Hindi Movie Review Mission Mangal - Cast & Crew

Aruna Bhatia is an Indian film producer. She; was born in 1943, Punjab. She; was the mother of famous Bollywood Superstar Akshay Kumar. Aruna started her own production house named Hari Om Productions in Mumbai. She; produced many movies and most of them were super hit. Her movies earned a lot of money and the box office collection was good. She produced movies like Singh is King in 2008, Kesari in 2019, Chumbak in 2017, Naam Shabana in 2017, Rustom in 2016, Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Of Duty in 2014. Patiala House in 2011 and Suryawanshi in 2021. Unfortunately, she passed away at the age of 78 years on 8 September 2021 in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Nandini Shrikent has a Post Graduate Diploma in Social Communication Media (SCM) from Mumbai. Like most of the Casting Directors, Nandini joined the profession coincidently and in her case, it was Zoya Akhtar who played the role of giving Nandini a chance to explore as a Casting Director. Nandini had started as an Assistant Director but later, made a shift to Casting. She still assists the Directors and is well known in the Bollywood industry. Nandini is in this business from considerably a long time but it was that one internship she recalls, under Govind Nihlani in Takshak which helped her to make right choices in Bollywood. 
Nandini was responsible for casting the entire cast for her first ever project for Farhan Akhtar’s Lakshya. It was her first gig and she had to cast all the soldiers in the movie who were about seventy. She took this up as a challenge and the results obviously paid off. She claims that most of her movies that she worked as a Casting Director has faired well in the box office with few exceptions like Luck By Chance but she still stands proudly about her choice of actors. 
She explains the process of Casting as reading the script ,discussing with Director, getting an idea of what the Director wants and begin taking auditions. Her suggestion to the newcomers is to have patience and perseverance. She advises them to practice every day and insists on keeping it neat and natural with an optimistic approach to the whole ‘getting the big break’ scenario. 
Nandini is seen working closely with Excel Entertainment. She is responsible for successful and eye-catching cast in movies like Dil Dhadaknedo Do, and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. She was much appreciated for her casting in Zoya Akhtar’s Dil Dhadakne Do, for having wonderful and a long line of the cast which included Anil Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Anushka Sharma and Ranvir Singh. 
Nandini has also done some projects for Dharma Productions for Karan Johar as Casting Director and cast for Student Of The Year among others. She started with Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham as AD with Karan and she was successful with all her projects with Dharma Productions. However, it is said that Nandini was in long search of a new face, a new talent for Students Of The Year, and Karan Johar came into the picture and it was him who brought up Alia Bhatt and suggested her for the female lead. 
The honor of casting for the infamous and Oscar-winning movie Life Of Pie is credited to Shruti and her skills over the years and her knack for finding the right ‘fit’ was clearly visible. This gives Nandini that edge of working with Bollywood and Hollywood. She has experience in casting a couple of Hollywood films and also sought after for advertisements and Hindi serials for television. This is one versatile persona who kicked off her career in early 2000 and recently completed her latest project Basmati Blues and The Valley. Having a Casting department in a movie house reduces the burden of finding the actors for each role considerably says Nandini. 
Nandini seeks perfection in her line of work and she is irked if she does not get the right actor even if it is for a supporting role in casting. She believes that her job is the most important one as she is the connecting medium between the roles (Director’s vision) and the actors and it is her search for perfection that has got her going strong in the industry. She is a calm person on most of the days and with patience, she gives the opportunity for the actor to take the audition and read the lines. She strongly feels in not giving up until she gets a perfect actor. 
This forty-year-old actor is married to NH10 actor Neil Bhoopalam (33) in 2013 and is said to have a happy life with him. Neil and Nandini were dating for quite long and they got hitched accordingly. Though there were talks about the age gap between the two, it did not seem to bother them. He journey continues with several projects in hand and she wishes to direct one day. 

Kirti Kolwankar is a Bollywood costume designer born in Chiplun, a cultural background village of Maharashtra. She completed her education in fashion technology form J. D. Institute, Mumbai. Kirti has worked as a costume designer for many movies in 2018, Such as MUKKABAZ, BADHAI HO, YAMALA PAGLA DEWAANA PHIR SAY.

Maria Tharakan is a Costume designer and Costume supervisor, well known for her work in movies like “Bareilly Ki Barfi,” “Qarib Qarib,” and “Pela Adhi Akshar”. She has been part of Indian Film Industry since 2010. She has been part of costume designing team in many Bollywood movies, short movies, such as “My sun sets to Rise Again,” “Fitoor,” “Singh is Bling,” “Bombay Velvet,” “Bangistan,” ”Ek Tha Tiger,” “The Dirty Picture,” “F.A.LT.U.,” and many more.

Born on April 8, 1988 Nithya Menen is indeed a star to reckon with. She has worked in South Indian films, including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Hailing from Calicut, she was brought up in Bangalore. Before joining films, she passed Journalism from Manipal Institute of Communication. Though, she wanted to do a course in Cinematography things didn’t fructify. After working as a child artiste in the film Hanuman, she did a film with Mohanlal during the year 2008. This got her many accolades and she was nominated in the category of Best Supporting actress.

During one of her entrance exams Nithya met director Nandini, who was instrumental in making Nithya an actress. Her debut film as a grown up artist is ‘Ala Modalaindi’ in Telugu, which was directed by Nandini Reddy. Nithya dubbed for herself in one of her Telugu films. Nithya Menen is known for films, including Urumi, 180 etc. Now, she has several films in her kitty. A commendable fact is that Nithya Menen is also a singer. She has worked as a playback singer in many films and has around 4 awards to her credit as a playback singer). Nithya is considered to be an intellectual artiste and she is not seen as a glamour doll. 

Currently Nithya has worked in around 35 films, concentrating on the four main regional languages. She is considered as one of the good actresses in the south. Maniratnam’s OK Kanmani showcased her prowess as an actress and in Kanchana 2 she did justice to her role. In an interview, she had stated that, she believes in her intuition while selecting a film. Though her dream was not becoming an actress, she has now come into terms with it. She has around 35 films to her credit and she doesn’t want to hasten things, but wants to earn money at her comfort. Way to go Nithya!

Sonakshi Sinha is a well-known Indian Actress. She is the daughter of veteran actors Shatrughan Sinha and Poonam Sinha. Her father is now a politician from Bharitya Janta Party. She was born on 2 June 1987 in Mumbai. She has two brothers Luv and Kush. She did her schooling from Arya Vidya Mandir, Mumbai and graduation from Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University, Mumbai in Fashion Designing.

Sinha first worked as a costume designer and designed costumes for movie ‘Mera Dil Leke Dekho’. She did Modeling before moving to the big screen and walked the ramp in Lakme Fashion Week, 2008 and 2009.

She made her acting debut in the Salman Khan co-starred Dabangg, which turned out to be a huge success. For this role she had to lose almost 30 kilos. She followed a strict diet and workout regime. She donated the signing amount for the film to Salman Khan’s charitable organization Being Human. After her initial release she worked in many big films such as Rowdy Rathore, Son of Sardaar, Dabangg 2 and many others making unconventional beauty an established name in Bollywood.

She made her kollywood debut in Lingaa opposite to Rajnikanth. Currently she is working on an action-drama Akira which is set to be launched in near future.

She has won numerous awards for her work and received positive comments.

She is an animal lover and active member and face of PETA. She starred in a video asking people to adopt animals and have them sterilized. Sonakshi likes sketching, listening to music, hanging out with friends and watching movies.

Sonakshi has also been in the limelight in past years surrounding various controversies.

She has been romantically linked to her co-star Arjun Kapoor. Both of them were spotted together on many occasions however there is no confirmation from the two.

Taapsee Pannu is an actress and model of Indian origin. She is a beautiful and sexy actress. Her height is 5.6 Inches, and her star sign is Leo. She works as a software engineer, but she proceeds her career in modeling and then into the film industry. She did many South Indian movie, and also some Bollywood movies with famous actors and actresses. Taapsee Pannu was born in a Punjabi Family. Her Parents are Dilmohan Singh Pannu and Nirmala et Pannu. She has only one sister, Shagun Pannu. She passed out 12th standard Mata Jai Kaur Public School, Delhi. She did her graduation from Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology. She worked as a software engineer in a company. One of her contributions to the field of software development was an application made for iPhone by the name of ‘font swap’. She started from modeling. She got the opportunity to showcase her modeling skills in the talent show ‘Get Gorgeous’. Taapsee Pannu appeared in various television advertisements and at the Famine Miss India contest in 2008, she had also bestowed with many titles such as ‘Pantaloons Famine Miss Fresh Face’ title as well as the ‘Safi Famine Miss Beautiful Skin’ title. Some of the brands which she used to endorse after she had become a modelwereVardhman, World Gold Council, Havel’s, Airtel, Dabur, Tata DoCoMo, Pantaloons, Standard Chartered and Red FM. She came in the movie industry in 2010 in a debut film with K. Raghavendra Rao's. After this picture, she got three Telugu movie contract. Her next debut Tamil movie is Aadukalam. Her movie got six awards at 58th national film award ceremony.

Vidya Balan is an award winning Bollywood actress who was born in Poothamkurussy, Puthur of Kerala. Her birthday is 1st of January in 1978. Her parents are Saraswathy and P. R Balan. Her elder sister is Priya Balan and her second cousin is Indian actress Priyamani. She studied at a High School in Mumbai and in 1995, at the age of sixteen, she played the role of Radhika in the first season of Ekta Kapoor's TV series named “Hum Paanch”. In her teenage, she was inspired by Indian actress Shabana Azmi and Madhuri Dixit. She studied Sociology in St. Xavier's College and completed Master's in Mumbai University. She has appeared in several TV commercials and also she has starred in music videos. Vidya has briefly studied Carnatic music, Bharatnatyam and Kathak. She was listed as the "India's hottest vegetarian" in polls conducted by PETA in 2011 and 2012. In 2003, she commenced her career in feature film industry with the Bengali movie “Bhalo Theko”. “Parineeta” (2005) was her foremost Hindi movie. There she played the role of Lalita. Parineeta was a box-office hit and Vidya received the Filmfare best actress award in 2006, for her performances in Parineeta. Later, she appeared in “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” (2006) co starred with Sanjay Dutt. In 2007, she appeared in romantic comedy film “Heyy Babyy”. Heyy Babyy is a remake of Hollywood film “Three Men and a Baby”. Vidya played the role of Isha Sahni and the movie became an overnight hit. She got the opportunity of working with director Aziz Mirza, in 2008. Aziz selected Vidya for the role of Priya, in “Kismat Konnection”. The victorious period of her career as a Hindi actress began in the year 2009. She appeared in five different successive films, including “Paa” (2009), “Ishqiya” (2010), “The Dirty Picture” (2011), Kahaani (2012). Her prominent acting skills in those roles recognized her in Hindi cinema. She has won the National Film Award for best actress (Dirty picture), five Filmfare Awards for Parineeta (2005), Paa (2009), The Dirty Picture (2011), and Kahaani (2012) and Ishqiya (2010), five Screen Awards and Padma Shri Award in 2014. Vidya Balan got married to Siddharth Roy Kapoor, the CEO of UTV Motion Pictures on 14th of December 2012 in Bandra, Mumbai.

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Akshay Kumar was born on 9th September 1967 and his birth name is ‘Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia’. He is a great Bollywood actor who has acted in more than 100 movies. He is also a producer and martial artist. He has won The Filmfare awards a couple of times. He started off his career as an actor in 1990s, where he had stricken with action based movies initially. He has been greatly appreciated for his drama, romance and comic roles. He is considered to be the only Bollywood actor whose net box office collection is 20 million rupees. He has done a lot of dangerous stunts in movies without a body double. This did gain a name for him as 'Indian Jackie Chan'.

Jagan Shakti is an Indian director and writer. He directed Mission Mangal (2019). He also wrote the story of Mission Mangal. R. Balki and Saketh Kondiparthi wrote the script for Mission Mangal. It stars Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Nithya Menon, and Sonakshi Sinha. He was one of the assistant directors of Thuppakki (2012). Thuppakki stars Joseph Vijay, Kajal Aggarwal, Vidyut Jammwal, and Sathyan. A.R. Murugadoss directed Thuppakki. Shakti was the associate director of Holiday: A Soldier is Never Off Duty (2014). A.R. Murugadoss directed Holiday: A Soldier is Never Off Duty. It is Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Freddy Daruwala, Sumeet Raghavan, and Govinda.

Anil Naidu is an Indian producer. Other than being a producer, he is also a director, and an editor. He has spent a long time in the advertising world and was also a co-producer of Amitabh Bachchan’s films “Paa” and, Akshay Kumar’s films “Mission Mangal” and “Padman.” He also took part in the editorial team of the movies like, “Dear Zindagi,” “Shamitabh,” “English Vinglish.” He worked for the advertising world for a long time and then later entered the world of feature films. His work technique and working methods won millions of hearts. Later he passed in October 2020 due to a massive heart attack, and his companions offered condolences through writings.

Ravi was born in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. By profession, he is a cinematographer. Also, he penned the script and directed one movie. He has got some nominations and awards for his brilliant works. With a connection to the South Indian movie industry, he also has worked in Bollywood, and his work won acclamation. His great zeal for literature helped him to create a magazine (online) named Yavarum Kelir. His interest in photography is linked to the death of his mother, who he lost at a very young age.

Sandeep Sharad Ravade is a Hindi art director and production designer who has worked predominantly in the Bollywood film industry. He has worked as an associate art director in ‘Tum Bin…: Love Will Find a Way’ in 2001, ‘Aapko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai’ in 2003, ‘Musafir’ in 2004, ‘Ten’ in 2005, ‘The Curse of King Tut's Tomb’ in 2006, ‘Tathastu’ in 2006, ‘Singh Is King’ in 2008, ‘Kambakkht Ishq’ in 2009, ‘3 Idiots’ in 2009, ‘Housefull’ in 2010, ‘Guzaarish’ in 2010, ‘Rockstar’ in 2011, ‘Agent Vinod’ in 2012, ‘Housefull 2’ in 2012, ‘Cocktail’ in 2012, ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’ in 2013, ‘Highway’ in 2014, ‘Lekar Hum Deewana Dil’ in 2014, and ‘PK’ in 2014. He worked as an art director in ‘Cocktail’ in 2012, ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ in 2013, ‘Dhoom 3’ in 2013, and ‘Xuan Zang’ in 2016. He was the production designer for ‘Baby’ in 2015, ‘Dear Maya’ in 2017, ‘The Other Way’ in 2018, ‘Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran’ in 2018, ‘Thackeray’ in 2019, ‘Mission Mangal’ in 2019, ‘Special OPS’ in 2020, ‘She’ in 2020, and ‘Ghoomer’ in 2022.

Karan Mally is a casting director working predominately for Hindi film and television industry. Currently, he is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra and is working as a casting director at Indian and international films for motion picture and films. Karan Mally was born in Bangalore and later on shifted to Mangalore in 1986. He completed his studies from St.Joseph pre-University College and shifted to Mumbai to pursue his career in the industry. He worked as a casting assistant for Illuminati films. Later on, he worked as an actor for Ashutosh Gowariker productions since February 2014 but only for a year. He has also been working for Nandini Shrikant since October 2012 under the banner of kabiku productions.

Chandan Arora is an Indian cinema personality who is serving as a director and editor in Bollywood. Chandan obtained his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Bombay University in 1991. His subject was “Business Administration and Management”.Arora is fluent in five languages: English, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, and Marathi. Chandan started out as an assistant director in the year 1989. Later, he was an assistant of Kishore Kapadia, a cameraman.

Parthib Dutta is well-known for his work as the production manager of movies such as Pagalpanti (2019), The Family Man (Season 1) (2019), and Made In Heaven (Season 1) (2019), as well as Junglee (2019), Romeo Akbar Walter (2019), Aarya (2020), and Raanjhanaa (2013) Monsoon Shootout (2013), Mission Mangal (2019). Supervisor of post-production, filmmaker, and visualizer based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. His short film has been screened at the 41st Sehsuechte Students Film Festival in Potsdam, Germany, and the Dakine Fest 2012 in Bucharest. He has prior Post Production Supervisor experience from working for several organizations, including HOPE Productions, D2R Films Private Limited, Junglee Pictures Limited, Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., Zee Entertainment, and Panorama Studios Pvt. Ltd.

The two times national award winning actor for supporting roles Dattanna alias HG Dattatreya was working in Air Force, but was interested in acting. He is one of the actors, who are highly qualified and also held a position as a principal in the management academy of HAL. Acting was his passion and so, he continued to do films regardless of awards. Although awards are definitely an encouragement for the actor, but to continue his journey in over 90 films that spanned over 26 years is indeed a remarkable feat. Although he chose to take up supporting actor role or even in character roles, he is known for his versatile performances in Kannada film industry. 

In many Kannada films, the central plot revolved around him, therefore, giving a greater satisfaction to this actor, who had underplayed his role as per the script always. HG Dattatreya had excelled in many movies, especially in Munnudi (2000) and Bharath Stores (2012) that fetched him a national award. For his effortless and natural performance of a small time grocery retailer in Kannada film Bharath Store, he was given a special jury award. Most of the actors in the tinsel town are not comfortable doing minor roles, but this actor has no qualms about it. He also impressed the Telugu audience with his performance in Thila Danam. His acting wooed audiences with brilliant performance in Kempe Gowda (2011). Many would have raised eyebrows at the decision of Dattanna to move towards tinsel town, but so far, he received applauds for his acting in many films. Known for his magnificent acting prowess in Kannada cinema, he has bagged many State film awards too and won an International award. In the years that followed after his journey from theater to Kannada screen, the actor has carved a niche for himself. 

Besides grabbing the National Awards twice in 2003 and 2012, Dattareya had received the Best Actor Award in International Film Festival in Fiji in 2013. Dattareya’s performance in Neer Dose with “Jaggesh,” "Haripriya" and Suman Ranganathan is unforgettable. In 2017, he played in Srinivasa Kalyana, “Jilebi,” a comedy horror thriller, Prathima, “Raajakumara,” Tab, Kempirve and Hombanna. In 2018, he played in more than half a dozen films including a web series titled Joshelay. 2019 started with success for Dattareya through Jaggesh movie Premier Padmini. He played in the high budgeted multi-starrer Bollywood film, Mission Mangal with Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Nithya Menen and Sonakshi Sinha, directed by Jagan Shakti.

Thanks to his underrated yet extremely sincere performances in half a dozen films. To sum up his acting ability, he had given strong proof of his acting talents holding his own against the biggest banners of Kannada cinema.

Rajat Barmecha emerged to the Bollywood circuit with his role in the Hindi movie ‘Udaan,’ released in 2010. The movie showcased the struggle of a small town boy and how he battles his dreams from his father. The movie was highly acclaimed both by the audience and the critics, which was directed by Vikramaditya Motwane. Rajat also won a nomination for Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the movie.

Rajat was born on April 24, 1989, in Ladnun, Rajasthan and did his schooling from Bal Bharti Public School, Delhi. His two siblings Ritu and Vicky are also part of the film Industry. While Ritu has given hits in the Telugu industry, Vicky is waiting for his film, ‘Umeedein,’ to be released on the silver screen. The three siblings together have done Godrej Interio ad, after arriving to Mumbai.

Rajat won a National Award in 2011 for his Short Film, ‘The Finish Line,’ and the film was acclaimed. He also made a cameo in Bejoy Nambiar’s Shaitan, and is currently waiting for the release of his film, ‘ Disco Valley,’ where he is sharing screen space with Naseeruddin Shah’s son Vivaan Shah. He describes the movie as a road movie, and one that he finds close to, ‘Dil Chahta Hai,’ ‘ZNMD’ and Hollywood film, ‘Hangover.’ He likes the band Indian Ocean and praises the rock band for helping him find the meaning in the world. He grew close to the band during the shooting of Udaan and is also featured in one of the songs of the band named, ‘Bula Raha Hai Koi Mujhko.’

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Rajat Barmecha was born on 24^th April 1989 in Ladnun, India. Rajat is an extremely talented actor who works in the Bollywood industry. Born in Ladnun, Rajasthan, Rajat moved to Delhi with his family when he was a child and grew up there. He completed his schooling from Bal Bharti Public School and has always been fascinated with movies and acting. He grew up watching Bollywood and Hollywood movies. His dad is a businessman and supported Rajat in his decision to pursue acting.

Sharman Joshi was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra to a Gujarati Brahmin family. He comes from a family of Gujarati and Marathi theatre actors. He is the son of Arvind Joshi, a popular name in Gujarati theatre and his aunt, sister as well as cousins, are known Gujarati and Marathi theatre actors. Sharman Joshi’s sister is Mansi Joshi, who is married to Rohit Roy, and both are TV actors and are recognized for the roles they have played. His spouse is Prerana Chopra, the daughter of Prem Chopra and Uma Chopra. He has three children, an elder girl Khyana and twin boys, Varryan and Vihaan. Apart from starring in some hit films in supporting as well as leading roles, he has himself done theatre for a few years. His play, ‘All The Best’, in which he plays a deaf boy did 550 shows in about three years. He made his debut in Bollywood in 1999, with the film, Godmother, in which he acted alongside Shabana Azmi, Nirmal Pandey and Milind Gunaji.

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