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Thackeray (film)
''Thackeray'' is a 2019 Indian biographical film written and directed by Abhijit Panse and made simultaneously in Marathi and Hindi. The film follows the life of Balasaheb Thackeray, the founder of the Indian political party Shiv Sena. The film stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Thackeray and Amrita Rao as his wife. The film released on 25 January 2019, right after the 93rd birthday of Bal Thackeray. Plot The film is a biopic based on Marathi politician Balasaheb Thackeray. Cast *Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Bal Thackeray *Amrita Rao as Meena Thackeray *Mukund Gosavi as Prabodhankar Thackeray *Sachin A. Jayavant as Uddhav Thackeray *Vishal Sudarshanwar as Raj Thackeray *Rajesh Khera as Morarji Desai *Sanjay Narvekar as Krishna Desai *Praveen Tarde as Dattaji Salvi *Sandeep Khare as Manohar Joshi *Prakash Belawadi as George Fernandes *Nikhil Mahajan as Sharad Pawar *Avantika Akerekar as Indira Gandhi *Sudhir Mishra as Mastan *Sanjay Kulkarni as Diwakar Raote *Mohaniraj Khare as Pramod Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viacom18 Motion Pictures
Viacom18 Studios (Also known as Paramount 18 Studios), a subsidiary of Viacom18 (a Paramount Networks EMEAA and Network18 joint venture) based in Mumbai, is one of the first studio model based motion picture & content production business in India, with an operation that involves acquisition, production, syndication, marketing and worldwide distribution of full-length feature films as well as digital only films, web series, short films. Due to Viacom owning half the company, Viacom18 Motion Pictures also distributes films from Paramount Pictures in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka since 2011 starting with '' Transformers: Dark of the Moon''. Filmography Films produced Films distributed Web series References External links * Viacom18 Motion Picturesat Bollywood Hungama Bollywood Hungama (lit. "Bollywood Madness" in Hindi), previously known as IndiaFM (or IndiaFM.com), is a Bollywood entertainment website, owned by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biopic
A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from docudrama films and historical drama films in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person's life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives. Context Biopic scholars include George F. Custen of the College of Staten Island and Dennis P. Bingham of Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. Custen, in ''Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History'' (1992), regards the genre as having died with the Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F. Zanuck. On the other hand, Bingham's 2010 study ''Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre'' shows how it perpetuates as a codified genre using many of the same tropes used in the studio era that has followed a simila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharad Pawar
Sharad Govindrao Pawar (Marathi pronunciation: əɾəd̪ pəʋaːɾ born 12 December 1940) is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on four occasions. He has held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minister of Agriculture in the Government of India. He is president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress. He leads the NCP delegation in the Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Indian parliament. He is the chairperson of Maha Vikas Aghadi. Pawar comes from Baramati of Maharashtra. He is the patriarch of one of Maharashtra's most influential political families and a prominent face in Maharashtra politics. Other politicians from the family include his daughter Supriya Sule, Ajit Pawar his nephew, Rohit Rajendra Pawar a nephew's son and other members of his extended family. Outside of politics, Pawar served as the Chairman of the Board of Control for Cricket in In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fernandes
George Mathew Fernandes (3 June 1930 – 29 January 2019) was an Indian trade unionist, statesman, and journalist, who served as the 22nd Defence Minister of India from 1998 until 2004. He was a member of Lok Sabha for over 30 years, starting from Bombay (present-day Mumbai) in 1967 till 2009 mostly representing constituencies from Bihar. He was a key member of the Janata Dal and the founder of the Samata Party, now led by Uday Mandal its President. He held several ministerial portfolios including communication , industry, railways, and defence. In 2020, he was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award. A native of Mangalore, Fernandes was sent to Bangalore in 1946 to be trained as a priest. In 1949, he moved to Bombay, where he joined the socialist trade union movement. Becoming a trade union leader, Fernandes organised many strikes and '' bandhs'' in Bombay in the 1950s and 1960s while working with the Indian Railways. He defeated S K Pati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prakash Belawadi
Prakash Belawadi is an Indian theatre artist, film director, television and media personality, who's also a teacher, activist and a journalist. He hails from Bangalore. He has participated in many seminars, conferences and festivals in India and abroad. He has been a motivational speaker at events and TEDx conferences. He is also a mentor with the founding team of BISFF ( Bengaluru International Short Film Festival) since 2010. Early life Belawadi was born into a family of theatre artistes in Bangalore, in the erstwhile Mysore State Mysore State, colloquially Old Mysore, was a state within the Dominion of India and the later Republic of India from 1947 until 1956. The state was formed by renaming the Kingdom of Mysore, and Bangalore replaced Mysore as the state's capital. ... (now Karnataka). His father, Belavadi Nanjundaiah Narayan (1929–2003) popularly known as Makeup Nani, was a personality in Kannada theatre, who also appeared in films, and worked as a make-up arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manohar Joshi
Manohar Gaju Joshi (born 2 December 1937) is a prominent politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999 and Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2002 to 2004. He is one of the prominent leaders of the Shiv Sena. He is also second Indian to be elected to all of the four legislatures. Background and family Joshi was born on 2 December 1937 in the Marathi-speaking Brahmin family of Gajanan Krishna Joshi and Saraswati Gajanan in Nandavi of Raigad district in Maharashtra. He received his Masters of Arts and LLB degrees from Mumbai University. He married Anagha Joshi on 14 May 1964, with whom he has a son, Unmesh, and two daughters, Asmita and Namrata. His granddaughter, Sharvari Wagh, made her debut as an actress with the 2021 film ''Bunty Aur Babli 2''. Formation of Kohinoor After MA in law he joined Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) as an officer, but later started the Kohinoor technical/vocational training institute with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandeep Khare
Sandeep Khare is a Marathi poet, performing artist, actor, singer-songwriter, copywriter from Pune. So far he has published 3 of his books which are poetry collections, namely, 'Kadhi He..Kadhi Te..', 'Maunachi Bhashantare' (The translations of the Silences). His songs have been sung by many notable Indian singers such as Salil Kulkarni, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Bela Shende, Shailesh Ranade etc. He has diploma in electrical engineering from Govt. Polytechnic, Pune. He is married to Sonia and the couple has a daughter named Roomani Khare. Poetry collections * ''Kadhi He Kadhi Te'' * ''Maunachi Bhashantare'' * ''Nenivechi Akshare'' * ''Ayushyavar Bolu Kahi'' * ''Tuzyavarachya Kavita'' Discography Diwas Ase Ki ''Diwas Ase Ki'' was released in 1998. * Lyrics & Music : Sandeep Khare * Singers : Shailesh Ranade & Sandeep Khare Songs from Diwas Ase Ki: * Track 01/09 : Man Talyat Malyat – Shailesh Ranade * Track 02/09 : Swar Tipecha – Shailesh Ranade * Track 03 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dattaji Salvi
Dattaji Salvi (1918-2002) was a leader of Shiv Sena and a trade unionist. He was a member of Maharashtra Legislative Council and was minister of home and labour in the ministry headed by Manohar Joshi Manohar Gaju Joshi (born 2 December 1937) is a prominent politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999 and Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2002 to 2004. He is one of the prominent leaders of .... He died in 2002. References Shiv Sena politicians 2002 deaths Trade unionists from Maharashtra Politicians from Mumbai 1918 births Members of the Maharashtra Legislative Council Marathi politicians {{Maharashtra-SS-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishna Desai
Krishna Desai (died 5 June 1970) was a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI). He was a Member of Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra who represented the working-class Mumbai constituency of Parel, then a communist stronghold. Desai was murdered in 1970, and this was preceded by the burning of the office of the CPI-led Girni Kamgar Union. Hansen considers his murder to be the culmination of the Shiv Sena campaign against the communists. His murder was a sign of a Sena victory in its struggle for the domination of unions and politics in Mumbai's working class district. Desai was stabbed to death on 5 June 1970. He was a sitting MLA when he was murdered. Seven suspects were arrested on 8 June 1970. Nineteen young persons were charged and sixteen were convicted for the murder. The accused were defended by Ram Jethmalani. Balasaheb Thackeray's complicity in the murder was never proven. Prakash writes that those convicted were members of the Shiv Sena. According to Dipankar Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjay Narvekar
Sanjay Narvekar (born 1962) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi and Marathi cinema. He mainly is a Marathi actor, who works in T V shows and films. His portrayal of Raghu (Sanjay Dutt)'s sidekick, "Dedh Footia" (lit. ''One and a half-footer'', referring to the short stature of his character) in the popular Hindi film ''Vaastav'' (1999) was appreciated by critics and audiences alike. His on-screen portrayal of a simple underdog, son of the soil, guy next door remains his most characteristic and endearing feature in most of his films as well as his real life. Together with Siddharth Jadhav, he has teamed up in many hit Marathi movies, forming one of the most successful and hilarious pairs in contemporary Marathi cinema. Early and personal life Narvekar was born in Malvan, Sindhudurg. He lives in Powai, Mumbai, India with his wife and his son Aryan S. Narvekar, who recently made his debut with the Marathi film '' Bokya Satbande''. Professional Marathi films * ''Ye Re Ye Re P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morarji Desai
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of India between 1977 to 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. During his long career in politics, he held many important posts in government such as Chief Minister of Bombay State, Home Minister, Finance Minister and 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of India. Following the death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Desai was a strong contender for the position of Prime Minister, only to be defeated by Indira Gandhi in 1966. He was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister (as Minister of Finance) in Indira Gandhi's cabinet, until 1969. When Indian National Congress split in 1969 he became a part of the INC (O). After the controversial emergency was lifted in 1977, the political parties of the opposition fought together against the Congress (I), under the umbrella of the Janata Party, and won the 1977 election. Desai w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajesh Khera
Rajesh Khera (''Rājēśa Khērā'') is an Indian television actor and voice actor who has acted in many Hindi films and is remembered for the role of fashion designer Maddy in ''Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin''. He was recently seen as a contender in a TV reality show Survivor (2011) which aired on Star Plus. He played the role of Acharya Devvrat in the TV serial '' Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat''. Filmography Films * ''Josh'' (2000) as Matwyn * '' Hazaar Chaurasi'' (from Kashmir) * ''Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa'' (1998) * ''Hu Tu Tu'' (1999) * '' Taal'' (1999) as Brij Mohan Mehta * ''Tum Bin'' (2001) as Shekhar's Friend * '' 23rd March 1931: Shaheed'' (2002) as Sardar Ajit Singh * ''Om Jai Jagadish'' (2002) as Fake Audio CD manufacturer * '' Jaal: The Trap'' (2003) as Journalist Alok Dass (Ajay's Friend) * '' Samay'' (2003) * '' Naach'' (2004) * '' Karam'' (2005) as Bull * ''Tango Charlie'' (2005) as BSF soldier Sangraam Singh * '' The Train'' (2007) * ''Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii'' (2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
