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Urmila Mahanta
Urmila Mahanta is an Indian actress. A student of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Mahanta appeared in various plays, short films and television series, before making her feature film debut in the critically acclaimed 2012 Tamil crime thriller ''Vazhakku Enn 18/9''. She has acted in Hindi, Assamese, Bengali and Malayalam films. Early and personal life Mahanta was born to Giridhar Mahanta and Ramala Mahanta in Sonapur, Assam; she has three siblings- Jutika Mahanta, Munmi Mahanta and Munindra Mahanta. Mahanta did her entire schooling in Sonapur and later graduated from Dimoria College in Khetri, Kamrup. Mahanta spent her major part of life in Mumbai, Maharashtra, and then went on to enroll at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Career Mahanta had been acting in plays since her childhood and won many awards. Afterwards, she was featured in several television serials such as ''Murder'' and ''Tejimola'' for Doordarshan (NE), which were followed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonapur, Assam
Sonapur is a small town located in the outskirts (20 km away) of Guwahati city in Kamrup Metropolitan district of the Indian state of Assam. Sonapur is situated beside National Highway 37 near the river Digaru, which flows into the Kalang river close to its embouchure into the Brahmaputra. The Tiwa (Lalung), Boro, Assamese, Karbi communities form the majority in this area. Education Sonapur College is the premier higher educational institution of Sonapur. The North East Regional Centre of Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education The Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education (LNIPE), formerly Lakshmibai National University of Physical Education, is a higher education institute deemed-to-be-university, located in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. Under the aegis ... is located at Tepesia Sports Complex here. Healthcare The District Hospital, Sonapur is situated near the NH 37 which has all the major healthcare facilities. References Villages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajita Suchitra Veera
Ajita Suchitra Veera is an Indian film director, writer, illustrator, photographer, and film producer. Veera is best known for a highly visual, grand, epic, cinematic style, with unconventional narrative structures breaking form, blending reality and imagination, fantasy, dreams, scientific, philosophical, metaphysical and humanistic ideas. Her upcoming feature film "Ballad of Rustom" was in Oscar contention for Best Picture 86th Academy Awards 2014. Her earlier short film "Notes on Her" was an official entry to the Oscars in 2003. Her First Feature Film "Ballad of Rustom" which she wrote, directed and produced and also did production design, collaborated on film editing, sound design and music, was described as a "powerful cinematographic poem, epic, and faustian" by Th61st International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg, Germany. Early life Veera was born in Hyderabad, Southern India. Her father Anjan Babu, is an illustrator, cartoonist, graphic designer and photo-journalist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ZEE5
ZEE5 is an Indian subscription video on-demand and over-the-top streaming service, run by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was launched in India on 14 February 2018 with content in 12 languages. The ZEE5 mobile app is available on Web, Android, iOS, Smart TVs, among other devices. ZEE5 claimed 56 million monthly active users in December 2019. History Ozee was an Indian digital online platform that was launched in February 2016 by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. As of 14 February 2018, the service has been integrated into ZEE5. It aired shows from all of the Zee channel bouquets such as Zee TV, & TV, Zee Café. It aired Zindagi shows exclusively since Zindagi went Ozee-exclusive. The platform was ad-supported and also free of cost no matter what device used. It was shutdown due to ZEE5. ZEE5 integration ZEE5 has subsumed Zee's existing video streaming platforms: Ozee (advertising-based) and DittoTV (subscription-based), comes with 1 lakh (1 hundred thousand) hours of conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dial 100 (2021 Film)
''Dial 100'' is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language thriller drama film directed by Rensil D'Silva and produced by Sony Pictures Films India, Siddharth P.Malhotra and Sapna Malhotra. The film stars Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta and Sakshi Tanwar in the lead roles. The film premiered on 6 August 2021 on ZEE5. it was loosely inspired from the Danish film '' The Guilty''. Plot Nikhil Sood is an overworked and underpaid police officer who one night gets a call on the emergency helpline number 100 from a woman who is threatening to commit suicide. Nikhil asks for her details and says he needs that in order to help her but the woman firstly hesitates and then refuses saying she is going to die soon anyway. Nikhil's wife Prerna phones to alert him that she thinks their son Dhruv could be back to his old habits of being a drug peddler. She continues to tell him that Dhruv leaves home late at night same as when he leaves for his late night shift. Nikhil rings his son and somehow makes him un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pad Man (film)
''Pad Man'' is an Indian Hindi-language 2018 biographical comedy-drama film written and directed by R. Balki. It stars Akshay Kumar and Radhika Apte in the lead roles with Sonam Kapoor and others in supporting roles. The film is based on the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a social activist and entrepreneur from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu who made low cost sanitary pads for women in rural areas. His journey was chronicled by Twinkle Khanna in her fictional story ''The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad''. The idea to adapt Murugan's life began in 2015 when Khanna who served as a co-producer on the film,came across his story while doing a research for a column in ''The Times of India''. Inspired and moved by his persistence and determination, she wrote about him in her book, ''The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad'' (2016). In November 2017, Sony Pictures became the global distributor for the film. Principal photography commenced on 14 March. The majority of the film was shot in the small town of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purab Ki Awaaz
''Purab ki Awaz'' is an Indian Historical drama film directed by Chandra Mudoi and produced by Loknath Deka. the film features Urmila Mahanta, Nipon Goswami, Debashis Borthakur, Rina Bora and others. this film release in All India on 10 March and will be releasing soon in Assam in August 2017. Plot One of the country's youngest and most influential freedom fighters ever, Kanaklata became a martyr of Indian freedom struggle at the tender age of just 14 years, on 20 September 1942. She was shot dead by the British while she was attempting to hoist the Indian national flag. Recently, a function was held to mark the death anniversary of Birangana Kanaklata at the Guwahati Press Club, wherein the bilingual films in Assamese and Hindi, depicting the life and sacrifice of this outstanding symbol of resistance, entitled ‘'' Epah Phulil Epah Soril''’ and ‘Purab Ki Awaz’ respectively, now in their post production stages, were announced, amidst an august gathering. The films made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kothanodi
''Kothanodi'' ( as, কথানদী, ) is an Indian Assamese language feature film written and directed by Bhaskar Hazarika and stars Seema Biswas, Adil Hussain, Zerifa Wahid, Urmila Mahanta, Kopil Bora and Asha Bordoloi. The story of the film is based on traditional indigenous folktales from Assam, India. ''Kothanodi'' won the Asian Cinema Fund's Post Production Fund Award for 2015, and was first screened at the 20th Busan International Film Festival which was held from 1 to 10 October 2015. In April 2016, The film won the Best Feature Film in Assamese award in the 63rd National Film Awards. Story ''Kothanodi'' is based on characters and events described in ''Burhi Aair Sadhu'' (Grandma's Tales), a popular compendium of folk stories compiled by Assamese literary giant Lakshminath Bezbaroa. The four fables referenced in the film are ''Tejimola'', ''Champawati'', ''Ou Kuwori'' (The ''Outenga'' Maiden) and ''Tawoir Xadhu'' (The Story of Tawoi). Once upon a time, Senehi (Zer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Language
Tamil (; ' , ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore, and the Indian territory of Puducherry. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is also spoken by the Tamil diaspora found in many countries, including Malaysia, Myanmar, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia and Mauritius. Tamil is also natively spoken by Sri Lankan Moors. One of 22 scheduled languages in the Constitution of India, Tamil was the first to be classified as a classical language of India. Tamil is one of the longest-surviving classical languages of India.. "Tamil is one of the two longest-surviving classical languages in India" (p. 7). A. K. Ramanujan described it as "the on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira (2016 Hindi Film)
''Akira'' is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language action crime thriller film co-written, produced and directed by A. R. Murugadoss. It is a remake of the 2011 Tamil-language film ''Mouna Guru'', and features Sonakshi Sinha, Konkana Sen Sharma and Anurag Kashyap in the lead roles. Principal photography began in March 2015, and the film released worldwide on 2 September 2016. The soundtrack composed by Vishal–Shekhar, was released on 16 August 2016. The film received mixed reviews from critics with praise for the performances of the cast but criticism for writing of the film. Plot Akira Sharma, a young girl, witnesses a group of men throwing acid on a woman's face. She helps the police catch one of the criminals. and is therefore harassed by the accused who slash her face out of revenge, giving her a scar. Subsequently, her father enrolls her in a self-defense class. A couple of days later, she comes across the same men who had escaped earlier and tries to catch them. One of them tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AR Murugadoss
Murugadoss Arunasalam (born 25 September 1974), commonly known as A. R. Murugadoss, is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. He is best known for directing action films mainly on social issues. In addition, he has worked in Telugu films and Hindi films. Murugadoss won the Filmfare Award for Best Director for his 2014 Tamil action drama ''Kaththi''. Murugadoss' first break in the film industry was as an assistant director of ''Ratchagan'' (1997). He then worked with S. J. Surya for the film '' Kushi'' (2000) before directing his first film, the Ajith starrer ''Dheena'' (2001). His first Bollywood film was '' Ghajini'' (2008), a Hindi remake of his Tamil film of the same name. It became the first Bollywood film to gross over domestically. He would then go on to direct ''7am Arivu in 2011, which would become the first non-Rajini 100cr grosser in Tamil cinema. ''In 2012, he directed the action thriller ''Thuppakk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manjhi - The Mountain Man
Manjhi (also spelled as majhee) means village headman or chief * Manjhi - The Mountain Man, Indian film * Manjhi (tribe), a tribe found in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar * Manjhi (Vidhan Sabha constituency), assembly constituency in Saran district, Bihar, India * Dashrath Manjhi * Jitan Ram Manjhi Jitan Ram Manjhi (born 6 October 1944) is an Indian politician from the eastern state of Bihar who served as its 23rd Chief Minister from 20 May 2014 to 20 February 2015. He is President of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM). Previously, he had ser ... * An alternate name for the Majhwar caste of Uttar Pradesh, India {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chirodini Tumi Je Amar 2
''Chirodini Tumi Je Amar 2'' () is a 2014 Indian Bengali-language romantic drama film directed by Soumik Chatterjee. It is a remake of the 2012 Tamil film ''Vazhakku Enn 18/9'' directed by Balaji Sakthivel and serves as the sequel to ''Chirodini Tumi Je Amar''. The film stars Arjun Chakrabarty and Urmila Mahanta. It portrays a romantic relationship between two lovers. The soundtrack to the film became very popular upon its release. Plot A girl, Jyoti (Urmila Mahanta), is being admitted to hospital after she has been attacked and her face burnt with acid. Police inspector (Kharaj Mukherjee) is being mobbed by the media inquiring about the girl, while doctors are continuously trying to bring her back to consciousness. The inspector asks the girls mother (Soma Chakraborty) whether she knows the perpetrator. The mother says that there is a certain man, who is always stalking her daughter. Bhanu Sardar (Arjun Chakrabarty) is dragged to the police station, pleading and crying that he h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
