Hindi Movie Review Traffic - Cast & Crew

Nikitha Thukral is a famous actress in Telugu. She is heart-throb for the youth of Andhra Pradesh. She is one of the successful actresses in Tollywood. Nikitha is a Punjabi who is brought up in Mumbai. She has an M.A Economics degree from KishinChand Chellaram College. Initially she was not interested in films but she was seen by legendary producer,D.Rama Naidu. Nikitha’s beauty captured his attention and he gave a chance to her for the film Hai. With the first film itself, Nikitha proved herself as an excellent actress.

Divya Unny is an Indian actor, writer, director and former journalist. She was born and raised in Mumbai, Maharashtra where she graduated from the SIES College of Science, Arts and Commerce with a bachelor’s degree in mass media.

Kitu Gidwani is a model and an actress from India. She was born on October 22, 1967 at Mumbai, India from a Sindhi household who moved to Pakistan after the India’s Partition. They reside in a refugee camp located in Worli in Mumbai. Kitu made her schooling at the Fort Convent School, Mumbai. During her post graduation in college, she became interested in French language and she started to perform in French plays. Later, she also performed in English plays under the direction of Janak Toprani. Then she made her way to the television industry and acted in 1987 French movie, Black where she appeared as a Brazilian native. 

Kitu doesn’t have any formal training in acting. But she has an amazing collection to her credit. She was into theatre, television and film. Theatre became her training ground and she got the chance to work with brilliant artists like Vikram Kapadia. Kitu was never married and she promised that she will never settle down due to the danger of quest on what she calls, the Duende; a hunt for harmony with various supernatural characteristics of the living and the nature. 

Kitu was debuted as a television actress in the 1984 serial, Trishna. Some of her remarkable performances in television from 80’s to 90’s are Air Hostess, Junoon and Swabhimaan. She was recognized by many audiences after doing an intimate kissing scene with her Junoon’s co-star, Raj Zutshi. Aside from the shows Swabhimaan and Junnon, she is also doing the serials Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum and Saahil. Then she was seen in the Hindi serials, Kaashish and Kulvadhu. 

She started her venture in the big screen in the 1992 film, Rukhmavati Ki Haveli. She also essayed the role of Pallavi, a promising classical singer who fights to bring her voice back when she loses her mother who is also her mentor in the Hindi film, Dance of the Wind in 1997. Her character gained her the Best Actress Award in the Three Continents Festival in Nantes, France. She played as Lajma in Karvaan (Shadows in the Dark) in 1997. Lajma is a middle-aged woman who resides in Pakistan. Then she did small roles in the romantic film, Student of the Year in 2012, Dhobi Ghat in 2011 and Fashion in 2008. She was also bagged in to play the role of a traditional Parsi woman in the play, Sock ‘Em With Honey. 

Kitu also did films like Holi in 1984, Janam and Wisdom Tree in 1985, The Khajuraho and Rukmavati Ki Haveli in 1991, Tehkikaat in 1994, Shaktimaan and Earth in 1998, Abhay and Happily ever After in 2001 and many more.

Richa Panai is an Indian-born model and actress, who has done films in Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi. She debuted in 2011, with the Malayalam film “Vaadamalli.” She became popular through a lot of commercials that she took up in her initial days. One commercial, which made her a popular face in the industry, was for a jewelry brand “Bhima Jewellery.” In an interview, she talked about how she made it to the industry. She was brought up in Lucknow. Belonging to a conservative family, which had its reservations about the world of showbiz, she did experience a lot of constraints. 

Rajesh Pillai is a Mollywood filmmaker who made his debut in the field of cinema in 2005. His first film was ‘Hridayathil Sookshikkan’ which had actors like Kunchacko Boban and Bhavana playing the main characters. The film was based on the American film ‘Meet the Parents’. After a gap of six years, he again made his second film ‘Traffic’ which was written by Bobby and Sanjay, who are screenwriters duo in Malayalam cinema. The film ‘Traffic’ is credited to have led to a new wave in Malayalam cinema.  The screenwriters’ duo worked for more than two years to complete the scripting of ‘Traffic’ (2011), which was inspired by true incidents. The film was very well received in Kerala and Rajesh Pillai’s efforts were acknowledged. This was also the last film of actor Jose Prakash. Due to Traffic’s success in Mollywood, the film was remade in Kannada and Tamil. But Malayalam version was said to be better than other remakes. In 2014, ‘Traffic’ was adapted into Hindi by Suresh Nair and music was composed by Mithoon. It has stars like Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Divya Dutta and Amol Parashar in the lead roles. The film was not a big success in Hindi.  In August 2012, he shelved his announced project titled ‘Motorcycle Diaries’ and went ahead with another movie titled ‘Mili.' ‘

Deepak Dhar is a famous producer and director, who predominantly works in the Bollywood industry. He worked in the content production department. He had worked hard in the lead roles to drive content strategies at Star TV, MTV, and Channel V. Deepak Dhar also became the Founder and CEO of Banijay Asia that provides an opportunity to start his career as a senior producer at MTV. He went on to work with Star TV channel and then moved to Endemol India in 2006.

He has so far worked on Tamil films in Tollywood, Kannad films in Kollywood, and Hindi films in Bollywood. He is a gifted individual who possesses both the analytical abilities required of a producer and the managerial abilities required of a corporate leader.

Sameer Rajendran is an Indian producer. He got into fame after his blockbuster movie Aladin, his first debut movie. Sameer lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is working in the Bollywood industry since 2009 as an executive producer on the comedy adventure, Aladin. After six years, he made a debut as a producer in Anamika in 2015. His other movies like Traffic, Te3n, and Brothers have got him to credit. He is not available on any of the social media platforms.

Bobby is the son of the legendary film actor and producer Prem Prakash and nephew of the veteran star Jose Prakash. He is a noted script writer of Malayalam movies. Bobby is also a practising physician and is settled in Kottayam. He started his career as a scriptwriter with Sibi Malayil’s Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum in the year 2003, which did well commercially and was also critically applauded. Bobby along with his brother Sanjay also scripted the serial television Avicharitham in 2004 which was telecasted for the period of 40 days in Asianet, breaking the stereotypical Gaga of never-ending serials. It attracted a large number of audiences and also won TV Critics award.

Sanjay is an Indian Film Screenplay Writer. He works in the Malayalam Film Industry. He usually works with his brother Bobby. They both form a duo named Bobby-Sanjay. They are sons of the Malayalam Television and Film Actor Prem Prakash. Prem Prakash appeared in more than 50 films and produced about 20 films. Sanjay started his career as a Screenplay writer with a Malayali TV series named Avasthantharangal (2001) by Jude Attipetty. He worked on this show with his brother. They later worked on more TV serials like Avicharitham (2004), Aagneyam (2009), Eshwaran Saakshiyayi (2015), and Avaril Oraal (2017-2018).

Suresh Nair is an Indian screenwriter and director. He was born in Mumbai, to Kallara and Sarasamma Nair. The director has four siblings, three sisters and one brother. Suresh's sisters, Ambika and Radha are well-known actresses in the Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam cinema.

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 as a film actor with Mani Ratnam's in 1998, he portrayed as C.B.I Investigation Officer after almost a decade. Later in the year 2002 he moved to Mumbai. 

He won the Zee cine awards for writing the dialogues of 2001 movie “The legend of Bhagat Singh”. In year 2003, he was critically acclaimed for his acting in the movie “mambos”, where he played the role of Kaka, the right hand of underworld Don “Jahangir”. Mishra again appeared as a critic in favourite Anurag Kashyaps movie “Gulaal”, where he played Prithvi Bana, psychic brother of the villain. Mishra was nominated for zee cine awards for the “best actor in supporting role” in the year 2012 for the movie “Gangs of Wasseypur”, and his recent movie was “The Shaukeens” where he played one of the lead.

He met his wife Priya Narayanan in 1992 when he was directing a play and married her in 1995. He lives in Mumbai with his wife and two sons Josh and Jai.

Mejo Joseph is a composer and actor, born on 28th of January 1981 at Thrissur. His parents are named Joseph & Mary. He has done his schooling from Don Bosco High School, Irinjalakuda. He is a music director working in the Malayalam Film Industry. He got married to Merrin on 26 June 2011 & has a son named Abdeil. The famous and renowned Director Rosshan Andrrews is his brother in law. In 2006, he made his debut featuring his Malayalam film, ‘Notebook’ which was directed by his brother in law, Rosshan Andrews. The notebook turned out to be a major hit with its exceptional music and the movie's soundtrack, Hridayavum became the chart topper of the year.

Mithoon Sharma is a singer and music director in Bollywood movies. He is the son of veteran background music composer Naresh Sharma, who has provided background musical score for over 200 films.  
Mithoon was born on born January 11, 1985. At a young age, he got a break to compose with Anu Malik for film ‘Zeher’ for one song ‘"Woh Lamhe Woh Baatein"’. The song was a hit, and entry in Bollywood became easier for him. IN 2006, he got the opportunity to compose along with Pritam for ‘Bas Ek Pal’. The song "Tere Bin" which had music by Mithoon was voted as one of the best songs during 2006. 

Mahesh Narayanan is an Indian writer and film editor, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Take Off (2017), Traffic (2011), Vishwaroopam (2013), and Ennu Ninte Moideen (2015). Mostly known for his predominant involvement in Mollywood movies and Malayali TV shows, he has been working in the film industry for more than ten years now.

Jimmy Shergill is a renowned Indian actor and producer in the big screen, known for working predominantly in Punjabi and Hindi movies. He was born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh in India on December 3, 1972 to a Sikh family. His real name is Jasjit Singh Gill, the son of the popular painter, Satyajit Singh Shergill. He studied at St. Francis College in Lucknow in his early years before he shifted to Punjab and studied at The Punjab Public School. He also attended Bikram and Nabha College and Patiala’s Punjabi University. Jimmy has learned to act through his guru, Sri Harpal Singh. He went to Mumbai to pursue his career as an actor.

Born on 23 April 1969, Manoj Bajpai is first a Bollywood actor, though he has acted in a couple of southern films. He has been appreciated by several critics for his good performances. His noteworthy performances were in the films Bandit Queen, Pinjar, Aks, Satya and Gangs of Wasseypur. He has got various Filmfare awards and also many National awards.

Manoj Bajpai is a graduate in history. Before entering into acting Manoj was a teacher. He tried his luck in theater, but was rejected four times. Later, he worked in a theater Barry’s Drama School. His acting career started with a serial in Doordarshan. Later he performed in a minute role in Dastak . He was the male lead in the film Dil Pe Mat Le Yar and went on to act in small roles in Bandit Queen, Droh and Kaal. Then it was Satya that helped him reach stardom. His acting skills gained wide recognition; he was credited with several awards for this role. In this film he acted as a gangster. He also received various awards for Aks. Shool, Daud, Zubeidaa, Pinjar, Road etc. were some the films he acted. His Telugu film Happy was also a film in which he gained recognition.

Manoj has often portrayed offbeat roles and he was widely appreciated for that. His character in the film Rajneeti also received praise and actress Katrina Kaif who also acted in the film explicitly expressed her respect for him by touching his feet. Gangs of Wasseypur is another important film in his career wherein he received accolades for his performance.

Manoj Bajpai is motivated by a couple of Marathi films and he frankly admitted that.

On the personal front, Bajpai is wedded to Shabana Raza, better known as Neha in Bollywood. If one remembers she had acted in the films Fiza and Kareeb.

Bajpai Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Parambrata Chatterjee, born on 27th June 1980, is a Bengali actor known for his roles in movies like ‘Kahaani’, ‘Baishe Srabon’ etc. Parambrata was born to family that has strong association to the film industry. His parents Satinath Chatterjee and Sunetra Ghatak are well known Bengali film and his grandfather Ritwik Ghatak was a respected film maker. He completed his schooling from Patha Bhavan, Kolkata and went on to pursue his bachelor’s and master’s degree in English literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He also holds a master’s degree in Film and TV production from Bristol University in the UK.

Amol Parashar is an Indian actor who was born on October 1989. He is quite active from 2009 until now. He had done significant and good roles in plays, TV commercials, and films. He turned out to take a new avatar as a dialogue writer for the movie 'Jackpot'. As of date, he acted in four movies namely Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year, Babloo Happy Hai, Traffic and Mili. He did his Engineering degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is pretty much ardent about his studies and in fact grabbing a seat to study in IIT is never a joke. He got a job and worked in a prestigious company and as right then, he thought of going for a change. He preferred to work in the film industry as an actor. This is the switch over made by him and finally he joined in the arts academy to enhance his chances of getting into cine industry. He has been in TV commercials for promoting many big brands. Babloo Happy Hai is the movie which had good response and review from the audiences. He had done many commercial ads for promoting brands like Cadbury Silk, Tanishq, Bourbon, Mentos and Lays.

The Gujarati boy image on onscreen as Jigar in Saath Nibhaana Saathiya is Vishal Singh. He was born in 1985 and is active on the small screen since 2006.

Santosh Thundiyil is a cinematographer, who keeps on working hard behind the camera without any expectations, and it is the hard work of cinematographers like him, that movie’ s become superhits. We are going to share with you about one of the most popular Cinematographers the industry has ever had. He is a part of many successful films of the cinema world. Some of them are Kuch Kuch Hota Hain starring Shah Rukh Khan against Rani Mukherjee and Kajol, Hello Brother, Pinjar, Kaal, Krrish, Luck, Rowdy Rathore, Jai Ho, Rustom. He was born in Changanassery, Kerala, India. He completed his Schooling from Sacred Heart English Medium School and did his Graduation in Chemistry from St. Berchman’s College, Changanassery.

Malayalam actor Jishnu’s real name is Jishnu Raghavan Alingkil. He started his film career in the movie Kilipatt, as a child artist. Later he worked as a lead artist in the film Nammal and it turned out to be a blockbuster. He received accolades for his acting in this movie; he was credited with the Kerala Film Critics Award and Mathrubhumi Award. Later he acted in films like Choonda, Parayam, Freedom etc. During his career, he also acted in supporting roles. 

There were some unnoticed films in Jishnu’s career and hence he took a sabbatical from film and involved himself in bringing up information technology in villages. Later he returned with a bang with the successful film ‘Ordinary’. He went on to do more films like Ustad Hotel, Nidra, Annum Innum Ennum, Banking Hours 10 to 4 etc. Born in Kannur on 23rd April 1979, Jishnu is the offspring of actor Raghavan. Jishnu’s father directed his son in the latter’s debut movie Kilipatt. This film gained recognition at the Indian Panorama. 

Jishnu studied mechanical engineering. Most of Jishnu’s young days were spent in Chennai. Jishnu was an outstanding student during his school days. Jishnu is wedded to Dhanya Rajan, who is his junior in NIT. Jishnu faced the ordeal of cancer but survived it. His tweet only made this fact known to many people. Jishnu has acted in over 21 films in Malayalam. Though this actor was not very successful in his film career he was successful in beating cancer. Jishnu had confessed once that he was very timid during his school days and it’s only Rotoract club which motivated him to come out this shyness. After doing his engineering Jishnu confessed to his father that he wanted to ponder over giving his venture into films. And as luck would have it he entered the film industry.