Hindi Movie Review Kaagaz 2 - Cast & Crew

Born on October 26, 1987, Smriti Kalra is from an army family of Punjab.  She is from Delhi. Early in her career days, she got chosen as RJ for a radio channel. She was then preparing for her journalism course. She is an MBA graduate from the much renowned Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata. Later she was likewise given the opportunity by Sunshine production house to feature in their show 12/24 Karol Bagh aired on Zeetv. It was Smriti’s debut role in the television industry. She played the role of the lead female protagonist in the show.

She was most recently seen assuming the lead part in the celebrated show Suvreen Guggal - Topper of the Year. She played the role of an energetic and an eager young lady named Surveen. Another promising actor played the lead protagonist role in the show. It was being telecasted by Channel V. At present she is assuming the lead protagonist role in the popular serial Itti Si Khushi. It is being aired on Sony TV Network.  Popular television actor Anuj Sachdeva is playing the role of male protagonist alongside Smriti. Itti Si Khushi depicts the story of a young lady named Neha, who has been in coma for the past 12 years. Now when awakens after 12 years, she is mentally still an adolescent child.  Being the daughter of an Army Officer, Smriti has wandered around the whole nation.

Ganesh Jain is a major film producer in Bollywood. Venus Records and Tapes is a company that was founded by Ganesh along with his brothers Ratan, Girish, Champak, Umed, Ramesh, and Bhawar. He currently occupies the position of Chairman and Managing Director of the company. Ratan Jain, Champak Jain, Ramesh Jain, and Bhaswar Jain, are the Directors of the company. Girish Jain and Umed Jain are Board Members while Girish Jain is also the Digital Head of Venus Records and Tapes. The company was initially started to manufacture video cassettes in the early years of the 1980s. It was in 1992 that their business was diversified by venturing into film production. Since then, Venus Records and Tapes has gained the rights to many video, cable, satellite and audio shows. The first movie that was produced by this production and distribution company was Khiladi, in the year 1968. The company has produced movies such as Baazigar, 1993, which turned out to be a super hit.

Anu Moothedath is an Indian cinematographer who predominantly works in the Malayalam entertainment industry. He hails from Thrissur, Kerala. He completed his schooling at SKVC Thrissur. He started his career as a director of photography with a web series. Anu Moothedeth has also worked on a number of feature films and TV advertisements as the director of photography. He received more recognition after working as a cinematographer for the hit movie Athiran in 2019. In the next year, he worked for Sufiyum Sujathayum directed by Shanavas Naranipuzha. He has collaborated with popular corporate brands like Google, Colgate, Oppo, and Tokopedia.

Sanjay Verma is an Indian movie editor. His works as an editor are generally seen in the Hindi Film Industry or the Bollywood. Sanjay Verma is one of the best editors India has ever produced. He has been in the film industry for almost 32 years. His first film as an editor was, Khoon Bhari Maang, which had the evergreen heroine of Bollywood Rekha in the lead role along with other famous actors like Kabir Bedi, Sonu Walia, Kader Khan, and various other actors. The movie was directed by one of India’s most famous director, Rakesh Roshan.

Anang Desai was born on May 4, 1953 at Ahmedabad. He is married to ‘Chitra Desai’, who is a lawyer and has two sons. He went to ‘National School of Drama’, Delhi to hone his acting skills and graduated in 1978. He then, for the next 8 years, remained connected to institute’s Theater Company.
He started his acting career with his debut appearance in the Oscar winning Hollywood movie, ‘Gandhi’. The movie was released in 1982, wherein he performed the role of ‘J.B Kriplani’. Since then, he had acted in around 85 Bollywood movies. He has performed almost all types of characters in his 3 decades of Bollywood career.
He has also been working for TV industry since 1987, when he appeared in the political TV series, ‘Raj Se Swaraj’. The next year, he did a few episodes of all time hit Tele series, ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’ as ‘Raja Ram Mohan Roy’ and as ‘Ibrahim Lodi’. This historical drama was aired during 1988, on Doordharshan or DD National, as it is currently known as. In his illustratious career, he had worked with top Indian directors including Shyam Benegal, Subhash Ghai, Mahesh Bhatt and Satish Kaushik among others. He has acted in more than eighty TV-shows so far. The last year, he was seen in a Psychological thriller ‘Main Naa Bhoolungi’ as ‘Mahanto Jagannath’. The serial has been aired from Dec 2013 and recently been concluded during the month of Aug 2014 on Sony TV. Currently he is busy in doing a TV sitcom, titled, ‘Chandrakant Chiplunkar Seedi Bambawala’ where in he is performing the role of ‘Hasubai Mehta’. The show has started on 18th Aug 2014 and is running on SAB TV.
He won two Star Pariwar awards for the role of ‘Tulsidas Parekh’ aka ‘Babuji’ in the TV sitcom, ‘Khichdi’. The serial was broadcasted from 2002 to 2004 on Star Plus. The second season was named as ‘Instant Khichdi’ wherein he again donned the role of ‘Tulsidas Parekh’ but this time the TV series was broadcasted on Star One (a sister channel of Star Plus) from 2005 to 2006. This was followed by the movie with the same name, ‘Khichdi: The Movie’ which was released during Oct 2010 and rated as average. In the movie, he again performed the role of ‘Tulsidas Parekh’ aka ‘Babuji’.

Anupam Kher is a very popular actor, director, and producer of the Bollywood film industry. His place of birth was Shimla of Punjab and currently, he is living in Himachal Pradesh. His date of birth was 7th March 1955, and he hails from Kashmir. He got married to Kirron Kher in the year 1985. His brother Raju Kher is also a very famous actor cum director. The best part of Anupam Kher is that he got cast in more than hundred movies, and he is known to make this immense record.

An active actor, filmmaker & producer as well. He was born in Haryana, India on April 13th, 1956. This actor has marked his presence in the comic roles since his entry in Bollywood, He worked with the prominent actors of his time & is active yet in Bollywood. After completion of graduation from National School of Drama in 1978, he made his entry in the Filmmaking as an Assistant Director of the movie “Masoom” that won the Filmfare Award for “ Best Film Critics”, directed by Shekhar Kapoor. Masoom was his first movie as an actor too. He bagged two Filmfare Award in the category of Best Comedian for his role in Ram Lakhan & Saajan Chale Sasural. He tried his hands as Director, Producer, Screen Writer along with acting on the Telly Shops.