Hindi Movie Review Prassthanam - Cast & Crew

She is an Indian film director and also worked as an associate director. She completed her Hons. in English from prestigious Delhi University. She also went to the New York film academy which is in Mumbai, Maharashtra for screenwriting. Her interests include dogs, she loves dogs so much and it's her favorite animal.

Manyata Dutt was born on July 22nd 1979, in Mumbai, India. She is the wife of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt. They were married on February 7th of 2008 at Goa, in a private ceremony, Hindu style. She got herself converted as a Hindu, later. She is of the star sign Cancer, and is 170 cm  or 5’7” tall. She is the CEO of Sanjay Dutt Productions. Her parents and family were in Dubai and she was brought up there, as her father had a family business in Dubai, earlier. Manyata was not the name her parents gave her but it was Dilnawaz Sheikh, originally. When she was about 23 years old, she came to Mumbai with big dreams about movies and glamour business. She had started acting in not so known movies like “Lovers Like Us”, with a not so known actor, Nimit Vaishnav. It was reportedly described as one with hot scenes and was released in 2002. After marrying her in 2008, Sanjay Dutt has reportedly brought off all the rights of that film and removed its commercial availability anywhere in any form. Earlier, as she was struggling to get a break, she was approached by Director, Writer, and Screenplay Writer, Prakash Jha of the hit movie Gangaajal in 2003 to do an item number in it, which she did and became famous for it. She was known as Sara Khan till then, and Prakash Jha had given her the screen name Manyata, and that was how it became her present name. But her dreams of becoming a movie star has to end as her father had died around that time, and she had to take care of the family business. Bollywood producer Nitin Manmohan had introduced her to Sanjay Dutt and they began liking each other, her skills as a cook helping a lot. It was reportedly since the year 2000 that the couple knew each other, though they were known to be dating only since 2006, as they have appeared together in an award function held in 2007. It was reported that she was still married to Miraj ur Rehman, the man she married in 2003 and with whom she has had a son who is presently living with his relatives in Dubai, when she married Sanjay Dutt in 2008. Miraj ur Rehman had been arrested and rearrested in several cases, in Bandra and in Hyderabad, one amongst them is the sending of obscene SMS to a Bollywood actress. On October 21st, 2010, she and Sanjay Dutt have become the proud parents of twins, the boy Shahraan and the girl Iqra. When Sanjay Dutt was taken to Yerwada Central Jail she was reportedly seen chasing the van in her car. She is with him in the Pali Hill house after his bail. Lately, she has been diagnosed with some non malignant lung tumor that already had cost her surgery twice.

Deepali Sathe was born on August 13, and her star sign is Leo. She is the new rising sensation in Bollywood music. Deepali originally belongs to Dewas, Madhya Pradesh. She started when she was three years old. She has mostly sung during Sai Samiti bhajans, and other competitions. According to Deepali, her grandmother, Padmavati Sathe, has always supported and encouraged her to learn and strengthen her classical music skills. Her father, Anil Kumar Sathe has also given her full support and guidance, and he was the one who used to take her to her classical music Gurus, Smt. Geeta Dandekar Hi, and Sh. Lalit Shankar Pandit Ji. Deepali then took her singing to next level by participating in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa(singing reality show) aired on Zee TV in 2008.

PallaviBagga is an Indian art director who has worked on the set of many of Bollywood’s foremost productions. She has been a part of many award-winning feature films and commercial movies. Pallavi was born in the beautiful town of Chandigarh to parents who were teachers by profession. Pallavi grew up pursuing her dream of studying design and working in the film industry.

Gayatri Shinde is an art director in the Indian film industry. She is also a production designer and set decorator. She majorly works in and around Mumbai. She is an up-and-coming art director who has worked on significant movie projects like Andhadhun, Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi, ABCD: Any Body Can Dance, and Prasthaanam. Gayatri Shinde has also worked on the web series Pushpavalli, which stars famous standup comedian Sumukhi Suresh. Her most recent work is the 2022 movie Radhe Shyam, where she worked as a set decorator. She is known for her dedication and work ethic. She is an artist whose hobbies include creating new art pieces.

Brinda is one of the best choreographers of South Indian cinema and Bollywood. Her name comes in the list of the greatest artist of the 21st century. Brinda through her talent and dance moves made it to the South Indian film industry and Bollywood also. Brinda has worked in the glamour industry for past 20 years as a professional choreographer. Brinda dedicated all her life to choreographing and assisting various notable actors.

Priyanka Mundada is a Bollywood costume designer who has been working in the industry for over ten years. In 2005, she debuted in “Aashiq Banaya Aapne: Love Takes Over.” She rose to prominence after this film, and she went on to work as a stylist and designer on several other films. When it comes to her on-set styling of the celebs, she is on another level. In all of her works, she has maintained a fashionable atmosphere. “Asharam” (2020), “Metalhood” (2020), “Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors” (2020), and “Durgamati: The Myth” (2020) are some of her most recent costume design projects (movie). She has done an excellent job on all three projects; each of the three shows has a particular genre, and she has managed to convey the essence of each drama to the audience through her costume design.

Deva Katta is an American Indian filmmaker. He is well known for many films in Telugu. He directed a Telugu film, Prasthanam. It was pictured at International Film Festival in India. It became so famous that it won Nandi award and South Critics award in Filmfare as the best film in 2010. He was born in Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh. His family moved to, and he was brought up there in Chennai. He and did his mechanical engineering degree from Satyabhama Engineering College in Chennai. He later shifted to the USA for his MS.

Ali Fazal is an Indian actor who was born on 15th October 1986 in Mumbai. He is from a Muslim family. He attended The Doon School in Dehra Dun where he developed his passion for theatre. He started his career by working in the TV advertisement and working on the television screen and did advertisements for Pizza Hut, Micromax Mobile, Union Bank of India, Slice, LG and other advertisements. Along with the advertisements, he also did theatre named Prithvi In Mumbai. Rajkumar Hirani, the famous director, when attended one of Fazal’s performance, he decided to offer him a role is his movie which is the biggest hit named “3 Idiots”. Ali’s charming touch to the role adds an air of sympathy to the character of Joy. In this movie, he worked with actors like Amir Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Madhavan. Ali made his place in the film industry and was picked up by the Shahrukh khan production house and he was made to cast in “Always Kabhi Kabhi”. Though, it was a major flop movie, Ali’s performance was praised by the audiences. After that movie, he played a lead role in a new movie “Fukrey”, which was a major hit and he played a lead role in that movie. Now he is working in many Bollywood projects and he also worked in a Hollywood movie titled “Furious 7”. Now he is working in many new projects and some of them are “Future 15” and “Ek Tho Chance”.

July 29, 1959, was the day when the two legends of cinema Sunil Dutt and Nargis gave birth to the ‘Munna Bhai’ of Bollywood, Sanjay Dutt in Bombay. Almost all are aware that Sanjay Dutt’s life is like a roller coaster ride with so many ups and downs in his personal as well as professional life. But this man has never lost hope and is still struggling to get into a normal life as he is behind the bars since 2013 because of the TADA case. He went to Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh. In his teenage years, due to peer pressure, he started taking drugs. For almost nine years he took heroin and cocaine as drug intakes and after a long period he realized that he should quit it all and wished to live a normal life.

Kush Gupta is a cinematographer who is associated with some of the most leading productions and critically acclaimed movies in Australia and India. His career is a series of colorful adventures in the entertainment industry Kush grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where his early years were spent performing in local theatres and community programs. The prodigy was recruited for his talent at dance as a performer in the lead troupe of the ‘Children’s Performing Company of Australia’ at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Abhijit Chawathe is an Indian producer who is known for his work in the Bollywood industry. His career has overseen the release of many commercial movies. Abhijithas made a substantial impact on the Hindi film industry with his knack for financial management and his incredible foresight. He has worked on an astounding series of thirty films, which include 3 international movies, 5 television shows, and several video advertisements.

Rahul Rawat is a talented director and producer from the Bollywood film and television industry. His film is the winner of the Indian Panorama 52nd International Film Festival of India. He has directed over 150 television & digital commercials. He has an experience of 12 years in the direction of advertisement film production. He studied at B.N Public Senior Secondary School and completed graduation in Mass Communication and Journalism from Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar, Haryana. He worked as an assistant film director in the Comfed, Himadri Production, Razorblade Films Pvt . Ltd.

Ankit Tiwari was born on March 6, 1986 in Kanpur, India. He is a drastically advancing music composer and a playback singer who had given back to back hit albums and songs. He got into the Bollywood Cinema world in the year 2010 until the present. His works are quite impressive and blissful listening to them. Initially, he entered into the film industry as a music director after which he also lingered into playback singing. In the year 2013, he got an award for the music director category. Also, his album contested for a couple of awards in the Filmfare Awards.

Vikram Montrose is an Indian music composer known for his work in Bollywood. He is most known for his work on the soundtrack for the popular Hindi biographical work, ‘Sanju (2018).’ Vikram has been training in music for as long as he can remember. He was born in Allahabad, where he started training in playing the piano at his local church and back home with his mother. His musical talents also expanded to other instruments like the guitar and drums during his days in school.

Dev Negi is a Bollywood playback singer. He was born on 25 June 1989 and is 27 years old. His Star Sign is Leo. He is born in Dwarahat district of Almora, Uttarakhand. He was brought up in a musical background therefore he grew up playing and practicing Manjiras for Bhajans at a temple of Lord Shiva. No one ever thought that one day he will be the celebrity singer giving his voice in songs starring superstars such as Akshay Kumar, Emraan Hashmi, Varun Dhawan, R. Madhwan, and many more. Dev pursued Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) from Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, Punjab. He learnt music in Jalandhar. Besides being a professional singer, he is also a songwriter. Uttarakhand has come up with bunch of talented people time to time and Dev is one of them.

Mika Singh is an actor, singer, stage presenter and composer. He was born on 10 June 1977 in Durgapur Bihar. He is the youngest child among six of Ajmer Singh Chandan and Balbir Kaur. Mika Singh real name is Amrik Singh. He is the real brother of all time famous punjabi singer Daler Mehandi. He is one of the most famous Punjabi singer. He sang several songs in Bollywood ‘Mauja Hi Mauja’, ‘Dhanno’, ‘Dhinka Chika’, ‘Gabru’ and ‘Mai tera agal bagal hu’.

Mika is also known for the songs Jaato Ka Chora and Rani Tu Mai Raja of the movie Son of Sardar. In 2014, he shares the stage with the rockstar Yo Yo Honey Singh for the song Mast Kalandar. The song is very much appreciated by the audience especially the young of India. Since 1998, Mika Singh was the part of more than 150 albums and movies either he was the composer, song writer or the singer. Some of his notable work was done in the albums ‘Sawan Mai Lag Gayi Aag’, ‘Ishq Brandy’, ‘Gabru’, ‘Something Something’, ‘Dunali’ and movies like ‘Son of Sardar’, ‘Housefull’, ‘Shootout at Lokhandwala’, ‘Jab We Met’, ‘Singh is King’, ‘Once Upon A Time in Mumbai’ and ‘FALTU’.

Mika also appeared in three films as an actor. In 2014, he plays the lead role in the movie ‘Balwinder Singh famous ho gaye’. He played the role of Balwinder Singh who is a small farmer in Punjab but due to his hard work and the help of his bestfriend Jagjeet Singh he gets fame in whole India. The role of Jagjeet Singh was played by the famous rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh.

Sukhwinder Singh, an asset to the Bollywood Music Industry, was born on 18th July 1971. He is a playback singer, who is quite active from the year 1992 until the present. There are a huge number of his fan followers, and he is gifted with an incredible voice. Apart from any element in any aspect of film making, songs sung by him made a phenomenal difference in its success. He has sung some outstanding numbers in the Bollywood film industry in the late nineties.

The singer, composer, and foley artist, Vikram Biswas, has mostly worked in Hindi movies. He is among the busiest personalities of the Bollywood film industry. Vikram initiated his career in 1998 from the notable movie Deep Impact in which the singer acted as a post- production sound artist. He then presented his artwork as a foley artist for various other movies Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, etc.

Suman Roy is an Indian art director who is known for his work in the Bollywood industry. He has worked in the production design department for several popular movies and television advertisements. Suman’s passion lies in all the more artistic sides of cinematography. He initially studied architecture at Jadavpur University, and during this period, he discovered a love for movies and creative design.

Ramcharantej Labani is a well-known art director in the Bollywood film industry though he originally is a Telugu boy. He is an alumnus of Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He was initially into technical stuff and was not interested in film-making. But an encounter with Anand Sai, a popular production designer, set his mind on entering the film industry. He was doing odd jobs on sets before taking up a course at FTII. And then, he began his journey to success by assisting people like Ravinder, Rajeevan, Saini S Johray, and Sukant Panigrahy. He has worked not only in Hindi cinema but is also popular in Marathi and Telugu industries.

Kunal M Shah is one of India’s foremost casting directors. His legacy is shaping a lot of Bollywood cinema and the Hindi entertainment industry. His career in cinema spans the greater part of two decades during which he has worked in the capacity of a journalist, casting director, and producer. Shah started off as a film journalist during which he worked for some of the most renowned publications in circulation like, Mumbai Mirror, Asian Age, and Mid-Day.

Ashish Yadav is a famous Indian director and producer from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, whose works have flourished well in the Indian film industry. He graduated from Mahatma Gandhi Inter College, Meerut, Rajasthan in 2011. He has worked as a filmmaker in Majnuaa in 2017. He has worked as a casting director at Spices Studio and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., a former casting associate at Shashi Sumeet Production Pvt. Ltd., and a former casting director at Contiloe Entertainment. He has worked in the casting department for several hit films such as: "Shoorveer" in 2020, an action TV series starring Aadil Khan and Preeti Gupta, "Prassthanam" in 2019, an action drama movie starring Sanjay Dutt and Jackie Shroff, and "Yaaram" in 2019, a short drama starring Ishita Raj and Siddhant Kapoor.

Ganesh Acharya is an Indian choreographer, who is mainly seen in Hindi films. His father Gopi was also a choreographer in Bollywood. When Ganesh Acharya was ten years old, his father died. His sister was at Cuttack and he went there and learnt basic dance from his sister. Later, he joined as an assistant to Kamalji, the famous choreographer. At the young age of 12, he started his own dance troupe. Anaam was his first film as a choreographer. It was released in 1992 and Ganesh Acharya was 21 years, when he became a choreographer for films.

Rajeev Surti; a zoology student pursuing to complete his Masters makes a huge turn in his life by taking a chance of proving himself as a choreographer. Rajeev has taken training from choreographer Zubin on Jazz, contemporary and Bharatnatyam. He took training in Hip hop from Alvin Ailey dance school (Manhattan) and Faith (New York). Ganesh Hegde, vaibhavi Merchant, Raju Khan taught him Bollywood Style. A passion for dance and choreography made him a master of various kinds of dance forms such as Indian folk, classical, krumping, b-boy, hip hop, break dancing, popping, locking, ballet, salsa, tango, jive to name a few.

Indian choreographer Vijay Ganguly, who was born in 1980, is best known for his work on the films Jagga Jasoos (2017), Andhadhun (2018), Stree (2018), and Love Aaj Kal (2018). (2020). For the song "Galti Se Mistake" in Jagga Jasoos, he also won the 2018 Zee Cine Awards for Best Choreography and the 2017 International Indian Film Academy Award for Best Choreography, he received the 2018 Filmfare Award for Best Choreography. His father, director Anil Ganguly, gave birth to Vijay Ganguly in 1980. He is Rupali Ganguly, an actress,' younger brother. As a young actor, Vijay Ganguly appeared in a few movies like Saaheb (1985), Sadak Chhap (1987), and Dushman Devta (1991). As an assistant choreographer, he began his career in 2005 with the movie Bunty Aur Babli. Subsequently, he worked as an assistant choreographer on movies like Taare Zameen Par (2007), Yuvvraaj (2008), and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011).

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.

Parag Desai is an Indian Film Public Relations Officer. He works in the Bollywood and Hollywood Film Industries. He also worked in a few Television Shows. He is the COO of Universal Communications. Parag was born on the 3rd of November in the year 1972. He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. In 1998, Parag started working for Corporate Communications in Mumbai. He later started working in the Indian Television and Films. He worked in the TV shows “Close Up Antakshari,” “Sa Ra Ge Ma Pa,” “Khichdi,” and a few more. He had his debut in Bollywood in the year 2003. Initially, he worked for a few small films in the publicity and promotion campaign.

Makarand Surte is a Hindi Colorist. He works as a colorist for RedChillies, a firm based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a highly respected a highly demanded colourist. He was one of the founding members of RedChillies, and he holds the position of a senior colourist. He also worked as a Digital Intermediate Colourist for a lot of movies such as Son of Sardaar (2012), Ferrari Ki Sawaari (2012), Shanghai (2012), Agneepath (2012). Apart from these movies, he has also worked in the editorial department of films such as Minnal Murali (2021), Pathaan (2023), Haseen Dilruba (2021), Chennai express (2013).

Abbas Ali Moghul is a Bollywood Action Director and a stunt coordinator. He has more than 200 films under his name, as of 2017. His career began with the movie Dil, in the year 1990. Ali has worked on projects like Judwaa, Once Upon a Time in Mumbai, Special 26, M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, and many more.

Hasnain Sheikh is a Visual Effects Artist and Compositor. He lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is the VFX Creative Supervisor and Compositing, and VFX Team Lead at CE Studios. He was born in March 1986. At present, he is 34 years old. He completed his Diploma in Digital Arts at the Zee Institute of Creative Arts in 2008-2009.

Bollywood actor Chunky Pandey’s career graph provides for interesting reading, with all its ups and downs and twists and turns. For the sake of records, he has an impressive list of over 80 films against his name and in 2015 has achieved a silver jubilee in his filmy career, but these figures can hardly convey the vicissitudes that his career had to go through. It would be best to look at his career in three distinct phases – the initial phase when he entered the industry and within a short time got noticed for his roles, (although not really in lead ones); the second phase when he suffered from the frustration at not being able to break the jinx in Bollywood of being cast in successful lead roles, and deciding to foray into Bangladeshi cinema; and the last and most recent phase when he decided to try his fortune once again in Bollywood, and still continuing his efforts in the rather changed circumstances compared to his initial years there. It may be difficult to pass judgement on which of these phases has been his most successful one, as they were all in different circumstances and at different periods. In an isolated manner, may be his Bangladeshi phase was the most successful, as all his films there were in lead roles, and he had been able to build up a good fan base which was quite overawed by a Bollywood star “condescending” to work in their midst, although all this happening without his being able to speak a word of Bengali. More rationally, his first phase was perhaps the most eventful and successful too, with his bagging the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his “Tezaab”. At the same time from a personal perspective it must have been a disappointment for him as he did not get many lead roles. He did act in several films like “Aag Hi Aag” released in 1987, having Dharmendra & Mousumi in the lead; followed in 1988 by two Dharmendra starrers “Paap Ki Duniya” and “Khatron Ke Khiladi” ; “Ghar Ka Chiraag” in 1989 with Rajesh Khanna and finally “Mitti Aur Sona” in the same year where he at last got a lead role. The irony is that with the advent of new generation actors like the Shahrukh Khans and Amir Khans he could not come into the lime light, and continued to fester as the aide or friend to the main heroes like Rajesh Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Govinda etc. Even in hits like “Aankhen” the limelight was on Govinda although they formed an equally creditable pair. In his return phase in 2003, after the sojourn in Bangladesh, he made a determined effort to claw back into a niche position, but ended up with mixed results. Starting off with minor roles and some good acting, though in bizarre movies of Ram Gopal Varma, he could ultimately make a mark with “Housefull”, appearing both in the original and the sequel, both of which were hits, offering some solace and hope of better times to come.

Intro: Jackie Shroff is a well known Bollywood actor who also has presence on Indian television sector.

Jackie Shroff is a popular actor who has worked for more than 175 movies in various languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, and Punjabi. He was launched by Dev Anand in his movie Swami Dada in 1978. Subhash Ghai chose him for the movie Hero which became a huge hit and paved the way of success for Jackie Shroff in Bollywood. Some of his movies which became huge commercial success include Karma, Ram Lakhan, Izzat, Tridev, Rangeela, Saudagar, Angaar, Khalnayak, and Aina. He got his first Filmfare award for best actor for the movie Parinda which was released in 1989.

While Jackie Shroff is known for his work and success with Bollywood and regional movies industry, he still holds a good space in Indian television industry. It should be noted that Jackie Shroff and his wife Ayesha Shroff had 10% share of Sony TV since it was started and only in the year 2012, they decided to sell their shares. In the year 2010, Jackie Shroff appeared as a judge for a magic competition television show India’s Magic Star which was telecasted on Star One. Jackie Shroff appeared on television screens for this show as a judge from 3 July 2010 to 5 September 2010. Apart from that, Jackie Shroff also appeared on Comedy Nights with Kapil Sharma along with his son Tiger Shroff in the year 2014.

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.

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