Dayanand ShettyDayanand Chandrashekhar Shetty (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian film and television actor and model, best known for his role as Senior Inspector Daya in India's longest-running television police procedural, CID. He was inducted into the Gold Awards Hall of Fame in 2018. Personal lifeShetty was born on 11 December 1969, in a Tulu speaking Bunt family in Shirva village in Dakshina Kannada (now Udupi district) of Karnataka to Chandra Prakash Shetty and Uma Shetty.Satya (1998 film)Satya is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language crime film, produced and directed by Ram Gopal Varma; written by Saurabh Shukla and Anurag Kashyap. It stars J. D. Chakravarthy, Urmila Matondkar and Manoj Bajpayee, alongside Saurabh Shukla, Aditya Shrivastava, Paresh Rawal, and Shefali Shah. It is the first of Varma's Gangster trilogy about organised crime in India.
KaaloKaalo is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language horror film, written and directed by Wilson Louis and produced by Yash Patnaik, Mamta Patnaik and Dhaval Gada. The film was released on 17 December 2010 under the Beyond Dreams Entertainment Ltd. banner. PlotThe film features Kaalo, a devilish witch who lived in Kulbhata during the 18th century. She was killed and buried by angry villagers after sacrificing young girl children to satisfy her greed for immortality, but her fear lived on.
PaanchPaanch (transl. Five) is a 2003 Indian crimethriller film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap in his directing debut, starring Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastava, Vijay Maurya, Joy Fernandes, and Tejaswini Kolhapure. The film is loosely based on the 1976–77 Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders in Pune. Paanch did not receive a theatrical or home-video release.Gulaal (film)Gulaal (gulal, Crimson) is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language political drama film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap, starring Raj Singh Chaudhary, Kay Kay Menon, Abhimanyu Singh, Deepak Dobriyal, Ayesha Mohan, Jesse Randhawa, Piyush Mishra and Aditya Srivastava. It explores themes such as pursuit of power, quest for legitimacy, perceived injustices and hypocrisy of the powerful. The film is set in present-day Rajasthan, a state in northwestern India.
Black Friday (2004 film)Black Friday is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap. Based on Black Friday: The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts, a book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings, it chronicles the events that led to the blasts and the subsequent police investigation. Produced by Arindam Mitra of Mid-Day, the film stars Pawan Malhotra, Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastava, Kishor Kadam and Zakir Hussain.
Super 30 (film)Super 30 is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language biographicaldrama film directed by Vikas Bahl, written by Sanjeev Dutta and produced by Phantom Films, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment and HRX Films.
Lakshya (2004 film)Lakshya (transl. Aim) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-agewar drama film directed by Farhan Akhtar, written by his father Javed Akhtar and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani under the banner of Excel Entertainment, with Ronnie Screwvala serving as co-producer under distributor UTV Motion Pictures. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, and Preity Zinta in lead roles.
Shivaji SatamShivaji Satam (born 21 April 1950) is an Indian television and film actor. He is best known for his role as ACP Pradyuman in the detective television series CID. He is recipient of two Maharashtra State Film Awards. He is honoured with the V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award, Maharashtra's highest award in the field of Marathi cinema.
CID (Indian TV series)Indian crime television series (1998–2025)CID is an Indian police procedural television series that premiered on Sony Entertainment Television on 21 January 1998. The series was created by B. P. Singh and produced by Singh and Pradeep Uppoor under the banner of Fireworks Productions in season 1; Deepak Dr, Rajesh Chadha, A. Singh and B.P. Singh under Banijay Asia in season 2 alongside Fiction Factory.
HindiModern Standard Hindi (Hindi: आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, romanised: Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the government of India, and is the lingua franca for most of the northern half of India.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.