CAST

Amitabh Bachchan
With a career spanning three decades and having starred in over 100 films Amitabh has become know as the Godfather of Indian cinema. He is the recipient of many Indian and international awards including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jackie Shroff
Jackie Shroff is a leading Bollywood film star, having appeared in over 130 movies in the last 15 years.

Zeenat Aman
The poster girl of 70's Bollywood cinema, Zeenat became an overnight superstar with the spectacular success of her first film Hare Rama Hare Krishna. Having worked with every male Bollywood lead, Zeenat will be making her cinema comeback, since her last film role15 years ago.

Gulshan Grover
Best known as the villain with a hundred faces, Gulshan Grover has appeared in over 300 films including several Hollywood productions including Beeper with Harvey Keitel and Rudyard Kipling's Second Jungle Book.

Jaaved Jaaferi
Actor, dancer and singer, VJ and MC and the son of India's most popular comedian, Jaaved carries on this humour with great panache. Having starred in over 10 films including Deepa Metha's Sam and Me and Fire (14 international awards) Jaaved is also a professional dancer.

The Models
Padma Lakshmi, Katrina Kaif, Madhu Sapre are all international models having appeared in campaigns for Coca Cola, Ralph Lauren and Moschino. All of them have graced the catwalks of London Fashion Week and are no strangers to the volatile world of fashion.

CREW

Kaizad Gustad, Writer/Director
Born in Bombay, raised everywhere else, Kaizad Gustad studied at the Tisch School of Arts, NYU, majoring in film. He is the director of several short films including 'Lost and Found' which won the Kodak International Short Film of the Year award. He is the author of a novel, 'Of No Fixed Address' and the writer/director of 'Bombay Boys' - an international feature film released to much acclaim.

Ayesha Shroff, Producer
Ayesha Shroff is the proprietor of Quest Films, a young dynamic production company with a successful feature film track record. Ayesha's first feature as a producer was 'Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehti Hain' directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. Her second release was 'Grahan', directed by Shashilal Nair. 'Boom' is her third release.

Xlantic
David Fischer, Executive Producer founded Xlantic Music Group in 2002, having spent two years running the Pressplay and Getmusic digital music ventures for Universal and Sony in Europe. Xlantic is a dynamic new music company based in London and the US, designed to capitalise on the many changes currently impacting on the music industry.

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