Created and developed by
Gashash Deshe


Script: Kamlesh Pandey
A consultant and writer for advertising, television and films; also a screen writing teacher, producer and playwright. His works comprise over 20 films and TV programs. As a Creative Director of Rediffusion Advertising Pvt. Ltd., he contributed to the growth of the most creative agency in the country. He won several awards, such as Commercial Artists Guild, Advertising Club Bombay, RAPA, IAAFA as well as the Best Copywriter of the Year Award for four years in succession.


Script Adviser Brochure Writer: Dr. Smita Tewari Jassal
A social anthropologist, with research and fieldwork experience in rural India. The author of 'Daughters of the Earth: Women and Land in Uttar Pradesh' (Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2001), she is writing an ethnography of communities along the Ganges. She teaches 'Gender and Development' at SAIS, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C.


Head Choreographer & Director: Jojo Khan
He began his career in the early '90s and his major breakthrough came with the number "Ek Do Teen" with Saroj Khan, after which he joined Saroj Khan's group and performed with them for over ten years. In the early 2000, Jojo started working as an independent choreographer working with M.F.Hussain on his film Gajagamini.


Director: Shirili Deshe
A graduate of the Jacques Lecoq school, Paris. She specializes in physical theater. For the past 15 years she has been acting, directing and writing for stage.


Director: Roni Sinai
He has been writing and directing his own plays since 1999 for various theaters. For his work on "Bharati" he has spent a year in India with his family researching and working on the draft script for the global audience.



Musical Directors:

Eyal Sela
His academic education is in European Classical music and he has spent years studying ethnic musical styles such as Turkish, Arab, Indian and Balkan. Lecturing at the Jerusalem Academy of Music on Sufi, Indian and Balkan music.
Founder of the group "Darma." CDs with the groups "Sela", "Darma," and "Call of the Mountain." Performs and records with artists such as Omar Farke (USA), Ross Deily (Greece), Adel Salameh (France), Oliver Sharti (Germany).

Prakash Kirit Patel
He joined Hindi film industry as a violinist performed for Khayyam,Laxmikant Pyarelal,UshaKhanna,Kalyanji Anandji,R D Burman,gradually expanding his performance for concerts as a soloist (Lata Mangeshkar, Pandit Ravi Shankar) in both national and international tours (USA, UK, Canada).His music arrangement for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam" became an instant hit, which was followed by many hit scores in Suraj Barjatya's Hum Saath Saath Hain , J P Dutta's Refugee,Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas, Aziz Mirza's Chalte Chalte, B R Chopra's Baagban and Yash Chopra's Hum Tum to name a few. Patel has the distinction of arranging songs and background scores for nearly all the music directors and major production houses of Bollywood, His current engagements include Sanjay Leela Bhansali's new untitled production.

Sajjad Chandawani Ali
Winner of Sangeet Awards 2005 for Best Music Arranger in Indian Cinema for the film Kisna directed by Subhash Ghai, Sajjad Ali has been the arranger and chief asst music director of one of India's best music director Ismail Darbar for the past 6 years and he has orchestrated with Anu Malik, Adesh Srivastav, Dilip Sen Sameer Sen. He has been working on movie and music albums as a composer, including the album for Kavita Krishnamurthy. He also has been a part of bollywood blockbusters like Devdas, Kisna, Deewangi, tera jaadu chal gaya. Ali is currently working as music director for the film Bhairavi.


Costume designer: Arjun Bhasin
Born in Jamshedpur, India, Arjun moved to New York City in 1992 after finishing high school in Lawrence school, Sanawar. In New York, he studied a combination of film and photography at New York University's Tisch School of Arts and fashion design at The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
Arjun's career began in the New York independent film world where he spent a few years assisting prominent costume designers. He has worked on David Salle's Search and Destroy , John Turturro's Illuminata with Susan Sarandon, Matt Reeves' The Pallbearer with Gwyneth Paltrow and David Schwimmer, Mira Nair's Kama Sutra and Monsoon Wedding and the yet to be released Namesake.
Arjun's separate training in both fashion designing as well as in film has helped broaden his perspective and enhance his work. He approaches design with an acute sense of humour and plays on combining traditional Indian colour and texture with contemporary street style. Dil Chahta Hai marked Arjun's design debut in commercial Hindi cinema. This was followed by Honey Irani's Armaan, Farhan Akhtar's Lakshya and the recent blockbuster Rang de Basanti starring Aamir Khan. "


Lighting designer: Avi-Yona Bueno (Bambi)
He started his career with Nina Simone, Janis Ian, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and the Pink Floyd lighting company Britannia Row Productions. Designed for theater, operas and opera festivals, dance and ballet, concerts, musicals, and alternate spaces (Habima National Theatre, Tel Aviv Kameri Theatre, Gesher Theatre; Nice, Cologne, Tokyo and Paris Operas during opera festivals.)


Sound designer: Gideon Kapan
He studied at the Music Academy of Jerusalem, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, and De Nederlandse Opera. Acoustic and sound designer for musicals and operas (My Fair Lady, La Traviata, Othello) Acoustic consultancy and system design (Haifa Theater, Noga Theater), system and FOH engineering of musicals (Les Miserables), tours (Deedy Bridgewater, David Broza...). Recordings with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.


Additional choreography by:
Remo D'Souza
who is one of the most popular choreographers in Bollywood. He has choreographed song sequences for films with superstars like Amitabh Bachchan (Waqt), Sanjay Dutt (Shabd), Urmila Matondkar (Tehzeeb.) and many more. He has also choreographed for the international film "Marigold" starring Salman Khan and Ali Carter.

Raju Sundaram
who started choreography while assisting his father, dance master Sundaram, since his teenage days. Now Raju Sundaram is one of the most popular choreographers from the South Indian film industry, who has also created a niche for himself in the Bollywood film industry.

Ganesh Acharya
has been part of the Bollywood film industry for over thirteen years now. The sequence "Chamma Chamma" choreographed by him and starring Urmila Matondkar from the movie 'China Gate' brought home the Screen Award for Best Choreography.


Film director: Omri Taub
He obtained an M.A. in philosophy and film, the Goldsmith College, London. He began his professional career as a copywriter with such companies as Publicis, TBWA, Leo Burnett. He has directed several music videos for MTV, TV Dramas for national channel and animation series for the Arte Channel in Europe.