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Kaalakaandi
''Kaalakaandi'' is a 2018 Indian black comedy film written and directed by Akshat Verma, starring Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Oberoi, Deepak Dobriyal, Isha Talwar and Sobhita Dhulipala. The film is produced by Rohit Khattar and Ashi Dua. The film was released on 12 January 2018. Plot Rileen (Saif Ali Khan) receives news of his growing stomach cancer, which is at the last stage. He is left heartbroken, but remains quiet in front of everyone. He decides to live life to the fullest, by smoking and taking LSD from a friend, but yet remains unhappy. His engaged brother Angad (Akshay Oberoi) is getting ready when he receives a call from his ex-girlfriend, Selina (Amanda Rosario) to a hotel. Angad sets out to meet her along with Rileen under the excuse of a haircut. In the next story, we see Tara (Sobhita Dhulipala) packing her bags to pursue higher studies in the US, while her boyfriend Zubin (Kunaal Roy Kapur) is trying to convince her to change her plans. Hours before her flight, bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shivam Patil
Shivam Patil is an Indian actor, dancer and socio-political activist. He made his Bollywood debut in 2013, playing the male lead in '' Nasha''. He subsequently played the lead role of 'Rohan' in Sunny Deol's Ghayal Once Again in 2016. Patil's next film was Akshat Verma's Kaalakaandi, which released on 12 January 2018. His upcoming project is the Bollywood remake of the super-hit Telugu film Chatrapathi (2005 film), releasing in 2022. Patil publicly champions for mental health, the climate crisis, and feminism. He has been an active part of major civilian movements in India, such as the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest, where he was present in the 2021 Farmers' Republic Day protest parade in Delhi, and documented videos and pictures from the protests on his social media platform. He also actively amplified stories from the Citizenship Amendment Act protests, where he was present at multiple protest sites including Jamia Millia Islamia, the Shaheen Bagh protest, and he also sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akshat Verma
Akshat Verma is an Indian filmmaker who wrote and directed the feature ''Kaalakaandi'' (2018), which starred Saif Ali Khan. His previous film, ''Delhi Belly'' (2011), was produced by Aamir Khan and won multiple awards for its writing. Verma also wrote the lyrics for several songs on the film's soundtrack. He wrote, directed and produced the critically acclaimed short film Mama's Boys' in 2016, which provided a modern take on the epic ''Mahabharat''. Verma also wrote the film ''The Ode ''The Ode'' is a 2008 film directed by Nilanjan Neil Lahiri and starring Sachin Bhatt, Wilson Cruz and Sakina Jaffrey. The film is an adaptation of the novel, ''Ode to Lata'' by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. The biopic was shot on location in Kenya an ...'' (2008), directed by Nilanjan Neil Lahiri and starring Sachin Bhatt, Wilson Cruz and Sakina Jaffrey. The film is an adaptation of the novel ''Ode to Lata'' by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. Filmography Awards and nominations References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sobhita Dhulipala
Sobhita Dhulipala (born 31 May 1992) is an Indian actress and model who works primarily in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam films. She won the Femina Miss India Earth 2013 title at Femina Miss India 2013 pageant and represented India at Miss Earth 2013. Dhulipala made her acting debut in Anurag Kashyap's thriller film '' Raman Raghav 2.0'' (2016) and she went on to star in the Telugu films ''Goodachari'' (2018) and ''Major'' (2022), and the Malayalam film ''Kurup'' (2021). She has also starred in the Amazon Prime Video drama series ''Made in Heaven'' (2019). Early life and education Sobhitha Dhulipala was born on 31 May 1992, in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh, India into a Telugu speaking family to Merchant Navy engineer Venugopal Rao and primary school teacher Santha Kamakshi. She grew up in Visakhapatnam as a studious child who only cared for “being well-read, good in studies, school captain”. Desiring broader horizons beyond her home city, she moved to Mumbai alone at the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amyra Dastur
Amyra Dastur (born 7 May 1992) is an Indian actress who has starred in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu Films. Early life and career Dastur is Parsi and she speaks English and Gujarati at home. She holds a bachelor's degree in commerce from Mumbai's HR College. Dastur started her career as a model in commercials. Dastur made her Hindi cinema-acting debut in Manish Tiwary's romantic drama ''Issaq'', alongside Prateik Babbar. Amyra in her first international project, ''Kung Fu Yoga'' acted alongside Jackie Chan which released in India on 3 February 2017. Amyra Dastur was also seen in director Akshat Verma's next, titled ''Kaalakaandi'', starring Saif Ali Khan. Amyra shot for a song in the film which is an upbeat dance number and has some fun lyrics. The track has been choreographed by Adil Malik of Kar Gayi Chul fame. She debuted in Telugu cinema with Mahesh Babu's sister's first directorial venture, ''Manasuku Nachindi''. Again in 2018, Amyra had her second Telugu release with '' Raj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anvita Dutt
Anvita Dutt Guptan (born 20 February 1972) is an Indian dialogue writer, screenplay writer, story writer, lyricist and director of Bollywood films. Early life and background Her father worked with the Indian Air Force (IAF), thus she grew in several military cantonments across India, including Hindon, Guwahati, Jodhpur and Saharanpur. Career She worked in advertising for 14 years, before she was introduced to Aditya Chopra by Rekha Nigam, who is dialogue writer of '' Parineeta'' and ''Laaga Chunari Mein Daag'', thus starting her film career as a lyricist and screenwriter with Yash Raj Films. She then worked with Dharma Productions as a lyricist and dialogue writer. Followed by Nadiadwala Grandson Films as a dialogue writer on one project. And as a dialogue writer and lyricist on the second project. She has also worked with Nikhil Advani as a dialogue writer and lyricist. She then went back to working again with YRF but under their banner of Y films for two films. After a hiat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isha Talwar
Isha Talwar (born 22 December 1987) is an Indian actress and model who predominantly works in Malayalam and Hindi-language films, besides appearing in a few Tamil and Telugu films. She started out as a model and appeared in various commercials, and later made her film debut with the 2012 Malayalam film ''Thattathin Marayathu''. Early life and background Isha Talwar was born on 22 December 1987, into a Punjabi family and is the daughter of Indian film actor Vinod Talwar. Born and brought up in Mumbai, she graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She joined choreographer Terence Lewis's dance school in 2004, where she learned various dance forms like ballet, jazz, hip-hop and salsa and went on to become a tutor in the dance studio. She stated that her choreographer Terence Lewis, was "one person who changed me completely". Acting career Talwar worked as a model and appeared in more than 40 commercials for brands like Pizza Hut, Vivel Fairness Cream, Kaya Skin Clinic, Dulux ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan (; born Sajid Ali Khan Pataudi; 16 August 1970) is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi films. Part of the Pataudi family, he is the son of actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. Khan made his acting debut in '' Parampara'' (1993). He failed to earn hits with solo lead films in the 90s and had rare successes only in the multi-starrers ''Yeh Dillagi'' (1994), ''Main Khiladi Tu Anari'' (1994), '' Kachche Dhaage'' (1999) and ''Hum Saath-Saath Hain'' (1999). It was the 2000s when Khan proved his potential as an established actor starting with the sleeper hit ''Kya Kehna'' (2000) and won many accolades for the ensemble comedy-dramas ''Dil Chahta Hai'' (2001) and ''Kal Ho Naa Ho'' (2003). Further critical and commercial success came with '' Hum Tum'' (2004), '' Parineeta'' (2005), ''Salaam Namaste'' (2005) and ''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' (2007). Khan also earned critical acclaim for playing a manipulative businessman in '' Ek Hasina Thi' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shashwat Sachdev
Shashwat Sachdev is an Indian music composer and entrepreneur. He also won the 65th Filmfare R. D. Burman Award, Filmfare R.D. Burman Award for best new and upcoming talent. Early life Sachdev was born in Jaipur. He started learning music when he was three years old, beginning with Hindustani classical vocals and rhythm. He then went on to train in the Western classical piano during his school days. Career Shashwat started his career in 2011 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Los Angeles working on numerous projects before moving to India in 2016. In 2017, he was the music composer for ''Phillauri (film), Phillauri'', which starred Anushka Sharma and Diljit Dosanjh. In 2018, he composed four songs for Veere Di Wedding, a Bollywood female buddy comedy film, directed by Shashanka Ghosh. The film stars Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Swara Bhaskar and Shikha Talsania. He scored for Selection Day (TV series), Selection Day an Indian List of original program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishal Dadlani
Vishal Dadlani (born 28 June 1973) is an Indian singer, songwriter and music composer. He is one half of the duo Vishal–Shekhar, Front Man and vocalist of one of India's leading rock bands called Pentagram. As a singer he has sung various hit songs for various genre's notably ''Dhoom Again'', ''Kurban Hua'', ''Jee le Zara'', ''Marjaiyann'', ''I feel Good'', ''Jab Mila Tu'', ''Tu Meri'', '' Swag Se Swagat'', '' Bala'', ''Har funn Maula'', ''Khuda Hafiz''. In an interview he admitted that he can sing from Rock to Romantic, any genre as he has particular voice texture for kind of genre. As a vocalist of band Pentagram, notable works are ''Voice, Tomorrow's Decided, Must I, Love Drug Climbdown'' and more to go. As music director, he has composed some Songs for Films such as Om Shanti Om, Anjana Anjani, Dostana, I Hate Luv Storys, Bang Bang, Sultan, Student of the Year, Befikre, War etc. Dadlani has been in collaboration with many international artists like Imogen Heap, Diplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Bhoopalam
Neil Bhoopalam is an Indian television, stage, and film actor. He is known for his roles in films such as ''No One Killed Jessica'', ''Shaitan'', '' NH10'', ''Lust Stories'', ''Ungli'' and the Indian TV series '' 24''. Career Bhoopalam started his Bollywood career with the film ''Mera Dil Leke Dekho'' although he is primarily a stage actor. He has acted in several prominent plays such as Nadir Khan's ''A Few Good Men'' and ''Hamlet — The Clown Prince'' by Rajat Kapoor Rajat Kapoor (born 11 February 1961) is an Indian actor, filmmaker and playwright who works in Hindi cinema. Kapoor was born in Delhi, India. He mainly focused on acting at first. In 2013 he joined the theatre group Chingari in Delhi, later mov .... Personal life Bhoopalam is married to Nandini Shrikent, a casting director in Bollywood. They have a son named Fateh. Filmography Films Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bhoopalam, Neil Indian male film actors Livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asif Basra
Asif Basra (27 July 196712 November 2020) was an Indian actor who worked in Bollywood films and TV serials. He is best known to Western audiences for his role in '' Outsourced''. He also appeared in many other films. Basra died of suicide by hanging in 2020. Early life and education Basra was born on 27 July 1967 in Amravati, Maharashtra, India. In 1989, he moved to Mumbai and attended Mumbai University, and acted in college productions. He regularly won prizes for the characters he played in college time. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree of Physics. Acting career Basra performed in Anurag Kashyap's '' Black Friday'' and Rahul Dholakia's ''Parzania'', which received much critical appreciation. He appeared in Michael O. Sajbeland's ''One Night with the King'' with veteran actors like Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole. He played a tailor in the Hindi movie ''Lamhaa''; he was in Bollywood's 2010 top grossing film ''Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai'' as Shoaib's ( Emraan Hashmi) fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neha Bhasin
Neha Bhasin (born 18 November 1982) is an Indian singer and songwriter. She is known for her playback work in Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood and independent songs in the genre of Indian pop and punjabi folk music. Bhasin has received seven Filmfare nominations across different languages and won two Filmfare Awards for her songs ‘‘ Jag Ghoomeya’’ (Hindi) and ‘‘Paani Ravi Da’’ ( Punjabi). Early life Neha Bhasin was born in Delhi to father Ashok Bhasin and mother Rekha Bhasin. Neha belongs to a Hindu Punjabi family. Her clan is Khukrain Bhasin which belongs to Khatri Punjabi community and originally hails from Rawalpindi District. Neha has two siblings, An elder sister Rashi Bhasin and younger brother Anubhav Bhasin. She completed her schooling from Frank Anthony Public School. Neha won her first ever singing competition award, Mariah Carey's song Hero at the age of 9. Since she was a child, always aspired to become a popstar. She joined Shiamak Davar's dance aca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
