Hindi Movie Review Deewar - Cast & Crew

Amrita Rao was born on June 7, 1981 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her sister is Preetika Rao and she is active in the film industry from the year of 2002. Amrita is a Bollywood actress and she had also acted in a few Telugu movies as well. Her debut movie is As Ke Baras (2002). Ishq Vishq (2003) movie had brought her fame to the audiences and then she got a huge fan following. Vivah (2006) is regarded to be the blockbuster movie and her acting was felicitated to the epitome of horizon. Sulemani Keeda movie got released in the year 2014. As of date, she had acted in about 17 movies.

Milan Luthria is a film producer and director who made many successful commercial movies with top Bollywood stars. He is the son of noted film director and producer Raj Khosla who was associated with directors like Guru Dutt and actor Dev Anand. Like Raj Khosla started as assistant director to Guru Dutt, Milan too started as an assistant director to Mahesh Bhatt.

Gaurang Doshi is a Bollywood film producer, who is the son of Vinod Rai Doshi, who was also a film producer. VR pictures is the family film production company of Gaurang Doshi. Nastik, Sachha Jhutha and Black Mail are the popular films that got succeeded under their banner. This banner has a record in the Limca Book of Records, for producing the films. After Gaurang Doshi entered into his family business of producing the films, he changed his production company a lot. He merged many old production companies and formed a new company. He renamed the VR Pictures to Gaurang Doshi Productions Private Limited and started to produce films. He has got nearly a decade of experience in the film production. When Gaurang Doshi was 22, he got married to Madhuri and this couple has a daughter. After ten years, he divorced her. His daughter is with his ex wife. 

Gaurang Doshi was expected to marry Saini, with whom he is said to date; but it did not happen. Gaurang Doshi, advices the youth that they should not to get married at an early age. Marriage needs a lot of understanding and that will be possible after 25 years. Gaurang Doshi had faced many controversial issues in his life; yet he managed everything and produced hit films. The popular movies that are produced under his banner are Aankhen, Deewar and Bawandar. Aankhen 2 is the next project of Gaurang Doshi. Aankhen had Amitabh, Akshay Kumar, Arjun Rampal, Paresh Rawal, Sushmitha Sen and Bipasha Basu. The sequel of this film will entirely be different including the story and the star cast, says Gaurang Doshi. The sequel of Aankhen has John Abraham and Anil Kapoor in the lead roles. Anees Bazmee will be directing the Aankhen 2, produced by Gaurang Doshi. Gaurang Doshi is expecting to produce more good films to entertain the people.

Shridhar Raghavan is an Indian writer who works on screenplays, stories, dialogue writing, and episodes. He took birth in Chennai (Tamil Nadu), and currently lives in Versova apartment of Mumbai. Being brought up in Maharashtra, his write-ups reflect the culture, places, people and their attitudes.

Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.

In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a film administered by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. By the early 1970s, Bachchan had collected fame in crowds as the "Angry Young Man" in an arrangement of successful Hindi gimmick movies. His featuring part in Zanjeer was especially instrumental in propelling him to fame as an action-movie film legend. Amitabh didn’t stopped gaining fame and popularity and soon he delivered another successful movie Anand in 1971. Anand was followed by movies like Reshma Aur Shera and Parwana in the same year.

Being family friend with Rajiv Gandhi, he got an opportunity to choose to run for seat in the Congress from the place where he grew up. He challenged Allahabad's seat of eighth Lok Sabha against H. N. Bahuguna, previous Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and won by one of the highest victory margins in history (68.2% of the vote). His political life, on the other hand, was fleeting in view of debates especially after Rajiv and he were embroiled in the now scandalous "Bofors" case alongside the U.K. based Hinduja Brothers.

In 1997, Bachchan endeavored to make his acting comeback with the film Mrityudata, produced by ABCL. However, the film was a disappointment both fiscally and basically. His vocation was spared with a successful film “Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998)”. In 2000, Bachchan facilitated the first season of “Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC)”. Likewise in that year Amitabh Bachchan showed up in Yash Chopra's film industry hit “Mohabbatein” directed by Aditya Chopra. Different hits emulated, with Bachchan showing up as a more established family patriarch in Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love (2001), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) and Baghban (2003). Bachchan is also well known for his profound, baritone voice. He has been a storyteller, a playback artist, and moderator for various projects.

Despite a couple of film industry disappointments in the 1990s and the 2000s ruined his career yet, Bachchan climbed his way back up to as a topnotch Bollywood actor, gaining Filmfare and International Film Awards for his work on movies like Baghban (2003), Khakee (2004) and Paa (2009). His hard work guaranteed his prosperity and now he is known as the "King of Bollywood".

July 29, 1959, was the day when the two legends of cinema Sunil Dutt and Nargis gave birth to the ‘Munna Bhai’ of Bollywood, Sanjay Dutt in Bombay. Almost all are aware that Sanjay Dutt’s life is like a roller coaster ride with so many ups and downs in his personal as well as professional life. But this man has never lost hope and is still struggling to get into a normal life as he is behind the bars since 2013 because of the TADA case. He went to Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh. In his teenage years, due to peer pressure, he started taking drugs. For almost nine years he took heroin and cocaine as drug intakes and after a long period he realized that he should quit it all and wished to live a normal life.

Akshaye Khanna is a popular Indian film actor. He was born on March 28, 1975, in Mumbai, Maharashtra in India to Bollywood actor, Vinod Khanna and Geetanjali Khanna. His brother, Rahul Khanna is also an actor and they are both members of South Mumbai’s Royal Willingdon Sports Club. Akshaye studied at Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute in Mumbai. 

After this, he was debuted in the Bollywood romance film, Himalay Putra in the year 1997, along with Hema Malini, Satish Shah, and Johnny Lever. This film was produced by his father, but it became unsuccessful at the box-office. In the same year, he acted in Sunny Deol-starrer film, Border. His role as the 2nd Lieutenant was initially offered to Aamir Khan, but due to date issues, the actor declined the offer and so Akshaye was cast in the film. He earned the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut and got nominated at the Star Screen Award for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role in the year 1998. Followed by this, was a string of not so successful films including, Mohabbat, Kudrat, Love You Hamesha, Laawaris, and Dahek: A Burning Passion from the year 1997 to 1999. 

Akshaye was starred in the Bollywood romantic drama musical film, Aa Ab Laut Chalen, alongside Rajesh Khanna. Though the film did an average business at the box-office, he received praises for his brilliant acting. Akshaye acted opposite Aishwarya Rai in the critical and commercial Bollywood romantic drama film, Taal, which was helmed by Subhash Ghai. In the year 2001, Akshaye appeared in the multi-starrer comedy-drama film, Dil Chahta Hai, alongside Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Kulkarni, Preity Zinta and Dimple Kapadia. This film became a defining moment in his career as it turns out to be a commercial and critical success. Initially, his role as Sid was offered to Abhishek Bachchan, but he turned it down, and so Akshaye was cast in the film and was applauded by his brilliant performance. He also earned the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor and his career was re-launched. In 2002, he played as a villain in Bobby Deol-starrer Humraaz. This film earned him critical acclaim and a nomination at the Filmfare for Best Performance in a Negative Role. Later, he shifted to doing comedy films and was cast in the Priyadarshan’s Hungama in 2003 and Hulchul in 2004; both films made it to the box-office success.

This was followed by lukewarm and unsuccessful films like Aap Ki Khatir and Shaadi Se Pehle in 2006, Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love, Gandhi, My Father and Naqaab in 2007 and Mere Baap Pehle Aap in 2008. Akshaye later appeared in Abbas-Mustan’s blockbuster thriller film Race in 2008. This film became the 4th highest-grossing film of the year and his character as Rajeev Singh earned him the Screen Awards and IIFA Awards for Best Villain. But his performance as Harilal Gandhi, the son of Mahatma Gandhi (played by Darshan Jariwala) in the critically acclaimed biographical drama film, ‘Gandhi, My Father’ was considered as his best performance as an actor. 

In the year 2010, Akshaye was starred in the action-comedy film, No Problem, along with Sanjay Dutt and Kangana Ranaut in the lead role. He was also praised by his performances in the action thriller film, Aakrosh and in the heist comedy film, Tees Maar Khan in 2010. Besides acting, Akshaye voiced the character of Alex the Parrot in the 3D animated film, Delhi Safari in 2012. He was also featured in the Hindi comedy film, Gali Gali Chor Hai, along with Shriya Sarn and Mugdha Godse. 

After this, he took a hiatus from acting and recently made a comeback in the upcoming action-adventure film, Dishoom, helmed by Rohit Dhawan and is expected to release in the year 2016.

Known for playing the part of Inspector Abhijeet, on the longest running TV serial CID, Aditya Srivastava (born 21st July, 1968) is one of the most recognized faces on Indian television. His debut into the industry was through a supporting role in 'Bandit Queen' in 1995. He completed his studies from Allahabad University, before moving to Delhi. He later relocated to Mumbai from Delhi, and became a part of numerous promos and advertisement projects, for which he mostly gave voice overs. His other famous roles were in Dil Se and Black Friday. 

Aadesh Shrivastava is a singer and music composer in Bollywood. His wife also works in Bollywood as an actress. He started his career with clean, fresh and simple music. When he was young he wanted to become a doctor but at very young age he realized that his passions for music is very strong, therefore he decided to become a composer. First he learned to play the drums. Then he moved to Mumbai and from there he started to play drums in the industry for stalwart among the music directors. The names of the directors are O PNayyar, Shankar and many more. Before became the professional composer he assisted Laxmikant–Pyarelal for many years. In 1993 he got his first big break in a film named as Kanyadaan. The other singer who also participated in singing was Lata Mangeshkar. Lata did her first song in this film. The songs that he sang did not get the popularity because the film did not release.

Nirmal Jani, a cinematographer of Indian origin was born in a family, who has a good film background. Nirmal Jani is currently working in Mumbai-based Bollywood Film Industry. His debut film was Patthar Ek Phool which was released in the year 1991, directed by Anant Balani and Salman Khan was there in the lead role. His father’s name was Mr. Pranlal Jani.

S. Gopal Reddy is an Indian director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter. The multi-talented personality has given his contribution to the Telugu and Bollywood film industry. He has established the Durga Arts a production house. He won two Filmfare Award (South) as the best Cinematographer for his work in the films like ‘Varsham’ and ‘Sri Ramadasu’. He was born in Andhra Pradesh. He started his career at Venus Studios in 1968 under the guidance of V.S.R Swami, who is a veteran cinematographer. At that time, the films were pictured in black and white print. He made his entry into Telugu film industry in 1979 with the film Raktha Tilakam. He has been a part of many movies from the Telugu industry like ‘Dhruva Nakshatram,’ ‘Moodu Mullu,’ ‘Nelavanka,’ ‘Rendu Jella Seetha,’ ‘Nalugu Sthambalata’ and many more. In 1980, he made a movie in Hindi cinema. His first movie was ‘Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye’ in the year 1983. The movie starred Mithun Chakraborty, Rekha, and Rati Agnihotri in the lead roles.

Huzefa Lokhandwala is a very talented editor in Indian Film Industry, who started his career as a visual effects artist. He is the Co-founder and the Creative Director of advertising at Prime Focus. Huzefa has worked with almost every advertising company and advertising filmmaker in India. He is highly praised and widely known for his good work. He has edited the popular movie ‘Delhi Belly’ that won him the Colors Screen and Film fare Awards for best editing in 2012. Editing of Delhi Belly was like a fun puzzle game to him. He says, “It’s challenging but in the form of a puzzle game. More than that challenge, it was like having fun.