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International Khiladi
''International Khiladi'' () is a 1999 Indian action drama film directed by Umesh Mehra starring Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna in the lead roles. In an interview with Lehren Network, Khanna said that the film didn't follow a conventional script while Kumar stated that the film had more of romance than action. Indian film trade website Box Office India gave the film a "Below Average" rating. Plot News Reporter Payal (Twinkle Khanna) and her camera-man Focus (Johnny Lever) have been assigned the task of interviewing the world's highest ranking criminal don, Rahul alias Devraj (Akshay Kumar), which they accept. In the process, Payal and Devraj fall in love with each other, much to the opposition of Bismillah (Mukesh Khanna), Devraj's guardian on the one hand, and Police Inspector Amit (Rajat Bedi), and Payal's brother Ravi ( Vivek Shauq) on the other. What results is that Ravi is killed, with Devraj being blamed and arrested. Payal testifies against him, and Devraj is sentenced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umesh Mehra
Umesh is an Indian given name. People * M. S. Umesh, actor * Umesh Chandra Banerjee, jurist * Umesh Chandra Dutta, social reformer * Umesh Chandra Patra, zoologist * Umesh Harijan, footballer * Umesh Kamat, actor * Umesh Kulkarni (cricketer), cricketer * Umesh Mehra, film director * Umesh Parag, hockey player * Umesh Reddy, serial rapist * Umesh Shukla, film director * Umesh Upadhyay, television executive * Umesh Valjee, cricketer * Umesh Vazirani, computer scientist * Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni is a Marathi film director. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India ( FTII), Pune. He is known for Marathi films such as '' Valu'' (The Wild Bull), '' Vihir'' (The Well), ''Deool'' (The Temple) a ..., Marathi film director * Umesh Waghmare, material scien (Umesh Shinde ) Pharmacist See also * {{given name Indian masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lester Speight
Lester Speight (born August 28, 1963), also known as Rasta, is a former American football player who has had subsequent careers as a professional wrestler and then actor. He achieved significant recognition for his portrayal of '' Terry Tate: Office Linebacker'' in a series of Reebok commercials that debuted during Super Bowl XXXVII, and received further recognition for his portrayal of Augustus Cole in the ''Gears of War'' series of video games. Early life, family and education Lester Speight was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Gussie Watson and Walter Speight. He graduated from Old Mill High School in Millersville, Maryland in 1981, where he is in its Hall of Fame for three sports: football, track, and basketball. He attended Morgan State University from 1981 to 1985 and was a Division 1 All-American Linebacker. Professional football and professional wrestling After graduating college in 1985, he attempted to play in the NFL but did not. He tried out for the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumar Sanu
Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), better known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer. He is known as the King of Melody in Bollywood. He is famous for singing thousands of Bollywood Hindi songs. Apart from Hindi, he has also sang in other languages including Marathi, Nepali, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Manipuri, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, Odia, Chhattisgarhi, Urdu, Pali, English and his native language Bengali, both in West Bengal and Bangladesh. He holds the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer from 1990 to 1994. For his contribution to Indian cinema and music, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India. Many of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time". Early life Kumar Sanu's father, Pashupati Bhattacharya, was a vocalist and composer. The two and Sanu's elder sister lived in the Sinthee area of Calcutta (now Kolkata) near Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rediff
Rediff.com (stylized as ''rediff.com'') is an Indian news, information, entertainment and shopping web portal. It was founded in 1996. It is headquartered in Mumbai, with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi and New York City. , it had more than 300 employees. It is one of the earliest web portals and email providers in India. When its founder Ajit Balakrishnan launched Rediff on the NeT, the internet was barely five months old in the country, and had a total of about 18,000 users. History The Rediff.com domain was registered in India in 1996. Early products included the email service Rediffmail and Rediff Shopping, an online marketplace selling electronics and peripherals. In 2001, Rediff.com was alleged to be in violation of the Securities Act of 1933 for filing a materially false prospectus in relation to an IPO of its American depositary share An American depositary receipt (ADR, and sometimes spelled ''depository'') is a negotiable security that represents securities of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Calgary is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in the transitional area between the Rocky Mountain Foothills and the Canadian Prairies, about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately north of the Canada–United States border. The city anchors the south end of the Statistics Canada-defined urban area, the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Calgary's economy includes activity in the energy, financial services, film and television, transportation and logistics, technology, manufacturing, aerospace, health and wellness, retail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omkar Kapoor
Omkar Kapoor is an Indian actor who works in the Bollywood film industry. He began his performing career as a child artist and worked in films like ''Judwaa'', '' Hero No.1'' and '' Judaai''. He made his Bollywood debut as a Parallel Lead actor with his movie ''Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2''. Early life Kapoor started his career with '' Masoom'', where he received immense popularity as a child artist and became the most favourite child artist of that time. Later he got a chance to work with several big stars of the Indian film industry, like Govinda, Anil Kapoor, Urmila Matondkar, Salman Khan and Sridevi. Career Omkar Kapoor assisted Bollywood directors like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Farah Khan and Ahmed Khan, but he really wanted to be an actor and hence gave many auditions, of which he bagged ''Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2''. In 2017, Kapoor starred as Mithilesh Chaturvedi in the web film '' U, Me Aur Ghar'' alongside Simran Kaur Mundi. In 2018, he starred as Ankush Patel aka Maggie in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shagufta Ali
Shagufta Ali is an Indian film and television actress. She is known for her roles in ''Punar Vivah'', '' Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera'', '' Sasural Simar Ka'' and ''Saath Nibhaana Saathiya.'' In 2018, she was seen in Colors TV's ''Bepannaah''. She has danced in an item song in Tamil movie uzhaippali with super star Rajnikanth Filmography Television * 1989: ''Dard'' * 1990: ''Agar Aisa Ho To'' * 1993-1998: '' Kanoon'' * 1993-1998: '' Parampara'' as Barkha *1993 : '' Junoon'' * 1995: ''Zee Horror Show'' * 1998-99'' Saans'' * 2001-05 ''Dishayen'' * 2002-05 '' Sanjivani: A Medical Boon'' * 2004: '' Isse Kehte Hai Golmaal Ghar'' * 2005 - 2010: ''Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki'' * 2006-08 '' Zaara'' * 2010 Sasural Genda Phool * 2011 '' Sasural Simar Ka'' Sugandha/Arti * 2012 - 2013: ''Punar Vivah'' * 2012 ''Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon'' * 2013 - 2015: '' Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera'' * 2013: ''Adaalat'' * 2016 —2017: ''Saath Nibhaana Saathiya'' as Urvashi Singh *2018: ''Bepannaah'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gajendra Chouhan
Gajendra Singh Chauhan known professionally as Gajendra Chauhan, is a former television actor known for his work on Indian television, especially his portrayal of Yudhishthira in the historical television series ''Mahabharat'' (1988–90). He has also had significant roles in a few B movies, and a larger number of cameo appearances in other films. In 2015, he was appointed chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), which sparked controversy and opposition by FTII students, leading to his resignation in October 2017. Early life Chauhan did a diploma in radiography from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) before he moved to Mumbai to pursue a career in acting. There he studied acting in the school run by Roshan Taneja, who had previously taught at FTII. Acting career Chauhan's acting career spans over 35 years, and by his own count, he has worked in 600 television series and almost 150 movies during that period. His first break as an actor was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek Vaswani
Vivek Vaswani is an actor, writer and producer. He is also dean of Pearl Academy Career An alumnus of Campion School and Cathedral and John Connon, started off with acting in India's first TV soap opera 'Khandaan'. He then produced a Marathi film called 'Kis Bai Kiss', and a major television serial called 'Nai Dishayen', in which he also starred along with Navin Nischol, Anju Mahendroo, Girish Karnad, Parikshat Sahni, Sharon prabhakar, Jayant Kripalani. He produced 'Gawaahi', giving a break to Anant Balani as a director. The film starred Zeenat Aman, Tanuja, Vikram Gokhale, and both India's Oscar nominated directors, Shekhar Kapur and Ashutosh Gowariker. He then produced three films at Sippy Films, alongside GP Sippy, 'Patthar Ke Phool', 'Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman', 'Aatish' and played minor roles in them as well. He has launched Raveena Tandon, Shah Rukh Khan, and given breaks to many (Sanjay Gupta and Sanjay Gadhvi were both assisting on 'Patthar ke Phool). He has acted in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Mohan
Ram Mohan (26 August 1931 – 11 October 2019) was an Indian animator, title designer and design educator, who was also known as father of Indian Animation and was a veteran in the Indian animation industry, who started his career at the Cartoon Films Unit, Films Division of India, Government of India in 1956. He was chairman and chief creative officer at Graphiti Multimedia, a Mumbai-based animation company which was established in 1995, and later he also established the Graphiti School of Animation in 2006. He had won the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Animation Film twice, ''You Said It'' (1972) and ''Fire Games'' (1983). He was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the 2006 Mumbai International Film Festival and was awarded the Padma Shri the fourth-highest civilian award given by Government of India in 2014. Early life and education Graduated in Chemistry from the University of Madras and later moved to Mumbai for his post-graduate studies but gave it up to jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subbiraj
Subbiraj Kakkar popularly known as Subbiraj was an Indian character actor in Hindi-language films and television. He was the son of the sister of veteran actor Prithviraj Kapoor named Kailash and thus a cousin of Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor. Career His debut film was "Do Gunde". At that time he was working as the Studio Manager of famous R.K.Studio of the Kapoor family. Subbiraj was well known for his acting in Hindi cinema mainly as a character artist. He was best known for his acting performance in the film “Ek Ruka Hua Faisla” released in 1986 in which he has acted in the role of “Juror no Ten” as an arrogant, hypocrite, foul-mouthed, and aggressive businessman. This film was the remake of Sidney Lumet movie “ Twelve Angry Men.” He got the acclamation of both the critics and the audience for his acting in this movie. In 1991 he featured in another movie named as “Maa Ki Mamta” which was also a big hit. His other popular films include "Khil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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