Hindi Movie Review Phoonk - Cast & Crew

Amruta was born on November 23, 1984 in Pune, Maharashtra, India. She is currently living in Mumbai and has younger sister named Aditi. Amruta belongs to a middle class family. Her parents are Raju Khanvilkar and Gowri Khanvilkar. Amruta has worked in Hindi and Marathi films and she became a leading actress of Marathi cinemas and she is a well known dancer. She participated in a talent hunt show in 2004 named “Zee India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj” and took 3rd position in it. She also performed in series of Sahara One TV named “Ada” followed by series “Time Bomb 9/11”. Amruta also hosted a show named “Bollywood tonight”, which was aired on Zee TV. She started her career in Marathi film name “Golmaal” in the year 2006. She became a leading lady, by doing a Marathi film titled “Saade Maade Teen”, which was released in 2007 and produced by Zee talkies and it was the very popular film of its time. Amruta also took part in a dance based reality show “Eka Peksha Ek” in which, she proved that she is one of the best dancers. She also hosted a dance based reality show named "Dance Maharashtra Dance" which was aired on Zee Marathi. She is currently hosting a program “Comedy Express” which is on air on ETV. She has worked in number of Hindi films like “Mumbai Salsa”, “HatTrick”, “Contract”and “Phoonk”.

Ahsaas Channa is an Indian Actress, Model, Anchor and Dancer. She was born on 3rd February 1999 in the city of Jalandhar, India. Her family followed Sikhism. She has been a very talented and smart girl since her childhood. She is also very spiritual. Her parents separated when she was very young. Her father, Iqbal Channa is a Punjabi film producer and her mother Kulbir Kaur is also an actress, who is mostly seen in supporting roles in TV shows.

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.

Ram Gopal Varma is a famed Indian film director and writer, critically acclaimed for his work in the Telugu cinema and Bollywood industry. He speaks a million messages through his films and has been widely appreciated for his realistic portrayal of characters that act as a mirror image of the Indian society.

Azam Khan is a known producer in the Bollywood film industry. He has been in the film industry for more than 20 years. Azam Khan makes only Hindi films. In 2008, he produced the featured film Phoonk. That year, he had two more films besides the featured film, Phoonk. The other two films were Khallballi: Fun Unlimited (2008) and Dasvidaniya (2008). He is also known for making the films like 340 (2009). Ram Gopal Verma directed the film Phoonk, and it was highly loved by the audiences, leading to two award nominations at Stardust Awards, India and Screen Awards, IN.

Kenny Desai is a character actor in Bollywood, who has acted in both television and cinema. The actor made his debut in art cinema and has acted in films with Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Satish Shah and others. His first film was ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’, which released in 1983. The film was appreciated a lot for its superb satirical depiction, and the actor got noticed, even though he had been casted in a small role. He played the role of Keni Desai in this movie.

Sanjeev Sudeep, known by the short name, Sudeep is an Indian film actor, director, screenwriter, playback singer, and producer. He has mostly worked in Kannada cinema. He has also appeared in Big Boss version of Kannada television. Sudeep, being a Mechanical engineer by graduation first had the opportunity begin his acting career with a television advertisement title 'Premada Kadambari'.