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Aarakshan (2011) Poster

(2011)

Full Cast & Crew

Directed by 

Prakash Jha

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)  

Prakash Jha
Anjum Rajabali

Cast (in credits order)  

Amitabh Bachchan ... Prabhakar Anand
Saif Ali Khan ... Deepak Kumar
Manoj Bajpayee ... Mithilesh Singh (as Manoj Bajpai)
Deepika Padukone ... Poorvi
Prateik Patil Babbar ... Sushant Seth (as Prateik)
Tanvi Azmi ... Kavita P. Anand
Saurabh Shukla ... Mantri Baburao
Darshan Jariwala ... Anirudh Chaudhary
Yashpal Sharma ... Shambhu Yadav
Mukesh Tiwari ... Police Inspector
Rajeev Verma ... Damodar
Indira Tiwari ... Tabela Topper Student
S.M. Zaheer S.M. Zaheer ... Prof. Kantaprasad
Chetan Pandit ... Prof. Dinkar
Vinay Apte ... Neta Bhishamber
Aanchal Munjal ... Muniya S. Yadav (as Aachal Munjal)
Hema Malini ... Shakuntala
Nitosh N. Nitosh N.
Amitosh Nagpal Amitosh Nagpal ... Pandit ji
Gyanesh Pandey Gyanesh Pandey ... Advocate Abhishek
Gary Tantony Gary Tantony ... Prof. Barkis
Sonal Jha
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Prem Asthana Prem Asthana ... Cort clerk (as Prem Prakash Asthana)
Seema Azmi Seema Azmi ... Shambhu's wife
Rahul Chelani Rahul Chelani ... Youth leader
Rahul Daksh Rahul Daksh
Amit Ghosh Amit Ghosh ... Manu
Rahul Jadhav Rahul Jadhav ... Bhanja
Hesh Jain Hesh Jain
Kamal Jain Kamal Jain ... Director General of Police
Anita Kanwal ... Mrs. Kanta Prasad
Saurabh Nigam Saurabh Nigam ... Ganesh
Rajbhushan Sahastrabuddhe Rajbhushan Sahastrabuddhe ... Sub Inspector who arrests Prabhakar
Bhupendra Sakalay Bhupendra Sakalay ... Coaching owner
Jyoti Savarikar Jyoti Savarikar ... Principal madam
Vivek Savarikar Vivek Savarikar ... interview Committee member
Sharad Singh ... P.A.
Shruti Singh Shruti Singh ... Deepika's friend
Amit Singh Thakur ... Principal Tripathi (as Amit Thakur)
Sumeet Vyas ... Sunny Kantaprasad

Produced by 

Syed Zaid Ali ... line producer (as Zaid Ali)
Kamal R. Mishra ... line producer (as Camay kamal Mishra)
A.A. Nadiadwala ... presentation producer
Firoz Nadiadwala ... producer (as Firoz A. Nadiadwala)

Music by 

Shankar Mahadevan ... (as Shankar Ehsaan Loy) (music)
Loy Mendonsa ... (as Shankar Ehsaan Loy) (music)
Ehsaan Noorani ... (as Shankar Ehsaan Loy) (music)
Wayne Sharpe ... (background score)

Cinematography by 

Sachin Krishn ... director of photography

Editing by 

Santosh Mandal ... (Editor:)
Sundar Pathuri ... associate editor (as Sunder Pathuri)

Casting By 

Ritam Srivastav ... (as Ritam Shrivastava)

Art Direction by 

Jayant Deshmukh

Costume Design by 

Priyanka Mundada

Makeup Department 

Ravi Futane ... makeup artist
Amit Gupta ... assistant makeup artist

Production Management 

Rishi Jha ... production manager
Rajesh Kumar Khanna ... production manager
Ajeet Gagandev Patel ... assistant production manager
Anil Shoraj Sharma ... assistant production manager (as Anil Sharma)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director 

Iti Agarwal ... assistant director
Zohaib Ali ... assistant director
Apurva Dhar Badgaiyan ... second assistant director (as Apoorva S. Badgaiyan)
Rajnish Jaiswal ... assistant director
Disha Jha ... Key Assistant Director / assistant director
Avanish Kumar ... assistant director
Raj Mehta ... second assistant director
Suman Prasad ... assistant director
Rajbhushan Sahastrabuddhe ... first assistant director
Shruti Shrivastav ... second assistant director
Gyanendra Pratap Singh ... assistant director
Janmejay Singh ... assistant director
Palash Singh ... assistant director
Shruti Singh ... second unit director
Ritam Srivastav ... second assistant director (as Ritam Shrivastava)
Karan Suri Talwar ... first assistant director (as Karan Talwar)
Ramira Taneja ... assistant director
Pradeep Verma ... assistant director
Kuldeep Yadav ... assistant director

Art Department 

Vishal Hans ... art assistant
Kishor Tripathi ... assistant art director

Sound Department 

Jitendra Chaudhary ... sound designer
Kingshuk Moran ... assistant sound re-recording mixer
Dipesh Patel ... sound engineer
Souvik Phukan ... assistant sound re-recording mixer
Dipesh Sharma ... mixing & mastering
Shankar Singh ... sound editor
Raghavendra Sound ... boom operator (as Raghavendra)
Manoj Yadav ... foley artist (as Yadav Manoj)

Visual Effects by 

Wasim Ali ... compositor
Yatin Bhave ... digital compositor
Marchila Dutta ... visual effects artist: PIXION
Abhishek Goel ... digital intermediate line producer: Pixion
Manoj Gohil ... compositor
Gsanjeevandreason ... compositor
Pankaj Kalbende ... digital compositing supervisor
Pratik Kalbende ... digital compositor
Chandan Kar ... digital compositor
Kotamraju Karthik ... visual effects coordinator
Raghunathan Kunal ... digital compositor
Pranab Lahkar ... digital compositor
Vishram Mondkar ... compositor
Kapil More ... digital compositor
Sachin Nimbalkar ... ARRI laser recordist
Anupam Pal ... compositor
Ahinsa Pandya ... digital matte painter
Tuhin Rana ... digital compositor: Pixion
Anil Rawat ... digital compositor
Bhaskar Reddy ... compositor
Ranadheer Reddy ... compositing head
Sarika Salian ... team lead
Chandrakant Shenoy ... digital matte painter
Kanwaljeet Singh ... junior compositor
Balakrishna P. Subaiah ... digital compositor
Meera Sukhathankar ... digital compositor
Prasad Sutar ... visual effects supervisor
Viral Thakkar ... head of cgi
Prashant Thakur ... digital compositor
Indresh Tiwari ... visual effects
Kumar Umesh ... junior compositor
Jitendra Yadav ... visual effects artist: PIXION

Stunts 

Prem Sharma ... action director

Camera and Electrical Department 

Shrikant Asati ... chief assistant cinematographer
Jacob Boyalla ... grip
Devendra Dash ... steadicam operator
Ravi Kachhawa ... still photographer (as chandan kachhawa)
Amiya Mahapatra ... Jimmyjib camera operator
Aarup Mondal ... associate cinematographer/2nd unit dop (as Arup Mandal)
Tusar Sahoo ... assistant camera

Casting Department 

Harsh Dave ... local casting: bhopal
Rajbhushan Sahastrabuddhe ... casting (as rajbhushan sahasrabuddhe) / casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department 

Umeshkumar Pandey ... wardrobe

Editorial Department 

Alvin Bernard ... colorist telecine: grading
Shaurya Chadha ... promo editor
Robert Lang ... digital intermediate colorist
Siddharth S Pande ... Visual Promotions
Swapnil Patole ... telecine dailies colorist
Ganapathy Subramanian ... digital intermediate conformist

Location Management 

Neelesh Shriniwas ... location coordinator (as Nitesh Shrivas)

Music Department 

Dorian Charnis ... composer: additional music
Elias Constantopedos ... composer: additional music
Prasoon Joshi ... lyricist
Jonathan Russell ... composer: additional music
Tim Starnes ... music editor / music supervisor
Rachel Wardell ... assistant music editor

Additional Crew 

Japinder Kaur Baweja ... marketing team
Mithun D'Souza ... technologist
Nitin Gadia ... head ARRI laser recordist
Chandan Kachhawa ... publicity stills
Sandeep Karnik ... film lab coordinator
Harsh Mainra ... production assistant
Gagan Meshram ... marketing: Pixion
Siddharth S Pande ... visual promotions (as Siddharth Pande)
Manish Parab ... Head of Accounts
Ajeet Gagandev Patel ... production assistant
Jayesh Pradhan ... choreographer
Goutam Raam ... director's assistant (as Ram Goutam)
Mahesh Ramanathan ... management team
Dhairya Roy ... international distribution
Tusshar Seyth ... marketing team (as Tushar Seth)
Karan Suri Talwar ... marketing and publicity manager (as Karan Talwar)
Nideesh Vasu ... subtitles
Robert Lang ... color science/imaging r&d: Pixion (uncredited) / telecine dailies supervisor (uncredited)
Rajesh Potphode ... color science/imaging r&d: Pixion (uncredited)
Suvrata Nasnodkar ... marketing team (uncredited)

Thanks 

Kamal Mishra ... thanks
Dhruvik Patel ... thanks
Tanuj Patel ... special thanks

See also

Release Dates | Official Sites | Company Credits | Filming & Production | Technical Specs

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