Hindi Movie Review Fanney Khan - Cast & Crew

As her title may be suggesting, Aditi the talented and versatile actress origins from Hyderabad. But her introduction should not end up just there. On the side of performing arts, she is a trained classical dancer, specializing in Bharata natyam, while in respect of family lineage she comes from the confluence of two distinct blue blooded families of the South - that of Akbar Hydari former Prime Minister of Hyderabad on one hand and from the Wanaparthy royal family on the other. Her family also had a distinctly accomplished educational background and she herself also did complete her graduation before entry into films.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is a popular Indian actress and is a high-profile celebrity in India. She was born on November 1, 1973 in Mangalore, Karnataka, India to Krishnaraj, an Army Biologist and Brinda, a homemaker. She has one brother named Aditya Rai, an engineer-turned-producer, who produced her film Dil Ka Rishta in 2003. Her family shifted to Mumbai and she studied at Arya Vidya Mandir High School during her early years. She later attended Jai Hindi College and moved to DG Ruparel College in Matunga, where she scored 90% in the Higher Secondary School Certificate. During her teenage years, she trained in classical dance and music for 5-years. Initially, she planned to pursue a career in medicine, but it didn’t work out. She then took an architecture course at the Raheja College of Arts, but she decided to pursue a modeling career and so gave up on her studies.

Kussum Arora is an Indian film producer and a social media personality. She works in the Bollywood film industry. She was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Kussum finished her studies at a private college in Mumbai. After finishing her education, she started her career as a film producer. Kussum Arora is one of the key people of an Indian motion picture production company ‘Kriarj Entertainment,’ owned by Indian film producer and director Prerna Arora.

Prerna Arora was born on 9 December 1987 in Dehradun, and her hometown is Shimla. She cites her mother as her inspiration to join the film industry. She is a famous Bollywood producer who has produced many movies and song videos. She has produced movies like Rustom, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, Kedarnath, and Fanney Khan. She has also produced music videos like Ruk and Mussafir. Prerna Arora owns the production house Mandiraa Entertainment and has also been instrumental in establishing KriArj Entertainment. She has worked with prominent Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma for her movie Pari. Her movie Toilet: Ek Prem Katha won the Best Film award. Arora is fond of Dior products and has said that shopping and traveling are her two hobbies.

Smitha Baliga is an Indian executive producer, line producer and co producer in the Indian Film Industry. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Economics. Currently working as a co producer in the Baweja studios, Smitha is known for her work in the Hindi and Marathi film industry. Smitha begun her production assistance in the movie Aks(2001) later on worked in the truck of dreams(2006) as the line producer, worked in the movies Corporate and Delhi -6 as the executive producer. In the year 2018 Smitha worked for Fanney Khan as a co producer. With all the experience, according to Smitha her objective is to enjoy the process of film making while she get to learn certain things from her surroundings, watching it flourish into something amazing.

Jasmeet K Reen is an Bollywood famous movie Director and Writer. She is popular for being a Hindi writer and enjoys creating dialogues. Previously, she graduated from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics and, later in the year 2000, completed her film studies at the University of FTII Pune. She started her career at McCann Erickson in 2000 and continued it for two years. She later worked as a client services representative at Ogilvy and Mather. In 2004, she joined White Feather Films and wrote scripts for feature films, ad films, short films, and music videos. Simultaneously, she directed those movies and became an assistant and associate director on six feature films.

Monali Thakur is a Kolkata-born playback singer and actress. Born in a musical family, Monali's father is a renowned Bengali Playback singer and her sister, Mehuli Thakur, is also a Playback singer. Monali's singing talent was initially recognized when she'd won the Best Playback Singer award at the 'Amandalok Awards', for the serial 'Sri Rama Krishna' at the age of 14. She'd been trained under Padma Shri Pandit Jagdish Prasad and Padma Shri Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty for Hindustani music. Monali's singing career started when she auditioned for Indian Idol 2 (the Indian version of Pop Idol) in 2005. Monali had been well acclaimed for her singing by the judging panel that included Anu Malik, Sonu Nigam, and Farah Khan.

Eka Lakhani is a costume designer in Kollywood and Bollywood from Patiala, Punjab. She chose an exciting career designing costumes for many major films. Her costume design takes a focus on the actors’ appearance. Her costume design often lies at the heart of the stories of the actors in movies who want to show and tell the audiences how they look in the particular movie.

Monisha R. Baldawa is a well-known editor in the Bollywood industry. She has worked in many hit films and songs, specifically known for Badla in 2019, Fanney Khan in 2018 and Dhadak in 2018, Mom, Chutney and many more. She has got Filmfare awards for best editing in 2017.

Anaitha Nair was born on 19th July 1984. She is a talented young actress born in Banglore, India. Her father came from a Persian origin while her mother was a Malayalee. This Indian actress is best known for her acting in the famous Bollywood film ‘Chak De India!’ playing the role of Aliya Bose.

Pihu Sand, born on 18th December 1998 is an Indian actress most popularly known for her stint in Atul Manjrekar’s debut film ‘Fanney Khan.' She worked alongside Rajkumar Rao, Anil Kapoor, and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. She played the role of ‘Lata Sharma’ in the film, after gaining 20 kilograms to fit into the character.

Shivam Nair was born in Jharkhand, India. He is a very popular Director and has given many hits to the industry. People know him popularly for his film Ahista Ahista starring Abhay Deol and Sona Ali Khan. He is also the director of many television shows as well. He has worked a lot and served the industry for many years. He has worked very hard to achieve what he wanted.

Anjum Rizvi is a very popular Producer. He has given many hits to the industry. He is the producer of Ahista Ahista, Charas, Flat and many more films. He is very keen to work with various writers, directors and he also wants to join ventures so that he can co-produce films. His film Ahista Ahista is a love story in which Soha Ali Khan leave her home to marry a guy and the guy didn’t come back and she meets Abhay Deol.

Irrfan Khan is a noted Bollywood actor who started his career with various Indian television series. His noted Bollywood movies include The Warrior, Maqbool, Haasil, Paan Singh Tomar, Gunday, Rog and The Lunchbox. At the very early stage of his acting career, he acted in various television serials like Barat Ek Khoj, Chanakya, Sara Jahan Hamara, Chandrakanta, Banegi Apni Baat, Star bestsellers, Anoo Goonj and Sparsh.
His early film credits include Ek Doctor Ki Maut and Such a Long Journey. Although these movies were critically appreciated, it did not propel him to success.

Atul Manjrekaris a film director, and he has mainly worked in the Bollywood industry.He belongs to a middle-class Marathi family. His last film to hit the theatres was Fanney Khan in 2018. He went to Cardinal Gracias High School. He is graduated in St. Xavier's college, Mumbai. He debuted from the film Fanney Khan. He loves traveling, photography, reading, and cooking. He has directed the movies Jewel Thief, Andaz Apna Apna, and a Hollywood movie Noble. In 2006, he started as a freelance director.

Born on 7th July 1963, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is a screenwriter and filmmaker. Rang De Basanti and Baag Mika Baag are two of his acclaimed films. He has penned the script as well as directed the films Aks and Delhi 6. The issues surrounding the Mandal Commission of VP Singh inspired Mehra to direct Rang De Basanti. 

Mehra never hesitates to voice his opinion on current issues, no matter they are done through films or in real life. He in fact condemned the Education system of India to give priority to scores. He also cited Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore in this regard. He told that Shakespeare would not have been a great writer if he was recognized only by his scores. He applied the same logic to Rabindranath Tagore. Mehra is also fascinated towards culinary. 

Mehra kick started his career as a marketing person for Eureka Forbes. Then he went on to work as a filmmaker in advertisements. He has worked in many television advertisements not only for Indian clients, but also for international ones. And he had a brief stint with music videos. 

Later Mehra donned the role of a filmmaker after trying his luck as ad filmmaker. Flicks Motion Picture Company Private Limited is the name of his company and the film Aks was produced under this banner. This film, though didn’t set the cash registers ringing, it was widely appreciated for the roles of Amitabh Bachchan and Manoj Bajpai. 

Rang De Basanti was the turning point in his career and it was highly successful in India as well as overseas. He was bestowed with the Filmfare Best Director Award for this film. This film also represented India at the Oscars. A couple of his films Delhi 6 and Teen They Bhai were not commercially successful. The Baag Milka Baag happened and it was not only a commercial success, but also critically acclaimed.

Tanishk Bagchi is an Indian music composer and singer. He is 5'-7" (170 cms) tall and weighs about 60kg (152 lbs). He has brown eyes and dark black hair. His hometown is Kolkata, West Bengal. He went to Scottish Church Collegiate School, Kolkata, India. As a child, he was never interested in music. His father Nandakumar Das learned guitar from various points. Then he came to Kolkata and met his mother, who used to play Hawaiian guitar. Tanishk believes that music brought his parents together. Tanishk’s father began his career with composer Salil Choudhury and further collaborated with famous celebrities like Satyajit Ray, R.D. Burman, and Illayraja. Tanishk made his debut stage performance with a guitar when he was only 8.

Irshad Kamil is an Indian lyricist and poet who came to prominence with his work in Bollywood movies. He was born in Punjab as a Punjabi Muslim on 5 September 1971. After completing his Diploma in Journalism from Punjab University, he also completed a Ph.D. in contemporary Hindi poetry and a Post Graduation in Hindi language; he chose journalism as his career and joined a newspaper ‘Tribune’ in Chandigarh and covered entertainment and educational news. During this period, he also interviewed actors like Pooja Bhatt and Manoj Bajpayee. He then worked even in a Hindi newspaper and was involved in desk jobs. However, right from childhood, he had a unique sense to understand his life’s decisions and knew well how he has to choose his career. Soon, he left his journalism job and then did his Ph.D. and was given the offer to teach. But his refusal to become a teacher proved a turning point in his life. He met producer and director Lekh Tandon, who came to Chandigarh to shoot for TV and was looking for a writer. On Tandon’s advice, he came to Mumbai and started writing for TV. Dissatisfied with his career in TV again, he left behind his journey as a writer and was a lookout for a job as a lyricist in the film industry. 

Born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Divya Kumar is an Indian Bollywood playback vocalist who sang in various Bollywood movies. He belongs to a musical family. Divya is the son of Bhagwan Shivram, who is a musician and grandson of Pandit Shivram, who was a composer for some regional movies and motion pictures by V Shantaram. Divya began singing at the age of eight, and as a kid, he showed up on several stage shows. He considered a different career. However, his mother asked him to choose vocalist as his profession. He appeared within the troupe of Kalyanji Anandji in many shows and has worked recently with Javed Ali, Shreya Ghoshal, and Sunidhi Chauhan, which are all from the music school of Kalyanji Anandji.

Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood actor cum producer. He is active in the films right from the year 1979 until the present. He got married with Sunita Kapoor in the year 1984. He has three children, namely Sonam Kapoor, who is a Bollywood actress, Rhea Kapoor, who is a Bollywood producer and Harshvarshan Kapoor. Anil Kapoor is the son of Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal. 

His father was a very prominent Indian film producer. Anil Kapoor had a profession as a Bollywood actor for about twenty five successful years. As right now, he is quite busy working in the international movies. He is best known for producing the film Gandhi, My Father. Hamare Tumhare is his first movie, which got released in the year 1979 and he had done a supporting character. He gained his name as an actor with the movie Vamsa Vruksham (1970), a Telugu movie. 

After that part of time, he got a big opportunity to work with a legendary director of Indian Cinema who took the level of Indian film industry to International level and even beyond imagination. Maniratnam is such an icon and every actor has a lifetime dream of working in a single movie with him. But Anil Kapoor is so deserving and fortunate to get an occasion to work with this huge legend. The name of the movie is Pallavi Anu Pallavi which is a Kannada movie and this is the debut movie in Kannada for the actor. 

He acted in multiple film industries in many movies and at the mean time he won many Filmfare Awards subsequently. His debut International movie was such a global hit and it is a great breakthrough for him too. He won an Award for the National Award winning movie namely, Slumdog Millionaire. He established himself as a singer as well and his recent release is a Hindi movie namely, Welcome Back that got released in 2015.

Raj Kumar Yadav, also known as Rajkummar Rao, started his Hindi film career from the movie, Love Sex aur Dhokha, in the year 2010, but the movie that got him critical and public acclaim was Kai Po Che, for which he received the Filmfare Award for the Best Supporting Actor, in the year 2013. He has not looked back since then, and has received Filmfare Best Critics Award for Best Actor and National Film Award for the depiction of the lawyer, Shahid Azmi, in the movie, ‘Shahid’, that released in the year 2013. Since then he has starred in numerous Hindi films, and has established a unique style of acting and an intense position in the industry.

Bhushan Kumar was born on 27 November in 1977 in Delhi in India. He is a film and music producer for many films in Indian Film Industry. He is mainly known for Hindi films. He is also the MD of the T-Series Music Production. His parents are Sudesh Kumari and Gulshan Kumar, who is the founder of T-Series. He was married to Divya Kumar in Katra. They were married in 2005. They are blessed with a boy whom they named Ruhaan.

Nishant Pitti is an Indian entrepreneur and producer prominently featured across Bollywood. He was born in Delhi in 1986 and graduated from Delhi University. He and his brother, Rikant Pitti, co-founded EaseMyTrip in 2008, which revolutionized the travel business. They came up with the idea of a branding initiative for the company to get linked to movies by becoming their travel partner. They struck a barter deal with different production houses where they sponsored tickets for the movie crew in exchange for a mention in the movie credits.

Aditya Singh is a lyricist, playback singer, and actor who is primarily working in the Bhojpuri music industry. He celebrates his birthday on 14th September every year. His recent Bhojpuri hit with Anjali Bharti was Balam Ji Raua Bambey Rahatani. It released on 28th November 2019 under the banner Team Film. Some of the songs that were sung by him include Laika Abhi Bani Ji (2017), Ja Re Bewafa Tujhe Bhulata Hu (2018),

Hussain Dalal is known as one of the most cherished and successful dialogue writers and has also worked in several films as an actor too. He came into the industry to become an actor and has appeared in various movies like Pizza, which is a horror movie, Margarita with a Straw among others. He is so talented that he hasn't just worked in films but also appeared in TV series like Being on the Night and Greater Elephant. Although his major focus when he came into the industry was acting, he ended up writing dialogues for various famous movies. An assignment for writing dialogues for Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani fell on his lap when Ayan Mukherjee made an impromptu decision in giving him a chance to write a few scenes. He finally loved his work and decided on hiring him as the dialogue writer for the movie.

Mukesh Chhabra was born on 27th May 1980 in Mumbai of Maharashtra state. He is a very popular actor as well as a director, and he is the director of acting workshop too. He is active in the Bollywood film industry right from the year 2000 until the present. He also works in casting the actors for the movies and came up with successful casts as a whole. He did casting for prominent movies like Chillar Party, Kai Po Che, Gangs of Wasseypur, and D-Day. They were commercially successful movies, and the casting is quite apt and perfect.

Ganesh Acharya is an Indian choreographer, who is mainly seen in Hindi films. His father Gopi was also a choreographer in Bollywood. When Ganesh Acharya was ten years old, his father died. His sister was at Cuttack and he went there and learnt basic dance from his sister. Later, he joined as an assistant to Kamalji, the famous choreographer. At the young age of 12, he started his own dance troupe. Anaam was his first film as a choreographer. It was released in 1992 and Ganesh Acharya was 21 years, when he became a choreographer for films.

           His first professional costume design was for the Bollywood actress ‘Juhi Chawla’ in the movie ‘Swarg’, which was released a couple of decades ago. He won his first ‘filmfare costume award’, for the movie ‘Rangeela’ in 1995. It gave him much recognizance in Bollywood and paved his way for becoming film city’s ‘most sought after’ costume designer. He has also designed costumes for ‘the King of Pop’, Michael Jackson, his visit to India. Manish Malhotra has launched various high profile couture store, ‘Reverie –Manish Malhotra’ which received majorly positive response and many top rated celebrities and affluent families, throughout the globe became his clients. He has also received praise for creating Glamorous ensembles which strikes a chord with Indian culture. 

          His first fashion show, was held in November 1999. His career has till now spanned over 25 years during which he has received over 35 awards and has designed costumes for over 1000 films. He has also been recognized by ‘National Institute of Fashion Technology’ Delhi, for his contribution to fashion design. Apart from film costume design, he has also designed the ‘team gear’ for Shah Rukh Khan’s, Indian Premier League team KOLKATTA KNIGHT RIDERS. He has also undertaken many social endeavors like his association with the ‘Mijwan Welfare Society’, in which he promotes workmanship from rural India. He has also been the host of his talk show named, ‘The Manish Malhotra Show’.

Vinod Bhanushali is a Bollywood Producer who is currently the President of Global Marketing and Media Publishing for T-series. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from KJ Somaiya University.

Karan Chhabra alias Karan Singh Chhabra is a famous Indian model who was once the Vice President of the Organizing group of AIESEC. He was born and brought up in Chandigarh. He is a ramp show model and has been participating in the shows for many years. He has been the model of many popular brands in India, including the top company Kingfisher. He is one among the top models in the Indian fashion industry. He is also a corporate anchor for many shows. He acts in serials that give importance to his roles. Karan is a fun loving guy; but also a reserved type. His favorite star is Ranbir Kapoor and he wants to act as Ranbir in a movie, if his life history is taken as a film. He is a lover of books. He reads all the books, whether it is a fiction based or not. If he is given a chance to act in a romance story, he would prefer to act the epic love story of Salim and Anarkali. 

He says if he would not have been the actor, he would have become a successful businessman. Karan Chhabra is basically a Sikh boy, who searched for the modeling career, when he was doing his engineering. He has also won the show, SUPER MODEL HUNT 2007 and got the title as a super model. Karan is a shopping passionate. He has lots of clothes, shoes and accessories due to his shopping passion. Being a Sikh, Karan feels proud to have a long hair inside his prestigious turban. He loves to be like what he is. He respects the culture and feels the style of a person definitely should reflect the culture. Karan was the first turbaned model in the ramp shows.

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