Hindi Movie Review Mukkabaaz - Cast & Crew

Rachita Arora is known as a singer and music composer in Bollywood. She was born in Delhi, India. She has a great skill of Hindustani classical music. Rachita Arora composed music for theatre plays in Delhi before entering Bollywood. One of her works while working theatre plays were for the play named ‘Epic Gadbad’; She was offered this work by Makarand Deshpande, who loved her work in Mumbai, and later on, he introduced her to Anurag Kashyap, Director in Bollywood. She also composed music for ‘Mumbai Paani Mafia’, a documentary which was broadcast on Discovery Channel India.

TV actress Neetu Singh is a popular face on Indian television. Apart from being an actress, she is also a famous model and has done a large number of TV commercials for many big brands. These include Fair & Lovely, Tanishq, Dettol, Rasna, Fiat, Colgate, Big Bazaar, Spice Mobile, Kinder Joy, Dabur and Johnson n Johnson among several others.

Neetu was seen in two popular television serials, one of them being Yeh Ishq Haaye which aired on former TV channel Star One and the other being Aapki Antara which was telecasted on Zee TV in 2009. The former is a story about a small town girl with loads of aspiration. Aapki Antara is a story of an Autistic child and her struggle with life. 

Other than television, actress Neetu Singh has also acted in a Haryanvi language film named Tera Mera Vaada in the year 2012. The film was a hit at the regional box office.

Neetu Singh is as talented as she is beautiful. Talking about her acting skills, it must be noted that she has done a 1 year course in acting. To add to it, she has also done theatre acting for four years. She has surely got enough talent to establish herself as a credible actress. If she gets the right opportunities, she will be able make her mark in both the TV and film industry.

Kirti Kolwankar is a Bollywood costume designer born in Chiplun, a cultural background village of Maharashtra. She completed her education in fashion technology form J. D. Institute, Mumbai. Kirti has worked as a costume designer for many movies in 2018, Such as MUKKABAZ, BADHAI HO, YAMALA PAGLA DEWAANA PHIR SAY.

Maria Tharakan is a Costume designer and Costume supervisor, well known for her work in movies like “Bareilly Ki Barfi,” “Qarib Qarib,” and “Pela Adhi Akshar”. She has been part of Indian Film Industry since 2010. She has been part of costume designing team in many Bollywood movies, short movies, such as “My sun sets to Rise Again,” “Fitoor,” “Singh is Bling,” “Bombay Velvet,” “Bangistan,” ”Ek Tha Tiger,” “The Dirty Picture,” “F.A.LT.U.,” and many more.

Aarti Bajaj is a prominent Indian film editor, popular for working in films like Jab We Met, in 2007, and the psychological thriller film, ‘Aamir’, in 2008, from where she earned her second nomination at the Star Screen Awards. She was also notable for her work in the blockbuster musical romantic drama film, ‘Rockstar’, in 2011, and ‘Highway’, in 2014. She got married to film actor, producer and director, Anurag Kashyap, in the year 2003, but they got a divorce in 2009. They have one daughter named Aliyah. She edited almost all the films of Kashyap, except for Bombay Velvet. 

Zoya Hussain is an Indian actress/writer/director who was born on October 1st, 1990 in Delhi, India. She is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs in around 55 KG. Her hair color is Black. Her Zodiac sign is Libra. Zoya Hussain started her acting career when she got a chance to work in Anurag Kashyap’s Mukkbabaz (2017). She is also working in some upcoming movies such as Teen Aur Aadha (Hindi), Haathi Mere Saathi (Hindi), Aranya (Telugu), Kaadan (Tamil). She is working against the Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan in one of her movies in the lead role. 

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Born on 10th September 1972, Anurag Kashyap has established himself in Bollywood as a prominent director, producer, and screenwriter while even giving acting a try.  A born and raised Uttar Pradeshi, Kashyap had keen interest in science and aimed to become a scientist. In an interview Anurag said that he had no dreams of going into the film industry and had all hopes of pursuing Zoology. He went on to say, this all changed in 1993 after he watched Bicycle Thieves, an Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The film inspired him enough to give us becoming a scientist and move to Dehli to become a filmmaker.    

Anurag got his first chance in the industry as a screenwriter for Auto Narayan when the initial script by Subramaniam was not working and Anurag was given a chance to rewrite it. He then wrote the screenplay for Jayate, a Hansal Mehta film, which was never released. Ram Gopal Varma was impressed by Anurag’s work in Auto Narayan and signed him for the screenplay and dialogue for his thriller, Satya. The film was critically acclaimed as one of the best crime, gangster movie of Bollywood. He then dabbled with production after some time with his director debut in Paanch. The movie faced trouble with the certification board due to the content not being suitable for all.  In 2012, he took on two ambitious movies in Gangs of Wasseypur 1 and 2, which received numerous awards and outstanding reviews. He recently produced and directed Bombay Velvet, which is currently in theatre and has received praise from critics.

    Anand L. Rai's first venture 'Strangers' is a psychological thriller. After his debut movie, he did 'Thodi Life Thoda Magic' in the year 2008. His huge success as a director happened in the year 2013 in his movie 'Tanu Weds Manu' starring R.Madhavan and Kangana Ranaut. This film portrayed a different dimension of love rather than the usual way of a love affair. After this hit, he joined hands with the Kollywood star Dhanush in the movie 'Raanjhaana'. This had been the debut movie for Dhanush in Bollywood and Dhanush got Filmfare Award for this movie. 

     In the year 2015, Anand L. Rai wanted to keep up his magical romantic comedy style of movies. As an attempt to make a hat trick success, he made a sequel of his film 'Tanu Weds Manu'. It was titled as 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns'. The team of Anand L.Rai again made a magical success and it lived up to the expectations of everybody. Without a doubt, it had also become a blockbuster movie and achieved box office success. Anand L. Rai is a well sensible director and his five experimental movies turned up quite well. He is known for his perfect success formula and the wonder of his screenplay.

Vikramaditya Motwane is a film producer, writer, and director. He was born on 6th December 1976. He married Ishika Mohan, the photographer. He started his career as an assistant to the director Sanjay Leela Bhansali; he worked with him for the films ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’ (1999) and ‘Devdas’ (2002). He was the choreographer for the songs of the film ‘Paanch’ (2003). He made his directional debut with the film ‘Udaan’ (2010) under Anurag Kashyap Films; the film was acclaimed on all platforms, among the seven awards it received in Filmfare awards included ‘Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie’; it was also selected at 2010 Cannes Film Festival in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ to compete.. He also bagged the Best Director Award at Star Screen Awards. His second directional film was ‘Lootera’ (2013).

Ajay Rai is an Indian Film Producer. He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He works primarily in Bollywood. He is best known for co-producing acclaimed films like, Liar's Dice was released in 2013, followed by Killa in 2014, Nijan Steve Lopez in the same year, and Nil Battey Sannata in 2015. He is also known for Toffee, Fire in the mountains, and London Files. He has also served as a line producer and an executive producer in films like Dev. D and Gulaal in 2009, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster in 2011, Paan Singh in 2012, and Bhootnath Returns in 2014. His notable production credits include the neo-noir thriller Gurgaon which was released in 2017; Qarib Qarib Single in 2017; and Chhichhore in 2019.

Originally from Ahmadabad in Gujarat, Vishesh Agrawal currently lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is married to Tina Tibrewal and they have a three year old son, Siddhanth Agrawal. He has studied Electrical engineering at L D College of Engineering and Computer engineering at North Carolina State University. He has also worked in the IT industry in companies like IBM, eInfochips, and Sibridge Technologies. Currently, he works as a producer for multiple production houses. He has held the position of line producer, associate producer, supervising producer, production coordinator, post-production supervisor, casting associate and assistant director during his tenure in the film industry. Vishesh is best known for serving as producer for films like Dangal (2016), Talvar (2015), and Nil Battey Sannata (2015).

The director and the writer who has created a masterpiece named Grahan is none other than Ranjan Chandel. The film Grahan premiered in 2021. The film was shot in1984 backdrop.  Ranjan Chandel received appreciation nationwide. In his earlier days, he has directed Red Chief: New Campaign - Jooton Mein Mard, Psycho Raman, Jaan Jigar: Beloved, The Brawler. Apart from the direction, he has produced a movie titled Juice. In 2020 he again directed a film, Bamford.

Prasoon Mishra is an Indian story writer who works mainly in the Hindi film industry. He was born on August 15, 1960. He is known for “The Brawler,” an action sports drama that was released on January 12, 2018, directed and written by Anurag Kashyap and produced by Vikas Bahl and Vikramaditya Motwane, and Vineet Kumar Singh, Jimmy Shergill, and Zoya Hussain played the leading roles, and it was selected for many awards in 2019 like Filmfare awards, screen awards, and zee cine awards and “Daag Daag Andhera,” a short drama that was released in 2012, directed by Tathagata Singh, and Prasoon Mishra was the writer for that film.

Rajeev Ravi is an Indian cinematographer from the state of spices, Kerala. He is also a well-established film producer and a director. Though he is from Kochi, yet he studied and completed his graduation from the Film and Television Institute of Pune in the year 1997. He was the one to start his career slowly and gradually. Initially, he worked as an assistant cinematographer and assisted in the Malayalam film ‘Pranayavarnangal’ which was released in the year 1998.

Shanker Raman is a renowned Indian cinematographer and producer, as well as a writer.

Nucleya is the most famous name in Dubstep music industry during these days. It is the most famous band for Hindi songs, and people are literally in love with Nucleya. It was started by Udyan Sagar, currently living in Delhi, who started his musical journey back in his childhood only. His parents were very fond of music, and all sorts of music were played at home, so he grew up listening to music almost every day. When he started his higher secondary education, he met some like-minded friends and got involved with music sincerely. His official music journey got a kick-start when he co-founded Bandish Projekt at the end of 1990’s. Since then, he has released around 14 singles, studio albums, and various collaborations.

Hussain Haidry is an all-rounder person. He is well versed in writing lyrics and writing poems. He has gained immense fame after his famous poem named 'Hindustani Musalmaan' went viral on all the platforms of social media. Hussain is born and brought up in Indore, India, and he is a Dawoodi Bohra. He has completed his schooling from Shri Satya Sai Vidya Vihar School. Later, for perusing his PGDM, he went to the Indian Institute of Management Indore, and here he worked as the Head of Finance in Kolkata in a Healthcare company. In the year 2015, he left his job and moved towards Mumbai to become a full-time lyricist and a screenwriter. As soon as he left his job in Kolkata, he started participating in spoken words Poetry Forms in Mumbai, such as the Poetry Club; Words Tell Stories, and Prithvi Caferati.

Brijesh Shandilya aka Brijesh Kumar Tripathi is a Bollywood singer who pursued playback singing from a non-musical background family. He hails from Uttar Pradesh. Brijesh Shandilya was born on December 13, 1980, in Basti District of Uttar Pradesh.

Deepak Thakur is an Indian playback singer, also known by his nickname ‘Kanhaiya.’ He was born on 3rd July 1994 in the small village of Athar in Buxar district of Bihar to a homemaker mother and a farmer father, Pankaj Thakur.

Swaroop Khan is a playback singer born on 7th August 1991 in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Swaroop turned popular after participating in the reality singing show “Indian Idol Season 5.” The show's judges were Anu Malik, Sunidhi Chauhan, and Salim Merchant. Hussain Kuwajerwala and Abhijeet Sawant hosted the show. Swaroop could not make it in the finals. But, he earned a good name and fame. He got an opportunity to enter Bollywood with the film The Emotional Atyachar. He sang the title track with Bappi Lahiri, Toolika Das, and Upasona. In 2014, he got the offer to play in the Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, and Sushant Singh Rajput starrer, “PK.” He crooned the song, Tharki Chokro, composed by Ajay and Atul. In the same year, he crooned for Hawaa Hawaai, composed by Hitesh Sonik. Partho Gupte, Saqib Saleem, and Pragya Yadav played the lead roles in Hawaa Hawaai. He sang the song Udaari from the film “Filmistaan,” composed by Arijit Datta.

Vijay Arora (Born: 27th Dec 1944) was a prominent Indian film and Television series actor. He is famous for his role in the film ‘Yaadon Ki Baaraat’. However, he was most recognized for his act as ‘Indrajit’ in the TV serial ‘Ramayan.' Mr. Arora was a gold medalist in his academic career. He graduated from the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India in the year 1971. Vijay Arora made his debut in the film ‘Zaroorat’ in 1970, with Reena Roy, who was also a debutant. But success came with the role of Meghnad Indrajit in Ramanand Sagar’s small screen show called ‘Ramayan.'

Mukesh Chhabra was born on 27th May 1980 in Mumbai of Maharashtra state. He is a very popular actor as well as a director, and he is the director of acting workshop too. He is active in the Bollywood film industry right from the year 2000 until the present. He also works in casting the actors for the movies and came up with successful casts as a whole. He did casting for prominent movies like Chillar Party, Kai Po Che, Gangs of Wasseypur, and D-Day. They were commercially successful movies, and the casting is quite apt and perfect.

Dhananjay Prajapati is a renowned makeup artist and prosthetic designer from Mumbai, India. He has worked with S&A Films & OMG Entertainment for a long time and has been involved in most of the ad commercials. He has also worked on several movie projects including Mumbai Meri Jaan, Echoes, Harud, Bhootnath Returns, Rocky Handsome, Madaari, and Gurgaon. Dhananjay Prajapati is the head of the makeup department and is known for his exceptional work in movies like Dhoom2 (2006), Laal Kaptan (2019), and Judgementall Hai Kya (2019). In Dhoom2, he helped create Hrithik Roshan’s chiseled looks and multiple getups, which were the center of attraction throughout the movie. He also gave Kangana Ranaut her edgy and bold looks in Judgemental Hai Kya.

Pankaj Sonawane is a famous Visual Effects Supervisor and Producer. He completed his education at Savitribai Phule Pune University with a BA: in Arts, entertainment, and media management. Later he did a course in Visual Effects Filmmaking. Pankaj worked in English, Hindi, and Marathi language movies. He had worked in several films as a visual effects supervisor. He had given visual effects for Shala in 2008, one of the National Award Winning Marathi movies. Amelia, Red Cliff II, Taking Woodstock, Rela re, Fandry, Double Seat, Mukkabaaj, and Faster Fene are some of his prominent projects as visual effects producers. Pankaj Sonawane also directed a short film named Taar in 2020.

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.

Deepak Tanwar is an Indian film director and producer, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Ab Dharna Hoga Unlimited (2012). Mostly known for his predominant involvement in Hindi TV shows, short films, stage plays, and Bollywood movies, Deepak has been working in the film industry for more than ten years now. In 2012, he came up with his first momentous contribution on the silver screen with the Bollywood comedy film Ab Hoga Dharna Unlimited, starring Saurabh Malik, Rekha Rana, and Omkar Das Manikpuri. Since then, we haven’t really seen much from him on the big screen but he still produces short films and documentaries.

Rajesh Tailang is an Indian writer and actor. He started his career with a TV series named ‘Shanti’ in the year 1994. He played the role of Manu in the serial. His debut film is ‘Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa’ which hit the floors in the year 1998. He has acted in the films like Amal (2007), Siddharth (2013), Umrika (2015, Phantom (2015) and a few more.

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