Hindi Movie Review Shab - Cast & Crew

Mitakshara Kumar (born on 27 January 1984) is an Indian filmmaker and writer, her recent work being the Associate Director of Bajirao Mastani – the 2015 historical romance movie. The 32-year-old is from Meerut and completed her graduation in Economics from Lady Shriram College for Women, New Delhi. She graduated from The Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, to start her journey towards film-making and television.

She began her career as an Assistant Director for a 2005 Hindi Film ‘Bluffmaster’ starring Abhishek Bachchan and directed by Rohan Sippy. She assisted films like Mummy Ji, Bas Ek Pal, Mummy Punjabi, DOA: Death of Amar, ‘Rajjo’ and Dil Kabbadi after that. She also assisted in the direction of the TV Series ‘Roomies’ in 2010. She got her first internatio...

Raveena Tandon is an Indian film actress who is known for doing some commercial cinema and then migrating to serious roles that gave her recognition as a serious actress. She made her superstar debut in film Mohra, which was supposed to be done by Divya Bharti. As Divya died, Raveena was the ultimate choice to play the role of the sexy girl, who did first item song’ Tu Cheez BariHai Mast Mast’. She was often paired with Akshay Kumar, and the duo became the most successful pair in Bollywood. She also made a hit pair with Govinda and did some blockbuster movies with the actor. Raveena made a sabbatical from films and did reject offers such as Dil To Pagal Hai, Gupt, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Virasat, which went to other successful heroines of Bollywood.

She surpri...

Arpita Pal has mostly contributed to the Bengali film industry. Prosenjit Chatterjee, the Bengali actor, is her husband. Tumi Ele Tai which was released in 1999, is her first film. The movie was directed by Prabhat Roy. Devdas, Prem Shakti, Deva, Protibad are some of the other films that she worked in.

Arpita has teamed up with several directors in Bengali movie industry including Rituparno Ghosh, Anjan Dutt etc. She has worked in both parallel and commercial cinema. Arpita has tried her luck in Odiya and Bhojpuri movies too. She had acted in Onir’s 2017 Hindi film Shab.

Bhavna Talwar is an Indian journalist turned film director. She has started her career as a journalist at the Asian age that covers film, theatre, and fashion. After that, she worked as an assistant director for eight years in an Ad film company. In fact, she started her career as a director with the movie Dharm (2007). Moreover, her debut movie has Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration at the 2007 National Film Awards. Her first movie stars Pankaj Kapoor and Supriya Pathak and the movie premiered as the closing film at the World Cinema Section in the 2007s Canes Film Festival.

Controversies with celebrities are common and this happened with Bhavna. Dharm her debut movie had selected in India’s Official Language Film submission for the 80 Academy Awards, but this movie ...

Dhanya Pilo is a filmmaker based in Mumbai. She was born in 1980 in the small town of Kottayam, Kerala, India. She is also a space designer, catalyst, Urban designer, photographer, and visual consultant. She owns a website named after her, which provides various services related to Pilo's work and knowledge. She runs a studio, Studio Pilo, which has produced a film named- Precipitate. Miss Pilo was the director of this film. It was a short film with a mystery touch. She has completed her graduation from the prestigious St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, BA in Economics, The National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, in film and video design, and the Strelka Institute for Media,...

Irene Dhar Malik is a famous editor, producer, and writer from India. She is best known for her work in the Hindi cinema industry. Malik edited the first Indian English daily soap to be produced in India, ‘A Mouthful of Sky (1995).’  She has worked as an editor in ‘Sorry Bhai’ (2008), ‘I AM’ (2011), ‘42 Kms’ (2011), ‘An American in Madras’ (2013), ‘Celluloid Man’ (2012), and ‘Chauranga’ (2014). In 2013, she won the prestigious National Film Award for ‘Celluloid Man,’ a documentary film (2012). Malik collaborated with director ‘Onir’ on ‘Shab’ in 2017. ‘Raveena Tandon,’ ‘Arpita Chatterjee,’ ‘Ashish Bisht,’ ‘Areesz Ganddi,’ ‘Gaurav Nanda,’ and ‘Simon...

Chakshu Arora is a veteran director. He has not directed any movie till now but has worked as a first assistant director and second assistant director in many films. Chakshu has worked with eight movies till now. He kick started his career in the year 2014 with the film Chauranga. He also worked as the second assistant director in this picture. Chauranga is a 2016 Hindi movie. It is the first film of Indian writer-director Bikas Ranjan Mishra, which is a production by Onir and Sanjay Suri. The movie was developed at the Screenwriters' Lab which was organized by National Film Development Corporation of India in association with Locarno Film Festival and the Script Station of Berlinale Talent Campus, a fragment of Berlin International Film Festival.

The movie won Golden Gateway of India Award for Best Film (India Gold 2014) i...

Siddharth Chauhan is an Indian screenwriter, director, and producer. Hindustan Times Group presented him with the "Young Achiever" award in August 2014. Chauhan is untrained in this area on a professional level. His movies are getting released in Sarajevo, the United Kingdom, the United States, Belarus, Indonesia, New Zealand, Italy, China, Canada, and France. He is the first independent Himachal Pradesh filmmaker to have released every of his domestically made movies outside of India. Amar Colony, Siddharth's first full-length movie, had its world premiere at the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (POFF), where it was awarded the Special Jury Award for "originality of vision." The movie made its Indian premiere at the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), where Siddharth received the Best Debu...

Ambika Suri is an Indian casting director and actress. She is a multifaceted personality as she has also worked as an art director and a production designer. Her most famous work would have to be, “Shab” which was released in the year 2017 directed by Onir which was a movie of the genres drama and romance, She has also worked with Onir for the movie “My Brother…Nikhil” which released in 2005. She has acted in the movie “Home Delivery”(2005), which was directed by Sujoy Ghosh. Among her other works are “Padmaavat”(2018) and “My Birthday Song”(2018).

Ambika is from New Delhi. She did her schooling in The Mother’s International School, Delhi. She has also worked as an assistant director and creative producer. While she had auditioned the actors for the film, ...

Gaurav Nanda is an Indian Actor and a theater trainer. He was born in New Delhi, India and he relocated to his new residence in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He completed his graduation as an engineer. He did his Bachelors of Technology in Telecommunication from B.M.S College of Engineering at Bangalore. He got selected in his first year of college in an All India Talent Hunt organized by MTV. From there he began towards his first show Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi for Balaji Telefilms.

After that he started his training as an actor and got involved in theatre. After his graduation, he went to Mumbai and did a course at Whistling Woods International under the famous actor Naseeruddin Shah. He got his training from famous worldwide training places like WWII, NSD, FTII, LAMDA, AAFT etc. He is specialized in various ...

Sanjay Suri is known as an actor in Bollywood. The 1999 flick Pyaar Mein Kabhi is his debut venture. His work in the film was appreciated.  This flick had a debut of many people including the director and actors. The flick was a dud at the box office but had a couple of good songs. Later Suri worked in several supporting roles before tasting big success with the 2003 flick Jhankaar Beats. In Jhankar Beats, Suri shared screen space with Juhi Chawla.

Born on 6th April 1971, Sanjay spent 19 years of his life in Srinagar. The stay at Srinagar nurtured Suri’s love for nature. Suri was a star squash player during his school days. The year 1990 was bad for him since his father was assassinated in a terrorist attack. Hence, the family escaped to Jammu, and they had a brief stay at a refugee camp. Later they migrated to ...

Wendell Rodricks is an Indian fashion designer born in Goa, India. Rodricks take off to his career as a catering graduate, but later he moved towards his desire for fashion designing. He completed his studies in  Fashion Designing from the USA and France during 1986 to 1988. Rodricks was the first India, designer that got the privilege to attend  IGEDO event held in Germany in 1995 (world's largest garment fair), Dubai Fashion week in 2001, Malaysia fashion week in 2002, besides these events he was invited for the prestigious Paris Pret-a-Porter salon in 2007 and at the world’s biggest organic Fair BioFach held in Nuremberg, Germany in 2012. While in 1993, he beautifully portrayed Festival of Indian Culture in Beijing and Shanghai in China.

He currently lives in Colvale village that resides ...

Ashish Bisht is an Indian Actor who has enacted in numerous TV advertisements and has appeared in a movie called Shab. The very talented Ashish is from Delhi. He has this chocolate boy look. The brilliant and young actor is all set to kick-start his debut in Bollywood. The picture is a production by Sanjay Suri, Bhavna Talwar, Onir, and Mohan T. Mulani. Ashish has appeared in the role of Mohan, who aspires to become a model and luckily meets Raveena Tandon in his voyage. The film is a direction of Onir, and the music in the flick is by Mithoon. The other stars in the movie are Arpita Chatterjee and Gaurav Nanda. Ashish Bisht is an Indian film actor and a model who has done many commercials with the high and foremost brands like Pepsi, FedEx, Nokia, and various others.

He has made his debut in the Bollywood film industry with th...

Raj Suri is an actor in the Indian film industry. He also worked as a producer in many of the Australian-Indian movies. The actor hailed from Sydney, Australia with his roots in India. His immense talents include Acting, Photography, Production and Talent Acquisition. He devoted more than fifteen years of his life to the world of cinema. He extensively worked with the director Onir in many of his films. One such movie was ‘My brother Nikhil’ which got screened in Australia. He co-produced a film series with the name of ‘I am’ project. One of the movies from this series named ‘I am Megha’ was critically acclaimed and garnered a lot of positive criticism. The ‘I am’ project got selected for the Vancouver International film festival in the year 2019 and received the National award in the bes...

Indian Actor and model Shray Rai Tiwari were born 26 November 1989 in Rajasthan. He was in limelight in 2014 for the short film ""The Welcome"". It was a United Nations video for the LGBT community. He has been model for many popular brands including Yepme,Tuborg Zero, Lipton. Also, appeared as a model in Konyak tea, UTV Bloomberg, Cafe Coffee day, 7up, Kalyan sarees, Yamaha Ray, Caterpillar, Bindass, Franklin Templeton Investments, Jameson, Airtel TV.

He has done several roles in small screen including a show on MTV called Chat House, and Mental health with Cafe Counsel's series Appu Ki Duniya. Sharay appeared in Bollywood movie Shab in 2015, he played the role of Nishant. He also acted in Hindi film Kuch Bheege Alfaaz (2018). 

Simon Frenay is a French actor known to Indians for playing a stellar role in Bollywood movie ‘Shab’. After a series of the audition, Simon was selected as director Onir was on a lookout for a French look in the movie. Earlier, this French actor Simon came to spotlight with the movie ‘The Army of Crime’ (L'Armee du crime), which was a 2009 French movie.

This movie was directed by Robert Guediguian and found its screening as the official entry for Cannes Film Festival.  After this film, he got into another noteworthy project of director Robert Guediguian, Robert also directed in 2011 another French movie named ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro' (Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro), which had the first show screening in the 'Un Certain Regards' at Cannes. 

In his Bollywood debut &rs...

Onir was born on 30th April 1969 in Thimpu, Bhutan. He was deeply interested in movies ever since his childhood and spent all of his free time by watching films in theaters. He became the principal at one of the local schools in Nepal soon after he completed the necessary educational qualifications, but soon resigned the post as he couldn’t tolerate the communal violence that was subjected to his own students.

Onir came to Kolkata to learn about various aspects of filmmaking in detail from Chitrabani film school. He received a scholarship from SFBTTC in Berlin for film editing, and he quit his post-graduate study from Jadavpur University. After he had returned to India, he was very keen to work in Cinemas and perform whatever ta...

Amar Kaushik is a Mumbai-based director who hails from Arunachal Pradesh. His father was a forest officer and mother was a school teacher. Amar has lived in Mumbai over a decade and was involved in the role of an associate director on films such as No One Killed Jessica (2007) and Go Goa Alone (2013). Kaushik although began his career in art movies, but the director had of late, pushed some serious buttons, for good reasons.

His short film ‘Aaba’ is the latest film to join that proud lineage. Kaushik started to discuss the film 'Aaba' in more detail on the record at the Berlin International Film Festival. In his interviews with journalists and at public Q&As and queries he stated that the movie was inspired by a general discussion and topic which Kaushik’s mother narrated...

Mohan Mulani is a producer in the Bollywood Industry. He lives in Singapore. Mohan studied Business Administration and Management at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management after he completed his degree of Bachelors in Arts and Political Science from The University of California, Los Angeles. He then went to Stanford University, California for the Executive Programme for small companies. He was the director of trading and investment company Transco Holdings Pte Ltd. in Singapore and went on to become the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Harry’s Holdings Limited, Singapore.

Mohan was one of the members of the board of directors of Pocket Aces Pictures Pvt. Ltd., a digital entertainment industry in Mumbai, Maharashtra from 2015 to 2019, which was later on acquired by the music label Saregama India Limited. Mo...

Ajay Govind is an Indian cinematographer and writer who is known for his work in the Hindi and Malayalam film industry. He has been a part of several documentaries and short films which have set his work apart as a filmmaker. Ajay spent a lot of his young life moving around the country. He was born in Jhansi from where he later moved to Calicut. He completed a part of his schooling in Delhi and then moved to Bangkok. Ajay graduated with a degree in English literature from St. Stephen’s College. He moved to Kozhikode in Kerala, where his parents were from, and joined The Hindu’s NIE program there. Through this initiative, he conducted several training workshops at schools. He later began working on independent shorts and videos, and he went on to direct over 50 commissioned documentaries.

He worked on his first featu...

Mithoon Sharma is a singer and music director in Bollywood movies. He is the son of veteran background music composer Naresh Sharma, who has provided background musical score for over 200 films.  
Mithoon was born on born January 11, 1985. At a young age, he got a break to compose with Anu Malik for film ‘Zeher’ for one song ‘"Woh Lamhe Woh Baatein"’. The song was a hit, and entry in Bollywood became easier for him. IN 2006, he got the opportunity to compose along with Pritam for ‘Bas Ek Pal’. The song "Tere Bin" which had music by Mithoon was voted as one of the best songs during 2006. 

In 2007, Mithoon shared credit with another music composer Pankaj Awasthi for film ‘Anwar’. In 2007, h...

Amitabh Verma is a well-known lyricist who has contributed to several Hindi film songs. Amidst his lyricist career, he directed and wrote for multiple Bollywood films. Regarding his education, he attended Hindu college for Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology. He gained a professional career-oriented Diploma in Film Making and Editing from the Film and Television Institute Pune. 

He wrote the lyrics of "Alvida" from the album "Life In A Metro," "Bojhal Se" from the album "I Am," "Main Kaun Hoon" from the album "Lamhaa," "Kinna Sona Tu Sona Tu Haan" from the album "Bhaag Johnny," "Maa Ka Phone" from the album "Khoobsurat," and "Love Is A Waste Of Time" from t...

Most famous for his songs in Aashiqui 2, Arijit Singh has established himself as a prominent playback singer and music programmer. He was the runner-up in Fame Gurukul, a singing competition, in 2005. He then went on to win another singing reality show, 10 Ke 10 Le Gaye Dil.

Born in 1987 in West Bengal, Arjit was trained in classical music by his aunt and mother. He had a passion for music from an early age and his parents decided to get him a professional trainer, Rajendra Prasad Hazari for classical music and Dhirendra Prasad Hazari to train him at tabla.  His teachers encouraged Arijit to try out for Fame Gurukul in 2005 and chose to promote the Indian classical music genre.

Pritam Chakraborty gave Arjit a chance and signed him for three films; Crook, Golmaal 3, and Action R...

Krishnakumar Kunnath is an Indian playback singer of Malayalam region. He was born and brought up in Delhi. Krishna was born to C.S. Menon and Kanakavalli, both his parents are Malayali. He has sung a song in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayali languages. His other names are K.K. or Kay Kay. He has completed his schooling from Mount St. Mary’s school, Delhi. Krishna graduated from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University from the commerce background. During his school days, he won many singing competitions. Even before joining singing as his profession he was the lead vocalist for different college bands. KK was very much influenced by singer Kishore Kumar and music director R.D. Burman. No training was taken up by him in this field. After completing his graduation, he moved to Mumbai with dreams to become a s...

Arun Nambiar is a professional sound designer in north India. He is best recognized for his works in the sound department for the movies Raanjhanaa, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, Neerali, Bhram: An Illusion and many more. Arun Nambiar has worked in many films in the Hindi film industry. Arun Nambiar has worked as an assistant sound recordist, sound mixer, re-recording mixer, sound designer, sound editor and a sound recordist for films, TV movies, short films, and advertisements. Arun Nambiar first entered the entertainment industry in the year 1993. He started his career in the music field as an assistant sound recordist. He was the associate sound recordist of the Hindi movie Rudaali which was directed by film director Kalpana Lajmi and starring actors Rakhee Gulzar, Dimple Kapadia, and Raj Babbar and many more in the movie cast.

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