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Toss (2009 Film)
''Toss'' is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Ramesh Khatkar. Toss is Rannvijay Singh's debut film. Plot Cast *Ashmit Patel as Josh * Prashant Raj as Samay * Rannvijay Singh as Ryan * Aarti Chhabria as Sasha *Nyra Banerjee as Sherry *Shruti Gera as Fiona * Zakir Hussain as Inspector Denzel d'Cunha *Sushant Singh as Two *Mahesh Manjrekar as Dada *Rajpal Yadav as Duffy *Hardik Sangani as Sadaa Soundtrack The soundtrack of ''Toss'' consists of 4 songs and two remixes. #"Ruppaia" #"Meri Khamoshi" #"Aish Aish" #"Abe Saale" #"Chalte Chalo" #"Abe Saale" (Remix) #"Aish Aish" (Remix) Reception Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com in a negative review called the film "a laughable attempt" and felt that the film "is a text-book demonstration of appalling, over-the-top and awful performances. Not one actor in a cast of mostly lesser known faces project anything remotely to an expression." Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated the film 1 out of 5 stars, stating, "Debutante directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashmit Patel
Ashmit Patel (born 13 January 1978) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. Brother of the actress Ameesha Patel, he began his career as an assistant director and later progressed to leading roles in Bollywood productions. He was the second runner-up on the reality show '' Bigg Boss 4'' (2010–11). Personal life Patel is the son of Amit Patel and Asha Patel, and the younger brother of actress and model Ameesha Patel, and the grandson of the lawyer-politician Rajni Patel, who was the Congress Pradesh Committee President of Mumbai. His birth name is a blend of the first three letters of his mother's name Asha and the last three letters of his father's name Amit. His father is a Gujarati while his mother described herself as a " Sindhi Punjabi" in an interview. Patel studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai and later attended the University of Texas at Austin in United States, from which he received a bachelor's degree in Business in 2000. Patel is a Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahesh Manjrekar
Mahesh Vaman Manjrekar (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, [məɦeːʃ maːɲd͡zɾekəɾ]; born 16 August 1958) is an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer who works primarily in Hindi films, alongside Marathi language, Marathi and Telugu language, Telugu films. He is credited with directing the critically acclaimed films ''Vaastav: The Reality'' (1999), ''Astitva'' (2000) and ''Viruddh, Viruddh... Family Comes First'' (2005). He has won a National Film Awards, National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi for Astitva and two Star Screen Awards. He is also the host of the reality show, ''Bigg Boss Marathi'' since 2018. Early life Mahesh Manjrekar was born on 16 August 1958 in Bombay, Bombay State, Bombay state. Personal life Manjrekar was married to Deepa Mehta, a costume designer, with whom he has two children - Satya and Ashwami.; they were later divorced. Later, he married Medha Manjrekar. They have a daughter, Saiee Manjrekar, who is an act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Hindi-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu. It is headquartered in Noida, owned by the ''Indian Express Group''. It was later taken over by Ramnath Goenka. In 1999, eight years after Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split between the family members. The southern editions took the name '' The New Indian Express'', while the northern editions, based in Mumbai, retained the original ''Indian Express'' name with ''The'' prefixed to the title. History In 1932, the ''Indian Express'' was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, at Chennai, being published by his Tamil Nadu press. Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to Swaminathan Sadanand, the founder of '' The Free Press Journal'', a national news agency. In 1933, the ''Indian Express'' opened its second office in Madurai, launching the Tamil edition, '' Dinamani''. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shubhra Gupta
Shubhra Gupta is an Indian film critic who writes for ''The Indian Express''. She received the Ramnath Goenka Award for Best Writing on Cinema in 2012. She was a member of the Central Board of Film Certification from 2012 to 2015. She is the author of ''50 Films That Changed Bollywood, 1995–2015''. Career Gupta began reviewing films in addition to her work as a journalist in the early 1990s. After more than twenty years as a film critic, she wrote the book ''50 Films That Changed Bollywood, 1995–2015'' about the development of the film industry in India. In 2011, she was appointed to the Central Board of Film Certification The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is a statutory Motion picture content rating system, film-certification body in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of ... for a three-year term. She curates and conducts ''The Indian Express Film Club'', in Delhi and Mumbai. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taran Adarsh
Taran Adarsh (born 13 June 1965) is an Indian film critic and trade analyst. He is best known for giving trade figures and box office updates on social media, as well as his reviews for Bollywood Hungama. Career Taran Adarsh started his journalism career at the age of 15 with ''Trade Guide'', a weekly box office magazine. In 1994, Adarsh produced and wrote the Bollywood film-based TV serial ''Hello Bollywood'', starring Shehzad Khan and Kashmera Shah. He continued his work on ''Trade Guide'' alongside. He is currently an active film critic, journalist and trade analyst on ''Bollywood Hungama Bollywood Hungama (lit. "Bollywood Madness" in Hindi), previously known as IndiaFM (or IndiaFM.com), is an Indian entertainment website, owned by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, which acquired the website in 2000. The website provides n ...'', a Bollywood entertainment website. References External links * * Indian film critics Living people 1965 births People fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rediff
Rediff.com, stylized as rediff.com, is an Indian news, information, entertainment, and shopping website. Founded by Ajit Balakrishnan in 1996, it was the first Indian website to become a mainstream news media organization. It is headquartered in Mumbai with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi, and New York City. , it had more than 300 employees. At the time of its founding, internet access had only been available in India for five months with a mere 18,000 users, leaving Rediff.com as one of the earliest Indian web portals and email providers. History The Rediff.com domain was registered in India in 1996. Early products included the email service Rediffmail and Rediff Shopping, an online marketplace selling electronics and peripherals. In 2001, Rediff.com was alleged to be in violation of the Securities Act of 1933 The Securities Act of 1933, also known as the 1933 Act, the Securities Act, the Truth in Securities Act, the Federal Securities Act, and the '33 Act, was enacte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sukanya Verma
Sukanya Verma is an Indian journalist and film critic. She has been the principal movie reviewer with web portal '' Rediff.com''. She has written a number of columns as a freelance writer for ''The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was founded as a weekly publication in 1878 by the Triplicane Six, becoming a daily in 1889. It is one of the India ...''. She is a member of the Film Critics Guild, founded in 2018, as well as Film Critics Circle of India. Awards Verma won the Best Critic Award at 5th Jagran Film Festival in 2014. References External links *Page on Rediff* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Indian journalists Indian film critics Indian women film critics Indian women journalists Indian women columnists Journalists from Maharashtra St. Xavier's College, Mumbai alumni {{India-journalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajpal Yadav
Rajpal Naurang Yadav (born 16 March 1971) is an Indian actor and comedian. His breakthrough came in Ram Gopal Varma's ''Jungle'' (2000) with a negative role. Although Yadav has gained widespread recognition for his slapstick comic performances over the years and has been nominated for several awards such as Filmfare and Screen Awards. Some of his most notable works include '' Ek Aur Ek Gyarah'' (2003), ''Mujhse Shaadi Karogi'' (2004), '' Waqt: The Race Against Time'' (2005), '' Phir Hera Pheri'' (2006), '' Partner'' (2007), '' Bhool Bhulaiyaa '' (2007), '' Bhoothnath'', '' Krazzy 4'' (both 2008), '' Krrish 3'' (2013), '' Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 '' (2022) and the Priyadarshan films such as '' Hungama'' (2003), ''Garam Masala'' , '' Malamaal Weekly'' (both 2005), ''Chup Chup Ke'', '' Bhagam Bhag'' (both 2006), He has starred in leading roles and serious characters including '' Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon'' (2003), '' Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh'' (2005), '' Rama Rama Kya Hai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sushant Singh
Sushant Singh (born 9 March 1972) is an Indian actor and television presenter known for his work in Hindi cinema. He made his acting debut in 1998 with Ram Gopal Varma's ''Satya'' and gained critical acclaim for his role as the bandit Durgaa Narayan Chaudhary in ''Jungle'' (2000), for which he won the IIFA Award and Zee Cine Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role. Singh went on to appear in acclaimed films like the period dramas '' Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar'' (2000) and '' The Legend of Bhagat Singh'' (2002), further establishing his career in Hindi cinema. He has also worked in a few Telugu films like '' Dubai Seenu'' (2007). Beyond acting, he hosted the popular crime show ''Savdhaan India'' on Life OK and STAR Bharat. Singh also served as the Honorary Secretary of the Cine and Television Artists Association (CINTAA) until May 2020, stepping down for personal reasons. He is also an author, having co-written the book ''Queens of Crime'' with Kulpreet Yadav. Filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madhurima Tuli
Madhurima Tuli (born 19 August 1986) is an Indian actress and model. Her works in Hindi television include the fiction dramas '' Kasturi'', '' Parichay'', '' Kumkum Bhagya'', '' Chandrakanta'' and '' Qayamat Ki Raat'' and the reality shows '' Nach Baliye 9'' and '' Bigg Boss 13''. She also starred in popular Hindi films such as ''Baby'' (2015), '' Hamari Adhuri Kahani'' (2015) and '' Naam Shabana'' (2017). Early life Tuli was born in Odisha on 19 August 1986. She hails from Dehradun, Uttarakhand. She won the Miss Uttraranchal contest when in college. Her father works for Tata Steel and her mother for an NGO. She has a younger brother Shrikant Tuli, who owns a Music Label SVMT Music. Career Tuli made an early debut in the Telugu film ''Saththaa'' (2004) opposite Sai Kiran. She moved to Mumbai and studied acting at the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting School, worked as a model doing advertisements for brands like Godrej, Fiama Di Wills, Airtel, Lenovo, UltraTech Cement, Domi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakir Hussain (actor)
Zakir Hussain is an Indian actor who primarily appears in Hindi films. He is known for his negative and comic roles. His best-known performances include those of Rashid in Ramgopal Varma's 2005 film '' Sarkar'', Shardul in Sriram Raghavan's 2007 film '' Johnny Gaddaar'' and Prakash Rao in Rohit Shetty's '' Singham Returns''. Early life and background Zakir Hussain was born and brought up in Jani Khurd, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. It was during his studies in Delhi that he first got attracted to the world of theatre and cinema. He started out with "small time" theatre, and then joined the Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts. He then joined the prestigious National School of Drama and graduated in 1993. Career Hussain did theatre for a few years and then came 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 financial capital and the most populous city proper of Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
