|
Soumik Sen
Soumik Sen is an Indian screenwriter and film director. He has written the screenplay for films such as '' Anthony Kaun Hai?'' (2006), '' Ru Ba Ru'' and '' Meerabai Not Out'' (2008) and ''Hum Tum Aur Ghost ''Hum Tum Aur Ghost'' (; earlier titled as ''Kaun Bola?!'' ) is a 2010 Indian Hindi supernatural comedy-drama film directed by Kabeer Kaushik and produced by Arshad Warsi, starring Arshad Warsi and Dia Mirza in the lead roles. This unofficial ...'' (2010). In 2014 he directed and wrote the screenplay and composed the songs of the crime film ''Gulaab Gang''. Sen's debut picture was described by ''Indiatimes'' as "full of self deprecating humour and quiet confidence that stems from his script and leading lady, Madhuri Dixit-Nene". He directed and composed songs for the 2019 release ''Why Cheat India''. He has also directed a Bengali film, "Mahalaya", the biopic of Birendra Krishna Bhadra, produced by Nideas. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Indian cinema, Sen wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Kaun Hai?
''Anthony Kaun Hai?'' () is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language mystery film, mystery thriller film directed by Raj Kaushal and produced by Nikhil Panchamiya. It stars Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Minissha Lamba and Raghuvir Yadav. Plot The film is set in Bangkok, Thailand. It starts with Master Madan (Sanjay Dutt), an underworld killer performing a mission to claim debt from someone, and taking Anthony Gonsalves (Arshad Warsi) as hostage. Master threatens the debtor to kill Anthony if he doesn't repay the debt in two hours. However, the man claims he is not the Anthony Gonsalves he's looking for, and tells him a story to clarify. Gonsalves says his real name is Champak Chaudhary, alias Champ. He made a living by forging passports, ID cards and all other legal documents. He was in love with Roza (Anusha Dhandekar), who agrees to marry him. During their wedding, Champ is arrested and later sentenced to six months in jail. In jail, Champ meet Raghu (Raghuvir Yadav), who is serving his lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ru Ba Ru
''Ru Ba Ru'' is a 2008 Indian drama film directed by the debutant director Arjun Bali. Filmed in Hindi, the film revolves around the relationship between a live-in couple caught amidst their busy professional careers. The film stars actors Randeep Hooda and a relative newcomer Shahana Goswami in the leading role. Rati Agnihotri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Jayant Kriplani play the supporting roles. This movie is an adaptation of Junger's film ''If Only'' (2004). Plot Tara Mishra (Shahana Goswami), an aspiring actress and singer, and Nikhil Singh (Randeep Hooda), a young professional in an advertising firm have been in a relationship since a few years. Kulbhushan Kharbanda is a taxi driver. Tara wants to cement their relationship by having him meet her parents as a commitment to a marriage. But Nikhil, who is workaholic and professionally ambitious, is always pre-occupied with his work. Saying that he is happy with the way things are between the two of them, he stashes away her propo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meerabai Not Out
''Meerabai Not Out'', based on cricket, is a 2008 Hindi Bollywood film that stars Mahesh Manjrekar, Mandira Bedi, Eijaz Khan and Anupam Kher. It is a Pritish Nandy Communications presented movie, directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni. Mandira Bedi plays a deglam role of a cricket-crazy fan. Anil Kumble is also seen for a small role in the film. The film was released in India on 5 December 2008. Cast * Anupam Kher ... Dr. Awasthi * Mahesh Manjrekar ... Manoj Anant Achrekar * Mandira Bedi ... Meera A. Achrekar * Eijaz Khan ... Dr. Arjun Awasthi * Vandana Gupte ... Mrs. Achrekar / Aai * Prateeksha Lonkar ... Neelima M. Achrekar * Anil Kumble ... Himself Plot Meera Achrekar lives a middle-classed lifestyle in a Shivaji Park Chawl, along with her widowed mother; brother Manoj, his wife, Neelima, and their son, Mayank. After the passing of their father, Anant, Manoj, who was just 18 at that time, took over the financial reins of this family, while she, hers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hum Tum Aur Ghost
''Hum Tum Aur Ghost'' (; earlier titled as ''Kaun Bola?!'' ) is a 2010 Indian Hindi supernatural comedy-drama film directed by Kabeer Kaushik and produced by Arshad Warsi, starring Arshad Warsi and Dia Mirza in the lead roles. This unofficial remake of ''Ghost Town'' was filmed in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the film was released on 26 March 2010. The film was also inspired by the Hollywood films, ''The Sixth Sense'' and ''Heart and Souls'' (1993). Plot In the world of Armaan (Arshad Warsi) and his girlfriend Gehna (Dia Mirza), life is truly beautiful, yet it's like walking on a tightrope. For Armaan, a debonair fashion photographer who is a charmer to the core and loved by all around him, life only gets better when he dates Gehna, a high-profile fashion magazine editor. Life is picture perfect and mash; a doting girlfriend and a job where his expertise makes him the most-wanted photographer in the London fashion world! Armaan has learnt that his chronic insomnia is, howev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulaab Gang
''Gulaab Gang'' () is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language action drama film centered on the struggle of women in India, directed by Soumik Sen and produced by Sohum Shah and Anubhav Sinha. It stars Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla in lead roles, marking the first time that the two female superstars of the 1990's shared screen space together. ''Gulaab Gang'' released on 7 March 2014, and declared the film a flop on its opening day itself. It received mixed reviews from critics; however Chawla's performance received widespread critical acclaim, with several critics deeming it "the best performance of the year". At the 60th Filmfare Awards, ''Gulaab Gang'' earned Chawla a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film. Plot The Gulaab Gang members are activists and vigilantes in Bundelkhand Uttar and Madhya Pradesh. They wear pink sarees and take up issues like domestic violence, the dowry system, rape, electricity matters, and education. Their fierce leader, Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiatimes
Times Internet is an Indian internet technology company, based in Gurgaon, which owns, operates and invests in various internet-led products, services and technology. It is the digital arm of the Times Group, the largest media conglomerate in India. Times Internet currently owns and operates 39+ digital products across news, sports, music, video, trivia, spirituality and a suite of transaction-led market-places across real estate, personal finance, education, jobs, table reservation, etc. Through its venture capital arm TVentures, Times Internet has invested in over 50 start-ups in the technology space such as logistics provider Delhivery, bus aggregating platform Shuttl, ed-tech platform Byju's, gaming platform MPL among others. Times Internet reaches over 450 million monthly visitors who collectively spend over 13 billion minutes across all its products and services. History 1999–2012: Initial years In its initial years, Times Internet primarily focused on digi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madhuri Dixit-Nene
Madhuri Dixit Nene ( née Dixit; born 15 May 1967) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. A leading actress of Indian cinema, she has appeared in over 70 films. Noted by critics for her beauty, dancing skills, and characters, Dixit was credited for singularly paralleling her male contemporaries and leading star vehicles in a male-dominated industry. She was among the country's highest-paid celebrities throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, and has featured in '' Forbes India'' Celebrity 100 list since its inception in 2012. Her accolades include six Filmfare Awards from a record 17 nominations. In 2008, the Government of India awarded her with Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian honour of the country. Born and raised in Mumbai, Dixit made her acting debut in 1984 with a leading role in the drama ''Abodh''. After a few successive commercially failed films, she rose to prominence with the action drama ''Tezaab'' (1988), and established herself with starrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Why Cheat India
''Why Cheat India?'' is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language black comedy crime film written and directed by Soumik Sen. It features Emraan Hashmi and Shreya Dhanwanthary in the lead roles. The film was theatrically released on 18 January 2019. It received mixed reviews and was a box office bomb grossing just 86.6 million against its 200 million budget. Plot Satyendra "Sattu" Dubey lives in a rented house in Kota, and is undergoing coaching for an engineering entrance exam. Afterwards, he returns to his house in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh where he lives with his parents, elder sister Nupur Dubey, and his grandmother. Sattu does well in the examination, achieving a rank of 287th. To celebrate, Sattu and his friends visit a movie theater, where they are told to leave their seats by a few politicians, who want the theater to themselves. Rakesh Singh, also in the audience, refuses to vacate and gets into a fight, leading to him getting arrested alongside Sattu, who gets unintentionally inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birendra Krishna Bhadra
Birendra Krishna Bhadra (1905–1991) was a radio broadcaster, playwright, actor, narrator and theatre director from Kolkata, India and a contemporary of Pankaj Mallick and Kazi Nazrul Islam. He worked for the All India Radio, India's National Radio broadcaster for several years during its early, starting 1930s, and during this period he produced and adapted several plays. Today, he is most known for his soaring Sanskrit recitation and India's oldest radio show, '' Mahishashura Mardini'' (1931), a collection of shlokas and songs broadcast by All India Radio Calcutta (now Kolkata) at 4:00 am, in the dawn of Mahalaya. He also acted and directed several plays in Bengali theatre and even wrote the screenplay for the film, ''Nishiddha Phal'' (1955). A Bengali short film Birendra Krishna Bhadra - The Voice Since 1936 Was released In 2019 By Haalum Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Early life and education Birendra Krishna Bhadra was born on 4 August 1905, to Roy Bahadur Kalikr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN-IBN
CNN-News18 (originally CNN-IBN) is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Raghav Bahl based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is currently co-owned by Network18 Group and Warner Bros. Discovery. CNN provides international coverage for the channel, while Indian Broadcasting Network concentrates on Indian and local reports. In May 2014, Reliance Industries announced it would be taking over Network18. The move was touted as "the biggest-ever deal in the Indian media space". Reliance Industries already had indirect control of the TV18 network by virtue of investments it made in Network18 starting from January 2012. History CNN International only reached the urban population in India. To reach the Indian masses Time Warner together with an Indian company, Global Broadcast News (currently TV18 Broadcast Limited), launched the channel in India as CNN-IBN on 18 December 2005. The channel was completely run by TV18 Broadcast Limited, which only used the Cable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahalaya (film)
''Mahalaya'' (2019) is an Indian Bengali language drama film directed by Soumik Sen and produced by Nideas Creations and Productions Pvt Ltd. The film narrates an incident in Bengal in 1976, when Birendra Krishna Bhadra narrated and Pankaj Mullick composed widely popular Mahisasuramardini program, which has been playing on All India Radio since 1931 on the eve of Mahalaya, was replaced by a new program Durga Durgatiharini, narrated by Bengali film actor Uttam Kumar and composed by Hemanta Mukherjee. Subhasish Mukhopadhyay played the role of Bhadra and Jisshu Sengupta played the role of Uttam Kumar. The film was released theatrically on 1 March 2019. Cast * Subhasish Mukherjee as Birendra Krishna Bhadra * Jisshu Sengupta as Uttam Kumar * Saptarshi Ray as Hemanta Mukhopadhyay * Prosenjit Chatterjee as Shashi Sinha, Former I & B Secretary of India. * Subhomoy Chatterjee as Pankaj Mullick * Kanchan Mullick as Paritosh Banerjee, Indian Administrative Service Officer, Former Joint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
