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Sikhya Entertainment
Sikhya Entertainment is a film production and distribution company that was established by Guneet Monga and Achin Jain. They have released the films ''Dasvidaniya'' (2008), ''That Girl in Yellow Boots'' (2011), ''The Lunchbox'' (2013) and ''Masaan ''Masaan'' (; also known as ''Fly Away Solo'' in English) is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language independent drama film and starring Richa Chadda and Vicky Kaushal in lead roles. It is Kaushal's debut Hindi film, and is also the directorial debut of ...''. They have collaborated with some of the filmmakers from different parts of the world including Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic (Tigers), French director Nicolas Saada (Taj Mahal) and British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom (Trishna), to name a few. In 2016, Sikhya Entertainment ventured into its first English Language film, The Ashram, starring Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo and Kal Penn, Norwegian-German film, What Will People Say, directed by Iram Haq whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guneet Monga
Guneet Monga (born 21 November 1983) is an Indian film producer, executive producer of an Academy Award-winning short, a 2015 BAFTA nominee (for “The Lunchbox”), and the founder of Sikhya Entertainment a boutique film production house that produced notable films like '' Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1'', Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2, '' Peddlers'', ''The Lunchbox'', ''Masaan'', ''Zubaan'' and ''Pagglait''. In 2018, Monga was amongst the first producers from India to be inducted in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She served as an Executive Producer on ''Period. End of Sentence.'' which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Monga was voted as one of the top 12 women achievers in the Global Entertainment industry by ''The Hollywood Reporter'' and among the top 50 Indians changing India by ''India Today''. In 2021, Guneet Monga was conferred with the ''Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' by the French Government for her signifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peddlers (film)
''Peddlers'' is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film written and directed by Vasan Bala. The film stars Gulshan Devaiah, Nishikant Kamat, Kriti Malhotra, Nimrat Kaur and Siddharth Menon. The film was screened as part of International Critics' Week of 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film will be released on Eros Now in 2021. Film's producer, Guneet Monga raised nearly , half of film's budget of by posting the film's script on Facebook. Plot The film is set in Mumbai, and revolves around 20-year-old destitute boys who get trapped in the drug trade and a young cop, who tracks them. Cast * Gulshan Devaiah as Ranjit D'souza * Nishikant Kamat * Nimrat Kaur as Kuljeet * Kriti Malhotra as Bilkis * Siddharth Mennon as Mandar * Mukesh Chhabra * Zachary Coffin * Murari Kumar as JJ * Vijesh Rajan as Meth Cook Reception Director Vasan Bala was deemed by several critics to have shown promise in his debut Debut or début (the first public appearance of a person or thing) may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Companies Established In 2008
Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asian ethnic groups, referring to people of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the greater South Asia region prior to the 1947 partition of India * Anglo-Indians, people with mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent * East Indians, a Christian community in India Europe * British Indians, British people of Indian origin The Americas * Indo-Canadians, Canadian people of Indian origin * Indian Americans, American people of Indian origin * Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas and their descendants ** Plains Indians, the common name for the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains of North America ** Native Americans in the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Production Companies Based In Mumbai
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathal (film)
''Kathal - A Jackfruit Mystery'' also known as ''Kathal'' () is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language satirical comedy drama film written by Ashok Mishra and directed by Yashowardhan Mishra for Netflix. The film is produced by Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga and Achin Jain under the banners Balaji Motion Pictures and Sikhya Entertainment. The film features Sanya Malhotra, Anant V Joshi, Vijay Raaz, Rajpal Yadav, Brijendra Kala, Neha Saraf and Raghubir Yadav in prominent roles. The film released on 19 May 2023 via Netflix. Plot Two exotic breed Kathals (Jackfruit) go missing from a tree in the garden of an MLA's house in a small town. Police inspector Mahima is assigned the case. The whole police unit is under a lot of pressure to find the kathals before they get ready to eat. The chief suspect is the gardener of the house who was recently fired, but when Mahima finds the gardener, it is discovered that his daughter has been missing for days while the police are ignori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pagglait
''Pagglait'' is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language black comedy drama film written and directed by Umesh Bist. The film was produced by Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga and Achin Jain under the banners Balaji Motion Pictures and Sikhya Entertainment. The film features Sanya Malhotra, Ashutosh Rana, Shruti Sharma and Raghubir Yadav in lead roles. The film follows a young widow as she learns how to face the family and was released on 26 March 2021 on Netflix. Plot A young widow, Sandhya, and her in-laws are dealing with the loss of her husband, Astik, who died after just five months of marriage. Astik's parents, Usha and Shivendra, are deeply saddened by the sudden loss of their eldest son, on whom they were financially dependent. The family suffers, even more, when their relatives come to the house and create a mess. Amidst a house full of grieving relatives, Sandhya yawns through the social media condolence posts and "copy-paste" comments for Astik. Her attitude leaves some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soorarai Pottru
''Soorarai Pottru'' () is a 2020 Indian Tamil-language drama film that was written and directed by Sudha Kongara, and produced by Suriya, Jyothika and Guneet Monga. Kongara and Shalini Usha Nair wrote the screenplay; Aalif Surti and Ganeshaa provided additional screenplay; and Vijay Kumar and P. Virumandi, wrote the dialogue. The film stars Suriya, Aparna Balamurali and Paresh Rawal; and Mohan Babu, Urvashi and Karunas appear in supporting roles. The film was inspired by events from the life of G. R. Gopinath, founder of Indian low-cost airline Simplifly Deccan, as described in his memoir ''Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey''. The project was announced in mid-2018 under the working title ''Suriya 38'' and the official title was announced in April 2019. Principal photography began the same month and ended that September, and filming took place in Madurai, Chennai, and Chandigarh. G. V. Prakash Kumar composed the film's music while Niketh Bommireddy was the cinematographer and Sath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Will People Say
''What Will People Say'' ( no, Hva vil folk si) is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film directed and written by Iram Haq. The film's scenes set in Pakistan were all shot in India, mostly in Rajasthan. The film had its world premiere at the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2017. It was selected as the Norwegian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot The film is inspired by director Iram Haq's own life. 16-year-old Nisha is living a double life with her parents in Oslo, Norway. She plays basketball with her Norwegian friends, parties, drinks, and has a Norwegian boyfriend named Daniel. At home, she behaves like a docile daughter in her traditional Pakistani Muslim family. One night, Nisha's father, Mirza, catches Nisha with Daniel in her room and angrily beats him. Neighbors hear the screams and call the police, and Nisha is taken to a child welfare agency. There, Nisha blames herself fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haraamkhor
''Haraamkhor'' () is a 2015 Indian romantic drama black comedy film directed by Shlok Sharma. It stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Shweta Tripathi. Jasleen Royal is the music composer. The film was shot in just 16 days. In April 2017, an FIR was registered against director Shlok Sharma on a complaint by Balbharati, Maharashtra's textbook bureau, objecting to striking similarities between its logo and promotion scenes from ''Haraamkhor''. ''Haraamkhor'' was premiered at the 21st annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) and Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA). Nawazuddin Siddiqui received the Best Actor award at the NYIFF. Plot Shyam is a school teacher in a village. Sandhya, and her best friends Mintu and Kamal are some of his students. Kamal has a crush on Sandhya, but she is not interested. After school, Shyam visits Sandhya's home to have some documents notarized by her father, who is a local police inspector. Sandhya and Shyam become closer. Sandhya takes care of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zubaan
''Zubaan'' () is a 2015 Indian musical drama film written and directed by Mozez Singh, starring Vicky Kaushal and Sarah-Jane Dias, Sarah Jane Dias, with music composed by Ashutosh Phatak. The film is the coming of age story of a young boy Dilsher (Vicky Kaushal) who loses his faith and develops a fear of music, and of his journey in fighting that fear and finding himself. Plot The story starts with the flashbacks of a young man, Dilsher (Vicky Kaushal) who grew up in a village in Gurdaspur, Punjab, India, Punjab. His father used to recite Shabad Kirtan in Gurdwara, Gurudwaras, but after his death, Dilsher has developed a fear of music. He instead grows up with a speech impairment and stammers. He comes to Delhi to meet a businessman, Gurcharan "Guru" Sikand (Manish Choudhary), who is often referred to as the Lion of Gurdaspur. A flashback speaks of how, while being bullied by some of his schoolmates, Dilsher met a young Gurcharan who told him about how life often becomes cruel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsoon Shootout
''Monsoon Shootout'' is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir action thriller film written and directed by Amit Kumar and produced by Guneet Monga, Trevor Ingma, Martijn de Grunt, and co-produced by Anurag Kashyap, and Vivek Rangachari, starring Vijay Varma, Geetanjali Thapa, Sreejita De, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Tannishtha Chatterjee in the lead roles. The film received positive reviews at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the Official ''Midnight Screenings'' section. Belonging to the school of Parallel cinema, Monsoon Shootout was released worldwide four years later on 15 December 2017 to positive reviews. Plot As the raging monsoon lashes Mumbai, the commercial and mafia capital of India, the police struggle to keep up with the gangsters who are ever more emboldened. Aditya “Adi”, a principled rookie cop as his first assignment on the force, joins an elite, anti-extortion unit of the Mumbai police led by Khan, a cop in the ‘Dirty Harry’ mold. On his first evening on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaitan
' (; ''devils'' or ''demons''), singular: (شَيْطَان) are evil spirits in Islam, inciting humans (and jinn) to sin by "whispering" (وَسْوَسَة, “waswasah”) to their qalb, hearts (قَلْب ''qalb''). Folklore suggests that they are grotesque creatures created from Jahannam, hell-fire.el-Zein, Amira (2009). Islam, Arabs, and Intelligent World of the Jinn. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-5070-6. The Quran speaks of various ways that shayāṭīn tempt humans into sin. They may teach sorcery, assault heaven to steal the news of the angels, or lurk near humans without being seen. Related to the shayāṭīn is Iblis (Satan), who is generally considered to be their leader. Hadith, Hadith-literature holds shayāṭīn responsible for various calamities which may affect personal life. Both hadith and folklore usually speak about shayāṭīn in abstract terms, describing their evil influence only. During Ramadan, the shayāṭīn are chained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
