Hindi Movie Review Shuddhi - Cast & Crew

Ekta Pathak Malhotra is an Indian Screenwriter and Film Director, popular amongst the viewers for her work in movies like Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Veer-Zaara (2004), and My Name is Khan (2010). She is commonly referred to as just Ekta Pathak in the industry. The year 2004 was a crucial one for Ekta, as she made her first notable and significant contribution in Bollywood, as an assistant to the renowned director Yash Chopra in Veer-Zaara, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Pretty Zinta. Since then she has co-directed various super hit movies. In 2015, she wrote the screenplay for Brothers (2015), starring Akshay Kumar and Siddharth Malhotra. After that, she was hired for the upcoming film Shhuddhi as a screenwriter.

Deepika Padukone is an Indian actress and model. She was born on 5th January 1986. Deepika is one of the most famous celebrities. She is working in Bollywood films and won two film fare awards. She is the daughter of the badminton trouper Prakash Padukone. Copenhagen was the birth place of Deepika. She was raised in Bangalore. She frolicked badminton in national level championship in her teenage but later on she switched her career from spots and became a model. In 2006 she did receive some offers for Indian films and did her film debut. In 2007 she did double role in her first Indian bestseller film Om Shanti Om. In the same year she won the film fare award for best female debut. In 2009 she performed in an Indian film Love Aaj Kal and in 2010 she acted in a drama Lafangey Parindey. Her performance in Ba...

Kareena Kapoor is a super hit actress working in Indian cinema with a lots and lots of fan following. She was born in the year 1980 in Mumbai. She is one of the proud members of the legendary Kapoor family. Her parents are Randhir Kapoor and Babita. Her elder sister Karishma Kapoor is also an actress. Kareena did her schooling in Mumbai and later in Dehradun. Mithibai College in Mumbai was her Alma Mater. She has also gone to Harvard University in America to learn about Micro Computers.

She joined in the Law College and discontinued to get training in acting. She was trained by Kishore Namit Kapoor. Kareena holds the proud title of the highest paid Indian actress. Her debut was through the movie Refugee in the year 2000. Though the film did not earn a good name for her, 2001 was a super hit year for Kareena Kapoor. Her next two...

Archana Taide Sharma was born on November 6, 1988 in Hyderabad, India. She was debuted in the reality show, Bollywood Ka Ticket under 9X TV channel in 2008. Then she appeared as Suhani in Indian drama series, Maat Pitaah Ke Charnon Mein Swarg on Colors TV in 2009. In 2010, she played the lead role in Sony Entertainment Television’s Maan Rahe Tera Pitaah. The story is about Anmol, who strive to get respect and dignity of her father. In 2011 to 2012, she was seen as Panvi in the soap opera, Beend Banoongaa Ghodi Chadhunga. She also played the parallel lead role and essayed the character of Nikhat Ahmed Khan in Zee TV’s Qubool Hai from 2012 to 2014. 

After Qubool Hai, Archana took a hiatus to check the functionalities for her new show entitled, Chore Tera Gaon Bada Pyaara in Jaipur. She was a...

Navni Parihar belongs to Indore. She was born on September 23, 1964. she has noble antecedents and her mother is from royal Rana family of Nepal. She holds a Post graduate Degree in sociology and is married to Animesh. 

Her entry into the world of acting is quite interesting. She never considered acting as a career for herself. Her husband was posted in Mumbai and they were invited to filmy get together by a friend, Rakesh Chowdhary. Rakesh offered her to act in the tele serial Mujrim hajir Ho with legendary actors like Utpal Dutt and Nutan in it. She agreed and her maiden appearance on TV screen was with such veterans. And then she realised that this was a medium of expression for her where she could work and fulfill her desire of expression. She continued working and did a number of movies like Papa Ka...

Karan Malhotra, a renowned director in the Indian Film Industry, Bollywood was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is also a screenwriter and a writer. His excellent direction led to the existence of movies like ‘Agneepath’ and ‘Brothers’. He is the son of Ravi Malhotra, and his wife is Ekta Pathak Malhotra.

Before debuting as a director in 2012, he worked as an assistant director for ten straight years which included movies like Jodha Akbar and My Name is Khan. He debuted with the venture, ’Agneepath’ along with Karan Johar and his production house, Dharma Productions. In 2015, the duo returned with ’Brothers’, a story about two brothers who are up against each other fair and square in a tournament of MMA; this only took place after the audience went gaga over their ...

Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities in the Indian cinema, who is popular in almost all the important fields in the cinema. He was born in the year 1974 in Mumbai to Yash Johar and Hiroo Johar. This man is a multi talented personality, who shines in the field of direction, screenplay writing, producing, costume designing and acting. He has also worked as host in the television industry. Karan Johar is a graduate in Commerce, who studied in H. R. College of Commerce and Economics. He is also a post graduate degree holder in French. His debut to the film industry started as an assistant director in the film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After three years, he made his directorial debut through Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a film with Sharukh, Salman, Kajol and Rani. This was a block buster hit and Karan Johar reached fame in his first m...

Piyush Mishra is an Indian film actor, singer, composer, lyricist, theatre director. His versatility in acting has proved him as one of the promising actors in Bollywood Cinema today he has. He was also considered to play the role of Prem in the superhit movie “Maine Pyaar kia” which put Salman khan in the hearts of his fans. He has acted in 25 Films, written dialogues in more than 5 films, and given lyrics for more than 10 films and this is just the beginning for him. This versatile actor was born in Gwalior on Jan 13, 1986. He grew up in Gwalior but his love for movie brought him to Delhi and he graduated from prestigious institute national school of drama, Delhi in 1986. Thereafter he established himself as Theatre artist and director in Delhi and made his debut ...

Sudeep Chatterjee is a well-known cinematographer in Bollywood. He was the man behind the camera for movies such as ‘Chak De! India’, ‘Iqbal’, ‘Dhoom 3’ and ‘Bajirao Mastani’. Sudeep was born in the city of Kolkata in West Bengal. In his childhood, Sudeep always wanted to express and visualize art. His desire to visualize made him try a hand at painting but it didn’t work out for him. Later when he was in the 10th grade, Sudeep’s father gave him a camera as a gift.

Sudeep claims that the camera had helped him find himself and had finally found a way to fulfill his desire of expressing using visual arts. Even though young Sudeep couldn’t afford to get better cameras, he made the best out his camera. Seeing ...

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 ...

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.

They even secured 82nd rank in the Forbes India’s list in the year 2015. To record a song for a Marathi movie Soirata, they went to Sony Studio in Hollywood, and they were the first ...

Sabu Cyril was born on January 27th in Kerala’s Kozhikode district.

He is a production designer in the Indian movie industry. Earlier, production designers were called as art directors.

He resides in Tamil Nadu’s capital, Chennai.

He was brought up in Kerala itself. He did his schooling from the same place and then went to Chennai to do his graduation in the Government College of Fine Arts, which was earlier known as Government School of Arts and Crafts. He did his Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication from 1980 to 1985.

He worked part time as a graphic designer for names like Taj Hotels Group, Madura Coats and Welcome Hotels, in the period 1982 to 1988.

His career in art direction began in the year 1988. Sabu has worked in commercial films in the Hindi, Tamil, ...

Born on 4th October, 1978 Honey Trehan is an established casting director in Bollywood movies. He has worked with many films of different genres and many of them have been successful too. He is also known for Assistant Directing under many notable Directors in Bollywood.

The Punjab born lad has an ever-growing film resume, and his works have always received appraisal from the industry insiders. He was the Casting Director in movies like Maqbool (2003), Matru Ki Bijli Ki Mandola (2013), Omkara (2005), Kaminey (2009), Mausam (2011), Dedh Ishqiya (2014), Holiday (2014), Talvar (2015), and many more films. His collaboration with Vishal Bharadwaj is secret to none considering he has worked in almost most of the Vishal Bharadwaj movies. Most recently in this year he has w...

Padamnath Mishra, also known as Padam Mishra, is a versatile person who has been active in the Acting industry for the past many years. He is a Casting Director basically but is also known for his work as an Actor, a Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Acting Workshop Director and Actor Trainer. He has also worked as a Casting Assistant and Casting Associate in various movies. Padam Mishra was born on the 12th of August 1984 in New Delhi, India. He started his career as a child actor in 1998 (worked from 1998 to 2002) in Theatre Play, National School of Drama (NSD) (TIE).

He graduated from Delhi University, worked at JNU as an actor, and holds an Acting Certificate from the National School of Drama and TIE. He has also worked as a Theatre Expert in the National School of Drama for seven years. He holds experience in act...

Allan Poppleton is a Hollywood Actor, Stunt and Fight Coordinator, and an Assistant Director in parallel. He was born on 14th July 1971 at Auckland, New Zealand. He is popular for his works in the movies like The Chronicles of Narnia in 2010, The Hunger Games in 2009, Avtaar in 2009, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 2010. In 2011, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for his stunt coordination in T.V series Spartacus Gods of the Arena. In 2013, he was nominated for his marvelous performance for the Taurus Award. Consecutively for two years, the World Award nominated him for the Taurus Award regarding his best fighting in 2008 for the movie “Prince Caspian,” and in 2009 for the movie “Chronicles of Narnia.” Again in 2010, he got nominated for the Taurus Award again for the coordination of best stunt...

Hrithik Roshan with his unimaginable dance moves is praised as the Dance God of Bollywood, is the only son of Bollywood Director/Actor/Producer Rakesh Roshan. He is considered the most hard working personality when comes to the profession. As a kid he had stammering problem and it doesn’t stop him from moving ahead to this position. Hrithik who is fondly called as duggu by his family also worked in few bollywood movies as a child artist and the notable one was with Superstar RajiniKanth where he played the role of Our Thalaivar’s Son.

Hrithik later wanted to be a director, joined in a film academy without his fathers concern. He assisted Rakesh in the blockbuster Karan Arjun starring Salman Bhai and SRK!! In 2000, when Rakesh Roshan came up with the script for Kaho naa.. Pyaar Hai.. SRK was first asked to play the r...

Salman Khan is a very famous Indian actor and a producer. He was born as Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on December 27, 1965 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Salman is referred to as one of the most successful actors in Bollywood. His father is Salim Khan who is also an actor and a screenwriter while his mother is Sushila Charak (Salma Khan). He graduated from St. Stanislaus High School in Mumbai. Prior to this, he went to Scindia School, Gwalior together with his brother, Arbaaz Khan. He also studied at Elphinstone College.

Salman started his acting career in year 1988 through the Hindi film, ‘Biwi Ho To Aisi’, where he played as the younger brother of Farooq Sheikh, followed by a breakthrough performance in his first leading role in the musical romantic film, ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ in 1989...

Ajinkya Dev or Ajinkya Deo is a prominent actor in Marathi and Hindi Cinema. He is also a TV artist and script writer. Acting was not a new field to him as he got this talent from his parents Ramesh Deo and Seema Deo who are quite well known faces in Hindi and Marathi Cinema. His younger brother Abhinay Deo is a noted Hindi film director. Ajinkya was also handling the chair of Executive Director of ‘Prahbhat’, a Marathi Entertainment TV channel when it was launched in March 2001. The channel could not sustain and got closed in 2002.

He started his movie career with a Marathi movie named as ‘Ardhangi’. He was in the lead role and the movie was released in 1985. He also appeared as “Dr. Rajesh” in another Marathi movie titled ‘Vahinichi Maya’ in the...

Akhil Mishra is a TV and Indian film actor who has acted in various movies and TV serials. He celebrates his birthday in 22 July. His noticeable acts are in famous serial Uttaran as Umeed Singh Budela on Colors television and in the movie 3 idiots where he played the role of a librarian Dubey. He acted in a bunch of movies such as blue oranges, Gandhi my father, shikhar, kamla ki maut, Calcutta mail, radios, don and Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi. He acted as a supporting artist in various TV serials such as Jabb Love Hua, Pardes Mein Mila Koi Apna, Annu Ki Ho Gayee Waah Bhai Waah, Uttaran, The Adventures of Hatim and Do Dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se.

Akhil got married to Manju in 1983. She acted in his movie Dhat tere Ki ( 1983). Manju died in the year 1997. In 2009, Akhil got remarried to German actress Suzanne who worked along with h...

Arijit Dutta is a Bengali entrepreneur and actor. He is well known for his work in Madras Cafe as Mallaya. Arijit was born on 17 October to Late Mr. Ashim Dutta and mother Mrs. Purnima Dutta. He did his primary schooling at St. Xaviers School, Kolkata. He went to St. Paul’s School, Darjeeling. He graduated from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India.

He has an MBA degree from International Institute of Management Science, Kolkata. He has worked in different departments of corporate office like Finance, Personnel, Marketing, Secretarial, Projects at Genelec- Gec Ltd, Kolkata. He was also the Assistant Branch Manager at Patna’s Branch. Arijit was the chairman of Exhibitor Section of EIMPA in 1997, 1998 and 1999. He is associated with FICCI- Entertainment Committ...

Arun Verma is an Indian television actor, and cinematographer, who has portrayed challenging roles throughout his career and is best remembered for his roles in ‘Khal Nayak’ (1993), ‘Khakee,’(2004) and ‘Budtameez’ (1966). Arun Verma has astoundingly flourished in a domain where a lot of aspiring fellows have tried and failed. His decision to relocate to Mumbai after university stemmed from his desire to do something out of the ordinary, and make a mark for himself in the society.

He is a person who believes in following his passion and listens to his heart to achieve his dreams. A sarcastic person who means no harm. He is a genuine talent in the industry of thousands. Has the ability to take on challenging roles, and deliver the same with ease. Now he enjoys a lavish lifestyle thanks to his h...

A versatile actor, Ashutosh has worked in Indian films along with Kannada, Telugu, and Marathi films. He was born on November 10th 1964 in Dadarwara and had a knack for acting. His passion for acting prompted him to go to National School of Drama and studied acting. 

Starting his career on the television screen he first graced television in 1994 in a mini-series, Tahqiqat. He got his first break on the big screen, playing a clerk in Sanshodhan in 1995. His role in Dushman made him a well-known actor as he portrayed a psychopathic killer.  This led to his first set of awards for Best Villain in a movie at Filmfare and Screen Weekly Award. He won another Filmfare award in 2000 for Best Villain for his role as Lajja Pandey in Sangharsh. 

Born on 19th May 1938, Girish Raghunath Karnad is a multi-faceted artiste; he is not only an actor, but also a writer, director and playwright. He has mainly worked in South Indian films. He was awarded the Jnanpith Award during 1998; this award is the highest literary recognition in India. Girish Karnad has been working on plays for around 40 years. His subject of interest is mythology and history. He has also done translation of his plays into English language. Moreover, his translated plays in regional languages were directed by many directors. 

During the 60s Karnad was an outstanding playwright and Kannada world witnessed Modern Indian playwrighting through him. Kannada literature was carried away by the Western literature during the time when Karnad stepped into writing plays. Here, then Karn...

Born on 30 January 1940, in Ajmer, Rajasthan, Mohan Maharishi is an Indian theatre actor, director, and playwright. He completed his graduation in 1965 from the National School of Drama in New Delhi and later filled in as its Director from 1984 to 1986. Mohan is most known for his plays in Hindi, for example, Einstein in 1994, Saanp Seedhi, and Raja Ki Rasoi Vidyottamā. Furthermore, he coordinated incalculable Hindi plays throughout the years, including, Andhayug, Othello, Rani Jindan in Punjabi, Ho Rahega Kuchh Na Kuchh roused by Marsha Norman's English play, "'Night, Mother" in 1983 and Dear Bapu in 2008.

Among eminent play composed by him incorporated "Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi" and "Joseph Ka Mukadma." Beforehand, he additionally remained the Theater Advisor to the Government of...

Pankaj Kapur is a prominent Indian actor and director who has shown his talent through various mediums such as theatre, television and film actor from Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is a screenwriter, director as well as an actor, a multi-talented personality. Pankaj has appeared in several acclaimed television serials and films. Some of his film roles that are remembered till date include characters of Inspector P.K. in Raakh, Dr. Dipankar Roy in Ek Doctor Ki Maut as well as Abba ji, (based on Shakespeare's King Duncan) in Vishal Bhardwaj's reworked copy of Macbeth; Maqbool .All of these three critically acclaimed roles received appreciation, and the actor got National Film Awards for the same. Pankaj along with his colleagues Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Manoj Bajpai as well as Irrfan Khan are regarded as the "Walking Acting ...

Varun Dhawan, a new comer entered Bollywood with his professional acting and dancing skills withmovie ‘Student of the year’. His father David Dhawan is a well-known movie director. He was born on 24 April 1987 in Mumbai. He has done his degree in business management from Nottingham University, UK. He has worked as assistant director with Karan Johar in ‘My Name Is Khan’. ‘Student Of The Year’ with Siddharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt. , Varun got the Best Debut Award for Male in 2014. In this movie he played a rich guy to play the role of ‘Rohan Nanda’. Film critics praised him as a talented, hardworking guy. His charming, fun loving guy image make him Prince Charming.He played leading role in ‘Main Tera Hero’ a Telugu remake and showed his genetic comedy talent to critics. In ...

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