Hindi Movie Review Ghoul - Cast & Crew

Vintee Bansal is a Delhi-based young lady who made her way into the Bollywood through the film Queen movie starring Kangana Ranaut directed by Vikas Bahl. She worked as production designer for this flick and won the hearts of many critics. Before coming to movies, Vintee Bansal studied interior designing in Delhi and worked as an interior designer as she found that field very fascinating. Her first debut picture is Love Aaj Kal and worked as an assisted designer director for Teddy Maurya.

Shruti Kapoor is a costume designer working predominantly in the Hindi film industry. Shruti was the costume designer for the film Masaan (2015),  by actors Vicky Kaushal, Richa Chadda, and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015) starring Sushant Singh Rajput and Ak vs AK (2020) by Anurag Kashyap.

Radhika Apte, an Indian actress was born on Sept 7, 1985. Radhika has acted in films in many languages ranging in Hindi, Marathi and many southern languages as well. She has also worked in a theatre group Aasakta. She was nominated for SIIMA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her Tamil film Dhoni. Her father Dr. Charudutt Apte is Pune’s leading neurosurgeon. She got married to musician Benedict Taylor in 2012. She had done her graduation in economics and mathematics from Fergusson College, Pune. She has learnt contemporary dance at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

She started work in Hindi movies from her first small role in “Vaah Life Ho To Aisi” in 2005. In 2009 she did her debut in Marathi Industry from Gho Mala Asla Hava, she played the character of a village girl named Savitri and worked in some more films that year. She had worked in Vakratunda Swaha, which was filmed by Ashish Avikunthak over a period of 12 years. Also she played one of the lead roles in Anurag Kashyap's short film on eve teasing, That Day After Everyday which was released on YouTube in 2012. The main roles she played were in Rakht Charitra and in its second part. This year she did remarkable work in Badlapur and Hunterrr and got a lot of appreciation for that as well from Bollywood critics and her audiences. She is a very bold and fearless person as shown in her choice of films. She is working in multiple movies this year that are either being filmed or in post production phase.

Apart from movies she is also actively involved in theatre and has done many plays in Aasakta group and also in some other plays like Purnaviram, Matra Ratra . As stated by her she believes in experimental theatre and has plans to do an English play in London as well.

Ratnabali Bhattacharjee is an actress, writer, producer, director and theater artist from Bengal. She is a casting director too. She owns a theater group, Habijabi Productions. Ratnabali shifted her base to Mumbai in 2002. Ratnabali is popular for Shor, a short film that hit the screens in 2011. Ratnabali Bhattacharjee had performed very naturally in the 16-minute-short film, Shor, directed by Neeraj Ghaywan. Vineet Singh played the lead role along with Ratnabali. Some of her projects are The Ephiphany, which released in 2013, Sold, which released in 2014, Waiting and Ghoul in 2016 and Jonaki and Meal, released in 2018. Jonaki, the Bangla film, is directed by Aditya Vikram Sengupta. Offshore is one of her notable projects. Ratnabali has written a web series for Y Films, titled Ladies Room. Ratnabali had always stated that content is the King. She loves to do a variety of movies and plays. Ratnabali’s latest outing is with Afsos. In most of her films, we can see her in performance-oriented roles and surprising the audience with her excellence. Ratnabali has also played in Permanent Roommates, a web series that telecast in The Viral Fever. Ratnabali stated that she found a bit tough to play the role of Lakshmi Das in Ghoul, the horror film; yet it was something interesting and easy to play, stated the actress.

Patrick Graham is an English director who is working in the Mumbai film industry. He is of Scottish ancestry and the descendants of Thomas Graham. He is a graduate of Royal Holloway London and London film School. His full name is John Patrick Lynedoch Graham. Matt Graham, the writer is his elder brother.

Vikramaditya Motwane is a film producer, writer, and director. He was born on 6th December 1976. He married Ishika Mohan, the photographer. He started his career as an assistant to the director Sanjay Leela Bhansali; he worked with him for the films ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’ (1999) and ‘Devdas’ (2002). He was the choreographer for the songs of the film ‘Paanch’ (2003). He made his directional debut with the film ‘Udaan’ (2010) under Anurag Kashyap Films; the film was acclaimed on all platforms, among the seven awards it received in Filmfare awards included ‘Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie’; it was also selected at 2010 Cannes Film Festival in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ to compete.. He also bagged the Best Director Award at Star Screen Awards. His second directional film was ‘Lootera’ (2013).

Jason Blum is an American movie producer who is also the founder of ‘Blumhouse production’ was born in Los Angeles on 20th Feb. 1969. His first film was in 1995 ‘Kicking and Screaming’. For producing this film his family friend supported him financially. He, later on, produced a high budget film the saga of ‘Paranormal Activities’ which earned 200million dollars. Blum till now has made more than 75 films and television shows. Some of his productions were ‘Insidious,’ ’Sinister,’ ‘Creep,’

John Penotti is the President of SK Global, a business formed by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE), a Hollywood-based independent film finance and production company, and Ivanhoe Pictures, a globally oriented local-language content company. Since his first collaboration with famous filmmaker Sidney Lumet, John has created over 45 films and has been a major industry executive. Crazy Rich Asians, an adaptation of Kevin Kwan's best-selling novel directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Michelle Yeoh, Constance Wu, and Henry Golding, was produced and co-financed by John & Ivanhoe Pictures, Warner Bros., and Color Force.

Ryan Turek is a producer, screenwriter, and journalist specializing in the horror genre. He was born on 1st October 1976, in Wallingford, Connecticut, United States. Turek started his career in the horror genre in 2000 as a journalist and critic by writing for Creature-Corner. He further expanded his connections by contributing to print outlets such as Fangoria, Rue Morgue, and Creative Screenwriting, and in 2004, co-founded DreadCentral. In 2007, he co-founded ShockTillYouDrop, one of the leading horror entertainment websites, with the help of Coming Soon Media. Turek has also served as a studio consultant for several horror projects. "Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective," a documentary on the Scream series, was written and directed by him.

Jay Oza is a director and a cinematographer in the South Indian Film Industry. He is a very famous and a successful cinematographer. His latest movie Raman Raghav 2.0 in the year 2016 was a big success. He recently released a short film named August 25. It is yet to be released in 2017. Presently, he is filming a Tamil movie named Ghoul. He has been a part of some of the biggest Tamil hits. He has been the cinematographer for ten films till now. He started his career as a cinematographer professionally from 2010. His debut film as a cinematographer was The Unborn Identity which was a short film in the year 2010.

Benedict Taylor is a notable British experimental musician whose music has cultural value and is even considered to be a hallmark of modernism. Critics consider him to be an Avant-garde composer and violist too. He is the son of Kendal-based author Caroline Moir and was born in 1962 in Kendal (UK). He graduated in 2004 as a violist from Royal Northern College of Music and became one of the many respected musicians.

Naren Chandavarkar is a music composer. Originally from Bangalore, he currently lives in Mumbai, India. He debuted in the Hindi film industry by composing the music for That Girl in Yellow Boots (2010). He went on to compose music for several other films like Harud (2010), Ship of Theseus (2012), Killa (2014), and Udta Punjab (2016). He worked on the score for the film Nil Battey Sannata (2015). A bunch of projects he has worked on are in post production. These projects are expected to be released in 2017. Some of these include Candyflip, and Noor. Naren along with fellow musician Benedict Taylor, husband of Radhika Apte, forms a music composition duo. They are based in Mumbai and London.

Anish John is an Indian movie sound designer and mixer. He is a National Award winner for Best Sound Design or Best Audiography in the film ‘Labour of Love.’ John also won a Filmfare Award at their 63rd Annual edition, where he gained a nomination for the category of Best Sound Design. Anish also gained a Jagran Film Award for Best Sound Design, in the 8th Jagran Film Festival in 2017. It was his second victory in this same category, as he also bagged an award at the 6th Jagran Film Festival, in the year 2015. John also gained high critical acclaim for his work as the Sound Designer in the first Indian Netflix original series, Sacred Games.

Pranit Purao lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He did his higher education on computers and electronics at Somaiya Vidyavihar, a university in Mumbai. Currently, he is working as a Sound Engineering at a self-employed company known as Conscience VC. Earlier, he has worked as a Sound Engineer at AuralMayhem Studios and Final Track Studio. He has worked in famous and eminent short films, films, and TV Series. Some of them are- ‘Ready’ released in 2011, ‘Kabir Singh’ in 2019, ‘Jolly LLB 2’ in 2017, ‘Aspirants’ in 2021, ‘Barfi’ in 2012, ‘Mulk’ in 2018, ‘Bombay Talkies’ in 2013, ‘Aligarh’ in 2015, ‘Yeh Meri Family’ in 2018 and many more. He also has an interest in clicking photographs. He is not active on social media platforms. There is no information about his family and personal life.

Nitin Baid is a Bollywood film editor who made his debut as a feature film editor with Masaan (2015), which was directed by Neeraj Ghaywan. The film was screened at Cannes Film Festival and won even FIPRESCI prize. Nitin was born in Kolkata but had education at College in Bangalore.

Mahesh Balraj (Born On March 1, 1975) Is An Actor And Casting Coordinator Who Has Appeared In Dozen Of Movies. He Has Also Acted In Various Hit Web Series And Television Shows. He Played Small Supporting Roles In Blockbuster Movies Like Gangs Of Wasseypur (2012), Parched (2015) And Dangal (2016). As Casting Coordinator, He Has Worked In Notably In Films Chennai Express (2013), PK (2014), Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) And Singh Is Bliing (2015).

Mallhar Goenka is an Indian actor and a casting director, popularly known for his contributions in films like Phobia (2016), Khamoshiyan (2015) and TItli (2014).

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