Hindi Movie Review Article 15 - Cast & Crew

Isha Talwar was born on December 22, 1987, in Mumbai. She started out in modeling, but began acting in 2012( Malayalam film). She received best TV actress nomination for her role in Thattathin Marayathu. She also co-starred Nivin Pauly in this debut film and became a next-door image girl in Kerala. She also co-starred with Asif Ali and Unni Mukundan in her next film Love Me, made by B. Unnikrishnan. She became extremely popular with her Malyalam film debut and then migrated to Telugu film industry. 

The daughter of Vinod Talwar, who worked as a director and executive producer for Boney Kapoor in Bollywood, Isha Talwar started her career in the film industry by shooting a music video with Hrithik Roshan. She began modeling as a teenager after graduating and going into dancing classes, managed by choreographer Terence Lewis's dance school in 2004, where she learned various dance forms like ballet, jazz, hip-hop etc. 

Before taking up her first break in Malayalam movie, she took a four-month voice training class, learnt the language and even learnt how to play a guitar. 

In 2013, she had two releases. Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde (Telugu debut) and Thillu Mullu (Tamil debut), which received critics appreciation. After commercial success in 2013, she got four Malyalayam films in 2014, which had mixed responses. 

In 2015, her fans can see her in Meendum Oru Kathal Kathai, a remake of Malayalam film Thattathin Marayathu, which released in 2012. Isha will be seen with the debutant Gautham. 

Isha had shared screen with Mammootty, for the second time in her career in Bhaskar-The Rascal, a Malayalam film released in 2015. She appeared in a cameo role. 

Her first film as a child star was with Aishwarya Rai in Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai. She will pair with Dileep for the first time in a forthcoming movie, which is likely to be a cameo appearance again. She has also signed a Siju Bawa’s film recently.

Sayani Gupta is a relatively new Bollywood actress of Bengali origins. She was born in Kolkata to Kamal Gupta and Maitreyi Gupta. Her father worked as a musician in All India Radio and her mother has a government job in BSNL who always opposed to her career as a Bollywood actress. She doesn’t comes from a family background and even had restrictions to watch movies during her childhood phase. She moved from Kolkata to Delhi to pursue graduation from Delhi University and is an alumni of Lady Shri Ram College for women. She shifted to Mumbai to pursue an acting course in Film and Television Institute of India(FTTI), Pune.

Prarthana is Maharashtrian by birth but is born and brought up in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. She gained popularity through the well known Indian soap Pavitra Rishta where she plays the role of Vaishali Dharmesh-Jaipurwala. She is the youngest daughter of Karanjka family. Vaishali is a bubbly, sweet, vibrant woman who undergoes a significant change in her outlook towards life after marriage. She appeared in Optimystix Production’s serial, Crime Patrol, wherein a story of two lovers who take to crime is portrayed. This episode was based in UP and shows the life of Farukh (Saheem Khan of Savdhaan India fame) and Noor (Prarthana of Pavitra Rishta fame).

Prarthana was paired with Neha Marda in the dance show Nachle Ve. This dance show was hosted by renowned Bollywood choreographer, Saroj Khan. Earlier, in the Star One show Remix, Prarthana played the role of Pri, Prarthana has her eyes set on the big screen. She wants to move on to movies. And supposedly this is the reason for her quitting Pavitra Rishta. She has done a cameo in Suraj Barjatya’s film Love U Mr.Kalakaar and a special appearance in Bodyguard. She will be playing the lead in Jai Maharashtra Dhaba Bhatinda. Prarthana has ventured into Marathi productions too. She is playing the role of a criminal lawyer Leelavati, in Mai Lek, a Marathi show by UTV productions for ETV Marathi.

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Ronjini Chakraborty came from the City of Joy, Kolkata and studied acting from ‘Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)’. This high-spirited and vibrant actress/Director is trained in Hindustani Classical music and equally passionate about dancing. She started out with doing theater in college. She enjoyed acting on stage as a part of a theater group named 'Theatrecian' before she went for her training in acting in The Film and Television Institute of India' (FTII).

Gingger Shankar is an Indian-American music composer, popularly recognized for her work in the movie Circumstance (2011). Apart from her excellent skills as a vocalist, she is also known for playing the violin, viola, and double viola. Both of her parents were a part of the music industry at some point in their lives. Her father Dr. D.L. Subramaniam was a renowned violinist and her mother Viji Subramaniam was a classical singer.

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.

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.

Gaurav Solanki is an Indian fiction writer, screenwriter, poet and lyricist. He was born on 7th July 1986, in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh and grew up in Sangaria, Rajasthan. He graduated from IIT Roorkee. He has written song lyrics for Ugly, Daas Dev and Veere Di Wedding. Ugly was directed by Anurag Kashyap. It stars Rahul Bhat, Ronit Roy, and Tejaswini Kolhapure. Daas Dev was directed by Sudhir Mishra. It stars Yogesh Raj Mishra, Rahul Bhat, Richa Chadha, Saurabh Shukla, Vikash Rajput, Dalip Tahil, Anurag Kashyap, Aditi Rao Hydari, and Sohaila Kapur. He was awarded the Jnanpeeth's Navlekhan Puraskar in 2012, which he refused to accept. Solanki wrote Article 15 (2019). Anubhav Sinha directed Article 15 (2019).

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.

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.

Ballu Saluja is an Indian-Editor. Along with being an editor, he is also a cinematographer. He mainly works in the Hindi-Film Industry. From the year 2000, he is highly active in the Hindi Film Industry and is also thinking about working in other industries. He is a hardworking, and dedicated person. He has acted in many films, some of them are named as Lagaan, which released in the year 2001. Pinja, which released in the year 2003. Swadesh, which released in the year 2004. Jodha Akbar, which released in the year 2008. Dangal, which released in the year 2016.

This Vicky donor worked as radio jockey, Video jockey, television anchor, host, actor, lyricist, singer, theatre actor anything left… huhh ya reality show contestant in Roadies too is Ayushmann the multi talented.

Ankur Vikal is a very popular actor in the films and he is a drama actor too. He got his graduation done at the National School of Drama (NSD) in the year 2000. He pursued his degree in New Delhi and then he turned up to be a promising actor. But prior to this, he was already an Architecture graduate from Baroda. His intense enthusiasm in movies brought him to this arena and he pulled it off. Mongo Souffle’ is his first venture as an actor and his profession as an actor took off from that movie. 

He also acted in the International sensational movie, namely Slumdog Millionaire. His role in the movie is quite special and he made it to be a good actor. He acted in one Tamil movie where the Kollywood star Dhanush did the lead role. Ankur Vikal had done a commendable role in the movie, namely Mariyan. The best part is that he was a part of this national award winning movie. 

He had done movies namely, Kedi in Telugu language and Striker in the Bollywood film industry. He acted in a thriller oriented suspense movie namely The Forest. The best part of this movie was that it got directed by Ashvin Kumar who had been popular for the movie namely, Little Terrorist. The scenes were most likely shot at a park which is based upon Corbett. Ankur Vikal did a redefining job in the movie namely; Missed Call which was not a big hit as far as the box office record was concerned. But still, he gained wholesome experience in his past movies. This gave him a diversified vision in making good acting and doing exemplary roles. He basically adores visiting people and he reads a book daily ever since his childhood. He is a budding actor who does movies in a couple of film industries and his movies were quite experimental.

Ashish Verma is an Indian Actor & Casting Director is born and brought up in Delhi. He has completed his schooling at Bal Bharati Public School, Delhi, and graduated from Kirori Mal College, Delhi. He further took admission to the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. His films as Casting Director include Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan (2011), Kajarya (2013), and Chauthi Koot (2015). Ashish's films as actors include Chashme Baddor (2012), Mickey Virus (2013), Gurgaon (2017), Sui Dhaaga: Made in India (2018), Helmet (2021), and Atrangi Re (2021).

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.

Manoj Pahwa is an Indian television and cinema actor who is known for his good comedy acting. He has featured in very many films, and many of them have been box office hits. He has also acted in the Punjabi film industry. He was born in 1963, and his birthday is on September first. He was raised in Delhi, and his family came from a Punjabi background. He has studied in the National Public school in New Delhi.

He made his first foray into television in the comedy serial ‘Just Mohabbat’ on Sony TV where his role was not very important. He later acted in the comedy ‘Office Office’ on SAB TV in 2001 as Bhatia. He became well known through this series, and it can be assumed that if he had not acted in ‘Office Office’, he might not have gone much further in his career.

He first acted in Bollywood in the movie ‘Tere Mere Sapne’ in 1996. After this, he has featured in numerous serials and movies including Singh Is Kinng, Jolly LLB, Salaam-e-Ishq, Tashan and Dabangg 2. He is currently shooting for the Punjabi movie ‘Heer and Hero’ which is also a comedy. He plays a contract killer called Bhuchi Badmash in the movie.

Mir Sarwar is an Indian movie actor who was born on 19 February 1977 has acted in many Bollywood films playing a variety of roles. Mir Sarwar started his career as a model in 1999. Later he joined theatre in Delhi and went on to work with renowned directors like M K Raina and Bapi Bose. He has not only worked as an actor but also as a director and a producer in his career. As an actor, Mir Sarwar played various characters in high profile Bollywood films like Bajrangi Bhaijan, Phantom, etc.

Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub was born in the year 1984 in the Okhla district of Delhi. He had mother and father along with a sister and a brother in his family until his father died in the year 2007. Both his parents were fairly popular theater artists.He did his studies from Kendriya Vidyalaya and Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. Becoming an actor and coming to Mumbai was never among his plans. It was only in college that he found his interests inclining towards acting and theater when he joined a theater society in his college. He then pursued his passion by joining the National School of Drama and specialized in acting. He also worked as an acting teacher.He first was seen in a TV show in DD One channel named Kyunki Jeena Isi Ka Naam hai.

Shashank Shende, hailing from Pune is a versatile personality who is an actor, director as well as a writer. He has been a part of both Hindi as well as Marathi films. An interesting fact about him is that he is an affiliate of an experimental theatre group called Samanvay. He is well known as an actor who does unconventional roles in movies that are critically acclaimed, the same kind like Nawazuddin Siddique. He has done various successful Marathi films like Pangira-about a small village affected by severe water shortage, Deool – which is about the consequences of globalisation on small towns.

Sushil Pandey is an actor, who has mainly worked in the Bollywood and done movies like Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai in 2019, Beyond The Clouds in 2018 and Officer in 2018. His film Beyond The Clouds was appreciated by the critics as well as the audience.

Piyush Shankar is a composer and singer for Bollywood. He was born on 22nd October. He attended Gokuldham High School and Thakur College of Science and Commerce for his degree. He Naina Yeh from the 2019 film Article 15 and Stebin Ben: Akelapan (2021) are a few well-known compositions by Piyush Shankar. He belongs to the Jaipur Gharana of Music. To inspire people to take action in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, he released a song named "Itna yaqeen rakhna." He excels as a stage performer of different instruments with his compositional skill. The Mirchi Music Awards recognized him as the Critics' Choice Upcoming Music Composer of the Year.

'Virag Mishra' along with 'Rashmi Singh' forms their screen name ‘Rashmi Virag.’ They belong to India. By profession, both of them are lyricists in the Bollywood film industry. In the year 1950, Rashmi and Virag formed their duo. Virag Mishra took the lyric writing to the next level in the industry. He is also a music director and composer. His first movie was ‘Zinda’ which was released in 2006. He excelled in the music world with his performances in many movies. His work got appreciated with a Stardust Award for the film ‘Zinda’ (2006). He also worked as an actor in ‘I Love NY’ (2013). He sang songs as a playback singer in ‘Shahid’ (2013) and ‘Hostel’ (2011), in which he was a music director too. He sang even a few rap portions in a song.

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. 

Akanksha Sharma is an Indian playback singer, popular amongst the audience for her work in movies like Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana (2017), Half Girlfriend (2017), Rustom (2016), Wah Taj (2016), and Article 15 (2019).

On 22 July, 1995, Armaan Malik was born in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a playback singer by profession. Armaan belongs to a music family. His father, Daboo Malik, is also a singer and music director. The singer is the nephew of the famous Hindi music director, Anu Malik. Armaan has a brother, Amaal Malik, who is also a music director.

Asees Kaur is an Indian Playback Singer. She works in the Hindi Film and Music Industry. Asees was born on the 26th of September in the year 1988. She was born in Panipat, Haryana.

Yasser Desai is an upcoming Bollywood singer who has been a playback singer for Bollywood movies. This 29-year old singer was nominated for Mirchi Music Awards in the Critics' Choice category and even bagged a nomination for upcoming male vocalist of the year in 2017. Yasser was nominated for the song 'Love Rang Reza' from the movie ‘Beiimaan Love' (2016). Yasser Desai was born on 25 November 1989 in Mumbai.

Boloy Kumar Doloi was born and brought up in Guwahati, Assam, India. He did his schooling at Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Guwahati. When he was just 18 years old, he moved to Mumbai to complete his diploma in Audio Engineering and Film Making. At the same time, he has been working in the industry. Currently, he works as a Sound Recording Mixer and Sound Engineer in the Indian Film Industry. He has worked in Documentaries and Biopics, etc., in different languages such as Hindi, English, Telegu, Bengali, and Marathi. He has been working in this field for more than 19 years. Now he is known to be a person who has mastered the art of mixing on Dolby Atmos. His first job in this field was at Vikrant Studio, and he is still working there. He worked at FutureWorks as a Sound Re-recording mixer and has also worked at Creative Sound Design. He has worked with great filmmakers such as Mira Nair, Shamim Sarif, S.S Rajamouli, and many more. Some of his great works are ‘Holiday: A soldier is never off Duty’ released in 2014, ‘Deep Inside’ in 2021, ‘Kaabil’ in 2017, ‘Haider’ in 2014, ‘Kaali Khuhi’ in 2020, ‘Dhadak’ in 2018 and a lot more. He is not active on social media.

Anuj Gupta is known for his character of Dharmesh Ramniklal Joshi in NDTV Imagine’s one of the popular shows “Jasuben Jayantilaal Joshi Ki Joint Family”.

For those who would like to know more about him, Anuj is a model too. Then he got an opportunity to take up some roles in Hindi shows. Apart from Jasuben Jayantilaal Joshi Ki joint Family, he was seen in Just Mohobbat, Kkusum and Kaisa Yeh Pyaar Hai. His popularity was at its peak in the month of August in the year 2009. Because of his role as Dharmesh Ramniklal Joshi, which saw him acting as Pankor's son and Jayantilaal's nephew of 32-year age. He portrayed himself as a fitness freak and was shown as running a gymnasium. He was shown very religious – a staunch Hindu.

The role was a chance for him to portray an extremely emotional, but very shy personality, which was a challenge, he says. Plus, he had to show a hyper active nature, all this is quite complex for an actor. But he did it to the perfection. In the show, he loved Shonali and did marry her.

The serial was a sensation for Hats Off Productions, which was successful in reaching 250 episodes during its run of January 21, 2008 – March 28, 2009. Many of us know that the channel NDTV Imagine went off the operations later, and several stars went behind the screen, nowhere to be seen. Anuj’s fans were really upset about this, and they are expecting him to come back soon, with more entertaining roles.

Aakash Dabhade is an actor predominantly working in the Hindi Film Industry. He hails from Nagpur, Maharashtra. Aakash completed his Bachelor of Arts (B.A) degree from Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, Mumbai. He debuted as an actor in the 2009 comedy film “3 Idiots.” Rajkumar Hirani directed the motion-picture. Aakash performed alongside Aamir Khan, Madhavan, and Sharman Joshi.