Hindi Movie Review Section 375 - Cast & Crew

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.

Meera Chopra is a well-known actress in the South Indian film industry and is also related to Bollywood divas Priyanka, Parineeti, and Mannara Chopra. She mainly appears in Telugu and Tamil films and also recently made her debut in the Hindi film industry. Meera Chopra is also known as Nila in the South Indian film industry. Meera was born on 8th July in the year 1983 in the capital city of New Delhi. She pursued her college education at Delhi University’s SGTB Khalsa College and later moved to New York. She pursued a degree in Mass Communication from Saginaw Valley State University in the state of Michigan. After graduation, Meera worked with NDTV, a top television news channel in India as one of their program executives. Later she quit her job at NDTV to pursue modeling, acting and fashion. She partnered with Storm Fashion in the year 2010. She made her entry into acting when she was offered a film in the Tamil industry. She was offered a role in S. J. Suryah’s ‘Anbe Aaruyire’ a romantic film that was released in the year 2005.

If there is any director who drew the attention of the audience and especially critics, and who arose curiosity about his whereabouts and plans, he is none other than the single movie yet a magnum opus creator Ajay Bahl. With his one movie BA Pass, he got a huge fan base and recognition in the ever exploring Bollywood. He is a very soft natured guy with a different flair in the film industry. BA Pass is a movie which is a short story adaptation of The Railway Aunty. The major stars in BA Pass were Shilpa Shukla, Shabab Kamal, etc. This movie has a wonderful plotline. This movie starts with a sad incident of the protagonist's father and soon, in search of money, an aunt makes the protagonist into a prostitute.

Born on July 1, 1987, Abhishek Pathak is an eminent producer of Bollywood classic masala films. He entered the film industry at the age of 17. Initially, he worked for three years in the production field, but to learn more and be better at his work, he flew to USA and studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy.

Bhushan Kumar was born on 27 November in 1977 in Delhi in India. He is a film and music producer for many films in Indian Film Industry. He is mainly known for Hindi films. He is also the MD of the T-Series Music Production. His parents are Sudesh Kumari and Gulshan Kumar, who is the founder of T-Series. He was married to Divya Kumar in Katra. They were married in 2005. They are blessed with a boy whom they named Ruhaan.

Akshaye Khanna is a popular Indian film actor. He was born on March 28, 1975, in Mumbai, Maharashtra in India to Bollywood actor, Vinod Khanna and Geetanjali Khanna. His brother, Rahul Khanna is also an actor and they are both members of South Mumbai’s Royal Willingdon Sports Club. Akshaye studied at Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute in Mumbai. 

After this, he was debuted in the Bollywood romance film, Himalay Putra in the year 1997, along with Hema Malini, Satish Shah, and Johnny Lever. This film was produced by his father, but it became unsuccessful at the box-office. In the same year, he acted in Sunny Deol-starrer film, Border. His role as the 2nd Lieutenant was initially offered to Aamir Khan, but due to date issues, the actor declined the offer and so Akshaye was cast in the film. He earned the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut and got nominated at the Star Screen Award for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role in the year 1998. Followed by this, was a string of not so successful films including, Mohabbat, Kudrat, Love You Hamesha, Laawaris, and Dahek: A Burning Passion from the year 1997 to 1999. 

Akshaye was starred in the Bollywood romantic drama musical film, Aa Ab Laut Chalen, alongside Rajesh Khanna. Though the film did an average business at the box-office, he received praises for his brilliant acting. Akshaye acted opposite Aishwarya Rai in the critical and commercial Bollywood romantic drama film, Taal, which was helmed by Subhash Ghai. In the year 2001, Akshaye appeared in the multi-starrer comedy-drama film, Dil Chahta Hai, alongside Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Kulkarni, Preity Zinta and Dimple Kapadia. This film became a defining moment in his career as it turns out to be a commercial and critical success. Initially, his role as Sid was offered to Abhishek Bachchan, but he turned it down, and so Akshaye was cast in the film and was applauded by his brilliant performance. He also earned the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor and his career was re-launched. In 2002, he played as a villain in Bobby Deol-starrer Humraaz. This film earned him critical acclaim and a nomination at the Filmfare for Best Performance in a Negative Role. Later, he shifted to doing comedy films and was cast in the Priyadarshan’s Hungama in 2003 and Hulchul in 2004; both films made it to the box-office success.

This was followed by lukewarm and unsuccessful films like Aap Ki Khatir and Shaadi Se Pehle in 2006, Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love, Gandhi, My Father and Naqaab in 2007 and Mere Baap Pehle Aap in 2008. Akshaye later appeared in Abbas-Mustan’s blockbuster thriller film Race in 2008. This film became the 4th highest-grossing film of the year and his character as Rajeev Singh earned him the Screen Awards and IIFA Awards for Best Villain. But his performance as Harilal Gandhi, the son of Mahatma Gandhi (played by Darshan Jariwala) in the critically acclaimed biographical drama film, ‘Gandhi, My Father’ was considered as his best performance as an actor. 

In the year 2010, Akshaye was starred in the action-comedy film, No Problem, along with Sanjay Dutt and Kangana Ranaut in the lead role. He was also praised by his performances in the action thriller film, Aakrosh and in the heist comedy film, Tees Maar Khan in 2010. Besides acting, Akshaye voiced the character of Alex the Parrot in the 3D animated film, Delhi Safari in 2012. He was also featured in the Hindi comedy film, Gali Gali Chor Hai, along with Shriya Sarn and Mugdha Godse. 

After this, he took a hiatus from acting and recently made a comeback in the upcoming action-adventure film, Dishoom, helmed by Rohit Dhawan and is expected to release in the year 2016.

Actor Rahul Bhat got noticed for his talent with his third film ‘Ugly’. This actor made his career in the glamour world as a good-looking model. For his good looks, he was considered to play a lead character in TV serial ‘Heena’. ‘Ugly’ was a film of veteran filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. The film was showcased even in an International film festival and had got rave reviews. Before making his screen presence felt in Ugly, the actor was seen in two more films earlier, “Yeh Mohabbat Hai” and “Nayee Padosan”. Both the films did not bring any credit to this actor. So he took a long sabbatical from films. After a gap of eight years, he came back to the silver screen through Ugly. The actor never wanted to get over-exposed in his career. So, when he got offer to act in a TV serial ‘Heena’(way back in 1998), he never took up any more acting in any TV shows, but produced TV shows. This TV actor knew Anurag well in his struggling days. Both had lived in the same colony and Anurag told him to try his luck in movies, Once Anurag told that he had a script for him in his mind and Rahul can fit well in the character. That is how Rahul had bagged the project Ugly. In this film, he had played a drunkard character and therefore, had to take drinks very often to get a 100 per cent drunkard look. He has got many offers after ‘Ugly’, but his new film “Aur Devdas” is releasing very soon. He will also be seen in “Fitoor” with actress Tabu, which is based on a classic novel “Great Expectations”. 

After the release of his two earlier films, Yeh Mohabbat Hai and Nayee Padosan, which did not give him recognition, he made a vow that he would not sign any films, if he was not sure of the entire team cast. He is a rare actor, who wants to give 100% to the film requirements in which he is given a chance to act. Before his life had changed with the release of ‘Ugly’, he also launched his own production house Filmtonic, that would produce TV shows. But he never acted in any of the shows that he had produced. As a producer of TV shows, he was engaged in producing just three serials. May be he has taken a break from TV shows, and would be totally involved in upcoming films that he has in his hands, The actor was born on 7th December, 1997 in Srinagar (capital of Kashmir).

It was the January of 2011. The President of India, Mrs. Pratibha Patil congratulated a versatile genius at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi for introducing a national matter through his creative prowess. Here come three questions. Who was that so-called intellect? What is his creativity? And of course, what was that National issue? Let’s tell a story at first. The person about whom this all discussion is, was a student of Agnel Technical College (Bandra, Mumbai). An engineering student he was, but his field was something different. Yes! In 1994, he graduated with a degree and started working in a manufacturing company. He changed his career when he joined an ad agency as a copywriter. But no! After being influenced by the film ‘Company’ by Ram Gopal Varma, he approached Varma with his scripts. Varma was impressed with his work in ‘Sarkar,’ and he asked the person to script three other films.

Nilesh Wagh is an Indian art director who worked for the Hindi film industry. He is also a production designer who has worked with big Bollywood celebrities and in successful Bollywood movies. He worked with celebrities like Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Akshay Khanna, Richa Chadda, Saif Ali Khan, Shahid Kapoor, and many others. Some popular movies in which he worked include Badmash Company in 2010, Ek Tha Tiger in 2012, Nautanki Saala in 2013, Love Aaj Kal in 2009, Dus Kahaniyaan in 2007, Ghost Bana Dost in 2006, Section 375 in 2019, Anandi Gopal in 2019, etc. He also received two awards out of three nominations in Filmfare Awards Marathi, National Film Awards, and Zee Gaurav Awards.

Film editors are an essential part of the filmmaking process, but they're often overlooked since they work behind the scenes. Editing is one of the other things that we understand from the cinema. Editor Aarif Sheikh is a national award-winning editor associated with movies like ‘Drishyam’, ‘Noor’, ‘Baadshaho’. ‘D-Day’, ‘Haider’, ‘Phanthom’ etc.