Shabana Azmi is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Her career in the Hindi film industry has spanned over 160 films, mostly within independent and neorealist parallel cinema, though her work extended to mainstream films as well as a number of international projects. One of India's most acclaimed actresses, Azmi is known for her portrayals of distinctive, often unconventional female characters across several genres. She has won a record of five National Film Awards for Best Actress, in addition to six Filmfare Awards and several international accolades. The Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri in 1998 and the Padma Bhushan in 2012.
Balaji Telefilms is an Indian company that produces Indian soap operas in several Indian languages. Balaji Telefilms also owns Alt Balaji, the platform known for producing adult rated content. Balaji Telefilms also produces reality TV, comedy, game shows, entertainment, and factual programming. Balaji Telefilms is promoted by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor and is a public company listed at Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India.
Mannu Bhandari was an Indian author, screenplay writer, teacher, and playwright. Primarily known for her two Hindi novels, Aap Ka Bunty and Mahabhoj (Feast), Bhandari also wrote over 150 short stories, several other novels, screenplays for television and film, and adaptations for theater. She was a pioneer of the Nayi Kahani movement in Hindi literature, which focused on the aspirations of the emerging Indian middle class, and her own work is notable for its depiction of the inner lives of middle class working and educated women. Her work tackles themes of family, relationships, gender equality, and caste discrimination in India.
Masoom is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language drama film, the directorial debut of Shekhar Kapur. It is an adaptation of the 1980 Erich Segal novel Man, Woman and Child, which was also adapted into a Malayalam movie Olangal and an American movie Man, Woman and Child. The film stars Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi in lead roles along with Tanuja, Supriya Pathak and Saeed Jaffrey. It features Jugal Hansraj, Aradhana and Urmila Matondkar as child actors. The screenplay, dialogues and lyrics are by Gulzar with music by R.D. Burman. The film has been remade into a Telugu movie named Illalu Priyuralu and in Turkish as Bir Akşam Üstü.
Ekta Kapoor is an Indian film and television producer and director who works in Hindi cinema and soap operas. She is the joint managing director and creative head of Balaji Telefilms Limited, which was founded in 1994. In 2001, Balaji Motion Pictures was launched as a subsidiary company of Balaji Telefilms Limited which is a film production and distribution company. In April 2017, she launched ALTBalaji, a video on demand platform.
Kalpana Lajmi (1954–2018) was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Lajmi was an independent filmmaker working more on realistic, low-budget films, which are known in India as parallel cinema. Her films were often woman-oriented. She had been for a long time manager with Bhupen Hazarika. She was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2017 and died on 23 September 2018 at the age of 64.
Sanjeeda Sheikh is an Indian actress who works in the Hindi films and television. Sheikh is best known for playing Namrata "Nimmo" Mathuria in Kyaa Hoga Nimmo Kaa, Ayesha Shergill in Kayamath, Nitya Goenka / Durga in Ek Hasina Thi and Kamini Mathur in Love Ka Hai Intezaar. Sheikh has since been part of the films Taish (2020), Kaali Khuhi (2020) and Fighter (2024) and the web series Heeramandi (2024).
Shobha Kapoor is an Indian television, film and web series producer. She is the managing director of Mumbai-based Balaji Telefilms Limited, a film, TV and web series production house, which she runs together with her daughter Ekta Kapoor.
Viacom18 Studios is an Indian film distribution and production company. It is a subsidiary of Viacom18 based in Mumbai and it is one of the first studio model based motion picture & content production business in India, with an operation that involves acquisition, production, syndication, marketing and worldwide distribution of full-length feature films as well as digital only films, web series, short films.
Amar Deep is a 1979 Bollywood romantic drama film directed by R. Krishnamurthy and K. Vijayan and produced by K. Balaji. The film stars Rajesh Khanna in the lead role supported by Vinod Mehra, Shabana Azmi. The lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi and the music was composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. The film was a remake of Tamil film Dheepam (1977) which itself was a remake of Malayalam film Theekkanal (1976). It was a box office hit and marked Khanna's comeback after a dull phase.
Guneet Monga Kapoor is an Indian film producer. She is the producer of the 2023 Academy Award-winning documentary short film The Elephant Whisperers. Monga is the founder of Sikhya Entertainment a boutique film production house that produced notable films like Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1, Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2, Peddlers, The Lunchbox, Masaan, Zubaan and Pagglait.
Meraj Shaikh is an Indian film producer and Line Producer and the founder of Wingman Pictures, He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra in 1977.
Manoj Nandwana is a film distributor and Film Producer of Bollywood. with more than 14 years of experience in the movie business. Manoj Nandwana also famous for his controversial film project based on Neera Wadia.
Yeh Nazdeekiyan is a 1982 Bollywood movie.
Ramon Chibb is an Indian Filmmaker, producer, writer and director known for his work in Hindi films and documentaries. He is also a former Indian Army officer. He is the co-founder of Manomay Motion Pictures Pvt. Ltd.
Signature Move is a 2017 American indie comedy-drama film directed by Jennifer Reeder and co-written and produced by Fawzia Mirza about a Pakistani Muslim lesbian living in Chicago with her mother. Fawzia Mirza also introduced herself as a lesbian on Twitter before the film was announced. The film premiered at the 2017 South by Southwest Film Festival.
Fixerr is a 2019 Indian web series created by Sakett Saawhney and produced by Riti Sawnhney under her banner Ekomkar Pictures for ALT Balaji, It is also available on ZEE5. The series marks the Web debut of actor Shabir Ahluwalia and stars Mahie Gill, Karishma Sharma, Tigmanshu Dhulia and Varun Badola in supporting roles. It was made available on ALTBalaji and ZEE5 platform on 7 October 2019.
Jyoti Kapur Das is an Indian director and scriptwriter, known for her work in Bollywood. Two of the short films that Das has written and directed have won Filmfare awards.
Kaali Khuhi is an Indian Hindi-language Horror film directed by Terrie Samundra. It is produced by Anku Pande and Ramon Chibb. The film is written by Terrie Samundra, David Walter Lech and Rupinder Inderjit and starring Shabana Azmi, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Riva Arora and Satyadeep Mishra. The plot revolves around the girl Shivangi who is 10 years old who is trying to save the village where her family resides from ghosts.
Aman Gill is a film producer born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia now based in Mumbai, India. He has his ancestral roots hailing from Ludhiana, Punjab.
