Hindi Movie Review Dor - Cast & Crew

Elahe Hiptoola is an Indian film actress, costume designer and producer. She was born in Mumbai but raised up in Hyderabad since she was two months old. She studied at Nasr School in Hyderabad, St Francis and later attended Law at Government Law College in Mumbai. Elahe has learnt piano, kathak and horseback riding. She got married to Vidyut Jaisimha, the son of the cricketer M.L. Jaisimha; but their marriage lasted for two and a half years only. 

She took up a law course, but she did not practice it. She founded her very first fashion store ‘Elahe’ in Hyderabad, which housed the collections of designers like Anamika Khanna, Abu Jani...

Pratichee Mohapatra is a famous singer born on 25th January. She is currently a part of a rock band called Chikaraks which is India’s pioneer in a rock band just for kids. She has studied Knitwear Design and Technology at NIFT, Mumbai. Pratichee Mohapatra was a part of an all-girls band which was formed in 2002. It went on till 2005. Along with her were Anushka Manchanda, Seema Ramchandani, Neha Bhasin and Mahua Kamat. Their first album was VIVA! which is also their band name. In 2003, they came out with VIVA! Reloaded. They sang a song for Bollywood film Lakeer called “Rozana” which was composed by A.R. Rahman. There were no reports that stated the band’s actual split, but they didn’t release any other album since then. Anushka Manchanda soon joined Channel V and became a play...

Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became ...

Ayesha is a Bollywood film actress, born on 10th April 1986. She was born in Mumbai to Nishit and Faridah. She started her career in modeling at the age of 15. Her first ad was for Complan and then went on to model for a couple music videos.

Her debut on the big screen came in 2004 in Taarzan: The Wonder Car. The movie was a romantic thriller and her role in it lead her to win IFFA and Filmfare's Best Female Debut Award. The same year Dil Maange More came out in which she played Shagun, one of Shahid Kapoor's love interests in the movie. She was nominated for Screen Awards, Most Promising Female Newcomer along with Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut. 

Ayesha really showcased her acting skills in the 2006 hit Dor opposite Gul Panag. For her performance in the movie she won Best ...

A former beauty queen, model and social activist, Gul Panag is a gifted actress who has worked for some Bollywood movies and television serials.

Gul Panag is an Indian model, actress, social activist, politician, and former beauty queen who contested the Miss Universe Pageant. She started her career as a Bollywood actress in the year 2003 when she played a lead role in the movie Dhoop. The movie was loosely based on the real story of Captain Anuj Nayar, MVC. Since then, she has played some significant roles in various movies including Dor, Hello, Ab Tak Chappan 2, Straight, Rann and Manorama Six Feet Under.

Gul Panag appeared on television when she played the lead role in the television series Kashmeer. Her co-stars for this television serial included Farooque Sheikh, Suresh Oberoi, S...

Prateeksha Lonkar is an actress for many films and TV series. She is known for her Marathi films in India. She got her name and fame for her lead role portrayal in the Marathi TV show Damini. The show aired on Doordarshan Sahyadri. She was born and raised in Aurangabad in Maharashtra. Her mother was a teacher and father was a popular doctor in the city.

After finishing her schooling, she decided to try for following her dreams in an acting career. Her career started when she moved to Bombay for increasing her chances of getting selected and making a long career in the acting career. She played in many TV shows in both Hindi and Marathi series. She played the lead character of Damini on the TV show Damini, which became for medium for her stardom. Another Hindi TV shows Ka...

Uttara Baokar is an Indian stage, television and film actress. She played prominent roles in a number of notable plays like Padmavati in Mukhyamantri, the Mena in the Mena Gujari, a mother’s role in the Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq and leading role of Umrao in “Umrao Jaan”. She was born on May 17th 1916 in Sangoli, Maharashtra,  and started her career on Marathi stage.

In the year 1978, she directed Jaywant Dalvi’s play by Sandhya Chhaya, Hindi translation by Kusum Kumar. During the year 1984, she won sangeet natak akademi award and India’s national academy award for acting in Hindi theatre. She also played prominent roles in Marathi films Shevri, Doghi with Sadashiv Amrapurkar,Uttarayan, Restaurant with Sonali Kulkarani.

She studied acting in National School of Drama in Delhi under t...

Veena Sajnani, a renowned fashion model and actress, working in Bollywood films and TV industry. She was a fashion model in the 1970s and used to tour India with the Femina. She was shortlisted for the Miss India 1970 and participated in the beauty pageant. The story behind her selection for Miss India 1970 is rather interesting as Veena did not apply for the pageant herself but two of her close friends, Persis Khambatta and Meher Mistry, both renowned super models, applied on her behalf, believing she had potential to win.

Veena earned Rs. 150 per show which is a considerably high amount back in the late 1970s and after 20 shows, she earned a sum of nearly Rs. 3000. She embraced the opportunity given and utilised it to its full potential. Everyone was thrilled when the ...

Nagesh Kukunoor was born in Hyderabad to Kusuma Sudarshan and KS Naidu. He completed his high school education at Montfort School, Yercaud. He has a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad and a master’s degree in the same field from Georgia Institute of Technology. After this, he started working at Trinity Consultants in Texas and then Atlanta as an Environmental Consultant. During this period, he attended various workshops in the film. Later, at Warehouse Actor’s Theater in Atlanta he studied acting and direction. He stepped into the film industry in the year 1995, with a short film, One Culture At a Time of which he was the director, producer, and screenwriter. His next movie, Hyderabad Blues in the year 1998 saw him stepping into the shoes of an act...

Vibhu Kashyap is the Vice President at Digital at Balaji Motion Pictures. He was also the former Senior Creative Director (Fiction – Original Series) with VOOT (Viacom18 Digital Ventures). The theme is also the filmmaker, photographer. He did his schooling at Saint Joseph College, Allahabad. During college, he was the  captain of his school and was the badminton champion in 1992. He did his Bachelor in Commerce, Economics, and Business Management from the University of Allahabad. He was the Vice President of the Undergraduate Commerce Association for two years; and arranged the Biannual Inter-Collegiate cultural festival – COM-FEST 1996-97. He then did his PG diploma in film and TV and studied filmmaking from Xavier Institution of Communication, Mumbai.

Vibhu started his career in ...

Sumit Kumar is an Indian director who has directed several Bollywood movies. Besides being an amazing director, Sumit has also worked as a producer, additional crew member, production manager, and soundtrack artist. Sumit started his career in 1999 as an assistant director in the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. In 2001 he got a special thankful note for his work in the film The Warrior. In 2002 he was the chief assistant director of the film Desh Devi. In the same year, Sumit worked in the short film The Sheep Thief. In 2004 he worked as a post-production supervisor in the film, The King of Bollywood.

In the following year he worked a supervising director in the film Naina, as a supervising producer in the movie Hanuman, and as an executive producer in the film Pyaar Mein Twist. In 2006 he got the opportunity to work as a promo p...

Mir Ali Hussain is a famous Indian lyricist, writer, and musician working predominantly in the Bollywood film industry. He started his career in 2006 with the movie Dor and has given many hit tracks. Yeh Honsla, Imaan Ka Asar, Kesariya Balam, Dor Theme, Piya Ghar Aaya, Allah Hoo Allah Hoo, and Expression Of Love are the famous songs from the movie. His other popular project was for the TV series Chill Bride, Ye Hosla in 2008. He had worked in movies as a lyricist like Dor by Nagesh Kukunoor in 2006, Aashayein by Nagesh Kukunoor in 2010, Mod in 2011, and Rainbow in 2015. Mir Ali Hussain worked as a writer for the movie Dor in 2006.

Sudeep Chatterjee is a well-known cinematographer in Bollywood. He was the man behind the camera for movies such as ‘Chak De! India’, ‘Iqbal’, ‘Dhoom 3’ and ‘Bajirao Mastani’. Sudeep was born in the city of Kolkata in West Bengal. In his childhood, Sudeep always wanted to express and visualize art. His desire to visualize made him try a hand at painting but it didn’t work out for him. Later when he was in the 10th grade, Sudeep’s father gave him a camera as a gift.

Sudeep claims that the camera had helped him find himself and had finally found a way to fulfill his desire of expressing using visual arts. Even though young Sudeep couldn’t afford to get better cameras, he made the best out his camera. Seeing ...

Samir Sarkar is an aspiring film producer in the Bollywood film industry.  He is known for producing the 2018 critically acclaimed Bengali film Jonaki and worked in the film industry for over twenty-five years. He was born in Singapore but was brought up in Puducherry. He completed his education at Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education and studied film production at LA FEMIS, the national film school of France in Paris. He also studied corporate advertising at Contract, WPP advertising agency group. He is fluent in more than seven languages and worked as an executive and line producer in multiple international film projects. 

Samir Sarkar has produced five feature films in multiple languages. He has also produced various television...

Trilok Gurtu is an Indian composer. Trilok was born on the 30th of October in the year 1951. He is from Mumbai, Maharashtra. Trilok’s father was a Kashmiri Pandit, and his mother was a Marathi. He went to Don Bosco High School in Mumbai, Maharashtra. His mother was a singer. She made him learn Tabla while he was studying. He learned Tabla under Shah Abdul Karim.

Trilok started his career with the album “La Terra” (1974). He then worked for the albums “Song of Everyone” (1985), “Que Algeria” (1992), “Miles Gurtu” (2002), and many more. He won the Best Overall Percussionist Winner in the years 1999 and 2001. He worked with many artists like Gary Moore, Jan Garbarek, Bill Laswell, Robert Miles, and many more. 

Muneesh Sappel is an Indian Production Designer, Actor, Art Director, and Costume Designer. He has the Indian Nationality. He has completed his graduation with the University of Lucknow. His college name is Lucknow college of Arts and crafts. He has expertise in photography. He is a diploma holder in Dramatic arts with ‘BhartenduNatya Academy for Dramatic Arts, Lucknow in Scenic design, Direction & in acting.

Sappel is the receiver of fellow-ship in the Drama School and Repertory at the town Lucknow to work withthe Shakespearean theatre in the year 1990. He did Freelancing in Press Photographer for various leading Newspapers of India. He served as a Designer for a theme park on the epic time of Mughal Era for heritage Pvt. Ltd, Delhi.

He is a designer for ‘proscenium drama theatre audito...

Haris Umar Khan is an Indian Art Director or Production Designer. He is also known for his excellence as a Creative Director and Creative Producer. Haris Umar Khan's younger brother Tariq Umar Khan is also a well-known Art Director in Bollywood cinema, who worked for many directors like Anurag Kashyap. Haris Umar Khan completed his education from Shri Gyanshamdas Poddar Vidyalaya and Saboo Siddik Polytechnic. Haris Umar Khan worked in the various Feature film, Short film, Advertisements, Television serials, Digital video, Music album, and many others.

Haris worked in the Hindi feature film Paheli directed by Amol Palekar, where the film had Oscar Nomination. He worked with director Nagesh Kukunoor in the movies like Laxmi, Mod, Dhanak, and Dor. Haris Umar Khan, in the English film Sick House, worked as Assist...

Rakesh Yadav is an Indian actor/casting director. He lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He had completed his education from Ramjas school (Bachelor of Commerce). He was born on July 4th, 1980.

He is mostly known for his work in famous Hindi movies like Baby (2015), Drishyam (2015), Airlift (2016), Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety (2018), etc.

Komal Shahani is a renowned costume designer and celebrity stylist in the Indian Fashion Industry as well as Film Industry. She was born on 9th December, 1981 in Mumbai, Maharashtra in India to parents Bharati Shahani and Vishnu Shahani.

Komal married director Ashish R Mohan in 2012 in a star-studded wedding. Many big names from the film industry were present including Rohit Shetty, Ratna Pathak Shah, Gulshan Grover and Komal’s good friend Ameesha Patel.

She graduated in fashion from SNDT College and later did Fashion Illustration from NIFT. She also pursued Textile Designing from Rachna Sansad. She has worked as a stylist for various TV commercials and Indian movies.

Komal is a top-notch celebrity stylist and has styled many celebrities such as Akshay Kumar, Vijay, Preity Zinta, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka...

Sanjib Datta is a Indian Editor. He has worked on numerous projects in the Indian Film Industry. Moreover, Sanjib has also received awards for his works in different categories. So far, he has won three awards and has received four nominations. Sanjib used to work as an assistant editor. His first film was Mujhse Dosti Karoge released in the year 1992. As an assistant editor, he has worked on films like Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, 1942: A Love Story, Is Raat ki Subah Nahin, When One Falls in Love, and Kareeb.

A few of his works as an editor were Tum Bin, Dil Vil Pyar Vyar, The Perfect Husband, Stumped, The Eye of the Fish, 3 Deewarein, Ek Hasina Thi, Shaadi ka Laddoo, Iti Srikanta, Hyderabad Blues 2, Dil Maange More, Kalpurush, Iqbal, Tathastu, Sacred Evil, Rocky, Anamika: The Untold Story, God lives in the Himalayas, Lafangey Parind...

Mahendra Verma is an Indian stunt co-ordinator, popular amongst the audience for his work in movies like Yaraana (1995), Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004), Auzaar (1997), Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge (2002). Mostly known for his involvement in Bollywood movies and action sequences, this talented professional has been working in the industry for more than thirty years now.

Apart from being involved as a stunt co-ordinator, Mahendra has also contributed to the silver screen as an actor and assistant director. In 1987, he made his debut as an actor through Ajay Kashyap’s thriller movie Naam O Nishan, featuring Shashi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, and Amrita Singh. His last acting credit dates back to 2004.

Those who follow Bollywood movies are accustomed to the character ‘Iqbal,’ which follows the story of a mute and deaf, rookie Indian bowler’s attempt to achieve recognition, and be one of the prestigious XI, that represent the country in cricket. The character, which goes by the same name of Iqbal, was portrayed by none other than Shreyas Talpade, who is an Indian actor. Shreyas is a Mumbaikar, who pursued his schooling from Shree Ram Welfare Society. The inception of his career began with Marathi television serials, and numerous stage plays across the state. Shreyas was famous for his role in the Marathi soap opera, Aabhal Maaya. In the year 1997, he pocketed a crucial role as a child actor in the Zee TV produced television serial “Woh.” Talpade played the role of a young Ashu...

Vishal Malhotra is a well known Bollywood actor and television host. He was born on 22nd July, 1971. In 1995, he started his acting career as a host for the popular show “Disney hour Zee TV”.

In 2004, he hosted the show Disney time on Sony Entertainment television. He subsequently gained popularity among kids due to his role of Vetaal. He was associated with the Disney channel’s series Vicky aur Vetaal. He made his Bollywood debut in Ken Ghosh’s Ishq Vishk starring Shahid Kapoor and Amrita Rao. From that point forward, he has showed up in various movies like Dor, Naqaab, Kaal, Salaam-e-Ishq and the most recent being 'Kismat Konnection. 

He turned up for the role of Maaya Manther for the show Kya Mast Hai Life 2. He additionally had a cameo role in Star Plus show Shararat. He played the role of ...

Born on 19th May 1938, Girish Raghunath Karnad is a multi-faceted artiste; he is not only an actor, but also a writer, director and playwright. He has mainly worked in South Indian films. He was awarded the Jnanpith Award during 1998; this award is the highest literary recognition in India. Girish Karnad has been working on plays for around 40 years. His subject of interest is mythology and history. He has also done translation of his plays into English language. Moreover, his translated plays in regional languages were directed by many directors. 

During the 60s Karnad was an outstanding playwright and Kannada world witnessed Modern Indian playwrighting through him. Kannada literature was carried away by the Western literature during the time when Karnad stepped into writing plays. Here, then Karn...

Ikhlaq Khan is an Indian film actor, famous for his portrayal in the Bollywood films, Raghu Romeo (2003), Dor (2006), and Dasvidaniya (2008). He was also known for appearing in the UK-Indian gay film, Yours Emotionally, in 2007. In 2010, Ikhlaq was also cast in Ram Gopal Varma’s political thriller film, Rann, along with Amitabh Bachchan, Ritesh Deshmukh, and much more. Ikhlaq also became popular for his television performances especially on STAR One’s drama serial, Pyaar Ki Kashti Mein (2004).