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Jackie Shroff is an Indian actor. He has been in the Hindi cinema (Bollywood) industry for almost 3 decades and has appeared in over 151 films in Nine languages (Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Punjabi and Oriya) .


Shroff was born in 1 February, 1957 as Jai Kishen Shroff into a Gujarati family to Kakubhai & Rita Shroff. They lived the Teen Batti area in Malabar Hill, Mumbai. Before entering the film industry, Shroff was a local toughie. He also modelled in a few advertisements. It was director/producer Subhash Ghai who gave Shroff his screen name "Jackie" when he launched him in the film Hero.


In the late 1980s, Jackie Shroff married his longtime girlfriend, Ayesha Dutt, who later turned film producer. The couple run a media company, Jackie Shroff Entertainment Limited. They jointly owned 10% shares in Sony TV since its launch and in 2012 decided to sell their stake and end their 15-year-long association with Sony TV. The Shroffs have two children: a son, Tiger (Jai Hemant), and a daughter, Krishna.


Since the late 1990s, Shroff seems to have moved away from lead roles in Hindi movies and has been seen more often in strong character roles.



In 1978, Shroff made his acting debut in Dev Anand's movie, Swami Dada. In 1983, Subhash Ghai cast him in lead role for the movie, Hero, in which he was paired against Meenakshi Seshadri and the film went on to become a success. Later, Shroff continued to work in Subhash Ghai movies, irrespective of any role that was offered. After hero he did several others films among which Andar Baahar and Yudh were successful. In 1987 he did Karma which became the highest grossing film of 1987. His another film released after that was Kaash for which he gained huge critical acclaims. His films like Dehleez and Sachche Ka Bol Bala were also critically acclaimed but a commercial flop. He then gave award winning performance in 1989 hit film Parinda, for which he won his first filmfare award for best actor. After that he did films like Ram Lakhan, Hum Bhi Insaan Hain, Tridev, Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri, 100 Days, Saudagar, Angaar, Aaina and Khalnayak, which were commercially successful. He worked with Amitabh Bachchan in 1990 film Akayla, but the movie didn't do well. Shroff also gained huge critical acclaims for his performance in Gardish. After 1995 his films were not doing well. In 1997 he was seen in Agni Sakshi, which was successful. Since then, he was seen in many films either in character role or in negative role.

Ranvir Shah is an Indian social activist, theater actor, and businessman. He is the independent director and member of Remuneration committee for KCP Sugar and Industries Corporation.


He is the founder of Prakriti Arts Foundation. Through the foundation, Shah has organized and directed cultural festivals like the Parks New Festival, The Festival of Sacred Music at Thiruvaiyaru, The 2010 Poetry with Prakruti Festival, The Hindu Best Fiction Awards, Lit For Life, which celebrate music, literature, dance, theater and visual arts. He has worked with playwrights and performing artist's like Anita Ratnam, Chandralekha, Shankar Tucker, Manjula Padmanabhan, Maya Krishna Rao, Akram Khan, Aruna Sairam, Dominique Vellard etc.


In 1984, Shah has performed under Chandralekha's guidance in A. K. Ramanujan's play The Interior Landscape and other plays like Bhinna Pravah – The confluence. He has also appeared in Tamil Films like Minsara Kanavu, Anniyan etc.

Kalpana Iyer is a former Miss India and Bollywood actress, well known as a famous vamp of the 1980s and 1990s. Having appeared in a number of films featuring dance sequences (item numbers), she has somewhat reduced in appearance with a brief hiatus in Indian Television. She is currently a restaurateur based in Dubai, UAE

After being first runner-up at Miss India in 1978, she went on to represent her country at the 1978 Miss World beauty pageant where she placed as a top 15 semi-finalist.

Later, Kalpana started making full-fledged appearances as a vamp character in a number of Hindi films, continuing in the tradition of Bindu, Helen and Aruna Irani. Some of her famous dance numbers were to the songs "Hari om Hari" in Pyaara Dushman (1980), "Tu Mujhe Jaan" in Wardaat (1981) and "Rambha Ho" in Armaan (1982 film). Some of her renowned films include Satte Pe Satta (1982), Anjaam (1994), Raja Hindustani (1996) and Hum Saath Saath Hain (1999).She was critically acclaimed for her performance as a prison warden in Anjaam (in which she was hanged to death) which also features Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in a negative role. She has also acted on television. She also became a pop singer and performed in shows.

Sayaji Shinde is an Indian film actor from Maharashtra, who has acted in South Indian, Bollywood and Marathi cinema. He was born in a small village named Vele-Kamthi near Satara, Maharashtra.

Sayaji Shinde born in Maratha family (Satara) and brought to Mumbai. He is marathi actor who acted in Marathi & South films. He moved into Hindi films including Bacchu Yaadav in Shool- which was followed by role in Market and Calcutta Mail. He was then introduced in the Tamil film industry by Gnana Rajasekaran for the critically acclaimed Tamil film "Bharathi", 2000. he received rave reviews and critical acclaim for his brilliant performance. He was then later introduced in Telugu films through the film Tagore, 2003. 

He acted more number of films in Telugu and started dubbing for his character in Telugu. Now he is a very well known character artist and both Telugu and Tamil film industries.Filmography

Girish Raghunath Karnad (Kannada: ಗಿರೀಶ್ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ್; born 19 May 1938) is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in Kannada language. His rise as a playwright in 1960s, marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi. He is a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.[2]

For four decades Karnad has been composing plays, often using history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues. He has translated his plays into English and has received acclaim.[3] His plays have been translated into some Indian languages and directed by directors like Ebrahim Alkazi, B. V. Karanth, Alyque Padamsee, Prasanna, Arvind Gaur, Satyadev Dubey, Vijaya Mehta, Shyamanand Jalan and Amal Allana.[3] He is active in the world of Indian cinema working as an actor, director, and screenwriter, in Hindi and Kannada flicks, earning awards along the way. He was conferred Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India and won four Filmfare Awards where three are Filmfare Award for Best Director - Kannada and one Filmfare Best Screenplay Award.


Girish Karnad was born in Matheran, Maharashtra to Rao Saheb Dr Karnad and Krishna Bai Mankeekara. Krishna Bai was a widow and was serving as a homemaker for Rao Saheb and his bedridden wife for about five years. Rao Saheb and Krishna Bai married according to Arya Samaj tradition. His initial schooling was in Marathi. In Sirsi, Karnataka, he was exposed to travelling theatre groups, Natak Mandalis as his parents were deeply interested in their plays. As a youngster, Karnad was an ardent admirer of Yakshagana and the theater in his village. His family moved to Dharwar in Karnataka when he was 14 years old, where he grew up with his two sisters and niece.


He earned his Bachelors of Arts degree in mathematics and statistics from Karnatak Arts College, Dharwad (Karnataka University), in 1958. Upon graduation Karnad went to England and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lincoln and Magdalen colleges in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar (1960–63), earning his Master of Arts degree in philosophy, political science and economics.
Career


After working with the Oxford University Press, Chennai for seven years (1963–70), he resigned to take to writing full-time. While in Chennai he got involved with local amateur theatre group, The Madras Players.


During 1987–88, he was at the University of Chicago as visiting professor and Fulbright playwright-in-residence. During his tenure at Chicago Nagamandala had its world premiere at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis based on Karnad's English translation of the Kannada original. Most recently, he served as director of the Nehru Centre and as Minister of Culture, in the Indian High Commission, London (2000–2003).


He served as director of the Film and Television Institute of India (1974–1975) and chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of the Performing Arts (1988–93).

The girl next door Nushrat Bharucha is a young budding Indian Film Actress. Her latest release is movie 'Akaash Vani'. Nushrat is a born Mumbaikar. Studied in 'Leelavati Poddar High School', she had a keen interest in dramatics. Nushrat started her movie career 'Jai Santoshi Maa', 2006. Then, she also did some T.V. Commercials in between. She also acted in 2009 movie 'Kal Kissne Dekha'.

In 2010 she worked for an YRF television series called 'SEVEN'. Then she appeared in Dibakar Banerjee's unique movie 'Love, Sex Aur Dhoka'. But it was her role in the youth movie 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' directed by Luv Ranjan which gained her fame as 'Babu' the nickname of her character in the movie. She lately, reunited the director and the co-star of 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' for the movie 'Akaash Vani' released on 25th January 2013.

Antara Mali is an actress who appears in Hindi films. She was born on 13th July 1979 in Mumbai. Her father is a famous photographer Jagdish Mali. Antara is married to GQ Magazine's editor Che Kurrien in 2009.

Antara started her career with a Telugu film 'Prema Kadha' directed by Ram Gopal Varma. She made a debut in hindi films with Ram Gopal Varma's film 'Mast' starring Urmila Matondkar and Aftab Shivdasani. Antara then appeared in many unsuccessful films like 'Khiladi 420', 'Urf Professor' etc. She got Filmfare's nomination for the best supporting actress for 'Company'. She then featured in the films like 'Road' ,'Darna Mana Hai' ,'Gayab' etc. Her films like 'Naach' and 'Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon' were appreciated. Despite giving some unsuccessful films, Antara's performances in each of her films were critically appreciated.

She wrote , produced and directed one movie named as 'Mr. Ya Miss' which proved to be disastrous. After that she appeared as a Buddhist monk in the film 'And Once Again' in 2010.

Amit Trivedi is an Indian film composer, musician, singer and lyricist, working in Bollywood. After working as a theatre and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums, he debuted as a film composer in the 2008 Hindi film Aamir, and shot to fame in the Hindi film music scene with his critically acclaimed work in the more popular Dev.D (2009), which earned him several accolades, including the 2010 National Film Award for Best Music Direction for Dev.D.


Trivedi was born in Bandra, Mumbai in India. His native town is Ahmedabad, Gujarat.


In his younger days, an electronic musical instrument fascinated Trivedi and he was slowly drawn towards music, mainly influenced by classical music. At 19–20, he began composing music. In college days joined the band Om, who performed at local gigs, small shows and live performances. They struck gold when Times Music took notice at one of their shows, and offered to launch their album. The album however did not fare well, due to lack of promotion. Eventually Trivedi went on to compose for theatre (Hindi, English and Gujarati plays), background music for television shows, live performances, dandiya shows, orchestras etc. He also had a brief stint composing advertisement jingles, for brands such as McDonalds and Airtel. After sound engineer and Audio Garage Recording Studio owner Arvind Vishwakarma introduced Trivedi to Sony BMG, he began composing music for non-film albums. As a part of his two-year contract, Trivedi composed some tracks for Abhijeet Sawant's Junoon and one song in Prashant Tamang's debut album.He arranged for many musician including Amartya Rahut for a marathi movie Uttarayan in 2004.



Film music eventually came his way, when friend and playback singer Shilpa Rao suggested his name to film director Anurag Kashyap. The latter was in search of a new composer with a distinct vision for his next film. After meeting Trivedi, Kashyap offered him the chance to compose the soundtrack to Dev.D. Although it was scheduled to be his debut, Dev.D ran into production delays and was shelved for some time.Dev D's music got critical acclaimation



Upon Kashyap's recommendation, Trivedi was roped in to score Raj Kumar Gupta's directorial venture Aamir. Trivedi and Gupta worked on making the soundtrack fuse with the film narrative, resulting in an effort that garnered critical recognition.



By the end of 2008, Dev.D was finally released. The soundtrack, released in December, consisted of 18 tracks of different genres. Trivedi dubbed the soundtrack the "baap of different genres". He sang five songs on the soundtrack, and wrote the lyrics for one ("Aankh Micholi"). He shot to fame with the unusual music of Dev. D, giving many chart-busters like "Emosanal Attyachar", "Saali Khushi", "O Pardesi" and many more. He was conferred with both the R. D. Burman Award and the Best Background Score at the Filmfare Awards 2010, before receiving the National Film Award for Best Music Direction, the highest recognition for Indian composers. Trivedi wrote the score for the 2009 Hindi Film, Wake Up Sid and one of his compositions "Iktaara" was also included in the soundtrack. In 2009 itself, Trivedi was roped in by Anshu Sharma to compose the team anthem "Game for More" for Royal Challengers Bangalore, a team owned by liquor baron Vijay Mallya. Between scoring for films, Trivedi also wrote the title track for the reality show Big Switch aired on UTV Bindaas.