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Shivaji Satham
Shivaji Satam (born 21 April 1950), is an Indian television and film actor. He is best known for his role as ACP Pradyuman on the TV series '' C.I.D.'' on SET India. A former bank official and Inspection Officer, he has appeared in Hindi and Marathi films, including ''Vaastav'', ''Ghulam-E-Mustafa'', ''Yeshwant'', '' China Gate'', ''Taxi No. 9211'', '' Nayak'', '' Jis Desh Me Ganga Reheta Hai'', ''Sooryavansham'', ''Hu Tu Tu''. In Marathi, he has received recognition through movies like ''Uttarayan''. Shivaji has been nominated for the Best Actors award for Star Screen Awards for ''Ghulam-E-Mustafa''. Later career Shivaji made his screen debut in 1980 in the TV series ''Rishte-Naate''. In 1988, he appeared in the series ''Famous Trials of India''. He played a role in the Marathi show ''Ek Shunya Shunya''. He then appeared in numerous serials and films, and became noted for appearing in the Hindi films ''Vaastav'', ''Kurukshetra'' and '' 100 Days''. Filmography Television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombay
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-most populous city in India after Delhi and the 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 most populous city in India with an estimated city proper population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore) living under the 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 (2.3 crore). Mumbai lies on the Konkan coast on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2008, Mumbai was named an alpha world city. It has the highest number of millionaires and billionaires among all cities i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hain
''Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hai'' () is 2000 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar and starring Govinda and Sonali Bendre as leads. It is a remake of the 1972 Marathi film ''Ekta Jeev Sadashiv'', and the 1974 Kannada film ''Bangaarada Panjara''. It was later remade in Bengali as ''Mayer Anchal'' (2003). Plot Gangaram alias Ganga (Govinda) lives a simple, straightforward life in a small village with his mom and dad ( Shivaji Satham and Reema Lagoo), and his lover and childhood friend, Saawni (Sonali Bendre). When the time comes for Ganga to marry, his parents inform him that his biological parents live in the city and want him to settle there. Ganga bids tearful farewell to his village and its inhabitants and travels to the city of his birth parents. He finds that he has an elder brother, who is married to Supriya, and younger siblings, as well as his birth parents, Avinash (Shakti Kapoor) and Radha (Himani Shivpuri), who are all very wealthy. Ganga st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Split Wide Open (2000 Film)
''Split Wide Open'' is a 1999 Indian film directed by Dev Benegal. It is his second feature film after ''English, August'' (1994). The film primarily deals with the Water conflicts in the slums of Bombay, and paedophilia, and also looks at the subversive sexuality in modern India and how the notions of morality are challenged when sex and poverty collide. The film came under harsh criticism when released in India and has been one of the most controversial Indian films. Cast and characters * Rahul Bose as KP (Kut-Price) * Laila Rouass as Nandita * Abhimanyu Sharma as Shiv * Farida Haider Mulla as Didi * Kiran Nagarkar as Brother Bono * Rajika Puri as Auntie * Ayesha Dharkar as Leela * Virendra Saxena as Altaf * Aadya Bedi Awards and recognition * The official selection at the 1999 Venice Film Festival. * Awarded a Special Jury Award to the film and the Best Actor award (Rahul Bose) at the 2000 Singapore International Film Festival. * Won the Grand Prix at the 2000 Belgium Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fire
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion. Fire also commonly refers to: *Conflagration, a large and destructive fire *Structure fire, a house or building on fire *Wildfire, a fire in a forest, rangeland, or other outdoor location Fire or Fires may also refer to: People * Fire (wrestler) (born 1973) * Alexis Fire (born 1964), American pornographic actress and prostitute * Andrew Fire (born 1959), American biologist * Walshy Fire (born 1982), Jamaican-American DJ Film and TV Film * ''Fire!'' (1901 film), British * ''The Fire'' (1916 film), Italian * ''Fire!'' (1977 film), American TV movie * ''Fire!'' (1991 film), Malian * ''Fire'' (1996 film), Indian * ''Fire'' (2002 film), Pakistani * ''The Fire'' (2015 film), Argentine * ''Fire'' (2020 film), Russian Television * Fire (''Lexx''), a planet in the multinational TV series ''Lexx'' * ''Fire'' (TV series), a 1995 Australian television series * "Fire" (''The X-Files''), a 1993 epi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wajood (1998 Film)
''Wajood'' ('' en, Existence'') is a 1998 Indian Hindi action film directed and produced by N. Chandra. The film features Nana Patekar and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles. Plot Malhar (Nana Patekar), who is born to a poor typist clerk, is a versatile character who wins trophies in dramas but is never appreciated by his father. While writing and directing dramas in his college he meets Apoorva (Madhuri Dixit), a very rich girl and falls madly in love with her. When she wins the Best Actress Award, she calls upon Malhar on stage and gives all the credit to him. Malhar misunderstands this gesture as Apoorva's love for him. Meanwhile, Apoorva and Nihal (Mukul Dev) fall in love with each other. Nihal's father, who is a wealthy bureaucrat, decides to get them married. Malhar assumes that this marriage is against Apoorva's will and in his protest Nihal's father accidentally gets killed. Malhar is sent to jail. As Nihal loses his identity and status due to his father's death, Apoorva's fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugpurush
''Yugpurush'' is a 1998 Indian Drama film directed by Partho Ghosh and produced by Vijay Mehta. The film stars Nana Patekar, Jackie Shroff and Manisha Koirala in the title roles. It is an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot. Cast *Nana Patekar - Anirudh *Jackie Shroff - Ranjan Duara *Manisha Koirala - Sunita *Ashwini Bhave - Deepti * Mohnish Bahl - Mohnish *Yashwant Dutt - Yeshwant Dutt *Shivaji Satam - Paresh Kumar *Mohan Joshi - Mohan *Sulbha Deshpande - Mrs. Mohan Plot Anirudh (Nana Patekar) is released from a facility that treats patients with mental ailments. Anirudh also happens to be an exceptional artist and does portraits of new people he meets. As he struggles with adjusting with the "normal" world, he encounters Sunita (Manisha Koirala), an escort and Ranjan (Jackie Shroff), the son of a renowned politician. Ranjan, is madly in love with Sunita, but Sunita does not feel the same way about him. Anirudh is the only person to see beyond Sunita's seemingl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinashak – Destroyer
''Vinashak – Destroyer'' is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Ravi Dewan starring Sunil Shetty, Raveena Tandon and Danny Denzongpa. Plot Police Inspector Arjun Singh is a brave and honest police inspector stationed in Khandala. He is a very strict police officer and uses harsh ways against all the criminals. His colleague and friend is Inspector Khan who always supports him. Arjun is in love with Kaajal who is the daughter of a senior police officer, ACP Amar Agnihotri. Arjun's father does not agree with the harsh ways he uses against the criminals. Near Mumbai, in the Central Jail, Jailer Lankeshwar uses his jail as a trade center for weapons and narcotics. ACP Amar is suspicious of Lankeshwar's actions. He requests the higher authorities to let Arjun go into the jail and gather evidence about Lankeshwar's evil deeds. The plan is that Arjun will fire a blank bullet on ACP Amar. Arjun pleads guilty in court and is sentenced to jail. In jail Arjun learns that a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English, August (film)
''English, August'' is a 1994 Indian English-language film and director Dev Benegal's first feature film. A humorous and irreverent study of bureaucracy and the Indian Generation X, ''English, August'' won several awards at international film festivals. ''English, August'' became the first Indian independent film to break the stranglehold of mainstream Indian Bollywood cinema when it was acquired by 20th Century Fox and became a theatrical success in the country. This has led the way for other low budget, independent movies such as '' Bombay Boys'' and ''Split Wide Open'', which are part of the next generation of "middle cinema". The film is based on the novel of the same name by Upamanyu Chatterjee. The negatives of the film were spoiled due to flooding at a storage facility of Prasad Studios. There was an unsuccessful attempt at restoration, following which the film was declared a lost film. In February 2020, a copy of the film was found in the National Film Archives of In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pestonjee
''Pestonjee'' is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Vijaya Mehta, starring Anupam Kher, Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi, based on a story by film journalist B. K. Karanjia. At the 35th National Film Awards, it won the award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. Synopsis The film is an intimate look into the life and manners of the Parsi community, especially those living in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai) in the 1950s and 60s. Phiroj Shah (Naseeruddin Shah) and Pestonjee ( Anupam Kher) are close friends. They like to do everything together (and even plan to get married on the same day), even though they are very different in temperament. Phiroj is quiet, thoughtful and indecisive, while Pestonjee (Pissi) is an extrovert. Phiroj is unable to make up his mind about marrying a girl, Jeroo (Shabana Azmi), selected for him by a matchmaker. It is Pissi who ends up marrying her. Phiroj has fallen in love with her, but does not begrudge Pissi his happiness. He decides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
100 Days (1991 Film)
''100 Days'' is a 1991 Indian Hindi psychological thriller film, starring Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Moon Moon Sen and Javed Jaffrey. The film is a mystery thriller that follows the events in the life of a woman with Extrasensory perception. It was a remake of the Tamil film 1984 ''Nooravathu Naal'' which itself was an unofficial adaptation of the 1977 Italian giallo film ''Sette note in nero'' (English Title: ''The Psychic'' or ''Seven Notes in Black'') and American film Eyes of Laura Mars Plot The film opens with a young woman, Devi (Madhuri Dixit), who gets sudden visions (usually accompanied with a mild panic attack) of incidents and accidents that are yet to happen. Devi has a vision of her sister Rama (Moon Moon Sen) being murdered. Her college friends Sudha Mathur ( Sabeeha) and Sunil (Javed Jaffrey) try to help her sort through her visions, but to little avail. Devi is relieved after she talks to her sister and finds that she is alive. However, just some time later, Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurukshetra (2000 Film)
Kurukshetra is a 2000 Indian action drama film written and directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. It released on 10 November 2000 and stars Sanjay Dutt, Mahima Chaudhry and Om Puri in lead roles with Mukesh Rishi and Shivaji Satam in supporting roles. Plot Kurukshetra is a story of the war between evil and truth and how truth is sometimes hidden by those in power and authority. ACP Prithviraj Singh (Sanjay Dutt) is an honest and brave police officer. All dishonest police officers, rogues, criminals and corrupt politicians are scared of him. The day he joins duty in Mumbai, he destroys all the illegal business of Iqbal Pasina (Mukesh Rishi). From that day onwards, Iqbal Pasina starts admiring Prithviraj. In his personal life, Prithviraj lives with his wife, Anjali (Mahima Chaudhry) and sister, Aarti. Aarti is in love with Sub-Inspector Avinash. Anjali is sad because "Prithvi", who once used to love her a lot, is now a totally different man, a man of law and duties. She lost her lover to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
