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Abhigyan Jha
Abhigyan Jha is an Indian film screenwriter, producer, director, writer and entrepreneur who has worked predominantly in Hindi film and television industry. He has written story for film ''Krishna Cottage'' (2004), ''Phir Zindagi'' and TV show, ''Tum Bin Jaaoon Kahaan'', and made his directorial debut with '' Sacred Evil – A True Story'' (2006). He is the creator and director of ''Jay Hind!'', exclusively made for the Internet. He also directed and produced the late-night talk show '' Movers & Shakers'' for Sony. He is the co-founder of Undercover Utopia. He is also a co-founder of ProMytheUs, a machine learning talent discovery platform. Career After completing the creative training program from the Advertising Agencies Association of India, Abhigyan started assisting to Anand Mahendroo. He published his first novel, ''November Rain'' in 1994, followed by his second novel, ''The Prayer''. His novel, ''November Rain'' was transformed into a prime time TV series ''Tum Bin Jaa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mrinal Jha
Mrinal Jha is an Indian writer, screenwriter and producer, who works in Hindi films and Television. She has written for popular TV shows such as ''Kaahin Kissii Roz'', '' Banoo Main Teri Dulhann'', ''Maayka'', '' Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Na Kijo'', ''Qubool Hai'', ''Divya Drishti'', '' Naagin'', ''Ishqbaaaz'',''Yehh Jadu Hai Jinn Ka!''. Mrinal Jha won Gold Award for Best Writer (story) in 2008 for the TV serial, ''Maayka''. She is the winner of 2019 Indian Television Academy (ITA) Awards Best Story for the Sony TV's ''Tara From Satara''. Her recent venture is Pishachini. Personal life She is married to Abhigyan Jha and has a daughter. She has three dogs. Career Mrinal has been a scriptwriter and creative producer for several TV channels some of which include Zee TV, Balaji Telefilms, Doordarshan, Star Plus, UTV. She along with Abhigyan Jha produced, ''Kaali - Ek Agnipariksha'' in 2010. She was also the producer of ''Jay Hind!'' a standup comedy show for the Internet plat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismail Merchant
Ismail Merchant (born Ismail Noor Muhammad Abdul Rahman (25 December 1936 – 25 May 2005)) was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included Director (and Merchant's longtime professional and domestic partner) James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Early life and education Born in Bombay (Mumbai), Merchant was son of Hazra (née Memon) and Noor Mohamed Rehman, a Bombay textile dealer. He grew up bilingual in Gujarati and Urdu, and learned Arabic and English at school. When he was 11, he and his family were caught up in the 1947 partition of India. His father was the President of the Muslim League and refused to move to Pakistan. Merchant later said that he carried memories of "butchery and riots" into adulthood.cited in ''Cheek of the devil'' As a child at the age of 9, Merchant delivered a speech about partition at a political rally in front of a crowd of 10,000. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aditi Mittal
Aditi Mittal is an Indian stand-up comedian, actress and writer. One of the first women to do stand-up comedy in India, Mittal has been rated amongst India's top 10 stand-up comedians by ''The Times of India''. CNNIBN.com named her as one of the top 30 "witty, intelligent and incredibly fun" Indian women to follow on Twitter. Mittal has written columns and articles in ''Grazia'' Men magazine, ''DNA'', Firstpost.com and ''Financial Times'' (UK, Weekend Edition). Career Mittal is one of the better-known faces of the Indian English stand-up comedy scene in North and West India. In 2009, she was one of the first 5 Indians to be featured in an Indians-only stand-up show called Local Heroes, organized by the U.K based “The Comedy Store.” Today, she is a regular at Canvas Laugh Factory, Comedy Store Mumbai and has performed at venues and humor festivals across the country, clubs in UK and at Laugh Factory, Los Angeles. In 2013, Mittal was invited by the BBC for the prestigious 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varun Grover (writer)
Varun Grover (born 26 January 1980) is an Indian writer, stand-up comedian and poet. He won the award for Best Lyricist at the 63rd National Film Awards in 2015. He is also the co-creator of Aisi Taisi Democracy. Early life and education Grover was born in Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh, to a school-teacher mother and army engineer father. His family is Punjabi. He spent his initial years in Sundernagar and Dehradun, Uttarakhand, before moving to Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh for his adolescent years. He studied civil engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, graduating in 2003. Collaboration in the Independent music space In 2017 Varun Grover released Beete Dino Ke Geet – a song in collaboration with US-based producer Krishna Chetan. Filmography Films Television Books *''Paper Chor'' (2018), Jugnoo Prakashan *''Biksu'' (2019), Ektara India *''Karejwa'' (2020), Bakarmaxindia Awards and nominations * Won Best Lyrics award for ''"Moh Moh Ke Dhaag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standup Comedy
Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke, one-liners, stories, observations or a shtick that may incorporate Theatrical property, props, comedy music, music, Magic (illusion), magic tricks or ventriloquism. It can be performed almost anywhere, including comedy clubs, comedy festivals, bars, nightclubs, colleges or theatres. History Stand-up as a Western world, Western art form has its roots in the Stump speech (minstrelsy), stump speech of American minstrel shows, which featured an actor in blackface delivering nonsensical monologue to the audience. While the intention of stump speeches was to mock African-Americans, they also occasionally contained political and social satire. The minstrel show would later influence theatrical traditions of the late 19th and early 20th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split between the family members. The southern editions took the name ''The New Indian Express'', while the northern editions, based in Mumbai, retained the original ''Indian Express'' name with ''"The"'' prefixed to the title. History In 1932, the ''Indian Express'' was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, at Chennai, being published by his "Tamil Nadu" press. Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to Swaminathan Sadanand, the founder of ''The Free Press Journal'', a national news agency. In 1933, the ''Indian Express'' opened its second office in Madurai, launching the Tamil edition, '' Dinamani''. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the price of the newspaper. Faced with financial difficultie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Plus
StarPlus is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly ''Star India''), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. The network's programming consists of family dramas, comedies, youth-oriented reality shows, shows on crime and television films. History When it was first launched on 21 February 1992, StarPlus was an English language entertainment television channel, broadcasting international television shows from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, with Zee TV being the Hindi-language counterpart. After Star ended its relationship with Zee TV on 31 March 1996, StarPlus was transformed completely into a Hindi-language channel (from April 1996 to June 2000, StarPlus was a bilingual TV channel consisting of Hindi and English programmes), with Star World becoming the network's English-language counterpart channel and the company's CEO Sameer Nair and programming chief Tarun Katial int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaali – Ek Agnipariksha
''Kaali – Ek Agnipariksha'' is an Indian crime thriller series that aired on Star Plus from 13 September 2010 to 18 March 2011. The series is inspired from Ruchika Girhotra case. Synopsis This is the tale narrated by Mrinal Kulkarni of the Mehta family who are simple and middle class with middle class values and dreams composed of Veerender Mehta and his two children 16-year-old Rachna and 11-year-old Rahul. Rachana is a girl with big dreams who is sure to make a mark in Badminton one day. Rachana's cousin, Anu is her best friend. Rachana is all through encouraged in her pursuit of playing Badminton by her family. And it's during this pursuit that the menacing bahubali of her town- Thakral, lays his eyes on her. It is from here on the journey of Rachana who decides to fight back against the big and mighty Thakral. Anu stands by Rachana and they remain deeply connected through the terror and trauma that Thakral unleashes on Rachana and her family. The story is the tale of Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waheeda Rahman
Waheeda Rehman (born 3 February 1938) is an Indian actress and dancer. Regarded as one of Hindi cinema's finest actresses, Rehman's accolades include a National Film Award and three Filmfare Awards. Rehman was honoured with the Padma Shri by Government of India in 1972, later receiving the Padma Bhushan in 2011. She has received significant media coverage across her film career. Rehman made her acting debut with the Telugu film ''Rojulu Marayi'' (1955), and rose to prominence with her collaborations with filmmaker Guru Dutt: the romantic dramas '' Pyaasa'' (1957) and ''Kaagaz Ke Phool'' (1959), the Muslim social film ''Chaudhvin Ka Chand'' (1960) and the romantic drama '' Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam'' (1962). Rehman had her breakthrough with the romantic drama ''Guide'' (1965), for which she received widespread critical acclaim and received the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. She won the award again for her performance in the romantic thriller ''Neel Kamal'' (1968), and additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gul Panag
Gul Panag (born Gulkirat Kaur Panag, 3 January 1979; Chandigarh, India) is an Indian actress, voice actress, model, and former beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe pageant. Panag began her career in Bollywood with the 2003 film '' Dhoop''. Since then, she has worked in films like '' Jurm'' and the TV series ''Kashmeer''. Her films include '' Dor'', '' Dhoop'', ''Manorama Six Feet Under'', ''Hello'', ''Straight'', and ''Ab Tak Chhappan 2''. She played a commoner, fighting hard to save her husband from going to the gallows, in the 2006 Nagesh Kukunoor film, '' Dor''. In 2008, she acted in the films ''Hello'' and ''Summer 2007''. In 2009, she appeared in the movie ''Straight''. She featured in '' Rann'' in a role attempting to stop her boyfriend from doing the right thing. Panag appeared on the front page of Maxim with whom she did a photo shoot in September 2008. She debuted in Punjabi movies with ''Sarsa.'' She was the Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Chandigarh for 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milind Soman
Milind Soman (born 4 November 1965) is an Indian actor, supermodel, film producer, and fitness enthusiast. He was a contestant on '' Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 3''. Early and personal life Soman was born on 4 November 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland in a Marathi family. His family moved to Scotland/UK where he lived until the age of seven, then his family moved back to Mumbai, India in 1973. He attended Dr. Antonio Da Silva High School and Jr. College of Commerce, Bombay. Later, he completed his Diploma in Electrical Engineering. Milind Soman met Mylene Jampanoi, a French actress, on the sets of their 2006 film, '' Valley of Flowers''. The couple married in July 2006 at a resort in Goa. Soman and Jampanoi separated in 2008 and divorced in 2009. Soman married Ankita Konwar on 22 April 2018 in Alibaug. Career In 1995, Soman got featured in Alisha Chinai's music video, '' Made in India''. The same year, he made his debut as a television actor in '' A Mouthful of Sky''. La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekta Kapoor
Ekta Kapoor (born 7 June 1975) is an Indian television producer, film producer and director who works in Hindi cinema and soap opera. She is the joint managing director and creative head of Balaji Telefilms Limited, which was founded in 1994. In 2001, Balaji Motion Pictures was launched as a subsidiary company of Balaji Telefilms Limited which is a film production and distribution company. She launched ALT Balaji in April 2017. In 2017, Kapoor also launched her biography, Kingdom of the Soap Queen: The Story of Balaji Telefilms Kapoor was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2020 for her work in the field of arts. Personal life Ektaa Kapoor is the daughter of actors Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor. Her younger brother, Tusshar Kapoor, is also a Bollywood actor. She went to school at Bombay Scottish School, Mahim and attended college at Mithibai College. Kapoor is not married. She has a son named Ravie Kapoor, born on 27 January 2019 via surrogacy. Career Ektaa Kapoor started her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
