English Movie Review Monkey Man - Cast & Crew

Aditi Kalkunte is an Indian actress who works as supporting actress in Bollywood film industry. She has appeared in several mini roles in many big-budget Hindi movies which are star-studded. She has also worked in the TV industry. Her work includes Special 26 (2013) which starred one of Bollywood’s biggest action star Akshay Kumar along with Anupam Kher and Manoj Bajpayee.

Ashwini Kalsekar is an Indian actress who is very famous for doing soap operas and films. She was born on January 22, 1970 at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She was the daughter of a bank employee, Anil Kalsekar. She graduated her Bachelor of Arts in Bombay on the year 1991. Ashwini pursued her theatre career on year 1991 to 1994 as a backup. Then from 1992 to 1993, she is a backup to Neena Gupta. She is also a trained theatre actress by Muzammeel Vakil in 1992 to 1995. Besides acting, she is also a good and trained dancer of Kathak. Ashwini was married twice. First is with theatre actor, Nitesh Pandey from 1998 to 2002. Second is with television and film actor, Murali Sharma.

Sobhita Dhulipala is a renowned Indian model, beauty queen, and a film actress. She was born on May 31, 1992 in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh in India. She shifted to Mumbai to pursue her studies and film career. Sobhita studied at the Visakha Valley School and later attended H.R. College of Commerce and Economics in Mumbai. She is a trained classical dancer in both Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam. In 2013, she won the Femina Miss India title and represents her country in the Miss Earth pageant, which was held in the Philippines. She won major awards like Miss Photogenic, Miss Earth Eco-Beauty, Miss Talent, and Miss Beautiful Face Awards.

Dev Patel is a British actor, who saw his first global success with ‘Slumdog Millionaire.' After watching the film like “Slumdog Millionaire,’’ people would talk about this guy Dev Patel (an actor), many film directors even had felt that actor has grown up at a young age. Many Hollywood directors appreciated ‘Slumdog Millionaire,' for the content and story-telling, but felt even that he was better than a lot of other actors who got easy recognition with this film. When the film was released, the director Danny Boyle said that the actor was heading in the right direction- closer to the Oscars, Many audiences in India became a big fan of Dev Patel. Dev Patel, who played the role of Jamal in the movie, said he had seen something different in his role to regular movies. Of course, he got best promising actor award and many more awards for Danny Boyle;s film. Of course, The Last Airbender, was his next project, and that film did not appeal like Slumdog Millionaire. 

After the film Slumdog Millionaire, he was dating his co-star Freida Pinto in 2000 but later had broken up after six years of dating. There was something wrong with his subsequent projects such as ‘’About Cherry’ and ‘The Road Within’, which did not appeal much. Later on, in 2015, he seems to strike back again with two movies,’ The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ where he plays the role hotel owner Sonny Kapoor in a lead role. Then there is ‘Chappie, where Patel will be playing a robotic expert. This actor is basically a Gujarati but identified as a British actor. He grew up in West London. Patel had inspiration from his mother in joining films. It is his mother who took him to audition for a television series. He was selected to play the role of “Anwar Kharral”, a Muslim-Pakistani in TV series ‘Skins”. This was his first break in the world of acting. Later on, he also did many more TV serials and currently busy shooting for a film’ Chappie’. This actor was born on 23 April 1990.

Sharlto Copley was born on 27th November 1973, in Pretoria, South Africa. He had been fathered by a university producer, Dr. Bruce Copley, and his mother was a healer in Cape Town. He achieved his education from the St. Andrews Preparatory School, in Grahamstown and also from Redhill School, in Morningside, Johannesburg. He has two siblings, Donovan, who is part of the band Hot water in Cape Town, and Marisa, his sister who is skilled at dancing and costume designing. At the age of 22, Copley offered a 16-year-old director, Neill Blomkamp, to direct movies under the name of his production company. Later Copley was offered the lead role in District 9, directed by Blomkamp and Peter Jackson.He played the role of Wikus van der Merwe in the movie.

Sikandar Kher is an Indian Actor born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India on 31 October 1981. He is the son of Kirron Kher and Anupam Kher (step son). He started off by assisting Mr. Sanjay Leela Bhansali in 2002 for his Film Devdas. He was also an assistant director in the movie Dil To Pagal Hai.

His debut film as an actor was Woodstock Villa in 2008, which was a musical thriller directed by Hansal Mehta. The film did not do well on the box office but Sikandar was overall praised and got positive reviews by film critics and was considered to have potential.

He also acted in a film of a debutant director Suhail Tatari, name summer 2007. Later he played Nirmal Sen in 2010 movie Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, Bilal in Players (2012), Dev in Aurangzeb (2013), He was offered the role of Sameer in Dil Chahta Hai in 2001. He rejected the role for unknown reasons. However being introduced by a prominent production house in the film industry would be great for his career the actor decided to try himself. He then liked the story of Woodstock Villa and decided to act in it.

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Zakir Hussain is a veteran and prominent film and television actor from India. He was famous for doing comedic and negative roles and his best performance was from the dramatic film, Sarkar in 2005 where he played the role of Rasheed; a don from Dubai. Followed by this is the 2007 neo-noir film, Johnny Gaddaar by Sriram Raghavan. He is Shardul, one of the gang that operates a gambling club along with Vikram (played by Neil Nitin Mukesh), Prakash (played by Vinay Pathak), Swshadri (played by Dharmendra) and Shiva (played by Dayanand Shetty). He was notably remembered by every people on the street and they started to call him Shardul. This is the film that pays him well and gained him so much fame.

Zakir was born and raised up in the village of Janikhurd Tehsil in the district of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. He got fascinated with theaters and cinema when he was studying in New Delhi. And then, he initiated his career in a small time theater and later he joined a group in Mandi House called, Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts. Afterwards, he also joined the respected National School of Drama and had a graduation in year 1993.

After performing in theaters for few years, he moved to Mumbai to work as a television and film actor. He first speared in serials like Kitty Party, Firdaus and Gaatha from which he gained a lot of recognition. His first film was Ek Hasina Thi in 2004 under the production of Ram Gopal Varma, from which he played the character of Sanjiv Nanda. From this film, Zakir appeared in two scenes only, but the director was impressed by is acting so he offered him the role of Rasheed in the film, Sarkar. His character as a villain was acclaimed and he got the New Menace Award in Stardust Film Awards in 2006. Since then, he started to appear in most of Varma’s productions.

Aside from acting, he is also a brilliant percussionist and he sings well. Some of the films that he did include Dishyen, Kala Juma, D, D, James, Shiva, The Killer, Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante, Risk, Fool n Final, Darling, Contract, Radio and a lot more. Some of his recent films are Hoiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty where he played the role of Alvin D’Souza, the Bollywood action film Singham Returns and the upcoming thriller film, Chaarfutiya Chhokare.

He was also roped in to do the character of Anand Upadhyay (Yudh’s companion) in the psychological mini-serial, Yudh in 2014.