Hindi Movie Review Raqeeb - Cast & Crew

Tanushree Dutta is an actress and model from India. She was born in Jamshedpur, and usually appears on Hindi movies. She is known for winning the title of Femina Miss India Universe in the year 2004. She was also counted in top finalists for Miss Universe pageant. Dutta, hails from a Bengali family, and was born in the year 1984. She did her schooling from DBMS English school in Jamshedpur, and completed her studies in Pune. After getting modelling assignments, she dropped out from college and started ad campaigns, ramp shows, and print shoots. Tanushree Dutta, even worked as sales executive with an event management company. While she was in her struggling days, she took training in Indian classical dance and music from Rabindranath Tagore academy.

She started acting in films in 2005 with films Ashiq Banaya and Chocolate, where she did a great job. The movie Ashiq Banaya Apne rocked the charts of music, and the filmed gained a huge success. She even performed well in many genres of films like thriller, comedy, romantic, and horror. However, her career witnessed a short span in the entertainment industry. She even came into few headlines for some controversies and red carpet looks. She proved some negative reviews on her wrong by giving amazing performances in Apartment, Rama The Savior, and Rokk. She loves travelling, and is also into yoga, adventure sports, and spirituality.

Neena Kulkarni is a Marathi stage actress who has established her worth in gold through many superb performances on Marathi stage and films. She was born in a family of doctors and both her parents are still practicing doctors.

She had been interested in acting since her childhood and took part in the skits and one act plays when she was as young as 9 years old. She was a regular in such programmes of Makrand society at Mahim in western suburbs of Mumbai where they used to live. Incidentally she still lives in the same society. She completed her graduation from Elphinstone College Mumbai with French as a major. After completing her BA, she took up acing on stage as a full time profession and in due course of time proved herself to be a devoted and committed actress through her performances mostly in Marathi theatre and stage. Slowly and steadily, she moved on to Television and movies mostly in Marathi. Gradually she moved to Hindi serials and the age bracket she was in, she was offered the character roles of generally a good mother or mother in law in many serials.

She performed as Mrs. Iyer, the mother of female protagonist in the serial 'Yeh hain Mohabbatein' and as Gulnaar in Sony TV serial Heena in a loud sari and make up with Urdu accent and surma in her eyes.

Her husband Dilip Kulkarni was also an actor and passed away a few years back. Recently she has entered into film production and the first film produced by her company shevai (Marathi) was successful.

Kulkarni Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Raj Kanwar was a Bollywood well-known director. Raj Kanwar was born in the year 1961 in India. Raj did his education in Col. Brown Cambridge School, Dehra Dun. Before making it to Bollywood, Raj Kanwar was in theaters in Delhi directing plays. His Bollywood journey began when he moved to Mumbai and started assisting Sunil Hingorani for ‘Ram Avtar’ and Raj Kumar Santoshi for ‘Ghayal’. Ghayal did well at the box office, and these movie experiences were enough for Raj Kanwar to start his first directorial project ‘Deewana’. With these movie experiences, Raj Kanwar had made a good bond with Sridevi, Sunny Deol, and Anil Kapoor, whom he could cast in his future films.

Rahul Khanna is an Indian film actor. He is the son of famous Bollywood Star Vinod Khanna. Vinod Khanna is also a Politician. He was born on 20 June, 1972. His mother is Gitanjali who is an ex-model. He grew up in Mumbai. He studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His younger brother Akshay Khanna is also a Bollywood Actor. 

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.

Sharman Joshi was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra to a Gujarati Brahmin family. He comes from a family of Gujarati and Marathi theatre actors. He is the son of Arvind Joshi, a popular name in Gujarati theatre and his aunt, sister as well as cousins, are known Gujarati and Marathi theatre actors. Sharman Joshi’s sister is Mansi Joshi, who is married to Rohit Roy, and both are TV actors and are recognized for the roles they have played. His spouse is Prerana Chopra, the daughter of Prem Chopra and Uma Chopra. He has three children, an elder girl Khyana and twin boys, Varryan and Vihaan. Apart from starring in some hit films in supporting as well as leading roles, he has himself done theatre for a few years. His play, ‘All The Best’, in which he plays a deaf boy did 550 shows in about three years. He made his debut in Bollywood in 1999, with the film, Godmother, in which he acted alongside Shabana Azmi, Nirmal Pandey and Milind Gunaji.

Anurag Singh is an Indian director and film script writer who predominantly works in Punjabi film Industry. He is the highest paid director of Punjabi film Industry and well known as “Hit Machine” of Punjabi films. This famous director hails from a small village in the Kapurthala District of Punjab, an Indian state. His burning passion for film-making motivated him to do further studies in film-making. So he left India to study Media Arts in Deakin University, Australia before working in Bollywood. This highly talented director won 4 PTC Punjabi Film Awards in the category of Best Director.

Vivek Shauq had a short and remarkable journey of life.He was a versatile personality and accomplished great success in acting, writing and singing. He worked on his humorous side and proved worthy of it as well. He had a great life journey which started on 21 June 1963 and was ended soon on 10 January 2011 due to cardiac arrest at Thane, Maharashtra. But he has achieved all the fame and success which makes him unforgettable even after his death.