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Fugly (film)
''Fugly'' (or ''"F*UGLY"'', as it appears on the poster) is a 2014 Indian Hindi language comedy-drama social thriller film directed by Kabir Sadanand and produced by Ashvini Yardi and Alka Bhatia. It was released on 13 June 2014. The film features Jimmy Sheirgill, Mohit Marwah, Vijender Singh, Arfi Lamba and Kiara Advani. Plot Dev, Devi, Gaurav and Aditya are close friends. Gaurav is the son of the CM of Haryana, while the rest of his friends are commoners. Gaurav is uninterested in his family's politics and is the only educated person in his family. Gaurav is nice-hearted, but always high on adrenaline because of his influential father. He has a knack for getting into trouble with the police because of this attitude, but the police tend to ignore his pranks. A local grocer, Nunu, has an evil eye on Devi and one day he gropes her in his shop. The four of them decide to teach him a lesson. At night, they decide to break into his shop and thrash him warning him not to see her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabir Sadanand
Kabir Sadanand is an Indian actor and film director. Early life Kabir hails from an Air Force family. His father was a Pilot in the Indian Air Force. He is an alumnus of The Air Force School The Air Force School (TAFS), formerly known as Air Force Central School (AFCS), was set up primarily to provide education to the children of Indian Air Force personnel. It was founded in 1955 by Chief of Air Staff Subroto Mukherjee. It was e ... in Delhi from where he did his higher secondary. He did his graduation from Hansraj College. Films Television Producer Notes References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sadanand, Kabir Living people Film directors from Mumbai Male actors in Hindi cinema Indian male television actors 21st-century Indian male actors Indian male soap opera actors Year of birth missing (living people) Male actors from Delhi Hansraj College alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Hari Om Bhatia (born Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia; 9 September 1967), known professionally as Akshay Kumar (), is an Indian actor and film producer working in Hindi cinema. Referred to in the media as "Khiladi Kumar", through his career spanning over 30 years, Kumar has appeared in Akshay Kumar filmography, over 150 films and has won List of awards and nominations received by Akshay Kumar, several awards, including two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. He received the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, from the Government of India in 2009. Kumar is one of the most prolific actors in Indian cinema. ''Forbes'' included Kumar in their lists of both highest-paid celebrities and highest-paid actors in the world from 2015 to 2020. Between 2019 and 2020, he was the only Indian on both lists. Kumar began his career in 1991 with ''Saugandh (1991 film), Saugandh'' and had his first commercial success a year later with the action thriller ''Khiladi (1992 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pawni Pandey
Pawni Pandey is an Indian singer who was a contestant on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs and advanced to fifth place with public votes. She made her debut in the singing reality show Indian Idol. Post the reality show, she has sung a diverse number of songs in Bollywood films and is a live performer in both national and international shows. She became more well known after her song "Laila Main Laila" from Raees became hit. She received significant amount of Indian media coverage due to her much acclaimed singing of the song. She then became a part of the Grand Jury for the singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs 2017. Early life and career Pandey started singing from the age of 3 and at the age of 9 her parents recognised her talent and at the age of 10, her family migrated from Jaipur to Mumbai so that Pawni can pursue music seriously and get better opportunities. After moving to Mumbai, she participated in the "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs" where she was adjudged as the "Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niren Bhatt
Niren Bhatt is a screenwriter and lyricist from Mumbai, India. After leaving his corporate job, he initially wrote commercials and Gujarati plays. He later expanded writing career in Hindi TV series and Gujarati cinema. He eventually has success in Hindi film industry with writing films for Maddock Supernatural Universe, most notably ''Stree 2'', which became one of the highest-grossing Hindi film of all time. Early life Bhatt has studied Masters in Engineering and Masters in Business Administration. He worked as a business consultant and started writing. In 2011, he left his corporate job to pursue career in writing. Career Bhatt initially wrote commercials and Gujarati plays. Later he started writing for television and films but had mixed reception. His breakthrough came with writing for long running sitcom ''Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah''. He wrote script and lyrics of 2014 Gujarati film ''Bey Yaar'' which became a major hit. He wrote several Gujarati films includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T-Series (company)
Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited, Trade name, doing business as T-Series, is an Indian music record label and film production company founded by Gulshan Kumar on 11 July 1983. It is primarily known for Hindi film music, Hindi film soundtracks and Indi-pop music. T-Series is the largest music record label in India, with up to a 35% share of the Indian Music Industry, Indian music market. As of May 2025, T-Series also owns and operates the List of most-viewed YouTube channels, most-viewed and the List of most-subscribed YouTube channels, second most-subscribed YouTube channel, with over 296 million subscribers and 300 billion views. While best known as a music label, T-Series has List of T-Series films, also produced more than 100 films, and has established itself as a leading film production company in Hindi cinema. Kumar, initially a fruit juice seller in Delhi, founded T-Series to sell Copyright infringement, pirated Hindi songs before the company eventually began pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindi Language
Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the Government of India, alongside English, and is the ''lingua franca'' of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of Hindustani. Hindustani itself developed from Old Hindi and was spoken in Delhi and neighbouring areas. It incorporated a significant number of Persian loanwords. Hindi is an official language in twelve states (Bihar, Gujarat , Mizoram , Maharashtra , Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand), and six union territories (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Delhi, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu , Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir) and an additional official language in the state of West Bengal. Hindi is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Hindi i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITunes
iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating systems, and can be used to rip songs from CDs as well as playing content from dynamic, smart playlists. It includes options for sound optimization and wirelessly sharing iTunes libraries. iTunes was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2001. Its original and main focus was music, with a library offering organization and storage of Mac users' music collections. With the 2003 addition of the iTunes Store for purchasing and downloading digital music, and a Windows version of the program, it became an ubiquitous tool for managing music and configuring other features on Apple's line of iPod media players, which extended to the iPhone and iPad upon their introduction. From 2005 on, Apple expanded its core music features with s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raftaar
Dilin Nair (born 16 November 1988), better known by his stage name Raftaar, is an Indian rapper, lyricist, music producer, composer, dancer, actor and TV personality associated with Hindi, Punjabi and Haryanvi music. He is among the first rappers in India to break into the mainstream music industry. Early and personal life Kalathil Kuzhiyil Devadasan Dilin Nair was born on 16 November 1988 to a Delhi-based Malayali couple in Trivandrum (now Thiruvananthapuram), Kerala. Raftaar married Komal Vohra, the sister of Indian television actors Karan Vohra and Kunal Vohra, in December 2016. They filed for a divorce in 2020 and have been living separately. The legal proceedings were delayed due to COVID-pandemic and were finalised on 6 October 2022. On 31 January 2025, Raftaar married fashion stylist, actress, model Manraj Jawanda in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in traditional Malayali and Sikh wedding ceremonies. Career Starting his career as a dancer, Raftaar (then known as Max) par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rang De Basanti
''Rang De Basanti'' () is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language epic coming-of-age socio-political drama film written, produced, and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. The film stars an ensemble cast including Aamir Khan, Siddharth (in his Hindi debut), Atul Kulkarni, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor, British actress Alice Patten (in her Hindi debut), Waheeda Rehman, and Soha Ali Khan. It follows a British film student traveling to India to document the story of five freedom fighters of the Indian revolutionary movement. She befriends and casts five young men in the film, which inspires them to fight against the evils of their own present-day government. Shot primarily in New Delhi, ''Rang De Basanti'' was released globally on 26 January 2006. Upon release, the film broke all opening box office records in India, becoming the country's highest-grossing film in its opening weekend and holding the highest opening-day collections for a Hindi film. It eventually became the seventh hi ... [...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] |
The Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu. It is headquartered in Noida, owned by the ''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 edition, '' Dinamani''. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
