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Satish Jain (director)
Satish Jain is an Indian film writer and director who has worked mainly in the Chhattisgarhi, Bhojpuri and Hindi film industries. He made his debut as a director with the Chhattisgarhi movie Mor Chhainha Bhuinya in 2000. He is fondly called the Manmohan Desai of Chhollywood. He has also been honourned in 2021 for his contribution to Chhattisgarhi cinema. Growing up Jain's brush with films started at an early age when he watched films while visiting his relatives in Kanker, Bilaspur, and Dhamtari. However, the real desire in him to work in Bollywood developed when he watched Sridevi in films like Himmatwala and Solva Sawan. Jain who is known for directing commercially successful movies insists on not making films on other's stories. He holds the record for making maximum number of successful Chhattisgarhi films. Career Early career Satish Jain came to Mumbai in 1984 to work in the film industry. He started his career as reporter for a film magazine named Madhuri. Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mor Chhainha Bhuinya
''Mor Chhainha Bhuinya'' () is a 2000 Chhattisgarhi-language comedy drama film directed by Satish Jain with Shekhar Soni, Anuj Sharma, Poonam Naqvi, Jagriti Rai, Ashish Shendre, and Manmohan Thakur in lead roles. It is the first film to be made in Chhattisgarhi language after ''Ghar Dwar'' (1971). ''Mor Chhainha Bhuinya'' was released on Diwali day on October 27, 2000. The film was a major commercial and critical success. The film produced by Shivdayal Jain, is recognized as Anuj Sharma's debut film and is credited for giving a major impetus to Chhattisgarh's own film industry or Chhollywood. After 24 years the diirector came out with a sequel Mor Chhainha Bhuinya 2. Plot The film is about a farmer family's trials and tribulations involving three generations. A man with his wife and children leaves his poor old parents' home alone and goes to Mumbai for work. However, disillusioned he is forced to return to the village after facing tough times in the big city where they h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhanupratappur
Bhanupratappur is a town and a Notified Area Council in Kanker district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. It is the administrative headquarters of its eponymous development block, tehsil, and constituency of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. The town derives its name from King Bhanupratap Deo, the last ruler of erstwhile Kanker princely state. History A few years after the death of the last king of Kanker, Bhanupratap Deo (1969), a village was established in his memory, named Bhanupratappur. Demographics According to the 2011 Census, Bhanupratappur has a population of 8,856. Males constitute 49.7% (4401) of the population whereas females constitute 50.3% (4455). The sex ratio is 1012 females per 1000 males, higher than the national average of 940 per 1000. Children below 6 years of age constitute 10.87% of the population with child sex ratio at 941 males per 1000 females. The effective literacy rate is 90.47%; male literacy rate being 95.48% and female literacy rat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhamtari
Dhamtari is a municipal corporation and headquarters of the Dhamtari district in the state of Chhattisgarh, India, which is part of the Mahasamund Lok Sabha constituency formed on 6July 1998. The district is home to 3.13 percent of Chhattisgarh's total population. History Dhamtari's population was 17,278 in 1955. At that time, the town was part of Raipur District in the state of Madhya Pradesh. In 2000, it became part of the new Chhattisgarh state and headquarters for the Dhamtari tehsil. As a terminus of a narrow-gauge railway running north of Raipur on the main Bombay-Calcutta line of the Bengal Nagpur Railway, Dhamtari became a trade centre. Goods shipped from there included timber, shellac, morabulum nuts, beedi leaves (for cigarettes), rice and animal hides. The American Mennonite Mission was established in Dhamtari in 1899. By 1952 the mission had merged with the Mennonite Church in India (MC), which had its headquarters in Dhamtari. In 1955 the 558-member congrega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenplay
A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show (also known as a '' teleplay''), or video game by screenwriters (cf. ''stage play''). Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A screenplay is a form of narration in which the movements, actions, expressions and dialogue of the characters are described in a certain format. Visual or cinematographic cues may be given, as well as scene descriptions and scene changes. History In the early silent era, before the turn of the 20th century, "scripts" for films in the United States were usually a synopsis of a film of around one paragraph and sometimes as short as one sentence.Andrew Kenneth Gay"History of scripting and the screenplay"at Screenplayology: An Online Center for Screenplay Studies. Retrieved 15 December 2021. Shortly thereafter, as films grew in length and complexity, film scenarios (also called "treatments" or "synopses"Steven Maras. ''Screenwri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dialogue
Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American and British English spelling differences, American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literature, literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophy, philosophical or didactic device, it is chiefly associated in the West with the Socratic dialogue as developed by Plato, but antecedents are also found in other traditions including Indian literature. Etymology The term ''dialogue'' stems from the Greek language, Greek (, ); its roots are (, ) and (, ). The first extant author who uses the term is Plato, in whose works it is closely associated with the art of dialectic. Latin took over the word as . As genre Antiquity Dialogue as a genre in the Middle East and Asia dates back to ancient works, such as Sumerian disputations preserved in copies from the late third millennium BC, Rigvedic dialogue hymns, and the ''Mahabharata''. In the West, Plato ( BC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatya
''Hatya'' (translation: ''Murder'') is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language drama thriller film directed and produced by ''Kirti Kumar''. Released on 3 June 1988, the film stars an ensemble cast of Govinda, Neelam, Sujitha, Anupam Kher, Babu Antony, Om Shivpuri, Raj Kiran, Johnny Lever and Satyen Kappu. This film is a remake of Malayalam film '' Poovinu Puthiya Poonthennal'' (1986) which was remade into five other languages - in Tamil as '' Poovizhi Vasalile'' (1987), in Telugu as ''Pasivadi Pranam'' (1987), in Kannada as ''Aapadbandhava'', in Bangladeshi as ''Khotipuron'' and in Sinhalese as ''Veda Barinam Vedak Nehe''. Plot On a dark night, an infant boy and his widowed mother, Meena, witness a disabled businessman, Surendra Mohan, and his henchman, Ranjeet, committing the murder of Surendra Mohan's manager, Mohan. As a result, Meena too is brutally stabbed to death by Surendra Mohan and Ranjeet, who proceed to throw Mohan's dead body in the sea, but the boy escapes from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sultanat
''Sultanat'' is a 1986 Bollywood epic film written and directed by Mukul S. Anand. The film stars Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Sridevi, Juhi Chawla, Karan Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Tom Alter and Shakti Kapoor. It was the debut movie of both Juhi Chawla (Miss India 1984) and Karan Kapoor (son of Shashi Kapoor). It was the first film in which Dharmendra appeared onscreen with his son Sunny Deol. Earlier they had both appeared in the 1984 film '' Sunny'' but did not share any scenes together. Plot Shah (Tom Alter) is the King of a Sultanate in Middle-Eastern Asia. When a bandit tribe leader, ''Razoulli'' Al-Jabber Al-Nasser (Amrish Puri) and his troops attack their region, the army led by brave Lieutenant Khalid (Dharmendra) fights back and defeats the enemy troops. Razoulli manages to escape and in the process abducts Khalid's pregnant wife, who gives birth to a baby boy but herself dies during childbirth. A midwife professes that the baby boy is a blessed one and is destined to become the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mukul Anand
Mukul S. Anand (11 October 1951 – 7 September 1997) was an Indian film director and producer. He was the nephew of veteran film scriptwriter Inder Raj Anand and cousin of actor and director Tinnu Anand. Career Mukul S. Anand made his debut as a director with the suspense thriller '' Kanoon Kya Karega'' (1984), which was inspired by the Hollywood film '' Cape Fear''. His second film '' Aitbaar'' (1985) was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's classic '' Dial M for Murder''. The film that first gained him recognition was the epic film '' Sultanat'' (1986), which brought together real-life father and son Dharmendra and Sunny Deol for the first time and introduced actress Juhi Chawla. That same year Anand also directed the thriller '' Main Balwan''. His first box-office success was '' Insaaf'' (1987), the film responsible for "re-introducing" Vinod Khanna to films after a hiatus. Anand's next film, '' Maha-Sangram'' (1990), reunited him with Vinod Khanna. He finally hit the big league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suresh Oberoi
Suresh Oberoi (born 17 December 1946) is an Indian actor and politician who appeared in Hindi films. He is a recipient of the 1987 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He started his career in radio shows, modelling and later moving to Bollywood, making him a popular character actor in the 1980s and much of the 1990s. He is the father of actor Vivek Oberoi. Early life Oberoi was born to Anand Sarup Oberoi and Kartar Devi on 17 December 1946 in Quetta, then Baluchistan Province of British Raj (currently Balochistan, Pakistan). His father ran a real-estate business but would lose everything as a result of the 1947 partition. Within a year due to fall of British Raj, the family along with four brothers and four sisters moved to India, and later relocated to Hyderabad where his family established a chain of medical stores. Oberoi was active in sports. He was a tennis and swimming champion, later winning the President's Award as a Boy Scout. After his father's death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Magazine ...
Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception. Their articles contrast with film reviewing in newspapers and magazines which principally serve as a consumer guide to movies. Magazines and trade publications Scholarly journals References * Bibliography * Slide, Anthony. ''International Film, Radio, and Television Journals''. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. xiv, 428 p. * Loughney, Katharine. ''Film, Television, and Video Periodicals: A Comprehensive Annotated''. New York: Garland Publ, 1991. 431 External links at FIAF {{Filmstudies Film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reporter
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertising, or public relations personnel. Depending on the form of journalism, "journalist" may also describe various categories of people by the roles they play in the process. These include reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, editors, editorial writers, columnists, and photojournalists. A reporter is a type of journalist who researches, writes and reports on information in order to present using sources. This may entail conducting interviews, information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in a newsroom, from home or outside to witness events or interview people. Reporters may be assigned a specific beat (area of coverage). Matthew C. Nisbet, who has written on science communicatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
