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Bapi Bari Jaa
''Bapi Bari Jaa'' is a 2012 Indian Bengali language, Bengali romantic comedy film directed by Sudeshna Roy and Abhijit Guha (director), Abhijit Guha. The movie is jointly produced by Shree Venkatesh Films and Idea Creations, and stars Arjun Chakrabarty and Mimi Chakraborty in lead roles with Shalmi Barman, Tista Dutta and Anindya Chatterjee in pivotal roles. The film is about youngsters and the story of the film revolves around a young sheltered man who suddenly discovers life when he comes out on to the streets one day. The movie was released on 7 December 2012. Plot Five childhood friends – Bapi, Dola, Jijo, Hasna and Riju – are just out of college and hangs out together. Bapi, the younger son of a rich jeweller in Kolkata happens to be the money contributors for his friends. While Bapi joins his family business, other friends are looking out for jobs. Jijo gets into a relationship with Hasna. Riju thinks that he is into a relationship with a girl five years older than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudeshna Roy
Sudeshna Roy is an Indian film director, actor and writer based in Cinema of West Bengal, Tollywood. She started her career as an entertainment journalist before collaborating with the director Abhijit Guha (director), Abhijit Guha and foraying into the film industry. She is a popular artist in the Bangla Entertainment Industry. Besides directing films, she acted in several films, daily soaps and web series. The duo debuted with their first film ''Shudhu Tumi'', and then they made several films in varied genres. However, they are known to make urban middle-class romantic comedy films. They worked with Abir Chatterjee, who debuted in their film Cross Connection in 2009. They came into prominence after their critically acclaimed film Teen Yaari Katha, Teen Yaari Kotha. ''Teen Yaari Katha'' was showcased in the competition section of ''Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema'' in 2012. It travelled to the ''Bangkok International Film'' as well as ''Kolkata International F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, commercial, and financial hub of Eastern India and the main port of communication for North-East India. According to the 2011 Indian census, Kolkata is the seventh-most populous city in India, with a population of 45 lakh (4.5 million) residents within the city limits, and a population of over 1.41 crore (14.1 million) residents in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. It is the third-most populous metropolitan area in India. In 2021, the Kolkata metropolitan area crossed 1.5 crore (15 million) registered voters. The Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. Kolkata is regarded as the cultural capital of India. Kolkata is the second largest Bengali-speaking city after Dhaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monali Thakur
Monali Thakur (born 3 November 1985) is an Indian singer and actress. She is the recipient of several awards including a National Film Award for the song "Moh Moh Ke Dhaage" from the film ''Dum Laga Ke Haisha'' (2015) and a Filmfare Award for the song "Sawaar Loon" from the Film "Lootera" (2013). She has been the judge of Zee TV's singing reality show ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2014''. She was also an "expert" on Colors TV's ''Rising Star'' for two consecutive seasons. Life and career Thakur was born on 3 November 1985 in a Bengali Hindu Rajput musical family in Kolkata. Her father Shakti Thakur was a professional singer and actor in Bengali film industry and her sister Mehuli Thakur is a playback singer in Bengal. She has learnt hip-hop and Bharatanatyam and is also a trained salsa dancer. An alumnus of The Future Foundation School and St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, Thakur started singing in school and college competitions and performing at local functions,Shruti, I.L.Katri ... [...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] |
Usha Uthup
Usha Uthup Iyer (born 7 November 1947) is an Indian pop, filmi, jazz, and playback singer who sang songs in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. "Darling", which she recorded with Rekha Bhardwaj for the film ''7 Khoon Maaf'', won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2012. She also sang the title song for the show ''Sarabhai vs Sarabhai'' in its first season. Personal life Usha was born into a Tamil Iyer family in Mumbai in 1947. Her father was Vaidyanath Someshwar Sami Iyer who hailed from Chennai, in Tamil Nadu. She studied at St. Agnes High School, Byculla. When she was in school she was thrown out of music class because she didn't fit in with a voice like hers. But her music teacher recognised that she had some music in her and would give her clappers or triangles to play. Even though she was not formally trained in music, she grew up in an atmosphere of music. Her parents used to listen to a wide range from Western classical to Hindustani and Carnatic includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arpita Chatterjee
Arpita Chatterjee (''née'' Pal) is an Indian actress, who mostly appears in the Odia and Bengali film industry in India. She is married to actor Prosenjit Chatterjee. She made her film debut in 1999 with the film ''Tumi Ele Tai'', directed by Prabhat Roy. Some of the other films in which she has starred include ''Deva'', ''Devdas'', '' Inquilaab'', ''Prem Shakti'', ''Pratarok'', ''Dada Thakur'', ''Pratibad'', ''Utsab'' and ''Anupama''. Post-marriage, she took a break from her film career to focus on family life. In 2009, she returned to acting in ''Ekti Tarar Khonje'', directed by Abhik Mukhopadhyay. She has acted in films of directors like Shakti Samanta and Rituporno Ghosh and has also appeared in commercials for ITC and Saffola. In 2014, she signed for her first Bollywood film ''Shab'', directed by Onir Onir (born Anirban Dhar, 1 May 1969) is an Indian film and TV director, editor, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his film ''My Brother…Nikhil'', based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ustad Rashid Khan
Ustad Rashid Khan (born 1 July 1968) is an Indian classical musician in the Hindustani music tradition. He belongs to the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana, and is the great-grandson of gharana founder Inayat Hussain Khan. He is married to Soma Khan. In a story told in several versions, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi once remarked that Rashid Khan was the "assurance for the future of Indian vocal music". The SRA site gives the Bhimsen Joshi accolade as: "One of the most notable torchbearers of the Hindustani classical tradition in the twenty first century" He was awarded the Padma Shri, as well as the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2006. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, in 2022 by the Indian Government in the field of Art. Early life Born in Sahaswan, Badayun, Uttar Pradesh. He received his initial training from his maternal grand-uncle, Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan (1909–1993). He is also the nephew of Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. As a child he had little i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srijato
Srijato Bandopadhyay is an Indian poet of the Bengali language. He won the Ananda Puroskar in 2004 for his book ''Udanta Sawb Joker: All Those Flying Jokers''. In 2014, he won the Filmfare Awards East for Best Lyricist for the song 'Balir Shohor' from '' 'Mishawr Rawhoshyo'''. Srijato’s poetic composition 'Megh Bodoler Kabbi' has been published in International Kolkata Bookfair 2020 along with another novel ''Briksha Onubadak''. Besides writing poems and songs, he also does anchoring and Public Speaking. Recently he made his acting debut in Srijit Mukherji's film ''Zulfiqar''. He has also attended a writer's workshop at the University of Iowa. Early life Srijato was born in a musical family. He lived at Garia and spent his childhood at Kamdohari, Narkelbagan. Srijato is the grandchild of classical vocalist Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty and nephew of musician and the Khalifa of Kotali Gharana Pandit Manas Chakraborty; his mother is also a classical vocalist Gaan Saraswat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocky (2013 Film)
''Rocky'' is a 2013 Indian Bengali-language action thriller film directed by Sujit Mondal, starring Mimoh and Pooja. Earlier Sayantika was signed to play the female lead role as Nandini, But after a few days of shooting she refused to play the character as she did not like the change made in the story. The film also has Mithun Chakraborty in guest appearance. The film is the remake of the 2011 Telugu-language film ''Oosaravelli''. Plot Rocky is a goon from Mumbai and does anything for money. He is on a mission and constantly runs away from the police. Everyone relates to him as a 'chameleon' who constantly changes colors. Rocky finally reaches Kashmir and meets Nandini, and he instantly falls in love with her. Rocky rescues Nandini while being kidnapped by terrorists. Later Rocky finds that Nandini is already engaged to Avik. Avik is a goon (and the minister's son), but Nandini doesn't know that. When Nandini finds out that Avik is a goon, she dumps him. And she also discovers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Challenge 2
''Challenge 2'' is a 2012 Indian Bengali action comedy film directed by Raja Chanda starring Dev and Pooja Bose in lead roles. The film is a spiritual sequel to the 2009 Bengali film '' Challenge'', but contains a very different storyline. Major parts of the movie were shot in Malaysia, Dubai and f 2011 Telugu film ''Dookudu'', directed by Srinu Vaitla and starring Mahesh Babu and Samantha Ruth Prabhu. The film was blockbuster at box office collection. Plot Debraj Roy is an independent MLA of the constituency of Debnagar, which is named after him, in West Bengal, and is regarded as a champion for the poor and one who have idealistic values. When a truck collides with the car his brother Angshuman Roy and he are in, Debraj goes into a coma. Except for his family, everyone else presumes that he is killed in the accident. Years later, his son Abhiraj "Abhi" Roy is a police officer in Mumbai who fights against the mafia and is on a mission to apprehend a mafia don Guru Nayak who is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Soundtrack
A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound. In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially, the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own separate track (''dialogue track'', ''sound effects track'', and '' music track''), and these are mixed together to make what is called the ''composite track,'' which is heard in the film. A ''dubbing track'' is often later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as an M&E (music and effects) track. M&E tracks contain all sound elements minus dialogue, which is then supplied by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
