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Vinashak – Destroyer
''Vinashak - Destroyer'' is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Ravi Dewan starring Sunil Shetty, Raveena Tandon and Danny Denzongpa. The film did not perform well at the box office. 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 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajkumar Santoshi
Rajkumar Santoshi is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter of Hindi films. A recipient of several accolades including three National Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards, he made his directorial debut with the action drama ''Ghayal'' (1990), starring Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Sheshadri and Amrish Puri. The film emerged as a major critical and commercial success, making Santoshi a household name in Hindi cinema. The film also won him the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment as well as his first Filmfare Award for Best Director. He also directed the crime drama thriller ''Damini'' (1993), again starring Sheshadri, Deol and Puri. It also emerged as a major critical and commercial success, garnering Santoshi the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay and his second consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Director. During this period, Santoshi also received praise for directing the comedy '' Andaz Apna Apna'' (1994) starring Aamir Khan and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mukesh Rishi
Mukesh Rishi (born 19 April 1956) is an Indian actor and film producer who works primarily in Hindi and Telugu films. He has also appeared in Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Marathi and Tamil films. He got his first break in Hindi in 1993 with '' Gardish'' and has since, established himself as a notable supporting actor, generally as a villain. Early life Rishi was born in Jammu. After his graduation from Government College, Sector 11, Chandigarh, and working for two years in Mumbai, Rishi went to work in Fiji where he met his future-wife of Indo-Fijian descent. Her family ran a traditional departmental store.Syed Firdaus AshrafQuite a Character. Interview with Mukesh Rishi. Rediff.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015. He has a lucrative investment portfolio including warehouse investments. After marriage, they went to New Zealand, where Mukesh started his career as a model. However, he could hardly find time for modelling due to a busy work schedule and was dissatisfied with his m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Kumar (singer)
Amit Kumar (born 3 July 1952) is an Indian playback singer, actor, music composer. Kumar launched his own music production company, named Kumar Brothers Music. He predominantly worked in Bollywood and regional film songs since the 1970s, including 150 Hindi and Bengali compositions by R. D. Burman. After Burman's death in 1994, citing a lack of quality music composition, Kumar withdrew from playback singing and concentrated on live orchestra shows. In addition to singing in Hindi, has also performed in Bengali language, Bengali, Bhojpuri language, Bhojpuri, Odia language, Odia, Assamese language, Assamese, Marathi language, Marathi and Konkani language, Konkani. He is the eldest son of singer-actor Kishore Kumar. Early life Kumar is the son of singer and actor Kishore Kumar and Bengali singer and actress Ruma Guha Thakurta. Like his father, Amit started singing from an early age and he used to sing at Durga Pooja festivals in Kolkata, Calcutta. At one such function arranged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan Jha (born 1 December 1955) is an Nepali and Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi cinema, Hindi films. He has also sung in various other languages including Telugu language, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil language, Tamil, Bengali language, Bengali, Sindhi language, Sindhi, Odia language, Odia, Bhojpuri language, Bhojpuri, Nepali language, Nepali, Malayalam, Assamese language, Assamese, Bagheli language, Bagheli and Maithili language, Maithili. He has won four National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards with twenty nominations among many others. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution towards arts and culture. As many as 21 of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time". He got to sing with Mohammed Rafi in his Hindi playback debut in ''Unees-Bees'' in 1980 and also with Kishore Kumar in the 1980s. He finally made his mark in the 1988 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kavita Krishnamurthy
Kavita Krishnamurthy (born as Sharada Krishnamurthy), is an Indian playback and classical singer. She has recorded numerous songs in various Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri, Telugu, Odia, Marathi, English, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Nepali, Assamese, Konkani, Punjabi and other languages. She is the recipient of four Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Awards (winning consecutively during 1995–1997), and the Padmashri which she received in 2005. She was awarded a Doctorate (Honoris Causa) for her contributions to Indian music by Bangalore-based Jain University in 2015. In 1999, she married noted violinist L. Subramaniam and resides in Bengaluru. Early life She was born as Sharada into a Tamil family in New Delhi to T. S. Krishnamurthy, an employee of the Education Ministry. She began her musical training at the insistence of her aunt Protima Bhattacharya who enrolled her to train under guru Surama Basu, who taug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudesh Bhosle
Sudesh Bhosale (born 1 July 1960) is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings for Marathi and Bollywood films. Bhosale is known for his ability to mimic actor Amitabh Bachchan, having sung for him in various films. Career Bhosale was born on 1 July 1960 to Sumantai Bhosale and studied in Ambedkar College, Wadala. He got his first major break in playback singing in the film '' Zalzala'' (1988). He used mimicry to become a professional dubbing artist for several artists like Sanjeev Kumar and Anil Kapoor. He dubbed for Sanjeev Kumar when he died prematurely before completing the film '' Professor Ki Padosan''. He has sung songs for the movie '' Ghatothkach'' in 2008. Bhosale is the producer and judge on '' K For Kishore'', a singing contest on Sony Entertainment Television. He has sung many famous Bollywood songs for Amitabh Bachchan including "Jumma chumma de de" from 1991 movie '' Hum'', "Meri Makhna Meri Soniye" from Baghban and others. He mimicked for Amitabh Bachcha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sushma Shrestha
Poornima Shrestha (born 6 September 1960 as Sushma Shrestha) is an Indian playback singer. Starting as a child artist, she became a leading playback singer in Bollywood during the 1990s. Early life Hailing from the Newar community from Nepal, Poornima was born as an Indian in Mumbai. Her father was music composer Bholanath Shrestha, who worked primarily with Hindi film music directors. He was from Kathmandu and settled in Kolkata and eventually in Mumbai. Friend and assistant to Shankar–Jaikishan recommended her to Shankar. In spite of the prevailing custom of women playback singers singing for children, Shankar took the challenge of using an unknown child to sing "Hai Na Bolo Bolo" for the film '' Andaz''. Sushama recorded her first song on 11 November 1969 with Mohammed Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur. She was the first successful child singer in Hindi films. She recorded a children's album called ''Bal Geet'', which had S.Khale composing the songs and Shanta Shelke pennin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam (née Ghanekar, born 7 March 1969) is an Indian singer known for her playback career in Indian cinema predominantly in Hindi, Marathi language, Marathi, Bengali language, Bengali, Nepali, Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu language films. She is a recipient of the National Film Awards, National Film Award and Filmfare Awards South, She has also won five Maharashtra State Film Awards, four Gujarat State Film Awards and one Odisha State Film Awards, Orissa State Film Award. Early life Sargam was born in a Marathi family of musicians at Dabhol, the seaport town in Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra. Her mother Neela Ghanekar was a classical singer and music teacher and knew arranger–composer Anil Mohile, who then arranged music for Kalyanji-Anandji. He introduced Sargam to them, and she was in the children's chorus in "Pam Pararampam, Bole Jeevan Ki Sargam" sung by Kishore Kumar in G. P. Sippy's ''Trishna (1978 film), Trishna'' (1978). Sargam performe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roop Kumar Rathod
Roopkumar Rathod an Indian playback singer, pop singer, and music composer. He has performed a number of songs in Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Assamese, Odia, Nepali, Bhojpuri and Kannada films. Personal life Rathod is the second son of the late Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, a proponent of the oldest major vocal style associated with Hindustani classical music, Dhrupad. He belonged to the "Aditya Gharana of Jamnagar." He has two brothers, music composer Shravan Rathod, part of the Nadeem-Shravan duo, and singer Vinod Rathod. Roopkumar is married to Sunali Rathod, formerly the first wife of bhajan singer, Anup Jalota. Together, they have a daughter named Reewa Rathod. Roopkumar was introduced to music during his early years. He began playing the tabla and he became sought after by many ghazal singers in the 1980s. He first began playback singing in 1992 with the film ''Angaar''. Career Rathod has appeared as a vocalist on albums from 1999. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tips Music
Tips Music Industries Limited is an Indian music record label and film production, film promotion, and film distribution company in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded by Kumar S. Taurani and Ramesh S. Taurani in 1975. Its distributors serve more than 1,000 wholesalers and 400,000 retailers across India. History After seeing great success in the LP's business in Western India, the Taurani brothers first established Tips Cassettes & Records Co as a partnership firm in 1988. The firm's main interest lied in manufacture and trade of audio and video cassettes. For this purpose, it set up its first manufacturing facility in 1990 in Palghar, Maharashtra. In 1992, R.K Electronics was dissolved and merged with Tips. In 1996, the firm was converted into a joint stock company and renamed Tips Industries Private Limited. The second facility for manufacturing blank and pre recorded audio cassettes was opened in 1997 in the city of Silvassa. The company went public on 1 July 1999. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Soundtrack
A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound. In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially, the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own separate track, and these are mixed together to make what is called the ''composite track,'' which is heard in the film. A ''dubbing track'' is often later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as an M&E (music and effects) track. M&E tracks contain all sound elements minus dialogue, which is then supplied by the foreign distributor in the native language of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soundtrack Album
A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show. The first such album to be commercially released was Walt Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (soundtrack), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', the soundtrack to the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', in 1938. The first soundtrack album of a film's orchestral score was that for Alexander Korda's 1942 film ''Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book'', composed by Miklós Rózsa. Overview When a feature film is released, or during and after a television series airs, an music album, album in the form of a soundtrack is frequently released alongside it. A soundtrack typically contains instrumentation or alternatively a film score. But it can also feature songs that were sung or performed by characters in a scene (or a cover version of a song in the media, re-recorded by a popular artist), songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
