English Movie Review A Death In The Gunj - Cast & Crew

Konkona Sen Sharma is a Bollywood actress hailing from Kolkata, West Bengal. She was born on 3 December 1979 in a Bengali family. She completed her schooling at the Calcutta International School and later moved to Delhi for a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Delhi University’s most prestigious college- St. Stephen’s. Cinema has already been existent in her genetic roots. Her mother, Aparna Sen, is a noted actress and director in Bengali cinema. Moreover, she is the granddaughter of Chidananda Dasgupta, a film critic who also established the Calcutta Film Society. In 1983, the four-year-old Konkona was first seen on the big screen in a Bengali film titled ‘Indira’. Her official Tollywood debut was in 2000 in ‘Ek Je Aachhe Kanya,’ for which she was awarded at the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards (2002).

Kalki Koechlin is a famous film actress, model and screenwriter, known for working in Hindi films. She was born on January 10, 1984, in Ooty, Tamil Nadu in India to Joel Koechlin and Francoise Armandie. Her father came to the country from Angers, France many years ago and met Francoise in Auroville, Puducherry. They are both followers of Sri Aurobindo. 

Tillotama Shome is an Indian actress who is known for her performance in the movie Monsoon Wedding directed by Mira Nair. Shome was born in Kolkata. Since her father was in Indian Air Force, Shome was raised in different states. After completing her high school education, Shome went to Lady Shri Ram College ion Delhi. There she joined the Arvind Gaur’s theater group. She went to the United States for pursuing her post-graduation in educational theater from New York University. After completing her post-graduation, she worked as a teaching artist at the University of New York. She taught theater in a US Prison to third-degree convicts. She stayed in New York for four years. In 2008, she returned to India and took up a residence in Mumbai. She was approached by Mira Nair to feature in her film Monsoon Wedding. She portrayed the role of Alice in the movie. After that, she was offered the role of Deepa in the movie Shadows of Time directed by Florian Gallenberge. She also appeared in an Australian movie named The Waiting City directed by Claire McCarthy, in which she played the role of a nun. She also starred in a movie named Gangor directed by Italo Spinelli, which was based on Mahashweta Devi’s novel. She played the role a social worker in the movie. She also appeared in Tasher Desh directed by Qaushiq Mukherjee.

Tanuja is a popular Indian actress, who is also mother to Kajol and Tanisha Mukherjee, two well-known actresses in the film fraternity. She was born on the 23rd of September, in 1943. She has been most popularly known for her roles in movies like Baharein Phir Bhi Aayengi. The movie has an interesting plot of a reporter who gets thrown out of job on him exposing dangerous conditions at the work place. After a while he gets reemployed by the daughter of the deceased in the incident. The daughter seems to be more interested in the reporter than what concerns just journalism. She is unaware of the romantic relation between her younger sister and the reporter. The role of the younger sister is played by Tanuja. This movie released in 1966.

She has also featured in the movie, Jewel Thief that released in 1967 and is of the spy thriller genre type. It features four actresses in the lead who are more like bond girls, and the rest of the movie is about the spy game.

Another notable movie of her career is Haathi Mere Saathi that released in 1971. Haathi Mere Saathi also starred Rajesh Khanna, and was about the story of the friendship between an elephant and a human.

She has done a couple of noteworthy movies and has won a couple of good awards like the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014, and Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award in 1969.

Chetana Kowshik was born on December 11, 1975, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a well-known Bollywood assistant director and producer. He worked as a screenwriter. He was the first assistant director of Death in the Gunj. He has performed in several Bollywood films, such as Queen and Inspector Byomkesh Bakshy. He is also known for directing Ghajini. The relationship status of Chetana Kowshik is married. He is producing a TV series which is in post-production. He is also a writer who has written screenplays for Blood Brothers and Offshore. He works as a supervising producer for Sharmaji Namkeen, a comedy starring.

Abhishek Chaubey, an Indian Film Director was born on 30 March 1977, in Uttar Pradesh. He completed his schooling from Hyderabad in the year 1995. In college, he took a bachelor course in English Literature in Hindu College of New Delhi and graduated in 1998. As he had interest towards filming and communications, he studied Film and Television Productions in Xavier College of Mumbai and began his career towards direction.

Born on 4th October, 1978 Honey Trehan is an established casting director in Bollywood movies. He has worked with many films of different genres and many of them have been successful too. He is also known for Assistant Directing under many notable Directors in Bollywood.

Gaurav Mishra is an Indian Film Actor. He was born in (Sasaram) Bihar and spent his childhood in Delhi. He is an alumna of Delhi University. Gaurav found his passion for acting after he left his corporate job. He did proficient performance center for a long time with Asmita Theater Group and after that moved to Mumbai to seek after acting. His first job was in Raanjhanaa. However, his achievement came through TV arrangement Chupa Rustam, which got publicized on NDTV prime. He is known for his work in Raanjhanaa (2013), Tanu Weds Manu Returns(2015) and Rangbaaz (2019).

Sirsha Ray is a famous Cinematographer in the Indian Cinema. He has worked for both Bollywood and Tollywood. He is known for his work in movies like The Nambi Effect (2020), Agantuk (2020), and Shankar Mudi (2019). He has also worked in the movie Helicopter Eela, starring Kajol Devgn. Sirsha Ray is also planning to become a director.

Kunal Sharma was born on December 12, 1987 and hails from Andover, Massachusetts, U.S.A. He has been honoured for the movies he has chosen and the way he exploits in the movies. Though he did only a few films, he has been appreciated by the audience. His acting career started when he was just fourteen. He did his debut as an actor with a TV series. Later on, after a few years, he once again bounced back in the year 2003 with a television series called “Phil of The Future”, which was an American television series broadcasted on Disney Channel.

Bollywood Producer Abhinav Agnihotri. He is drawn to chances that are both demanding and likely to have a long-term positive effect on society and the environment. These disciplines should also foster meaningful innovation. Planning and strategy, marketplace + P&L management, acquisition, retention, engagement (supply & demand), product launches, business, data, and product analytics are among the areas in which he has experience. His skills in analytical reasoning, obsession with detail, finding new connections between existing ones, up-skilling continuously, setting high standards for performance, and mentoring, inspiring, and leading a team are some of his strongest traits. Chennai Express (2013), Kia and Cosmos (2018), and Rab da Vaastu are some of the films that Abhinav Agnihotri is well-known for (2013).

Ateesh Chattopadhyay is a sound editor. He St. Earned a Bachelor's degree in B.Sc.Mass Communication and Videography from Xavier's College Kolkata. After this, he completed his studies in Sound Recording from SRFTI - Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute. He started his career as a freelance in Sound Engineering & Designing. After this, he worked in the sound department of many films and TV shows.

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.

Manas Mittal is a film editor who hails from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is known for his works on ‘A Death in the Gunj,’ ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy,’ and ‘Class of ‘83.’ He did his schooling at Mother’s International School. He graduated from Delhi University and did his Post Graduation at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute. He worked as a film editor of the Bengali film ‘Gandu.’ Later, he became the post-production supervisor at Oddjoint Pvt. Ltd. He has worked as a film editor at different companies like Starfire Movies Private Limited, Yash Raj Films, Riley productions, Red Carpet Moving Pictures LLP, Macguffin Pictures, Rachayita Films Pvt Ltd, Clean Slate Films, Ultra Media and Entertainment Pvt Ltd, Roy Kapur Films, Red Chillies Entertainment, SK Global Entertainment, and Amazon Studios. His deep passion is to learn new forms and formats of filmmaking.

Sumeet Kotian is an Indian Film Editor. Sumeet was born and bought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Sumeet completed his schooling from Modern English School, Mumbai. After that, he Studied Bachelor of Mass Media at K J Somaiya College of Arts and Commerce. Sumeet can speak the English language, Hindi language, Tulu language, and Marathi language.

Ram Dhumne is the Vice President at the Studio – Cosmos in the Cosmos-Maya Headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Ram is a Fine Arts graduate from Nagpur. He handles the overall quality supervision for all the content produced at the company. He has worked with multiple international renowned projects and has developed play keen for every minute detail, and is usually involved in every step of the creative process.

Gulshan earlier a theatre artist, now an Indian actor was born in Bengaluru on May 28, 1978. He did his schooling from Cluny Convent, St. Joseph’s Indian High School and BEL Pre-University College. Gulshan completed his graduation from NIFT and worked for the fashion industry as well. Alongside, he was a fashion tutor at Wigan and Leigh College.

Vikrant Massey, who is a TV actor, was born in Nagpur. He is also a dancer and worked as choreographer for various shows. He has been noted by several people for the leading roles in several TV serials. One such serial is ‘Dharam Veer’, which was a period drama that was presented to the people by Sagar Arts. This series was aired on NDTV Imagine. His role in ‘Balika Vadhu’, which was a drama series that aired on Colors TV, was also very popular.

Jim Sarbh is an India Theater actor, and also a director. He was born on 27th August, 1987. He did one commercial film in the year 2016 called 'Neerja' which was directed by Ram Madhvani and starring famous actress Sonam Kapoor in the major role. He also received a title of Forbes India 30 under 30 in 2015.. Jim Sarbh is a Mumbaikar and born in a Parsi Family. His mother was a renowned physiotherapist, and his father was a master mariner, who later became a Regional Director of P&O of Ports South and Middle East Asia. He then moved to Australia along with his family when he was three, then later came back to Mumbai at the age of eight. He went to school at the American School of Bombay, after which he did his graduation from Emory University in Atlanta in Psychology.

Om Rajesh Puri is one of the widely noted senior actors in the Indian film industry and he was born on 18th October 1950 in Patiala, Punjab. He is one of the few Bollywood actors to act in mainstream commercial English movies. The alumnus of National School of Drama was also a classmate of renowned actor Naseeruddin Shah of the 1973 class.

He started his movie career in 1976 with the Marathi film ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’ directed by K.Hariharan. The movie was based on a play with the same name and it got success both commercially and critically. His career graph saw the coming of critically acclaimed art films such as ‘Bhavni Bhavai’, ‘Sadgati’, ‘Ardh Satya’ etc. and he was one of the major stars to do art films at that time along with well-known actors like Naseeruddin Shah, and Shabana Azmi. His reputation sky rocketed with his unconventional roles in many films during the 80s such as ‘Aakrosh’ and ‘Disco dancer’. Puri became famous for his versatility and personality, and went on to act in films in many domestic and foreign industries. Be it Hollywood blockbusters like ‘Gandhi’ or ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ or regional hits like ‘A.K. 47’, Puri left a unique zeal on every role he did.

If he was known for his personality and his unconventional roles in the movies, he proved the world that he could handle any kind of role with an envious ease with the TV series ‘Kakkaji Kaheen’ and ‘Sutradhaar’ where he did comedy characters. He was honoured by the government of India with Padma Shri award and he also received ‘Order of The British Empire’. He is currently working for the movie ‘Chapekar Brothers’ in which he will be playing Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

Intro: Ranvir Shorey is a popular Indian movies actor who has also worked as a host and presenter of various television programmes of different genre.

Ranvir Shorey is an experienced actor and VJ who has worked for a number of highly appreciated movies. He has also established himself as a successful television programme host and presenter. He started his acting career in 2002 with the Bollywood movie Ek Choti Si Love Story opposite Manisha Koirala. In 2003, he appeared in movie Jism and in 2004; he played a significant role in the movie Lakshya. Some other critically acclaimed movies for which he worked are Traffic Signal, Bheja Fry, and Mithya. He also appeared in a number of commercially successful movies such as Singh is King, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., Dasvidaniya, Fashion, and Ek Tha Tiger.

 Ranvir Shorey has successfully worked as a talented host and presented for various television talk shows and awards ceremony shows. His most successful talk shows as presenter and host are The Great Indian Comedy Show which was aired on Star One and Ranvir Vinay aur Kaun? He has also hosted some other shows such as Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Season 7, a competitive dance show on SET India. He is married to a successful parallel cinema star Konkona Sen Sharma and the couple has a daughter.

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