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Dinesh Vijan is a Lyricist and Producer
Dinesh Vijan is an Indian Film producer, he co-founded Illuminati Films with actor Saif Ali Khan. He is known for producing films like Being Cyrus, Love Aaj Kal.
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Badlapur (2015)
, 2h25Directed by Sriram Raghavan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Yami Gautam, Radhika Apte, Vinay Pathak
Roles Lyricist
Rating73%
Misha (Yami Gautam) and her son Robin become the victims of a bank robbery getaway during a shopping trip. Liak (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and his friend Harman (Vinay Pathak) are on the run after robbing a bank and use Misha's car to flee. Robin falls out of the moving vehicle during the struggle, while Misha is shot by Liak. Both mother and son later died from their injuries in the hospital. Harman jumps out of the car to protect the money while Liak is arrested.
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Badlapur (2015)
, 2h25Directed by Sriram Raghavan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Yami Gautam, Radhika Apte, Vinay Pathak
Roles Producer
Rating73%
Misha (Yami Gautam) and her son Robin become the victims of a bank robbery getaway during a shopping trip. Liak (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and his friend Harman (Vinay Pathak) are on the run after robbing a bank and use Misha's car to flee. Robin falls out of the moving vehicle during the struggle, while Misha is shot by Liak. Both mother and son later died from their injuries in the hospital. Harman jumps out of the car to protect the money while Liak is arrested.
Finding Fanny (2014)
, 1h41Directed by Homi Adajania
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Pankaj Kapur, Ranveer Singh
Roles Producer
Rating56%
Finding Fanny revolves around five rather dysfunctional characters that live in the quaint sleepy village of Pocolim, nestled deep in the interior of Goa, India. Pocolim is a village where pointless conversations are a way of life. Nothing ever really happens here and the people of Pocolim, well, they just exist. One night, the old postman Ferdie (Naseeruddin Shah), receives a letter that is slipped under his door.
Happy Ending (2014)
, 2h16Directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K.
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about writers
Actors Saif Ali Khan, Ileana D'Cruz, Kalki Koechlin, Govinda, Ranvir Shorey, Preity Zinta
Roles Producer
Rating54%
Writer Yudi (Saif Ali Khan) wrote a hit book five and a half years ago but he is still living life king-size in Los Angeles, enjoying fame and affairs, avoiding commitment, doing no work, partying with his miserably married friend Montu (Ranvir Shorey) or having conversations with his fat, bearded inner voice Yogi (also Saif). Suddenly, Yudi's money runs out and his publishers dump him for hit romance novelist Aanchal (Ileana D'Cruz), visiting from Mumbai.
Lekar Hum Deewana Dil (2014)
, 2h20Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Armaan Jain, Deeksha Seth, Sudeep Sahir, Gautami Gadgil Kapoor, Rohini Hattangadi, Varun Badola
Roles Producer
Rating47%
Go Goa Gone (2013)
, 1h48Directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K.
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Vir Das, Puja Gupta, Anand Tiwari, Soha Ali Khan
Roles Producer
Rating66%
Hardik (Kunal Khemu) and Luv (Vir Das) are two dope-heads, living with their roommate/friend Bunny (Anand Tiwari). After Hardik loses his job and Luv gets dumped by his girlfriend, both decide to tag along with Bunny to Goa to relax. In Goa, Luv falls for Luna (Puja Gupta), and she invites the guys to a rave party, organised by the Russian mafia, which is being held on a secluded island. At the party a new drug, D2RF, is launched. The next morning, the three roommates find that the island has been infected by the "living dead" (zombies), and the three men save luna from her villa and stay together in hopes of surviving. A Russian mafioso, Boris (Saif Ali Khan, originally from Delhi/Dilli), arrives and reveals himself as a zombie slayer. The three roommates and Luna plan to use the boat they had used to travel to the island to escape from it. Finally, after escaping the island, they discover that the mainland has also been infested by the zombies, forcing them to find another way to survive.
Agent Vinod (2012)
, 2h32Directed by Sriram Raghavan
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood
Actors Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Ravi Kishan, Prem Chopra, Ram Kapoor, Zakir Hussain
Roles Producer
Rating52%
In the Dasht-E-Margoh desert in remote Afghanistan, inside a Taliban camp, ISI official Col. Huzefa (Shahbaz Khan) is interrogating a captured man (Saif Ali Khan) suspected to be a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) agent. The man gives details of RAW's operations in Afghanistan in exchange for money and safe passage across the border. He betrays his colleague, Major Rajan (Ravi Kissen), who has also infiltrated the camp. This is only a ruse, as both overpower their captors and fight their way out of the camp. Along the way, they rescue a girl called Farah (Maryam Zakaria). The man is actually a RAW agent and his nom-de-guerre is Agent Vinod.
Cocktail (2012)
, 2h24Directed by Homi Adajania
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Diana Penty, Dimple Kapadia, Boman Irani, Randeep Hooda
Roles Producer
Rating62%
Meera (Diana Penty) is a shy and simple traditional girl who leaves her family in India to live in London with her new husband Kunal (Randeep Hooda). While at the London airport, she meets the shameless flirt Gautam "gutlu" (Saif Ali Khan), who hits on her and asks her out. Meera politely tells him that she is married and then leaves. Meera searches for her husband and finally finds him, but he is angry to see her and explains that he only married Meera for her money, telling her to stay away from him. This leaves Meera heartbroken and stranded in London with no place to stay.
Aarakshan (2011)
, 2h44Directed by Prakash Jha
Genres Drama, Thriller, Politic
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, Manoj Bajpayee, Deepika Padukone, Prateik Babbar, Tanvi Azmi
Roles Producer
Rating61%
In 2008, Deepak Kumar (Saif Ali Khan) is at an interview for the teacher's post at an affluent school. The interviewers turn him down when they discover his low-caste roots. Deepak relates the incident to his mentor, Dr. Prabhakar Anand (Amitabh Bachchan). Dr Anand, the legendary principal of renowned STM college, offers Deepak an interim job as a teacher at STM. Deepak is comforted by his friend, Sushant (an upper-caste boy), and his girlfriend Poorbi (Deepika Padukone), who is Dr. Anand's daughter.
Love Aaj Kal (2009)
, 2h10Directed by Imtiaz Ali
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Rishi Kapoor, Giselli Monteiro, Rahul Khanna, Florence Brudenell-Bruce
Roles Producer
Rating67%
Jai and Meera are a modern-day couple living in London. They are happy with each other, but do not believe in tying each other down so, when career beckons, they have a mutual break-up, but decide to remain friends. Meera goes to India, while Jai stays in London, hoping to be called to San Francisco, where working at the Golden Gate Inc. is his dream job. Jai begins to date a blonde named Jo, while Meera returns the feeling of her boss, Vikram. The couple believe they have moved on.
Hijack (2008)
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about hijackings
Actors Shiney Ahuja, Esha Deol, K. K. Raina, Mona Ambegaonkar, Kaveri Jha, Rasika Dugal
Roles Producer
Rating38%
Vikram Madan (Shiney Ahuja) is a ground maintenance engineer at the Chandigarh Airport. His social life is limited to one friend, Rajeev, the security chief of the same airport. Vikram's daughter is traveling with her teacher for a debate contest to Amritsar from Delhi. That flight gets hijacked by a group of six terrorists working for a man named Rasheed (KK Raina) who has been captured by the Indian police. The flight is forced to land at the Chandigarh Airport. These terrorists demand the release of Rasheed from the Indian Government or they threaten to kill the hostages inside the aircraft. Now Vikram is faced with a dilemma of being the only man who can sneak inside the aircraft and try to save the life of his daughter Priya. Once he breaches into the aircraft with the help of air hostess Saira (Esha Deol), he starts plotting and planning and killing the terrorists one by one. Some innocent passengers become the victims of the terrorists and die. However somehow Vikram and Saira together saved the day.
Being Cyrus (2005)
, 1h23Directed by Homi Adajania
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Themes Films about families
Actors Saif Ali Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Boman Irani, Simone Singh, Salim and Sulaiman
Roles Producer
Rating70%
The Sethna family of Panchgani consists of a retired sculptor Dinshaw (Naseeruddin Shah) and his wife Katy (Dimple Kapadia). Dinshaw's brother Farrokh (Boman Irani), their father Fardoonjee (Honey Chhaya), and Farrokh's wife Tina (Simone Singh) reside in Mumbai.