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Fruit And Nut (film)
''Fruit and Nut'' is a 2009 Indian comedy film directed by comedian Kunal Vijaykar starring Boman Irani, Cyrus Broacha, Dia Mirza and Mahesh Manjrekar. The film was produced and distributed by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, and was released on 23 October 2009. Synopsis Monica Gokhale (Dia Mirza) works for the Bombay Heritage Society under Khandar Zala (Mahesh Manjrekar). Her plans of revamping the city's old buildings go against Maharaja Harry Holkar (Boman Irani). To stop Gokhale, Holkar has her kidnapped. However, she is rescued by Jolly Maker (Cyrus Broacha), an innocent and not-so-smart person. This not only brings fame to Maker but also makes Holkar join hands with Zala to bomb the Secretariat building and recruit scientist Vishwas Atmavishwas Pinakin (Rajit Kapoor) for the same. Realizing their plan, Gokhale reveals her true identity and joins hands with Maker to stop the crooks from destroying the city. Cast * Boman Irani as Harry Holkar * Cyrus Broacha as Jolly Maker * Dia M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunal Vijaykar
Kunal Vijaykar (born 19 May 1964) is an Indian broadcaster, food writer, author, actor, and television personality. He is also a YouTuber and his YouTube channel is called "Khaane Mein Kya Hai" (loosely translates to "What's for food?"). A whole generation has watched him eat his way into the hearts of hundreds and thousands of Indians. He is one of India’s most recognizable food show hosts, and the anchor of the country's most popular food show ''The Foodie – with Kunal Vijayakar'', a show which ran uninterrupted for nine years, completing close to 500 episodes. He has been a food columnist and writer with ''The Times of India'', ''Bombay Times'', ''DNA'', ''Asian Age'', ''Mahanagar'', and ''The Week'' and is currently a food writer and columnist with ''Hindustan Times''. He is the author of ''Made In India'' – his first cookbook. He is also an actor, director and political satirist, and writer, performer, and director of the satirical political show ''The News That Wasn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Patkar
Vijay Patkar (born 29 May 1961) is an Indian theatre, television, Marathi film and Bollywood actor. He is known for his comic roles in films including ''Tezaab'', '' Apna Sapna Money Money'', '' Golmaal 3'', '' Tees Maar Khan'', '' Daddy Cool'', '' All the Best: Fun Begins'' and ''Singham''. Patkar is the president of Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal (ABMCM). Personal life Patkar was brought up in Girgaon, Mumbai. He completed his education in Union High School and Siddharth College of Arts, Science and Commerce. Later, he had a job in Bank of India through Artiste's quota. He has one brother, Dayal Patkar. Career Patkar started acting in college with the one-act play ''Majhi Pehli Chori'' (''My First Theft''). In 1988, director N. Chandra gave him his first film role, as Anil Kapoor's friend, in the action romance ''Tezaab''. Patkar continued to work in theatre, Marathi movies and television advertisements. He has been greatly influenced by Charlie Chaplin. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Hindi-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Films
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. How the numbers got to their Gupta form is open to considerable debate. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fun Begins
''All The Best: Fun Begins'' is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Ajay Devgn. An official adaptation of the English comedy play ''Right Bed, Wrong Husband'' published by Samuel French, Inc., it stars Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Johny Lever, Sanjay Mishra and Mugdha Godse. The film opened theatrically on 16 October 2009, coinciding with Diwali, and was moderately successful at the box office. It was subsequently remade with slight changes in the story in Malayalam in 2010 as '' Best of Luck'' which went on to be remade in Kannada in 2015 as ''Ond Chance Kodi''. Plot Veer Kapoor is a struggling artist who hopes to make it big someday with his rock group, but at present, he is tottering financially. His only source of income is a monthly pocket money of Rs 100,000 from his wealthy elder stepbrother Dharam, for which Veer has told a lie about him being married to Vidya, his girlfriend. His best friend is Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue (2009 Film)
''Blue'' is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film co-written and directed by Anthony D'Souza, and produced by Dhilin Mehta under Shree Astavinayak Cine Vision Limited. The film stars Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan, and Rahul Dev. Katrina Kaif and Kabir Bedi appear in cameo appearances. Loosely based on the Hollywood film '' Into the Blue'' (2005) and its sequel '' Into the Blue 2: The Reef'' (2009), it explores a diver, haunted by his past, who must confront it in order to save his younger brother and girlfriend from a gangster, while his employer and good friend coaxes him to recover a lost, sunken treasure which he refuses to. ''Blue'' was released during the Diwali festival on 16 October 2009 and received mixed reviews from critics. During the time of release, it was the most expensive Indian film made until then, produced with a budget of more than $21 million. Featuring music composed by A.R. Rahman, ''Blue'' failed to recover its high ... [...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] |
India Today Group
Living Media India Limited, d.b.a. India Today Group, is an Indian media conglomerate based in New Delhi, India. It has interests in magazines, newspapers, books, radio, television, printing and the Internet. History India Today Group was founded in 1975 by Aroon Purie and Madhu Trehan and its first publication was ''India Today'' which was a fortnightly news magazine.Pooja BhulaWho Owns Your Media: The highs and lows of the India Today Group, Newslaundry, 18 July 2022. Aroon Purie is the current chairman and editor-in-chief and Dinesh Bhatia is the current CEO of India Today Group. TV Today Network The TV Today Network is an English-Hindi Indian news television network based in India. The TV Today Network was incorporated in 1988, launching a video magazine called '' Newstrack''. At that time, private television broadcasting was prohibited in India.Himani ChandnaNewstrack – The video magazine that served real issues to news-hungry Indians in DD era, The Print, 23 June 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and List of newspapers by circulation, largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is a newspaper of record. Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. In a 2021 surve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikhat Kazmi
Nikhat Kazmi (1958/59 – 20 January 2012) was a senior correspondent and well-known film critic from, born Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, who had been writing for ''The Times of India'' since 1987. She died of breast cancer Breast cancer is a cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a Breast lump, lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, Milk-rejection sign, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipp ... in 2012, at age 53. Books * ''If Shakespeare was a gun: a play''. Writers Workshop, 1984. * ''Ire in the soul: bollywood's angry years''. HarperCollins Publishers India, 1996. . * ''The Dream Merchants of Bollywood''. UBS Publishers' Distribuors, 1998. . * ''Times Guide to Hollywood Blockbusters''. Times Group Books. . * ''Times Movie Guide''. 2007, Times Group Books. . References External linksOfficial site 1950s births 2012 deaths Indian film critics Indian women film critics Indian women journalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication. It was founded in 1984 by economist Prannoy Roy and journalist Radhika Roy. NDTV began as a production house for news segments, contracted by the public broadcaster Doordarshan and international satellite channels when television broadcasting was a state monopoly, and transitioned into India's first independent news network. The company launched the first 24x7 news channel in partnership with Star India in 1998. In 2003, it became an independent broadcasting network with the simultaneous launch of the Hindi and English language news channels NDTV India and NDTV 24x7. In 2022, the Adani Group, noted for its close ties with the BJP, acquired a majority stake in the company. Adani's takeover led many prominent members of the channel to resign, including Ravish Kumar. History 1984–1998: Doordarshan era In 1984, the journalist Radhika Roy and her husband, econo ... [...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] |
