|
Shikari (2016 Film)
''Shikari'' ( Hunter) is a 2016 Indian-Bangladeshi joint venture action thriller film directed by Joydip Mukherjee and Zakir Hossain Simanto. It was produced by Abdul Aziz and Himanshu Dhanuka under the Jaaz Multimedia and Eskay Movies banners. It stars Shakib Khan, Srabanti Chatterjee, Rahul Dev and Sabyasachi Chakrabarty in pivotal roles and centers around Khan, a disguised professional assassin with a mysterious past, tasked with assassinating a top government official. The film also features Lily Chakravarty, Amit Hasan, Kharaj Mukherjee, and Supriyo Dutta in supporting roles. The soundtrack album and background score of the film have been composed by Indraadip Dasgupta. A collaborative Jaaz-Eskay project involving Khan was first reported during mid 2014. However, the project was later shelved due to unavailability of the actor. The film was originally planned to be a multi-starrer film in numerous media reports. Eskay Movies and Jaaz Multimedia intended to begin prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joydip Mukherjee
Joydip Mukherjee is an Indian film director, actor and writer primarily associated with Bengali language, Bengali language films. Career In 2008, Joydip started his career with directed television drama serial. Then he directed two more dramas. In 2016, he debuted as a film director with the project of Indo-Bangla joint production thriller drama film ''Shikari (2016 film), Shikari'' share with Zakir Hossain Simanto featuring Shakib Khan and Srabanti Chatterjee, which became the highest-grossing Bengali film of 2016. Filmography References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mukherjee, Joydip Living people Indian television directors Film directors from Kolkata Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Chakravarty
Lily Chakravarty is an Indian actress. She worked in many Bengali and 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, official language of the Government ... films. She made her screen debut in the Bengali film '' Bhanu Pelo Lottery'' (1958). Early life She was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and studied in Deep Chand School. She was born to Sri Kesab Chandra Chakraborty and Dipali Chakraborty, a renowned Bengali theatre actor. Career Lily debuted in the Bengali movie '' Bhanu Pelo Lottery'' in 1958, where she played the role of Maya, a typist. Lily, in her long career, acted in many films. She shared the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in the film Sanjhbati with Sudiptaa Chakraborty, who won it for her role in Jyesthoputro, in the West Bengal Film Journalist Association Award 2020. Filmography Tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subrata (actor)
Shahrukh Fardin Subrata is a Bangladeshi film actor. He is better known as Subrata in the film industry. He has appeared in over 140 films. Career Subrata made his debut in 1985 with the film "Rai Binodini", directed by Mohammed Hannan. Later he established a strong position in Bangladeshi films industry through "Mala Bodol" and "Maiyar Nam Moina" which is directed by same director. His other notable films in the lead role are "Harano Sur" (1987) directed by Narayan Ghosh Mita, "Chandidas and Rozkini" (1987) directed by Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury, Tala Chabi directed by F Kabir Chowdhury, Shotota by Kamruzzaman. He’s been on the magazine show Ityadi a few times. Personal life Subrata has been a popular actor in Bengali cinema since the eighties. He has given many popular movies by his talented performance. He fell in love with his co-actor Doyel during his acting career, and later they were married in 1988. They have two children in their family life. In 2011 Subrata's wife Doyel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebeka Rouf
Marina Rebeka (born 10 September 1980) is a Latvian soprano, active on both opera and concert stages. Associated with Violetta in Verdi's '' La traviata'', she performs primarily in the 19th-century Italian and French repertoire, most notably works by Gioachino Rossini, in addition to Donna Anna in Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'', another frequent role. Educated in Latvia and Italy, she made her professional debut in 2007. After her international breakthrough in Rossini's '' Moïse et Pharaon'' at the Salzburg Festival in 2009, she has been performing leading roles with many opera companies, such as the Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and Latvian National Opera. Rebeka has been recording under her own label "Prima Classic" since 2018. She had previously recorded for Warner Classics and BK-Klassik. Early life and background Rebeka was born in Riga, to Belarusian father and Siberian-born Latvian mother. The family name used to be Rebeko but was changed to Rebeka during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bengal Police
The West Bengal Police () is the primary law enforcement agency for the Indian state of West Bengal, excluding the metropolitan area of Kolkata, which has its own separate police force. It is responsible for maintaining public order, preventing and investigating crimes, and ensuring the safety and security of citizens across the state. Established under the Police Act, 1861, the force operates under the administrative control of the Department of Home and Hill Affairs of Government of West Bengal. The West Bengal Police was reorganized under provisions of the Police Act 1861 during the British Raj. It is headed by an officer designated as the Director General of Police who reports to the State Government through the Home (Police) Department. Shri Rajeev Kumar, an IPS officer of the 1989 batch is the DGP (additional charge) of West Bengal Police since 18 July 2024. The West Bengal Police has jurisdiction concurrent with the twenty-two revenue districts of the State (excludin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolkata
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary financial and commercial centre of eastern and northeastern India. Kolkata is the seventh most populous city in India with an estimated city proper population of 4.5 million (0.45 crore) while its metropolitan region Kolkata Metropolitan Area is the third most populous metropolitan region of India with a metro population of over 15 million (1.5 crore). Kolkata is regarded by many sources as the cultural capital of India and a historically and culturally significant city in the historic region of Bengal.————— The three villages that predated Calcutta were ruled by the Nawab of Bengal under Mughal suzerainty. After the Nawab granted the East India Company a trading license in 1690, the area was developed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Trafficking In India
India has a very high volume of child trafficking. As many as one child disappears every eight minutes, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. In some cases, children are taken from their homes to be bought and sold in the market. In other cases, children are tricked into the hands of traffickers by being presented an opportunity for a job, when in reality, upon arrival they become enslaved. In India, there are many children trafficked for various reasons such as labor, begging, and sexual exploitation. Because of the nature of this crime, it is hard to track; due to the poor enforcement of laws, it is difficult to prevent. As such, there are only vague estimates of figures regarding the issue. India is a prime area for child trafficking to occur, as many of those trafficked are from, travel through or destined to go to India. Though most of the trafficking occurs within the country, there is also a significant number of children trafficked from Nepal and Bangladesh. There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Highness Abdullah
''His Highness Abdullah'' is a 1990 Indian Malayalam-language musical drama film written by A. K. Lohithadas and directed by Sibi Malayil. It stars Mohanlal, Nedumudi Venu, Gautami, Sreenivasan, Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair and Mamukkoya. The film was produced by Mohanlal and was the debut production of his company Pranavam Arts. The film features original songs composed by Raveendran and a background score by Mohan Sithara. ''His Highness Abdullah'' was the same team's first film in a trilogy of Indian classical arts films, followed by ''Bharatham'' (1991) and ''Kamaladalam'' (1992). The story follows Abdullah (Mohanlal), a low-life Muslim Qawwali singer in Bombay, who is hired by the members of a wealthy royal Hindu family to assassinate their family head, Maharaja Udayavarma (Venu). Abdullah infiltrates the palace under the disguise of a Brahmin classical singer, Ananthan Namboothiri, and tries to assassinate the Maharaja by gaining his confidence. ''His Highness Abdul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 Languages with official status in India, scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was designated a "Classical Languages of India, Classical Language of India" in 2013. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé, Puducherry, Mahé), and is also the primary spoken language of Lakshadweep. Malayalam is spoken by 35.6 million people in India. Malayalam is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the neighbouring states; with a significant number of speakers in the Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka, and Kanyakumari district, Kanyakumari, Coimbatore district, Coimbatore and Nilgiris district, Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. It is also spoken by the Malayali diaspora, Malayali Diaspora wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aadhavan
''Aadhavan'' () is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language masala film directed by K. S. Ravikumar, from a story written by Ramesh Khanna, and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin under Red Giant Movies. The film stars Suriya, alongside Nayantara, Vadivelu, Murali, B. Saroja Devi, Rahul Dev, Sayaji Shinde and Anand Babu. The music was composed by Harris Jayaraj, while cinematography and editing were handled by Ganesh Rajavelu and Don Max. ''Aadhavan'' was released on 17 October 2009 and became a commercially successful at the box office. The core plot was loosely based on the 1990 Malayalam film ''His Highness Abdullah'' and it was remade in Bengali as '' Shikari''. Plot In the US, an unknown client speaks to a mafia group to eradicate a fake godman. The mafia group arranges the hit through a Kolkata-based middleman as the fake godman will be arriving there. The middleman gives the contract to Ibrahim Rowther. The godman gets killed by Ibrahim's adopted son Aadhavan, a skilled mercenary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Language
Tamil (, , , also written as ''Tamizhil'' according to linguistic pronunciation) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. It is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world,. "Tamil is one of the two longest-surviving classical languages in India" (p. 7). attested since 300 BC, 300 BCE.: "...the most acceptable periodisation which has so far been suggested for the development of Tamil writing seems to me to be that of A Chidambaranatha Chettiar (1907–1967): 1. Sangam Literature – 200BC to AD 200; 2. Post Sangam literature – AD 200 – AD 600; 3. Early Medieval literature – AD 600 to AD 1200; 4. Later Medieval literature – AD 1200 to AD 1800; 5. Pre-Modern literature – AD 1800 to 1900" at p. 610 Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders in South India, with Tamil inscriptions found outside of the Indian subcontinent, such as Indonesia, Thailand, and Egypt. The language has a well-documented history wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th Meril-Prothom Alo Awards
The 19th Meril Prothom Alo Awards ceremony, presented by Prothom Alo took place on 21 April 2017 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Dhaka, Bangladesh as a part of 2016 film awards season. Facts and figures This year Amitabh Reza Chowdhury received best film director award for Aynabaji. Shakib Khan secured his eighth award for Public Choice best film actor and this was fifth in a row from 2010. Nusrat Imroz Tisha in Public Choice best TV actress category for ''Ekti Taalgachher Golpo''. Dilshad Nahar Kona got the awards in best female singer category again and that was double Hat-trick for her since 2009. Nominees and winners A total of 16 awards were given at the ceremony. Following is the list of the winners. Lifetime Achievement Award – 2016 * Syed Hasan Imam Public Choice Awards – 2016 Critics Choice Awards – 2016 See also *Bachsas Awards *Babisas Award References External links {{Meril-Prothom Alo Awards 2017 2017 was designated a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
