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Imaad Shah
Imaaduddin Shah (also credited as Imaad Shah; born 20 September 1986) is an Indian actor and musician. He is the son of actors Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah. Early life Imaad was born to actors Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak on 20 September 1986 in Mumbai. He has a brother Vivaan Shah, Vivaan and a paternal half-sister Heeba Shah, Heeba. He did his schooling at The Doon School in Dehradun and then graduated from St. Xavier's College in Mumbai. Career Imaad made his acting debut in 2006 in his father's ''Yun Hota To Kya Hota''. In 2007, he acted in ''Dil Dosti Etc'' under Prakash Jha, where he played a young Delhi University student with a penchant for the secret corners of the old town. He is also a theatre actor and works with the theatre company Motley, founded by Naseeruddin Shah and Benjamin Gilani. He has been a part of many productions including ''Katha Collage'', ''Waiting for Godot'', ''By George'' and ''Manto Ismat Haazir Hain'', apart from working with oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
39th International Film Festival Of India
The 39th International Film Festival of India was held in Panaji, Goa from 22 November 2008 to 1 December 2008. Winners *IFFI Best Film Award, Golden Peacock (Best Film): "Tulpan" by "Sergey Dvortsevoy" *IFFI Special Jury Award and Special Mention, Silver Peacock Special Jury Award: Malani Fonseka for the film "Akasa Kusum" *IFFI Best Director Award, Silver Peacock Award for the Most Promising Asian Director: "Sergey Dvortsevoy" for the film "Tulpan" Jury *Niki Karimi *Tabassum Hashmi *Marco Mueller *Lav Diaz *Peter Ho-Sun Chan In competition The competition section had 15 films including *''My Mother's Tears'' *''Rupant'' *''The Shaft'' *''Kanchivaram'' *''Mahasatta'' *''The Song of Sparrows'' *''The Red Spot'' *''Tulpan'' (Golden Peacock winner) *''Pensil'' *''Ploning'' *''Akasa Kusum'' *The Coffin (film), ''The Coffin'' References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and List of newspapers by circulation, largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is a newspaper of record. Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. In a 2021 surve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Dogra
Monica Dogra is an American musician and actress. She has acted in six feature films, as well as released five studio albums with the band Shaa’ir and Func. She is a member on the judging panel of India's first English music talent show, ''The Stage''. She hosted four seasons of the music-Docu series ''The Dewarists'' that was nominated for a Cannes Lion. She also worked on the Viceland Emmy nominated series ''Woman'' produced by Gloria Steinem. Early life Monica Dogra is the daughter of Dogra Hindu immigrants from Jammu. Her maternal uncle is Dogri folk music singer Prakash Sharma. She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended Oakleigh Elementary School, Montessori and Dulaney High School. She attended New York University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in musical theatre. Career In 2005, she formed the electronic rock group "Shaa'ir+Func", along with guitarist Randolph Correia. In 2007, they released their first album ''New Day: The Love Album'', followed by '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridhi Dogra
Riddhi Dogra (born 22 September 1984 or 1985) is an Indian actress known for her role of Nusrat in JioCinema's ''Asur (web series), Asur'', Astha in Alt Balaji's ''The Married Woman'', Priya in Star Plus's ''Maryada: Lekin Kab Tak?'' and Nisha in Zee TV's ''Woh Apna Sa''. She also participated in the reality shows ''Nach Baliye 6'' and ''Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 6''. Early life Dogra was born on 22 September 1984/85 in Delhi. She studied at Apeejay School, Sheikh Sarai in New Delhi and graduated in Psychology (Honours) from Kamala Nehru College. Career Before she entered the television industry, Dogra was a dancer in the Shiamak Davar, Shiamak Dawar Dance Institute. Her first job in the industry was as a co-producer on Zoom (Indian TV channel), Zoom. She has also hosted many televised events and travel based shows for Zee TV, NDTV Good times, Zoom Television, and on ground events since her years in Television. In 2013, she participated in ''Nach Baliye, Nach Bali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saba Azad
Saba Azad (born Saba Singh Grewal, 1 November 1985) is an Indian actress, theatre director and musician. She is one half of Mumbai-based electro funk duo Madboy/Mink. She made her Bollywood debut as one of the leads Raaga in the indie film ''Dil Kabaddi'' (2008). She is known for her leading role in the romantic comedy film '' Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge'' (2011). She also played the role of Dingo in the 2016 Y-Films web series, ''Ladies Room''. Early life Azad was born in Delhi to a Punjabi father and a Kashmiri mother. She is the niece of theatre great Safdar Hashmi. Born into a theatre family, Azad performed with Safdar Hashmi's theatre group Jana Natya Manch in their stage productions since a very young age, where she worked with Habib Tanvir, MK Raina, GP Deshpande and NK Sharma. She also trained in dance forms like Odissi, classical ballet, jazz, Latin as well as contemporary dance forms. Traveling with her Odissi guru, Kiran Segal, she performed in and outside the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (film)
''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' is a 2012 American political thriller drama film directed by Mira Nair and starring Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, and Liev Schreiber. It is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Mohsin Hamid. The film is a post-9/11 story about the impact of the terrorist attacks on one Pakistani man and his treatment by Americans in reaction to them. In 2007, Nair read the manuscript of Hamid's unpublished novel. After reading it, she decided to make a film. Her production house, Mirabai Films, and Nair's long-time partner, producer Lydia Dean Pilcher's production company, Cine Mosaic, optioned the film rights to the novel. The film premiered as the opening film for the 69th Venice International Film Festival, and at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival. The film had a limited release in the United States on 26 April 2013, by IFC Films. In Pakistan, the film was released in Urdu with a changed title as ''Changez'' on 24 May 2013. The film also scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Nair
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City. Her production company is Mirabai Films. Among her films are '' Mississippi Masala'', '' The Namesake'', the Golden Lion–winning '' Monsoon Wedding'', and '' Salaam Bombay!'', which received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. Early life and education Nair was born on 15 October 1957 in Rourkela, in Orissa, India. She grew up with her two older brothers and parents in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Her father, Amrit Lal Nair, was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service, and her mother, Praveen Nair, was a social worker. Her family is of Punjabi Sikh origin with roots from Delhi. Nair lived in Bhubaneswar until age 18 and attended English-medium high school at Loreto Convent, Tara Hall, Shimla, where she developed a fondness for English literature. She went on to study at highly ranked Miranda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasher Desh
''Tasher Desh'' () is a 2012 Bengali-language fantasy film directed by Q. The film has been described as a "trippy adaptation" of the 1933 Rabindrath Tagore play of the same name by Indian media. It begins with a nihilist playwright searching where the play, 'Tasher Desh' by Rabindranath Tagore is being played. He goes to major play theatres in Kolkata like The Academy of Fine Arts but no one has a show of Tasher Desh in the near time. He finally writes his own adapted script of the play by Tagore and completely immerses himself into it. Most of the dialogues and all the songs in the film are from the original play by Tagore while director Q is picturising himself as the playwright. It features Soumyak Kanti De Biswas, Anubrata Basu, Tillotama Shome, Rii, Joyraj BhattacharjeeTinu Verghis and Immaduddin Shah in the lead roles. Tasher Desh made its international premiere on 11 November 2012 at the 7th Rome International Film Festival. The film had its release in India on 23 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
404 (film)
''404'' (also known as ''404: Error Not Found'') is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film directed by Prawaal Raman and written by Prawal Raman and Gunjan Joshi (as dialogue writer). It stars Imaad Shah, Nishikant Kamat, Rajvvir Aroraa, Tisca Chopra, and Satish Kaushik in the lead roles. It was produced by Imagik Media Private Ltd. (Nameeta Nair) and was released in theaters on May 20, 2011. The movie follows a medical college student who shifts to the college hostel's room 404, where a previous medical student had committed suicide, and the paranormal delusions that he begins having since then. Plot Professor Anirudh ( Nishikant Kamath) strongly believes in science, and for him, things that don't have scientific explanations do not exist. A room in his medical institution (numbered 404) is rumoured to be haunted by the ghost of a student named Gaurav, who previously stayed in that room and had committed suicide there, which he surely doesn't believe. A ration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia
Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilisations. Its 4.7 billion people constitute roughly 60% of the world's population. Asia shares the landmass of Eurasia with Europe, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. In general terms, it is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. The border of Asia with Europe is a social constructionism, historical and cultural construct, as there is no clear physical and geographical separation between them. A commonly accepted division places Asia to the east of the Suez Canal separating it from Africa; and to the east of the Turkish straits, the Ural Mountains an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. The region includes Middle America (Americas), Middle America (comprising the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico) and Northern America. North America covers an area of about , representing approximately 16.5% of Earth's land area and 4.8% of its total surface area. It is the third-largest continent by size after Asia and Africa, and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, fourth-largest continent by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. , North America's population was estimated as over 592 million people in list of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America, 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. Europe is commonly considered to be Boundaries between the continents#Asia and Europe, separated from Asia by the Drainage divide, watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural (river), Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterway of the Bosporus, Bosporus Strait. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and Europe ... is formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Black Sea with its outlets, the Bosporus and Dardanelles." Europe covers approx. , or 2% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface (6.8% of Earth's land area), making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
