The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shikaree \Shi*ka"ree\, Shikari \Shi*ka"ri\ n. [Hind.] A sportsman; esp., a native hunter. [India]
Wiktionary
n. A hunter or tracker, especially in the Indian subcontinent.
Wikipedia
Shikari is a fictional character, a superheroine in the future of the DC Comics universe and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. She was created by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning and Olivier Coipel and first appeared in Legion Lost #1.
Some fans have maintained that her pathfinding powers are similar to, or a return of, the tracking powers of Dawnstar, a member of a previous incarnation of the Legion team. Abnett and Lanning have frequently denied that she is a new version of the earlier character.
Her name is a Bengali word for hunter, derived from shikar, "hunt."
A shikari is a big game hunter or hunting guide in Pakistan and India.
Shikari may also refer to:
Shikari (English: The Hunter) is 2000 Bollywood thriller film directed by N. Chandra and starring Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Tabu, Kiran Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Gulshan Grover, Johnny Lever, Sushma Seth, Shweta Menon, Nirmal Pandey, and Raja Jung Bahadur.
Shikari is a 2012 Indian bilingual film in Kannada and Malayalam. The film written and directed by Abhaya Simha, stars Mammootty and Poonam Bajwa in the lead, with Aditya, Mohan and Innocent in other major roles. The film was the Kannada debut of Mammootty, and Malayalam debut of director Abhay Simha and music director V. Harikrishna. Both Mammooty and Poonam Bajwa play double roles, set in two different timelines. The movie was opened to extremely negative responses for the Malayalam version but got positive reviews for Kannada version.
Shikari is a black-and-white Hindi film released in 1964. The main characters of the film are Ajit and Ragini. It has a few good songs. However it was not a success in the box office.
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Shikari (English: The Hunter) is a hit Hindi movie directed by Mohammed Hussain and was released in 1963. The actors are Ajit, Ragini, Helen, Madan Puri, K N Singh, Tun Tun, Kamal Mehra, and others. The music of the film was the biggest asset of this film, and the songs 'O, tumko piya, dil diya', 'mangi hain duaayen', 'ye rangeen mehfil', 'agar main poochhoon', had catchy tunes to become popular on the music-chart of the year.
'Shikari ' is a Bollywood film. It was released in 1946, directed by Savak B. Vacha and starring Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Paro Devi, Beera. Music was directed by S. D. Burman with Kishore Kumar as the background singer.
Shikari (English: Hunter) is a Bangladeshi action film directed by Joydeep Mukherjee and Zakir Hossain Simanto. Produced by Abdul Aziz and Himanshu Dhanuka under the Jaaz Multimedia, Eskay Movies banner, and stars Shakib Khan, Srabanti Chatterjee, Rahul Dev and Sabyasachi Chakrabarty in pivotal roles and centers around Khan, a disguised professional assassin with mysterious past, tasked with assassinating a top government official. The film also features Amit Hasan, Kharaj Mukherjee, Shupriyo Dutta and Rahul Dev in supporting roles. It is an official remake of the 2009 Tamil movie Aadhavan which was itself a remake of 1990 Malayalam movie His Highness Abdullah. The soundtrack album and background score of the film was composed by Indradeep Dasgupta.
A collaborative Jaaz-Eskay project involving Khan was first reported during mid 2014. However, the project was later shelved due to unavailability of actor. Due to numerous media reports, the film was originally planned to be a multi-starter film. Jaaz Multimedia intended to begin production of the film again after revisions in the script of the film. The production was officially announced by Jaaz Multimedia on January 2016, and Zakir Hossain Simanto and Joydip Mukherjee was hired as directors. The film is produced by Abdul Aziz, his production Jaaz Multimedia funded approximately 70% of the film's budget while Eskay Movies funded the rest. The film was released in Bangladesh on 7 July 2016. Shikari is currently the highest grossing film in history of Bangladeshi Cinema.
Usage examples of "shikari".
Well, maybe Shikari, as the Tinker liked to be called, would be all right.
There was a rustle of veined wings, and Shikari settled to a tighter mass.
After another second, Shikari quickly dispersed and flew off in the same direction.
Travancore reminded her of the best Pipe-Rilla abstract paintings, while Shikari babbled of misty mornings on Mercantor, how would Chan ever ruffle that complacency?
The other three were sitting in the tent, Angel close to Chan and Shikari spread like a thick cloak over both of them.
At his feet the Tinker stirred restlessly, as though Shikari could somehow sense his discomfort.
As they set out for the shaft one half of Shikari bade a solemn farewell to the part that would remain behind.
Each team member carried weapons, but after the training on Barchan, Chan was sure that for Angel and Shikari it was a total waste of effort.
Nimrod was still united, Angel was too slow, Shikari was disassembled.
Seraph Catapult Control has apparently been calling all around Shikari City trying to locate you.
He could have vanished into the Shikari City underground, or gone off into some wilderness area, and waited for his Pax friends to arrive in force, as they surely would eventually.
Their loud whoops and immense bounds from tree to tree when excited, or the flashing of their white teeth as they gibber at their lurking foe, have often told the shikari of the whereabouts of the object of his search.
In 1847 or 1848 a lioness was killed by a native shikari in the Dumoh district.
Now every shikari knows that there may be a heavy tiger with a short tail and a light bodied one with a long tail.
Jerdon, whom I knew intimately, was not, I may safely assert, a great tiger shikari, and he based his opinion on evidence and with great caution.