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Sapna Awasthi
Sapna Awasthi Singh is a Bollywood playback singer best known for her "Banno Teri Ankhiyan Soorme" from '' Dushmani'' (1995), "Pardesi Pardesi" from '' Raja Hindustani'' (1996), " Chaiyya Chaiyya" from '' Dil Se..'' (1998), "Angoori Badan" from '' Jaanwar'' (1998) and "UP Bihar Lootne" from ''Shool'' (1999). Early life and career Sapna Awasthi started training in classical music at a young age and completed ''Sangeet Vishaarad'' in Bhatkhande Music Institute, Lucknow. She began singing for the radio when she was fifteen, before performing on stage. She received her first break in Bollywood from composer Sameer Sen. Awasthi is from Kumaon region of Uttarakhand and relocated to Mumbai after singing songs in Krantiveer (1994). She has sung for prominent musicians like Nadeem–Shravan, Anand–Milind, Anu Malik, A. R. Rahman, Sandeep Chowta and others. Her biggest hit to date, as is usually believed, is not her duet 'Chaiyya Chaiyya' (co-singer Sukhvinder Singh) for A. R. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian People
Indian people or Indians are the Indian nationality law, citizens and nationals of the India, Republic of India or people who trace their ancestry to India. While the demonym "Indian" applies to people originating from the present-day India, it was also used as the identifying term for people originating from what is now Bangladeshi diaspora, Bangladesh and Pakistani diaspora, Pakistan prior to the Partition of India in 1947. In 2022, the population of India stood at 1.4 billion people, of various Indian ethnic groups, ethnic groups. According to United Nations forecasts, India overtook China as the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country by the end of April 2023, containing 17.50 percent of the global population. In addition to the Indian population, the Non-resident Indian and Overseas Citizen of India, Indian overseas diaspora also boasts large numbers, particularly in former British Empire, British colonies due to the historical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krantiveer
''Krantiveer'' () is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language action crime film directed and produced by Mehul Kumar. The film stars Nana Patekar, Dimple Kapadia, Atul Agnihotri, Mamta Kulkarni in the lead roles. Farida Jalal, Paresh Rawal, Tinu Anand, Danny Denzongpa are in supporting roles. It became the third highest-grossing film of the year, additionally winning three Star Screen Awards, four Filmfare Awards and one National Film Award. The film was remade in Telugu as '' Punya Bhoomi Naa Desam'' (1995) and in Kannada as '' Parodi'' (2007). The sequel of ''Krantiveer'' was released as '' Krantiveer: The Revolution'' (2010). According to Box Office India, it was a blockbuster at the box office. Plot Pratap Tilak (Nana Patekar) is the grandson of Bheeshmanarayan Tilak, a freedom fighter. Pratap starts gambling and this leads to an attack on Bheeshmanarayan as he dies. Pratap's mother Durgadevi ( Farida Jalal) enraged by this, asks him to leave the village and go far away. Prata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hai
''Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hai'' () is 2000 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar and starring Govinda and Sonali Bendre as leads. It is a remake of the 1972 Marathi film '' Ekta Jeev Sadashiv'', and the 1974 Kannada film '' Bangaarada Panjara''. It was later remade in Bengali as '' Mayer Anchal'' (2003). Plot Gangaram, alias Ganga, lives the simple life in a rural village with his mother, his father, and his lover and childhood friend, Saavni. When the time comes for Ganga to marry, his parents inform him that his biological parents live in the city; they want him to settle there. Ganga bids a tearful farewell to his fellow villagers and travels to the city where his birth parents live. There he meets his elder brother, who is married to Supriya, his younger siblings, as well as his wealthy birth parents, Avinash and Radha. Ganga struggles to cope with modern city life. His sister-in-law dislikes him more with each passing day. Soon word spreads th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maa Kasam (1999 Film)
''Maa Kasam'' is a 1999 Indian Hindi, Hindi-language action film directed by Ashok Gaikwad and produced by Rajiv Babbar, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Mink Singh and Gulshan Grover. The film was average at the box office . Plot The movie is about an honest police officer inspector Ajay Shastry who avenges the bad guys for raping his young sister. Cast *Mithun Chakraborty as Inspector Ajay Shastry *Mink Singh as Anu *Gulshan Grover as Acharya *Nishigandha Wad as Acharya wife *Hemant Birje as Thakur Anand Singh *Asrani as Villager Khairatilal *Harish Patel as Police inspector Bhavar *Arjun (Firoz Khan) as Inspector Gashal *Vikas Anand as Police Commissioner Mohan Saxena *Veeru Krishnan as Acharya's servant *Shiva Rindani as Thakur Khadak Singh *Gavin Packard as Changeza *Pinky Chinoy as Janki(Ajay's sister) *Shalini Kapoor (actress), Shalini Kapoor *Kasam Ally as Thakur Shamsher Singh *Col. Trilok Kapoor as Thakur Music #"Dekha Jo Padosan Ma" - Sapna Awasthi #"Nikal Padi Nikal" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hero Hindustani
''Hero Hindustani'' is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Aziz Sejawal. It stars Arshad Warsi and Namrata Shirodkar in lead roles. It has screenplay by Yunus Sajawal and was written by Kader Khan. Plot Purushottam Agarwal (Paresh Rawal) shifts to London for a better life. He wants his granddaughter Nikki ( Namrata Shirodkar) to respect Indian culture and marry an Indian man. Initially, Nikki rejects it because she is already in love with Rohit. But, pressured by her grandfather's stubborn attitude, she plans to move to India. In India, she meets a tourist guide, named Rommie (Arshad Warsi). She hatches a plan to fool her grandfather by faking her marriage to Rommie. Then she plans to allow Rommie to act as a villainous person in front of Purushottam so that he changes his views about Indian grooms. She presents Rommie as a wealthy man to Purushottam. Nikki and Rommie both initially hate each other. As per the plan, Rommie makes every attempt to act n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chakori
''Chakori'' ( ), is a Pakistani Urdu feature film. This film was released on 22 March 1967 on Eid-ul-Azha Day in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The film was directed by Captain Ehtesham. It was Nadeem's and Shabana's debut film. The film ran for 81 weeks, and became a platinum jubilee film. Cast * Nadeem Baig as Anwer/Anu * Shabana as Chakori *Reshma * Mirza Shahi as Professor Patle Khan Footpathia *Mustafa, Dear Asghar *Jalil Afghani *Irfan Music Music director Robin Ghosh won the Nigar Award for Best Musician for this film. Songs *''Kabhi to tumko yaad ayengi'' Sung by Ahmed Rushdi, lyrics by Akhtar Yousuf and music by Robin Ghosh *''Kahan ho tum ko dhoondh rahi hain'' by Nadeem and Ferdausi Rahman *''Woh mere saamne tasveer bane baithe hain'' by Mujeeb Alam *''Woh mere saamne tasveer bane baithe hain'' by Ferdausi Rahman *''Khanak jaye re chaandi ka mora jhoomka'' by Ferdausi Rahman *''Pyaare pyaare yaar hamaare'' by Ahmed Rushdi *''Tujhe Chahein Meri Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zamaana Deewana
''Zamaana Deewana'' is a 1995 Hindi-language masala film, produced by G. P. Sippy under the Sippy Films banner and directed by Ramesh Sippy. The plot of the film is inspired by the 1991 Bengali language film ''Ahankar'' starring Prosenjit Chatterjee. It stars Shahrukh Khan, Raveena Tandon in pivotal roles, along with Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha playing their parents, respectively. The music was composed by Nadeem-Shravan. The film performed poorly at the box office. Plot Suraj (Shatrughan Sinha) and Lala (Jeetendra) were good friends before falling prey to the vicious tricks of Sundar (Tinnu Anand), so much so that Lala believes his wife is dead and Suraj is to blame for that. They become the greatest of enemies and create chaos in the city by way of gang wars. Asst. Commissioner of Police (Prem Chopra) has 2 criminal psychologists, KD (Anupam Kher) and Shalini (Kiran Juneja) weave a plot to bring Rahul (Shahrukh Khan), the lively and spirited son of Suraj, close to Priya (Rave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjaam
''Anjaam'' () is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language psychological crime thriller film directed by Rahul Rawail. It stars Madhuri Dixit and Shah Rukh Khan in lead roles with an ensemble supporting cast including Sudha Chandran, Tinnu Anand, Beena Banerjee, Kiran Kumar, Kalpana Iyer and Himani Shivpuri, with Deepak Tijori in a guest appearance. This was the first time that Dixit and Khan were paired together. The film's music was composed by Anand–Milind, with lyrics written by Sameer. The film is about a woman facing the brunt of her obsessive lover. It also focuses on the atrocities committed against women. Dixit plays the protagonist and Khan plays the antagonist. At the 40th Filmfare Awards, ''Anjaam'' won Khan the Best Villain award for his performance, after having failed to win the award the previous year for his performance in Yash Chopra's '' Darr''. Moreover, the film also earned Dixit her 7th nomination for Best Actress, but she instead won the award for '' Hum A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik (born 20 March 1966) is an Indian playback singer who works predominantly in Hindi cinema. One of the most prominent singers of 1990s era Bollywood, she has received several accolades, including two National Film Awards, two Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards and a record seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer from a record of thirty-seven nominations. Yagnik is one of the most prolific female playback singers and artists, and has sung a large number of female solos in her Bollywood career. In her career spanning over four decades she has sung songs for more than thousand films and recorded over 22 thousand songs in over 25 different languages. Twenty of her tracks feature in BBC's list of top forty Bollywood soundtracks of all-time. She is ranked No.1 on the YouTube's Music Charts & Insights list of top global artists as of March 2025. She has been on the chart for years, with around 360-400 million views per week, around 18 billion view ... [...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] |
Sukhvinder Singh
Sukhwinder Singh (born 18 July 1971) is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings Bollywood songs. He sang " Jai Ho" in the film ''Slumdog Millionaire'', for which he won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. He has also received two Filmfare awards for his singing. He also sang the song " Chaiyya Chaiyya" in the film '' Dil Se..'', in a duet with Sapna Awasthi. Early life and career Sukhwinder Singh was born in a Sikh family in Amritsar, Punjab. He learned music from Prof. BS Narang. He released a Punjabi album called ''Munda Southhall Da'' with T. Singh, joined Laxmikant–Pyarelal's troupe, and quickly became a music arranger before heading to South India to look for work. He sang for the Tamil film ''Ratchagan''. Singh got his Bollywood break with the song "Aaja Sanam" in the film named '' Khilaaf''. This performance went largely unnoticed. He first rose to prominence for singing " Chaiyya Chaiyya" for A. R. Rahm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandeep Chowta
Sandeep Chowta (born 1967 or 1968) is an Indian music director who primarily works in Hindi cinema and Telugu cinema. He is also the head of Columbia Records in India. He has also sung some of his songs. In 2003, he produced an anti substance abuse documentary, titled ''Dead End'', which entered into numerous film festivals. This was produced by seventeen-year-old college student and drug activist, Tanya Khubchandani. In 2004 Chowta invited Jay Oliver and Richard Gannaway of the world/new age musical group, AO Music (also known as AO), to his Mumbai studio, and has since become one of the group's core members. AO Music also features Miriam Stockley, the voice of Karl Jenkins' Adiemus project, and children's choral ensembles from around the globe. AO Music album releases crediting Chowta have charted in the top five internationally since 2009. He has composed music for 12 Tollywood films. Early life Chowta was born in Ghana, grew up in Nigeria and later moved to Bangalore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
