Atul Kasbekar, 55
Photographer and filmmaker

Celebrity photographer and now film producer, Atul Kasbekar is honest when he says that 2020 was a pretty crappy year. More so, if your work includes being in close contact with people. "Work was a disaster. You can't take pictures or make pictures, without meeting people physically," he says. And yet, his company, Bling! Entertainment Solutions managed to clock in a record number of digital deals. But for us, Kasbekar was one of the few faces on social media, who didn't let the gloom and doom get to us.

The photographer, known for funny tweets, observations and memes, upped the game when the lockdown started. For instance, one of his retweets was of a map, titled Vocabulary as per Geography, that shows how different parts of Mumbai—South Mumbai, Bandra, etc—differ in their choice of expletives.