Miss Lovely - Cast and Crew

8/13/2019 Miss Lovely - Cast and Crew

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MISSL VELY


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elving deep into the underbelly of Indias film industry, where back-alley

Dproducers churn out everything from pulpy horror movies to soft-coreporn, Miss Lovely is a wild ride that takes us back to the Mumbai of the1980s with lurid detail and intoxicating style.

Working out of sleazy hotels and abandoned warehouses, brothers Sonu

(Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and Vicky (Anil George) are prolific producers of trashy, C-

grade films for Mumbais booming underground market. The ambitious,

domineering Vicky is the unquestioned brains of the operation, leading the dim-

witted Sonu deeper into a world of alcoholic divas, sleazy money men and movie-

loving gangsters. But this precarious partnership is put to the test when the

brothers meet Pinky (Niharika Singh), an exquisite ingenue with a shady past.

SYNOPSIS:

BOMBAY

1988


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shim Ahluwalia was born in Mumbai. He studied film at

ABard College in New York moving on to direct commercialsat Arc Pictures NYC for iconic brands such as Givenchy andAbsolut Vodka. Ahluwalia moved back to Mumbai in 2000 and

started directing commercials for a host of agencies and clients who

were looking for someone with a fresh, edgy visual style. As a

commercials director, Ashims reputation grew quickly and he

began directing commercials for major brands such as Toyota, Visa,

Maruti Suzuki, Sony and Lakme while he was still in his mid 20s.

Ashim is also a reputed feature film director. His film John & Jane

won awards at the European Media Art Festival and the Directors

Guild of America, among numerous other international awards. It

was the first Indian film to be distributed by HBO Films and

continued to win prizes, including an Indian National Award. His

second film, Miss Lovely, was the only official Indian selection at the

Cannes Film Festival 2012. The film is being released in more than

20 countries and has won Best Film awards at MAMI and IFFLA.

UK publishing house Phaidon named Ahluwalia as one of the

worlds top emerging directors in their book Take 100: The Future

of Cinema.

DIRECTOR


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NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI .. sonu duggal

NIHARIKA SINGH .. pinky

ANIL GEORGE .. vicky duggal

ZEENA BHATIA .. poonam

RAGESH ASTHANAA .. pkMENAKA LALWANI .. nadia

CAST:

NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI

A graduate from the prestigious National School

of Drama (India), Nawaz has appeared in

character roles in popular Indian films like

Peepli Live, Gangs of Wasseypur, Lunchbox and

Kahaani and has established a reputation as a

formidable talent to watch out for. With MissLovely as his first lead role, Nawaz secures

himself a place as one of the key faces of new

Indian cinema. He plays the character of Sonu

Duggal, a small time film producer.

ANIL GEORGE

Anil is a stage actor from Delhi, India. His work

spans classical Hindi/ Urdu theatre and

improvised street plays. With Miss Lovely, Anil

has made his cinematic entrance. He plays the

intense character of Vicky Duggal, an ambitious

but reckless C grade film producer.

NIHARIKA SINGH

Niharika is a model turned actor and a former

beauty pageant winner (Miss India) who has

appeared in several music videos, commercials

and reality shows. Making her feature film debut

in Miss Lovely, Niharika gives what could be a

star-making performance as Pinky, a strugglingactress with a shadowy past.


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CREW:

FUTURE EAST presents MISS LOVELY

head of production SANJAY SHAH

production controller CYRUS PATEL

production designers ASHIM AHLUWALIATABASHEER ZUTSHIPARICHIT PARALKAR

costume designer TABASHEER ZUTSHI

associate costume designer SHEETAL SHARMA

casting SHARAD KALAWARMANAN RAWAT

music consultant EDO BOUMAN

director of photography MOHANAN

editors ASHIM AHLUWALIAPARESH KAMDAR

associate editor MARYANN D'SOUZA

executive producer SHUMONA GOEL

associate producers SANJAY SHAH PINAKI CHATTERJEE

written by ASHIM AHLUWALIAUTTAM SIRUR

directed by ASHIM AHLUWALIA

MOHANAN (Director of Photography)M o h a n a n i s o n e o f I n d i a ' s l e a d i n g

cinematographers. Starting from a background in

documentary cinema, his projects now span a wide

range of projects from art house films like Mani

Kaul's Naukar Ki Kameez to mainstream Bollywood

films. He has a worked with Ashim Ahluwalia on his

previous film, John & Jane.

SANJAY SHAH (Associate Producer)

Sanjay started his career with theatre production,

which was followed by directing and producing

nonfiction television formats for some of the leading

channels in India. Miss Lovely is his first feature film

project.

PARESH KAMDAR (Editor)

Paresh is an editor, filmmaker and academician. He

has received a national award for editing the

documentary Rasayatra and his own films Khargoshand Tunnu Ki Tina have been screened at various

international film festivals and won many awards.

He is an alumni and visiting faculty of the Film &

Television Institute of India.

SHUMONA GOEL (Executive Producer)

Shumona studied film production at Bard College in

New York. She is an experimental filmmaker and

artist who has recently shown work at the

Guggenheim in New York, Tate Modern, CentrePompidou and at various film festivals such as the

Berlinale. She was executive producer on Ashim

Ahluwalia's John & Jane.

PINAKI CHATTERJEE (Associate Producer)

Film & Television Institute of India graduate, Pinaki

Chatterjee worked in publishing before studying to

be a producer in Germany. He has worked on

numerous domestic and international film

productions, TV series and commercials of varying

budgets and has also played the role of a film buyer

for World Cinema. He plans to start a film festival

promotions/sales entity for aggressively promoting

independent Indian films worldwide.

TARUN BHANDARI (Sound Designer)

Tarun graduated from the School of Audio

Engineering, London. He has worked with IBF, a

subsidiary of Paramount and engineered albums forWest End theatre as well as numerous Bollywood

and International films. Tarun had previously

worked with Ashim Ahluwalia on his film John &

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FUTURE EAST

Future East is a boutique commercials Production

Company based in Mumbai, India.

Since our inception in 2005, Future East has been responsible

for some of the industry's most exciting entertainment and

branded content. We've produced award-winning commercials

for clients like LOreal, Yamaha, Toyota, Coca Cola, Visa, Sony,

LG, Wrigleys and Chevrolet among others.

Future East is well respected within the Bollywood industry and

often works with top end Hindi film stars such as Aishwarya Rai,

Arjun Rampal, Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan,

John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra.

The company has been part of many of the industry's mostsuccessful campaigns and currently represents top Indian &

international directors including automotive directors Nick

Piper, Andrew Becker and Andreas Link and beauty/ lifestyle

directors Joe Roman, Erick Irfegan and Manual Werner. The

Indian director panel includes founder Ashim Ahluwalia.


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PRODUCTION COMPANYFuture East Film8 Carmichael RoadBombay/ Mumbai 400026. India.[t] +91.23524576 [f] +91.23525310[e] [email protected]

www.miss-lovely.com // www.futureeast.com

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Duration

Aspect Ratio

Genre

Sound

Language

Subtitles

Year of Production

Country of Production

.... 110 mins

.... 2.35:1

.... Drama

.... 5.1

.... Hindi

.... English

.... 2012

.... India

AWARDS

Jury Prize for Best Feature,

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

2013

Best film (India Gold) Award,

Mumbai Film Festival

2012

Reliance MediaWorks CreaTech

Award, Mumbai Film Festival

- 2012

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Miss Lovely - Cast and Crew