Hindi Movie Review Phir Milenge - Cast & Crew

Revathi is a popular south Indian actress, who has appeared in Hindi films too. Born as Asha Kutty, she changed her name to Revathi, for the stage. Right from the beginning of her career, she did not lose her popularity, because of her excellent performances. Mann Vasanai, directed by Bharathi Raja is her first movie. Pudhumai Penn was the movie that showed her in a different angle and she was praised for her performance. Pagal Nilavu is one of her top snatched films and in Aan Pavam she acted as a dumb girl, who lost her voice in an accident. In this film, she paired with Pandiya Rajan and the movie was a super hit. Kai Kodukkum Kai is the only film, she paired Rajini Kanth. She has acted with Kamal Hassan in a number of films, among which Oru Kaidhiyin Diary, Magalir Mattum, Thevar Magan and Punnagai Mannan are memorable. In Magalir Mattum, she co-starred with Urvashi and Rohini and the film was a super hit.

Sarita Patil is a producer who works in the Bollywood film and TV industry. Sarita is one of the most successful producers working in the industry right now, and she has never let anything hinder the progress of her career, despite being a woman in a career that is dominated by men. She has been a trailblazer for many future women producers.

Jayashri Ramnath or Bombay Jayashri, as she is known, is an Indian Carnatic musician, composer, and singer. Born in Kolkata, Jayashri belonged to a family of musical cognoscenti. Her parents, N. Subramaniam, and Seeta encouraged her to pursue the art of Carnatic music right from the tender age of four. Later on, Jayashri continued her education in music under T. R. Balamani for nearly a decade. She completed her scholastic education from St. Anthony’s High School in Chembur and graduated from the R.A.Poddar College in Mumbai. Jayashri also pursued a Diploma from the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in New Delhi. Her thirst for music led her to Hindustani music greats Shri. Mahavir Jaipurvale, and Pandit Ajay Pohankar, with whom she spent more than six years acquiring the skill of Hindustani vocals. Jayashri also trained under the careful tutelage of the Padmashree Lalgudi Jayaraman, in Chennai, and learned to play the instrument Veena from G.Dhandapani Iyer. Her inception to concerts occurred in the year 1982, and ever since, Jayashri has graced stages all over the country such as the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, India International Centre, and cultural events such as Vishnu Digambar Festival, Bhakti Utsav, all in New Delhi. Besides, Jayashri has also performed at the Kuthira Malika and Surya festivals, in Trivandrum, the Saptak in Ahmedabad, and also in the metropolitan city events such as at the ITC Sangeet Research Academy in Kolkata, Shanmukhananda Sabha in Mumbai, and the Chowdia Memorial Hall in Bengaluru.

Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became the winner of All India Light Vocal Music Competition. Her fame and career began with her winning a television singing reality show named Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

Indian playback singer and album artist Sonu Kakkar was born in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. Neha Kakkar, and Tony Kakkar are the siblings of Sonu kakkar. She started singing jaguars when she was five years old. She was the contestant of the V channel shows Indian Pop Star. Music director Sandeep Chowta gave her first song Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo, and this is the most famous song in her career.

Born on 4th March 1980, Kamalinee Mukherjee has worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali films, but she is primarily a Telugu actress. 

Kamalinee graduated in English literature and then she got involved in a theater workshop. Phir Milenge was her debut film, but she was noticed in the film Telugu film Anand, which won several awards. 

Born in Kolkata, Kamalinee worked in every professional and amateur plays on stage during her school and college days. Interestingly, she took up masculine characters. Painting, writing poems, spiritual aspects also attracted her, other than theater. In fact, one of her poems was selected by a leading website and eventually she participated in a seminar which saw spiritual leader Dalai Lama presiding over it. Kamalinee had many years of training in classical dance Bharatanatyam. 

Kamalinee had a brief stint with hotel management, but that didn’t fascinate her. Later, she persuaded a theater arts course and worked in several theater plays. The ads Parachute, Neel Kamal, Ayush and Fair & Lovely were her venture in modeling. 

Director-actor Revathi provided her a role in her directorial endeavor Phir Milenge. Mukherjee’s parents were all for this career, though the former was quite doubtful at the outset. Then she made her debut in Tollywood with Sekhar Kammula’s Anand. The character of an independent modern lady was liked by Mukherjee since she could relate to it. Though Mukherjee felt that she could have done better in the film, she was bestowed with the Best Actress Award from Nandi Award. 

Later Mukherjee acted in several films, including the popular Tamil film Vettaiyadu Vilayadu. The Telugu film Godavari was well received and Mukherjee’s role, in particular, was appreciated. Then the Telugu film Gamyam happened which won both the Filmfare and Nandi Awards. 

Her Malayalam film Kutty Srank, opposite Mammooty, won six National awards. Mukherjee was lavishly praised for her performance as a Latin Christian involved in forbidden love. She also acted in her mother tongue Bengali; the film Aparajitha Tumi also gained her appreciation. Then she worked in a couple of ventures in Telugu and Malayalam. She has over 27 films to her credit. Kamalinee is indeed an actress par excellence.

The duo executive producers George Pius Tharayil and Suresh Balaje established a film production company ‘Wide Angle Creations‘ at Chennai and had an overall control on every aspect of a film's production right from scripting to the censoring of the project. Suresh Balaje is the son of film producer and actor K. Balaji.

Suresh Balaje is a film producer who produces Indian movies in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. He has also produced a few French films. He is known for movies like Megham, Niyaman, Makkal En Pakkam, Gandharvam, 13 B, Dheepan and several others. He is also known as Suresh Balaji.

Born in Agra, India on January 22nd, 1977, Atul Sabharwal blossomed to become a writer and a director. He gained immense recognition through ‘Aurangzeb,' the movie he wrote a script for and directed. It is an Indian action thriller and casted several A-list actors like Arjun Kapoor in the lead role, Swara Bhaskar, Sashaa Agha, Prithviraj Sukumaran were cast in crucial roles while Rishi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Amrita Singh gave their best in supporting roles.

Ravi was born in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. By profession, he is a cinematographer. Also, he penned the script and directed one movie. He has got some nominations and awards for his brilliant works. With a connection to the South Indian movie industry, he also has worked in Bollywood, and his work won acclamation. His great zeal for literature helped him to create a magazine (online) named Yavarum Kelir. His interest in photography is linked to the death of his mother, who he lost at a very young age.

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.

Nikhil Prabha is a singer, music director, and music composer born in Kerala who has been doing his work in Malayalam films and music. He worked as a playback singer in movies like Flat No 4B (2014), Madhuramee Yathra (2018), and Suvarna Purushan(2019). As a music composer, Nikhil worked in films such as Annarakkannanum Thannaalayathu (2010), Kittuo (2013), Moonnaam Naal (2015), Suvarna Purushan (2018), Balcony(2020). His songs like Idanenchil, Kaalil Thaalavum, Pazhanimala, and Mele Vaanil Minnum Thaaram Pole are by him. He is well-known for the movies Balcony, Flat no 4B, and Madhuramee Yathra. He worked with famous singers from the industry like V Devanand, Kalabhavan Mani, Sidesh, G Venugopal, Midhu Vincent, and many more.

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.

Prasoon Joshi is an Indian poet, writer, lyricist and also an advertising guru. He is also the President of the McCann Worldgroup in South Asia and the CEO of McCann Wordgroup in India. He won the Best Lyricist award at the Filmfare for two consecutive times from 2007 to 2008. In year 2014, he received the same award for the biographical sports drama film, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. He also won the Best Lyricist award at the National Film Award twice; one for Aamir Khan’s drama film, Taare Zameen Par and another one for the historical war drama film, Chittagong.

Prasoon was born on September 16, 1971 in Uttarakhand, India and spent most of his childhood days in Almora. His father is D.K. Joshi, a PCS Officer and his mother is Sushma Joshi, a political science lecturer who has been part of the All India Radio for over 30-years. Prasoon starter his career in writing at the early age of 17. He wrote his first book, Main Aur Woh which was inspired by Thus Spake Zarathustra by Frederich Nietzsche. Subsequently, he wrote two more books which established him as an author. He launched his book, Sunshine Lanes on January 2013 at the Jaipur Literature Festival. He studied Bachelor of Science (BSc) and Physics until he was elected to took a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at the Institute of Management Technology in Ghaziabad, India. At the same time, he decided to start his venture in advertising.

Prasoon started his career in one of the leading agencies worldwide, Ogilvy & Mather in New Delhi. For more than a decade, he worked as a Creative Star and became an Executive Creative Director in the leading office in Mumbai. In 2002, he also worked as the Executive Vice President and the National Creative Director of the global advertising agency, the McCann Erikson and later became the Regional Creative Director for South and South East Asia. In 2006, he was promoted as the Executive Chairman for the McCann Worldgroup India and also, the Asia Pacific’s Regional Creative Director.

He has done a series of advertisements including his campaigns for LG, NDTV India, Saffola, Marico, Perfetti and the Coca-Cola campaign who won in the Cannes along with Aamir Khan. His television commercial for Happydent was still notable and considered as the best ad in India until now. Prasoon was later called as ‘The Ad Guru of India’. Some of the award-winning advertising ads that he did were for brands like Cadbury, Close-Up, Coke, Ponds, Asian Paints, CNN IBN: India rising and more. He also donned several advertising for the public including the Pulse Polio, Anti Child Abuse, UN Millennium Goals: Anti Poverty Campaign and more.

He was debuted as a film lyricist in the critically acclaimed Lajja by Rajkumar Santoshi. This led him to Yash Chopra’s romantic comedy film, Hum Tum from where he gained the Best Lyricist award for Saanson Ko… at the 2005 Screen Award and a nomination for the same award, for the song, Hum Tum at the 2005 Zee Cine Awards; followed by a series of Bollywood films like Delhi 6, Fanaa, Black, Rang De Basanti and more. He also penned the soundtrack on Aamir Khan’s starrer film, Rang De Basanti. He also worked on the dialogue of the film and this became his debut in screenwriting. In 2006, he also penned the lyrics of the music from the box-office romantic crime drama film, Fanaa. Prasoon won the Best Lyricist awards for the song, Chand Sifarish at the Filmfare and IIFA Awards in 2007. He also wrote the lyrics for the song, Maa in Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par in 2008. Prasoon has won the significant National Award for two times; one is from the film, Taare Zameen Par and the other one for Chittagong in 2013.

This year, Prasoon Joshi will be the very first Asian to become the Chairman of the Cannes titanium Jury. He was also one of the juries in the reality singing competition show, Dhoom Macha De which was aired on NDTV Imagine in 2007. He has won over 200 national and international award for his advertising work, as a lyricist and as a scriptwriter. He was married to Aparna, an advertising professional with whom she met at O&M Delhi and her daughter’s name is Aishaanya.

Abhijeet was born in Kanpur and belongs to a Bengali family. He got his primary and secondary education from Ramakrishna Mission Higher Secondary School, Kanpur, and got his higher secondary education from BNSD Inter College Chunni Ganj, Kanpur. In 1977, he did his graduation in commerce from Christ Church College, Kanpur. In 1970, he started singing on stage. He learned and developed his singing style by listening to Kishore Kumar’s songs. In 1981, he went to Mumbai to get a degree in chartered accountancy, but his passion towards music was very strong, therefore he started his singing career.

Febi Mani is a very popular Tamil playback singer. She has worked in many popular movies as well. Febi Mani has a beautiful and melodious voice and the audience loves her songs very much. Her songs are available on YouTube, Gaana and Saavn, which the population can easily access. She got married to Srikanth Deva. Her husband Srikanth is a Music Director in Tamil films. One of the Srikanth’s popular songs is NO Money No Honey and the audience likes his songs as well. Febi Mani’s popular music albums are Muthu, Vaali, Ilamai, Majunu and much more. She did a great job in all these albums and all of these are very popular.

Mahalakshmi Iyer was born on 21 March 1990, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She is a professional Indian singer and playback singer. Iyer is best known for her Hindi and Tamil songs. She has sung songs in many other Indian languages like Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Assamese, and Kannada. She belonged to a piece of Tamil music backgrounded family. Iyer was the daughter of her mother, who is a Carnatic classical singer as well. She started taking classes in Hindustani music at a very young age. Iyer has three sisters named, Kalpana, Padmini, and Shobha, and she was the youngest of all. Iye has been raised in Chembur, Mumbai, India.

Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Though he started his career by covering songs of Mohammed Rafi under the T-Series record label owned by Gulshan Kumar, his first break came in 1990 when he did playback singing in the movie called Janam. In 1995 he started hosting the popular musical TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, after which he delivered the famous single Acha Sila Diya Tune for the film Bewafa Sanam. Some of his famous tracks are Sandese Aate Hai from the movie Border (1997), Ye Dil Deewana from the movie Pardes (1997). In 1999 he released his debut album Deewana, he also sang the title track for the movie Kal Ho Na Ho. As an individual composer he has worked on movies like Singh Saab The Great, Sooper Se Ooper and Jal. Nigam has contributed in Britney Spears track I Wanna Go, and has also released a track in the album The Beat of Our Hearts as a tribute to Michael Jacskon. In his small acting career he has acted in films like Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahaani, Love In Nepal and Kaash Aap Humaare Hote. Nigam is married to Madhurima and also had a son named Neevan.

Vijay Yesudas (Born: 23rd March, 1979) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer from Chennai. He is known for his work predominantly in the south Indian film Industry, especially Malayalam, and Tamil films as well as in other Indian Languages such as Telegu, Kannada, and Hindi.

PT Selva Kumar is an Indian film director/producer/Marketing and PRO, who mainly works in the Tamil film industry. Selva began his career as a journalist before start working with film director SA Chandrasekhar, who later appointed Selva as his son Vijay's press relations officer. He briefly moved into production during 2003, financing TP Gajendra's family drama, Banda Paramasivam, which later reproduced in Hindi starring Akshay Kumar’s Housefull 2. Selva started working on his first directorial project in January 2012, when it declared that he had decided to sign up four stars in the lead roles with Nakul, Santhanam, Shiva, and Premji Amaren. Priyamani was reported to have joined the cast, but the movie not officially announced.

Salman Khan is a very famous Indian actor and a producer. He was born as Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on December 27, 1965 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Salman is referred to as one of the most successful actors in Bollywood. His father is Salim Khan who is also an actor and a screenwriter while his mother is Sushila Charak (Salma Khan). He graduated from St. Stanislaus High School in Mumbai. Prior to this, he went to Scindia School, Gwalior together with his brother, Arbaaz Khan. He also studied at Elphinstone College.

Abhishek Bachchan, or Abhishek Srivastava, is a very well known famous celebrity in the Indian film industry. He is the son of Bollywood’s biggest iconic stars, Amitabh Bachchan, who made more than 100 films in his acting career and won over 30 awards. Abhishek is also known by the name Junior B. He was born on February 5th, 1976, in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Be it the bespectacled bully senior from '3 Idiots' released in 2009 sharing screen with influential Aamir Khan or the naive Tamil Software Engineer in the USA trying to learn English in English Vinglish released in 2012 with the one of the beautiful and greatest actress of all-time, Sridevi, he always won our hearts. The actor who is currently residing in Bangalore, India is a Malayali but never was in Kerala and has been living in Lagos, Nigeria. Rajeev Ravindranathan has always been passionate about acting as a hobby and is a stage artist from a very small age. He worked as a creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi. Rajeev is working for Bollywood film industry as an Indian Film actor,a stand-up comedian, a theatre personality and owner of a creative shop of his own. The actor started his career as from Freaky Chakra which is a 2003 Bollywood comedy-drama film which was directorial by V. K. Prakash and Ziba Bhagwagar. He then played a role in Raja Menon’s Bas Yun Hi (2003), Revathi's Phir Milenge (2004), Guilt (2007).