Hindi Movie Review Thappad - Cast & Crew

Taapsee Pannu is an actress and model of Indian origin. She is a beautiful and sexy actress. Her height is 5.6 Inches, and her star sign is Leo. She works as a software engineer, but she proceeds her career in modeling and then into the film industry. She did many South Indian movie, and also some Bollywood movies with famous actors and actresses. Taapsee Pannu was born in a Punjabi Family. Her Parents are Dilmohan Singh Pannu and Nirmala et Pannu. She has only one sister, Shagun Pannu. She passed out 12th standard Mata Jai Kaur Public School, Delhi. She did her graduation from Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology. She worked as a software engineer in a company. One of her contributions to the field of software development was an application made for iPhone by the name of ‘font swap’. She started from modeling. She got the opportunity to showcase her modeling skills in the talent show ‘Get Gorgeous’. Taapsee Pannu appeared in various television advertisements and at the Famine Miss India contest in 2008, she had also bestowed with many titles such as ‘Pantaloons Famine Miss Fresh Face’ title as well as the ‘Safi Famine Miss Beautiful Skin’ title. Some of the brands which she used to endorse after she had become a modelwereVardhman, World Gold Council, Havel’s, Airtel, Dabur, Tata DoCoMo, Pantaloons, Standard Chartered and Red FM. She came in the movie industry in 2010 in a debut film with K. Raghavendra Rao's. After this picture, she got three Telugu movie contract. Her next debut Tamil movie is Aadukalam. Her movie got six awards at 58th national film award ceremony.

Mrunmayee Lagoo is a Marathi actress. She is the daughter of famous Reema Lagoo who is known for her roles in movies like ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun’ and ‘Hum Saath Saath Hai’.

Nehal Padbidri is an Indian assistant director who worked for the Hindi film industry. She is an assistant director and also a script supervisor. Some of the famous movies in which she worked are The Villain, Article 15, Thappad, and Lootcase. She is a great second unit director worked with big Bollywood celebrities like Ayushmann Khurana, Shraddha Kapoor, Siddharth Malhotra, Taapsee Pannu, and many others. The Villain is an action, crime, and drama movie which hit the theatres on 27th June 2014. It was a blockbuster hit film directed by Mohit Suri. It won approx. sixteen win and six nominations including Apsara Film Producer Guild Awards, Awards of the International Indian Film Academy, BIG Star Entertainment Awards, Filmfare Awards, Screen Awards, and Stardust Awards.

Nandini Shrikent has a Post Graduate Diploma in Social Communication Media (SCM) from Mumbai. Like most of the Casting Directors, Nandini joined the profession coincidently and in her case, it was Zoya Akhtar who played the role of giving Nandini a chance to explore as a Casting Director. Nandini had started as an Assistant Director but later, made a shift to Casting. She still assists the Directors and is well known in the Bollywood industry. Nandini is in this business from considerably a long time but it was that one internship she recalls, under Govind Nihlani in Takshak which helped her to make right choices in Bollywood. 
Nandini was responsible for casting the entire cast for her first ever project for Farhan Akhtar’s Lakshya. It was her first gig and she had to cast all the soldiers in the movie who were about seventy. She took this up as a challenge and the results obviously paid off. She claims that most of her movies that she worked as a Casting Director has faired well in the box office with few exceptions like Luck By Chance but she still stands proudly about her choice of actors. 
She explains the process of Casting as reading the script ,discussing with Director, getting an idea of what the Director wants and begin taking auditions. Her suggestion to the newcomers is to have patience and perseverance. She advises them to practice every day and insists on keeping it neat and natural with an optimistic approach to the whole ‘getting the big break’ scenario. 
Nandini is seen working closely with Excel Entertainment. She is responsible for successful and eye-catching cast in movies like Dil Dhadaknedo Do, and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. She was much appreciated for her casting in Zoya Akhtar’s Dil Dhadakne Do, for having wonderful and a long line of the cast which included Anil Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Anushka Sharma and Ranvir Singh. 
Nandini has also done some projects for Dharma Productions for Karan Johar as Casting Director and cast for Student Of The Year among others. She started with Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham as AD with Karan and she was successful with all her projects with Dharma Productions. However, it is said that Nandini was in long search of a new face, a new talent for Students Of The Year, and Karan Johar came into the picture and it was him who brought up Alia Bhatt and suggested her for the female lead. 
The honor of casting for the infamous and Oscar-winning movie Life Of Pie is credited to Shruti and her skills over the years and her knack for finding the right ‘fit’ was clearly visible. This gives Nandini that edge of working with Bollywood and Hollywood. She has experience in casting a couple of Hollywood films and also sought after for advertisements and Hindi serials for television. This is one versatile persona who kicked off her career in early 2000 and recently completed her latest project Basmati Blues and The Valley. Having a Casting department in a movie house reduces the burden of finding the actors for each role considerably says Nandini. 
Nandini seeks perfection in her line of work and she is irked if she does not get the right actor even if it is for a supporting role in casting. She believes that her job is the most important one as she is the connecting medium between the roles (Director’s vision) and the actors and it is her search for perfection that has got her going strong in the industry. She is a calm person on most of the days and with patience, she gives the opportunity for the actor to take the audition and read the lines. She strongly feels in not giving up until she gets a perfect actor. 
This forty-year-old actor is married to NH10 actor Neil Bhoopalam (33) in 2013 and is said to have a happy life with him. Neil and Nandini were dating for quite long and they got hitched accordingly. Though there were talks about the age gap between the two, it did not seem to bother them. He journey continues with several projects in hand and she wishes to direct one day. 

Vishakha Kullarwar is an English costume designer. She did the costume designing in the project ‘Buddha in a Traffic Jam' and ‘Veerappan.' It's run time is one hour and forty-eight minutes. Its release date is May 13 and in the year 2016. It has a genre drama, crime, adventures, and thriller. Cast and crew of it are Aanchal Dwivedi, Pallavi Joshi, Anupam Kher, Vivek Vasvani, Arunoday Singh, Mahi Gill, Vivek Agnihotri, Gopal K Singh, Vishakha KUllarwar, Rohit Sharma, Satyajeet Gazmer, Attar Singh Saini, Bharat Bohra, Monika Gupta and many more. Vivek Agnihotri is the producer. Rohit Sharma did the direction. Satyajeet Gazmeer is the editor in it. Vivek Agnihotri also did the direction. Aanchal Dwivedi, Mahi Gill, and Pallavi Joshi are the actor, who did the acting in it. Vishakha Kullarwar did the costume designing in the film. Udai Prakash Singh is the art director.

Yasha Ramchandani works in the Indian film industry as a film editor. She went to the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune to study film editing. 'Kaun Kamleshwar?,' her student diploma film, earned the Satyajeet Ray Foundations' Best Short Film award at the 2013 London International Film Festival.

Jyotika Mirpuri is from Lucknow, India. She is an eminent makeup artist and a destination wedding makeup specialist. She worked with Kangana Ranaut for the film Krish 3 and Queen, Bipasha Basu for Pantene, Genelia Dsouza for First Track etc. Over the 2 years, she has assisted well-known celebrity makeup artist Brendon De Gee. Also, she has been associated as a head makeup artist for shows of Dance, various commercial magazines, and designers.

Dia Mirza’s original name is Dia Handrich. Dia Mirza is an actress from India, and also a Model and Director cum Producer (recently). She was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (Telangana). Her father Frank Handrich, a German interior designer and mother Deepa, a Bengali Hindu interior designer. She completed her schooling from Vidyaranya High School for Boys and Girls (based on the teachings of philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti) and Nasr School. Both the schools have located in Hyderabad. She also attended Stanley Junior College, Hyderabad, and got the bachelor’s degree in arts from Andhra Pradesh Open University. At the age of nine, her father died. Then, her mother got married to Ahmed Mirza. Later, she adopted her last step-father name as her last name.

Maya Sarao is an Indian actress worked in movies like Patiala House (2011), One By Two (2014) and Ankhon Dekhi (2013). Maya's mother's name is Pavane Mann. She is an Indian actress, copywriter and fashion designer. She plays the role of lawyer Netra Jaisingh in the Bollywood movie Thappad (2020). She is also the founder of the fashion brand Tich In. She also works as a copywriter and an editor. Maya made her acting debut in 2011 in Patiala House. She has since appeared in several Hindi films, including Bioscopewala (2018), Kashmir (2019) and Thappad (2020). She has also been seen in the web series Aarya (2020). Her hobbies include cooking and fitness. "Going to the gym and doing yoga regularly is an exercise in itself," is the moto maya lives by. She also has various tattoos on her back. Maya is an avid animal lover and has a dog and a cat that she loves very much.

Naila Grewal is an Indian Actress, who appeared for in the Bollywood movie Tamasha (2015) and Bhangra Paa lee in (2019). She is recently involved in a few modeling projects. She is graduated from Lady Shri Ram College and the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). She has 19.4k followers on Instagram and fans are liking her photos and dance rehearsal videos. 

Nidhi Uttam is one of those popular, pretty faces that everyone wants to see more of on Indian television. She has bagged quite a few important and popular projects and thus has earned a lot of fame. 

Nidhi played a significant role in the TV soap Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. The series beautifully captures the happenings in the life of an Udaipur family and the journey of Akshara, the obedient daughter. In spite of it being a huge cast, Nidhi left her distinguished mark for the viewers with her acting skills.

Before that, Nidhi has been a part of the big budget Balaji Televisions project Kasauti Zindagi Ki. She only joined the show after it took a huge generation leap. She played the role of Tara Bajaj, the granddaughter of Prerna and Mr. Bajaj. Getting to be a part of an important series early on in the career indeed played a significant role in life.

She dropped the serious face of Tara Bajaj, and joined Chaalbaaz No.1 as a contestant and made people laugh with her pranks and jokes. She also stars in Life OK’s Ek Boond Ishq which revolved around the ideas of marriage, prison and a disguised identity.

In 2013, Nidhi married Mohit Pathak in a grand ceremony where the entire team of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai was present.

Ratna Pathak is an Indian actress who has been a part of many Indigenous & International Projects through various forms of acting. She is a popular Theatre artist, film & television actress and co-founder of a theatre group called ‘Motley Theatre group’. She is the daughter of yesteryear’s famous Bollywood actress ‘Dina Pathak’. Her younger sister ‘Supriya Pathak’ is also an actress. She is married to famous actor ‘Naseeruddin Shah’.

Anubhav Sinha was born on 22nd June 1956 in Jamalpur of Bihar state, India. He is a very experienced and prominent Bollywood movie director who had given many successful movies in the industry. He completed his school in the place of Kalagarh of Garhwal. He did his class eleven and twelve in the place of Varanasi. As far as his graduation is concerned, he pursued an Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from a popular University of Aligarh. 

After the completion of his graduation, he was very keen and enthusiastic to turn out to be a film director of Hindi cinema. This was considered to be a wild decision as in he got to switch over from an entirely different field to that of having become a Bollywood actor. This drift is a big deal and he made it up quite successfully by having accomplished many hit movies in the box office collection. 

His prominent works include Dus, Tum Bin, and most likely acquired success was Ra One which was a revolutionary movie indeed. He got into the Engineering arena for about a couple of years in New Delhi. Later, he switched over to Mumbai wherein which he began his directorial debut. Before functioning as a prominent director, he worked as an assistant director for Pankar Parashar. 

After the wholesome experience, he drifted to direct the Zee Television channel. A couple of his shows, namely Shikasht and Sea Hawks were a huge hit and this brought about his fame. His recent film that got released in the year 2011 was Ra One and it saw an exquisite collection at the Box Office collection. Finally, he landed up as a proprietor of the production house namely Benaras Media Works. His company sign up for producing the movies and Television shows that are quite popular.

Pavail Gulati is a young rising star in the Indian film and drama industry. Pavail Gulati comes from Delhi. His father was a famous documentary filmmaker and his mother belonged from the medium of radio, where she was also a producer. Initially, he did not get much recognition and response from the gurus in the Indian film and drama industry. He was seen in a very brief role in the horror movies named Hide and Seek. After that, he appeared in the serial named Yudh as the son of Amitabh Bachchan. The role of young actor Pavail Gulati, in this serial has become the biggest source of confidence rising for the young upcoming star. He has accredited the improvement in his work and performance totally to the guidance and support of Amitabh Bachchan.

Pavail Gulati has got the formal training of acting from the film school, where he has received guidance from the great teacher and mentor Naseeruddin Shah. According to Pavail, he has got a simply unforgettable experience after learning from Naseeruddin Shah. This learning has been very helpful for him by boosting his confidence especially, while working with Amitabh Bachchan. His selection to play this role in this drama serial Yudh has been a great source of excitement for him. In fact, this is just the beginning for the young rising star. Pavail Gulati has opened new ways for him by delivering the best of his acting skills in this serial. This serial could be the gateway for his career and will help him out in opening new horizons and new perspectives in future.

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.

Vinod Bhanushali is a Bollywood Producer who is currently the President of Global Marketing and Media Publishing for T-series. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from KJ Somaiya University.

Ewan Mulligan is a British cinematographer. He has worked in Hollywood as well as in Bollywood cinema. His work is very inspiring and is widely appreciated by the audience. He never cared about the genre, country, or language of the film; if he gets a chance to learn something from it, he won’t miss the opportunity. Before working as a director on big films, Ewan did freelancing and also worked as an assistant. Later, he got a chance to work as a cinematographer for some hit films. One of his early films is Portobello Road, which was released in 2009. Some of his best work includes Ra. One in 2011, Chameleon in 2014, Paragraph in 2015, Tum Bin 2 in 2016, Article 15 in 2019, Anek in 2022, and many more.

Soumik Mukherjee is a motion picture and and film professional in the Hindi film industry. He is a Mumbai-based freelance cinematographer who has worked for several Hindi movies, short films, feature films, and  and web series. Mukherjee completed his graduation in Mass Communication and  Videography from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, in 2005. He then pursued his post-graduation diploma in cinematography from the Film and  Television Institute of India, Pune. He worked as an assistant director for Filmshop, Kolkata, from 2003 to 2006. Soumik has worked as a cinematographer in the famous Bollywood movie ‘Thappad’ that released in the theatres on 28^th February 2020. ‘Tapsee Pannu’ starrer ‘Thappad’ is a drama film directed by ‘Anubhav Sinha’ and co-produced by ‘Bhushan Kumar’s’ T-Series. He also worked as a cinematographer in the ‘John Abraham' starrer ‘Batla House’ which released on 15^th August 2019. The action thriller film was directed by ‘Nikhil Advani’ and jointly produced by T-Series, Emmay Entertainment, John Abraham Entertainment, and Bake My Cake Films. It is based on the 2008 Batla House encounter case.

Tejinder Singh Khamkha, born and brought up in Bathinda, Punjab, is a flawless actor and a still photographer. He pursued his senior secondary from St. Xavier’s Senior Secondary School, Bathinda, Punjab, and bachelor's of architecture from Chitkara University. Meanwhile, pursuing a bachelor's degree, he pursued trainee architect from the cultural resource conservation initiative and assisted the conservation architects in documentation from The Anad Foundation.

Anurag Saikia, is an Indian film composer, music director, and instrumentalist from Assam. He is known as the youngest music composer. He was awarded Rajat Kamal’s Best Non-feature Film Music Direction for Film Yugadrashta, a short Assamese language film. He also worked as music director in recent movies of Bollywood ,including Article 15 and Thappad. Anurag Saikia belongs to Moran in Assam.

Shakeel Azmi is an esteemed Indian lyricist, scriptwriter, and Urdu poet, having majorly worked in Bollywood films. He was born to parents Wakeel Ahmed Khan and Sitarunisa Khan on April 20, 1971, in Azamgarh, UP. He started his career as a lyricist in the movie "Woh Tera Naam Tha" (2005) under the composer Roop Kumar Rathod. He went on to write lyrics for various movies in the following years, such as "Woh Lamhe," "Nazar," and "Zeher," to name a few. 

Raghav Chaitanya is a singer, songwriter, composer, and guitarist. On 23rd October 1994, he was born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. He earned his graduate degree from Amity University, Noida. Then after, he moved to Mumbai to pursue his musical career. He has sung many non-film songs like Aise Kyun, Baatien, Parwaah, Lamhe, etc. His songs and compositions have crossed millions on different streaming platforms. He is also the youngest playback artist to win the 66th Filmfare Awards for his song, Ek Tukda Dhoop from the movie Thappad. He has also given his voice to different web series like Mismatched, Panchayat, etc.

Anuj Mathur is a legendary sound designer of films like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kal Ho Na Ho Mohabbatien to name just a few. One of Anuj Mathur’s many theories is that sound mixing is at its best to isolate and emphasise the specific sounds if you want the audience to experience, rather than blasting everything at once. He joined the Yash Raj Films a two decades back almost with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge when he was a sound designer, and now he is chief recording engineer with Yash Raj Films.

Karan Mally is a casting director working predominately for Hindi film and television industry. Currently, he is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra and is working as a casting director at Indian and international films for motion picture and films. Karan Mally was born in Bangalore and later on shifted to Mangalore in 1986. He completed his studies from St.Joseph pre-University College and shifted to Mumbai to pursue his career in the industry. He worked as a casting assistant for Illuminati films. Later on, he worked as an actor for Ashutosh Gowariker productions since February 2014 but only for a year. He has also been working for Nandini Shrikant since October 2012 under the banner of kabiku productions.

Kumud Mishra is a well-known name in the arena of Indian theatre, due to his versatile acting talent. He got this knack from his father, who was a stage actor too. Also, two of his teachers in Belgaum Military School of Karnataka, Mr. Pathare and Mr. Janardhan embedded the love of acting in young Kumud and inspired him a lot, with their enthusiasm in conducting various stage plays at school. 

After completion of school education, he returned home at Bhopal and attended college there to do his graduation, with History and Political Science as major subjects. But here he got the scope to work on stage with various renowned theatre personalities and acted under the guidance of the expert stage directors, like Alok Nandan, Sachin Tiwari, John Martin and Irfan Saurabh. Later, he joined Prabhat Ganguly’s ‘The Little Ballet Theatre’, on behalf of which he participated in the Festival of India, in USSR in 1989. 

Then he decided to polish his skill of acting by doing a Diploma course in Acting from National School of Drama in 1990 – ’91. Consequently, he shifted to Mumbai, to try his luck there, in 1994. Here, he rose to fame by acting in several plays; among them the most notable ones are Medha and Zoombish by Ramu Ramanathan and Shakkar Ke Paanch Daane by Manav Kaul. His superb performance in Ramu Ramanathan’s play ‘Cotton 56 Polyester 84’ has earned him Best Play Award in 2006, from META.

Moreover, he has acted in Bollywood films, like Sardari Begum, 1971, Patiala House, Rock Star, Filmistaan, Raanjhanaa, Revolver Rani and very recently released Badlapur. Another of his film named Bangistan is waiting for release in this year.

Ram Kapoor is an acclaimed and renowned television and film actor. Born on 1st September, 1973, he studied at Scottish High School in Mumbai, and Sherwood College, a boarding school in Nainital. He discovered his talent for acting early in his life and played the lead role in an annual theatrical production at school. He studied acting at the Stanislavski Academy in Los Angeles.

Born in Mumbai on the 15th of March, 1983, in Jaipur, Siddhant Karnick has made a niche for himself on the mini screen. He ventured into the performing arts via theatre, working on hand with Atul Kumar on a play named 'Voices'. He has a green belt in Karate and has trained under the very famous Yagnesh Shetty. He is also a dancer, and has trained in Hip Hop, Latin American, Break dance and Bollywood styles. Being part of the “Improv Comedy Mumbai” group, he has now added comedian and improviser to his list of skills.

Sushil Dahiya is a versatile Indian actor, voice-makeover artist, tour director, and English teacher. He is known for playing the father of Himmat Singh (portrayed by Sunny Kaushal) in Reema Kagti’s biographical sports drama “Gold” (2018), starring Akshay Kumar, which is based on Indian hockey team’s medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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