Vijayendra Prasad is an Indian screenwriter and film director who has worked in  Telugu, Tamil  and Hindi cinema for more than four decades. A screenwriter for more than twenty-five films, most of his movies have been blockbusters that have set new records at the box office. A few of his most popular films include Baahubali: The Beginning, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, RRR, Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, etc. In 2016, he won the Filmfare Award for the Best Story for the film Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Vijayendra Prasad has directed films too, and in 2011, for his Telugu film Rajanna, he won the Nandi Award for the Best Feature Film. Since July 2022, Vijayendra Prasad is a nominated Member of Parliament (MP) to Rajya Sabha.

A product of the Naval Officers' Academy, Kulpreet Yadav has spent two decades as an officer in uniform and has successfully commanded three ships in his career. Since his retirement as Commandant from the Indian Coast Guard in 2014, he has authored several books in diverse genres, including espionage, true crime and military history. Winner of the Best Fiction Author Award for Murder in Paharganj, an espionage novel, at the Gurgaon Literary Festival in 2018, Kulpreet is also an actor and screenwriter. He lives in Mumbai, and his latest book is The Battle of Rezang La (Penguin, 2021).