What’s Agastya Doing With Akshay’s Niece?

Move
over
Khans,
it’s
time
for
the
younger
generation
to
claim
the
spotlight.


Agastya
Nanda

and

Simar
Bhatia

headline
Sriram
Raghavan’s
war
epic,

Ikkis
,
produced
by
Dinesh
Vijan’s
Maddock
Films.

Agastya
is
Raj
Kapoor’s
great
grandson
and
Jaya
Bachchan
and
Amitabh
Bachchan’s
grandson
why
Simar
is
Akshay
Kumar’s
niece
(she’s
his
sister
Alka
Bhatia’s
daughter).

Siblings

Sara
Ali
Khan

and

Ibrahim
Ali
Khan

arrive
together
for
the
Maddock
Films’
20th
aniversary
party.

Sara
is
a
Maddock
regular,
having
worked
in
films
like

Love
Aaj
Kal,
Zara
Hatke
Zara
Bachke,
Murder
Mubarak

and

Sky
Force
.

Did
you
know
that
Dinesh
Vijan
was
once
Saif
Ali
Khan’s
business
partner
with
their
production
house,
Illuminati
Films?
They
produced
films
like

Race
2

and

Agent
Vinod
.


Empuraan
2

Actor-Director

Prithviraj
Sukumaran

with
wife

Supriya
.


Vicky
Kaushal

has
given
the
year’s
biggest
hit
so
far,

Chhaava
.
It
is
among
Maddock’s
biggest
hits
too.

Before
that,
Vicky
starred
in
the
more
contemporary

Zara
Hatke
Zara
Bachke
.


Rajkummar
Rao

has
done
quite
a
few
Maddock
films
like
the
blockbuster

Stree

movies,

Raabta,
Made
In
China,
Roohi

and

Hum
Do
Hamare
Do
.
He
will
be
seen
next
in

Bhool
Chuk
Maaf
.


Abhishek
Bachchan

starred
in

Dasvi
.


Varun
Dhawan

reserves
his
most
intensive
avatar
for
Maddock,
as
seen
in
films
like

Badlapur

and

Bhediya
.


Sidharth
Malhotra

gets
ready
to
make
his
debut
in
Maddock’s

Param
Sundari
,
co-starring
Janhvi
Kapoor.


Varun
Sharma

provided
the
laughs
in
the
horror
film,

Roohi
.


Arjun
Kapoor

starred
in
Maddock’s
second
production,

Finding
Fanny
.

Occasionally,
Maddock
takes
a
break
from
its
horror
and
comedy
universe
to
make
a
shockingly
gory
film
like

Sector
36
,
of
which

Vikrant
Massey

was
a
part.

The
funnymen
of
the

Stree

franchise,

Abhishek
Banerjee

and

Aparshakti
Khurana
.


Tiger
Shroff
.


Aditya
Roy
Kapur
.


Jaideep
Alhawat
.


Zaheer
Iqbal
.


Sharad
Kelkar
.


A
R
Rahman

scored
the
music
for

Chhaava

and

Mimi
.


Badlapur

Director

Sriram
Raghavan

has
so
much
to
say
through
his
t-shirts.


Laxman
Utekar

has
directed
four
hits
for
Maddock:

Luka
Chuppi,
Mimi,
Zara
Hatke
Zara
Bachke

and

Chhaava
.

The
hosts
of
the
evening,

Dinesh
Vijan

and
wife

Pramita
Tanwar
.


Karan
Johar
.


Luv
Ranjan
.


Photographs:
Panna
Bandekar,
curated
by
Satish
Bodas/Rediff.com