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Rocket Singh
''Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year'' is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Shimit Amin, written by Jaideep Sahni and produced by Aditya Chopra under the Yash Raj Films banner. Marking the reunion of Amin, Sahni and Aditya Chopra after ''Chak De! India'' (2007), it stars Ranbir Kapoor as the titular lead Harpreet S. Bedi, with D. Santosh, Gauhar Khan and Naveen Kaushik in the leads roles. Prem Chopra, Manish Chaudhari and debutante Shazahn Padamsee, daughter of Alyque Padamsee and Sharon Prabhakar, play supporting roles. Plot Harpreet Singh Bedi (Ranbir Kapoor), a B. Com. graduate with approximately 39 percent marks, becomes a salesman with a big corporate computer assembly and service company, AYS, headed by MD Sunil Puri ( Manish Chaudhari). Despite initial objections from sales head Nitin Rathore, Harpreet is taken in by Puri, and begins learning the tricks of the sales trade from Nitin. He is shown to live alone with his widowered grandfather P. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimit Amin
Shimit Amin is an Indian film director and editor. He is best known for the award-winning film ''Chak De! India'' (2007) starring Shah Rukh Khan. Biography Amin was born in Kampala, Uganda but grew up in Florida, in the United States. While he was enamored with film culture from an early age, his parents pressed him to be more conventional in his college studies; he graduated with a degree in mathematics from the University of Florida. After playing a significant role in organizing and promoting North Florida's first international film festival, The 1991 Asian/Asian American International Film Festival, in Jacksonville, Florida, Amin moved to Miami and primarily worked on industrial/corporate and small independent film projects. After about a year in Miami, Amin traveled to California where he worked on independent films before beginning to work, in many behind the camera roles with major Hollywood directors. his energy, film knowledge, and high quality work attracted the atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyque Padamsee
Alyque Padamsee (5 March 1928 – 17 November 2018) was an Indian theatre personality and ad film maker. He played Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the 1982 British period film ''Gandhi''. Besides being involved in Indian theatre as an actor and producer, Padamsee was an advertising professional who once headed the advertising company Lintas Bombay. Early life and education Padamsee was born in Bombay in 1928 into a traditional Khoja Muslim Ismaili family hailing from the Kutch region of Gujarat. Ancestors of Padamsee family originally belonged to the Charan community of Kutch who converted to Islam and joined Khoja caste. The name padamsee has Sanskrit equivalent padmasinh (padma=lotus, sinh= lion, usually a title) or padmashree (shree is an honorific). The family had been settled in the nearby Kathiawar region for some generations; Padamsee's grandfather, who had been the ''sarpanch'' (headman) of Vāghnagar, a village in Bhavnagar district, was famous for having distributed his enti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anupama Chopra
Anupama Chopra () is an Indian author, journalist, film critic and director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. She is also the founder and editor of the digital platform Film Companion, which offers a curated look at cinema. She has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV, ''India Today'', as well as the ''Hindustan Times''. She also hosted a weekly film review show ''The Front Row With Anupama Chopra'', on Star World. She won the 2000 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema for her first book '' Sholay: The Making of a Classic''. She presently critiques movies and interviews celebrities for Film Companion. Early life and background Born as Anupama Chandra in Calcutta, India to Chandra Parshad family, she has also lived in Badayun, a city in Uttar Pradesh. Her father Navin Chandra was the eldest of the brothers and sisters. Anupama's grandfather, originally from Delhi, was an executive with Union Carbide, Kolkata. Her mother Kamna Chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital media, digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (publisher), George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked List of newspapers by circulation, 18th in the world by circulation and List of newspapers in the United States, 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is Public company, publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gireesh Sahedev
Gireesh Sahdev is an Indian film and television actor who appears in Hindi films and serials. He is best known for his roles in the serials '' Best of Luck Nikki'', '' Navya..Naye Dhadkan Naye Sawaal'', '' Ardhangini – Ek Khoobsurat Jeevan Saathi'', ''Aladdin - Naam Toh Suna Hoga'' and ''Instant Khichdi''. He has also appeared as a supporting actor in several films including ''Jab Tak Hai Jaan'', ''Dabangg 2'' and '' Khichdi: The Movie''. His brother Piyush Sahdev and sister Meher Vij are also actors. Personal life Gireesh Sahdev's brother Piyush, sister Meher and brother-in-law Manav Vij are also actors. In 2009, she married Manav Vij in Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- .... Filmography Film Television Dubbing roles Animated films Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
Major Bikramjeet Kanwarpal (29 August 1968 1 May 2021) was an Indian film and television actor. A retired army officer, Kanwarpal had played supporting roles in many films and television serials. Kanwarpal shared screen space with actor Anil Kapoor in '' 24''.Major Bikramjeet Kanwarpal in Anil Kapoor's 24 . Stuti Agrawal. 7 July 2013. Early life and career Kanwarpal was born in , |
Neeraj Sood
Neeraj Sood is an Indian actor who appears mostly in Bollywood films and serials on National Television. He is best known for his roles in films like ''Matrubhoomi, Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year'', '' Samay'' and '' Shubh Mangal Saavdhan''. Early life and education Neeraj Sood was born on 18 October 1969 in ''Mandi'', ''Himachal Pradesh''. After completing his basic education from Vijay High School, Mandi, he acquired his graduation and post-graduation degree from Vallabh Govt College, Mandi. He discovered his passion for acting while taking part in college plays. Coming from a middle-class family Neeraj Sood did not have the money to pay for Indian Theatre so he decided to join ''National School of Drama'', ''New Delhi''. After spending three years (1996-1999) at NSD and acquiring a diploma in acting, Neeraj finally came down ''to Mumbai'' to follow his dream of becoming an actor. Acting career Neeraj Sood started his acting with career small screen. He managed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cromā
Cromā is an Indian retail chain of consumer electronics and durables run by Infiniti Retail, a subsidiary of the Tata Group. Its product range covers more than 500 products across the electronics and consumer durable categories. Location Presently, there are a total of 300 Cromā stores in 35 cities in India. The stores are spread across the states of Maharashtra (Latur, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Nashik, Amravati, Aurangabad, Kolhapur), Gujarat (Ahmedabad, Bhuj, Bhavnagar,Bharuch, Jamnagar,Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Nadiad, Surat, Vapi, Vadodara, Anand), Delhi NCR, Karnataka (Bangalore, Mangalore, Hubli, Mysore, Davangere), Punjab (Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Mohali), Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Coimbatore, Salem, Hosur), Haryana (Gurgaon, Faridabad) Uttar Pradesh (Ghaziabad, Noida), Telangana (Hyderabad, Secunderabad), West Bengal (Kolkata, Asansol) Jharkhand (Jamshedpur,Dhanbad), Madhya Pradesh (Gwalior, Indore), and Uttarakhand (Dehradun Deh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bribery
Bribery is the Offer and acceptance, offering, Gift, giving, Offer and acceptance, receiving, or Solicitation, soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official, or other person, in charge of a public or legal duty. With regard to governmental operations, essentially, bribery is "Corrupt solicitation, acceptance, or transfer of value in exchange for official action." Gifts of money or other items of value which are otherwise available to everyone on an equivalent basis, and not for dishonest purposes, is not bribery. Offering a discount or a refund to all purchasers is a legal rebate (marketing), rebate and is not bribery. For example, it is legal for an employee of a Public Utilities Commission involved in electric rate regulation to accept a rebate on electric service that reduces their cost for electricity, when the rebate is available to other residential electric customers. However, giving a discount specifically to that employee to influence them to loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajesh Jais
Rajesh Jais (born 6 September 1969) is an Indian film actor, known for first daily soap of india '' Shanti'' (1994), ''Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety'' (2018), ''Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi'' (2008), ''Rocket Singh'' (2009), ''Airlift'' (2016) and ''Raazi'' (2018), '' Raman Raghav 2.0'' (2016), ''Missing'' (2018), ''Life Partner'' (2009), ''Why Cheat India'' (2019), ''Indoo Ki Jawani'' (2020), '' Roohi'' (2021) and most talked about webseries Scam 1992, ''Paatal Lok'', ''Panchayat'', Rudrakal etc. Early life He spent his childhood in Ranchi. His family had migrated from Kandahar to Sukhdeo Nagar in Ranchi after partition of India. His father was in Airforce. He completed his matriculation from Guaridutt Mandeliya school and graduation from Marwari college, Ranchi. He was NCC Airforce Cadet and Scout in college. He studied in National School of Drama from 1988 to 1991. Career He was a journalist in Ranchi Express. He was a theatre actor, Post Graduated from National School of Drama, New Delh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debi Dutta
Debi Dutta better known by her stage name Kyra Dutt is an Indian actress and model who primarily appears in Hindi films. She was one of the models of the famous Kingfisher Calendar in 2013. She made her debut in a small role beside Ranbir Kapoor in '' Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year'' (2009) and appeared in a special song for the film ''Mere Brother Ki Dulhan'' (2011). Later she appeared as a female lead in the film ''Calendar Girls'' (2015). She is quite popular in the Telugu audience for her song "Boochade Boochade", from the film ''Race Gurram''. Early life Kyra Dutt was born in Kolkata. She did her schooling from La Martiniere Calcutta. Career (2009-present) Kyra has been featured in brands such as Kingfisher, Mercedes, Thums Up, Close-up, HCL Laptop, Wild Stone Deo etc. Kyra appeared in a small role beside Ranbir Kapoor in '' Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year'' (2009) and later appeared in several special songs in South Indian films. Then she appeared as a female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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