''Shakeela'' is a 2020 an Indian Hindi-language biographical film written and directed by

Indrajit Lankesh Indrajit Lankesh is an Indian filmmaker, producer, and director of Kannada and Hindi films. He is also the publisher of the weekly Kannada tabloid '' Lankesh Patrike''. He is the son of iconic writer, journalist and film maker P. Lankesh. Lank ...

. The film stars

Richa Chadda Richa Chadda (born 18 December 1986) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. After debuting in a small role in the comedy film '' Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!'' (2008), Chadda's breakthrough came in 2012 with a supporting role in the noir gang ...

as the eponymous adult star of 1990s who acted in adult films in several Indian languages, with

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and

Rajeev Pillai Rajeev Govinda Pillai is an Indian actor from Malayalam cinema. His acting debut was in the movie '' City of God'' directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery (2011) where he played one of the heroes. His popularity further increased with the stellar pe ...

in supporting roles. The film has been produced by Sammy Nanwani and Sahil Nanwani. Shakeela released on 25 December 2020 in theatres.

Cast

Shakeela C. Shakeela, known mononymously as Shakeela, is an Indian actress and politician who has predominantly acted in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu language films. She is a member of Indian National Congress. Shakeela debuted in the film ''Playgirls ...

as Superstar Salim *

as Antony *

Ester Noronha Ester Valerie Noronha (born 12 September 1992), is an Indian actress and playback singer who works in Telugu, Kannada and Konkani-language films. ''1000 Abaddalu'' (2013), ''Bhimavaram Bullodu'' (2014) and ''Lanke'' (2021) are some of her not ...

as Suhana * Kajol Chugh as Young Shakeela * Sheeva Rana as

Silk Smitha Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati (2 December 1960 – 23 September 1996), better known by her stage name Silk Smitha, was an Indian actress and dancer who worked predominantly in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films. Smitha was part of ...

* Ahaana Kochar as Ahaana * Suchendra Prasad as si aarumugam * Valerian Menezes as a director of Salim

Production

Richa Chadha at the launch of the Shakeela 2019 Calendar

Lankesh started working on the film in 2019.

said in an interview that she came to know many lesser known facts about

like she hired a body double to do her scenes. Though the posters and few glimpses were out in 2018 and 2019 by Shakeela team.

Release

The film released on 25 December 2020 (on Christmas) in four languages : Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam languages. The box office collections of the film was affected by piracy after HD version with subtitles was leaked online on torrent sites, the leak was traced to someone in the Middle East.

Soundtrack

The songs are composed by Veer Samarth and

Meet Bros Meet Bros is an Indian musical duo from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. The duo consists of brothers Manmeet Singh and Harmeet Singh. They were formerly known as Meet Bros Anjjan with longtime collaborator Anjjan Bhattacharya. Initially starting out ...

. The lyrics are written by Kumaar in Hindi, Rajeev Alunkal, Saheb Khan and Dhanasekar in Malayalam, Rajesh Malarvannan in Tamil, Rajshri Sudhakar in Telugu.

Jayanth Kaikini Jayanth Kaikini (born 24 January 1955) is a poet, short story writer, playwright, columnist in Kannada and a lyricist in Kannada Cinema. He has so far published six anthologies of short stories, four books of poetry, three plays and a collecti ...

, Veeresh MP and Krishna Ritti in Kannada.

Track list Hindi (original)

Track list Malayalam

Track list Tamil

Track list Telugu

Track list Kannada

References

External links

*
Shakeela
on

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