Hindi Movie Review Panga - Cast & Crew

Harshdeep Kaur is an Indian playback singer who has been singing for Bollywood movies since 2003 and also a well known name in Sufi genre of songs. She rose to fame by appearing in reality musical programmed and even bagged the title ‘Sufi Ki Sultana’ form legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan for a program ‘ Lux Junoon – Kuch Kar Dikhaane Ka’ that was aired on NDTV Imagine in September 2008. She has also participated in ‘Home World Tour’ program organized by music maestro A R Rahman in 2010 and had toured all over USA, Canada, UK, South Africa. In 2014, she accompanied the maestro Rahman again for ‘Infinite Love Concerts’ in Singapore and Malaysia.

Anushri Saxena is an Indian sound engineer who has worked in several Bollywood movies and series. Anushri made her debut in the year 2014. In the year 2014, she worked as a sound effect editor for two episodes in the TV series Yudh. She worked as sound editor for few years in many movies such as Gabbar is Back, Hamari Adhuri Kahani, and LoveShhuda. Anu got appreciated for her amazing work. Then in the year 2016, she worked in the movie Fever as sound recordist.

Manoshi Nath is the leading Indian costume designer of several movies. She portrays various characters as per the persona displays. Manoshi started her career in Delhi and completed her schooling at Ramjas School.  As a Bengali, she was fascinated with colors, which motivated her to follow the Design industry.

Richa Chadda is a new and sultry Indian actress. She came into public’s view through her film Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! starring as Dolly in a supportive actress role. But before this stardom, Richa started out as a model. After modeling, she changed her course to the theater. She toured in India as well as Pakistan for her plays. She gained more insight on the theater from the Founder-Director of ‘Theatre Action Group’, Barry John.

Jassi Gill is the stage name for Jasdeep Singh; he was born in Jatt Sikh family in a small village named Jandali in Ludhiana, Punjab. While he was growing up, he had no interest in becoming a singer until one day his teacher from Gobindgarh College, where Jassi went for his education, became aware of his singing talent that’s when he chose music as one of his practical subjects in order improve marks at college.

Abhishek Kapur is an Indian Television actor who was born on 5th November 1988. He was born and raised in Delhi, India and is currently living in the same city too. He likes playing Cricket. He also played as an U-19 player along with Indian Cricket star batsmen Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan.

Dipankar Gupta is an Indian filmmaker, assistant director, writer, runner, and shower singer. In 2010, he finished his school studies at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. After that, he went to Maharaja Agrasen College, to pursue a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Journalism (2010 – 2013). He was also a team member at ABHINAY – The Street Play Society of Maharaja Agrasen College in DU. Dipankar Gupta has a sister named Nilanjana Gupta. She is the deputy multimedia editor at The National News. Nilanjana Gupta also received the award for Best Journalist for covering stories on sustainable transport from HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed Al Maktoum. He has also a stepsister named Shubhi Raina who works at Mass Entertainment. Dipankar Gupta participated in the Ageas Federal Life Insurance Mumbai Half Marathon 2023.

Rishabh Kumar is an Indian writer who works predominantly in the Hindi Industry. He was born in Dhanbad, Jharkhand. His best-known work includes Bollywood movies like Sanam Teri Kasam (2016), Lahore Confidential (2021), and Panga (2020). He has also played a role in Qarib Qarib Single as a side actor. He has also authored a book, Aur Phir Nazm Bane, in 2021. The book has been inaugurated by the Principal of the Haldia Institute of Technology. Earlier, he used to write on minor issues but has begun to report on severe topics to spread awareness in his audience. His audience loves him for his writing style and the plot of his stories. His books are trendy, and are highly appreciated.

Nikhil Mehrotra is a renowned director, screenplay, and story writer in the Bollywood film industry. He graduated with a commerce stream. He started his career as a writer in the Bollywood film industry with the film Bhootnath Returns in 2014. It was directed by Nitesh Tiwari. Nikhil played the role of additional script writer along with Shreyas Jain, Piyush Gupta, and Nitesh Tiwari. He wrote dialogues and scripts for Kill Dil, starring Ranveer Singh, Ali Zafar, Parineeti Chopra, Govinda, and many more. Shaad Ali directed this film in 2014.

Nitesh Tiwari is an Indian writer and director; he works in the Hindi Film Industry, Bollywood. He was born in Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh. He has written a story, screenplay and dialogues of the film, ‘Chillar Party’ in 2011; also co-directed the film with Vikas Bahl. Further, he was written and directed the film ‘Bhoothnath Returns’, which released in 2014. He has written dialogues and screenplay for the film ‘Kill Dil’ (2014). He directed a film with Aamir Khan in a lead role; the film titled ‘Dangal’ released in 2016. Nitesh has also written the story, screenplay and dialogues of the film ‘Dangal’.

Archit Patel is a cinematographer who has worked in the Bollywood film industry. He has worked on many hit films. Archit has worked as a trainee assistant director in Rang De Basanti (2006) and as an assistant cameraman in It’s a Strange World (2009) and Blood Tie (2010). He has also worked in the films Matru Ki Bijlee ka Mandola, 24: India, Psycho Raman, Tumhari Sulu, and Mard ko Dard Nahin Hota. Archit has worked as a cinematographer in Super Factories: Tetra Rak and Panga, Lohpath, Mr. & Mrs. Singh, The Dewarists, Simple Rhyme videos, VH1 Supersonic, Project Marathawada, Bhamashah, Rear View, Dhaka Attack, Side Hero, Jestination Unknown, So Sicily, Panga, Laghushanka, and Hurdang.

Jay is an Indian Cinematographer. He is based in Mumbai and has an experience over a decade. He attended Saishav School, Vadodra. He also attended the Academy of Arts University, San Francisco, California. He worked in a feature film named ‘Khatta Meetha’ where he was an assistant cameraman.

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.

Sanchit Balhara is a background music composer who works in the Indian Hindi film industry. He is popular and is widely acclaimed for his works in the films bajirao mastani and padmaavat. Sanchit was born on 1st October 1988 in Rohtak in Haryana to Mr. Bal Singh balhara and Mrs. Mukta Choudhary.

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.

Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scriptwriter from Bellwood. He is best known for teaming up with Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar came to recognition as a scriptwriter duo of Salim-Javed. Salim-Javed was instrumental in making of Amitabh Bachchan the superstar and 'angry young' image in Indian cinema, While Salim had ideated stories, Javed used to write the dialogues. Javed Saab used to write in Urdu, which was written in Hindi by some assistant writers. In his initial days, Javed was an assistant to Urdu writer and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Later, he married Kaifi Azmi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after divorcing his first wife, Honey Irani. Javed had married Honey Iran while he met her during the making of Seeta Aur Geeta.

Annu Kapoor or born as AnilKapoor, is an Indian movie actor, TV and radio presenter who were born on February 20, 1956 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has an almost similar name with the actor, Anil Kapoor, so in 1982 he decided to change his name to Annu Kapoor. He was trained in the National School of Drama in New Delhi, India in 1976.

In 1979, he first appeared as a stage actor and he was noted for his appearance in Ek Ruka Hua Faisla under the direction of his brother, Ranjeet, in 1982. Shyam Benegal, an Indian director who made Annu’s debut film, Mandi in 1983.

Annu was also part of the serial, DD National (DD1) in 2007 and performed in the black comedy film, 7 Khoon Maaf as Inspector Keemat Lal. The Golden Era – With Annu Kapoor is the melancholy show about the Indian cinema, specifically Bollywood Music. He was the radio presenter in the 92.7 Big FM station with his show called, Suhaana Safar with Annu Kapoor.

His career traversed for over 30 years. He has done TV serials, game shows and performed in Bollywood cinema. He also hosted the STAR One’s singing contest, Antakshari – The Great Challenge. Annu played an Obsessive-Compulsive physician in the Bollywood comedy-drama, Vicky Donor, in 2012, which became a renowned critically acclaimed film and gave him the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2013, he appeared as Sir Yograj Khanna in the Bollywood action comedy film, Yamla Pagla Deewana 2, under the direction of Sangeeth Sivan.

Annu came from a family connected with art and nationalism. He was the son of the poet, Shabnam Kapoor, who was one of the very few people that mastered Urdu, Arabic, and Persian languages. She was also articulate in languages like Punjabi, Gujarati, Marwadi, Marathi, and some other dialects. Annu has four sons and has been married twice.

He also directed various plays and films such as the Abhay (The Fearless) that received the National Film Award for Best Children’s Film and V. Shantaram Award in 1994. He was also the Aao Jhoomein Gaayen on SAB TV, a musical talent competition for kids and the Gaan Gaao Taaka Naao on Kolkata.

Annu have done several films from 1983 to 2014 and Television appearances such as Close Up Antakshari, Quile Ka Rahasya, Idea Jalsa, Junoon Kuch Kar Dikhane Ka and a lot more.
 

Asees Kaur is an Indian Playback Singer. She works in the Hindi Film and Music Industry. Asees was born on the 26th of September in the year 1988. She was born in Panipat, Haryana.

Born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Divya Kumar is an Indian Bollywood playback vocalist who sang in various Bollywood movies. He belongs to a musical family. Divya is the son of Bhagwan Shivram, who is a musician and grandson of Pandit Shivram, who was a composer for some regional movies and motion pictures by V Shantaram. Divya began singing at the age of eight, and as a kid, he showed up on several stage shows. He considered a different career. However, his mother asked him to choose vocalist as his profession. He appeared within the troupe of Kalyanji Anandji in many shows and has worked recently with Javed Ali, Shreya Ghoshal, and Sunidhi Chauhan, which are all from the music school of Kalyanji Anandji.

Music composer and singer, Siddharth Mahadevan, is the son of a very acclaimed music composer and singer, Shankar Mahadevan (a part of Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy). Siddharth was born on 3 March, 1967.

Devabrot Chaliha is a famous sound mixer and sound engineer. He works for Hindi Film Industry. Devabrot is a very fine sound engineer, and he worked in many Bollywood movies like Drishyam directed in 2015, Queen directed in 2013, Wazir directed in 2016, NH10 released in 2015, and many other films. In all these movies, he worked as a sound engineer. Devabrot worked in more than 100 films as a sound engineer and sound department.

Sandeep Meher is an award-winning production designer. His home town is Dahanu, but currently, he lives in Mumbai. He finished his schooling from K L Ponda High School and graduated from J J Institute of Applied Art in Bachelors of Fine Arts. From 1st January 2014, he has been working in Lasa production Design till present. He has worked in many blockbuster movies as a production designer like Dangal in 2016, Bareilly ki Barfi in 2017, Shubh Mangal Savdhaan 2017, and Baaghi 2 in 2018.

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.

Vaibhav Vishant is an Indian casting director based in Mumbai, popular amongst the audience for his work in films like Haider (2014), PK (2014), Badlapur (2015) and Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017). A pass-out from Delhi Public School, Rourkela, he’s been working in the industry as a casting director for close to 11 years now. Over the years, Vishant has worked in quite a few movies involving the big guns in the industry, when we talk about the actors. According to him, it’s not very tough for a smart actor to strategize in an efficient way. He played the role of Young Khalid in the National Award-winning film Shahid (2012).

Ballu Saluja is an Indian-Editor. Along with being an editor, he is also a cinematographer. He mainly works in the Hindi-Film Industry. From the year 2000, he is highly active in the Hindi Film Industry and is also thinking about working in other industries. He is a hardworking, and dedicated person. He has acted in many films, some of them are named as Lagaan, which released in the year 2001. Pinja, which released in the year 2003. Swadesh, which released in the year 2004. Jodha Akbar, which released in the year 2008. Dangal, which released in the year 2016.

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.

Deepak Agrawal is an Indian composer and lyricist. He was born on November 16, 1989, in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. For his love and passion for music, he moved to Mumbai, Maharashtra, in 2009. He is trained in folk and classical music. Deepak started his career as a lyricist in the film Zindagi 50-50. After that, he worked in other films like Oops A Desi in 2013, Hum Bade Aashiq Mizaaj in 2016, Khel To Ab Shuru Hoga in 2016, Ek Kahaani Julie Ki in 2016, Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai in 2017, and Raktdhar in 2017. He also composed the title song, "Khel To Ab Shuru Hoga."

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.

Yagya Bhasin is a child artist, who has worked in films as well as TV shows. He was born on 15th August 2009 in Laksar, Uttrakhand. His parents Deepak Kumar Bhasin and Sonia Bhasin moved to Mumbai for his acting career. In Mumbai, he joined St. Agnes English High School, Mira Bhayandar, Maharashtra. His father worked as a section Officer at Uttrakhand High Court in Nainital. He left his job to pursue his son’s career.

Yudhishtir Urs is a Hindi actor. He was born on 25 November 1975. He is known for his work in Pela Adhi Akshar, a comedy, drama, and romantic film released on 24 March 2017, directed by Kunal Shah. It was written by Sudhish Kamath, Kunal Shah and Kaushal Shah. It starred Ashok Badal, Naval Baraiya, and Semal Bhatt. He worked in Break Ke Baad, a romantic comedy film released on 25 November 2010, directed by Danish Aslam. It was written by Danish Aslam, Vishal Dadlani, and Parsoon Joshi.

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