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Laal Rang
''Laal Rang'' () is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language black comedy crime drama film directed by Syed Ahmad Afzal and produced by Nitika Thakur and Krian Media. Randeep Hooda, Akshay Oberoi and Piaa Bajpai star in the lead roles. Set in Haryana, the film depicts the theft of blood from blood banks and how the lives of two friends involved in the trade get affected. The film released on 22 April 2016. It received mixed reviews, with praise for the story, performances and production values but criticism towards the slow screenplay. Plot Rajesh is a youngster who is in love with a fellow student Poonam. Rajesh meets Shankar, the owner of an illegal blood bank. Shankar also has had a heartbreak through a Punjabi girl Rashi whom he still misses. Though initially, Rajesh is not aware of Shankar's illegal trades, he likes it the instant he learns about it and becomes involved in earning quick money to impress Poonam. Slowly as the business kicks off, Rajesh starts showing off his money to P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randeep Hooda
Randeep Hooda (; born 20 August 1976) is an Indian actor and Equestrianism, equestrian known for his work predominantly in Hindi cinema. Hooda made his Hindi film debut with ''Monsoon Wedding''. He had a turning point in his career with the gangster film ''Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai'' (2010) and gained critical acclaim for starring in ''Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster'' (2011), ''Rang Rasiya'' (2014), ''Highway (2014 Hindi film), Highway'' (2014) and ''Sarbjit (film), Sarbjit'' (2016) while also appearing in the successful films ''Jannat 2'' (2012), ''Jism 2'' (2012), ''Cocktail (2012 film), Cocktail'' (2012), ''Kick (2014 film), Kick'' (2014), ''Sultan (2016 film), Sultan'' (2016), ''Baaghi 2'' (2018). In 2020, he made his English cinema, English film debut with the action thriller ''Extraction (2020 film), Extraction''. In addition to his film career, Hooda has acted in numerous stage plays and had made his debut as a playwright with an adaptation of Lee Blessing's ''A Walk in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'', also known by its abbreviation ''TOI'', is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is an Indian " newspaper of record". Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (B.C.C.L.), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. Reuters rated ''TOI'' as India's most trus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashif Ali (singer)
Kashif Ali (born November 4, 1992, né: Babar) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter and musician. He rose to fame in 2013 as a finalist on the first season of ''Pakistan Idol'', coming in fourth place. In 2016, he recorded a song "Mera Mann" for his Bollywood debut film ''Laal Rang'', that earned him critical acclaim and later that year he marked his ''Coke Studio'' debut as a featured artist in season 9, as a part of team Sheraz Uppal. Career 2013–2014:''Pakistan Idol'' Ali auditioned for first season of ''Pakistan Idol'' in Karachi. Ali passed, theater rounds and made it to Top 24 finalist. In semifinals Group 2, he performed Javed Ali's "Mere Maula" and eliminated on January 19, 2014 but was brought back for Wild Card where he performed Kailash Kher's,"Sayyan" and was saved by public. Ali he was eliminated during the "Top 4" show after performing Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's "Ajaa Teno Akhiyaan" on April 13, 2014. ; Performance ''Coke Studio'' After collaborating with Sher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T-Series (company)
Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited, doing business as T-Series, is an Indian music record label and film production company founded by Gulshan Kumar on 11 July 1983. It is primarily known for Bollywood music soundtracks and Indi-pop music. As of 2014, T-Series is India's largest music record label, with up to a 35% share of the Indian music market, followed by Sony Music India and Zee Music. T-Series also owns and operates the most-viewed and the most-subscribed YouTube channel, with over 225 million subscribers and 201billion total views While best known as a music label, T-Series has also had some moderate success as a film production company. Kumar, initially a fruit juice seller in Delhi, founded T-Series to sell pirated Bollywood songs before the company eventually began producing new music. Their breakthrough came with the soundtrack for the 1988 Bollywood blockbuster ''Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak'', composed by Anand–Milind, written by Majrooh Sultanpuri, and st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Licensing
Music licensing is the licensed use of copyrighted music. Music licensing is intended to ensure that the owners of copyrights on musical works are compensated for certain uses of their work. A purchaser has limited rights to use the work without a separate agreement. Definitions The following words and phrases appear in discussion of music licensing: ;license : the right, granted by the copyright holder or his/her agent, for the broadcast, recreation, or performance of a copyrighted work. Types of licensing contracts can include: 1) a flat fee for a defined period of usage, or 2) royalty payments determined by the number of copies of the work sold or the total revenues acquired as a result of its distribution. In addition to a basic fee, most music licensing agreements require additional payments to the copyright owner when the work in which it is included (movie, play) is financially successful above a certain threshold. ;licensor : the owner of the licensed work ;licensee : the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication. The company is considered to be a legacy brand that pioneered independent news broadcasting in India, and is credited for launching the first 24x7 news channel and the first lifestyle channel in the country. It owns and operates the broadcast news channels of NDTV India and NDTV 24x7. The two channels of the company have received 32 Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards. NDTV was founded in 1984, by economist Prannoy Roy and journalist Radhika Roy, a husband and wife duo from the city of Kolkata. It began as a production house for news segments, contracted by the public broadcaster Doordarshan and international satellite channels when television broadcasting was a state monopoly, and transitioned into the first independent news network in India. The company launched the first 24x7 news channel in partnership with Star India in 1998. Between 1998 and 2003, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saibal Chatterjee
Saibal Chatterjee is an Indian film critic, an author of a book on Gulzar, co-editor of a book on films; and a documentary scriptwriter. He was a columnist at BBC News, Business Standard, Hindustan Times and Financial Express. And a staff writer of The Telegraph, The Times of India, and Outlook; the editor of TV World; and a consultant to Zee Premiere. He presently reviews films for NDTV. He's a founder member of the Film Critics Circle of India (FCCI). He was a key member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica's Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. He has served on the team as well as jury of a variety of international film festivals. And is the festival director of the upcoming Pondicherry International Film Festival. Books *Author - Echoes & Eloquences: The Life And Cinema Of Gulzar *Co-author - Hollywood Bollywood: The Politics of Crossover Films *Editor - Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema Awards *2003 - National Film Award - Best Film Critic at the 51st National Film Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firstpost
''Firstpost'' is an Indian online news and media website. The site is a part of the Network 18 media conglomerate owned by Reliance Industries, which also runs CNN-News18 and CNBC-TV18. The ''Network 18'' group was originally owned by Raghav Bahl. In January 2012, the group received an investment from Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries through a rights issue of up to 2,700 crore A crore (; abbreviated cr) denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 107 in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. It is written as 1,00,00,000 with the local 2,2,3 style of digit group separators (one lakh is e .... History In May 2013, the news group was merged with the Indian edition of '' Forbes India'' whose four top editorial heads including editor in chief Indrajit Gupta were dismissed. The event led to a media furor. Thereafter on 31 May 2013, ''Firstpost'' took over a satirical website Fakingnews.com for an undisclosed amount. As of April 2020, Jaid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 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] |
Hindustan Times
''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia. It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal, in Delhi and played integral roles in the Indian independence movement as a nationalist daily. ''Hindustan Times'' is one of the largest newspapers in India by circulation. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 993,645 copies as of November 2017. The Indian Readership Survey 2014 revealed that ''HT'' is the second-most widely read English newspaper in India after ''The Times of India''. It is popular in North India, with simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi and Chandigarh. The print location of Nagpur was discontinued from September 1997, and that of Jaipur from June 2006. ''HT'' launched a youth daily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashutosh Kaushik
Ashutosh Kaushik (born 2 October 1979) is an Indian actor and reality TV participant. Kaushik was the winner of '' MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0'' in 2007 and the 2nd season of ''Bigg Boss'' in 2008. Later he was also seen in '' MTV Roadies 8'' and in 2nd season of Bigg Boss. He has had a role in the movies ''Zila Ghaziabad'' and ''Kismat Love Paisa Dilli''. Filmography Television Personal life Kaushik was arrested in summer 2009 for riding a motorbike under the influence of alcohol. He was found guilty, fined, sentenced to one day in jail, and his license was suspended. In the 2020s, he has gone to court asking for the incident to be expunged from the internet under the right to be forgotten The right to be forgotten (RTBF) is the right to have private information about a person be removed from Internet searches and other directories under some circumstances. The concept has been discussed and put into practice in several jurisdiction .... Kaushik and his wife, Arpita, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajniesh Duggall
Rajneesh Duggal is an Indian film and television actor. He also works as a model. He won the title of Grasim Mr. India 2003 and represented India at the Mr. International 2003 pageant held in London, where he was declared as the 1st runner-up. He also won the Kingfisher 'Model of the Year' award in 2005. He made his Bollywood debut with Vikram Bhatt's horror thriller '' 1920''. In 2014, he participated in reality show '' Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 5'' and emerged as the winner. Career Rajneesh started his career as a model by winning the title of Mister India World. He also did several TV commercials and ad campaigns like Raymond suitings, Kitkat, Monte Carlo, Wagon R, Yamaha, Videocon and Clinic All Clear. He made his acting debut in 2008 with Vikram Bhatt's horror thriller movie '' 1920'', alongside Adah Sharma, where he played the lead role of Arjun Rathod, a man who vows to protect his possessed wife. In 2011, Duggal appeared in his next horror thriller ''Phhir'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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