Hindi Movie Review Thanks Maa - Cast & Crew

Irfan Kamal is a multi-talented film personality who has complete measures of multi-tasking activity. Irfan Kamal has candidly perceived multi-tasking ability, impulsivity, and intelligence in film approach. Irfan began his career with writing screenplay in ‘Krrish 3’ along with Rakesh Roshan, Honey Irani, and Robin Bhatt. 

Alok Nath is an Indian television and Bollywood film actor who got his fame in the television drama series, Buniyaad in 1986. He played as Master Haveliram, a patriot and freedom fighter. Buniyaad was first broadcasted on DD National under Doordarshan network and later, because of its popularity, it was re-broadcasted in DD Metro and several Indian television channels like Sahara One. 

Alok was born on July 10, 1956 and raised up in New Delhi, India. He studied in the Modern School and Hindu College. When in college, he performed along with Ruchika and the popular theater group in Delhi. This became his advantage to join the prominent National School of Drama as a part of his degree in college. 

He started in year 1980 in the television series, Rishte-Naate followed by the epic film, Gandhi in 1982. Alok was the bar owner in the Bollywood film, Aaj Ki Awaaz under the direction of Ravi Chopra. He also appeared in Mashaal under the same director in 1984. Alok made an appearance in some of the major hit Bollywood films and played supporting roles like Taal, Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, Pardes, Maine Pyar Kiya and Vivah which is a box office hit and her role as an uncle was appreciated by the critics. He did negative roles in movies like Shadyantra, Bol Radha Bol and more. In 1989, he played as Karan, a poor mechanic who lives with her daughter Suman (played by Bhagyashree Patwardhan) in the musical romantic film, Maine Pyar Kiya. 

He was essayed to do the role of Deepak Seth in Raman’s Kumar soap opera, Tara on Zee TV channel from 1993 to 1997. He was also in some of the episodes of Zee TV’s, Rishtey from 1999 to 2001. Alok played the role of Prakash Chandra Sharma in Sapna Babul Ka… Bidaai on STAR Plus from 2007 to 2010. He was also the father of Abha in Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli. Some of his recent television serials are Kuch Toh Loh Kahenge and Do Dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se. At present, he is Jagat Babuji in the fictional comedy series, Tu Mere Agal Bagal Hai on SAB TV. 

After thirty years of being in the acting industry, Alik became popular in the Hindi cinema and television. Recently, Alok became an overnight viral in social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook when all of a sudden, people make fun on his character on films under Rajshri’s production. Some even created a page entitled, Alok Nath Memes that gained so many likes.

Barry John can be considered to be the “Alchemist” of Indian Film Industry. He defied the objectives to make Shah Rukh Khan just to learn and become a professional actor. Instead he turned SRK to be “The King” of Indian Films. His prodigy SRK mentioned multiple times and in different interviews and newspaper columns that he is so thankful for his mentor’s effort to help him achieve his goals.

Barry John was born 1944 from Coventry, England, United Kingdom. He is a respected actor also aside from being a renowned-theatre director. He handled teaching lessons as an English language instructor before becoming the best in his field. He’s one of the founders of “Theatre Action Group (TAG)” that was established in the year 1973 after he migrated to India. He is also a faculty-member of “National School of Drama” from 1977 up to 1980. He also co-founded the “Theatre in Education Company” from 1989 up to 1992.

He appeared in the different films like “Shatranj Ke Khilari (Chess Players) in 1977”, an epic and critically-acclaimed movie “Gandhi” in 1982, Massey Sahib in 1985, Miss Beatty's Children in 1992, Shaheed Udham Singh in 2000, “Thanks Maa”, “Othello”, “The Great Indian Butterfly” and “Tere Bin Laden” in 2010, “Chittagong” in 2012, and last is “M Cream” released in 2014. In 1993, he received the title “Best Theatre Director” from Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.

Barry John’s method in acting is a modified of creating the “Internal Character Build-Up.” This type or way of acting is that your acting comes from your heart in that sense you don’t have to fill a bucket of your tears rather using your internal emotions. This type of acting is quite difficult to achieve. Barry simplified this way of acting. He made a method where actor/actresses will use their body senses to make it make it easier. Using body senses will make your emotions flow thru your heart and all the next things that will happen will be a surprise and miracle as an act.

Sanjay Mishra is an Indian comedian, most famous for his role as Apple Singh, featured in the ESPN Star Sports during the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Apart from that, he has acted in countless other Bollywood films, his most famous roles being Dil Se (1998), Ankhon Dekhi (2013) and Jolly LLB (2013) to name a few.

Born in 1963 in Bihar, Sanjay Mishra joined the National School of Drama after his graduation. He acted in many TV commercials before he got a role in the TV series Chanakya in 1991. In 1995 he made his Indian film debut in Oh Darling!Yeh Hai India! followed by Rajkumar (1996) and Satya (1998). His Role in Satya and Dil Se (1998) helped him grab a role in Office Office as Shukla. For the next few years he appeared in TV serials till 2005 after which he completely switched to Bollywood films. His acting was much praised in Bunty Aur Babli, Apna Sapna Money Money, Golmaal:Fun Unlimited and Dhamaal, the last two being consecutive hits in 2006. He later starred in many small roles in big banner films before his role as RGV in All The Best:Fun Begins made him a national phenomenon. His famous dialogue "Dhondu Just Chill" was a common dialogue on the streets.

He went on to win the Indian TV Honors Golden Globe awards in 2011. In the same year he won the Star Screen Awards and in 2014, won the Jagran Films awards.

His recent releases include Phas Gaye Re Obama, based on the Indian recession, Bhoothnath Returns and Kick. Though Sanjay Mishra did some serious roles in a couple of films like Zameen, Charas and Satya, he is mainly recognised as a comedian.

Raghubir Yadav is an Indian movie, television and stage actor born on 25 June, 1957 in Jabalpur. He is also a singer, music composer and set designer. His debut film in the industry was Massey Sahib (1985) in which he played the title role of movie. He has been awarded with two International Awards being Best Actor in FIPRESCI Critic's Award in 1986 and the Best Actor Silver Peacock, IIFI in 1987. It is quite unusual that an artist with that much talent in so many areas has not received a National Award. Raghubir Yadav is from the 1977 batch at National School of Drama, New Delhi and has specialization in stagecraft. About his journey, he has worked as a singer and actor in more than 70 plays and had done almost 2500 live shows with Parsi Theatre Company starting at an age of 15 from 1967 to 1973 where they used to go from one village to another, cities and towns in caravans. After this he shifted to Rangoli Puppet Theatre for 1 year and used to perform with glove puppets. In National School of Drama, he was part of 40 plays and did more than 2000 shows and also showed his art in costume, mask and set designing. He had worked in many legendary films out of which three got nominations for Academy Awards in Best Foreign Language film.

Raghubir Yadav’s most applauded role was of a drug addict Chillum in Salaam Bombay and he also worked in Firaaq and in Dear Friend Hitler as the lead. In the music department, he has contributed a lot to the film industry. He had worked in movies such as Delhi-6 as narrator of Ramleela based on a story of a boy coming from foreign to his grandmother, Ramji Londonwaley based on a villager cook’s journey in London and Darna Mana Hai, a school teacher in this horror movie made by Ram Gopal Verma based on six horror stories, Aaja Nachle story of a London returned choreographer to save the dance theatre from getting demolished by her talent, Gandhi To Hitler, Thanks Maa, Peepli Live based on a poor farmer and him becoming famous in media due to his confession to suicide. He also sang the title track of Chacha Chaudhary serial. His song, Mehngai Dayain in Peepli Live was acclaimed by audiences due to its words and presence in society.

He has given voice to various ads such as Coke, Vim, Pepsi, Parle, Kotak Mahindra, Icy Cool, Maggie Mania, Britannia and several others. He has also composed Music for Ghashiram Kotwal and Chacha Chaudhary. He composed and sang the Maggie Mania and conceived, written & composed Raamleela for movie Delhi-6. One of his recent collaborations is the one in which he sang with Hitesh Sonik the song Lamh Tera in the episode of MTV Coke Studio Season 2.

He started his television career with the show Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne (1990), in which he played the lead character 'Mungerilal'. After that he did the role of Haji Nasruddin in show Mulla Naseeruddin and lead in the TV show Chacha Chaudhary based on famous Intelligent Indian comic character Chacha Chaudhary whose mind works faster than computer and gained popularity especially amongst children. He also played the title role in Arjun Pandit. His recent movie project was Piku co-starring Amitabh Bachchan and Deepika Padukone as Dr. Shrivastava. Raghuvir Yadav has been in depression due to his first wife Poornima from which he got separated but she kept on harassing him for money and also due to behavior of his son Achal towards him. He said music was his sole support in the days of depression.