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Meghna Kothari
Meghna Kothari is an Indian actress. She has acted in Bollywood movies and in Gurinder Chadha's film '' Bride and Prejudice'' where she played the role of Maya Bakshi based on the character Mary Bennett and is known for the famous cobra dance choreographed by Saroj Khan. She learned Kathak dance under the tutelage of Reba Vidyarthi and the peerless Birju Maharaj at the National Institute of Kathak Dance. She started her acting career with a cameo in Aahat (TV series) (produced by B. P. Singh) along with theatre director Satyadev Dubey. Her debut film was ''Prem Aggan'' with Fardeen Khan. In theater, she is took training at Living Theatre and has acted in plays directed by the legendary Ebrahim Alkazi. She is the daughter of Rita Ganguly and Keshav Kothari, who was the secretary of Sangeet Natak Akademi. Her brother is poet Arijeet. Actress Gita Ghatak is her maternal aunt and renowned folklorist Komal Kothari is her paternal uncle. She is married to Sandeep Chattopadhyay ( Ch ...
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Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and " Hollywood". The industry is a part of the larger Indian cinema, which also includes South Cinema and other smaller film industries. In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, of which the largest number, 364 have been from Hindi. , Hindi cinema represented 43 percent of Indian net box-office revenue; Tamil and Telugu cinema represented 36 percent, and the remaining regional cinema constituted 21 percent. Hindi cinema has overtaken the U.S. film industry to become the largest centre for film production in the world. In 2001 ticket sales, Indian cinema (including Hindi films) reportedly sold an estimated 3.6 billion tickets worldwide, compared to Hollywood's 2.6 billion tickets sold. Earlier Hindi film ...
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National Film Award For Best Short Fiction Film
The National Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for Non-Feature Films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). The award was instituted in 1987, at 35th National Film Awards The 35th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1987. Ceremony took place in Apr ... and awarded annually for the short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. Awards Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize. Cash prize amount varied over the period. Following table illustrates the cash prize amount over the years: Winners Following are the award winners over the years ...
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21st-century Indian Actresses
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Vadh
''Vadh'' is a Hindi psychological thriller film directed by Raj Bharat, Nana Patekar and Rajesh Kumar Singh trio and produced by Dilip Dhanwani. This film was released on 29 March 2002 under the banner of Megastar films. Plot Doctor Arjun Singh is a famous psychiatrist lives with his wife Jyoti and brother Vijay. Vijay is Police Officer loves Deepa. One rainy night a serial killer escapes from Arjun's hospital and the whole city is under threat. But no one is able to capture the killer. After the series of murder of young ladies, Vijay suspects one womanizer Aryan. Aryan is the best friend of Dr. Arjun. Cast * Nana Patekar as Dr. Arjun Singh * Puru Raaj Kumar as Aryan * Meghna Kothari as Deepa * Anupama Verma as Jyoti * Nakul Vaid as Vijay * Raju Mavani as Serial killer * Shweta Menon as Guest appearance * Arun Bakshi Arun Bakshi is an Indian film and television actor and also a singer. He has acted as a character actor in over 100 Hindi films, and as a playback singer ...
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Hari-Bhari
Hari-Bhari (Fertility) is a 2000 Hindi film by Shyam Benegal, starring Shabana Azmi, Rajit Kapur, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Surekha Sikri and Nandita Das in the lead roles. The film revolves around the story of five women, belonging to different generations, each looking emancipation and the right to run their lives their own way. The film's main theme is the issue of women's ' fertility rights' empowerment. The film won the 2000 National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare. Plot The movie tells the story of a middle aged Muslim woman Gazala (Shabana Azmi), who is ill-treated by her husband and sent back to her parents’ home, just because she is unable to give birth to a son. Gazala does have a daughter Salma (Rajeshwari Sachdev). The plot revolves around Gazala's stay at her mother's home and the problems faced by the women of the house, namely her mother and sisters-in-law. The film is a beautiful description of the problems faced by women in the name of fertility, or ...
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Anuradha Paudwal
Anuradha Paudwal (born 27 October 1954) is an Indian playback singer who works predominantly in Hindi cinema. She has been described in media as one of the most prominent Bhajan singer and also as one of the most successful playback singers of 80s and 90s era of Bollywood. The recipient of several accolades including a National Film Award, four Filmfare Awards (winning consecutively during 1990–92) and two Odisha State Film Awards, she has been honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri, the country's fourth-highest civilian honour for her contribution in the field of arts. She was honored with honorary degree of D.Litt. by ''D Y Patil University'', the second singer to receive this degree after Lata Mangeshkar. She is engaged in social work and had a foundation named Suryodaya Foundation. In her career spanning over four decades Paudwal has recorded more than 9,000 songs and more than 1,500 bhajans in several languages including Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Mar ...
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Hansal Mehta
Hansal Mehta (born 29 April 1968) is an Indian filmmaker. He started his career with television show ''Khana Khazana'' (1993–2000) and later moved on to directing films like ''Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!'' (2000), ''Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai?'' (2002) and ''Woodstock Villa'' (2008). He received critical acclaim with ''Shahid'' (2013), for which he also won the National Film Award for Best Direction. He then went on to direct ''City Lights'' (2014), ''Aligarh'' (2016), ''Simran'' (2017), '' Omerta'' (2018) and ''Scam 1992'' (2020). Early life Mehta was born on 29 April 1968 in a middle-class Gujarati family from Mumbai. He grew up learning classical music and studied computer engineering. He worked in Fiji before returning to India to start his career in films. Career Mehta started his career in 1993, by directing with TV cookery show ''Khana Khazana'', thus launching the television career of celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor on Zee TV. Alongside, Mehta also directed several television series ...
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Prem Aggan
''Prem Aggan'' (meaning:- ''The fire of love'') is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language romantic film written and directed by Feroz Khan. The film stars Fardeen Khan and Meghna Kothari and Shama Sikander. Fardeen is Feroz's son who made his debut in the movie for which he got the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. The film bombed at the box office but gained a cult status for being so bad it's good. Plot Cast *Fardeen Khan as Suraj Singh * Meghna Kothari as Sapna Kumar *Sameer Malhotra as Vishal Kumar * Shama Sikander as Pooja *Sanjay Bhatia * Anupam Kher as Jai Kumar *Raj Babbar as Captain Veer Bahadur Singh * Beena as Sheena Kumar *Smita Jaykar as Seema Singh *Kamal Chopra as Sangha *Satish Shah as Principal Balan *Rakesh Bedi as Hiralal *Dinesh Hingoo Dinesh Hingoo (born 13 April 1940) is an Indian actor who plays comic & supporting roles in Hindi films. He had appeared in over 300 films, from ''Taqdeer (1967)'' to ''Be Careful (2011)'', and is known for his laughter and i ...
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Kanan Gill
Kanan Singh Gill is an Indian stand-up comedian, actor and YouTuber. He won the Punch Line Bangalore Competition. He is known for hosting the YouTube series ''Pretentious Movie Reviews'' where he reviews campy Bollywood films along with fellow stand-up comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath. He was one of the main personalities behind the YouTube Comedy Hunt and also co-hosted the YouTube FanFest India. In 2017, he released his own one-hour comedy special, ''Keep It Real on Amazon Prime Video''. He made his debut on the big screen with the movie Noor, alongside Sonakshi Sinha. In 2018, he was also a judge on Comicstaan, a comedic reality TV show, on Amazon Prime Video. Early life Kanan was born in Bareilly to a Sikh family and spent his early years in Dehradun and Delhi. His father Charanjit Singh Gill, an officer with the Indian Army was also the principal of Rashtriya Military School, Bangalore. At an early age he was brought to Bengaluru. He did his schooling at Ahlcon Public School, Ne ...
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Biswa Kalyan Rath
Biswa Kalyan Rath is an Indian stand-up comedian, writer and YouTuber. He is from Odisha. He came into prominence through the YouTube comedy series, ''Pretentious Movie Reviews'' with fellow comedian Kanan Gill. He played a supporting role in the 2016 Netflix sex comedy film '' Brahman Naman''. He created the 2017 Amazon Prime Video's series ''Laakhon Mein Ek''. On 9 December 2020, Rath married actress Sulagna Panigrahi. Career After graduation in Biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur in 2012, he worked in graphic design, advertising, and software. It was during this time that he met Kanan Gill at an open mic event in Bangalore in 2013. He quit his job at Oracle in 2014 to become a full-time comedian. Biswa and Kanan came up with the idea of the Pretentious Movie Reviews, a series of videos which soon went viral on YouTube. In this series, they review critically panned Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film ...
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