This article is about the Hindu sage Kashyapa or Kasyapa. See also Kassapa Buddha for information on the ancient buddha and Mahakasyapa information on the disciple of the Buddha. For King Kashyapa of Sri Lanka, see Kashyapa I

Kashyapa (Sanskrit कश्यप kaśyapa) was an ancient sage (rishis), who is one of the Saptarshis in the present Manvantara; with others being Atri, Vashishtha, Vishvamitra, Gautama, Jamadagni, Bharadwaja ^[1]

Vamana avatar, Rishi Kashyap's son with Aditi, in the court of King Bali.

He was the father of the Devas, Asuras, Nagas and all of humanity. He married Aditi, with whom he fathered Agni, the Adityas, and most importantly Lord Vishnu took his fifth Avatar as Vamana, the son of Aditi, in the seventh Manvantara.^[2] With his second wife, Diti, he begot the Daityas. Diti and Aditi were daughters of King Daksha Prajapati and sisters to Sati, Shiva's consort. Kashyap received the earth, obtained by Parashurama's conquest of King Kartavirya Arjuna and henceforth, earth came to be known as "Kashyapi".

He was also the author of the treatise Kashyap Samhita, or Braddha Jivakiya Tantra, which is considered, a classical reference book on Ayurveda especially in the fields of Ayurvedic pediatrics, gynecology and obstetrics.^[3] It can be safely assumed that there were many Kashyaps and the name indicates a status and not just one individual.

Birth and Lineage of Kashyapa[link]

The Valley of Kashmir is named after Kashyap Rishi^{[citation needed]}. He was one of the Saptarshi Brahmins. According to Hindu Mythology, he is the son of Marichi, one of the ten sons (Maanasa-putras) of the Creator Brahma. The Prajapati Daksha gave his thirteen daughters (Aditi, Diti, Kadru, Danu, Arishta, Surasa, Surabhi, Vinata, Tamra, Krodhavaśā, Ida, Khasa and Muni ^[4] in marriage to Kashyapa.

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• His sons from Aditi or Adityas (Sons of Aditi) were, Aṃśa, Aryaman, Bhaga, Dhūti, Mitra, Pūṣan, a daughter Bhumidevi, Śakra, Savitṛ, Tvaṣṭṛ, Varuṇa, Viṣṇu, and Vivasvat or Vivasvan,^[4] who went on to start the Solar Dynasty (Suryavansha), which later came to be known as Ikshvaku dynasty, after his great grandson, King Ikshvaku, whose subsequent kings were, Kukshi, Vikukshi, Bana, Anaranya, Prithu, Trishanku, and finally King Raghu, who gave it the name, Raghuvansh (Dynasty of Raghu), and then further leading up to Lord Ram, the son of Dashrath.^[5]

• His sons from Diti were, Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha and a daughter Sinhika, who later became the wife of Viprachitti. Hiranyakashipu had four sons, Anuhlada, Hlada, Prahlada, and Sanhlada, who further extended the Daityas.^[4]

• Garuda and Aruna are the sons of Kashyap from his wife, Vinata ^[6]
• The Nāgas (serpents) are his sons from Kadru.
• The Danavas are his sons from Danu.
• The Bhagavata Purana states that the Apsaras were born from Kashyap and Muni.
• Uttar Ramayana says Diti had a son named Maya who was the lord of Daityas^[7]

In the family line of Kashyap, along with him there are two more discoverers of Mantras, namely, his sons Avatsara and Asita. Two sons of Avatsara, namely, Nidhruva and Rebha, are also Mantra-seers. In the Manvantara period named 'Svarochisha', Kashyap was one of the seven Sages for that manvantara known as SaptaRishis. The Indian valley of Kashmir in the Himalayas is named after him. THE TRANCE OF MAHRISHI KASHYAP AND MATA ADITI situated in AMIN (Kurukshetra)HARYANA opp.SURYA KUND

Kashyap In Buddhism[link]

In the Buddhist Vinaya Pitaka of the Mahavagga (I.245)^[8] section the Buddha pays respect to Kashyap by declaring that the Veda in its true form was declared to the Vedic rishis "Atthako, Vâmako, Vâmadevo, Vessâmitto, Yamataggi, Angiraso, Bhâradvâjo, Vâsettho, Kassapo, and Bhagu"^[9] and because that true Veda was altered by some priests he refused to pay homage to the altered version.^[10]

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Dhallapiccola, Anna L (2002). Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend.ISBN 0-500-51088-1.

External links[link]

• http://mythfolklore.net/india/encyclopedia/kasyapa.htm

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Anurag Kashyap
Born	(1972-09-10) 10 September 1972 (age 39) Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Occupation	film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Aarti Bajaj (divorced) Kalki Koechlin (2011–present)

Anurag Singh Kashyap (born 10 September 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. As a filmmaker, he is known for Black Friday (2004), a controversial^[1][2][3] and award-winning Hindi film about the 1993 Bombay bombings, followed by No Smoking (2007), Dev D (2009) and Gulaal (2009). As a screenwriter, he wrote the scripts for the Filmfare Award-winning Satya (1998) and the Academy Award-nominated Canadian film Water (2005).

In 1999, Kashyap won the Best Screenplay award for Satya at the Star Screen Awards. The next year, his short film Last Train to Mahakali won the Special Jury Award at the same awards.^[4] His feature film debut Black Friday won the Grand Jury Prize at the 3rd Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (2005),^[5] and was a nominee for the "Golden Leopard" (Best Film) at the 57th Locarno International Film Festival (2004).^[6] In 2010, he announced his association with Tumbhi where he and his team will make six short films for Tumbhi and start his blog with them, as well.^[7][8][9] He was listed on the The DNA power list: Top 50 influentials, a list of 50 most influential Indians in 2011.^[10]

Early life[link]

Anurag Kashyap was born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, where his father worked for the state electricity board. He grew up in several cities, including Varanasi, Saharanpur, and Obra. He did his early schooling in Dehradun and, age eight onwards, at the Scindia School in Gwalior.^[11][12][13]

He was fascinated with films right from childhood. Even at age five, would watch Hindi films like Kora Kagaz and Aandhi at a nearby club and open-air theater. This came to an end once he began his schooling.^[14]

Due to Kashyap's desire to become a scientist, he went to Delhi for his higher studies and enrolled himself into a zoology course at the Hansraj College (University of Delhi); he graduated in 1993.^[15][16][17] During his college days, he started watching films again and also got involved with drugs and alcohol. He was confused and depressed and had joined a street theater group, Jana Natya Manch; he ended up doing a lot of street plays.^[12][14][17] The same year, a couple of friends introduced him to world cinema; they "urged [him] to catch a de Sica retrospective" at the International Film Festival of India.^[11][12] In ten days, he saw 55 films at the festival,^[17][18] and de Sica's Bicycle Thieves was the film that influenced him the most; watching it "was an epiphany."^[15]

"from all different perspectives and in a way you can say that these films changed my life and it’s meaning completely for me. Just that one film festival and I decided that this is what I want to be a part of — in next five months I was in Mumbai".^[17]

Career[link]

The film festival and de Sica made a deep impact on Kashyap — he wanted to do something with films — so he landed in Mumbai in June 1993 with INR 5,000– 6,000 in his pocket.^[14][19] The money ran out after he stayed for a couple of days in a "good hotel." He spent the next eight months on the streets, staying in lofts, "sleeping on beaches," "under a water tank and in the St Xavier's [college] boys hostel."^[12] He managed to find work at Prithvi Theatre, but his first play remained incomplete because the director died. He then joined Makrand Deshpande's troupe — Samrangan — but left because he "could not face life. [He] wanted to act but [he] couldn't act with all that frustration."^[16]

Kashyap then wrote an "eight-page drama" — Main (I) — which did well at college drama festivals. People advised him to pursue a career in writing. Kashyap's play was appreciated by directors like Govind Nihalani and Saeed Mirza. Nihalani was working on a television series based on classic works, and he gave Kashyap a couple of books—a play by Henrik Ibsen, and Franz Kafka's The Trial—so that he could write scripts based on them. Kashyap read The Trial and told Nihalani that the book could only be made into an animation film, not a regular one. Nihalani asked him to reconsider. But the books had "confused [Kashyap] so much that [he] started thinking that [he] didn't know anything!" Kashyap started avoiding Nihalani; he went into "hibernation for a year and a half, and kept reading."^[14][16]

In 1995, an acquaintance introduced Kashyap to Shivam Nair, director of the 2006 film Ahista Ahista. The day they met, Kashyap watched Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver at Nair's place—on a "bad vcr" and using a "mutilated tape"; the film fascinated him. "I want to write something," Kashyap told Nair, and spent the next few days sitting in a corner as people like Sriram Raghavan, Sridhar Raghavan and Shiv Subramaniam discussed things. Sridhar introduced him to the world of books—authors like James M. Cain.^[14] The team was working on two projects, one of which was a docu-drama, Auto Narayan, based on the life of serial killer Auto Shankar; the second one was a film scripted by Kashyap.^[17][20] Auto Narayan got delayed because the script penned by Subramaniam was not "working." Kashyap rewrote the script, and got credit for the same, and the second film was scrapped. But Kashyap had now proved himself, and so got access to a VCR and television set. He starting bringing in video tapes and spent many days watching films.^[14] Kashyap got his first major break when actor Manoj Bajpai, who was working on Daud showed Auto Narayan to producer-director Ramgopal Varma. Varma liked Kashyap's work and hired him to write the script for Satya.^[14][16]

In September 1993, while Kashyap stayed at the St. Xavier's Boys Hostel, he used to hang out with the members of a band—Greek (later Pralay). He took copious notes on how they lead their lives—forty pages of a small notebook, and began writing the script—"in bits and pieces"—for a film that he called Mirage but which would later become Paanch. Kashyap had seen ex-VJ Luke Kenny in a Vikram Kapadia play, and approached him with an incomplete script, but nothing came out of it.^[14][17][18] Later on, while working with Nair, he came across files related to the Joshi-Abhyankar Serial Murders that took place in Pune in 1976.^[21]

"Five very ordinary college kids viciously murdered nine people. I got what I needed to finish my script then."^[18]

He had also seen a film, Fun, about two mentally unstable girls murdering an elderly woman. And Paanch was ready to be made into a film. Kashyap says—

"There was a structuring in Fun, which you will also see in Paanch. There was something in Fun. When I began looking for it, I saw a pattern in Last Train to Mahakali, in my own film Paanch and in Auto Narayan. All three films had a similar formula. I am able to analyze it because I have.^[14]

Satya was a commercial and critical success, and Kashyap collaborated with Varma on a few more films writing the screenplay and dialogues for Kaun? (1999) and the dialogues for Shool (1999). He also wrote the dialogues for Mani Ratnam's Yuva (2004). Kashyap made his directorial debut with Paanch, with Kay Kay Menon as the lead in 2000. However, the film ran into trouble with the Indian censor board and hasn't been released to date.^[22] In 2007, he adapted Stephen King's 1978 short story "Quitters, Inc." as No Smoking, which despite being received well by critics, didn't do well at the box-office.^[23] This was followed by Return of Hanuman (previously Hanuman Returns) a Hindi animation film about adventures of the Hindu god Hanuman.

Then, in 2009, came Dev.D. Written and directed by him, the film is a modern day take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali novel Devdas, previously adapted for the screen by such revered filmmakers as P.C. Barua and Bimal Roy, and more recently by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Dev.D was embraced by the media, critics and public alike, and is considered to be amongst path-breaking films in Hindi for the way it presented itself.

In March 2009, while announcing steering away from screenwriting, after his current assignments to concentrate on direction, Kashyap also announced two new film projects. Bombay Velvet, a thriller based on real incidents in 1960s, based on a script by Princeton University Historian Gyan Prakash, will be produced by Danny Boyle starring Aamir Khan. Doga, the second film, will be based on the Raj Comics super hero.^[24][25]

In 2010 he played a child abuser in Onir's I Am, revealing that the role was meaningful to him because he had been sexually abused as a child.^[26]

He has also written the script of Kabhie Kabhie (1997 TV series) with Akash Khurana and Vinta Nanda which was telecast on Star Plus and this program was directed by Mahesh Bhatt having star casts like Shefali Shah as Radha Pathak, Lillete Dubey as Shama Joshi, Deepak Parashar as Nirmal Joshi, Rohit Roy as Vijay Sinha, Surekha Sikri as Lakshmi Pathak, Alok Nath and Kunika.

Personal[link]

Kashyap, with wife Kalki at the 2010 Filmfare Awards.

Anurag was earlier married to Aarti — his college sweetheart whom he dated for nine years before getting married. They have a daughter Aaliya.^[27] On 30 April 2011, Kashyap got married to Kalki Koechlin at Kalki's maternal home in Ooty.^[28] They first met during the making of Dev D.^[29] Anurag and Kalki collaborated on making of the movie, Shaitan.

His younger brother Abhinav Kashyap is also a screenwriter/director and made his directorial debut in 2010 with the blockbuster Dabangg starring Salman Khan. Abhinav also co-wrote the script with Anurag for the Sanjay Gupta-directed film Jung starring Sanjay Dutt and Jackie Shroff.

Filmography[link]

Actor[link]

• Soundtrack (film) (2011) as a Director (As Himself)
• Shagird (2011) as Bunty Bhaiya (Gangster)
• Tera Kya Hoga Johny (2011) as Kashyap (Special Appearance)
• I Am (2010)
• Luck by Chance (2009) as a Writer (As Himself)
• Black Friday (2004) as a ISI Man

Director[link]

• Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)
• That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011)
• Mumbai Cutting (2010)
• Gulaal (2009)
• Dev.D (2009)
• Return of Hanuman (2007)
• No Smoking (2007)
• Black Friday (2004)
• Paanch (2003) (unreleased)
• Last Train to Mahakali (1999)

Story Writer[link]

• Aiyaa (2012)
• Mumbai Cutting (2011)
• That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011)
• Muskurake Dekh Zara (2010)
• Udaan (2010)
• Gulaal (2009)
• Dev D (2009)
• Fool N Final (2007)
• Water (2005)
• Paisa Vasool (2004)
• Jung (2000)
• Kaun (1999)
• Shool (1999)
• Last Train to Mahakali (1999)
• Satya (1998)
• Kabhie Kabhie (1997 TV series) (1997)

Producer[link]

• Aiyaa (2012) ^[30]
• Michael (2012 film) (2012)
• Tasher Desh (film) (2012)
• Shaitan (2011)
• Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)
• That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011)
• Udaan (2010)
• Aamir (2008)

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Rediff.com: The Anurag Kashyap Interview
• Rediff.com: Yellow Boots is my last film with Kalki

External links[link]

• Anurag Kashyap at the Internet Movie Database
• An Interview with Anurag Kashyap at Indian Auteur
• Anurag Kashyap - Filmography at Bollywood Hungama.

Dibakar Banerjee (born 1969) is an Indian film director and screenwriter, who is most known for films, Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006), Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), which he also wrote, both of which won National Film Awards.^[1][2] He started his career in advertising, and continues as an ad filmmaker, in 2010 he also directed a Coca Cola commercial.^[3][4]

In 2010, he made his third film, Love Sex aur Dhokha, where one of the three sub-plots in the movie is loosely based on the infamous 2004 DPS MMS scandal.^[5]

Early life and education[link]

Dibaker Banerjee was born and brought up at New Rohtak Road near Karol Bagh, in West Delhi, and studied at Bal Bharati Public School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, Delhi.^[6][7][8]

After finishing his schooling he joined the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad to study visual communications and graphic design, but left it two and a half years later. Back in Delhi, seven months later he started working with corporate audio-visual filmmaker Sam Mathews, as a trainee.^[8][9]

Career[link]

He joined advertising as a copywriter first with Shems Combit and then TBWA Anthem, and later he joined Contract Advertising, Delhi, where he worked under Pradeep Sarkar, who was then a creative director at the agency. Screenwriter Jaideep Sahni was also one of his colleagues, who later penned Khosla Ka Ghosla’s story, screenplay, dialogues and lyrics.

In 1997, he left Contract to launch his own company, 'Watermark', with two ex- NID friends, making ad films and promos for Channel V and MTV.

He was contacted for directing a movie "about Delhi, based in Delhi" by producers for Pritish Nandy Films, and shot his debut feature film, Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006) starring Anupam Kher and Boman Irani, in 45 days in locations in and around New Delhi. The film went on to receive not just accolades for him but also a National Film Award amongst others,^[1][10] and brought him in the list of new filmmakers who were bringing about a marked shift in Bollywood themes, which typically focuses on stories & characters from in and around Bombay.^[11][12]

In 2008, he co-wrote and directed his second feature, also set in his hometown Delhi,^[3] Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, with Abhay Deol and Paresh Rawal, it was premiered at the IFFI, Goa,^[6] and also at MoMA, New York.^[13] Commercially it was released in the 26/11 weekend, though it went on to become a sleeper hit;^[14] later New York Times described it as "a breezy mix of satire and realism",^[15] and the film won three Filmfare Awards.

Dibaker continues to make ad films under his new banner, Freshwater Films. This includes recent films for Promise Toothpaste and a series for Horlicks Malted Milk Drinks Brands.

In 2010, he directed India's first film shot entirely on Digital Camera, Love Sex aur Dhokha (LSD),which won him critical acclaim. A cutting satire on lapsing social mores fueled by materialistic greed and technological media advancement, it continued his oeuvre of grappling with the life of anchor-less middle-class & the completely amoral nouveau riche thrown up by India's economic boom of the 1990s.

Upcoming projects[link]

Shanghai, his next project, is slated to be a political thriller involving an assassination, wherein Abhay Deol, who was the lead in his previous film Oye Lucky!, is set to play one of the three principal characters of the film, a Tamil boy. The film based on a European novel published in the mid-1960s, is slated to release on June 8, 2012.^[16][17]

Personal life[link]

Dibakar Banerjee is married to Richa Puranesh, who also has an advertising background,^[8] and the couple lived in Delhi for many years. After the success of Khosla Ka Ghosla, the couple moved to Bombay and is currently living in Parel, suburb of Mumbai with their 2 year old daughter Ira.

Controversies[link]

In March 2011, Bollywood actress Payal Rohatgi accused Dibakar of asking sexual favors in exchange for a role in his upcoming film Shanghai. However, Dibakar clarified that although he was friends with Payal Rohatgi, he made the comment about her putting on weight in the studio in front of a lot of people and not at her place. He did visit her home, but nothing happened there that can be termed as “sexual favors”.

Filmography[link]

• Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006)
• Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008)
• Love Sex aur Dhokha (2010)
• Shanghai (2012)

Awards[link]

• National Film Award
  • 2007: Best Feature Film in Hindi: Khosla Ka Ghosla
  • 2009: Best Popular Film: Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! ^[18]
• Zee Cine Award
  • 2007: Most Promising Director: Khosla Ka Ghosla

References[link]

External links[link]

• Dibakar Banerjee website
• Dibakar Banerjee at the Internet Movie Database
• Dibaker Banerjee Bollywood Hungama

Karan Johar
Karan Johar at Fox Star Studios' Press Conference for My Name Is Khan.
Born	Karan Dharma Kama Johar (1972-05-25) 25 May 1972 (age 40) Mumbai, Maharastra, India
Occupation	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Costume designer, Television host
Years active	1995–present
Parents	Yash Johar Hiroo Johar

Karan Johar (born 25 May 1972) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, Costume designer and Television host based in Bollywood. He is the son of Hiroo Johar and Yash Johar.^[1][2] He is also the head of the production company Dharma Productions. He is most known for directing and producing some of Bollywood's highest grossing films in India and abroad. The four films he has directed, all starring Shahrukh Khan, have been India's highest grossing productions in the overseas market.^[3] The success of those films resulted in crediting Johar for changing the way Indian cinema has been perceived in the West.^[3]

Johar entered the film industry as an actor in Aditya Chopra's Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. He later made his directorial debut with the highly successful romantic comedy, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai which won him a Filmfare Award For Best Director and Filmfare Best Screenplay Award. His following directorial efforts were the family drama, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) and the romantic drama, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), a movie which dealt with the theme of adultery. Both films were major financial successes in India and abroad. Johar thus established himself as one of the most successful filmmakers in Bollywood.^[4][5] His fourth film, My Name Is Khan (2010) was met with positive reviews and grossed over 2 billion worldwide.^[6] It earned him his second Best Director award at the Filmfare ceremony.