered as a land full of opportunities. Like most other democracies, this country too is very politically and economically charged. Everyone appears to have a view on how the nation should run. People here have created benchmarks of social service. Their efforts demanded us to prepare a list of newsmaker Indians that created ripples of impact. Hence, Fame India & Asia Post together came up with the list of ‘Top 50 Newsmaker Indians in 2020’.
This list is a survey of such famous countrymen, who created change through their efforts in the lives of people. There are hundreds of people who, from their own places, are working towards strengthening the nation. All these people have tried to change, develop and strengthen the possibilities in people’s lives with their excellent works and efforts.
The list includes people from all walks of life who are politicians, bureaucrats, film stars, journalists, artists, educationists, industrialists and spiritual leaders. Those who are involved in the public sphere, who are trying to make people’s lives simpler and more capable, those who are creating a benchmark of social work.
Fame India & Asia Post has tried to compile the list of these newsmakers together that will motivate more Indians to work harder for a brighter and better India. At the release of the list, editorial director of the Magazine Fame India, US Sonthalia said “These are those inspirational Indians who have tirelessly worked towards the betterment of common people. This positive initiative of Fame India, along with selecting them, makes other empowered people like them realize that they should move strongly on their duty path”.
Here is the list of ‘Top 50 Newsmakers in 2020’ by Fame India & Asia Post Survey:
Sandeep Marwah – Educationist, Philanthropist, International Media Person, Social Reformer (Chairman – AAFT), Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan – Chairman – National Education Policy Committee, K Parasaran – Law Advocate – Shri Ramlala Virajman, Gen. Manoj Mukund Narwane – Chief of Army Staff, MS Swaminathan – Agricultural Scientist, Manoj Modi – Famous Corporate & Industrial Strategist, Director – Reliance Group, Gupteshwar Pandey (IPS) – DGP, Bihar, Indian Police Services
Manan Mishra – Chairman – Bar Council of India, Dr Pratap Chandra Reddy – Health, Chairman – Apollo Hospital, Harish Salve – Senior Advocate – Supreme Court, Muthayya Vanitha – Scientist, Project Director – Chandrayaan Mission, Dr Devi Prasad Shetty – Founder – Narayan Hospital, BL Santhosh – Politics, National General Secretary – BJP,
Girish Chandra Murmu – CAG
Sanjay Kothari – Commissioner – Central Vigilance Commission Shashikant Das – Governor – RBI, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala – Investment Banker, known for share market predictions, Jagdeep Dhankhar – Governor, West Bengal, Champat Rai – Social worker, General Secretary, Shri Ram Janma Bhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, Ayodhya, Sourav Ganguly – BCCI Chief, Swami Awadheshanand Giri – Spiritual Guru, President – Juna Akhada, Madhu Pandit Dasa – Samaj Reformer, President – Akshaya Patra Foundation, Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal – Social Reformer, Environmental hero, Punjab
Jyotiraditya Scindia – MP – Rajya Sabh, Prof Dr Jagat Ram – Director – PGI Chandigarh, Prashant Kishore – Political Strategist, Founder – I-PAC, Dr Kishore Singh – HOD – Oncology, LNJP Hospital, Delhi, Dr Shiv Kumar Sarin – Director – ILBS, Delhi, Ravi Kalra – Social Reformer, Founder – Earth Saviors Foundation, Sambhaji Bhide – Social Reformer, Founder – Shri Shivpratisthan Hindusthan, Maharashtra, Dr MV Padma Srivastava – HOD – Neurology Department, AIIMS, Delhi, Dr Prakash Baba Amte – Social Reformer, Tribal Welfare – Maharashtra, Dr Uma Kumar – Head – Rheumatology Department, AIIMS, Delhi.
Ela Ramesh Bhatt – Social Reformer, Founder- Seva Foundation, Rajendra Singh – Social Reformer, Famous Environmentalist, MA Yusuf Ali – Businessman and philanthropist, Chairman Lulu Group International, Dubai, Ashok Bhagat – Social Reformer, Tribal Welfare, Secretary, Vikas Bharti, Jharkhand, Ajit Mohan – Youth Icon, Managing Director – Facebook India, Dr C. Rajkumar – Dynamic Educationist, Vice-Chancellor – OP Jindal Global University, Sunitha Krishnan – Social Reformer, Co-founder – Prajjavala
Ashish Dhawan – Entrepreneur, Educationist, Philanthropist, Chairman Trustee – Ashoka University, Manish Maheshwari – Youth Icon, Managing Director- Twitter India, Sonu Sood – Film Actor, social worker, Philanthropist, Abhinandan Sharma – Wing Commander – Indian Air Force, Mahesh Savani – Industrialist & philanthropist, Chairman – Savani Group, Mukesh Patel – Industrialist & Social Service, Director- Hindwa Group, Sharma – Journalism, News Director – TV9 Bharatvarsha, Pratap Chand Agrawal – Educationist, philanthropist, Sanjay Bihari – Social Reformer, Founder, Samarth Bihar, Manish Mundra – film producer, philanthropist
| S.No. | Documentary Name | Director | Country | Duration | Awards | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Beret on My Head | Mr. Shiv Shakti (Director) | India | 21:56 mins | ||
| 2 | ONE SIDED LOVE | Harry Khalsa, Kahanikar Saromi (Director) | India | 18:25 mins | ||
| 3 | If the Indian Army would have got 10 days, Pakistan's illegally occupied Kashmir (POW) would have been India's | Neeraj Rajput | India | 11:50 mins | ||
| 4 | How Indian Navy took revenge of Pakistan's attack on one of the auspicious places revered by our India, Dwarka (attacked by Pakistan during 1965 war) in '71 war. | Neeraj Rajput | India | 32:50 mins | ||
| 5 | Matarife The Movie | Paula Pardo (Line Producer), Daniel Mendoza Leal | Colombia | 01:59:26 | Best Editing | |
| 6 | Shadow offering | Direction and photography: Antonio García | Venezuela | 20:33 mins | ||
| 7 | LAS PUPUSAS | Hector Mojica | El Salvador | 33:22 mins | Best Cinematography | |
| 8 | "Ellas crean" (They create) | Lourdes de los Santos | Cuba | 59:72 mins | ||
| 9 | India-South Korea: Endearing Ties | भारत-कोरिया: दिलों के तार | South Korea | 28:43 mins | |||
| 10 | ALGERIA SEEN FROM THE SKY | Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Yazid Tizi | Algeria | 1.5 hrs | ||
| 11 | Ayoub | Ajwad Jaradat | Palestine | 23:37 mins | Best Ideation | |
| 12 | Ankos Masquerade Street Festival | Ohene | Ghana | 09:19 mins | ||
| 13 | Mag Fete | Ahmat Yaya Abbas | Chad | 14:27 mins | ||
| 14 | Aitmatovdun Aalamy | Bakyt Karagulov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:02:53 | Best Cinematography | |
| 15 | El Nino Del Plumo | Rodrigo Herrera Rubio | Chile | 10:02 mins | Special Jury Mention | |
| 16 | The Inimitable Baltic Way | Laura Paukste | Lithuania | 27:17 mins | Best Editing | |
| 17 | El Encierro | Santiago Maza and Santiago Fabregas | Mexico | 1h 19m | ||
| 18 | La Matamoros | Delfina Vidal | Panama | 1h | ||
| 19 | Fidel | Estela Bravo | Cuba | 3h 26m | ||
| 20 | Haebaragi- Brand School Things and Children/Taekwan Do Everybody Likes | DPR Korea | 02:25 mins | |||
| 21 | The Inca - Cities in the Cloud | Paul Cooper | Peru | |||
| 22 | Legend of Kharibulbul | Mikael Silkberg | Azerbaijan | 40:52 mins | Best Ideation | |
| 23 | La Primera Dama De La Revolution | Andrea Kalin | Costa Rica | 1:11:00 | ||
| 24 | Morocco's Bollywood Dream | Abdeliah El Jaouhary | Morocco | 45:51 mins | ||
| 25 | Home to Sixteen UNESCO World Heritage Sites | Ethiopia | 29:52 mins | |||
| 26 | Arando En La Memoria-Plowing Into Memory | Goar Sánchez | Venezuela | 50:03 mins | ||
| 27 | Story of Jingdezhen and Me | Chen Yunmei | China | 09:00 mins | Best Script Writing | |
| 28 | Jigme Singye Wangchuk National Park | Kinley Penjor | Bhutan | 13:48 mins | ||
| 29 | El Salvador Untamed | Nigel Marven | El Salvador | 50:59 mins | Best Documentary | |
| 30 | Rakshak | Emad Shaikh | India | 46:29 mins | Special Jury Mention | |
| 31 | Under The Same Sky | Sutapa Das Choudhury | India | 26:24mins | ||
| 32 | RE BASOTHO! | Justice Motsamai | Lesotho | 56:59mins | ||
| 33 | BHAGIRATH THE SANDMAN | Dr. Satyam Bhaskar | India | 23:50mins | ||
| 34 | THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE IN MY LIFE | Dimple Salwan | India | 22:25mins | ||
| 35 | DEVI MEMORIES | Dimple Salwan | India | 09:01mins | ||
| 36 | Let us understand Autism | Neeta Banga | India | 28:46mins | ||
| 37 | Lithium Batteries (the flip side of technology) | Amit Kumar Sonker | India | 07:23mins | ||
| 38 | Jungle Jigsaw: The Uncanny Mystery | Nitisha Kaila | India | 09:02mins | ||
| 39 | Abhivyanjana | Neha Dutta | India | 09:51mins | ||
| 40 | The Saga of a Braveheart | Maya Chandra | India | 49mins | Best Script writing | |
| 41 | Dr.Rajkumar : An Analysis of a Phenomenon | Maya Chandra | India | 55 minutes | ||
| 42 | The Krishna Cosmic Circle of life | Maya Chandra | India | 25 minutes | Best Documentary | |
| 43 | Jainism-Ancient Religion, Modern Relevance | Maya Chandra | India | 27.5 minutes | Special Jury Mention | |
| 44 | Loin Loom-Weaving in Arunachal Pradesh | Maya Chandra | India | 28 minutes | ||
| 45 | Borders Create Widows | Maya Chandra | India | 19 minutes | ||
| 46 | Two Lives, 2 Stories - Pompe Foundation | Maya Chandra | India | 7:50 minutes | ||
| 47 | Tiranga | Maya Chandra | India | 6:40 minutes | Best Cinematography | |
| 48 | Laments of the Past | Maya Chandra | India | 6:24 minutes | ||
| 49 | Aharya | Maya Chandra | India | 15:25 minutes | ||
| 50 | The Valley of Love | Maya Chandra | India | 15 minutes | ||
| 51 | PEACE NOTES: THE JOURNEY OF AN ORCHESTRA | Maya Chandra | India | 22:48 minutes | Best Script Writing | |
| 52 | Chuvannavanampady | Joseph Mundackal | India | 14:57 minutes | ||
| 53 | MADELET | Nebil Özgentürk | Türkiye | 46:51 minutes | ||
| 54 | Under the Walnut Tree | Begüm Aksoy | Türkiye | 23:08 minutes | ||
| 55 | Abhyudaya: The Rise of Future | Siddhi Singh | India | 09:49 minutes | ||
| 56 | मिट्टी की खुशबू राष्ट्र मुहिम | Hira Amit Rohilla | India | 07:10 minutes | ||
| 57 | Paakhi | Aditya Awasthi | India | 12:51 minutes | Best Documentary & Best Ideation | |
| 58 | Documentary on Umhang Lake | Cassandra Rimaia Pajat | India | 14:19 minutes | Best Editing | |
| 59 | Prof. Dr. Parin Somani’s Care for Humanity | Dr. Parin Somani | India | 04:58 minutes | ||
| 60 | Prof. Dr. Parin Somani’s Care for Humanity | Dr. Parin Somani | India | 19:54 minutes | ||
| 61 | HORONA DURANLAR (A JOURNEY TO THE BLACKSEA) |
Bahriye Kabadayı Dal | Türkiye | 49 minutes | ||
| 62 | THE UNKNOWN STORY OF FATMA KAYACI | Orahan Tekeoglu | Türkiye | 40:04 minutes | ||
| 63 | Independencia 100 POR 100 | Daniel Camargo | Brazil | 1:23 hrs |

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