Hindi Movie Review Singh Is Kinng - Cast & Crew

Katrina Kaif is a prominent and very popular British-Indian model and film actress. She was one of the highest-paid actresses in the Bollywood industry and one of the most attractive personalities in India. She was born as Katrina Turquotte on July 16, 1983, in British Hong Kong to Mohammed Kaif, a business person and Suzanne Kaif, a lawyer, and social service worker. Her parents had a divorce when she was just a child and then her father moved to USA. She grows up without a father by her side, but she never complains and instead, she always feels grateful for all the wonderful things she has. Since then, her mother dedicates her life in working for social causes, which led them to relocate to several countries from time to time. Because of this, she and her seven siblings did a homeschooling with some tutors. She lives in London for three years before she moved to India. She changed her surname to Kaif because it’s easier to pronounce.

Neha Dhupia is a Bollywood actress who began her career in modeling. She later appeared in a theatre too called Graffiti. And went to debut on the television series ‘Rajdhani’ in 2002. She appeared in a very few film, and she credits the acting craft with building her confidence and helped her overcome the confidence that the character that she played on screen. 

Kirron Kher or Kirron Anupam Kher was Kiran Thakar Singh in real life. She was born on June 14, 1955 in Punjab, India and she was raised in Chandigarh. Because of her belief in numerology, she decided to alter her name from Kiron or Kiran to Kirron. She is a veteran Indian film and television actress. She is also a theatre artist and a television host who belongs to the Bhartiya Janata Party. She was voted in Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s Parliament. Kiran is the sister of Kanwal Thakar Kaur, a popular badminton player. She has a brother who died last 2003 and another sister who was married to a retired Naval Officer.

She studied in Chandigarh and graduated in the Department of Indian Theatre of Punjab University. She got married to Gautam Berry, a wealthy businessman from Mumbai. They had a son name Sikandar Kher who is also an actor. Later, the two had a divorce and she remarries the Bollywood actor, Anupam Kher in 1985.

During the 80’s, Kiran tried her luck in the film industry to no success. She visits different producers and search for any role in films. Before she got married to Anupam, they have become friends since he is also a struggling actor and they have known each other in the University of Chandigarh. They worked in the same theatre industry and worked together in Chandpuri Ki Champabai. Anupam got his break in the film, Saaransh and later he divorced his wife. Kiran gets divorced as well and she got married to Anupam. The two are now running a production house.

She was debuted as a film actress in the Punjabi film, Aasra Pyar Da in 1983. Later, she had her break in films. From 1983 to 1996, she did only one Hindi film, Pestonjee with Anupam Kher. She came back into theatre and performed in the play, Saalgirah under the direction of Feroz Abbas Khan. Then she became a host of television shows like Zee TV’s Purushkshetra, Kiron Kher Today and Jagte Raho before she started doing Bollywood films. On her comeback to the big screen, she was awarded the Special Jury Award in the National Film Awards for bagging the role of Sardari Begum in the Hindi film, Sardari Begum in 1996. Then, she did the critically acclaimed Bengali film, Bariwali where she played the lead role as Banalata in year 2000.She won the Best Actress Award in the National Film Award but there are rumors that the Bangla actress, Rita Koirla dubbed for her character in the film. Rita wanted to share the award with her but Kiran claims that she spent many hours on practicing her dialogues, and so the award should not be shared by anyone.

She appeared in the romantic drama film, Devdas in 2002 and played the role of Sumitra Chakraborty. She gained a nomination in the Filmfare’s Best Supporting Actress award. She also did the French/German film, Khamosh Pani in 2003. This is the story that depicts the predicaments of a woman who was abducted while the partition of Bristish Indian Empire is happening. She got the Best Actress Award in the Locano International Film Festival in Switzerland, Karachi’s International Film Festival in Argentina’s International Festivals in Ciepie, South Africa’s Cape Town. The film received few awards as well.

In 2004, the IFFLA or Indian film Festival of Los Angeles, paid tribute to her during their yearly festival. In 2010, she did the episode, Damaged in the television series, ER together with her husband. In 2005, she appeared as Sunanda in TV serial, Prratima which was aired on Sahara One. Prior to this, she also made an appearance in television series like Isi Bahane, Dil Na Jaane Kyon and Chausath Panne.

She earned positive responses from her films Main Hoon Na, Veer Zaara, Hum Tum and Mangal Pandey: The rising. Her role as Mitro, the mother of DJ (played by Aamir Khan) in the Indian drama film, Rang De Basanti became a box office and gained her nomination to the Filmfare’s Best Supporting Actress Award. She was also appreciated in her characters in Fanaa and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. Kiran also did some comedic roles in Singh is Kinng, Dostana and more. She was also one of the juries in India’s Got Talent in 2009.

Kiran was nominated and won many awards. She was also part of different non-profit movements such as Laadi and Roko Cancer. Recently, she won the Lok Sabha seats which defeats Pawan Bansal and Gul Punag in the General Elections.

Anees Bazmee was born in the place of Modasa, Gujarat. He is also called as Bazmee Sahab and he is a very popular movie director, movie writer and a screenplay writer as well. He has been active in the Bollywood industry from the year 1988 until the present. He is also a producer of movies and he is quite active in the Hindi film industry. He is the director of many successful movies like Singh is Kinng, No Entry, and Welcome, which were all based on comedy. 

His debut work as an artist in the industry was as a dialogue writer for the movie Hum Farishte Nahin. He was then taking a small gap of 1 year and then he again started his career as a writer for the film Swarg. This movie was directed by David Dhawan and later Anees Bazmee joined hands with David Dhawan in his future projects. In the year 1995, he finally switched over to the directing department. The movie that he directed for the first time was Aankhen. 

Before which he has been a film writer for 10 movies, after which he made a transition to directing films. He made his debut for the movie Hulchul upon which he casted Kajol and Ajay Devgn. He also had casted the same people for his second movie Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha, which was a huge success. It made it to an accomplished box office collection of the year and ot received huge felicitation from the critics. 

He took a gap of five years, after which he directed a movie known as Deewangee. His movie Singh is Kinng is a magical movie that had won the hearts of most of the Bollywood audiences. It had brought a huge impact to the Bollywood cinema and of-course he deserved it. His current project is to work on the remake of the Hollywood film The Hangover. It is expected to trend set upon his directorial experiments.

With big banners scouting for good scripts, Vipul Amrutlal Shah (also known as Vipul Shah), had delivered maximum hits one after another, which witnessed a drastic change in Bollywood cinema in a delicate manner. He paved the way for big banners that scouted for good scripts and had need the support of both banners and realistic stories for industry’s benefits. 

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'.

Om Rajesh Puri is one of the widely noted senior actors in the Indian film industry and he was born on 18th October 1950 in Patiala, Punjab. He is one of the few Bollywood actors to act in mainstream commercial English movies. The alumnus of National School of Drama was also a classmate of renowned actor Naseeruddin Shah of the 1973 class.

He started his movie career in 1976 with the Marathi film ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’ directed by K.Hariharan. The movie was based on a play with the same name and it got success both commercially and critically. His career graph saw the coming of critically acclaimed art films such as ‘Bhavni Bhavai’, ‘Sadgati’, ‘Ardh Satya’ etc. and he was one of the major stars to do art films at that time along with well-known actors like Naseeruddin Shah, and Shabana Azmi. His reputation sky rocketed with his unconventional roles in many films during the 80s such as ‘Aakrosh’ and ‘Disco dancer’. Puri became famous for his versatility and personality, and went on to act in films in many domestic and foreign industries. Be it Hollywood blockbusters like ‘Gandhi’ or ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ or regional hits like ‘A.K. 47’, Puri left a unique zeal on every role he did.

If he was known for his personality and his unconventional roles in the movies, he proved the world that he could handle any kind of role with an envious ease with the TV series ‘Kakkaji Kaheen’ and ‘Sutradhaar’ where he did comedy characters. He was honoured by the government of India with Padma Shri award and he also received ‘Order of The British Empire’. He is currently working for the movie ‘Chapekar Brothers’ in which he will be playing Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

Javed Jaffrey is a talented actor, dancer, comedian, voice actor, impressionist, VJ, an ad filmmaker, emcee and politician, who predominantly work in the Bollywood film and television industry. He was born on December 4, 1963, in Malliwala, Uttar Pradesh in India. Javed is the son of renowned film actor, 'Jagdeep', who is also famous for doing comic roles.

Intro: Ranvir Shorey is a popular Indian movies actor who has also worked as a host and presenter of various television programmes of different genre.

Ranvir Shorey is an experienced actor and VJ who has worked for a number of highly appreciated movies. He has also established himself as a successful television programme host and presenter. He started his acting career in 2002 with the Bollywood movie Ek Choti Si Love Story opposite Manisha Koirala. In 2003, he appeared in movie Jism and in 2004; he played a significant role in the movie Lakshya. Some other critically acclaimed movies for which he worked are Traffic Signal, Bheja Fry, and Mithya. He also appeared in a number of commercially successful movies such as Singh is King, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., Dasvidaniya, Fashion, and Ek Tha Tiger.

 Ranvir Shorey has successfully worked as a talented host and presented for various television talk shows and awards ceremony shows. His most successful talk shows as presenter and host are The Great Indian Comedy Show which was aired on Star One and Ranvir Vinay aur Kaun? He has also hosted some other shows such as Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Season 7, a competitive dance show on SET India. He is married to a successful parallel cinema star Konkona Sen Sharma and the couple has a daughter.