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Roy (2015 Film)
''Roy'' is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by debutant Vikramjit Singh and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Divya Khosla Kumar and Ajay Kapoor under Freeway Pictures. The movie features Arjun Rampal and Jacqueline Fernandez in the lead roles and Shernaz Patel, Rajit Kapur and Shibani Dandekar in supporting roles.Ranbir Kapoor does an extended cameo appearance. Anupam Kher appears in a cameo. The film is based on a filmmaker writing and directing movies about thefts and robberies. The movie had its premiere in Dubai on 12 February 2015 and was released worldwide on 13 February 2015 to negative reviews. Plot Kabir Garewal (Arjun Rampal), a casanova film maker and screenwriter, is making multiple films (GUNS Trilogy) based on a thief's life and robberies. The first two films have been highly successful. In order to shoot the third part of the trilogy, he goes to Malaysia, where he meets a London-based film maker Ayesha (Jacqueline Fernandez). Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhushan Kumar
Bhushan Kumar Dua (born 27 November 1977) is an Indian film producer and music producer. He is the chairman and managing director of Super Cassettes Industries Limited, also known as T-Series. He is known for his work in Bollywood. Career Kumar took control of the music company T-Series in 1998, along with his uncle Krishan Kuamar, after the murder of his father, Gulshan Kumar. He went on to become the chairman and managing director of the company. As managing director, Kumar diversified the company's business into electronics, CDs, audio/video tapes and cassettes and film production. For this and for popularising Indian music overseas, he was honoured by the Government of India's Electronics and Software Export Promotion Council. Film producer After firming his company's presence in the music market, Kumar ventured into making films. Kumar has made financially successful films such as ''Tum Bin'', ''Bhool Bhulaiyaa'', '' Patiala House'', '' Ready'' and '' Lucky: No Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shibani Dandekar
Shibani Dandekar Akhtar (born 27 August 1980) is an Indian-born Australian singer, actress, host and model. She began her career working as a television host on American television. Following her return to India, she began hosting several shows and events on Hindi television, besides working as a model and singer. She was one of the co-hosts of the '' 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup''. She was also a contestant on '' Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5'' (2012) and '' Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 8'' (2017). Early and personal life Dandekar was born in Pune as the eldest daughter into a Marathi family. Her father Shashidhar Dandekar is a theatre actor in Australia and her mother Sulabha Dandekar works in Qantas Airways, Australia. She has two sisters, Anusha Dandekar, an actress-singer working in Bollywood, and Apeksha Dandekar. Dandekar along with her sisters formed a music band named D-Major. Dandekar grew up in Australia and Africa for the majority of her childhood. Dandekar started datin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bigg Boss
''Bigg Boss'' is an Indian reality television game show franchise based on the Dutch reality show '' Big Brother''. It is produced by Endemol Shine India through Viacom18 and Disney Star. Subsequently, the various versions of the show are made internationally available through OTT platforms Voot and Disney+ Hotstar. ''Bigg Boss'' was originally started in Hindi language and has been extended into seven languages spoken in the Indian sub-continent, including Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Malayalam. Overview There have been seven versions of the show in different languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent. The first show of the franchise was '' Big Boss'' in Hindi which debuted in 2006 through Sony TV and from season two onwards it moved to and continues on Colors TV. In 2013, the franchise extended its presence in Kannada through Colors Kannada and Bengali through ETV Bangla, later rebranded into Colors Bangla. In 2017, it extend its presence in Tamil through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandana Karimi
Mandana Karimi (born Manizeh Karimi; on 19 May 1988) is an Iranian actress and model based in India. After working on several successful modelling projects around the world, she appeared as a lead in the Bollywood film, ''Bhaag Johnny''. She participated in the popular reality TV show, '' Bigg Boss 9'' and became the 2nd runner up in 2015. Early life Karimi was born on 19 May 1988 in Tehran, Iran, into a Muslim family. Her father has Iranian and Indian ancestry and her mother is a Persian. She was raised in Tehran. Career Karimi started her career as an air hostess, and later quit that job to pursue a career in modelling. In 2010, after working on various international modelling projects, she came to Mumbai for three months on a modelling contract. Karimi has done TV commercials with Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor. In February 2015, she made a guest appearance in the film ''Roy''. Later that year, in September, her movie ''Bh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrus Brocha
Cyrus Broacha is an Indian TV anchor, theatre personality, comedian, political satirist, columnist, podcaster and author. He is also a prankster, best known for his show ''Bakra'' on MTV and his show '' The Week That Wasn't'' on CNN-News18 (formerly CNN-IBN). He also provided the voiceover as Angada in the cartoon film ''Ramayana''. Early years Broacha was born on 7 August 1971, to a Parsi father and Catholic mother. He started acting at the age of five in a school play, ''The Emperor's New Clothes''. Every year he performed and wrote for the school magazine, winning prizes for English and drama. Cyrus's family hails from modern day Pakistan, moving from Rawalpindi to Mumbai after the Partition of India. Career When Broacha was 12, he acted in his first Hindi film, ''Jalwa'', with Pankaj Parashar, starring alongside Naseeruddin Shah. The next year, he did his first professional play, ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'', under Pearl Padamsee. The press hailed him as a child prodi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaizaad Kotwal
Kaizaad Kotwal is an Indian producer, director, actor, writer and designer. He has worked on over 200 theatre and film productions. He won an Emmy Award for Art Direction in 1996. Currently he is a professor of theatre, media studies and film at Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ... in Columbus, Ohio. He won the Griffin Society Award for Best Professor in 2008 and in 2007 was named one of the top professors in Ohio. He is the producer and director of the Indian production of The Vagina Monologues which has been running there since 2003. He co-owns a production company called Poor-Box Productions with his mother Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal. The company started in Ohio in 1996 and the Indian one was started in 1999 when they launched their producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barun Chanda
Barun Chanda is an Indian Bengali advertising professional, actor and author based in the city of Kolkata. He is mostly remembered for his role in Satyajit Ray's '' Seemabaddha''. Biography Chanda was born in Dhaka in present day Bangladesh, but came to Kolkata at an early age to pursue higher education. Chanda acted in the 1971 Bengali movie '' Seemabaddha'', directed by Satyajit Ray. After that he did not appear in any films for over twenty years. In 1992 he again acted in director Rituparno Ghosh's debut film '' Hirer Angti''. Next he acted in ''Kalo Cheetah'' (2004). Since then he has acted in several movies like ''Tolly Lights'', ''Antaheen'', and ''Laptop''. He recently played the role of the landlord father of Sonakshi Sinha in the Hindi Film '' Lootera''. In 2014, he did commercials for CESC Limited with some social messages. In 2019, Barun Chanda starred in an independent psychological thriller, Rakkhosh, which has been touted as India's first POV film to be shot ... [...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) fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Theft
Art theft, sometimes called artnapping, is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations. Stolen art is often resold or used by criminals as collateral to secure loans. Only a small percentage of stolen art is recovered—an estimated 10%. Many nations operate police squads to investigate art theft and illegal trade in stolen art and antiquities. Some famous art theft cases include the robbery of the ''Mona Lisa'' from the Louvre in 1911 by employee Vincenzo Peruggia. Another was theft of '' The Scream'', stolen from the Munch Museum in 2004, but recovered in 2006. The largest-value art theft occurred at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, when 13 works, worth a combined $500 million were stolen in 1990. The case remains unsolved. Individual theft Many thieves are motivated by the fact that valuable art pieces are worth millions of dollars and weigh only a few kilograms at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the List of cities in India by population, second-most populous city in India after Delhi and the List of largest cities, eighth-most populous city in the world with a population of roughly 20 million (2 crore). As per the Indian government population census of 2011, Mumbai was the list of cities in India by population, most populous city in India with an estimated city proper population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore) living under the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the sixth most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population of over 23 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime Malaysia–Thailand border, border with Thailand and Maritime boundary, maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia, and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital, the country's largest city, and the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia, legislative branch of the Government of Malaysia, federal government. The nearby Planned community#Planned capitals, planned capital of Putrajaya is the administrative capital, which represents the seat of both the Government of Malaysia#Executive, executive branch (the Cabine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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