Hindi Movie Review Thugs Of Hindostan - Cast & Crew

Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became the winner of All India Light Vocal Music Competition. Her fame and career began with her winning a television singing reality show named Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

Namrata Rao is an Indian movie editor who was born on the 15th of April in the year 1981. Namrata was born to a Dehli middle-class family, she managed to obtain a degree in IT but decided to leave the field to pursue film. Namrata started her career as a graphic designer and worked with NDTV for some time, before she decided to study a film making at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata.

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.

Fatima Sana Shaikh is an actress of Andhra origin. She grew up as a child artiste. Her first offer was in the film, ‘Chachi 420’, where she played the beloved daughter to Tabu and Kamal Haasan.

Vijay Krishna Acharya is also known as Victor Acharya in the Indian film industry. He is a well-known director, playwright and lyricist of the Indian cinema. He has his fame in TV serials also. Vijay attended Seth Anandaram Jaipuria School in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He obtained his graduation from Kirori Mal College in English literature. He says about himself, “Seems like this English literature graduate from Kanpur has actually put to use all the techniques of comedy he learned as a college student”.

Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bollywood’s finest actor. He is a package for the Indian TV industry as he is a producer, director and actor an all-rounder kind of personality. Khan has an estimated net worth of $185 million. Aamir has born on 14th March, 1965 (aged 50) in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He did two marriages, first with Reena Dutta in 1986 they were together till 2002, than Kiran Rao came into his life, she is 42 years old, born in November, 1973, and they got married in 2005, now they both are living together happily in Mumbai. Kiran is from Bengaluru and also a director, screenwriter and producer.

Aamir’s father was Late Tahir Hussain, who was from a village Akhtiyarpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was also a screenwriter and director. Aamir is having 3 children today, one son Junaid and one daughter Ira from his first wife Reena Dutt and 1 son Azad Rao Khan from his second wife Kiran.

Aamir Khan is the fourth richest Bollywood personality in Hindi cinema. Aamir has earned his income by doing work as an actor, director and produced some movies and also worked in many advertisements. Khan began his career in a very tiny age with the film YAADON KI BAARAT released in 1973, which is produced by his uncle.

He started his professional career in 1984 with a movie HOLI. He won his first Film award as a Special jury after giving a fantastic performance in the movies like QAYAMAT SE QAYAMAT TAK released in 1988 and a movie RAAKH picturise in 1989. In 1996, Aamir received his first Filmfare Award as a Best Actor for his work in the movie RAJA HINDUSTANI. This movie was the blockbuster of his time.

He also won the Academy award and this time second Best actor award for the movie LAGAAN. Aamir won a Filmfare Critics Award also in 2006, as Best Actor in RANG DE BASANTI. He directed a movie also TAARE ZAMEEN PAR and won the Best director award after the nomination in Filmfare Award. Aamir is widely known as the perfectionist in the film industry.

Aamir Khan with his wife Kiran Rao in one of the awards function. He is a kind of actor who nominated for more than 20 types of awards like, IIFA Awards, National Film Awards, Apsara Award, Screen Award, Civilian Award and many more.

Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.

In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a film administered by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. By the early 1970s, Bachchan had collected fame in crowds as the "Angry Young Man" in an arrangement of successful Hindi gimmick movies. His featuring part in Zanjeer was especially instrumental in propelling him to fame as an action-movie film legend. Amitabh didn’t stopped gaining fame and popularity and soon he delivered another successful movie Anand in 1971. Anand was followed by movies like Reshma Aur Shera and Parwana in the same year.

Being family friend with Rajiv Gandhi, he got an opportunity to choose to run for seat in the Congress from the place where he grew up. He challenged Allahabad's seat of eighth Lok Sabha against H. N. Bahuguna, previous Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and won by one of the highest victory margins in history (68.2% of the vote). His political life, on the other hand, was fleeting in view of debates especially after Rajiv and he were embroiled in the now scandalous "Bofors" case alongside the U.K. based Hinduja Brothers.

In 1997, Bachchan endeavored to make his acting comeback with the film Mrityudata, produced by ABCL. However, the film was a disappointment both fiscally and basically. His vocation was spared with a successful film “Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998)”. In 2000, Bachchan facilitated the first season of “Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC)”. Likewise in that year Amitabh Bachchan showed up in Yash Chopra's film industry hit “Mohabbatein” directed by Aditya Chopra. Different hits emulated, with Bachchan showing up as a more established family patriarch in Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love (2001), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) and Baghban (2003). Bachchan is also well known for his profound, baritone voice. He has been a storyteller, a playback artist, and moderator for various projects.

Despite a couple of film industry disappointments in the 1990s and the 2000s ruined his career yet, Bachchan climbed his way back up to as a topnotch Bollywood actor, gaining Filmfare and International Film Awards for his work on movies like Baghban (2003), Khakee (2004) and Paa (2009). His hard work guaranteed his prosperity and now he is known as the "King of Bollywood".

Aditya Chopra is an Indian film director, scriptwriter and producer. He directed the movies Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge in 1995, then Mohabbatein in 2000 and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi in 2008. He is currently the Chair Person of YRF group which has thrived for solid 45 years in the Multi-National film industry.

Aashish Singh is working in Yash Raj Films as a Vice President (Production). He was born in a family of movie producers. Although he was a meritorious student throughout his educational journey, filmmaking was in his veins, and that is why he chose to follow his father's footsteps. He became an executive producer when Dhoom-2 was released followed by Chak De India. Looking at his passion and knowledge in the making of films, Yash Raj Films gave him the post of Head of Production of YRF.

Hemant Chaturvedi is a brilliant cinematographer from India who has been working extensively for more than 20-years in the Hindi industry. His first critically acclaimed film was the box-office hit film, Company by Ram Gopal Varma in 2002; followed by two consecutive films by Vishal Bhardwaj. One is the Indian horror film, Makdee and the other one is the crime drama film, Maqbool from where he received acclaim. In 2005, he worked with the English-language Indian film, 15 Park Avenue by Aparna Sen and subsequently worked as a cinematographer in the Hindi film, Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota and the Bollywood mystery film, ‘Anthony Kaun Hai?’ in 2006. He has done the 2007 Hindi short film, Positive by Farhan Akhtar and later worked in the anthology film, Dus Kahaniyaan. His cinematography received positive reviews for his work in the Bollywood crime drama film, Kurbaan in 2009. In year 2012, he works in the romantic drama film, Ishaqzaade by Habib Faisal and the animated film, Arjun: The Warrior Prince. This year, he works for the film, Dekh Tamasha Dekh and Watchdogs. Recently, he did the comedy drama film, Ungli by Rensil D’Silva. Hemant is currently filming Karan Malhorta’s film, Brothers which is set to release in year 2015.

Prior to all these, Hemant also worked as a production assistant in the 1994 documentary film, Street Musicians of Bombay. In 2011, the promising cinematographer will supposedly work with the Tamil gangster-thriller film, Billa II but he was later opted out since the film is being delayed at that time.

Hemant also done a variety of television shows including the Rendevouz with Simi Gareal in 1997 and the very popular game show, Kaun Banega Crorepati. He also did several commercials ads including the Vasan Eye Care: Happiness Begins Here – Makhan Singh. Hemant also worked with actress and director, Nandita Das in three part 60-seconds film that promotes education for underprivileged children in association with UNICEF and Commissioned by the Social Initiative Group of ICCI.

This year, he was associated by the Whistling Woods International in Mumbai and they conducted a Digital Cinematography workshop.

Ajay Gogavale is a prominent Indian music composer and director. He was born on August 21, 1976, in Pune to Ashok Gogavale. He grew up in different villages because of his father’s job. Ajay is the brother of Atul Gogavale who is also a popular music composer and director. They collaborated in several hit films and their duo was known as Ajay-Atul. In his childhood, Ajay was not interested in academics. He is more focused on music and so, he and his brother joined the NCC competition. They won and made this as their inspiration to pursue their passion. They don’t have a musical background and they could not even afford to buy a musical instrument. The two started their ventures in school, local bands, temples, etc. and befriend those who owned instruments since they cannot afford to buy for themselves. During college, Ajay and his brother started working as arrangers for local bands.

Atul Gogavale, along with his brother Ajay Gogavale, is one of India’s finest music composers. The brand ‘Ajay-Atul’ signifies one of the best music composer and director duos present in the country. Professionally, Atul is a music director, a composer, a songwriter, a lyricist, a show organizer and much more. He also produces music. His area of work is mainly concentrated in the Marathi language. In the 56th National Filmfare Awards, Ajay and Atul were awarded the Best Music Direction Award. They got this privilege in the year 2008. They received this award for their contribution in the film Jogwa, which was a Marathi film.

Sukhwinder Singh, an asset to the Bollywood Music Industry, was born on 18th July 1971. He is a playback singer, who is quite active from the year 1992 until the present. There are a huge number of his fan followers, and he is gifted with an incredible voice. Apart from any element in any aspect of film making, songs sung by him made a phenomenal difference in its success. He has sung some outstanding numbers in the Bollywood film industry in the late nineties.

Vishal Dadlani mostly known by duo name Vishal Shekhar in the music world. Vishal is an Indian film music director. He not only composes music in Hindi, but equally famous for composing music in Telegu, Tamil, or in Marathi. Actually dedication brings success to a person and Vishal Dadlani has justified his talent by giving various types of music. Vishal was born on 28th June 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He first came to the limelight when he composed the movie songs in the films ‘Jhanker Beats’, ’Dus’, ’ Bluffmaster’, ’Om Shanti Om’, ‘Bachna Ae Haseena’, ’Dostana’, ‘Anjana Anjani’ and many such famous filmy songs, the present genres caller tunes or ring tones. Vishal Dadlani was the vocalist of Mumbai based electronic band Pentagram. He worked jointly with Imogen Heap for the song ‘Mind Without Fear’, for an episode of ‘The Dewarists’. The song ‘Tu Aashiqui Hai’ from the film ‘Jhanker Beats', soared him to the zenith of fame,name and prosperity in the film world. Along with Shekhar, he had been awarded the Filmfare R D Burman Award for New Music Talent for ‘Jhanker Beats’. After that he did not turn back. He mixed techno music with Indian sounds. His musical composition in the films ‘Saaki’, ’Door Se’, gave him confidence and he composed many famous films like ‘Bang Bang’, ’Happy New Year’, ‘Chennai Express’, ‘Student Of The Year’ and many more. He himself has owed his voice to the actors. He has given his voice in Tamil, Kannada, and in Marathi films also. His latest appearance in the show ‘Indian Idol’ has gathered a motion to attract people for the show. Vishal has done a cameo role in the films ‘Om Shanti Om’ and ‘Tees Maar Khan’. Vishal has performed in the live show at IIT, Kharagpur. He is famous for giving music to the IPL theme song of the season 3 and the Anthem of Kolkata Knight Riders. We hope he will give us such sweet songs for many years.

Aamir Yaseen is a talented Indian actor and model born in Srinagar, Kashmir. He completed his schooling from the Tyndale Biscoe, post that he attended the University of Kashmir and completed his graduation in Environmental Science. In 2010, one of Aamir's’ friends suggested he try his luck in modeling. He participated at the Gladrags Manhunt, a modeling contest in 2011 making it to the top ten contestants before getting eliminated. His confidence boosted and that he could do well in the glamour industry he chose this as his career path.

Abdul Quadir Amin is an Indian actor and an assistant director. He is popular among the film fraternity for being a part of the hits such as Luck By Chance, Dil Dhadakne Do, Student of the Year, Talaash and Bombay Talkies. His latest appearance was in the Bollywood movie Thugs of Hindostan. He was born on February 7, 1983, in Raipur city of Chhattisgarh, India. He was a part of the London Academy of Media, Film and, TV where he studied Practical Filmmaking.

Bharat Bhatia is a proficient actor who works predominantly in the Hindi language cinema. His birthday falls n the month of May in 1974. He spent his entire life in Mumbia, the city of dreams. He completed his elementary education from Greenlawns school in Worli. Further, he pursued a degree in commerce from Jaihind College in Churchgate in Mumbai. In the initial years of his career, Bharat took care of his family business which dealt with retail footwear. Nevertheless, deep in his heart there existed an underlying desire to be part of an acting setup one day. He continued to support his family business until the age of 36, after which he left his footwear business to try his luck in the acting industry. He looked for a way to switch his field and came across the profession of becoming a voice actor.

Gavin Marshall is known to be a professional circus director and his specialty being an expert in the aerial form of stunts. Gavin is not only a well-trained circus enthusiast but also has gained a degree in English & Drama. He first started in theatre with Royal Shakespeare Company being in the schedule often. Gavin has worked on the classics like Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, etc, where he is not just responsible for the stunts or the dance performances, but he too has played a role of a co-director as well as acting in some of the minor roles for the play. Gavin has been entertaining the audience for over 25 years now. He was in charge of the visual effects team in the movie Ready Player One which was directed by the Golden Globe-winner Steven Spielberg. Mr. Marshall has starred in Bollywood films like Dhoom 3, where he has trained the artists in all the circus acts and Thugs of Hindostan. Some of the most stunt works done by Gavin apart for theatre or cinema include being an assistant director Abu Dhabi’s 40^th National Day Celebrations, circus acts coordinator for the world’s first and biggest electric stunt show,  ELĒKRON.

Intro: Jackie Shroff is a well known Bollywood actor who also has presence on Indian television sector.

Jackie Shroff is a popular actor who has worked for more than 175 movies in various languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, and Punjabi. He was launched by Dev Anand in his movie Swami Dada in 1978. Subhash Ghai chose him for the movie Hero which became a huge hit and paved the way of success for Jackie Shroff in Bollywood. Some of his movies which became huge commercial success include Karma, Ram Lakhan, Izzat, Tridev, Rangeela, Saudagar, Angaar, Khalnayak, and Aina. He got his first Filmfare award for best actor for the movie Parinda which was released in 1989.

While Jackie Shroff is known for his work and success with Bollywood and regional movies industry, he still holds a good space in Indian television industry. It should be noted that Jackie Shroff and his wife Ayesha Shroff had 10% share of Sony TV since it was started and only in the year 2012, they decided to sell their shares. In the year 2010, Jackie Shroff appeared as a judge for a magic competition television show India’s Magic Star which was telecasted on Star One. Jackie Shroff appeared on television screens for this show as a judge from 3 July 2010 to 5 September 2010. Apart from that, Jackie Shroff also appeared on Comedy Nights with Kapil Sharma along with his son Tiger Shroff in the year 2014.

Kaivalya Chheda was born and raised in Mulund, Mumbai, India.Initially, his vocation as group craftsman and his first motion picture seemed to be 'Kartoos (1999)' in which he was given a small role.Though his presentation film for a supporting role as character craftsman might have been 'Champion (2000)'. He didn't look back after it got released and kept on working in different TV Series as either a repeating character or essentially did cameo/small roles in many famous TV Series.He additionally sought after motion pictures and ads, yet his schedule was full with TV Series.At first, Kaivalya Chheda was rejected by executives of the Raju Chacha (2000).

Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub was born in the year 1984 in the Okhla district of Delhi. He had mother and father along with a sister and a brother in his family until his father died in the year 2007. Both his parents were fairly popular theater artists.He did his studies from Kendriya Vidyalaya and Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. Becoming an actor and coming to Mumbai was never among his plans. It was only in college that he found his interests inclining towards acting and theater when he joined a theater society in his college. He then pursued his passion by joining the National School of Drama and specialized in acting. He also worked as an acting teacher.He first was seen in a TV show in DD One channel named Kyunki Jeena Isi Ka Naam hai.

Kishor Arora is an Indian producer and actor who has worked in the Hindi and the Marathi film industry. He has been a part of famous movies like Beyond The Clouds (2017), The Legend of Michael Mishra (2016), Anandi Gopal (2019), Karenjit Kaur - The Untold Story of Sunny Leone (2018-2019), Apradhi Kaun (2000), B-Flat (2014), Hindustani (2011), Lost (2022), Satyanarayan ki Katha (2022), etc. His produced film 'Anandi Gopal' (2019) won the Best Film at Filmfare Awards Marathi in 2020. He is a partner and producer for 'Namah Pictures,' a content-driven production house dedicated to creating compelling stories in feature films. 

Ronit Roy (Ronit Bose Roy) was born on 11th October 1965, in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. He became a popular in the industry after his character “Rishabh Bajaj” in Ekta Kapoor’s Kasautii Zindagii Kay. He is a Bollywood actor and popular Indian Television actor, best known for his portrayal of Rishabh Bajaj, Mihir Virani and Aparajit Deb. He currently acting in the Hindi TV serial Adaalat as KD Pathak. Ronit Roy has been referred to as the Amitabh Bachchan of the TV screen and popularly known as “Big B” of small screen. He also owns a security business, providing security to Bollywood stars and production houses. Ronit has played the prestigious role of the legendary warrior Bhishma Pitamah in Balaji Telefilms' production Kahaani Humaaray Mahabharat Ki. Ronit judged a reality show, "Aajaa Mahi Vay". Ronit Roy also appeared in many Bollywood movies. Some of his popular movies are Two States, Boss, Shootout at Wadala, Ugly, Student of the Year, Luck by Chance, etc.

Satya Dev Kancharana is an Indian Actor from Visakhapatnam. He holds a B. Tech in the Department of Computer Science, and he always wanted to become an actor since his childhood days. He works part timely in an IT firm and rest of the time he pursues his passion.

Best known for his roles as Dronacharya in Mahabharat, Amatya Rakshas in Chanakya, Tamraj Kilvish in Shaktiman and Daksha in Devon Ke Dev - Mahadev. Surendra Pal was born in 1953, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Surendra Pal belonged to a middle class background and had no idea that one day he will be known as one of the leading actor in the Indian TV Industry. His entrance in the industry was by chance, but after that he worked hard and established himself in the industry.

There is a long list of movies and TV series he has been a part of, he used to get so many offers that even after rejecting some, he doesn’t have spare time for himself in his calendar. Every year brought a number of new characters for him to play, either in Bollywood movies or TV serials. He has been a part of many projects, but one of his most popular roles on TV was that of Vikranta Jabbar, the role he played in the Ramsay Brothers produced horror TV serial Zee Horror Show's episode "Saya."

Even in real life, Surendra Pal is same as the roles he played in the TV shows mentioned above. He likes to read and has a huge collection of books at home, as for him reading is a habit from childhood days. He also likes to keep himself updated with national and international news.

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