Hindi Movie Review Raid - Cast & Crew

Madhumita Sen is an Indian art director and production designer. She went to the Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship and did her post-graduation at the Film and TV Institute of India, Pune. She has worked for famous companies such as Sony Liv, Red Chillies Entertainment, Yash Raj Films, Dharma Productions, and Illuminati Films. 

Rita Ghosh is a production designer and art director. She is known for Mission Majnu (2023), Drishyam (2015) and, Sonchiriya (2019). Drishyam (2015) stars Ajay Devgn, Shriya Saran and, Tabu. It was written by Jeethu Joseph and Upendra Sidhaye and, directed by Nishikant Kamat. Sudip Sharma and Abhishek Chaubey wrote Sonchiriya. It was directed by Abhishek Chaubey. Sushant Singh Rajput, Bhumi Pednekar and, Ashutosh Rana played the lead roles. Ghosh was nominated for the FOI Awards for Best Production Design for the films Sonchiriya (2019) and Manto (2018). She was the production director in Mission Majnu (2023). Shantanu Bagchi directed Mission Majnu. Parveez Sheikh, Aseem Arrora and, Sumit Batheja wrote Mission Majnu. Ghosh was also the production director of the TV series Khakee: The Bihar Chapter (2022). It stars Karan Tacker, Avinash Tiwary and, Nikita Dutta. Ghosh was the production designer of Zwigato (2022). Nandita Das directed Zwigato. It stars Kapil Sharma, Shahana Goswami and, Tushar Acharya. Ghosh was nominated for Best Production Design for the film Sonchiriya (2019). She was also nominated for Best Production Design for Manto (2018).

Ameria Punvani was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. She did her graduation from Lady Shri Ram College for Women in Delhi. Ameira Punvani is a Hindi-language film costume designer and celebrity stylist (Bollywood). Let's Enjoy, released in 2004, was Punvani's cinematic debut. Bunty Aur Babli and Badmaash Company, from Yash Raj Films, made their big-screen debut in 2005 and 2010, respectively. She was noticed for her work on the period drama Guru, which Mani Ratnam directed in 2007 and for which she received a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Costume Design, as well as the crime thriller Rustom, which Tinu Suresh Desai directed in 2016 and for which she received a nomination for the Stardust Awards for Best Costume Design. A site called The Lazy Critic also praised her for her performance in the Bejoy Nambiar-directed crime drama David / David (Tamil) in 2013, giving her the TLC Award for Best Costume.

Gayathri Iyer is a well-known Indian film actress and a model. She was born as Gayathri Venkitagiri on June 16, 1983, in Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu in India. She took a Mechanical Engineering course, and her modelling career started during college when she joined many fashion shows, which led her to participate in intercollege fashion shows. Later, she got noticed by certain casting directors and coordinators from Kerala. Gayathri subsequently did some print ads before she went on to become a TV commercial model for popular brands like Garnier, Vivel Soap, Pantene, Prince Jewellery, Eashoffbang, Yamaha Dream Rider, ParleG, Airtel Digital TV, Colgate Max Fresh, Vanitha Magazine Cover, Cool Lips, Kalamandir Sarees and many more She did some modelling ramp in Bangalore for various fashion labels. When she already established herself as a successful model, she then shifted to acting and has worked predominantly in the Telugu and Kannada film industry.

Raj Kumar Gupta, a sensational director, made a sound in the Bollywood cinema industry with his different way of telling stories. He comes from a small town Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. Raj Kumar Gupta was born in the year 1976. Raj did his schooling in St. Xavier’s School, Delhi Public School in Jharkhand and went to Ramjas College, Delhi University.

Born on July 1, 1987, Abhishek Pathak is an eminent producer of Bollywood classic masala films. He entered the film industry at the age of 17. Initially, he worked for three years in the production field, but to learn more and be better at his work, he flew to USA and studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy.

Bhushan Kumar was born on 27 November in 1977 in Delhi in India. He is a film and music producer for many films in Indian Film Industry. He is mainly known for Hindi films. He is also the MD of the T-Series Music Production. His parents are Sudesh Kumari and Gulshan Kumar, who is the founder of T-Series. He was married to Divya Kumar in Katra. They were married in 2005. They are blessed with a boy whom they named Ruhaan.

Sanjeev Joshi is a famous Telugu actor. He started his career with Telugu cinema. After this, he debuted in Hindi film with director Singeetam Srinivasa Rao's film Welcome Obama (2013). After this, he did many more films like Iddaram (2016), Pichiga Nachav (2017), and Kala Varam Aaye (2017). He was born in Karnataka. He loved movies since childhood. During his school days, he participated in many cultural activities like dance, drama, and singing. After graduation, his friends suggested he join the theater art groups of Hyderabad, where he acted in theater plays, after which he got the opportunity to work as an actor in the Hindi film industry.

Tarlok Singh is the Executive Producer by profession. He has been working in Indian cinemas for the last few years.Tarlok works under the Ajay Devgn's production films. In his few years in a production line, he has produced few films like Tere Bin Laden, Aisha, Desi Boyz, Shootout at Wadala, Once upon a time in Mumbai 2. Since the start of his career in the production line, he has served for various production companies.

Aseem Arora is an Indian writer, screenwriter and assistant director. He works in Hindi films. 

Prashant Pandey was born and raised in Delhi, India. He did his graduation from Hansraj College, University of Delhi. For further studies, he went to AJK, Mass Communication Research Centre Jamia Milia Islamia. He worked as a journalist for ANI-REUTERS for a specific time. Later on, he became the Creative Head of the popular reality show SA RE GA MA PA, which was telecasted on Zee TV. Prashant is a writer and a director in the Indian Film Industry, mainly working for Bollywood. Some of his works are Sarkar Raj released in 2008, Agyaat in 2009, Rann in 2010, Turning 30 in 2011, The Attacks of 26/11 in 2013, Poorna: Courage has no limits in 2017, Raid in 2018 and many more. There is no information about his family and personal life. He is not available on any social media platform.

Ritesh Shah is a very well-known screenwriter who lives in Mumbai currently. His very recent famous works include ‘Airlift’ which was released in 2016. Ritesh along with fellow writer Suresh Nair put together a power packed dialogue and screenplay, and the movie was a blast in the box office.

Alphonse Roy is an Indian-Cinematographer. He is primarily the Wildlife Cinematographer. He has opted for the career that is his passion, as he loves to capture the Wildlife century. He has contributed to many Wildlife documentaries which are named Treasure Seekers: Tibet's Hidden Kingdom, Man-Eaters of India, Kingdom of Cobra, Temple Tower, Elephant Mountain, Tiger by Night among many. In the year 2008, he gets the award for the feature film Debut named Aamir.

Tanishk Bagchi is an Indian music composer and singer. He is 5'-7" (170 cms) tall and weighs about 60kg (152 lbs). He has brown eyes and dark black hair. His hometown is Kolkata, West Bengal. He went to Scottish Church Collegiate School, Kolkata, India. As a child, he was never interested in music. His father Nandakumar Das learned guitar from various points. Then he came to Kolkata and met his mother, who used to play Hawaiian guitar. Tanishk believes that music brought his parents together. Tanishk’s father began his career with composer Salil Choudhury and further collaborated with famous celebrities like Satyajit Ray, R.D. Burman, and Illayraja. Tanishk made his debut stage performance with a guitar when he was only 8.

Manoj Shukla also known as Manoj Muntashir, is one of the famous lyrics writer in the Hindi film industry, who was born on February 27th, 1976 (age 39) in Uttar Pradesh (Amethi). He is currently residing in Mumbai for his career. He is also a B.Sc Graduate from the University of Allahabad. Muntashir started off his career as a lyricist for “Raakh Ho Ja Tu”, a song from the movie “Woodstock Villa”. He has also been active in small screen television industry for shows like “Kaun Banega Crorepati”, “Sach Ka Saamna”, ”Indian Idol” and “Jhalak Dikhla jaa”. After these initial shows, Muntashir was noted and he started getting offers in many movies and television shows. He has almost penned lyrics for six films in the year 2015 which were all blockbuster movies like Welcome Back, Wazir, Mr. X, Baby, Ek Paheli Leela and Baahubali: The beginning, which swept away the box office by making a budget of more than 586 crores in 2015.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is a renowned singer worldwide. He was born on 9 December 1973 in Faisalabad, Pakistan.

He is famous for his melodious voice and is nephew of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. He is very popular in Bollywood and Lollywood and has been active from the last few years. His numerous albums have been released and loved by music lovers. He got his early training from Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan who also was his uncle, after that he joined his group at 15 years age. In 1985, he went to UK with group his uncle and sang solo qawwalis at a Birhingam concert.

He debuted in Bollywood from Mann Ki Lagan song from movie Paap. He had performed at various worldwide famous venues like Wembley Arena and Manchester Arena. He collaborated and also contributed in various Hollywood sound tracks in movies like Dead Man Walking and showed his talent. Various other Hollywood tie ups have also been there with him.

He also had been a judge in a music reality show Chote Ustad 2 where he was in panel with Sonu Nigam and Raveena Tandon. Indian audiences loved the show. He was a judge at another reality show Junoon Kuch Kar Dikhane Ka from NDTV Imagine.

He also is the first Pakistani Singer to perform at a Noble peace prize ceremony. He has also featured in Coke Studio sessions where he sang Garaj Baras with Ali Azmat and with Abida Parveen on Chaap Tilak. In Bollywood he had sung in lots of movies naming a few in which he got awards from film fraternity are Tere Mast Mast Do Nain from Dabangg and Teri Meri from BodyGuard and Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer for `Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji. This year his song Mere Naina Kafir Ho Gaye from Dolly ki Doli was a great hit. His recent song Jaruri Tha became a hit instantly featuring Big Boss fame jodi Kushal Tandon and Gauhar khan.

Sukhwinder Singh, an asset to the Bollywood Music Industry, was born on 18th July 1971. He is a playback singer, who is quite active from the year 1992 until the present. There are a huge number of his fan followers, and he is gifted with an incredible voice. Apart from any element in any aspect of film making, songs sung by him made a phenomenal difference in its success. He has sung some outstanding numbers in the Bollywood film industry in the late nineties.

Shahaab Alam is a sound engineer, sound designer, and sound mixer who works at various companies. He started his career in the 2014 film Gang of Ghosts. Shahaab completed his BTech, Civil Engineering studies at Jamia Millia Islamia Institute from 2000 to 2004. He did his masters from 2005 to 2009 in Sound Design at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He worked as a sound designer for various other films such as Raid (2018), Tara vs Bilal, Hungama 2, Section 375, Youngistaan, Roy, Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi, Naam Shabana, Operation Romeo, Khuda Haafiz (2020), Akelli, 24 (2013) and Blur.

Rajesh Choudhary is a famous Indian personality and a well-established production designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He was born in Mumbai, where he completed his education and went to Indira Kala Sangit Vishwavidyalaya University in Khairagarh to receive a graduate degree in B.F.A (painting). He is famously known for a few naming and featured films and webseries like Smoke (webseries;2018), Out Of Love (webseries;2019), The whistleblower (webseries;2021), Kathmandu Connection (webseries;2021), Bob Biswas (film;2021), Raat Akeli Hai (film;2020), Sonchiriya (film;2019), and Raid (film;2018). As an assistant art director, he has worked for other films like Drishayam, Rocky Handsome, Madari, Gurgaon, Hemlock Society, etc.

Abhishek Banerjee is a writer and actor in Indian cinema. He has worked even in Bengali movies. It was for a movie 'Ashbo Aar Ekdin', a Bengali film went on the floors from December 2011, he began his writing journey.  He was the co-writer of the story along with Dr. Kalyan Bose who was a producer and Abhijit Das Gupta who was the director.

Anmol Ahuja is a Casting Director and an amazing assistant Director. Casting Director plays a very important role in any movie because he should get someone who can fit into the role completely. Casting Director should know the capabilities of the person and whether the person would be able to do the role or not. Anmol is a very good casting director.

Bodhaditya Banerjee, a film editorial supervisor from Kolkata, finished his tutoring from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur, following which he proceeded to accomplish his commencement degree from Jadavpur University in 2001. Upon commencement, he enlisted himself at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata, in which he considered filmmaking and changing finally.

Parag Desai is an Indian Film Public Relations Officer. He works in the Bollywood and Hollywood Film Industries. He also worked in a few Television Shows. He is the COO of Universal Communications. Parag was born on the 3rd of November in the year 1972. He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. In 1998, Parag started working for Corporate Communications in Mumbai. He later started working in the Indian Television and Films. He worked in the TV shows “Close Up Antakshari,” “Sa Ra Ge Ma Pa,” “Khichdi,” and a few more. He had his debut in Bollywood in the year 2003. Initially, he worked for a few small films in the publicity and promotion campaign.

Naveen Paul is the Co-founder and the Creative Head of NY VFXWAALA and is the recipient of the Star Screen Award, and Zee Cine Award, 2017, and the 64th National Award for Best Visual Effects for Hindi motion picture - Shivaay He was featured in hot topic 100 by Digital Studio magazine for three consecutive years - 2015, 2016, and 2017. He got nominated for the Best Visual Effects for Dilwale 2015 – Filmfare, Zee Cine, and Star Screen Awards; the Best Visual Effects in Singham Returns, 2015 for the Zee Cine and Star Screen Awards. Naveen has seventeen plus years of experience with high-end film-based VFX Pipelines as a VFX Supervisor / Creative Director and has extensive experience as a senior, lead, and supervising artist and has proved his aptitude for management. He has done his high school at Kendra Vidyalaya. He has done his Bachelor of Science and Physics and Computer Science from the University of Mumbai.

Ajay Devgn is an Indian film actor. He is perhaps Hindi cinema’s one of the most talented actor today. He has received two national awards and two Filmfare awards so far. But this talented actor was shamed by critics in the entertainment industry because of his looks. But Ajay has proved all of them wrong. Today, he adds weight to his status as an actor or even as a star but back in the day when he made his debut with film ‘ Phool Aur Kaante’ (1991) many industry people dared to say that he would not make it in the industry due to his looks.

Akshay Dogra of Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon fame who played cousin brother of Arnav Singh Raizada in the serial.

Amit Bimrot is an actor. He is known for Bard of Blood (2019) and Made in China (2019). He has Bollywood debut in RAID (2018). He Learnt Taekwondo for seven years and received black belt one dan from Taekwondo Federation of India affiliated by World Taekwondo Federation. He also won a national gold medal in 2007 in national squad martial art championship. He Started his acting career in 2009 with Sarthak theatre group in Jaipur at a workshop, with the collaboration of National School of Drama. Later he worked in many plays involving experienced directors like Daulat Vaid (N.S.D), Dinesh Khanna (N.S.D) and Sabir Khan. He worked in a play ""Behad Nafrat ke Dino Mai"" which was performed by a group in the ""2010 BHARAT RANG MAHOTSAV"" directed by Daulat Vaid (N.S.D).

Anurag Arora is an Indian Television and film actor who has worked in multiple Hindi Bollywood projects as a supporting actor. He is known for his part in the 2018 Bollywood movie Race 3, where he played the character of Vivek Singh. He is well known for his other roles as well. The actor played Officer Ajay Rathore in the 2017 movie Kuldip Patwal: I didn’t do that. He also acted in the hit movie Hindi medium as Hindi Teacher and Admission Inspector, 2017 film Maatr as Inspector Jayant Shroff, Shah Rukh Khan starrer Raees where he portrayed Damla, hit project Dangal as Mahavir’s brother, in Nanak Shah Fakir, Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami as Khairnaar. He also starred in commercial hits like Fukrey, Siddharth, Chor Chor Super Chor, Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola, Chittagong, Oye Lucky Lucky Oye and Cooking with Stella. 

Pearl V Puri is a famous Indian Television Actor and an Anchor. Pearl was born on 10th July 1989 in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh. Pearl was raised in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. His father didn’t want him to become an actor, but Pearl decided to go against his father wishes. His father has cut all his relations with his son through his mother supports him a lot. He also did an acting course from Anupam Kher’s Actor Prepares. Pearl started his acting career in the year 2011 with a Hindi Television series named Dil Ki Nazar Se Khoobsurat. His biggest success on Indian Television was the show Phir Bhi Na Maane Badtameez Dil in the year 2014, where he played the lead role of Abeer Malhotra. The show was broadcasted on Star TV and Hotstar. The show was produced by Saurabh Tiwary.

Television as a visual medium has been appealing and accessible to the audience especially after TV sets became cheaper and television programs increased in production and variety. With the introduction of daily soaps more and more people began to watch TV because they could identify with the characters of these serials.

Saurabh Shukla was born at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh in the year 1963 on 5th March. He is a versatile personality who started from theater & reached to Bollywood where he tried his hands in Direction, Screenplay writing along with his Acting. At the age of two, he left Gorakhpur & moved to Delhi. He completed his schooling & later did his graduation from Khalsa College in Delhi. In 1984, he kickstarted his career as a professional with his entry into the theater. Shekhar Kapur gave him the debut role in Bandit Queen.

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