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Raj Kanwar
Raj Kanwar (28 June 1961 – 3 February 2012) was an Indian film director, writer and film producer of Hindi films based in Mumbai, India. Family and personal life He was educated in Col. Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun. He has two sons (with his wife Anita Kanwar), Karan Raj Kanwar and Abhay Kanwar, both of whom have worked as film directors and producers. Filmmaker K. Pappu is his elder brother. On 3 February 2012, he died due to a kidney ailment in Singapore. Career Kanwar began his career directing plays in Delhi. He then moved to Mumbai where he worked as an assistant to directors like Shekhar Kapur and Raj Kumar Santoshi. His directorial debut was ''Deewana (1992 film), Deewana''. Released in 1992, the film was a box office Blockbuster and marked the screen debut of Shah Rukh Khan, Shahrukh Khan. He directed several other box office hits like ''Laadla (1994 film), Laadla'' (1994), ''Jaan (film), Jaan'' (1996), ''Jeet (1996 film), Jeet'' (1996), ''Judaai (1997 film), J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka Chopra Jonas (; ; born 18 July 1982) is an Indian actress and producer. The winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant, Chopra is one of India's highest-paid actresses and has received numerous accolades, including two National Film Award and five Filmfare Awards. In 2016, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri, and ''Time'' named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In the next two years, ''Forbes'' listed her among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women, and in 2022, she was named in the BBC 100 Women list. Chopra accepted offers to join the Indian film industry following her pageant wins. Her acting debut came in the Tamil film ''Thamizhan'' (2002), followed by her first Bollywood feature in '' The Hero: Love Story of a Spy'' (2003). She played the leading lady in the box-office hits ''Andaaz'' (2003) and ''Mujhse Shaadi Karogi'' (2004) and had her breakout role in the 2004 romantic thriller ''Aitraaz''. Chopra established herself w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghayal (1990 Film)
''Ghayal'' () is a 1990 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi (in his directorial debut) and produced by Dharmendra. The film stars Dharmendra's son Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Seshadri, Raj Babbar and Amrish Puri, with Moushumi Chatterjee, Annu Kapoor, Om Puri, Sharat Saxena and Sudesh Berry playing supporting roles. The film grossed at and was declared a "blockbuster" by ''Box Office India''. It was also the second highest-grossing film of the year. The film received 8 nominations at the 36th Filmfare Awards, and won a leading 7 awards, including Best Film, Best Director for Santoshi and Best Actor for Deol. At the 38th National Film Awards, the film won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment and Sunny Deol received the National Film Award – Special Mention. ''Ghayal'' was remade in Tamil as ''Bharathan'' in 1992, in Telugu as ''Gamyam'' in 1998 and in Kannada as ''Vishwa''. On 5 February 2016, a direct s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raqeeb
''Raqeeb'' is a 2007 Indian romantic thriller film directed by Anurag Singh, and produced by Raj Kanwar. The film stars Sharman Joshi, Jimmy Sheirgill, Rahul Khanna, Tanushree Dutta. It released on 18 May 2007. It is an unofficial remake of Goodbye Lover on which the 2008 film Race is also based. Plot Remo (Rahul Khanna) is a multi-millionaire simpleton. Thanks to his mischievous half-brother Siddarth (Sharman Joshi) who meets Sophie (Tanushree Dutta), he falls in love with her and marries her. Trouble starts when Sunny (Jimmy Sheirgill), Sophie's ex-boyfriend, enters the picture. Sunny and Sophie hatch a diabolical plan to kill Remo by natural means - threatening fake bullets, so that he dies in an asthmatic attack, and no suspicion is raised. Sunny fires his gun, and Remo gets killed as the bullets were real. Siddharth has set this up. It is revealed that Siddharth and Sophie are indeed in a relationship and working together by killing Remo, for taking revenge against his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kartavya (1995 Film)
''Kartavya'' (English: ''Duty'') is a 1995 Indian action film directed by Raj Kanwar, starring Sanjay Kapoor and Juhi Chawla. Divya Bharti was chosen as the female lead, she completed some 30 percent of the movie, but due to her sudden death she was replaced by Juhi. Rediff.com found the film "embarrassing". Synopsis Karan and Kajal are in love and ready to settle down and lead a happy life. But tragedy strikes as Karan's mother has a heart attack and before she dies, Karan discovers that she wasn't his real mother. He is told that his actual mother is an heiress, Gayatri Singh, who lives in Sundernagar. Karan sets out for Sundernagar to confront her and on reaching there, discovers the tragic story of his mother's life. Her stepbrother, Ugranarayan Singh had killed her husband and had her confined in a mental asylum so that he can inherit all the wealth. Karan must now punish the people responsible for his mother's morbid state. Cast * Sanjay Kapoor - Karan Varma (Gayetridevi' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itihaas (1997 Film)
''Itihaas'' () is a 1997 Indian Hindi language romantic action thriller film produced and directed by Raj Kanwar. The film stars Ajay Devgn and Twinkle Khanna as the lead protagonists, and Raj Babbar as the antagonist. Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor and Mohnish Bahl played supporting roles in the film. The film opened to negative reviews and failed to do well at the box office. Plot Wealthy, powerful, and influential Thakur Digvijay Singh (Raj Babbar) visits a village and falls in love with beautiful Naina (Twinkle Khanna). They are betrothed and are to be married soon. But Naina has fallen in love with the son, Karan (Ajay Devgn), of Thakur's employee, Balwant (Amrish Puri). When Thakur finds out about this, he instructs his men to bring in Naina alive, and Karan dead. Karan and Naina run from this community all the way to Bombay. The Thakur announces a hefty reward, and soon bounty hunters are all over Bombay looking for the hapless couple. When Balwant hears about this, he too go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badal
''Badal'' () is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by Raj Kanwar. The film stars Bobby Deol and Rani Mukerji in lead roles with Amrish Puri. The movie is inspired by ''The Devil's Own'' (1997), starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt. It was a commercial success. Plot Badal is a young man with a tragic childhood. As a child, he had witnessed his entire family, his loving father, mother, and baby sister, murdered in a village massacre by ruthless and corrupt police officer Jaisingh Rana, who kills people for fun. He is then brought up by his late father's friend Jeetram, who himself is on the run from Rana. Years later, Badal has become a dreaded terrorist work for Jeetram under the name Rajveer whose main target in life is exacting revenge on Jaisingh Rana for his family's horrible death. In this endeavor, Badal travels to a small town, where he meets a good-natured police officer, ACP Ranjeet Singh, who takes Badal under his wing, and Rani, a bubbly free sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega
''Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega'' () is an 2000 Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Raj Kanwar, produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, written by Rumi Jaffrey, and edited by Sanjay Verma. Salman Khan, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji are featured in lead roles. The film is the Hindi remake of the Malayalam film '' Chandralekha'' (1997) starring Mohanlal. The film marked the first of four collaborations between Zinta and Mukerji, who went on to co-star in ''Chori Chori Chupke Chupke'' (2001) (also starring Khan in the lead), ''Veer-Zaara'' (2004) and ''Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna'' (2006). ''Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega'' was the third consecutive hit between Khan and Nadiadwala's collaboration after '' Jeet'' (1996) and ''Judwaa'' (1997) as well as one of the year's top-earnings films with a gross of worldwide. The film entered the top 10 chart in the UK. At the 46th Filmfare Awards, ''Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega'' received 2 nominations – Best Supporting Actress (Mukerji) and Best Female Playb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke
''Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke'' () is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film. It was the first of seven films which starred real-life couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai. The film is a remake of the 1995 Hollywood film '' A Walk in the Clouds''. Plot The plot revolves around a young girl Sahiba who witnesses the brutal murder of a young woman inside her college campus. The perpetrators follow her as she tries to flee home. She is rescued by Karan, an army captain, who sees the men assaulting her at the train station. During the journey, Sahiba reveals that she is in a very difficult spot. She cannot go back to college because the murderers will be looking for her. And she does not want to go home because she had jokingly told her aunt on the phone that she has gotten married in the city. Her parents now expect her to come home with her husband. She does not want to go home and face their wrath. Karan offers to escort her home. However, when Sahiba arrives home wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farz (2001 Film)
''Farz'' () is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film starring Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta and Jackie Shroff. Plot Mumbai is being terrorized by a dreaded criminal Gawa Firozi (Jackie Shroff) and his brother Sikander (Mukesh Tiwari). ACP Arjun Singh (Om Puri) and his brother-in-law, Tayaji (Dara Singh), work with the crime branch of the city's police department, but when Tayaji is killed while trying to save the Chief Minister from Gawa's attack, Arjun is devastated by his death. Arjun's wife Rukmani (Farida Jalal), daughter Kajal (Preity Zinta) and son Rahul are also equally shattered, and Arjun is fearful that the same person who killed his brother-in-law will come after him or his family. While Arjun is still mourning Tayaji's death, he is told that a new officer ACP Karan Singh (Sunny Deol) will be joining the department as a substitute for Tayaji. Just the next day at work, Arjun is informed that some criminals have entered a college and have taken some student ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab Ke Baras
Ab Ke Baras ( This Year) is a 2002 Indian Hindi language action romance film. It had launched the career of the two newcomers, Amrita Rao and Arya Babbar. Plot U.S. based Anjali Thapar has repeated dreams of a parallel life in India, the temple of Devi Maa Durga, some sword-wielding men on horseback. She and her mom consult a pandit, and he advises them to go to India to clear this matter up, as this pertains to her past life. Mr. Thapar will only let Anjali go there after she marries the man of his choice, so Anjali decides to run away. Her dad alerts her uncle, a ruthless CBI Officer, DCP Sikander Baksh, who is soon on her case. Anjali meets with car-thieves, Karan and his uncle, and then begins her journey into a past life, as Nandini, the lover of freedom fighter Abhay, and his subsequent death at the hands of British-aided traitor Tejeshwar Singhal. But both Karan and Anjali are unaware of the consequences. They both reach a college camp as husband and wife where college ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humko Deewana Kar Gaye
''Humko Deewana Kar Gaye'' (translation: ''You Made Me Crazy in Love'') is a 2006 Indian Hindi romantic drama film directed by Raj Kanwar, produced by Raj Kanwar, Bhushan Kumar & Krishan Kumar and starring Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif and Bipasha Basu in lead roles. Bhagyashree, Vivek Shauq, Shernaz Patel and Manoj Joshi also star in supporting roles. The film is produced by the Indian music company, T-Series and Inderjit Films Combine. The movie's score and soundtrack is composed by Anu Malik, while Himesh Reshammiya was invited as guest composer to compose only one song. with lyrics by Sameer. The film released on 14 April 2006. The music of the film released on 2 February 2006. Plot Aditya, an automobile engineer, is passionate about cars. Not only is he an engineer, but he is also a test driver for the company. He is engaged to marry Sonia, a budding fashion designer. Aditya and Sonia are not on the same wavelength; while he is a traditionalist, she is an ult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
