Hindi Movie Review D-Day - Cast & Crew

Shruti Hassan is an Indian film actress born on 28 January 1986 to the veteran Tamil actor Kamal Hassan and Sarika. Her original birth name is Shruti Rajalakshmi Hassan. Shruti Hassan studied at Abacus in Chennai and later on moved to Mumbai to study Psychology. She has a younger sister Akshara Hassan. Shruti Hassan is well known for her singing and acting skills in kollywood, tollywood and bollywood.She entered into films as a child artist in her father’s film HEY RAM. At the age of 23 she did her first film LUCK in bollywood. She got the interest in music and finally travelled to USA to learn music. She did many films both in Tamil and Telugu and received positive reviews for her act. Shruti Hassan sang her first song at the age of six for her father’s film named Thevar Magan.She even composed music for a Tamil movie Unnaipol Oruvan.In Telugu she did many box office hit films and won Film fare award for the film Race Gurram. She even won SIIMA awards for stylish actress of South Indian Cinema. Shruti wrote lyrics for the film Hisss starring Mallika Sherawat. In Tamil she did few films 7aum Arivu, 3 and Poojai. She won Edison Awards for best introduced music director in the year 2010 .She is also a brand ambassador for Emami Navaratna Cool Talc. Her upcoming projects are in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. In Tamil her upcoming project is Thala 56.

Huma Qureshi is a model-turned-actress in Bollywood. Before making her debut in films, she has appeared in some commercial advertisements that had featured two B-town superstars Amir Khan and Shahrukh Khan. While she was shooting for an advertisement, director Anurag Kashyap offered her a role in ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. 

Nikhil Advani is an ace Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director born on 28 April 1971 in Mumbai, India. Nikhil father is a businessman and his mother an advertising professional. Nikhil did his higher secondary education from Green Lawns High School, Breach Candy and graduation from St. Xavier College, Mumbai in Chemistry. During the start of his career, he worked as an assistant director of Dharma Productions. Nikhil is also the assistant director of two blockbuster movies Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham. Nikhil also made his guest appearance in the movie Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Nikhil also worked as an assistant director under Aditya Chopra film Mohabattein. Nikhil directed his first film Kal Ho Naa Ho starring Shahrukh Khan. The film was produced under the banner of Dharma Productions and was super hit film. Kal Ho Naa Ho proved to be a milestone in the career of Nikhil and won 6 Filmfare awards. Nikhil directed many films including Salaan-e-Ishq: A Tribute to love (2007), Chandani Chowk to China (2008), Patiala House (2011), Hero and many other.

Amit Rampal is an Indian Actor, Host, Producer and a model who played his role in various Cinema movies and Television shows. He was born on 26th November 1972 in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India in the family of Amarjit Rampal and Gwen Rampal. Amit did his schooling from St. Patrick School in Maharashtra where his mother was also a Teacher. He is very intelligent and talented boy from his childhood and he is very naughty guy. He is very hard worker, spiritual, self-confident, smart, team spirit, patient, serious, self-motivated guy. And these are the life skill reasons behind his success in his career as an Actor. He started dreaming as his career as Cinema Actor when he was just 10 years old. He was also a good anchor and stager performer in his school time. He did his graduation from Amity School of Drama, India. He is married to Mehr Jesia in the year of 1998. She is also Television Actress and Model. They have two daughters Mahika and Myra. Amit Rampal is very popular for his Television serials like Pyar Ishqq Aur Mohabatien, Dil Ka Rishta, Asaabhav, Yakin and other Bollywood movies like Om Shanti Om, Rock on, Houseful, Ra-one. He is known for his role as Suraj Saxena in the movie Dewanapan, Jai Mehra in the movie Dil Kaa Rishta, Rohit Babbu in the movie Humko Tumse Pyar Hai, Jasjeet in the superhit movie Don, Arjun Singh Chauhan in the movie Ajaab Gajaab Love. He also played his role in Television serials like he participated in the shows of Nach Baliye 4, Love to Hate you, Apsra Awards. He also nominated for 18 awards in his career as Actor and out of which he was awarded by 12 awards.
 

Rishi Kapoor is an actor born in the prominent Kapoor family who has a long history of Hindi cinema where members of the family had careers as actors, producers or directors. Rishi Kapoor was born to veteran actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor and Krishna Kapoor on September 4, 1952, in Mumbai. Born with a silver spoon, it was not a difficult task for him to make a debut in films. Raj Kapoor gave him a chance to play a teenager, who was caught on the thin line of boyhood and adulthood in the movie Mera Naam Joker. The film fell flat in the box office, and Raj Kapoor was in massive financial loss. 

Irrfan Khan is a noted Bollywood actor who started his career with various Indian television series. His noted Bollywood movies include The Warrior, Maqbool, Haasil, Paan Singh Tomar, Gunday, Rog and The Lunchbox. At the very early stage of his acting career, he acted in various television serials like Barat Ek Khoj, Chanakya, Sara Jahan Hamara, Chandrakanta, Banegi Apni Baat, Star bestsellers, Anoo Goonj and Sparsh.
His early film credits include Ek Doctor Ki Maut and Such a Long Journey. Although these movies were critically appreciated, it did not propel him to success.

Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 April 2012 which is a thing of pride. Shankar has always considered himself as a restless student wanting to learn more every time. He says he’s thirsty and want to learn every time and experiment with something new. He wants to be a perfectionist. Shanker also feels that Karnatak music is the most powerful form of music and he himself started with Karnataka classic which he says is the best to create a prominent base for music. Music is the thing which excites Shanker the most, and he would always be attached to it. Personal Life: Shanker Mahadevan was born in Chennai to a Tamil family but was later brought to Mumbai and was raised there. Being born into a Tamil family and later raised in Mumbai, he knows both Hindi and Tamil language but is not well versed with Tamil and Malayalam. He finished his schooling from OLPS High School in Chembur and his engineering in computer science from R.A.I.T (D Y Patil, Navi Mumbai). His wife, Sangeeta is Maharashtrian and oldest son Siddharth Mahadevan. Also, a singer, made his debut on the 2013 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’s song, Zinda. Shankar’s youngest son, Shivam Mahadevan, also a singer made his debut in 2013 in the movie Dhoom 3’s song, Bande Hain Hum Uske. Mahadevan is fluent in Marathi, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu and English.

Ehsaan Noorani is one of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio, composing of three talented Indian musicians namely Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan himself and Loy Mendonsa. He is a popular music composer and guitarist. 

Ehsaan was born on October 12, 1963 in Hyderabad, India. He grew up in a place instilled with appreciation to different music genres at an early age. At 14, he started learning guitar under the teaching of Bismarck Rodriguez in Mumbai. During the mid 80’s, he attended the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT), which is known as MI now. This became the turning point of his life as a musician as he slowly began to progress as a guitarist with huge potentials. He considered this period as ‘the best years of his life’. He went to Los Angeles, which is known to be the Music Capital of the World, and showed himself to the great musicians like Larry Carlton, Robben Ford and many more. 

Ehsaan was influenced by the famous bands of the 70’s like Pink Floyd, Led Zepellin, Wishbone Ash, Santana and Deep Purple. Since then, he became inclined and fond to the Blues; something about the genre has caught his whim and he continues to hold into it until today. He listened to BB King, Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton and Robert Ford to help him in shaping up his Blues vocabulary and become a stepping-stone to his improvisation. 

When he returned to India, he worked with coposers like Louiz Banks for several advertising commercials and continues to create trends to the industry with his captivating tunes, expertise in guitar and his cleverness in music. This led him to compose music for commercials and just before he knew it, he was brainstorming with Shankar and Loy. The trio started to compose music for films and they were known as SEL. 

Composing music for films and commercials had helped him to experiment in various music styles like blues, metal, electronic, rock and country, but his heart is still fond of doing Blues and until now, he is still performing with his band called Apostrophe. 

Ehsaan together with Shankar Mahadevan have lent their vocals to several songs, including Yeh Dil Deewana from the 1997 Bollywod film Pardes, Vande Mataram from the 2000 comedy-drama film Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, and Mujhse Shaadi Karogi from the romantic comedy film Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge. He also lent his guitar pieces to songs made by many music directors like Vishal Shekhar for the songs Bin Tere and Sadka Kiya from the box-office hit film, I Hate Luv Storys and Small Town Girl from the rom-com film Bachna Ae Haseeno. 

To prove his mettle in the world of music, Ehsaan has won several accolades in his entire career for his work in films like Kai Ho Naa Ho, Bunty Aur Babli, Dil Chahta Hai, Kal Ho Naa Ho and Mission Kashmir.

Loy Mendonsa is an Indian pianist, musician, and singer. He is more renowned as the member of the trio group Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, which he co-founded with singer Shankar Mahadevan and guitarist-singer Ehsaan Noorani. His career initially began for Doordarshan productions, where he composed the theme song of “The World This Week” show. Before the formation of his trio group, Loy has worked with the Indian music great A.R.Rahman and Nadeem-Shravan.

Tushar Kanti Ray is a professional north Indian cinematographer. He has been working in the camera department for many years. Tushar Kanti Ray has been part of the camera crew of many Hindi films. He is best known for his movies D Day, Lucknow Central, Mumbai Diaries and many more. Tushar Kanti Ray got recognized for his work, and he got nominated for the category of Best Cinematographer for the Bollywood movie D Day. Tushar Kanti Ray has worked as a cinematographer, director of photography and an assistant director of photography. He was the chief assistant cinematographer for the movie called The Japanese Wife that got released in the big screens in the year 2010. This movie was directed by filmmaker Aparna Sen starring actors Rahul Bose, Japanese actress Chigusa Tataku, Indian actress Haima Sen and many more.

Film editors are an essential part of the filmmaking process, but they're often overlooked since they work behind the scenes. Editing is one of the other things that we understand from the cinema. Editor Aarif Sheikh is a national award-winning editor associated with movies like ‘Drishyam’, ‘Noor’, ‘Baadshaho’. ‘D-Day’, ‘Haider’, ‘Phanthom’ etc.