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Dilip Joshi
Dilip Joshi (born 26 May 1968) is an Indian film, television actor. He has appeared in several Indian movies and television series. Joshi has performed mostly in comedy roles, he initially worked in side roles in Bollywood films and then rose to fame for his role as Jethalal Champaklal Gada in the Indian sitcom ''Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah''. Personal life Dilip Joshi was born into a Gujarati family originating from Porbandar. While doing BCA, he was awarded the INT (Indian National Theater) Best Actor. Career Dilip Joshi started his acting career in 1989, playing the character of Ramu in the film ''Maine Pyar Kiya''. Since then, he has appeared in several Gujarati dramas, one of them being ''Bapu Tame Kamaal Kari'' with Sumeet Raghavan and Amit Mistry, the trio known for their television show ''Shubh Mangal Savadhan''. Joshi starred in the show ''Yeh Duniya Hai Rangeen'' and ''Kya Baat Hai'' in which he played a South Indian. He also appeared in films such as ''Phi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porbandar, Gujarat
Porbandar is a city in the States and territories of India, Indian state of Gujarat, perhaps best known for being the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and Sudama. It is the administrative center of the Porbandar District and it was the former capital of the Porbandar State, Porbandar princely state. As the birthplace of one of the most famous leaders of the world, Porbandar has a significant tourism-led infrastructure and economy. The area around Mahatma Gandhi's home has been renovated to make a temple of peace. Porbandar's beach locally known as 'Chowpati' has a long, sandy expanse along the ocean. Construction activities to provide attractions and manage litter and facilities on Chowpati Beach started in around 2003. It has been furnished with well-arranged seating for tourists and commuters; there is a skating rink for children. The Chowpati ground has been used for the 'Janamastmi Fair', an annual festival. This place is well equipped with a circuit house and a range of hotels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Television Academy Awards
The Indian Television Academy Awards, also known as the ''ITA Awards'', is an annual award ceremony organised by the Indian Television Academy to honour excellence in Hindi-language television. Ceremonies Categories Popular Awards * ITA Award for Best Actor Popular * ITA Award for Best Actress Popular * ITA Award for Best Show Popular Jury Awards: General Drama * ITA Award for Best Actor Drama * ITA Award for Best Actress Drama * ITA Award for Best Director - Drama * ITA award for Best Serial – Drama * ITA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role * ITA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role * ITA Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role * ITA Award for Best Actress in a Negative Role * ITA Award for Best Child Artist Comedy * ITA Award for Best Actor - Comedy * ITA Award for Best Actress - Comedy * ITA Award for Best Director Comedy * ITA Award for Best Serial Comedy Best Reality Show Best Anchor - Music/Film Based Show Best Music/Film Based Show Best Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dil Hai Tumhaara
''Dil Hai Tumhaara'' (English: ''My Heart Is Yours'') is a 2002 Indian Hindi romantic drama film directed by Kundan Shah starring Rekha, Preity Zinta, Mahima Chaudhry, Arjun Rampal, Jimmy Sheirgill and Alok Nath. The film was promoted as a star vehicle for Zinta and, although a commercial failure on release, Zinta's performance was praised by critics and earned her nominations for Best Actress at a number of award ceremonies. The soundtrack, composed by Nadeem-Shravan, did well on the charts. Plot Shalu (Preity Zinta) is a fun loving young woman living with her mother, Sarita (Rekha), and older sister, Nimmi (Mahima Chaudhry). Unknown to Shalu and Nimmi, they are half-sisters. Shalu is the daughter of Sarita's late husband Shekar and the woman with whom he had an affair. Fatally wounded in a car accident with Shalu's biological mother, Shekar begged Sarita to raise Shalu as her own. Although Sarita adopted Shalu, she cannot give her the love she shows towards Nimmi. Shalu, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humraaz
''Humraaz'' () is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic thriller film directed by the duo Abbas–Mustan. It stars Bobby Deol, Akshaye Khanna and Amisha Patel. This film marks the third collaboration between Deol and Abbas–Mustan. The film is inspired from the 1998 movie ''A Perfect Murder''. It was remade in Tamil as ''Girivalam''. Plot While leading a dance troupe, Karan and Priya fall in love and participate in a dance audition and the winner would get the chance of performing on the luxurious Singhania cruise owned by rich businessman Raj Singhania. Jojo Fernandes leader of another troupe wins by cheating in the competition. Soon Karan beats up Jojo and accidentally kills him and is selected to perform. Raj meets Priya at the deck and eventually falls in love with her and proposes to her. It is revealed that Priya and Karan have been scheming to have Raj wed her to get his money. Meanwhile, another dancer named Harry from the troupe gets wind of their plot a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One 2 Ka 4
''One 2 Ka 4'' is a 2001 Indian Hindi language action drama film directed by Shashilal K. Nair. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla and Jackie Shroff. The score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman. This film is now owned by Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment. Plot The story is about two friends and cops, Javed Abbas and Arun Verma, who are both Special Task Force officers and partners. Javed is a widower who is bringing up his 4 children with a lot of love and effort while Arun is his carefree, hotheaded, trigger-happy albeit well-meaning subordinate and brother-like friend. Arun doesn't like Javed's four children, just like he doesn't like any kid, nor do the four children like him. KKV is a local drug lord that the entire police department have always been desperate to bring him to justice. But due to KKV's broad connection in the police department, nobody ever manages to find any solid proof against him. With the help of an informer, police cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khiladi 420
''Khiladi 420'' (English: ''Player 420'') is a 2000 Indian Bollywood action thriller film directed by Neeraj Vora and starring Akshay Kumar and Mahima Chaudhry. The film was written by Uttam Gada and released on 29 December 2000. It is the seventh installment in the ''Khiladi'' series starring Kumar, which included '' Khiladi'' (1992), ''Main Khiladi Tu Anari'' (1994), ''Sabse Bada Khiladi'' (1995), ''Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi'' (1996), ''Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi'' (1997) and ''International Khiladi'' (1999). This film marked the third time Akshay Kumar played a dual role after ''Jai Kishen'' (1994) and '' Aflatoon'' (1997). After ''Aflatoon'', this was the second time Kumar played both a positive and negative role. The film is notable for featuring some of Akshay Kumar's most dangerous stunts, including a scene where he catches and climbs a running plane, stands on top of it, and then jumps onto a hot air balloon while 1,000 feet up in the air; the stunt drew comparisons to Jackie C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yash (film)
Yash is a 1996 Indian Bollywood musical film directed by Sharad Saran. It stars Bijay Anand, Kartika Rane, Dilip Dhawan, Mangal Dhillon, Dina Pathak, Parikshat Sahni, Ajit Vachani and Sonu Walia. Its songs "Subah Subah Jab Khidki Khole" and "Yaaron Na Jane Mujhe Kya Ho Gaya" went on to become surprise chartbusters at the time, giving instant fame to its debutant composer Tabun (who later worked on Yaadein) and its lyricist Mehboob Kotwal. The film bombed badly at the box office since it was never intended to be made into a full-length feature film until the songs became a rage. The film was a box office failure. Synopsis Vikram Rai (Mangal Dhillon) is a talented singer, unknown however in the singing world. Kalpana (Sonu Walia), the daughter of Kailashnath Sahai (Ajit Vachani) who is the owner of a singing company, is however won over by his singing and marries him against her father's wishes. They have a son whom they name Yash (Bijay Anand). As time passes Kalpana realises that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hun Hunshi Hunshilal
''Hun Hunshi Hunshilal'' (; English Title: ''Love in the Time of Malaria'') is a 1992 Indian Gujarati-language musical political satire film directed by Sanjiv Shah. Plot In the kingdom of Khojpuri, King Bhadrabhoop II (Mohan Gokhale), is annoyed by mosquitoes (representative of middle and lower class). In a small village, Doongri, Hunshi is born to a doctor. After growing up, he adopts more respectable moniker, Hunshilal (Dilip Joshi). Hunshilal moves to Khojpuri to work at Queen's Lab, a laboratory which aims to eradicate mosquitoes problem once and for all. At the lab, Hunshilal falls in love with the fellow scientist, Parveen (Renuka Shahane). Cast * Dilip Joshi as Hunshilal * Renuka Shahane as Parveen * Manoj Joshi * Mohan Gokhale as King Bhadrabhoop II of Khojpuri * Arvind Vaidya as King's assistant Soundtrack The film had 45 songs. The composer Rajat Dholakia Rajat Dholakia a.k.a. Juku is an Indian composer [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What's Your Raashee
''What's Your Raashee?'' () is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. It was produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Sunita A. Gowariker. The film stars Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra, with Darshan Jariwala and Dilip Joshi in supporting roles. The film is based on the Gujarati language, Gujarati novel ''Kimball Ravenswood'' by the playwright and novelist Madhu Rye, and follows the story of Yogesh Patel, a Gujarati Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin, NRI, who must marry in ten days to save his brother from harm; Yogesh agrees to meet twelve potential brides (all played by Chopra), one from each Astrological sign, zodiac sign. Gowariker had always aspired to make a romantic comedy and was inspired to adapt Rye's novel into a feature film after watching a play based on the same source material. Later, he bought the rights and co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Naushil Mehta. In the process, several plot changes we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashutosh Gowarikar
Ashutosh Gowariker (born 15 February 1964) is an Indian film director, actor, screenwriter and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He is known for directing films "set on a huge canvas while boasting of an opulent treatment". His is particularly known for ''Lagaan'' (2001), ''Swades'' (2004), ''Jodhaa Akbar'' (2008), and ''Mohenjo Daro'' (2016). His film ''Lagaan'' was nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 74th Academy Awards, which makes him a voting member of the Academy Awards. He returned to acting by playing the lead role in the critically acclaimed comedy drama ''Ventilator'' (2016). Early life Gowariker was born in a Marathi family to Ashok and Kishori Gowariker. His family hails from Kolhapur. He is married to Sunita (Deb Mukherjee's daughter from his first marriage) and they have two sons, Konark and Vishwang. Career Gowariker started his career as an actor, making his debut in 1984 in director Ketan Mehta's picture ''Holi''. On the Holi sets, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge
''Dhoondte Reh Jaoge'' ( en, You Will Keep on Searching) is a 2009 Indian comedy film directed by Umesh Shukla and produced by UTV Software Communications, UTV Motion Pictures. The film stars Kunal Khemu, Paresh Rawal, Sonu Sood, Soha Ali Khan, Dilip Joshi and Johnny Lever. It was released on 6 March 2009 in India, and 20 March 2009, in the United States. The film is directed by Umesh Shukla and produced by Ronnie Screwvala. The music was composed by duo Sajid–Wajid. Storyline is loosely based on 1967 movie The Producers (1967 film) . Plot Set in Mumbai, the film starts with Raj Chopra (Paresh Rawal), a good-for-nothing movie director whose recent films, have all failed at the box office. He gets threatened by his landlord and creditors that if he does not pay them on time, he will be homeless. At the same time, chartered accountant Anand (Kunal Khemu) tries to cheer up his girlfriend Neha (Soha Ali Khan) on her birthday. Neha is a wannabe actress whom Anand takes to a 5-star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agadam Bagdam Tigdam
Agadam Bagdam Tigdam is an Indian children's television sitcom produced by Contiloe Entertainment and aired on Disney Channel India. It was launched on May 18, 2007 as the third major original production of the network, and Disney's third locally produced live action Hindi language series. The show was planned to be the third of a string of five local productions due to be released within a year and has followed ''Dhoom Machaao Dhoom''. The show is based on the British show ''My Parents Are Aliens''. Synopsis The show revolves around the sweet and fun Malhotra family who are actually aliens from Zoltar. They have been on Earth for about 12 years, and each episode is a day in their life trying to hide their identity from their neighbours and friends. The family consists of Deepak Malhotra, who is a loving working father, his wife Priya Malhotra, their children Sonia and Sunny Malhotra, and their friend Tappu, who is a doting uncle to the children. Characters Main *Deepak Malhotr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
