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Irshad Kamil
Dr. Irshad Kamil (born 5 September 1971) is an Indian poet and lyricist. His songs appeared in Bollywood films including ''Jab We Met'', '' Chameli'', '' Love Aaj Kal'', '' Rockstar'', '' Laila Majnu'', ''Aashiqui 2'', ''Raanjhanaa'', ''Highway'', ''Tamasha'', ''Jab Harry Met Sejal'', '' Kabir Singh'', '' Dunki'' and '' Love Aaj Kal''. Dr. Irshad has been nominated and won numerous prestigious awards for his lyrics in song-writing. He has won dozens of awards of Best Lyricist, the Film Fare Award, IIFA and Zee Cine Awards to name a few. Early life and education Kamil was born as the seventh child to his parents in Malerkotla, and belongs to a Punjabi family. He studied journalism at the Panjab University, followed by postgraduate and PhD degrees in Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delhi Poetry Festival
Poets Corner Group is a poetry group in India. The group's main purpose is to make it easier for new and aspiring poets to be published. Since its advent, Poets Corner has published over 340 poets in 21 anthologies in both English and Hindi language. The Poets Corner Group also hosts online competitions, poetry reading events, panel discussion, book launches, workshops, and other activities. History Poets Corner was co-founded by Yaseen Anwer and Dolly Singh. Delhi Poetry Festival Delhi Poetry Festival is an annual poetry event organized by Poets Corner in Delhi, first held on 19 January 2013. 2013 Edition The 2013 festival participants included: * Irshad Kamil * Abhishek Manu Singhvi * Ashok Sawhny 2014 Edition The 2014 festival participants included: * Sandeep Nath * Janice Woods Windle Published work The Poets Corner Group has published several poetry anthologies featuring young poets along with established poets including A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Gulzar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjabi Muslim
Punjabi Muslims are Punjabis who are adherents of Islam. With a population of more than 112 million, they are the third-largest predominantly Islam-adhering Muslim ethnicity in the world, after Arabs and Bengalis. The majority of Punjabi Muslims are adherents of Sunni Islam, while a minority adhere to Shia Islam. Most of them are primarily geographically native to the Pakistani province of Punjab, but a large group of them have ancestry across the Punjab region as a whole. Punjabi Muslims speak or identify with the Punjabi language (under a Perso-Arabic script known as Shahmukhi) as their mother tongue. Identity The coalescence of the various tribes, castes and the inhabitants of the Punjab region into a broader common "Punjabi" identity initiated from the onset of the 16th century CE. However, Punjab as a linguistic, geographical and cultural entity had existed for centuries prior. Integration and assimilation are important parts of Punjabi culture, since Punjabi identity is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karam (film)
''Karam'' (transl.''Blessing'') is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by cinematographer Sanjay F. Gupta, in his directorial debut. Starring John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra and Bharat Dabholkar, the film follows John, a professional assassin who ends up unintentionally killing an innocent family during a mission and becomes traumatized, eventually tendering his resignation. This does not go down well with his boss, who kidnaps John's wife and holds her hostage. In order to win back her freedom, John must complete one last job: killing some of the city's top men within a limited period of time. The film co-stars Vishwajeet Pradhan, Shiney Ahuja, Murli Sharma, Rajesh Khera and Aanjjan Srivastav. Having directed several music videos, Gupta decided to direct the film after being impressed with the script written by Suparn Verma. Confirming that it was not inspired by any Hong Kong film, Gupta decided to do his own take on it despite feeling the script was not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imtiaz Ali (director)
Imtiaz Ali (born 16 June 1971) is an Indian filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing the romantic comedies '' Jab We Met'' (2007) and ' (2009), and the dramas '' Rockstar'' (2011), ''Highway'' (2014), '' Tamasha'' (2015), ''Jab Harry Met Sejal'' (2017), and '' Amar Singh Chamkila'' (2024). Early and personal life Imtiaz Ali was born in Jamshedpur and spent some of his early years in Patna. His father Mansoor Ali was a contractor who did irrigation job, and as a child he would sometimes accompany him, which gave Imtiaz a sense of what was going on in the innards of India. His uncle, through his mother, is Pakistani TV actor and director/producer Khalid Ahmed. He had his early education in St. Michael's High School, Patna and later in D.B.M.S. English School, Jamshedpur. He is the brother of director Arif Ali (who made his directional debut with the film '' Lekar Hum Deewana Dil''.) He attended Hindu College, University of Delhi, where he took part in college ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socha Na Tha
''Socha Na Tha'' () is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Imtiaz Ali, in his directorial debut. The film stars debutant Abhay Deol alongside Ayesha Takia. The film was released on 4 March 2005 and received positive reviews. The film was remade in Telugu as '' Premante Inthe'' (2006). Plot Viren and Aditi are introduced by their families, but Viren refuses to marry because he wants to marry his girlfriend of three years, Karen. Viren's refusal creates tension between the families, as Aditi's aunt feels insulted. However Viren and Aditi meet by coincidence, bond quickly and Viren invites Aditi to accompany him to Goa – he wants her to find out if his girlfriend Karen loves him or not. In Goa, the two of them grow closer and Karen notices this. Viren realises he has fallen in love with Aditi – however, preparations for his own wedding with Karen are already underway; things get more complicated as he fought very hard to get engaged to Karen beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Yadav
Leena Yadav (born 6 January 1971) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. She started her career in the television industry and gradually moved on to making feature films. Her first international feature film, ''Parched'', premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. Early life and education Born to an Indian Army general in Madhya Pradesh, she graduated with Economics honours from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi. She did Mass Communications from Sophia College, Mumbai. Personal life She is married to Aseem Bajaj (son of Ram Gopal Bajaj and maternal grandson of Khemchand Prakash), who is an Indian cinematographer and film producer well known for his poetic imagery on films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Shabd, Teen Patti, U Me Aur Hum and Chameli to name a few. She met Aseem while directing her first TV show ''This Week That Year''. Filmography Having captivated by the job of ''Film editing'', while she was working with a dip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishal–Shekhar
Vishal–Shekhar are an Indian music composition, production, singing, and songwriting duo consisting of Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani from Mumbai. Known predominantly for their work as music composers in Hindi cinema, Vishal–Shekhar have also recorded in Telugu, Tamil and Marathi with the likes of Akon, The Vamps, Imogen Heap and Diplo. They have been streamed over 3 billion times on YouTube, have had 72 number-one singles, and have been featured on over 350 film sound tracks. Their most popular soundtracks include '' Jhankaar Beats'' (2003), '' Dus'' (2005), '' Salaam Namaste'' (2005), '' Bluffmaster'' (2005), '' Om Shanti Om'' (2007), '' Tashan'' (2008), '' Bachna Ae Haseeno'' (2008), '' Dostana'' (2008), '' I Hate Luv Storys'' (2010), '' Anjaana Anjaani'' (2010), '' Tees Maar Khan'' (2010), '' Ra.One'' (2011), '' The Dirty Picture'' (2011), '' Student of the Year'' (2012), '' Chennai Express'' (2013), '' Gori Tere Pyaar Mein'' (2013), '' Hasee Toh Phasee'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shabd (film)
''Shabd'' () is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language psychological art film produced by Pritish Nandy Communications, and directed by Leena Yadav. It stars Sanjay Dutt, Aishwarya Rai and Zayed Khan. The film got good reviews but performed below expectations at the box office, despite being profitable. The story is adapted from the critically acclaimed Malayalam film ''Rachana'' released in 1983. Plot Author Shaukat Vashisht lives a wealthy lifestyle in India with his wife, Antra, who is a lecturer. Shaukat achieves fame when he is nominated for the Booker Prize and goes on to win it. His publishers, hoping that they have unleashed a goldmine, are disappointed with his subsequent works, and soon Shaukat is depressed to such an extent that he almost gives up writing. Then he decides to write a story about a woman named Tamanna and figures that he will base this story on none other than Antara herself. For this purpose, he starts to make note of her every movement, and it is then that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saavn
JioSaavn is an Indian music streaming service and a digital distributor of music in Hindi, Marathi, English, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Chhattisgarhi and other regional languages of India. Since it was founded in 2007 as Saavn, the company has acquired rights to over 80 million music tracks in 16 languages. JioSaavn is a freemium service; basic features are free with advertisements or limitations, while additional features, such as improved streaming quality and music downloads for offline listening, are offered via paid subscriptions. On 23 March 2018, Saavn announced merger with Jio in a deal worth more than $1 billion. The merger was completed in December 2018, with Saavn being rebranded JioSaavn. History Saavn was founded in 2006 as BODVOD Network and initially distributed Hindi Cinema content in North America in a B2B offering. Saavn later shifted its core focus to become a music destination for fans of Bollywood and other Indic mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anant Balani
Anant Balani (1962 – 29 August 2003) was a Bollywood film director and screenwriter. He directed films such as ''Patthar Ke Phool'' in 1991 which starred Salman Khan and Raveena Tandon in lead roles. He also wrote the script for ''Insaaf: The Justice'', released in 2004. He died of a heart attack on 29 August 2003 in Mumbai. 2003 had been a strenuous year for him and he had finished three films and was working on a fourth at his time of death. Three of the films that he had directed, namely, ''Joggers' Park'', ''Mumbai Matinee'' and ''Ek Din 24 Ghante'' were released after his death. Filmography * ''Gawahi'' (1989) * ''Patthar Ke Phool'' (1991) *'' Jazbaat (1994 film), Jazbaat'' (1994) * ''Joggers' Park (film), Joggers' Park'' (2003) * ''Mumbai Matinee'' (2003) * ''Ek Din 24 Ghante'' (2003) * ''Chameli (film), Chameli'' (2004) (died during filming) References External links * 1962 births 2003 deaths Hindi-language film directors Indian male screenwriters Film dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudhir Mishra
Sudhir Mishra (born 22 January 1959) is an Indian filmmaker. His most notable films include '' Dharavi'' (1992), '' Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi'' (2003), '' Chameli'' (2004), and '' Serious Men'' (2020). His work has been recognised with three national awards by the Indian government and the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Early life Sudhir Mishra was born in Lucknow on 22 January 1959. He has a younger brother named Sudhanshu. His father, Devendra Nath Mishra (died 2020), was a mathematics professor who served as the 19th vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University and co-founded the Lucknow Film Society. His grandfather, Dwarka Prasad Mishra (1901–1988), was a politician and journalist who served as the 4th chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. After spending 18 months under the tutelage of theatre director Badal Sircar, Mishra moved to Pune, Sudhanshu was a student at the Film and Television Institute of India; though he never studied at the institute hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandesh Shandilya
Sandesh Shandilya is an Indian film composer, musician, and singer who worked in Hind-language films. Having composed for over 20 film soundtracks, Shandilya is known for his compositions in '' Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...'' (2001), ''Chameli'' (2004), ''Socha Na Tha'' (2005) and ''Jab We Met'' (2007). His 2001 album '' Piya Basanti'' won the International Viewers' Choice Award at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. His teacher, Ustad Sultan Khan along with K. S.Chithra sang the song Piya Basanti for him on this album. He took basic music training from maestro Ustad Sultan Khan, who was a noted ''Sarangi'' player. Career Debut and breakthrough with ''Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...'' (2001) Shandilya made his Bollywood debut by collaborating with Jatin–Lalit and Aadesh Shrivastava on the music composition for Karan Johar's ensemble family drama '' Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...'' (2001). He composed four songs for the film's soundtrack: "Suraj Hua Maddham", "You Are My Son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
