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Niharika Bhasin
Niharika Bhasin (formerly Khan) (born 21 November 1969) is an Indian costume designer who works in Hindi cinema (Bollywood), and is most known for her work in ''Rock On!!'' (2008) and ''The Dirty Picture'' (2011), for which she won the National Film Award for Best Costume Design as well as Filmfare Award for Best Costume Design. Early life and education Born to a Punjabi father and Parsi mother. She did her bachelor's degree in public relations and HR from Seattle, US. Career Bhasin started her career with ''Khoya Khoya Chand'' (2007). She got noticed with rocker film ''Rock On!!'' (2008), and got her big banner break with Yash Raj Films's ''Band Baaja Baaraat'' (2010). Filmography * ''Khoya Khoya Chand'' (2007) * ''Rock On!!'' (2008) * ''Bhoothnath'' (2008) * '' Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year'' (2009) * ''Karthik Calling Karthik'' (2010) * ''Band Baaja Baaraat'' (2010) * '' Delhi Belly'' (2011) * ''Trishna '' (2011) * ''The Dirty Picture'' (2011) * ''F.A.L.T.U'' (2011) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayub Khan (actor)
Ayub Khan (born 23 February 1969) is an Indian film and television actor. He is the nephew of the legendary actor Dilip Kumar. Personal life Khan was born to former 1950s actress Begum Para and actor Nasir Khan (actor), Nasir Khan, brother to Bollywood superstar Dilip Kumar. While in college, Khan met Niharika Khan, Niharika Bhasin, known for films like ''Rock On!!'' (2008) and ''The Dirty Picture'' (2011). When Niharika left for the US for her studies, they married other people. After 11 years they divorced and married each other. The couple divorced in 2016. Filmography Television * ''Tere Ishq Mein Ghayal'' as Vikram Oberoi (2023) * ''Gud Se Meetha Ishq'' (2022) as Navdeep Shergill * ''Spy Bahu'' (2022) as Arun Nanda *''Ranju Ki Betiyaan'' (2021)... Guddu Mishra * ''Ek Bhram Sarvagun Sampanna'' (2019) as Prem Kumar "PK" Mittal * ''Shakti — Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki'' (2016–2020) as Maninder Singh * ''Saab Ji'' (2016) as Samar Bahadur - DD National * ''Zindagi Abhi B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delhi Belly (film)
''Delhi Belly'' is a 2011 Indian action comedy film written by Akshat Verma and directed by Abhinay Deo. It stars Imran Khan, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Vir Das, Poorna Jagannathan and Shenaz Treasurywala. It is a Hinglish-language film, with 70% of the dialogue in English and 30% of the dialogue in Hindi. The film is produced by Aamir Khan Productions and UTV Motion Pictures. The theatrical trailer of the film premiered with Aamir Khan's '' Dhobi Ghat'' on 21 January 2011 while the film was released on 1 July 2011, along with a Hindi dubbed version. The film was given an 'A' certificate for its profanity, some violence and sexual content and is often dubbed as a modern cult classic. The film was remade in Tamil as '' Settai''. Plot The story revolves 3 roommates, journalist Tashi Lhatoo, photographer Nitin Berry and cartoonist Arup Rather, leading an unkempt and debt-ridden life in a shady apartment in Delhi. Tashi's ditzy fiancée, Sonia, is an air hostess who agrees to deliver a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy (2015 Film)
''Roy'' is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language romantic film, romantic drama film directed by debutant Vikramjit Singh and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Divya Khosla Kumar and Ajay Kapoor under Freeway Pictures. The movie features Arjun Rampal and Jacqueline Fernandez in the lead roles with Ranbir Kapoor in the title role. Shernaz Patel, Rajit Kapur and Shibani Dandekar appear in supporting roles. Anupam Kher appears in a cameo. The film is based on a filmmaker writing and directing movies about thefts and robberies. The movie had its premiere in Dubai on 12 February 2015 and was released worldwide on 13 February 2015 to negative reviews for the film’s story, screenplay, direction and slow narration, but praised the performances (especially Rampal’s and Kapoor’s), cinematography, locations, soundtrack, and the film’s dramatic score. Plot Kabir Garewal (Arjun Rampal), a casanova film maker and screenwriter, is making multiple films (GUNS Trilogy) based on a thief's l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarita With A Straw
''Margarita with a Straw'' is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Shonali Bose. It stars Kalki Koechlin as an Indian teenager with cerebral palsy who relocates to America for her undergraduate education and comes of age following her complex relationship with a blind girl, played by Sayani Gupta. Revathi, Kuljeet Singh, and William Moseley play supporting roles. Produced by Bose in partnership with Viacom18 Motion Pictures, ''Margarita with a Straw'' was co-written by Bose and Nilesh Maniyar. The film deals with the challenging concepts of sexuality, inclusion, self-love, and self-acceptance. Bose conceived the idea for the film in January 2011 during a conversation with Malini Chib, her cousin and a disability rights activist, about the latter's desire to have a normal sex life. Inspired by Chib's story, Bose wrote the first draft of the film's script. After winning a Sundance Mahindra Global Filmmaker Award for the draft, she modified the script to refle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rang Rasiya
''Rang Rasiya'', titled ''Colours of Passion'' in English, is a 2014 Indian drama film written and directed by Ketan Mehta, based on the life of the 19th century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma. It was released bilingually in Hindi as ''Rang Rasiya'' and in English as ''Colours of Passion''. The film was a cinematic adaptation of the novel ''Raja Ravi Varma'' by Ranjit Desai. It stars Randeep Hooda as Raja Ravi Varma and Nandana Sen as his love interest. ''Colours of Passion'' was released at The Times BFI London Film Festival in November 2008. ''Rang Rasiya'' was theatrically released in India on 7 November 2014. Cast * Randeep Hooda as Raja Ravi Varma * Nandana Sen as Sugandha * Gaurav Dwivedi as Raj Varma * Vipin Sharma as Paachan * Paresh Rawal as Seth Govardhan Das * Jim Boeven as Fritz Schleicher * Feryna Wazheir as Frenny * Rashaana Shah as Kaamini * Darshan Jariwala as Chintamani Maharaj * Suhasini Mulay as Sugandha's mother Bakubai * Sachin Khedekar as De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ungli
''Ungli'' () is a 2014 Indian vigilante crime thriller film directed by Rensil D'Silva and produced by Hiroo Yash Johar and Karan Johar under Dharma Productions. The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Randeep Hooda, Kangana Ranaut, Neha Dhupia, Angad Bedi, Neil Bhoopalam and Sanjay Dutt. Mahesh Manjrekar, who collaborated with Dharma Productions for the first time, appears in a negative role. The film was released on 28 November 2014. Plot 4 friends Kalim ( Angad Bedi), Gautam ( Neil Bhoopalam), Maya (Kangana Ranaut) and Abhay ( Randeep Hooda) delve into what seems to be their "first case", having started the ''Ungli'' gang, which fights against corruption. Their job is to bug corrupt people and teach them moral lessons quite unconventionally. They target a corrupt minister and become the most wanted people in Mumbai, but also earn respect, affection, and admiration in the media and general public. Meanwhile, ACP Ashok Kaale (Sanjay Dutt) meets his superior, DCP Shivraman ( Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tigers (2014 Film)
''Tigers'' (initially titled ''White Lies'') is a 2014 Indian drama film directed by Danis Tanović, and produced as a joint production between Cinema Time, French production company ASAP Films and Sikhya Entertainment. The film is inspired by an episode in Pakistan during the 1990s, a repetition of the Nestlé baby milk scandal in 1970s that occurred in developing countries. A Pakistani salesman named Syed Aamir Raza Hussain became a whistle-blower against his former employer Nestlé; in 1999, two years after he left Nestlé, Hussain released a report in association with the non-profit organisation International Baby Food Action Network, in which he alleged that Nestlé was encouraging doctors to push its infant formula products over breastfeeding. The film features Emraan Hashmi in the leading role as Ayan, based on Hussain, a pharmaceutical representative in Pakistan who discovers his new company's baby formula has killed hundreds of children, after which he begins a lone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lunch Box
''The Lunch Box'' is a chamber opera by Thai composer Thanapoom Sirichang and Thai librettist Bringkop Vora-Urai. Composed entirely in Tasmania under the guidance of IHOS Artistic Director Constantine Koukias, ''The Lunch Box'' may be the first opera sung in Thai to blend traditional Thai music and contemporary Western opera. A Buddhist tale ''The Lunch Box'' tells the story of a mother's devotion to her only son, a fundamentally good farmer whose rage at the untimely death of his father has tragic consequences. This much-loved Thai Buddhist folk tale is believed by the librettist to be based on an actual incident that occurred in Thailand 300 years ago. Composing western opera for Thai voices Composition challenges included using the Western staff and notation for Thai music, which is usually notated quite differently, and writing for a tonal language such as Thai, in which changing the pitch of the word can change its meaning. Premiere The opera, for two singers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chashme Buddoor (2013 Film)
''Chashme Baddoor'' is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language slapstick comedy film directed by David Dhawan and written by Sajid and Farhad Samji. An official remake of the 1981 film '' Chashme Buddoor'', it was produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and stars Ali Zafar and Taapsee Pannu (in her Hindi film debut) with Divyenndu and Siddharth in lead roles. The film was released on 5 April 2013. Plot Seema Ranjan (Taapsee Pannu) is a young girl who lives in Mumbai with her father Suryakant “Santru” Ranjan (Anupam Kher). He, being an active military officer, wants Seema to marry an armyman. He had arranged Seema's marriage to such people five times in a row, with Seema evading all five arrangements. Her father had now arranged her marriage for the sixth time, which Seema evades again and escapes to Goa to live with her uncle Chandrakant “Chiku” Ranjan, her father’s younger twin brother (also Anupam Kher), who wants her to marry a civilian. Siddharth “Sid” Kashyap (Ali Za ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kai Po Che!
''Kai Po Che!: Brothers... For Life'' () is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language sports drama film directed by Abhishek Kapoor and produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur under UTV Motion Pictures, marking the banner's first solo production under the Disney·UTV brand. Adapted from Chetan Bhagat's 2008 novel '' The 3 Mistakes of My Life'', with a three-song soundtrack by Amit Trivedi and lyrics by Swanand Kirkire, the film stars Rajkummar Rao, Amit Sadh, and newcomer Sushant Singh Rajput as the three main protagonists while Amrita Puri plays the female lead. The title is originally a Gujarati phrase that means "I have cut" which refers to Makar Sankranti (known as Uttarayan in Gujarat) where one of the competitors uses his kite to cut off another competitor's kite and yells the phrase. Set in Ahmedabad from 2000 to 2010, ''Kai Po Che!'' revolves around three friends, Ishaan "Ish" Bhatt (Rajput), Omkar "Omi" Shastri (Sadh) and Govind "Govi" Patel (Rao), who want to start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inkaar (2013 Film)
''Inkaar'' () is a 2013 Indian romantic thriller film directed by Sudhir Mishra and Jay Dev Banerjee produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures, starring Arjun Rampal and Chitrangada Singh in the lead roles. Shantanu Moitra has composed the music for the film. Deepti Naval, Vipin Sharma, and Gaurav Dwivedi are featured in supporting roles. The film was produced and distributed under the Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and the Tipping Point Films banners. The film deals with sexual harassment in a corporate setting following the story of Rahul Verma, the CEO of an advertising agency, who has to follow the lawsuit of sexual harassment filed by Maya Luthra, his protégé. The two are battling for the top job of the company. A committee is set up by the agency to hear both sides of the story and work through lies and accusations to find out the truth. The development of the film commenced in 2011. The movie was completed in early 2012 and was titled "''Inkaar.''" It was scheduled to release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heroine (2012 Film)
''Heroine'' () is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Madhur Bhandarkar. The film stars Kareena Kapoor Khan as Mahi Arora, a once-successful film actress whose career is on the decline, alongside Arjun Rampal and Randeep Hooda in supporting roles. ''Heroine'' was released on 21 September 2012 across 2000 screens, coinciding with Kapoor's 32nd birthday. Despite mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, Kapoor's performance received widespread critical acclaim, and is considered to be one of her best performances. Kapoor received a Best Actress nomination at the 58th Filmfare Awards for her performance in the film. Plot A journalist reports on the life of Mahi Arora, a renowned film actress, describing her as unstable and problematic, but damaged and lonely due to childhood trauma, and bipolar disorder. Through a flashback, we are shown Mahi's relationship with leading film actor, Aryan. Aryan is going through a divorce whilst dating Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |