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Ankhon Dekhi
''Ankhon Dekhi'' () is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Rajat Kapoor and produced by Manish Mundra. It stars Sanjay Mishra and Rajat Kapoor. The film was released on 21 March 2014. It was the opening film at the 8th annual Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival (MISAFF) 2014 in Toronto. It is Kapoor's fifth feature film and was dedicated to his idols and teachers: filmmakers Mani Kaul and Kumar Shahani. At the 2015 Screen Awards ceremony, ''Ankhon Dekhi'' won the awards for Best Supporting Actress for Seema Pahwa, Best Story and Best Ensemble Cast. The film is based on the philosophy of empiricism. Bauji (Sanjay Mishra) refuses to believe anything he is told unless he has seen it with his own eyes. The film also encompasses the Derridean philosophy of deconstructing of reality. Plot Rajesh Bauji ( Sanjay Mishra) is a man in his late 50s, living a dreary but eventful life in a small house in old Delhi with his extended family. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajat Kapoor
Rajat Kapoor is an Indian actor, filmmaker and playwright who works in Hindi cinema. Early life and early career Rajat Kapoor was born in Delhi, India and grew up in Old Delhi. In 1983 he joined the theatre group Chingari in Delhi. In 1985 he moved to Pune to attend the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). Kapoor started out in Parallel Cinema, making his debut in the 1989 Kumar Shahani film '' Khayal Gatha''. When he had trouble finding acting jobs in the 1990s, Kapoor began writing and directing shorts. He made his full-length directorial debut with ''Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One'' (1997), which had Irrfan Khan and Naseeruddin Shah in minor roles. Mainstream breakthrough and continued career In 2001, Kapoor got his big mainstream break-in ''Dil Chahta Hai'', as Preity Zinta's character's uncle. He received international attention in Mira Nair's '' Monsoon Wedding'' in which he played an abusive uncle. Since then, he has written, directed, and appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namit Das
Namit Das (born 10 July 1984) is an Indian film, television, theatre actor and singer. He has acted in several television commercials. He belongs to a family of musicians and singers; his father is reputed ghazal singer Chandan Dass. His maternal grandfather was K. Pannalal, who worked for Delhi All India Radio and Doordarshan, and was a musician par excellence. One of his maternal uncles, Jaidev Kumar, is a famous Punjabi music director, and another is Ajay K. Pannalal, a Punjabi film director. Namit is also a trained singer and took classical-music training from his father Chandan Dass and Bhavdeep Jaipurwale, but preferred acting over singing for a long time. Recently he has released an album with Anurag Shanker, which has five tracks. Namit Das married his longtime girlfriend Shruti Vyas on 15 February 2015. Shruti herself is a theater and film actress and has appeared in many ads, including an OLX Womaniyan ad, where she was the face of OLX. She is the sister of actor Sume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India Today
''India Today'' is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media, Living Media India Limited. It is the most widely circulated magazine in India, with a readership of close to 8 million. In 2014, ''India Today'' launched a new online opinion-orientated site called the ''DailyO''. History ''India Today'' was established in 1975 by Vidya Vilas Purie (owner of Thompson Press), with his daughter Madhu Trehan as its editor and his son Aroon Purie as its publisher.Bhandare, Namita"70's: The decade of innocence".''Hindustan Times''. Retrieved 29 July 2012. At present, ''India Today'' is also published in Hindi, Tamil language, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu language, Telugu. The India Today (TV channel), India Today news channel was launched on 22 May 2015. In October 2017, Aroon Purie passed control of the India Today Group to his daughter, Kallie Purie. On 25 March 2024, Gulf News announced their recent partnership extablished between the platforms, stating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language India, Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu. It is headquartered in Noida, owned by the Indian Express Limited, ''Indian Express Group''. It was later taken over by Ramnath Goenka. In 1999, eight years after Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split between the family members. The southern editions took the name ''The New Indian Express'', while the northern editions, based in Mumbai, retained the original ''Indian Express'' name with ''The'' prefixed to the title. History In 1932, the ''Indian Express'' was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, at Chennai, being published by his Tamil Nadu press. Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to Swaminathan Sadanand, the founder of ''The Free Press Journal'', a national news agency. In 1933, the ''Indian Express'' opened its second office in Madurai, launching the Tamil language, Tamil edition, ''Dinamani''. Sadanand introduce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rediff
Rediff.com, stylized as rediff.com, is an Indian news, information, entertainment, and shopping website. Founded by Ajit Balakrishnan in 1996, it was the first Indian website to become a mainstream news media organization. It is headquartered in Mumbai with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi, and New York City. , it had more than 300 employees. At the time of its founding, internet access had only been available in India for five months with a mere 18,000 users, leaving Rediff.com as one of the earliest Indian web portals and email providers. 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 The Securities Act of 1933, also known as the 1933 Act, the Securities Act, the Truth in Securities Act, the Federal Securities Act, and the '33 Act, was enacte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baradwaj Rangan
Baradwaj Rangan () is an Indian film critic and writer. A chemical engineering graduate with no formal training in filmmaking or cinema writing, he has a diverse career in advertising, IT consulting, and cinema writing. He has authored two books on Indian cinema, written for ''The New Indian Express'', ''The Hindu'', and ''Tehelka'', and has also been a screenwriter. As a film critic, Rangan won the Best Film Critic category at the 53rd National Film Awards in 2006. He was the editor of ''Film Companion South'' until 2022 and is a member of the Film Critics Circle of India. Rangan currently works as a critic and chief editor for ''Galatta Plus'' and runs a Spotify podcast ''Cinema With Baradwaj Rangan''. Career Baradwaj Rangan had no formal training in filmmaking or cinema writing. He is a chemical engineering graduate from BITS Pilani (1988–1992). According to him, it was a time when "parents considered only medicine or engineering" to be "serious professions", that he d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindustan Times
''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English language, English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media Limited, an entity controlled by the Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia, the daughter of K. K. Birla. It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal, in Delhi and played integral roles in the Indian independence movement as a nationalist daily. ''Hindustan Times'' is one of the List of newspapers in India by circulation, largest newspapers in India by circulation. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 993,645 copies . The Indian Readership Survey 2014 revealed that ''HT'' is the second-most widely read English newspaper in India after ''The Times of India''. It is popular in North India, with simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Patna, Chandigarh and Ranchi. The print location ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anupama Chopra
Anupama Vinod Chopra () is an Indian author, journalist and film critic who served as the festival director of the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image, MAMI Mumbai Film Festival from 2015 to 2023. She is also the founder and editor of the now-defunct digital platform Film Companion, which offered a curated look at cinema with an emphasis on Indian film. She has written several books on Cinema of India, Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV and ''India Today'', as well as the ''Hindustan Times''. She also hosted a weekly film review show, ''The Front Row With Anupama Chopra'', on STAR World India, Star World. She won the 48th National Film Awards, 2000 National Film Award for National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema, Best Book on Cinema for her first book ''Sholay: The Making of a Classic''. Chopra joined the Indian iteration of the film journalism outlet ''The Hollywood Reporter'' in 2024, launched domestically in the same year by the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, RP Sanj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN-IBN
CNN News18 is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Raghav Bahl based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is currently co-owned by Network18 Group and Warner Bros. Discovery. CNN provides international coverage for the channel, while Indian Broadcasting Network concentrates on Indian and local reports. In May 2014, Reliance Industries announced it would be taking over Network18 Group. The move was touted as "the biggest-ever deal in the Indian media space". Reliance Industries already had indirect control of the TV18 network by virtue of investments it made in Network18 starting from January 2012. History CNN International only reached the urban population in India. To reach the Indian masses Turner Broadcasting System together with an Indian company, Global Broadcast News (currently TV18 Broadcast Limited), launched the channel in India as CNN-IBN on 18 December 2005. The channel was completely run by TV18 Broadcast Limited, which only used the Cabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajeev Masand
Rajeev Masand (born 13 March 1976) is an Indian film critic and journalist. He has worked for Noida based English language news channel CNN-Indian Broadcasting Network (CNN-IBN). He usually reviews Bollywood films and major Hollywood films released in India in his weekend show ''Now Showing''. He has joined Dharma Productions as a talent manager. Early life Masand studied at H.R. College of Commerce and Economics and graduated from Mumbai University, Masand started reporting at the age of 16 at ''The Times of India'' newspaper. He later became assistant editor at ''The Indian Express''. In January 2003, he joined STAR News as a special correspondent and as the host of ''Masand Ki Pasand''. In 2005, Masand moved to CNN-IBN where he is currently the film critic and runs an ongoing video reviews series on the CNN-IBN website, ''Masand's Verdict''. He also became the host of CNN-IBN's entertainment series, ''To Catch a Star''. Career Masand also has a popular YouTube chann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranvir Shorey
Ranvir Shorey (born 18 August 1972) is an Indian actor and former video jockey. Since making his debut in '' Ek Chhotisi Love Story'' (2002), he has worked in both mainstream and independent cinema. His commercially successful ventures include '' Jism'' (2003), '' Lakshya'' (2004), '' Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.'' (2007), '' Singh Is Kinng'' (2008), ''Ek Tha Tiger'' (2012), '' Angrezi Medium'' (2020), and '' Tiger 3'' (2023). He has also starred in the critically acclaimed films such as '' Khosla Ka Ghosla'' (2006), ''Traffic Signal'' and '' Bheja Fry'' (both 2007), '' Mithya'' (2008), '' Titli'' (2014), and ''A Death In The Gunj'' (2016). He was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for '' Sonchiriya'' (2019). Subsequently, he hosted '' Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7'' (2015) and '' Chalo Koi Baat Nahi'' (2021). He also appeared in various digital series such as '' Rangbaaz'' (2018), '' Sacred Games'' (2018-19), ''High'' and '' Hasmukh'' (both 2020), '' Metro Park' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yogendra Tiku
Yogendra Tiku is an Indian film, television and stage actor, born and brought up at Prayagraj. He has been successful in entertainment industries including theater plays, TV serials and Bollywood movies, like ''No One Killed Jessica'' (2011), ''Queen'' (2014), '' Neerja'', '' Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran''. He appeared latest in the movie '' His Story of Itihaas''. Production credits *'' Pappa Ko Ho Gaya Pyar'' *'' Paisa Paisa Paisa'' *''Shakuntala'' (writer and director) *''Mahavir''... (writer and director) *''Beeswin'' (writer) *''Gandhi'' (Writer) Filmography Actor *'' English August'' (1994) *'' Everybody Says I'm Fine!'' (2001) *''No One Killed Jessica'' (2011) *'' Losing Gemma'' (2006) *''Dabangg 2'' (2012) *'' Bajatey Raho'' (2013) *''Queen Queen most commonly refers to: * Queen regnant, a female monarch of a kingdom * Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king * Queen (band), a British rock band Queen or QUEEN may also refer to: Monarchy * Queen dowager, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
