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Pushpa Joshi
Pushpa Joshi (1932/1933 – 2019) was an Indian actress who gained recognition for her Bollywood debut at the age of 85 in the film Raid (2018), starring Ajay Devgn. she became one of the oldest debutantes in Hindi cinema. Early life Born around 1932 in Madhya Pradesh, India. She was from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, at the time of her acting debut. Acting career Joshi’s entry into Bollywood was unconventional. She was discovered by the makers of Raid after appearing in a short film called Zaayka. In Raid, directed by Raj Kumar Gupta, she played the role of Saurabh Shukla’s mother, a character inspired by events tied to Sardar Inder Singh’s 1981 income tax raid in Kanpur. Her performance was widely praised for its authenticity and liveliness, earning her admiration from co-stars, including Ajay Devgn, who ensured her comfort on set by prioritizing her shooting schedules. At 86, Joshi appeared in Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi ''Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi '' is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindi Cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is primarily produced in Mumbai. The popular term Bollywood is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and "Cinema of the United States, Hollywood". The industry, producing films in the Hindi language, is a part of the larger Indian cinema industry, which also includes Cinema of South India, South Indian cinema and other smaller Cinema of India#Cinema by language, film industries. The term 'Bollywood', often mistakenly used to refer to Indian cinema as a whole, only refers to Hindi-language films, with Indian cinema being an umbrella term that includes all the Cinema of India#Cinema by language, film industries in the country, each offering films in diverse languages and styles. In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, of which the largest number, 364, have been in Hindi. In 2022, Hindi cinema represented 33% of box office revenue, followed by Telugu cinema, Telugu and Tamil cine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid (2018 Film)
''Raid'' is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed by Raj Kumar Gupta starring Ajay Devgn, Saurabh Shukla and Ileana D'Cruz. ''Raid'' is based on the real life Search and seizure, income-tax raid conducted by the officers of Income Tax Department on Sardar Inder Singh in the 1980s, which distinguished itself from others for being the longest raid in Indian history. ''Raid'' was released theatrically in India on 16 March 2018 and became a critical and commercial success at the Box office. A sequel, ''Raid 2 (2025 film), Raid 2'' was released in 2025. Plot The film focuses on an Indian Revenue Service, Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Amay Patnaik, who has just been transferred to Lucknow as Deputy commissioner, Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax, where he lives happily with his wife Malini. One day, he receives an anonymous tip about black money hoarded by (Member of Parliament) Rameshwar Singh, the don of Sitagarh, who had evaded income tax for a long ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi
''Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi '' is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language family drama film directed by Seema Pahwa and produced by Jio Studios and Drishyam Films. It features an ensemble cast of Naseeruddin Shah, Vikrant Massey, Konkona Sen Sharma, Parambrata Chatterjee, Vinay Pathak, Supriya Pathak, Manoj Pahwa, and Vineet Kumar. The film also marks the directorial debut for actress Seema Pahwa, who also wrote the film, based on her own play, ''Pind Daan''. The film premiered at the Mumbai Film Festival on 17 October 2019. It was released theatrically on 1 January 2021. Synopsis Ramprasad's entire family gathers at their ancestral home in Lucknow for 13 days after his death, to perform Pind Daan an after-life ritual that is performed after someone's demise and observe the Hindu traditions and death rituals called the tehrvi. During the course, the family’s dynamics, politics, and insecurities come out, and then they realise that the importance of people and things are only evident in retr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Indian Actresses
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Indian Film Actresses
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