Hindi Movie Review Pranaam - Cast & Crew

For someone as young as Apoorva Arora – she would be barely 19 in 2015 - she must have notched up some amazing feats, which very few have been able to do in the film industry so far. For one, in the very brief span of her career of 5 years between 2011 and 2015, she has already acted in films in 4 different languages as diverse as Kannada, Punjabi, Gujarati, along with Hindi. But statistical achievements alone do not sum up her feats. Her remarkable career is symptomatic of the hard work, driven obviously by ambition and aspirations, that teenagers of the current generation are capable of.

Apoorva had achieved in that role of Jenny in her very first film “Bubble Gum” much beyond her 15 years at that time. This was no inconsequential fun film as the name might suggest, since it dealt with the growing up pangs d...

Sanjiv Jaiswal, an Indian film director, writer, and producer, was born on the 6th of August 1972 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He mainly works in Hindi films. As a child, Sanjiv dreamt of being a filmmaker. After graduating, he came to Mumbai and started his own film production house. Jaiswal didn’t start his career as a director or a writer. He was the producer of his first film, Fareb, which came out in 2005. It was directed by Deepak Tijori and, starred Shilpa Shetty, Shamita Shetty and Manoj Bajpayee in lead roles. His second film was Anwar directed by Manish Jha and starring Manisha Koirala, Siddharth Koirala and, Naauheed Cyrasi in lead roles.

Sanjiv debuted as a writer and director with Shudra- The Rising (2012) which, went on to earn him the Best Director’s Award at the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival in 2013....

Firasat Hussain Chishti was born and raised in Jabalpur, India. He had his primary education in Jabalpur and went to Takshshila Institute Of Engineering And Technology. Firasat began his professional career as a lecturer for around seven months, working for Takshshila College Of Engg. & Tech., Village Ishwariya, Rajkot 079. He shifted to Bengaluru and became a software engineer working for WIPRO Technologies. After working two years in private jobs, he became assistant director for the film BHAURI, released on Netflix. He was also an anchor and writer for Discovery Of Indian Cinema, a tube-based channel.

For another television project, RAHASYA, he worked for Viacom 18 as a second assistant director. Firasat also worked as second unit assistant director for making the...

Anil Singh is the director of photography who has shown his skills in the form of photography in numerous hit films. Apart from being the director of photography, he is also the producer and cinematographer.

As a cinematographer, he has given his best in notable films like ‘Chak De! India’ in 2007, ‘Dance Bar,’ ‘Pied Piper’ in 2013, ‘Hai Apna Dil Awara’ in 2016, etc. Moreover, he has also worked as a cinematographer in the Punjabi movie like ‘Ho Javey Je Pyaar’ and Tamil movie like ‘Accident’ in 2012. He has also worked with numerous renowned personalities such as Shahrukh Kahan, Sanjay Dutt, etc.

As a producer, he has produced the most successful movie of 2019, ‘Pranaam.’ Nowadays, being a director of photography, he is working on his u...

Nitin Mishra, an award-winning professional makeup artist, was born in Sitapur, India. He specializes in Bridal Makeup, Celebrity Makeup, Party Makeup, Fashion Makeup in Normal, HD, and Airbrush techniques. He is the proprietor of Kiran Beauty Salon. BRIDAL makeup is his area of expertise. Many reputable makeup academies have trained him, including VLCC MAKE-UP ACADEMY, ASIANA BRIDAL ACADEMY IN LONDON, and KRAYOLAN ACADEMY. NITIN MAKEOVER was founded in 2005 and is now a makeover studio that caters to all of your makeup and hairstyling needs in Fashion, Bridal Makeup, and Special Effects. His hairstyling and makeup style is highly trendy and contemporary. He's worked with well-known brands including MAC, KRAYOLAN, BOBBI BROWN, LAURA MERCIER, and URBAN DECAY.

Nitin Mishra is a master at creating beautiful...

Sunil Singh also known as Sunil Kumar Singh is an Indian actor who has showcased his talent on the silver screen as well as daily soaps. He is known for his tough image on the screen. His beard adds a distinct flavor to all his characters.  

Sunil was last seen in a TV show broadcasted on Life Ok named ‘KaisaYehIshqHai….Ajab Sa Risk Hai’ where he essayed the role of a Haryanvi Tau. Recently, he has entered the all-time hit show on Colors channel where he would play a tough and negative guy.

Sunil has also acted in films like Chingaari, D-Day, and Road to Sangam. 

Akshdeep Pandey is a director of photography with over 15 years of experience. He lives in Mumbai, India. He has worked on feature films, TV commercials, short films, period TV shows, and music videos. And has firsthand knowledge of all professional film and digital cinema cameras such as Arri Alexa, Red, Sony, Panasonic, and others. He has experience in filmmaking, media production, HD video, Bolex, and music videos. He earned a postgraduate diploma in electronic communications from Rajasthan University in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the government college in Ajmer.

Jaan Nissar Lone is an Indian musician who has been in the industry since 2010. Jaan Nissar Lone hails from Baramulla which lies in the state of Jammu & Kashmir. During his upbringing, the region faced insurgency as the separatists began to demand an independent Kashmiri region. Despite the security problems, Lone’s parents ensured that their children pursue their dreams. Lone attended Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Shahkote where he studied science. Jaan is fluent in six languages: Kashmiri (his mother tongue), Urdu, English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Arabic.

After his education, Lone expressed his desire to become a music composer. In 2001, Lone was a music director at Valley Strings Private Limited. In 2012, Lone composed the tunes for Sanjiv Jaiswal...

Vishal Mishra was born in Kanpur, Utter Pradesh, India. Currently, he has settled down in Mumbai due to his profession. By profession, he is a screenwriter, director, Film critic, and he also likes to sing too. He was interested in designing, so he did his graduation from the very renowned NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Designing) and did his post-graduation in Fashion Marketing. He got married to Khyati Madan in the year 2010.

He always wanted to achieve something related to the field of Indian Cinema and hence started his career as a film critic and used to give reviews of various Bollywood movies. As his interest grew in giving reviews, he started a portal named “boxofficecapsule” and started posting all his reviews on it.

Gender: Male

Skills: Director

Biography About Vishal Mishra

Biography About Vishal Mishra

Gender: Male

Skills: Director

Manoj Shukla also known as Manoj Muntashir, is one of the famous lyrics writer in the Hindi film industry, who was born on February 27th, 1976 (age 39) in Uttar Pradesh (Amethi). He is currently residing in Mumbai for his career. He is also a B.Sc Graduate from the University of Allahabad. Muntashir started off his career as a lyricist for “Raakh Ho Ja Tu”, a song from the movie “Woodstock Villa”. He has also been active in small screen television industry for shows like “Kaun Banega Crorepati”, “Sach Ka Saamna”, ”Indian Idol” and “Jhalak Dikhla jaa”. After these initial shows, Muntashir was noted and he started getting offers in many movies and television shows. He has almost penned lyrics for six films in the year 2015 which were...

Ankit Tiwari was born on March 6, 1986 in Kanpur, India. He is a drastically advancing music composer and a playback singer who had given back to back hit albums and songs. He got into the Bollywood Cinema world in the year 2010 until the present. His works are quite impressive and blissful listening to them. Initially, he entered into the film industry as a music director after which he also lingered into playback singing. In the year 2013, he got an award for the music director category. Also, his album contested for a couple of awards in the Filmfare Awards.

This is a jump start for any music director and Ankit Tiwari proved out to be one. He sang the song, namely Galiyan for the movie Ek Villain and he contested again for a couple of awards. But this time he got nominated in the playback singing category. H...

On 22 July, 1995, Armaan Malik was born in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a playback singer by profession. Armaan belongs to a music family. His father, Daboo Malik, is also a singer and music director. The singer is the nephew of the famous Hindi music director, Anu Malik. Armaan has a brother, Amaal Malik, who is also a music director.

He is a student of Qadir Ghulam Mustafa Khan Sahab and Mrs. Rita Kaul, who have been training him for the past ten years. At a very young age, Armaan started his music career by participating in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs. It was a music reality show. He was a finalist and stood eight in the show.

Earlier, the singer was with Universal Music India, but now works under the banner of T-Series for his singles. The singer started singing fr...

Brijesh Shandilya aka Brijesh Kumar Tripathi is a Bollywood singer who pursued playback singing from a non-musical background family. He hails from Uttar Pradesh. Brijesh Shandilya was born on December 13, 1980, in Basti District of Uttar Pradesh.

In initial stages of his career, he learned Indian Classical music. Born in a farmer family, he had no music in his parental circle but inherited the singing bug from his mother.

But his parents trained him well to accomplish his dream as a singer. First, he learned classical music vocal from Prayag Sangeet Samiti in 2000 and completed in 2005. Later on, he learned how to play with several musical instruments such as the tabla, guitar, and harmonium. His music covers genres such as new-age Indian classical music, Bollywood music.

His childhood had witnessed joy and fun...

Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Though he started his career by covering songs of Mohammed Rafi under the T-Series record l...

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.

He is the singer of a couple of miraculous songs namely "Chaiya Chaiya" from Dil Se movie, and "Jai Ho" from the Oscar award winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. For these couple of songs, he won national award for its unbelievable hit and success. He was completely into singing at the age of eig...

Rhitwik Raj Pathak is a sound designer, music producer, and musician.  He has worked in the Hindi movie industry. He was born in Bihar, India. Rhitwik moved to Mumbai to pursue his dream of becoming a sound designer. He graduated from the School of Audio Engineering (SAE) in 2010 and started out running as a contract music designer and music producer. His first music came here in 2012 when he worked as the sound designer for Jodhaa Akbar. He has worked on several Hindi films, internet series, and biopics, creating diverse.   Rhitwik is enthusiastic about his paintings and likes to test with exclusive sounds and genres. 

Born on September 12th, 1976, in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, Tariq Umar Khan is an Indian production designer and art director in Bollywood. He is married to NadiriTariq Khan and is a father of two beautiful daughter Filzah khan (8yrs old) and Hifza khan (4yrs old). Tariq is the son of Late Abdul Sattar Khan, who was working as a bus conductor in Mumbai. Under his elder brother, Haris Umar Khan, a knownArt Director, he got a chance to work in the crown studio with a studio manager. Tariq got inspired by the passion of late Mr. Sameer Chanda, who had the office in the same studio. This incident attracted him to art direction. He worked in the crown studio for twelve years. Later on, in 2005, he worked as a manager for Wasiq Khan, who himself was a struggling production designer.

Without any formal training in art direction and prod...

Roshni Bose is an Indian Costume Designer. She lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She has a significant interest in Doodling. She is also a dog lover. She also likes cooking. She works in many Bollywood movies as a costume stylist. She was the wardrobe supervisor for the film Mere Brother ki Dulhan, directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, released in 2011 and Ek Tha Tiger (Once There Was A Tiger), directed by Mathur Goswami and Kabir Khan, released in 2012. She was the assistant costume designer for the movie Chittagong, directed by Bedabrata Pain, released in 2012.

Roshni worked as a costume designer in the movies such as Sugar Baby, directed by Trisha Ray, released in 2011; Murga, directed by Katyayan Shivpuri, released in 2016; We Are Mahindra, directed by Kookie Gulati, released in 2017; Me Too, directed by Sunil Thadani, released i...

Himesh Jhunjhunwala is one of the most successful and senior-most Public Relation Officer working in Bollywood. He started his career as Public Relation Officer in 1997 for numerous music videos, grand events, and movies; he is considered as one of busiest Public Relation Officer, as he has done approximately 5000 projects, more than 500 for movies, more than 500 for music albums and more than 3000 for events.

Apart from this, he has also been PRO for many Bollywood stars such as Himesh Reshamiya, Mika Singh, Mithoon, Dr. L. Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurthy and many more.

Rajeev Khandelwal is a model turned film and television actor. He was born on October 16, 1975 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Initially, the actor works as a Production Controller in a production house in Delhi. Later, he became a model for brands like LML, Kodak Express, Green Label Whisky, Videocon Refrigerators and more. He studied at St. Xavier’s College in Ahmedabad and took up B.Sc Chemistry Honors in college. His parents are Vijayalaxmi Khandelwal and Col. C. L. Khandelwal.

His passion for acting started in the television serial, Kya Hadsaa Kya Haqeeqat in year 2002, opposite Pallavi Kulkarni. He then played as Sujal Garewal in the Balaji Telefilms’ Kahiin to Hoga. In year 2005, Rajeev played as Varun Awasthi, an Intelligence Officer of the Research and Analysis Wing, in the Hindi political thriller serial, Time Bomb 9...

Abhimanyu Singh is a popular Indian film and television actor who works extensively in the Bollywood industry. He was born in Patna, Bihar, India, and later moved to Delhi to attend college. He worked in some school dramas during college, until one day, he moved to Mumbai to pursue his acting career. The first two months of his stay in Mumbai was really tough for the actor, since he couldn’t get any decent roles and had to wait for the producers for long hours just to cast him in any good films. He took his chances and decided to do theatre. He joined the group, Ansh, headed by Makarand Deshpande, who became his acting guru. One day, he got a call from his co-actor, Manoj Bajpai, and told him that he will be casted in the Hindi supernatural thriller film, ‘Aks’, which stars Amitabh Bachchan in 2001. T...

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