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Adhvik Mahajan
''Contract'' is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language action drama film written by Prashant Pandey and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The film is set up in the backdrop of terrorism, and the infiltration by R.A.W. and Intelligence Bureau. Starring Adhvik Mahajan, Upendra Limaye, Prasad Purandare, and Zakir Hussain in pivotal roles, the film received mixed reviews. The film was screened retrospective at the 2010 Fribourg International Film Festival. Plot The story revolves around an ex-Special Protection Group Commando, Amaan Malik, whose wife and daughter, are killed in a terrorist attack. Indian Agents, working with the RAW of India, approach Amaan for collaboration, to hunt the mastermind behind the serial terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Sultan. Sultan, is executing another mission of serial blasts, including a government hospital in Mumbai. Supported by the Intelligence Bureau (India), how RAW and Amaan are able to infiltrate the underworld gangs, to reach Sultan, forms the rest of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Gopal Varma
Penmetsa Ram Gopal Varma (born 7 April 1962), often referred to by his initials RGV, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, known for his works in Telugu cinema in addition to Bollywood, Hindi, Kannada cinema, Kannada language films, and television.** * * Varma has directed films across multiple genres, including parallel cinema and docudrama noted for their gritty realism (arts), realism, technical finesse, and craft. Regarded as one of the pioneers of new age Indian cinema, he was featured in the BBC World News, BBC World series ''Bollywood Bosses'' in 2004.* In 2006, Grady Hendrix of Film Comment, published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center cited Varma as "Bombay's Most Successful Maverick" for his works on experimental films.* * Starting his career as a civil engineer, he made an entry into Telugu cinema with the path-breaking crime thriller, ''Siva (1989 Telugu film), Siva'' (1989) featured at the 13th International Film Festival of India, 13th IFFI' 90 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intelligence Bureau (India)
The Intelligence Bureau (IB) (Hindi: आसूचना ब्यूरो; IAST: āsūcanā byūro) is India's domestic internal security and counter-intelligence agency under Ministry of Home Affairs. It was founded in 1887 as ''Central Special Branch'', and is reputed to be the oldest such organization in the world. Until 1968, it handled both domestic and foreign intelligence after which Research and Analysis Wing was formed specifically for foreign intelligence following that IB was primarily assigned the role of domestic intelligence and internal security. Tapan Deka, the current director of the IB, took over from Arvind Kumar on 24 June 2022. History In 1885, Major General Charles MacGregor was appointed Quartermaster General for the British Indian Army at Simla and thereby became responsible for its intelligence activities. The main concern of the time was to monitor Russian troop deployments in Afghanistan so as to avoid an invasion of British India from the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudesh Bhosle
Sudesh Bhosale is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings for Bollywood films. Bhosale is known for his ability to mimic actor Amitabh Bachchan, having sung for him in various films. Career Bhosale was born on 1 July 1960 to Sumantai Bhosale and studied in Ambedkar College, Wadala. He got his first major break in playback singing in the film '' Zalzala'' (1988). He used mimicry to become a professional dubbing artist for several artists like Sanjeev Kumar and Anil Kapoor. He dubbed for Sanjeev Kumar when he died prematurely before completing the film ''Professor Ki Padosan''. He has sung songs for the movie ''Ghatothkach'' in 2008. Bhosale is the producer and judge on '' K For Kishore'', a singing contest on Sony Entertainment Television. He has sung many famous Bollywood songs for Amitabh Bachchan including "Jumma chumma de de" from 1991 movie ''Hum'', "Meri Makhna Meri Soniye" from Baghban and others. He mimicked for Amitabh Bachchan in movies such as ''Family''. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (; Mangeshkar; born 8 September 1933) is an Indian playback singer, entrepreneur and occasional actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian Cinema. Known for her versatility, she has been described in the media as one of the most influential and successful singers in Hindi Cinema. In her career spanning over eight decades she has recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and received several accolades including two National Film Awards, four BFJA Awards, eighteen Maharashtra State Film Awards, nine Filmfare Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award and a record seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer, in addition to two Grammy nominations. In 2000, she was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema. In 2008, she was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian honour of the country. Additionally she holds the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulsi Kumar
Tulsi Kumar Dua popularly known as Tulsi Kumar is an Indian playback singer, radio jockey, musician, and actress in the Bollywood industry. She was born to businessman Gulshan Kumar who was the owner of T Series and Great Singer and his wife Sudesh Kumari. She is the sister of film producer Bhushan Kumar & actress Khushali Kumar. She also owns Kids Hut, a YouTube channel owned by record label T-Series, featuring children's content including nursery rhymes and stories. In 2009, her debut album, ''Love ho Jaaye'', was released. Along with the album, Kumar made a music video for the title track. She also sang "Mujhe Teri" from the movie ''Paathshaala'' and "Tum Jo Aaye" from ''Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai''. She sang the song "Mainu Ishq Da Lagya Rog" in 2015, through which her sister Khushali made her screen debut. It is a recreated version of the original song from the movie ''Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin''. Kumar sang "Soch Na Sake", "Sanam Re", "Nachange Sari Raat", "Ishq Di Latt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adnan Sami
Adnan Sami Khan (born 15 August 1971) is an Indian singer, musician, music composer and pianist. He performs Indian and Western music, including for Hindi, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil movies. He has been awarded with Padma Shri (India's fourth highest civilian award) for his remarkable contribution in music. His most notable instrument is the piano. He has been credited as "the first musician to have played the santoor and Indian classical music on the piano". A review in the US-based ''Keyboard'' magazine described him as the fastest keyboard player in the world and called him the keyboard discovery of the nineties. He was raised and educated in the United Kingdom and spent his life in Canada. He was born to Arshad Sami Khan, a Pakistani Air Force veteran and diplomat of Pashtun origin, and Naureen, who was originally from the Indian Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. ''The Times of India'' has called him the "Sultan of Music". In 2016 he became an Indian citizen. He was awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaan (singer)
Shantanu Mukherjee (born 30 September 1972), popularly known as Shaan, is an Indian playback singer, composer, live perfomer ,actor and television personality. He has recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and has established himself as one of the highest-paid and best-established playback singers of Indian cinema. Shaan hosted the shows ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'', ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs'', '' Star Voice of India'' and '' STAR Voice of India 2''. In '' Music Ka Maha Muqabla'', his team, ''Shaan's Strikers'', finished as the runners up to Shankar Mahadevan's team. He appeared as a judge in ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs'' 2014–2015 and ''The Voice India Kids 2016''. In 2015 and 2016, Shaan was the winning coach in each of the first two seasons of ''The Voice''. In 2016, in ''The Voice India Kids'', he was the coach of the runner-up contestant. His sister Sagarika is also a singer. Early life Shaan was born on 30 September 1972 in Bombay in a Bengali fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sukhwinder Singh
Sukhwinder Singh (born 18 July 1971) is an internationally acclaimed Indian playback singer who primarily sings Bollywood songs. He is famous internationally for singing " Jai Ho" from the film ''Slumdog Millionaire'' which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. One of his most famous songs is "Chaiyya Chaiyya" from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film '' Dil Se..'', was composed by A. R. Rahman, written by Gulzar, and sung in duet with Sapna Awasthi. Early life and career Sukhwinder Singh hails from hathi gate in bhatti family Amritsar, Punjab. He released a Punjabi album called ''Munda Southhall Da'' with T. Singh, joined Laxmikant–Pyarelal’s troupe, and quickly became a music arranger before heading to South India to look for work, wherein, he sang for the Tamil film ''Ratchagan''. Singh got his first Bollywood break with the song "Aaja Sanam" in the film named '' Khilaaf''. But h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shilpa Rao
Shilpa Rao (born Apeksha Rao; 11 April 1984) is an Indian singer born and raised in Jamshedpur. She completed her Post Graduation in Applied Statistics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, before working as a jingle singer for three years. During her college days, Mithoon offered her to record the song "Javeda Zindagi" from '' Anwar'' (2007), making her Bollywood career debut."Javeda Zindagi" is one of the most popular songs of 2007. Shilpa Rao rose to widespread prominence with the release of Woh Ajnabi from "The Train" 2007 and "Khuda Jaane" from ''Bachna Ae Haseeno'' (2008). She was nominated for the Best Female Playback Singer award for the song, in 54th Filmfare Awards. The following year, she collaborated with Ilaiyaraaja for '' Paa'' (2009), where she performed the song "Udi udi Ittefaq Se" for which she received another nomination in the same category during 55th Filmfare Awards ceremony. In 2012, Rao teamed up with A.R. Rahman and came up with the song "Ishq Shava" from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikas Shrivastav
Vikas Shrivastav is an Indian actor who has appeared primarily in Hindi films. Career Vikas Shrivasatav was born in Bihar and grew up in Uttar Pradesh. He worked in theatre since he was young. He started his career as an actor with ''Gangaajal''. Vikas got his breakthrough as an actor in several successful films including ''The Dirty Picture'' (2011), '' Talaash: The Answer Lies Within'' (2012), ''Dhoom 3'' (2013), ''Special 26'' (2013), and '' Gabbar Is Back'' (2015). He has worked on the short films ''Hanki Panki'' (2013) and ''Meena'' (2014). He played the lead role as Nirbhay Gujjar in ''Beehad - The Ravine'' (2013). In 2019, he turned lyricist for the film, '' The Gandhi Murder'' and debuted in Tamil cinema with ''Kadaram Kondan''. In 2020, he was cast in the '' Savdhan India FIR Series'' as an honest police officer. Incident In 2016, an incident occurred after Shrivastav returned from Dehradun to Versova in which several lakhs worth of valuables were stolen. The suspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amruta Khanvilkar
Amruta Khanvilkar (born 23 November 1984) is an Indian film and television actress. She primarily works in Hindi and Marathi films. Khanvilkar aspired to be a film actress from an early age and began her career as a contestant on India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj in 2004. She made her Marathi film debut with ''Golmaal'' (2006) and her Hindi debut with Mumbai Salsa (2007). This was followed by commercial success with Saade Maade Teen (2007) and Phoonk (2008). She gained popularity in 2010 with her Lavani dance performance "Wajale Ki Bara" from the Marathi film Natarang. Her performance in the highly praised Katyar Kaljat Ghusali in 2015 won her praise and nominations at the Maharashtra State Film Awards and Filmfare Awards-Marathi. Khanvilkar appeared in supporting roles in the high-profile Hindi films Raazi (2018), Satyameva Jayate (2018), and Malang (2020). Her other notable films are Shala (2011), ''Aayna Ka Bayna'' (2012), Welcome Zindagi (2015), ''Well Done Baby'' (2021), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adhvik Mahajan
''Contract'' is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language action drama film written by Prashant Pandey and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The film is set up in the backdrop of terrorism, and the infiltration by R.A.W. and Intelligence Bureau. Starring Adhvik Mahajan, Upendra Limaye, Prasad Purandare, and Zakir Hussain in pivotal roles, the film received mixed reviews. The film was screened retrospective at the 2010 Fribourg International Film Festival. Plot The story revolves around an ex-Special Protection Group Commando, Amaan Malik, whose wife and daughter, are killed in a terrorist attack. Indian Agents, working with the RAW of India, approach Amaan for collaboration, to hunt the mastermind behind the serial terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Sultan. Sultan, is executing another mission of serial blasts, including a government hospital in Mumbai. Supported by the Intelligence Bureau (India), how RAW and Amaan are able to infiltrate the underworld gangs, to reach Sultan, forms the rest of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
