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Kriti (2016 Film)
''Kriti'' is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language short film directed by Shirish Kunder and produced by Muvizz.com. Hosted on YouTube, the film is a psychological thriller that stars Manoj Bajpayee, Radhika Apte and Neha Sharma as the main characters and was released on 22 June 2016. It has been dubbed a "dark drama". Cast *Manoj Bajpayee as Sapan *Radhika Apte as Dr. Kalpana * Neha Sharma as Kriti * Manu Rishi as Srijan Rane Controversy Soon after the release of the movie on YouTube, the movie ran into controversy after a young filmmaker from Nepal, Aneel Neupane claimed the movie was a copy of his short film ''Bob'' released on Vimeo Vimeo ( ) is an American Online video platform, video hosting, sharing, and services provider founded in 2004 and headquartered in New York City. Vimeo focuses on the delivery of high-definition video across a range of devices and operates on a ... in October 2015 privately among friend and family circle. The incident developed into an ugly af ...
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Shirish Kunder
Shirish Kunder (born 24 May 1973) is an Indian filmmaker and film editor. After working as an film editor on 21 films starting with ''Champion'' (2000), Kunder made his screenwriting and directorial debut with '' Jaan-E-Mann'' (2006). He is married to choreographer and film director Farah Khan whom he met while working on her 2004 film ''Main Hoon Na''. Early life Kunder was born on 24 May 1973 in Mangalore, Karnataka and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He studied Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering at the SDM College of Engineering and Technology in Dharwad. Career Kunder worked as an electronics engineer in Motorola for four years before changing profession Kunder turned to direction with his debut film, '' Jaan-E-Mann''. Apart from editing and composing the film score, he also wrote the film. The film starred Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta, and was released on 20 October 2006. The film was critically acclaimed for its innovative visual narrative ...
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Manoj Bajpayee
Manoj Bajpayee (born 23 April 1969), also transliterated as Manoj Bajpai, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi cinema. He is the recipient of numerous accolades including four National Film Awards, four Filmfare Awards, and two Asia Pacific Screen Awards. In 2019, he was awarded the Padma Shri. Born in a small village in Bihar, Bajpayee aspired to become an actor since childhood. He relocated to Delhi at the age of seventeen, and applied for the National School of Drama, only to be rejected four times. He continued to do theatre while studying in college. Bajpayee made his feature film debut with minor roles in '' Drohkaal'' (1994) and '' Bandit Queen'' (both 1994). He had his breakthrough playing a gangster in Ram Gopal Varma's 1998 crime drama ''Satya'', for which he won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor. He then acted in films such as '' Kaun?'' (1999) and '' Shool'' (1999). For the latter, he won ...
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Radhika Apte
Radhika Apte () (born 7 September 1985) is an Indian film and television actress. She began acting in theatre and made her film debut with a brief role in the fantasy drama ''Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!'' (2005). Her first lead role was in the 2009 Bengali drama ''Antaheen''. She gained attention for her supporting roles in three of her 2015 Bollywood productions: the revenge drama ''Badlapur (film), Badlapur'', the comedy ''Hunterrr'', and the biographical film ''Manjhi - The Mountain Man''. Her leading roles in the 2016 independent films ''Phobia (2016 film), Phobia'' and ''Parched'' earned her acclaim. In 2018, Apte starred in three Netflix productions – the anthology film ''Lust Stories'', the thriller series ''Sacred Games (TV series), Sacred Games'', and the horror mini-series ''Ghoul (miniseries), Ghoul''. She was nominated for an International Emmy Award for her work in the first of these, becoming the first Indian actress to do so. She then starred in the Netflix films ' ...
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Neha Sharma
Neha Sharma (, born 21 November 1987) is an Indian actress, model, and businesswoman. Sharma has appeared in several films including '' Yamla Pagla Deewana 2'' (2013), ''Solo'' (2017) and '' Tanhaji'' (2020). She made her web debut with the series '' Illegal'' in 2020 and has also been part of the short film ''Kriti'' and Vikalp, where she played the title roles. Early life Neha Sharma was born on 21 November 1987, to a Hindu family in Bihar, Sharma attended the Mount Carmel School in Bhagalpur and pursued a course in fashion design from the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in New Delhi. She confessed being severely asthmatic in childhood and always unwell and weak physically. She also claimed to be completely cured of asthma with the blessing of a family in Hyderabad. Personal life Her personal hobbies are cooking, listening to music, reading, and dance. Sharma is trained in the Indian classical dance form called Kathak. Apart from that, she has also learne ...
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Manu Rishi
Manu Rishi Chadha (born 3 January, 1971) is an Indian actor, lyricist, script and dialogue writer who works in Hindi films. Rishi is trained under theatre director Arvind Gaur for six years. He won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award in 2009 for '' Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!'' He also won the IIFA Best Dialogue Award for ''Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!''. Career Manu Rishi Chadha started his acting career in Delhi with the Asmita theatre group. He has acted in more than 40 plays with director Arvind Gaur. His major plays are Girish Karnad's ''Rakt Kalyan'', Mahesh Dattani's ''Final Solutions'', Swadesh Deepak's ''Court Martial'', William Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'', Dharamvir Bharati's '' Andha Yug'', Dario Fo's '' Accidental Death of an Anarchist'' and Eugene O'Neill's '' Desire Under the Elms''. In 2001, he moved to Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financi ...
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Manush Nandan
Manush Nandan is an Indian cinematographer who works in Hindi and Tamil-language films. He studied at the Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu and worked under Ravi K. Chandran during his early days and for his directorial debut '' Yaan'' (2014). He worked as an assistant cinematographer for '' Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi'' (2008) and ''My Name is Khan'' (2010) before being recommended to Farah Khan Farah Khan Kunder (; born 9 January 1965) is an Indian film director, writer, film producer, actress, dancer and choreographer who works predominantly in Hindi films. Khan has choreographed more than a hundred songs in over 80 films, winning th ... by an assistant director to work on '' Happy New Year'' (2014). He has since worked on several well known Hindi films such as '' Thugs of Hindostan'' (2018) and '' Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani'' (2023). Personal life He is the son of writers Gnani Sankaran and AS Padmavathi. He married Gowri in 2013. Filmography Referen ...
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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 of India, alongside English language, English, and is the ''lingua franca'' of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritisation (linguistics), Sanskritised Register (sociolinguistics), register of Hindustani. Hindustani itself developed from Old Hindi and was spoken in Delhi and neighbouring areas. It incorporated a significant number of Persian language, Persian loanwords. Hindi is an Languages with official status in India, official language in twelve states (Bihar, Gujarat , Mizoram , Maharashtra ,Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand), and six Union territory, union territories (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Delhi, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Di ...
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YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ...
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Psychological Thriller
Psychological thriller is a Film genre, genre combining the thriller (genre), thriller and psychological fiction genres. It is commonly used to describe literature or films that deal with psychological narratives in a thriller or thrilling setting. In terms of context and convention, it is a Genre#Subgenre, subgenre of the broader ranging Thriller (genre), thriller narrative structure,Dictionary.com, definitionpsychological thriller (definition) Accessed November 3, 2013, "...a suspenseful movie or book emphasizing the psychology of its characters rather than the plot; this subgenre of thriller movie or book – Example: In a psychological thriller, the characters are exposed to danger on a mental level rather than a physical one....", with similarities to Gothic fiction, Gothic and detective fiction in the sense of sometimes having a "dissolving sense of reality". It is often told through the viewpoint of psychologically stressed characters, revealing their distorted mental percep ...
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China China–Nepal border, to the north, and India India–Nepal border, to the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Sikkim. Nepal has a Geography of Nepal, diverse geography, including Terai, fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten List of highest mountains#List, tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and List of cities in Nepal, its largest city. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural state, with Nepali language, Nepali as the official language. The name "Nepal" is first record ...
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Vimeo
Vimeo ( ) is an American Online video platform, video hosting, sharing, and services provider founded in 2004 and headquartered in New York City. Vimeo focuses on the delivery of high-definition video across a range of devices and operates on a software as a service (SaaS) business model. The platform provides tools for video creation, editing, and broadcasting along with enterprise software solutions and the means for video professionals to connect with clients and other professionals. the site has 260 million users, with around 1.6 million subscribers to its services. The site was initially built by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein in 2004 as a skunkworks project of CollegeHumor, taking inspiration from the Image sharing, photo sharing site Flickr launched earlier that year by Ludicorp. The project was organized as a division of CollegeHumor's parent, Connected Ventures, a Startup company, startup formed by Ricky Van Veen, Josh Abramson, Lodwick and Klein. IAC Inc., IAC acquired a ...
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2016 Films
2016 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of films released, and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best films of 2016, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' stated, "Hollywood is the world's best money-laundering machine. It takes in huge amounts of money from the sale of mass-market commodities and cleanses some of it with the production of cinematic masterworks. Earning billions of dollars from C.G.I. comedies for children, superhero movies, sci-fi apocalypses, and other popular genres, the big studios channel some of those funds into movies by Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, James Gray, and other worthies. Sometimes there's even an overlap between the two groups of movies, as when Ryan Coogler made ''Creed'', or when Scorsese made the modernist horror instant-classic '' Shutter Island'', or when Clint Eastwood makes just about anything." High ...
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