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Jhankaar Beats
''Jhankaar Beats'' is a 2003 Indian musical comedy film written and directed by Sujoy Ghosh in his feature directorial debut and produced by Pritish Nandy Communications. It stars Juhi Chawla, Sanjay Suri, Rahul Bose, debutant Shayan Munshi, Rinke Khanna, and Riya Sen. This film is a story about love, friendship, and music and pays tribute to the music of R. D. Burman. Plot Deep is happily married to Shanti, with a little daughter, Muskaan, and another baby on the way. Rishi is his best friend and colleague at an advertising agency. Rishi is a little immature and stubborn, and this keeps on causing fights at home with his equally headstrong lawyer wife, Nicki. Rishi and Deep are dedicated musicians, obsessive about the music of R.D. Burman. They play at a club sometimes and compete in an annual pop music contest called "Jhankaar Beats," which they have lost for the past two years. Rishi has been kicked out of his house by Nicki, and the two are considering getting divorced. Dee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sujoy Ghosh
Sujoy Ghosh (born 21 May 1966) is an Indian film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter who works in Hindi films. He has directed '' Jhankaar Beats'' (2003), '' Home Delivery: Aapko... Ghar Tak'' (2005), '' Aladin'' (2009), ''Kahaani'' (2012), '' Kahaani 2'' (2016) and '' Badla'' (2019). He has also written and directed short films such as ''Ahalya'' (2015) and '' Anukul'' (2017). He had directed two projects for Netflix, the horror drama series ''Typewriter'' (2019) and the mystery thriller film ''Jaane Jaan'' (2023). Early life Sujoy Ghosh was born in Kolkata. He studied in St. James' School. He used to stay in Bhowanipore and then moved to London when he was 13. Sujoy attended Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College where he completed his A Levels. He has a degree in engineering and an MBA from Manchester University. He worked as a South Asia head of the media division of Reuters before quitting in 1999. Sujoy is married to Vaishali, a psychologist and business owner. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shashikala
Shashikala Saigal (née Jawalkar; 4 August 1932 – 4 April 2021), better known by her first name, was an Indian film and television actress, who played supporting roles in hundreds of Bollywood films beginning in the 1940s. Early years Shashikala Jawalkar was one of six children born in Solapur, Maharashtra to a Hindu Bhavsar Shimpi caste Marathi speaking family. By age 5, she had already been dancing, singing and acting on stage in many towns in Solapur district. When Shashikala was in her pre-teens, through ill luck, her father became bankrupt, and he brought his family to Bombay (now Mumbai), where they thought that Shashikala, the best-looking and most-talented among his children, could find work in movies. For some time, the family lived with friends and barely survived, while Shashikala wandered from one studio to another looking for work. She earned in bits and pieces till she met Noor Jehan, the reigning screen queen. Noor Jehan's husband Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollywood Hungama
Bollywood Hungama (lit. "Bollywood Madness" in Hindi), previously known as IndiaFM (or IndiaFM.com), is an Indian entertainment website, owned by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, which acquired the website in 2000. The website provides news related to the Cinema of India, particularly Hindi cinema, film reviews and box office reports. Launched on 15 June 1998, the website was originally named "IndiaFM.com". It changed its name to "Bollywood Hungama" in 2008. References External links * 1998 establishments in Maharashtra Hindi cinema Companies based in Mumbai Indian film websites Internet properties established in 1998 Mahindra Group {{film-website-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taran Adarsh
Taran Adarsh (born 13 June 1965) is an Indian film critic and trade analyst. He is best known for giving trade figures and box office updates on social media, as well as his reviews for Bollywood Hungama. Career Taran Adarsh started his journalism career at the age of 15 with ''Trade Guide'', a weekly box office magazine. In 1994, Adarsh produced and wrote the Bollywood film-based TV serial ''Hello Bollywood'', starring Shehzad Khan and Kashmera Shah. He continued his work on ''Trade Guide'' alongside. He is currently an active film critic, journalist and trade analyst on ''Bollywood Hungama Bollywood Hungama (lit. "Bollywood Madness" in Hindi), previously known as IndiaFM (or IndiaFM.com), is an Indian entertainment website, owned by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, which acquired the website in 2000. The website provides n ...'', a Bollywood entertainment website. References External links * * Indian film critics Living people 1965 births People fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudesh Bhosle
Sudesh Bhosale (born 1 July 1960) is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings for Marathi and Bollywood films. Bhosale is known for his ability to mimic actor Amitabh Bachchan, having sung for him in various films. Career Bhosale was born on 1 July 1960 to Sumantai Bhosale and studied in Ambedkar College, Wadala. He got his first major break in playback singing in the film '' Zalzala'' (1988). He used mimicry to become a professional dubbing artist for several artists like Sanjeev Kumar and Anil Kapoor. He dubbed for Sanjeev Kumar when he died prematurely before completing the film '' Professor Ki Padosan''. He has sung songs for the movie '' Ghatothkach'' in 2008. Bhosale is the producer and judge on '' K For Kishore'', a singing contest on Sony Entertainment Television. He has sung many famous Bollywood songs for Amitabh Bachchan including "Jumma chumma de de" from 1991 movie '' Hum'', "Meri Makhna Meri Soniye" from Baghban and others. He mimicked for Amitabh Bachcha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahalakshmi Iyer
Mahalakshmi Iyer is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi, Assamese and Tamil songs. She has sung in many other Indian languages as well, including Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati and Kannada. Career Playback singing Mahalakshmi made her playback debut with the film '' Dus'' in 1997'','' but the film never completed and released due to the sudden passing of the film's director. The album however was released in 1999 as a tribute. She sang the track ''Ae Ajnabee'' with Udit Narayan for A. R. Rahman in Mani Ratnam's '' Dil Se..'' which was her first release as a playback singer and considered to be her debut. Mahalakshmi continued singing for Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and A.R. Rahman in many films which followed. Since then she has also sung many serials, jingles, and original albums. She was part of several successful soundtracks such as '' Mission Kashmir'', '' Yaadein'' and '' Saathiya'' and worked with some of the biggest music composers like A. R. Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaan (singer)
Shantanu Mukherjee (born 30 September 1972), professionally known as Shaan, is an Indian playback singer, composer, actor and television host. He record songs primarily in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada and Telugu language. Known as the "Golden Voice of India", Shaan is considered among the greatest playback singers of India. He is also noted for his songs in the romantic genre, mainly during the 2000s. Shaan is a recipient of two Filmfare Awards and three International Indian Film Academy Awards. His most popular songs include — "Musu Musu Haasi Deu" from '' Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi'' (1999), " Woh Ladki Hai Kahan" and "Koi Kahe Kehta Rahe" from '' Dil Chahta Hai'' (2001), "Ghanan Ghanan" from '' Lagaan'' (2001), "Mere Samnewali Khidki Mein" from '' Dil Vil Pyar Vyar'' (2002), "O Humdum Suniyo Re" from '' Saathiya'' (2002), "Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai" from '' Jism'' (2003), "Kuch To Hua Hai" from '' Kal Ho Naa Ho'' (2003), "O Jaana" from '' Tere Naam'' (2003), "Ladki Kyun" from '' Hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan Jha (born 1 December 1955) is an Nepali and Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi cinema, Hindi films. He has also sung in various other languages including Telugu language, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil language, Tamil, Bengali language, Bengali, Sindhi language, Sindhi, Odia language, Odia, Bhojpuri language, Bhojpuri, Nepali language, Nepali, Malayalam, Assamese language, Assamese, Bagheli language, Bagheli and Maithili language, Maithili. He has won four National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards with twenty nominations among many others. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution towards arts and culture. As many as 21 of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time". He got to sing with Mohammed Rafi in his Hindi playback debut in ''Unees-Bees'' in 1980 and also with Kishore Kumar in the 1980s. He finally made his mark in the 1988 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KK (singer)
Krishnakumar Kunnath (23 August 1968 – 31 May 2022), popularly known as KK, was an Indian playback singer. KK is regarded as one of the greatest playback singers of India, noted for his versatility in a variety of music genres. He recorded songs primarily in Hindi, Tamil language, Tamil, Telugu language, Telugu and Kannada. He was a recipient of two Screen Awards, along with nominations for six Filmfare Awards. KK began his career by singing advertising jingles and made his film debut in 1996 with a song in ''Maachis''. KK released his debut album, ''Pal (album), Pal'' in 1999. The songs "Pal" and "Yaaron" from the album became popular, and are used in school graduations. The album turned out to be his career breakthrough. The song "Tadap Tadap Ke" from the 1999 film ''Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam'', earned him his first Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer nomination. KK went onto establish himself as one of the leading singers of the 2000s with successful songs in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Kumar (singer)
Amit Kumar (born 3 July 1952) is an Indian playback singer, actor, music composer. Kumar launched his own music production company, named Kumar Brothers Music. He predominantly worked in Bollywood and regional film songs since the 1970s, including 150 Hindi and Bengali compositions by R. D. Burman. After Burman's death in 1994, citing a lack of quality music composition, Kumar withdrew from playback singing and concentrated on live orchestra shows. In addition to singing in Hindi, has also performed in Bengali language, Bengali, Bhojpuri language, Bhojpuri, Odia language, Odia, Assamese language, Assamese, Marathi language, Marathi and Konkani language, Konkani. He is the eldest son of singer-actor Kishore Kumar. Early life Kumar is the son of singer and actor Kishore Kumar and Bengali singer and actress Ruma Guha Thakurta. Like his father, Amit started singing from an early age and he used to sing at Durga Pooja festivals in Kolkata, Calcutta. At one such function arranged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishal Dadlani
Vishal Dadlani (born 28 June 1973) is an Indian singer, songwriter, music composer and occasional actor. He is one half of the duo Vishal–Shekhar, and frontman and vocalist of one of India's leading rock bands Pentagram. As a great singer, he has sung various hit songs for various genres notably ''Dhoom Again'', ''Kurban Hua'', ''Jee le Zara'', ''Marjaiyann'', ''I feel Good'', ''Jab Mila Tu'', ''Tu Meri'', ''Swag Se Swagat'', ''Bala'', ''Har funn Maula'', and ''Khuda Hafiz''. As a vocalist of band Pentagram, notable works are ''Voice'', ''Tomorrow's Decided'', ''Must I'', ''Love Drug Climbdown'' and more to go. As a music director, he has composed songs for films such as ''Om Shanti Om'', '' Anjaana Anjaani'', '' Dostana'', '' I Hate Luv Storys'', ''Bang Bang!'', ''Sultan'', '' Student of the Year'', '' Befikre'' and ''War''. Dadlani has been in collaboration with many international artists like Imogen Heap, Diplo, The Vamps and Akon. Early life Dadlani was born and raise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurush Deboo
Kurush Deboo (born 12 September 1963) is an Indian actor who has acted in many supporting roles in Hindi films and television series. He was first noticed as Shah Rukh Khan's character's loyal friend in '' Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa''. He is known for his role as Dr. Rustom Pavri in '' Munnabhai M.B.B.S.'' Early life Kurush Deboo was born on 12 September 1963 in Mumbai in a Parsi family. He grew up in Navsari in Gujarat and completed his BCom in Navsari in 1984. He moved to Mumbai and completed a Diploma in Advertising and Marketing from Xavier's Institute of Communications, Mumbai in 1986 and a Diploma in Marketing Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in 1987. He received a diploma in acting from Roshan Taneja's Actors Studio in 1988. Career Deboo made a debut in the NFDC produced Gujarati film '' Percy'' (1989) which earned critical acclaim and a nomination for the Best Actor in National Awards 1990. He acted as Tehmul in '' Such A Long Journey'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
