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Walkaway (film)
''Walkaway'' is an independent romantic comedy film directed and produced by Shailja Gupta released in 2010. ''Walkaway'' has a 40% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 5 reviews with an average rating of 3.6 out of 10. Synopsis Four intersecting stories, each exploring different aspects of love and companionship, as four friends struggle to find their way through the meanders of Indian matrimony, in a bittersweet attempt to combine their deep-rooted tradition and 'modern' New York life in perfect harmony. Set in New York, this film mocks the clutches of social obligations on 'modern' professionals from India, and explores subtleties of the Indian mega-institution of marriage, from the now-veiled urban dowry system to the overwhelming compromises demanded of a cross-cultural couple. Darius, Vinay, Shridhar and Soham - single, dating, engaged and married, struggle to maintain some semblance of sanity while questioning themselves, their desires and choices, and the importance of unshakeable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manu Narayan
Manu Narayan (born August 16, 1973) is an American actor, film producer, singer, songwriter, composer and saxophonist. He served as a Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University, his alma mater, from 2013-2016. Narayan was hailed as a "promising young star...a compelling actor and outstanding singer who can light up a stage with sheer force of personality," by UPI in 2004 when he made his Broadway debut in the Andrew Lloyd Webber, A.R. Rahman musical ''Bombay Dreams'', originating the role of the "hero" Akaash. Narayan co-starred as Rajneesh alongside Mike Myers in the Paramount Pictures' feature film ''The Love Guru'' (2008). Early life Narayan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is an accomplished classical saxophonist in the western and South Indian Carnatic styles. When Narayan was a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, he won the Concerto Competition and performed the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto with orchestra at Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh. Narayan stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samrat Chakrabarti
Samrat Chakrabarti (born 22 August 1975) is a British-American film actor and musician of Indian descent. Early life Born in London to Indian Hindu Bengali immigrant parents from Kolkata. He performed in Indian community functions in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was exposed to music, poetry and the plays of Rabindranath Tagore. Career Acting Having acted all through school, Chakrabarti's feature film debut came in 2004 in Spike Lee's ''She Hate Me''. Early in his career, he starred opposite Molly Shannon in ''The Wedding Weekend'' and then in Manish Acharya's ''Loins of Punjab Presents''. He also had a role in the Australian film, ''The Waiting City''. His film, '' The War Within'', was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award while ''Bombay Summer'', starring Tannishtha Chatterjee won Best Film at the 2009 MIAAC Film Festival. Chakrabarti starred opposite Rebecca Hazelwood in '' Kissing Cousins'' and made an appearance in the Yash Raj-produced Bollywood film, ''New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manish Dayal
Manish Patel (born June 17, 1983), known professionally as Manish Dayal, is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Raj Kher in The CW hit teen series '' 90210'' as well as in the films '' The Hundred Foot Journey'' (2014) and ''Viceroy's House'' (2017). Since 2018, he has featured as a main cast member of the Amy Holden Jones-created Fox medical drama series '' The Resident''. Early and personal life Dayal was born Manish Patel to an Indian Gujarati family in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His parents, Hema and Sudhir Patel, are from Gujarat. He has a sister, Neisha Patel, who is a vascular neurology fellow at Columbia University Medical Center. He uses his grandfather's first name, Dayal, as his stage surname. He attended Marshall Elementary School and later went to Heathwood Hall in Columbia, South Carolina. He subsequently obtained a degree in International Business from George Washington University. After he graduated in 2005, he moved to New York to pursue his acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pallavi Sharda
Pallavi Sharda (born 5 March 1990) is an Australian actress of Indian descent, and a classical Indian Bharathanatyam dancer. Her film credits include Oscar nominated film ''Lion'' (2016), Bollywood films ''Begum Jaan'' (2017) and ''Hawaizaada'' (2015), and comedy Australian film '' Save Your Legs!'' (2012) and Les Norton, Australian teleseries. She has worked in Hindi films like ''My Name Is Khan'', ''Dus Tola'', '' Besharam'', ''Hawaizaada'', and ''Begum Jaan''. In 2021, Sharda starred in ''Tom & Jerry.'' Her latest release is the 2022 rom-com '' Wedding Season'' with Suraj Sharma. Early life Sharda was born in an Indian family in Perth, Western Australia to Hema Sharda, and Nalin Kant Sharda. Both her parents are IIT alumni and have PhDs in science and engineering. They migrated to Australia in the 1980s before she was born. Sharda came to Melbourne as a toddler where she grew up in the outer north-western suburbs. She went to school at Lowther Hall in Essendon where she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ami Sheth
Ami Sheth is an American actress and model best known for starring in the NBC drama ''Blindspot'', the AMC drama ''Dietland'', and the American film ''Most Beautiful Island''. Sheth was included in the 2019 Vogue India list of the Top 50 Most Influential Global Indians. Early and personal life Sheth was born to Indian immigrant parents and grew up in New Jersey, United States. She graduated from Boston University with a degree in biology and later received her doctorate in veterinary medicine. She later practised at a vet hospital in Staten Island and quit the job to go into acting. While she was in college, she attended acting classes, and since then she has continued to play parts in theatre, film, and television. Riz Ahmed, Mindy Kaling, Priyanka Chopra, and Aasif Mandvi have been her inspirations. She has worked with the Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra at the Sundance Film Lab in Utah. Sheth is married to Miraj Patel, and has a daughter. Career She has starred in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Sampath
Ram Sampath (born 25 July 1977) is an Indian composer, music producer and musician, who started his career composing advertising jingles for Mumbai-based advertising industry, subsequently he started composing for pop albums like ''Tanha Dil'' (2000) by Shaan (singer), Shaan, before composing for films like ''Khakee'', ''Delhi Belly (film), Delhi Belly'' (2011), ''Talaash (2012 film), Talaash'' (2012), ''Raees (2017 film), Raees'' etc. He has composed music for advertising jingles for brands like Bharti Airtel, Airtel, Tata DoCoMo, Docomo, Thums Up, Pepsi and the Times of India. Early life and background Born to a Tamilian father and Kannadiga mother, Sampath grew up in Chembur, Bombay where he did his schooling from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High School, OLPS High School. Both his parents were musically inclined, while his grandfather TV Ramanujam, was one of the founder of Shanmukhananda Hall, a cultural centre in Sion, Mumbai, established in 1952. Thus his ancestral house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fandango Media
Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website as well as through their mobile app, as well as a provider of television and streaming media information through its subsidiary Rotten Tomatoes. History On April 11, 2007, Comcast acquired Fandango, with plans to integrate it into a new entertainment website called "Fancast.com," set to launch the summer of 2007. In June 2008, the domain Movies.com was acquired from Disney. In March 2012, Fandango announced a partnership with Yahoo! Movies, making Fandango the official online and mobile ticketer for registered users of the Yahoo! service. That October, Paul Yanover was named President of Fandango. Fandango made its first international acquisition in September 2015 when it bought the Brazilian ticketing company Ingresso, which provides ticketing to a variety of Brazilian entertainment events, including the biannual Rock in Rio festival. On January 29, 2016, Fandango announced it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
