Hindi Movie Review Shikara - Cast & Crew

Indu Sharma is an Indian casting director who works predominantly in the Hindi film industry. She has been in the industry for two decades and has cast actors for several successful shows and movies. Born and brought up in Mumbai, India, Indu Sharma has been the casting director of several critically acclaimed series and films like Tere Bin Laden 2, Shikara, and Hostages. In her 20-year-long career, she has worked with some of the finest actors, directors, and casting directors. She was also associated with Mukesh Chhabra’s Casting Company (MCCC), one of India’s leading casting companies. Indu Sharma is currently working as a freelancer and has some impressive projects lined up for release. 

Himanshu Nanda, daughter of Gulshan Nanda, is an Indian publicity designer working for the Bollywood industry. Apart from being a publicity designer, she also has excellent listening skills and has worked on more than two hundred Bollywood movies.Some of the movies in which her works are reflected are Kerala Story, Main Hoon Na (2004), Koi... Mil Gaya (2003), Kaabil (2012), Bajrangi Bhaijaan, and Jab We Met (2007) and many more. In 2005, Himanshu Nanda received the Best Publicity Designer award for screening in the movie Main Hoon and then in 2006, he again won his award in publicity designing for the movie Black.

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Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a classic filmmaker, who has given Indian audiences films like Parineeta, Munnabhai MBBS, 3-Idiots, PK and 1942-A Love Story. What distinguished him from other film maker was that, he always wanted to experiment cinema. Both in terms of his script and in terms of mise-en-scene, character development and pace of the film, we believe that most of his films were very successful in box-office. As an FTII student, he always wanted to learn by making his films; he selected films therefore like an intensive program. He has a reputation for being completely demanding during production and his moody, temperamental and control freaks always made him the perfect filmmaker before and behind the camera.

He had captured and shown the lovely romance (‘’1942-A Love story’’),which dates back to Brit...

Abhijat Joshi is a prominent Indian screenwriter, producer and director, known for working under the banner of Vinod Chopra Productions. He was born on December 1, 1969, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where he is also brought up. He came from a family of professors and he also works as a professor at the Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. He studied at the Shri H. K. Arts College, which is affiliated to Gujarat University. He got his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Texas in Austin. Besides English, he is fluent in speaking and writing the Gujarati language. 

Abhijat also attended Shree Vidyanagar High School in Ahmedabad and joined the Gujarati drama competitions in school. He won several accolades for his brilliant talent in acting. He also likes playing cricket. He worked at CU Shah Arts and Commer...

Abhay Rustum Sopori is a famous Indian Santoor player, composer, and conductor. Abhay was born on June 7, 1979, in the city of Srinagar, in the Kashmir valley of Jammu and Kashmir, into a Kashmiri Pandit family. His father was the famous Santoor veteran Santoor player Pandit Bhajan Sopori. Abhay is one of the youngest recipients of awards such as the Bharat Shiromani Award and Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar. When Abhay was ten years, he received first place in the State Music Competition in Srinagar. Abhay had sung as a playback vocalist in the National Award-winning Kashmiri feature film Bub. He has also performed in documentaries, television shows, and serials.

Abhay represents Kashmir's Sufiana Gharana, sprung from a line of ancient Santoor musicians spanning ...

Rohit Kulkarni is a Music Director and Music Composer from India. He was born in India. So, Rohit Kulkarni has worked in Bollywood, Tollywood, and Kollywood entertainment industries, and his artwork was delivered in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil language movies and web series. Rohit Kulkarni is a Delhi-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist, music composer, lyricist, and programmer.

Rohit Kulkarni is an Indian Music Composer, Producer, and Keyboard Programmer. He has composed music for the Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu film industries. He has associated with some of the top names in the Indian music industry and has varied experience in relating to the music industry various genres/sonic spaces. Rohit Kulkarni started his career composing for jingles in Bangalore and Chenn...

Sandesh Shandilya is an Indian musician working in Bollywood. He is also a singer and composes music for films. He is famous for his music album Piya Basanti which came out in 2001. Shandilya was born in Agra on 19th February 1968. He lived there up to the age of21. His father taught military science at a college. Shandilyafelt a connection towards music from a young age. So he got himself to get trained from Shri Ram Bhartiya Kala Kendra in Delhi.

When he turned 21, he went to Mumbai to pursue a career in music industry. He began assisting SurinderSodhi. He gained knowledge by being a pupil of Ustad Sultan Khan, the famous Sarangi Maestro. He not only focused on classical but also on Western music.

For that he studied western cl...

A. R. Rahman is a Legendary Music Composer, prominently known for his rocking music for the movie “The Slumdog Millionaire”. He had won a couple of Oscars for this album and made India proud.  Allah-Rakha Rahman’s birth name is A.S.Dileep Kumar. He was born on January 6th, 1967 in Chennai. His music journey had begun at the age of 4 when he learned piano. At the age of 11, he joined the Maestro Ilayaraja's troupe as a Keyboard player. He made his debut as a composer with the legendary film-maker G.R.Maniratnam’s film “Roja” which came out in 1992. Some of his popular music albums were for the movies like Rangeela, Bombay, Dil Se and Lagaan: Once upon a time in India.

He is known to be the Redefining Contempora...

Irshad Kamil is an Indian lyricist and poet who came to prominence with his work in Bollywood movies. He was born in Punjab as a Punjabi Muslim on 5 September 1971. After completing his Diploma in Journalism from Punjab University, he also completed a Ph.D. in contemporary Hindi poetry and a Post Graduation in Hindi language; he chose journalism as his career and joined a newspaper ‘Tribune’ in Chandigarh and covered entertainment and educational news. During this period, he also interviewed actors like Pooja Bhatt and Manoj Bajpayee. He then worked even in a Hindi newspaper and was involved in desk jobs. However, right from childhood, he had a unique sense to understand his life’s decisions and knew well how he has to choose his career. Soon, he left his journalism job and then did his Ph...

Abhijit Tenny Roy is an Indian Sound Designer and Sound Engineer. He studied at Calcutta Boy’s School and did Geology Major with Physics and Chemistry from Presidency University, Kolkata. He also completed his Diploma in film making with a specialization in Sound Design and Film Mix, Sound Recording, Sound Engineering, Audiography, and Film-making. He is an experienced Sound Engineer and Designer in Music, Film, Documentary/Commercials’, Soundtrack Designing, Recording, Mixing, And Mastering In Stereo and Surround Formats. From 2010-2011 he was the Music Recordist and Mix Engineer in Sagarika Music for a live Musical Programme for television. He was also a Consultant at Dolby Laboratories for 2 years. 

Bishwadeep Chatterjee is an Indian-audio mixer, Sound Designer, and Sound Editor. He has worked on a lot of projects in the Television and Film Industry. He worked in the movie named Madras Café, which brought him the National Film Award for the Best Audiography. In the year 2013, he worked in Bajirao Mastani. In the year 2018, he worked in Uri: The Surgical Strike, and in the year 2018, he worked with the movie named Children Of The Soil.

Prasad Surve is an Indian actor and director who mainly works in the Marathi film industry. He is known for “Makdach Lagin,” a comedy film that was released in 2014, directed and written by Prashant Surve, produced by Altaf Pirjade, and Kdam Aapa, Sanskruti Balgude, and Prasad Surve played the leading roles, and “Figght,” an action drama that was released in 2019, directed by Jimmy Moray and written by Swapnil Mahaling, and produced by Lalit Oswaal. Jeet, Purva Shinde, and Prasad Surve played the leading roles in the film. Prasad Surve also worked in “Baloch,” an action drama that was released in 2023, and it was directed by Prakash Janardan Pawar. Prasad Surve played the supporting roles in that film.

Sachin Lovalekar, has worked in Marathi and Hindi films as the costume designer. He made his debut in the Marathi film Dombivli Fast (2005) and has, from that point forward, took a shot at a few undertakings. He got the National Film Award for Best Costume Design for his work in the Marathi movie Cycle (2016). He had also worked in Paan Singh Tomar (2012), Court (2015), Killa (2015), Nil Battey Sannatta (2016), Madaari (2016), Newton (2017), (2017) and Lagi Toh Chhagi in 2018.

Shikhar Misra is an Indian Film Editor working for the Bollywood industry. He lives in Mumbai, India. He has worked as an Associate Editor for the movie Happy Ending (2014), starring Saif Ali Khan, Ileana D’Cruz, Kalki Koechlin, and Ranveer Shorey. He is known to have edited the National Award-winning movie Ghazi Diaries in 2017. The film starred Kay Kay Menon, Rana Daggubati, and Taapsee Pannu in the lead roles. Ek Do (2011), Rann VJ Run (2013), and Shor Se Shuruaat (2016) adds up to his list of movie editing.

Apart from being an editor, Shikhar also happens to be an actor and a Costume Designer. He made his debut as a leading actor alongside Asimah Mirza in the English short film Yellow Tin Can Telephone in 2016. This film depicts a beautiful love story between a boy with a vision disorder and a girl with a hearing diso...

Vikram Gaikwad is an Indian makeup artist. He has worked in several movies like including Bollywood as well as other regional cinemas. He has won the National Film Award for best makeup artist twice for the Bengali film Moner Manush in 2010, also for his work and creativity in the Marathi film Balghandharva.

‘Dirty film’ released in 2011 factored in towards winning that prize. He is also known for a cameo role in the Marathi film Tukaram and Lokmanya Ek Yugpurush. Moreover, he is a screamingly talented, makeup artist. His works evoke “wow” from his audience and other people.

Rahul Nanda is a very famous publicity designer of Indian film industry. Rahul Nanda is son in law of Prem Chopra, married to his daughter Rakita. Rahul Nanda works with many famous actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Om Puri, etc.He has a superb personality.Nature wise he is very nice, talks very nicely. Rahul Nanda won many awards for best publicity designer of many films.The films for which he wins the awards for best publicity designer are Main Hoon Na ( 2005), LOC Kargil ( 2003), Dhadkhan, Pukar, Mission impossible( 2001). And, he shared these awards with Himanshu Nanda. His recent movies in which he works are Dusari Goshta(2014), Jai Ho(2014), Besharam(2013), Fukrey(2013), Yamla Pagla Deewana(2013).

Apart from this, he worked in many movies li...

Makarand Surte is a Hindi Colorist. He works as a colorist for RedChillies, a firm based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a highly respected a highly demanded colourist. He was one of the founding members of RedChillies, and he holds the position of a senior colourist. He also worked as a Digital Intermediate Colourist for a lot of movies such as Son of Sardaar (2012), Ferrari Ki Sawaari (2012), Shanghai (2012), Agneepath (2012). Apart from these movies, he has also worked in the editorial department of films such as Minnal Murali (2021), Pathaan (2023), Haseen Dilruba (2021), Chennai express (2013).

Born on 24 September 1985 in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Aadil Khan is an Indian radio jockey cum actor. Popularly known as RJ Nasar Khan, he debuted in Bollywood with Vinod Chopra’s film “Shikhar” in 2020. He completed his schooling at Campion School in Bhopal and graduated from the Bhopal school of social sciences, Madhya Pradesh. His father is an Indian police officer and has Muslim Background.

In 2015, Aadil got married to Sheeba in Jaipur, whom he met through his friend. In 2009, He started his radio career as his show “naughty nights with RJ Nasar” on 93.5 Red FM and left t in 2017 to make a career in acting. Before that, in 2006, he worked in the UK - based call center in Mumbai. He announced on his social media that soon, he would be seen on the TV series “Special Ops” season 2. H...

Faisal Simon is a Bollywood-based writer, producer, actor, and director. From as early as his school days, Faisal started paving his way into the world of lights-camera-action with stage plays and works with some well-known directors like Joy Sengupta and Feisal Alkazi. He, as a child artist, had worked in several documentaries produced by U. N. O and International filmmakers. He graduated from Pune University with a degree in marketing and advertisement. Alongside, he pursued a course on screenplay writing from the Film & Television Institute, Pune. Faisal went to the U. K. to study film production and completed his masters in it. As a student in the U. K., he gained wide exposure to professional work by interning at Sky TV, BBC, and Midlands TV. He joined as a teacher at the Anupam Kher Company after he returned from England. Dur...

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