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Akhilendra Mishra
Akhilendra Mishra is an Indian film and television character actor best known for his role as ''Kroor Singh'' in the 1990s Doordarshan fantasy television series '' Chandrakanta''. His other notable works include the character of ''Mirchi'' Seth in the 1999 critically acclaimed film '' Sarfarosh''. He also played the character of ''Arjan'' in the Academy Award nominated film '' Lagaan''. He played the demon king ''Ravana'' in the 2008 television adaptation of the Hindu epic Ramayana. Mishra played the antagonist opposite Salman Khan in '' Veergati'' released in 1995. Early life and career Mishra was born in Siwan, Bihar. He did his schooling from Chhapra Zila School and attended Chapra's Rajendra College where he pursued Bachelor of Science in Physics (Honours). Although he wanted to become an engineer, Mishra started doing theatre at a young age with his first role in a Bhojpuri drama based on a story about child marriage titled ''Gauna Ki Rat''. He later joined Indian Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siwan, Bihar
Siwan is a city and nagar parishad in the Indian state of Bihar. It is the administrative headquarters of Siwan district and one of the urban settlements out of three in the district. It is located close to Uttar Pradesh. History The Siwan Municipal Council (SMC) was established in 1924. It was the subdivisional headquarters of Siwan subdivision under the old Saran district. It became district headquarters of the Siwan district when it was formed in 1972. Geography and climate Siwan city is located at coordinates Latitude and longitude. It is counted in one of the tarai region of Himalaya Mountain range. It has an average elevation of . Daha River, which is a small river, which floods in rainy season pass through the west of the town. The river starts drying up during the summer. The green area in Siwan is about (21%) of its area. The weather of Siwan is generally mild cool throughout the year and temperature falls down up to 4 °C in December and January but it is wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award
The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The Oscars are widely considered to be the most prestigious awards in the film industry. The major award categories, known as the Academy Awards of Merit, are presented during a live-televised Hollywood ceremony in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929. The second ceremony, in 1930, was the first one broadcast by radio. The 1953 ceremony was the first one televised. It is the oldest of the four major annual American entertainment awards. Its counterparts—the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music—are modeled after the Academy Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fida
''Fida'' (translation: ''Infatuated'') is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic action thriller film directed by Ken Ghosh, starring Fardeen Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor and Akhilendra Mishra. The film was released on 20 August 2004. Plot The film starts with someone emptying the bank accounts of many people, including Babu Anna, an underworld don, via an Internet theft. The police are clueless about the robber, and Anna wants revenge. Desperately wanting his money back, Anna assigns his men to find that hacker. The film then shifts to a young man named Jai Malhotra who lives with his best friend, Sonia. One day he sees a woman named Neha Mehra and falls madly in love with her instantly. At first, Neha rejects Jai's advances and this causes him to attempt suicide and prior to that he carves "I love you Neha" on his hand with a knife. After Sonia chastises Neha regarding Jai's actions, she then falls for him too. Sonia, who’s secretly in love with Jai, becomes heartb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hulchul (2004 Film)
''Hulchul'' () is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Priyadarshan. It is a remake of the 1991 Malayalam film '' Godfather''. The film stars an ensemble cast with Akshaye Khanna, Kareena Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Jackie Shroff, Arshad Warsi, Amrish Puri, Paresh Rawal, Arbaaz Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Farha Naaz, and Laxmi . Plot Angar Chand lives a rich lifestyle in a small Indian town with his wife and four sons. The eldest son, Balram falls for Dhamini, who reciprocates his feelings. Though her mother Laxmi opposes this, Angar wants their wedding. Dhamini's dad, Sanjeev, accidentally kills Angar's wife Parvati. Dhamini is forcefully married off to Kashinath Pathak. Enraged, Angar kills Sanjeev and is jailed for 14 years. After being released from jail, Angar returns home to declare that women won't be allowed in his property, posting a sign on the front gate and forbidding his sons to ever marry. 6 years later, Dhamini's daughter Anjali is in college with Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeh Dil
''Yeh Dil'' ( ''This Heart'') is a 2003 Indian Hindi romantic drama film directed by Teja, starring Tusshar Kapoor and Anita Hassanandani. The film was an official remake of 2001 Telugu film ''Nuvvu Nenu''. Anita Hassanandani reprised her role from the original version. Synopsis Ravi Pratap Singh ( Tusshar Kapoor) is a college student and the son of a wealthy businessman Raghuraj Pratap Singh (Akhilendra Mishra). His best friend Kabir always helps him. Ravi lives with his father, as his mother died. Vasundhara Yadav (Anita Hassanandani), is the daughter of a middle class wrestler Mithua Yadav (Vineet Kumar) studying in the same college. She lives in a joint family with many of her relatives. Ravi excels in sports, but is terrible in academics. Vasu doesn't pay attention to sports and focuses on academics. Ravi is neglected by Raghuraj who always focuses on business and wealth. Raghuraj expects him to excel in academics, so he can send him to Harvard Business School. Similarly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost
''Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost'' () is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language drama film starring Abhishek Bachchan, Lara Dutta and Chunky Pandey. The film is directed by Apoorva Lakhia in his directorial debut. The film touched on the subject of the influence of television on village life. Synopsis Dinanath Singh is honored by the Indian Government, which is televised live. While receiving the honors, Dinanath informs the government that his village is still without electricity, and he is promised that electricity will be provided in his village immediately. And electricity is provided in the village. Dinanath's grandson, Karan "Kanji," who is in Mumbai, hears of this and returns to the village along with a C-Band ten foot satellite dish and a super flat stereo television. When the satellite is set up, the villagers are thrilled by the TV shows. This helps create a running gag of copying TV culture into rural lives. The changes lead to the village priest complaining to Chotey Thakur Rudra P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parwana (2003 Film)
''Parwana'' (translation: ''moth'') is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Deepak Bahry. The film stars Ajay Devgn, Ameesha Patel and Pooja Batra. Summary Shahtaj belongs to a group of Jihad freedom fighters who have taken it upon themselves to free Kashmir from the clutches of India. They are now ready to terrorize Bombay, but before that could happen, Shahtaj is captured by Indian intelligence agents and held in an interrogation cell. When he is being transported to another facility, his colleagues dramatically help him escape via a helicopter. Now there is virtually no one who can stop Shahtaj and his men from carrying out terrorist attacks on Bombay during the Ganesh Visharjan day, when thousands of people converge near the beaches to immerse Bhagwan Shri Ganesh into the sea. Then a bumbling conman and thief, who calls himself Parwana, robs the suitcase that contains the bomb. Shortly thereafter, Parwana is arrested by Police Inspector Hardev Singh H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aanch
''Aanch'' is a 2003 Hindi language drama film directed by Rajesh Kumar Singh. Nana Patekar, Paresh Rawal, Suchindra Bali (in his Hindi debut) and Sharbani Mukherjee played the lead roles. Plot Mahadev Thakur (Nana Patekar) and Jawahar Pandit (Paresh Rawal) belong to two different villages, Mandaur and Amirpur, respectively. They hate each other for reasons best known to them. Diwakar ( Suchindra Bali) is a carefree guy whose father (residing in Amirpur) and Vidya's ( Sharbani Mukherjee) brother Shiva (Deepraj Rana) (a resident of Mandaur) decide to get Diwakar and Vidya married. The preparations for the marriage ceremony begin, and neither the boy nor the girl know what the other looks like. In the meantime, the two villages get ready to confront each other in case of a quarrel. The wedding ceremony is underway when the rivalry between the two village heads and the roar of the guns starts. The bride and the groom come separately to the town for studies, oblivious to each other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangaajal
''Gangaajal: The Holy Weapon'' () is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film written, directed, co-produced and edited by Prakash Jha. Featuring an ensemble cast of 87 actors, it revolves around the Superintendent of Police Amit Kumar (Ajay Devgn) who takes charge of the fictitious district of Tejpur, Bihar, known for its high crime rate and organised crime carried out by dons Sadhu Yadav ( Mohan Joshi) and Sunder Yadav ( Yashpal Sharma). Due to the local police's slow response to crimes, residents of the district resort to pouring acid in the eyes of the criminals as an instrument for extrajudicial justice. Following the release of his directorial debut '' Damul'' (1984), Jha conceived an idea for his next venture that would be titled ''Gangaajal'', which would be about corruption and political violence. Jha was unfamiliar with the subject matter and had no desire to start production, and took twenty years to write the story. The film, announced in January 2001, was pho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandra Shekhar Azad
Chandra Shekhar Sitaram Tiwari (23 July 1906 – 27 February 1931), popularly known as Chandra Shekhar Azad, was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) after the death of its founder, Ram Prasad Bismil, and three other prominent party leaders, Roshan Singh, Rajendra Nath Lahiri and Ashfaqulla Khan. He hailed from Bardarka village in Unnao district of United Provinces and his parents were Sitaram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi. He often used the pseudonym "Balraj" while signing pamphlets issued as the commander-in-chief of the HSRA. Famous Quote of Chandra Shekhar Azad * “Dushman ki goliyon ka hum samna karenge, Azad hee rahein hain, Azad hee rahenge” (We will face the enemy’s bullets, we were free, we will stay free). Early life Chandra Shekhar Azad was born on 23 July 1906 in Bhabhra village as Chandra Shekhar Tiwari, in a Kanyakubja Brahmin family, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legend Of Bhagat Singh
''The Legend of Bhagat Singh'' is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. The film is about Bhagat Singh, a revolutionary who fought for Indian independence along with fellow members of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. It features Ajay Devgn as the titular character along with Sushant Singh, D. Santosh and Akhilendra Mishra as the other lead characters. Raj Babbar, Farida Jalal and Amrita Rao play supporting roles. The film chronicles Singh's life from his childhood where he witnesses the Jallianwala Bagh massacre until the day he was hanged to death before the official trial dated 24 March 1931. The film was produced by Kumar and Ramesh Taurani's Tips Industries on a budget of 200–250 million (about US$4.2–5.2 million in 2002). The story and dialogue were written by Santoshi and Piyush Mishra respectively, while Anjum Rajabali drafted the screenplay. K. V. Anand, V. N. Mayekar and Nitin Chandra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lal Salaam (2002 Film)
''Lal Salam'' ( " Red salute") is a salute, greeting, or code word used by communists in South Asia South Asia is the southern Subregion#Asia, subregion of Asia that is defined in both geographical and Ethnicity, ethnic-Culture, cultural terms. South Asia, with a population of 2.04 billion, contains a quarter (25%) of the world's populatio .... The phrase is a compound of ''lāl'', meaning "red" in Hindi-Urdu, and ''salām'', meaning "peace", a contraction of the Arabic phrase '' as-salāmu ʿalaykum'', a Muslim greeting meaning "peace be upon you". References Further reading * Greeting words and phrases Communism in India Communism in Pakistan Communism in Bangladesh Hindi words and phrases Urdu-language words and phrases {{rhetoric-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
