Hindi Movie Review X: Past Is Present - Cast & Crew

Radhika Apte, an Indian actress was born on Sept 7, 1985. Radhika has acted in films in many languages ranging in Hindi, Marathi and many southern languages as well. She has also worked in a theatre group Aasakta. She was nominated for SIIMA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her Tamil film Dhoni. Her father Dr. Charudutt Apte is Pune’s leading neurosurgeon. She got married to musician Benedict Taylor in 2012. She had done her graduation in economics and mathematics from Fergusson College, Pune. She has learnt contemporary dance at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

She started work in Hindi movies from her first small role in “Vaah Life Ho To Aisi” in 2005. In 2009 she did her debut in Marathi Industry from Gho Mala Asla Hava, she played the character of a village girl named Savitri and worked in some more films that year. She had worked in Vakratunda Swaha, which was filmed by Ashish Avikunthak over a period of 12 years. Also she played one of the lead roles in Anurag Kashyap's short film on eve teasing, That Day After Everyday which was released on YouTube in 2012. The main roles she played were in Rakht Charitra and in its second part. This year she did remarkable work in Badlapur and Hunterrr and got a lot of appreciation for that as well from Bollywood critics and her audiences. She is a very bold and fearless person as shown in her choice of films. She is working in multiple movies this year that are either being filmed or in post production phase.

Apart from movies she is also actively involved in theatre and has done many plays in Aasakta group and also in some other plays like Purnaviram, Matra Ratra . As stated by her she believes in experimental theatre and has plans to do an English play in London as well.

Piaa Bajpai is a renowned model and actress known for her work in South Indian movies. She was born in Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, but later emigrated to Delhi when she was just 16 years old. She was always interested in acting but was initially opposed towards acting as a career. She did a diploma in computer science and also started working as a receptionist and tutor for earning her living. After some working, she realized it was not her dream and moved to Mumbai to try her luck. She started acting as a junior artist and also did dubbing for serials. She was noticed and started appearing in commercials and music videos. She then reached every household after she did the Cadbury commercial along with Amitabh Bachchan and Sonata watch advertisement with star cricketer, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Her fortunes changed, she was offered by Priyadarshan for a commercial, she was offered a chance to be a part in a Tamil film, Poi Solla Porom.

Huma Qureshi is a model-turned-actress in Bollywood. Before making her debut in films, she has appeared in some commercial advertisements that had featured two B-town superstars Amir Khan and Shahrukh Khan. While she was shooting for an advertisement, director Anurag Kashyap offered her a role in ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. 

The beautiful Aditi Chengappa is an Indian entertainer who is mainly seen in South Indian movies and at times in Bollywood. Aditi belongs to Bangalore, but she pursued her studies from Delhi because her parents shifted to Delhi for the purpose of her job. She graduated from India's top college 'Lady Shree Ram College.' She debuted in the film industry with 'Takita Takita' a Telugu movie.

Anshuman Jha was born on 15th March and at his age of fourteen, he joined a film academy. While he reached his age of seventeen, he had done the acting course which was a rare event. Basically, he did a splendid job on having completed his course at a popular academy in that part of a time. He initially got into the drama field which was so famous during that period. After his course of being a successful actor, he got into directing theater films. This gave him a broader vision about making films and he gained immense knowledge. 

His next phase as an actor was obviously getting into acting in the silver screen. This is the biggest achievement of the actor who had graduated into a full stack professional actor finally. At the mean time, he did the bachelor’s of commerce degree in a prestigious college in Mumbai. After which he fully made an indispensable decision of getting into acting. His recognition as a model has been a popular one when he got an award for being a desirable model in the year 2011. 

He spent his schooling and graduation in the prestigious institutions in Mumbai. His movie as a full fledged actor happened in the successful Bollywood movie namely, Love Sex aur Dhoka. He also did a lot of popular advertisements like Pepsi, which had aced a great response. He also took part in many drama acts that were highly successful. 

The name of the acts are Mr.Kolpert and Dirty Talk. These made an immense difference and it has been adored by the huge volume of audience. His work as an actor was a successful venture and he projected himself as an entertainer in the movie namely Kismat love Paisa Dilli. He acted in a couple more movies namely, Boyss Toh Boyss Hain and Yeh Hai Bakrapur. They were commercially successful movies and he became popular as an actor too.

Rajat Kapoor was born on 11 th February 1961, in Delhi, India. He is an actor, director, and screenwriter by occupation. He is married to Meena Agarwal and has two children, Rabia, and Vivan. Rajat Kapoor is a 54 years old actor, director, and screenwriter, born in Delhi.