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Talaash: The Answer Lies Within (2012) Poster

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Directed by 

Reema Kagti
Priyamvada Narayanan ... (Second Unit Director)

Writing Credits  

Farhan Akhtar ... (dialogue)
 
Anurag Kashyap ... (additional dialogue)
 
Zoya Akhtar ... (story) &
Reema Kagti ... (story)
 
Zoya Akhtar ... (screenplay) &
Reema Kagti ... (screenplay)
 
Arun Shekhar ... (dialogue supervisor)

Cast (in credits order)  

Aamir Khan ... Surjan Singh Shekhawat
Rani Mukerji ... Roshni Shekhawat
Kareena Kapoor ... Rosie
Nawazuddin Siddiqui ... Tehmur
Rajkummar Rao ... Devrath Kulkarni (as Raj Kumar)
Suhaas Ahuja ... Sanjay Kejriwal (as Suhas Ahuja)
Vivan Bhatena ... Armaan Kapoor
Pariva Pranati ... Sonya Kapoor
Jineet Rath Jineet Rath ... Karan Shekhawat
Sheeba Chaddha ... Nirmala
Shernaz Patel ... Frenny Mistry
Subrat Dutta Subrat Dutta ... Shashi Naik
Aditi Vasudev Aditi Vasudev ... Mallika
Gulfam Khan ... Madam
Prashant Prakash Prashant Prakash ... Nikhil Deshpande
Shivani Tanksale ... Mira (as Shivan Tanksale)
Ashish Nayyar Ashish Nayyar ... Mira's Husband
Ulhas Barve Ulhas Barve ... Nikhil's Father
Shashi Sharma Shashi Sharma ... Nikhil's Mother
Vedant Nerurkar Vedant Nerurkar ... Samar
Vivek Madaan ... DCP Manish Awasthi
Om Prakash Om Prakash ... Yuvraj - Armaan's Boy (as Om Prakash Kumar)
Iqbal Dosani Iqbal Dosani ... Armaan's Accountant
Suruchi Aulakh Suruchi Aulakh ... Dr. Anjali Punjabi
Mustan Tambawala Mustan Tambawala ... Police Commissioner (as Mustan Tambawalla)
Yashwant Singh Yashwant Singh ... Akash Kejriwal
Rakesh Shrivastava Rakesh Shrivastava ... Havaldar Rakesh Rane
Kuldeep Sareen ... Havaldar Kamlesh Pande
Mandar Gokhale ... Havaldar Gokhale
Aashique Hussain Aashique Hussain ... Havaldar Ghorpade
Sagar Jha Sagar Jha ... Coffee Seller on Bicycle
Manoj Sharma Manoj Sharma ... Pimp 1
Ashraf Ul Haq Ashraf Ul Haq ... Pimp 2 (as Ashraf-Ul-Haque)
Vijay Gupta Vijay Gupta ... Pimp 3
Deepali Dadekar Deepali Dadekar ... Frenny's Maid
Vikas Shrivastav Vikas Shrivastav ... Sanjay's Goon 1
Lucky Singh Lucky Singh ... Sanjay's Goon 2
Kabeer Handa Kabeer Handa ... Office Meeting Head
Pallavi Bhaskar Pallavi Bhaskar ... Nurse at Hospital
Raakesh Maudgal Raakesh Maudgal ... Cop at Autopsy (as Rakesh Maudgal)
Sudhir Nema Sudhir Nema ... Lido Hotel Owner
Salone Mehta Salone Mehta ... Social Worker (as Saloni Mehta)
Rajshri Deshpande ... Samar's Mother
Rudra Kaushish Rudra Kaushish ... Samar's Father (as Gajendra Oza)
Sukrit Dhandhania Sukrit Dhandhania ... Photographer
Sonamoni Jayant Sonamoni Jayant ... Labourer #1
Salma Salma ... Labourer #2
Viral Thakkar Viral Thakkar ... News Correspondent 1
Naaz Sayyed Naaz Sayyed ... News Correspondent 2
Dhruv Raj Singh Dhruv Raj Singh ... Junkie 1
Manoj Kumar Manoj Kumar ... Junkie 2
Rajeev Gaursingh Rajeev Gaursingh ... Forensic Guy 1
Gaurav Sethi Gaurav Sethi ... Forensic Guy 2
Rupali Jambulkar Rupali Jambulkar ... Hooker 1
Izabelle Farias Izabelle Farias ... Hooker 2
Reena Madhukar ... Constable Savita (as Reena Aggarwal)
Chandrashekhar Chandrashekhar ... Anand Murugan
Tariq Vasudeva Tariq Vasudeva ... Teji - Sonya's Brother
Sandeep Sidhwani Sandeep Sidhwani ... Film Director
Chandni Ansari Chandni Ansari ... Eunuch
Simran Simran ... Juhi - Hooker on Road
Sanjay Chawla Sanjay Chawla ... Shekhawat's Team
Balwant Jadhav Balwant Jadhav ... Shekhawat's Team
Rajendra Jadhav Rajendra Jadhav ... Shekhawat's Team
Shis Khan Shis Khan ... Shekhawat's Team
Libert Olivera Libert Olivera ... Shekhawat's Team
Dhananjay Singh Dhananjay Singh ... Shekhawat's Team
Preeti Jain Preeti Jain ... Minor Girl 1
Swagata Sharma Swagata Sharma ... Minor Girl 2
Krutika Desai Krutika Desai ... Brothel Girl
Sana Khan Sana Khan ... Brothel Girl
Sanskruti Kher Sanskruti Kher ... Brothel Girl
Khushi Khushi ... Brothel Girl
Anangsha Limaye Anangsha Limaye ... Brothel Girl
Meenal Limaye Meenal Limaye ... Brothel Girl
Bianca Mare Bianca Mare ... Brothel Girl
Neelima Neelima ... Brothel Girl
Soumi Roy Soumi Roy ... Brothel Girl
Shweta Shweta ... Brothel Girl
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vincent Naidu ... Pimp (uncredited)
Wilson Tiger Wilson Tiger ... Bouncer (uncredited)

Produced by 

Farhan Akhtar ... producer
Lee Alliston ... line producer: UK
Vinod Bhalla ... Reliance Entertainment: Regional Head - East
Vikesh Bhutani ... executive producer
Aamir Khan ... producer
Rhea Naidu ... line producer
Niraj Pamwani ... line producer
Ritesh Sidhwani ... producer
Amit P. Singh ... line producer (as Amit Kumar Raj)
Acharya Utpaal ... producer (as Utpal Acharya)

Music by 

Ram Sampath

Cinematography by 

K.U. Mohanan

Editing by 

Anand Subaya

Casting By 

Nandini Shrikent

Production Design by 

Imran Manzoor
Sharmishta Roy
Rashmi Sethi ... (Production Design-Assistant) (uncredited)

Art Direction by 

Sheetal Duggal ... (as Sheetal Bapardekar)

Set Decoration by 

Harsha Rajani
Rashmi Sethi ... chief set decorator

Costume Design by 

Manoshi Nath
Rushi Sharma

Makeup Department 

Pompy Hans ... makeup artist
Sharon Holloway ... prosthetics designer
Joyce Luize ... hair stylist (as Joyce Luize Margaret)
Roo Maurice ... makeup designer
Ritesh Naik ... makeup artist
Sonam Solanki ... assistant hair stylist: B-Blunt (as Sonam Singh)

Production Management 

Vishal Bajaj ... unit production manager
Manoj Chouhan ... post-production manager
Tikaram Dhakal ... unit production manager
Bill Hayes ... production manager: UK
Kassim Jagmagia ... unit production manager
Rajesh Kumar ... unit production manager
Sandeep Kumar ... post production

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director 

Raj Acharya ... first assistant director: additional photography
Abdul Quadir Amin ... second second assistant director
Terry Bamber ... first assistant director: pre-production
Gautam Bhalla ... third assistant director
Kirnay Bhatt ... third assistant director
Punita Chaudhary ... second unit director
Collin D'Cunha ... third assistant director
Lakshmipriya Devi ... first assistant director
Vvidhii Gulati ... first assistant director: second unit (as Vidhi Gulati) / second assistant director (as Vidhi Gulati)
Karan Kapadia ... first assistant director
Mrunmayee Lagoo ... second second assistant director
Mihir Lath ... assistant director
Ram Mahindra ... assistant director
Menaka Nagarajan ... second assistant director
Kirti Nandakumar ... third assistant director
Anshul Pandey ... second unit director
Himanshu Powdwal ... second assistant director
Rahul Rajput ... assistant director
Prashant Roy ... third assistant director
Prince Shah ... second assistant director
Manish Shahi ... second assistant director
Titus Tollyns ... first assistant director: second unit

Art Department 

Dhara Jain ... set dresser
Tejass Korya ... set dresser
Arvind Ashok Kumar ... on set dresser (as Arvind Kumar)
Darsh Limbaskar ... assistant property master
Rashmi Sethi ... set designer: props & background design
Pravin Tambe ... art department
Korgaonkar Tejas ... set dresser
Rose Maria Tharakan ... set dresser
Rashmi Sethi ... On Set Dresser (uncredited) / Production Design Asst. (uncredited)

Sound Department 

Mohammed Raees Ikramuddin Ansari ... Nagra Operator
Abhishek S. Bhattathiri ... dialogue editor / supervising sound editor
Debajit Changmai ... re-recording mixer
Prasad Chavan ... foley recordist
Boloy Kumar Doloi ... associate sound re-recording mixer
Manoj M. Goswami ... sound
Gokul K.R. ... sound effects editor
Rahul Karpe ... associate sound re-recording mixer
Vimal Kumar ... Post sound studio supervisor
Prakash Sateesh ... sound
P.M. Satheesh ... sound designer
Mukhtar Shaikh ... boom operator
Karan Arjun Singh ... foley artist (as Karan Singh)

Special Effects by 

David Payne ... special effects supervisor: UK

Visual Effects by 

Dwivedi Amit ... digital compositor
Laxman Singh Bhati ... junior compositor: Pixion
Jitendra Bhatt ... matchmove artist
Yatin Bhave ... digital compositor
Swadhin Biswal ... visual effects artist
Yogesh Chhag ... business head
Sanket Dandekar ... data supervisor
Swapnil Dhawre ... visual effects producer
Nelson Dsouza ... production head
Marchila Dutta ... visual effects artist: PIXION
Gsanjeevandreason ... digital compositor
Dipansu Halder ... senior fx artist (as Dipansu Haldar)
Pankaj Kalbende ... associate visual effects supervisor
Pratik Kalbende ... digital compositor
Chandan Kar ... visual effects artist
Arun Kataria ... digital matte painter
Ashutosh Khandelwal ... render wrangler/render support
Anup Kumar ... senior compositor
Raghunathan Kunal ... digital compositor
Pranab Lahkar ... digital compositor
Intekhab Mahmood ... lead compositor
Feroz Mallick ... roto prep
Jahnvi Mistry ... roto artist
Nadeem Mohd ... compositor
Vishram Mondkar ... compositor
Shahnawaz Mosani ... visual effects editor
Saurabh Nandedkar ... visual effects artist
Paresh Navlakha ... digital compositor
Anupam Pal ... compositor
Bhavesh Patel ... generalist
Hitesh Patel ... generalist
Amit Patil ... lighting lead
Suyog Pore ... roto/paint artist
Nilesh Posnak ... modeling & texturing: Pixion
Rajiv Raghunathan ... digital intermediate production head
Ankur Raikwar ... visual effects artist: Pixion
Rohit Rane ... compositor
Mrinal Ranjan ... junior compositor: Pixion
Abdul Rasheed ... digital compositor
Sheveta Raut ... animator
Viresh Raut ... fx lead
Nishikant Rokadey ... visual effects: lighting technical director
Amit Saran ... review coordinator
Sarika Salian ... team lead
Selvakumar ... digital compositor
Vikas Seth ... generalist
Anuj Sharma ... CG Lead
Shwet Suman Sharma ... visual effects artist
Shubham.Gupta ... digital matte painter
Arpit Shukla ... 3d artist
Abhishek Singh ... digital compositor
Kanwaljeet Singh ... junior compositor
Shaikh Sohel ... lead matchmover
Swapnil Sonawane ... digital compositor
Sridharan ... digital compositor
Meera Sukhathankar ... digital compositor
Viral Thakkar ... visual effects supervisor
Prashant Thakur ... compositor
Shilpan Vyas Tinu ... visual effects line producer
Indresh Tiwari ... visual effects
Sudhir Trivedi ... cg supervisor
Vinod Vyas ... digital compositor
Dhananjay Gaikwad ... Lead of Preproduction: Pixion Studios (uncredited)

Stunts 

Anees Adenwala ... safety diver: underwater work
Tack Baldwin ... safety diver
Dave Judge ... action director
Abbas Ali Moghul ... stunts
Neil Murray ... stunt rigger: UK
Sanober Pardiwalla ... stunt double (as kareena kapoor) / stunt double / stunt double: for kareena kapoor
Rinse Zwalua ... stunt driver

Camera and Electrical Department 

Subala Kishor Baboo ... key grip
Ayaskant Baral ... assistant camera
Rudhraveer Singh Bhati ... key grip
John Chambers ... underwater camera assistant
Chandresh Gowda ... grip
Sunil Khandpur ... steadicam operator
Manoj Kumar Khatoi ... associate cinematographer
Suraj Kurade ... Underwater assistant
Soumyajit Nandy ... still photographer (as Soumyajit Toto Nandy)
Ninad Nayampally ... key grip
Ganesh Patil ... still photographer
Santosh Petkar ... steadicam assistant
Vinayak Radhakrishnan ... steadicam operator
Shamsher Singh Rajwar ... underwater camera assistant
Ramesh Sadrani ... gaffer
Hitesh Sadrrani ... electrician
Sajid Sanwari ... second assistant camera
Shafi ... DOP: Making of Promotional Song
B.K. Sivan ... steadicam operator
Suresh Yadav ... Camera attendant

Animation Department 

Sridhar Neelkantan ... lighting artist

Casting Department 

Collin D'Cunha ... casting assistant
Parikshit Dhume ... casting assistant
Devika Jamdar ... casting assistant
Piyush Joshi ... casting associate
Mk Khan ... Casting Coordinator (as Mukesh Khanna)
Nida Naik ... casting associate
Abhay Datt Sharma ... casting assistant
Ketaki Walawalkar ... casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department 

Monica Bhandari ... assistant costume designer (as Monica)
Sharma Swagata ... wardrobe supervisor

Editorial Department 

Vinod Durgavle ... on-line editor
Sourabh Dutta ... editor: making of
Rohit Karkera ... digital intermediate conformist
Debakriti Kundu ... senior conformist: Reliance Mediaworks Ltd
Meghnath Labde ... colorist: dailies
Prateek Makhija ... assistant editor
Manan Mehta ... additional editor
Ken Metzker ... digital colorist
Nitin Minz ... conforming editor
Siddharth S Pande ... Visual Promotions
Bhavesh Patil ... digital data manager
Divya Taneja ... post production supervisor

Location Management 

Rahul Gaikwad ... location manager
Tanveer Sajan ... assistant location manager
Tabrez Shaikh ... location coordinator

Music Department 

Javed Akhtar ... lyrics
Vrashal Tejasingh Chavan ... Programming and Chief Musical Assistant (as Vrashal Chavan)
Vishal Dadlani ... singer
Yash Divecha ... music mixing engineer / music recording engineer / score editor / score mixing engineer / score recording engineer
Sona Mohapatra ... singer
Pruthu Parab ... additional arrangements
Ram Sampath ... singer
Suman Sridhar ... playback singer
Ravindra Upadhyay ... singer

Script and Continuity Department 

Shubha Ramachandra ... script supervisor

Additional Crew 

Krishna Anaberi ... set production assistant
Amit Awasthi ... National Distribution Head: Reliance Entertainment
Rohini Bhandari ... marketing team
Prakash Bharadwaj ... dialogue coach
Devashish Chainani ... international sales and distribution: Reliance Entertainment
Goldie Duggal ... production executive
Jaswant Singh Hinduja ... chief financial officer
Kassim Jagmagia ... creative supervisor
Preeti Jain ... assistant to director
Devika Jamdar ... production assistant
Sonia Kalra ... Administration Head
Harshall Kamat ... choreographer
Ayush Kapur ... production assistant
Shashidharan Jacob Manas ... making-of cinematographer
Aneesh Mohan ... Marketing Lead
Himanshu Nanda ... publicity designer
Rahul Nanda ... publicity designer
Kirti Nandakumar ... set production assistant
Chinni Nihalani ... creative director: promo campaign
Binny Padda ... visual promotions
Ravi Padda ... visual promotions
Franz Pagot ... underwater unit
Siddharth S Pande ... visual promotions (as Siddharth Pande)
Ganesh Patil ... publicity stills
David Poznanter ... personal trainer
Mahesh Ramanathan ... management team
Dhairya Roy ... international distribution
Sahil Sai ... visual promotions for agency
Steve Scott ... paramedic
Mohit Shah ... production coordinator
Devika Shroff ... head of marketing
Ritesh Sidhwani ... creative director: Excel Entertainment
Priyanka Tanwar ... set production assistant
Rupali Suresh Vaidya ... production coordinator
Nideesh Vasu ... subtitles

Thanks 

Miriam Joseph ... special thanks
Nishant Radhakrishnan ... special thanks

See also

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

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