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Mast (film)
''Mast'' () is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The film stars Aftab Shivdasani in his debut as a lead actor alongside Urmila Matondkar. Shivdasani won the Star Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male for his performance. Plot Kittu is an arts student in Pune and is madly in love with actress and film star Malika. He has posters up on his wall and goes to all of her movies and even fantasizes that she is there with him when he is watching these items, something which his sister often witnesses. His father, concerned with his son's declining exam scores, confronts Kittu on his obsession on learning of it from his daughter and later tears down every poster. To Kittu, this is almost as bad as murder, and decides to move out and travels to Mumbai, where the star, herself, lives. Unknowing of where to go, he goes to her bungalow, but the security guard shoos him away. He finds a job at a nearby cafe. After interacting with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Gopal Varma
Penmetsa Ram Gopal Varma (born 7 April 1962), often referred to by his initials RGV, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, primarily known for his work in Hindi cinema, Hindi and Telugu cinema, Telugu films.** * * Varma has directed films across multiple genres, including parallel cinema and docudrama noted for their gritty realism (arts), realism, technical finesse, and craft. Regarded as one of the pioneers of new age Cinema of India, Indian cinema, he was featured in the BBC News (international TV channel), BBC World series ''Bollywood Bosses'' in 2004.* In 2006, Grady Hendrix of Film Comment, published by the Film at Lincoln Center cited Varma as "Bombay's Most Successful Maverick" for his works on experimental films.* * He is known for introducing new talents, who eventually become successful in the Indian film industry. Starting his career as a civil engineer, he made an entry into Telugu cinema with the path-breaking crime thriller, ''Siva (1989 Telugu fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalip Tahil
Dalip Tahil (born Dalip Tahilramani; 30 October 1952) is an Indian people, Indian film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his work in ''Baazigar'' (1993), ''Raja (1995 film), Raja'' (1995), ''Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke'' (1993) and ''Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak'' (1988), Pyaar Ki Miss Call (2009) along with actor Gaurav Prateek. In the UK, he appeared in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' as Dan Ferreira, the head of the Ferreira family, from June to December 2003. Early life and education Dalip Tahilramani was born on 30 October 1952 in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India into a Sindhi Hindu family which had recently migrated from Sind Province (1936–1955), Sindh during the Partition of India. He studied at Sherwood College in Nainital, India. After attending Aligarh Muslim University for a year, he graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Career Stage Tahil began to appear on stage while at Sherwood College, Nainital, at the age of 10. His participation over the years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crore
Crore (; abbreviated cr) denotes the quantity ten million (107) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. In many international contexts, the decimal quantity is formatted as 10,000,000, but when used in the context of the Indian numbering system, the quantity is usually formatted 1,00,00,000. Crore is widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. Etymology The word ''crore'' derives from the Prakrit word , which in turn comes from the Sanskrit (), denoting ten million in the Indian number system, which has separate terms for most powers of ten from 100 up to 1019. The ''crore'' is known by various regional names. Money Large amounts of money in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan are often written in terms of ''crore''. For example 150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million) rupees is written as "fifteen ''crore'' rupee Rupee (, ) is the common name for the currency, currencies of India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (; ; born 8 September 1933) is an Indian playback singer, entrepreneur, actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian cinema. Known for her versatility, she has been described in the media as one of the greatest and most influential singers in Hindi cinema. In her career spanning over eight decades she has recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and received #Accolades, several accolades including two National Film Awards, four Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards, BFJA Awards, eighteen Maharashtra State Film Awards, nine Filmfare Awards including a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, Lifetime Achievement Award and a record seven Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer, in addition to two Grammy nominations. In 2000, she was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema. In 2008, she was honoured by the Governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam (née Ghanekar, born 7 March 1969) is an Indian singer known for her playback career in Indian cinema predominantly in Hindi, Marathi language, Marathi, Bengali language, Bengali, Nepali, Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu language films. She is a recipient of the National Film Awards, National Film Award and Filmfare Awards South, She has also won five Maharashtra State Film Awards, four Gujarat State Film Awards and one Odisha State Film Awards, Orissa State Film Award. Early life Sargam was born in a Marathi family of musicians at Dabhol, the seaport town in Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra. Her mother Neela Ghanekar was a classical singer and music teacher and knew arranger–composer Anil Mohile, who then arranged music for Kalyanji-Anandji. He introduced Sargam to them, and she was in the children's chorus in "Pam Pararampam, Bole Jeevan Ki Sargam" sung by Kishore Kumar in G. P. Sippy's ''Trishna (1978 film), Trishna'' (1978). Sargam performe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced ; born Nidhi Chauhan, 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer. Known for her Bold vocal range, she has recorded songs for films in several Indian languages and List of awards and nominations received by Sunidhi Chauhan, received accolades including three Filmfare Awards and a Filmfare Award South. She is often praised for her charismatic stage presence and Vocal belting ability. Born in Delhi, she began performing at local gatherings at the age of 5 and made her career debut at the age of 13, with the film ''Shastra (film), Shastra'' (1996). During the year, she won the first singing reality show titled ''Meri Awaz Suno'' and rose to prominence after recording "Ruki Ruki Si Zindagi" from ''Mast (film), Mast'' (1999). It won her Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent and was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, Best Female Playback Singer. She is known for her versatility as a vocalist. Her second breakthrough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, music director, dubbing artist and actor. He is one of the most versatile singers and widest vocal ranges in the history of Indian music. His songs vary from romantic to break-up, classical to devotional, Party to patriotic, ghazals to qawwali and rock to pop. Nigam is considered one of the greatest and most successful singers of all time in the history of Indian music industry. Nigam sings predominantly in Hindi and Kannada language films. He has recorded over 6,000 songs in more than 32 languages throughout his career. He has released a number of non-film albums and acted in some Hindi films. Nigam has been awarded one National Film Award, two Filmfare Awards and two Filmfare Awards South and four IIFA Award for the Best Playback singer. He was ranked top artist on the Billboard Uncharted charts twice in September and October 2013. Nigam was honoured with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nitin Raikwar
Nitin or Nithin (Devanagari: नितिन, नीतीन, or नीतिन) is a male first name in India and Nepal. Notable people named Nitin * Nitin Bose, Indian film director * Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Bollywood art director and production designer * Nitin Gadkari, Indian politician, former president of the Bharatiya Janata Party * Nitin Ganatra, British actor * Nitin Kapoor, Indian producer * Nitin Kushalappa, Indian author * Nitin Mukesh, Indian singer * Neil Nitin Mukesh, Indian actor * Nitin Nohria, American business writer * Nitin Pradhan, former chief information officer for the US Department of Transportation * Nitin Rakesh, Indian businessman * Nitin Raut, Indian politician * Nitin Saini, Indian cricketer * Nitin Sahrawat, Indian actor * Nitin Sathya, Indian actor * Nitin Sawhney, Indian-British composer and musician See also * Nithiin Nithin Kumar Reddy (born 30 March 1983), known professionally as Nithiin, is an Indian film actor, distributor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus Records & Tapes
Ishtar Music, previously known as Venus Records & Tapes, is an Indian record label company (owned by Believe Digital, a French company), and managed bChaitany under the guidance of Sneha Pandey, originally founded by Ganesh Jain and Ratan Jain as Venus Music in 1985 and currently a subsidiary of Believe Digital. It is primarily known for publishing and marketing Bollywood music soundtracks and Indi-pop music. In 2021, the company was acquired by Believe Digital and rebranded as "Ishtar". Filmography Films produced Other works Discography Hindi Tamil * '' Manmadan Ambu'' * '' Vaanam'' * '' Siruthai'' * '' Kaavalan'' * ''Pesu'' Bengali YouTube presence Venus Records & Tapes joined 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 ... on 22 September 2005, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Soundtrack
A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound. In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially, the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own separate track, and these are mixed together to make what is called the ''composite track,'' which is heard in the film. A ''dubbing track'' is often later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as an M&E (music and effects) track. M&E tracks contain all sound elements minus dialogue, which is then supplied by the foreign distributor in the native language of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soundtrack Album
A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show. The first such album to be commercially released was Walt Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (soundtrack), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', the soundtrack to the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', in 1938. The first soundtrack album of a film's orchestral score was that for Alexander Korda's 1942 film ''Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book'', composed by Miklós Rózsa. Overview When a feature film is released, or during and after a television series airs, an music album, album in the form of a soundtrack is frequently released alongside it. A soundtrack typically contains instrumentation or alternatively a film score. But it can also feature songs that were sung or performed by characters in a scene (or a cover version of a song in the media, re-recorded by a popular artist), songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raju Mavani
Raju Mavani (1957 – 31 October 2019) was an Indian film director, producer, actor and screenplay writer. He had worked on many films and was known for his acting skills while playing a negative character. Biography Mavani was born in 1957. He was the producer of '' Balwaan'' which was released in 1992. This film was the debut film of Sunil Shetty. He also produced '' Imtihaan''. He directed many films too. Apart from producing and directing he also acted in films like '' Sarkar'', '' Wanted'', ''Shootout at Wadala ''Shootout at Wadala'' is a 2013 Indian Action film, action-crime film written and directed by Sanjay Gupta (director), Sanjay Gupta. The film stars Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Manoj Bajpayee, Tusshar Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut and Sonu Sood. It is ...'' and '' Policegiri''. Death Raju Mavani died of cancer on 31 October 2019 in Mumbai at the age of 62. Filmography Producer, director and writer Actor References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mavani, Raju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
