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Yeh Hai Bakrapur
''Yeh Hai Bakrapur'' () is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language social satire film set against the backdrop of rural India. The film was released in India on 9 May 2014. Plot A multi-layered film, it is based on the complex belief systems that prevail in Indian society and the conflicts that ensue thereon. The film's story revolves around the family of the Qureshis and their pet animal goat. Circumstances result in the goat acquiring rock star status in his village and beyond. Soon enough, people are fighting for a piece of the live goat, named Sharukh. The climax provides the finale to the mayhem that preceded it. Cast *Anshuman Jha *Asif Basra *Suruchi Aulakh *Faiz Khan *Yoshika Verma *Shameem Khan *Amit Sial (cameo) *Utkarsh Majumdar (cameo) *Vinay Varma Production and release The movie was screened at the 37th Göteborg International Film Festival. It was part of The Film Bazaar in the year 2012 as work in progress and it was also premiered at the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janaki Vishwanathan
Janaki Vishwanathan is an Indian film maker best known for her National Award-winning debut film '' Kutty'' (2001) in Tamil, which focuses on the issue of child labour. Her second film, ''Kanavu Meippada Vendum'', deals with the issues faced by Devadasi In India, a devadasi is a female artist who is dedicated to the worship and service of a deity or a temple for the rest of her life. The dedication takes place in a ceremony that is somewhat similar to a marriage ceremony. In addition to taki ... women. This was screened at several film festivals Filmography *'' Kutty'' (2001) : Tamil Film *'' Kanavu Meippada Vendum'' (2004) : Tamil Film *'' Yeh Hai Bakrapur'' (2014) : Hindi Film *''chandikaiyin kadhai'' : Tamil Tele Film Awards * 2002 Cairo International Children's Film Festival (Egypt)- Special International Jury Prize — Kutty * 2002 National Film Awards (India)- Silver Lotus Award — Special Jury Award — Kutty References Living people Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. Satire may also poke fun at popular themes in art and film. A prominent feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—"in satire, irony is militant", according to literary critic Northrop Frye— but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 news related to the Cinema of India, particularly Hindi cinema, film reviews and box office reports. Launched on 15 June 1998, the website was originally named "IndiaFM.com". It changed its name to "Bollywood Hungama" in 2008. References External links * 1998 establishments in Maharashtra Hindi cinema Companies based in Mumbai Indian film websites Internet properties established in 1998 Mahindra Group {{film-website-stub ... [...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] |
Mumbai Academy Of The Moving Image
The Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) is a public trust that organises the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in the city of Mumbai, India. Priyanka Chopra, Priyanka Chopra Jonas is the chairperson of the trust while Shivendra Singh Dungarpur serves as the interim Festival Director. Apart from the film festival, MAMI also organises the Year Round Programme, under which MAMI holds various activities and workshops throughout the year. Director Shyam Benegal was the first chairperson of MAMI starting with the 1999 edition of the festival and he remained the chairperson through the 2014 edition of the festival. In 2015, he was replaced by director Kiran Rao, who would go on to serve as the chairperson until 2019, when she was replaced by actor Deepika Padukone. Padukone was then replaced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas in 2021. MAMI Mumbai Film Festival The MAMI Mumbai Film Festival is organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image, which was founded by a group of Indian film industry stalwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Sial
Amit Sial (born 1 July 1975) is an Indian actor known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is best known for ''Mirzapur'', '' Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega'', '' Kathmandu Connection'' and '' Inside Edge''. Early and personal life He was born in Shiwala Market, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India in a Punjabi family. He went to Swinburne University The Swinburne University of Technology (or simply Swinburne) is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia. It is the modern descendant of the Eastern Suburbs Technical College established in 1908, renamed Swinburne Technical College ... to pursue PG Diploma in International Business in Melbourne, Australia. He did odd jobs such as working in restaurants and driving taxis to support his life in Australia. He moved to Delhi in late 2002, and later to Mumbai to pursue a career in Bollywood in 2004. He appeared in '' Love Sex aur Dhokha'' and ''Maharani''. Acting career He appeared in '' Charlie Ke Chakkar Mein'', which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and List of newspapers by circulation, largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is a newspaper of record. Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. In a 2021 surve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government of India, alongside English language, English, and is the ''lingua franca'' of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritisation (linguistics), Sanskritised Register (sociolinguistics), register of Hindustani. Hindustani itself developed from Old Hindi and was spoken in Delhi and neighbouring areas. It incorporated a significant number of Persian language, Persian loanwords. Hindi is an Languages with official status in India, official language in twelve states (Bihar, Gujarat , Mizoram , Maharashtra ,Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand), and six Union territory, union territories (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Delhi, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Di ... [...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] |
Agnee (band)
Agnee is an Indian rock band based in Pune, India. The band's debut album "Agnee" was released on 15 May 2007. Since then, they have released several singles and used an Internet-based free distribution model. The band continues to use their 'Create with Agnee' venture in collaboration with Radio Mirchi. History Agnee was formed in 2007 by banking executive turned musician Kannan Mohan and former Agni guitarist Kaustubh Dhavale(better known by his stage name Koco). The band was soon signed by Sony BMG. Agnee is one of the very few Indian rock bands to have signed a major label record deal. In 2012, the band composed the music for the Indian release of Marvel's superhero film, ''The Avengers (2012)''. They also performed the song "Aahatein" for MTV Splitsvilla 4, which subsequently became one of the band's most renowned tracks. Music They have collaborated with the bass player Etienne Mbappe (from Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
