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Screen Award For Best Screenplay
The winners of the Star Screen Awards for Best Screenplay are listed below: See also * Bollywood * Cinema of India * Screen Awards The Screen Awards is an annual awards ceremony held in India honouring professional excellence in Bollywood. The nomination and award selection is done by a panel of distinguished professionals from the industry. The awards were introduced by t ... {{Screen Awards Screen Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Screen Awards
The Screen Awards is an annual awards ceremony held in India honouring professional excellence in Bollywood. The nomination and award selection is done by a panel of distinguished professionals from the industry. The awards were introduced by the Screen film magazine of The Indian Express Group in 1995. The magazine was acquired by Star India in 2015 and subsequently closed down. Though Star India continues to sponsor the awards under the Star Screen Awards title. The name of the annual ceremonies are prefixed by the presenting network; the first "Star Screen Awards" were telecasted on Star Plus from 2000 till 2011, after which the "Colors Screen Awards" were previewed on Colors and the "Life OK Screen Awards" on Life OK, each for a period of two years. As of 2019, Star continues to hold the television distribution rights. History The Screen Awards, initiated by the chairman of The Express Group, Mr. Viveck Goenka in 1994, is focused on excellence in films in India. The awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaideep Sahni
Jaideep Sahni (born 1968) is an Indian screenwriter, songwriter and creative producer, who wrote the screenplays for films like ''Chak De! India'', ''Khosla Ka Ghosla'', ''Company'', ''Bunty Aur Babli'', '' Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year'' and ''Shuddh Desi Romance''. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue as well as Filmfare Award for Best Story for ''Company'' (2002), and the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for ''Khosla Ka Ghosla'' (2006). He also won the IIFA award 2008 for best story, for ''Chak De! India'' . Early life and education Born and brought up in New Delhi, Jaideep Sahni studied at the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Bidar. He started working as a computer engineer,Close EncounterIndian Express/ref> and has worked for NIIT. Career He became a lyricist after jam sessions with Palash Sen, and after discovering the screenplay for the film ''Gandhi'' in a New Delhi bookshop, he started writing screenplays, at age 27. He wrote both the screenplay and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajkumar Hirani
Rajkumar Hirani (born 20 November 1962), also called Raju Hirani, is an Indian filmmaker, director, producer and editor known for his works in Hindi films. He is the recipient of several accolades, including three National Film Awards and eleven Filmfare Awards. Hirani is referred as one of the most successful filmmakers of Indian cinema. His movies are often lighthearted but revolve around significant societal issues with humour and emotional intelligence. Started career as a film editor after passing out from FTII in editing, bad experience forced him to shift in ad films, he made several successful ads. He edited first film as a professional editor to Vidhu Vinod Chopra's '' Mission Kashmir'' (2000). Although he wanted to make films, took one year break and came back with ''Munna Bhai MBBS'' script to Chopra to help him for financing it. Chopra decided to produce himself. The film released in 2003 and became widespread critical and commercial success. It won the National F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhijat Joshi
Abhijat Joshi (born 1 December 1969) is an Indian screenwriter, film director, producer and editor who works in Hindi cinema. His is known for collaboration with Vinod Chopra Productions and director Rajkumar Hirani, as the screenwriter for ''Lage Raho Munna Bhai'' (2006), ''3 Idiots'' (2009), ''PK (film), PK'' (2014) and ''Sanju'' (2018). He is a professor of English at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, since 2003. Early life and education Joshi was born and brought up in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to family of professors, including his father Jayant Joshi. Abhijat received his early education in Gujarati medium. He obtained his higher education and qualifications from shri H.K.Arts College,(With Bagal thela group) Gujarat University. After doing his M.A. (English) with distinction. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin, University of Texas at Austin. Apart from English, he can fluently read, write and spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Race (2008 Film)
''Race'' is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language action crime film directed by Abbas–Mustan and written by Kiran Kotrial, Shiraz Ahmed, Anurag Prapanna, and Jitendra Parmar. It is the first installment in the ''Race'' franchise and stars Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif, Akshaye Khanna and Sameera Reddy. In the film, the professional and personal loyalties between brothers and businessmen Ranvir (Khan) and Rajiv Singh (Khanna). Principal photography took place in Durban, Goa and Dubai, and was produced by Tips Industries. ''Race'' was theatrically released in India by UTV Motion Pictures on March 21, 2008. The film received positive response from critics, with praise for its editing, screenplay, cast performance and music. It was a commercial success, grossing worldwide, making it the sixth highest grossing Hindi film of 2008. It was followed by the sequel film '' Race 2'' (2013) and the spiritual successor '' Race 3'' (2018). Plot A voice-over by Inspector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life In A
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy transformation, and reproduction. Various forms of life exist, such as plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria. Biology is the science that studies life. The gene is the unit of heredity, whereas the cell is the structural and functional unit of life. There are two kinds of cells, prokaryotic and eukaryotic, both of which consist of cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane and contain many biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. Cells reproduce through a process of cell division, in which the parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells and passes its genes onto a new generation, sometimes producing genetic variation. Organisms, or the individual entities of life, are generally thought to be open systems that maint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anurag Basu
Anurag Basu (born 8 May 1974) is an Indian director, screenwriter, actor and producer. He began his directing career in television, moving to feature films in 2002. Basu achieved initial success with his films tackling the themes of passion and adultery such as '' Life in a... Metro'', ''Kites'', ''Gangster'' and '' Murder''. Later, he directed comedy-drama films such as the critically acclaimed and commercially successful ''Barfi!'' along with the commercially unsuccessful ''Jagga Jasoos''. His latest work is a black comedy Netflix film '' Ludo''. Early life Basu was born into an upper-middle-class Bengali family in Bhilai, Madhya Pradesh (now in Chhattisgarh). His parents, Subrato Bose and Deepshikha Bose (ex-executives in SAIL Bhilai Steel Plant in Cokeovens and Education department (Organic Chemistry) respectively), were award-winning theatrical artists and Basu grew up watching them performing in his father's theatre company (Abhiyaan). He attended BSP Senior Secondary Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rang De Basanti
''Rang De Basanti'' () is a 2006 Indian drama film written, produced and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, and co-written by Rensil D'Silva. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Aamir Khan, Siddharth, R. Madhavan, Atul Kulkarni, Soha Ali Khan, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor and British actress Alice Patten. It follows a British film student traveling to India to document the story of five freedom fighters of the Indian revolutionary movement. She befriends and casts five young men in the film, which inspires them to fight against the corruption of their own government. Shot primarily in New Delhi, The film was released globally on 20 January 2006. Upon release, the film broke all opening box office records in India, becoming the country's highest-grossing film in its opening weekend and holding the highest opening-day collections for a Hindi film. It received critical acclaim, winning the National Film Award for Best Popular Film, and being nominated for Best For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (born 7 July 1963) is an Indian film director, occasional actor and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing ''Rang De Basanti'' (2006) and ''Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'' (2013). He is the writer and director of the films '' Aks'' (2001) and ''Delhi-6'' (2009). Early life He was born on 7 July 1963 in Delhi. His father worked for the ''Claridges'' hotel in New Delhi. He was a part of the selection camp as a swimmer in the 1982 Asian Games held at New Delhi but was not selected in the final round. He studied at Air Force Bal Bharati School in Delhi. Personal life and thoughts In 1992, Mehra married film editor, P. S. Bharathi. The couple have a daughter, Bhairavi, and a son named Vedant. Mehra criticised the vote-bank politics behind the introduction of the Mandal Commission by VP Singh, and said it inspired him to pen the script of ''Rang De Basanti''. Mehra has criticised India's education system as being too marks-driven, without any emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rensil D'Silva
Rensil D'Silva is an Indian film director, screenplay writer, ad film maker and advertising agency Creative Director. Career Rensil D'Silva started his career in feature films as a Story writer for the 2001 movie, Aks. Later he wrote the screenplay for movies such as Shoebite/ Johnny Mastana (2008) and Rang De Basanti, a 2006 patriotic drama which received wide critical acclaim as well as commercial success and won numerous Indian Film Awards including a nomination for BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language at the 2007 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. Ace film director Karan Johar recognized his talent and offered him to direct his movie Kurbaan under his own Dharma Productions for which the screenplay was written by D'Silva himself. The film was nominated for several Indian awards. In 2011 he wrote the screenplay for Karan Johar's feature film '' Student Of The Year''. During the same period, he wrote the story and screenplay for his next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black (2005 Film)
''Black'' is a 2005 Indian English- and Hindi-language drama film co-written, directed, and co-produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. It stars Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukerji in lead roles, with Ayesha Kapur, Shernaz Patel and Dhritiman Chatterjee in supporting roles. The film narrates the story of Michelle (Mukerji), a deaf-and-blind woman, and her relationship with her teacher Debraj (Bachchan), an elderly alcoholic teacher who himself later develops Alzheimer's disease. In 2003, Bhansali announced the production of his new project, ''Black''. Its idea first came up when he met several physically disabled children while shooting '' Khamoshi: The Musical'' in the 1990s. The story was inspired by the activist Helen Keller's life and her 1903 autobiography, '' The Story of My Life''. Principal photography was done by Ravi K. Chandran in 100 days from mid-January to April 2004, taking place in Shimla and Film City. Omung Kumar was the production designer, while Sham Kaushal was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ek Hasina Thi (film)
''Ek Hasina Thi'' (English: ''There Was A Beautiful Woman'') is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir thriller film directed by Sriram Raghavan, produced by Ram Gopal Varma, and starring Urmila Matondkar and Saif Ali Khan in the lead roles. The screenplay was by Sriram Raghavan and Pooja Ladha Surti. The film borrows elements from the Sidney Sheldon story ''If Tomorrow Comes''. In her review, critic Ronjita Kulkarni says that it's "loosely based" on ''Double Jeopardy'', while "the film also adapts a scene from ''The Bone Collector''." The film was premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival. The film is usually considered one of the best works of Urmila Matondkar, Saif Ali Khan and director Sriram Raghavan. Plot Karan (Saif Ali Khan) is a rich and suave man. But he can also be very possessive of Sarika (Urmila Matondkar) the woman he seemingly loves. His temper can flare at the slightest pretext. After Karan involves Sarika in looking after a suitcase full of illegal firearms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
