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Jeet (actor)
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Jeet is an Indian film actor, producer and television presenter who predominantly works in Tollywood. He started as a model and then shifted to TV serials like Bishabriksha, Janani and he made his cinematic debut in Chandu, which released to negative reviews and received poor response at the box office. In the same year, he acted in the Bengali remake of Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar and this initial success was followed by other critical and commercial success, including Nater Guru, Sangee, Bandhan, Yuddho. In 2005, he acted alongside Koel Mallick in Nater Guru, in 2013, he appeared in the crime thriller Boss, Born to Rule, which was Jeets first pan-India release. The film proved to be one of the biggest hits of 2013 and grossed ₹6.75 crore, as of now, he has committed to star in the sequel of his 2013 blockbuster film, Boss, Born to Rule. In television, he appeared on reality shows and also hosted some, including Koti Takar Baaji. Jeet studied at St. Joseph and Marrys School, New Alipore and later in National High School, however, his academic life was interrupted soon after for joining his family business. Nevertheless, he had a renewed interest for art since his early days. He enjoyed watching dramas and movies and would try to emulate his styles. He joined to showbiz arena in pursue to test his luck in the industry with a request of his friends. Jeet was reportedly have been in a relationship with his co-star Swastika Mukherjee during his shooting film Mastan, though the relationship was broken and Jeet subsequently married Mohana Ratlani, a school teacher from Lucknow, India, on 24 February 2011. They became parents to a daughter on 12 Dec 2012, Jeet collaborated with Haranath Chakraborty for Naater Guru, which had debutant Koel Mallick, in the female lead. He later acted with Priyanka Trivedi in the film Sangee, released on 14 June 2003, in 2004, his first film was with Raima Sen, named Shakti. His other films of the year include Premi, opposite debutant Chandana Sharma, Mastan, Aakrosh, in 2005, he acted in Yuddho with Mithun Chakraborty, Koel Mallick and Debashree Roy. In 2005, Jeet collaborated with Koel Mallick in Shubhodrishti and Manik, Jeet won the Anandalok Awards for Best Actor for Manik. Jeet again acted with Koel Mallick in two consecutive films- Ghatak and Hero and he played the role of Govindlal, in Raja Sens directional venture, Krishnakanter Will which starred Swastika Mukherjee and Monali Thakur as female leads. His next film was with Hrishita Bhatt, titled Bidhatar Lekha, the film explores two lovers and their relationship in their last life that had come to a tragic end, and the pair confronts each other again in the current incarnation. He again collaborated with Swastika Mukherjee for the film Partner in 2008, Jeet collaborated with for Jor which made on a budget Rs.1.25 crore crossed seven weeks in theater and proved to be a hit in the box office
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Attarintiki Daredi
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Attarintiki Daredi is a 2013 Indian Telugu-language comedy-drama film written and directed by Trivikram Srinivas. It stars Pawan Kalyan, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Pranitha Subhash in the roles with Nadhiya, Boman Irani. The film was produced by B. V. S. N. Prasad under the banner Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra in association with Reliance Entertainment, the soundtrack album and background score were composed by Devi Sri Prasad. Attarintiki Daredi was made with a budget of ₹55 crore, principal photography began in January 2013 and ended in July 2013, with the film being primarily shot in and around Hyderabad. Significant portions were shot in Pollachi and Europe, the film was released on 27 September 2013 and received positive critical reception. It earned a share of ₹74.48 crore, grossed nearly ₹130 crore —187 crore. The film won four Filmfare Awards, six SIIMA Awards, four Nandi Awards, six Santosham Film Awards, Raghunandan is a rich but unhappy businessman based in Milan. He wishes to reconcile with his estranged daughter Sunanda, whom he expelled because she married Rajasekhar against his wishes and his grandson Gautham Nanda promises Raghunandan that he will bring her back to their home on his 80th birthday. Sunanda has three daughters, two of them are Prameela and Sashi, Gautham enters the house as Siddhartha aka Siddhu, a driver who was appointed by Rajasekhar after saving him from a heart attack. Gautham tries to woo Prameela, but gives up when he learns that she is in love with another man, Sashi hates Gautham and is suspicious of him and Paddu, his friend and a nurse who is appointed to take care of Rajasekhar. Sunanda later reveals to Gautham that she is aware of his real identity much before the incidents, to save Prameelas love, Gautham and Paddu go to a village and accidentally, Sashi falls into the jeep due to a head injury, thus suffering with amnesia. Gautham introduces himself as her lover for the time being, the trio go to the venue, Gautham and Paddu enter the house. They and the escape from there and reach Sunandas home after a violent altercation with the family members of the bridegroom where Sashis memory is revived. The brides father Siddhappa asks for compensation for the damage caused by Siddhu, to avoid complications, Rajasekhar fires Gautham. Gautham later learns that Sashi loved him from the beginning but was hesitant to express her feelings and he traps Baddham Bhaskar, a rich NRI staying in Uganda who has a penchant for women, and enters Sunandas home as his assistant. Bhaskar falls for Sashi but his attempts are thwarted by Gautham. On the day of her marriage, Sashi elopes with Gautham, while waiting with him for the train to Chennai, Siddhappas men reach the station to stop them only to be trashed by Gautham and his assistants, led by Balu. Through Balu, Sashi comes to know Gauthams real motive, an angry Rajasekhar, with Sunanda, arrive to shoot Gautham but Rajasekhar is taken aback after knowing his true identity
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India
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India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and it is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast, in the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Indias Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a border with Thailand. The Indian subcontinent was home to the urban Indus Valley Civilisation of the 3rd millennium BCE, in the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism began to be composed. Social stratification, based on caste, emerged in the first millennium BCE, early political consolidations took place under the Maurya and Gupta empires, the later peninsular Middle Kingdoms influenced cultures as far as southeast Asia. In the medieval era, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived, much of the north fell to the Delhi sultanate, the south was united under the Vijayanagara Empire. The economy expanded in the 17th century in the Mughal empire, in the mid-18th century, the subcontinent came under British East India Company rule, and in the mid-19th under British crown rule. A nationalist movement emerged in the late 19th century, which later, under Mahatma Gandhi, was noted for nonviolent resistance, in 2015, the Indian economy was the worlds seventh largest by nominal GDP and third largest by purchasing power parity. Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the major economies and is considered a newly industrialised country. However, it continues to face the challenges of poverty, corruption, malnutrition, a nuclear weapons state and regional power, it has the third largest standing army in the world and ranks sixth in military expenditure among nations. India is a constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system. It is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic society and is home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats. The name India is derived from Indus, which originates from the Old Persian word Hindu, the latter term stems from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, which was the historical local appellation for the Indus River. The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi, which translates as The people of the Indus, the geographical term Bharat, which is recognised by the Constitution of India as an official name for the country, is used by many Indian languages in its variations. Scholars believe it to be named after the Vedic tribe of Bharatas in the second millennium B. C. E and it is also traditionally associated with the rule of the legendary emperor Bharata. Gaṇarājya is the Sanskrit/Hindi term for republic dating back to the ancient times, hindustan is a Persian name for India dating back to the 3rd century B. C. E. It was introduced into India by the Mughals and widely used since then and its meaning varied, referring to a region that encompassed northern India and Pakistan or India in its entirety
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Bengali language
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Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia. With over 210 million speakers, Bengali is the seventh most spoken language in the world. Dominant in the last group was Persian, which was also the source of some grammatical forms, more recent studies suggest that the use of native and foreign words has been increasing, mainly because of the preference of Bengali speakers for the colloquial style. Today, Bengali is the language spoken in Bangladesh and the second most spoken language in India. Both the national anthems of Bangladesh and India were composed in Bengali, in 1952, the Bengali Language Movement successfully pushed for the languages official status in the Dominion of Pakistan. In 1999, UNESCO recognized 21 February as International Mother Language Day in recognition of the movement in East Pakistan. Language is an important element of Bengali identity and binds together a diverse region. Sanskrit was spoken in Bengal since the first millennium BCE, during the Gupta Empire, Bengal was a hub of Sanskrit literature. The Middle Indo-Aryan dialects were spoken in Bengal in the first millennium when the region was a part of the Magadha Realm and these dialects were called Magadhi Prakrit. They eventually evolved into Ardha Magadhi, Ardha Magadhi began to give way to what are called Apabhraṃśa languages at the end of the first millennium. Along with other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Bengali evolved circa 1000–1200 AD from Sanskrit, for example, Ardhamagadhi is believed to have evolved into Abahatta around the 6th century, which competed with the ancestor of Bengali for some time. Proto-Bengali was the language of the Pala Empire and the Sena dynasty, during the medieval period, Middle Bengali was characterized by the elision of word-final অ ô, the spread of compound verbs and Arabic and Persian influences. Bengali was a court language of the Sultanate of Bengal. Muslim rulers promoted the development of Bengali as part of efforts to Islamize. Bengali became the most spoken language in the Sultanate. This period saw borrowing of Perso-Arabic terms into Bengali vocabulary, major texts of Middle Bengali include Chandidas Shreekrishna Kirtana. The modern literary form of Bengali was developed during the 19th and early 20th centuries based on the dialect spoken in the Nadia region, a west-central Bengali dialect. Bengali presents a case of diglossia, with the literary
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Bangladesh
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Bangladesh, officially the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It shares land borders with India and Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan and China are located near Bangladesh but do not share a border with it. The countrys maritime territory in the Bay of Bengal is roughly equal to the size of its land area, Bangladesh is the worlds eighth most populous country. Dhaka is its capital and largest city, followed by Chittagong which has the countrys largest port, Bangladesh forms the largest and eastern part of the Bengal region. Bangladeshis include people of different ethnic groups and religions, Bengalis, who speak the official Bengali, make up 98% of the population. The politically dominant Bengali Muslims make the nation the worlds third largest Muslim-majority country, most of Bangladesh is covered by the Bengal delta, the largest delta on Earth. The country has 700 rivers and 8,046 km of inland waterways, highlands with evergreen forests are found in the northeastern and southeastern regions of the country. Bangladesh has many islands and a coral reef and it is home to the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world. The countrys biodiversity includes a vast array of plant and wildlife, including critically endangered Bengal tigers, the Greeks and Romans identified the region as Gangaridai, a powerful kingdom of the historical subcontinent, in the 3rd century BCE. Archaeological research has unearthed several ancient cities in Bangladesh, which had trade links for millennia. The Bengal Sultanate and Mughal Bengal transformed the region into a cosmopolitan Islamic imperial power between the 14th and 18th centuries, the region was home to many principalities which had inland naval prowess. It was also a center of the worldwide muslin and silk trade. As part of British India, the region was influenced by the Bengali renaissance, the Partition of British India made East Bengal a part of the Dominion of Pakistan, and was renamed as East Pakistan. The region witnessed the Bengali Language Movement in 1952 and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, after independence, a parliamentary republic was established. A presidential government was in place between 1975 and 1990, followed by a return to parliamentary democracy, the country has also been affected by poverty, natural disasters, hunger, dominant party systems and military coups. Bangladesh is a power and a major developing nation. Listed as one of the Next Eleven, it has the 46th largest economy and it is one of the largest textile exporters in the world. Its major trading partners are the European Union, the United States, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, with its strategically vital location between Southern, Eastern and Southeast Asia, Bangladesh is an important promoter of regional connectivity and cooperation
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Telugu language
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Telugu is a Dravidian language native to India. It is also spoken by significant minorities in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and it is one of six languages designated a classical language of India by the Government of India. Telugu ranks third by the number of speakers in India. It is one of the scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Approximately 10,000 inscriptions exist in the Telugu language, the speakers of the language call it Telugu or Tenugu. The older forms of the name include Teluṅgu, Tenuṅgu and Teliṅga, the etymology of Telugu is not certain. Some historical scholars have suggested a derivation from Sanskrit triliṅgam, as in Trilinga Desa, tradition holds that Shiva descended as a lingam on three mountains, Kaleshwaram, Srisailam, and Bhimeswaram, which are said to have marked the boundaries of the Trilinga Desa. Atharvana Acharya in the 13th century wrote a grammar of Telugu, Appa Kavi in the 17th century explicitly wrote that Telugu was derived from Trilinga. Scholar Charles P. Brown comments that it was a strange notion as all the predecessors of Appa Kavi had no knowledge of such a derivation. George Abraham Grierson and other linguists doubt this derivation, holding rather that Telugu was the older term, another view holds that tenugu is derived from the proto-Dravidian word ten– south to mean the people who lived in the south/southern direction. The name telugu then, is a result of n -> l alternation established in Telugu, according to the natve tradition Telugu grammar has a hoary past. Sage Kanva was said to be the first grammarian of Telugu, a Rajeswara Sarma discussed the hisoricity and content of Kanvas grammar written in Sanskrit. He cited twenty grammatical aphorisms ascribed to Kanva, and concluded that Kanva wrote an ancient Telugu Grammar which was lost, according to the Russian linguist M. S. Andronov, Telugu split from the Proto-Dravidian languages between 1500 and 1000 BC. According to linguist Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Telugu, as a Dravidian language, descends from Proto-Dravidian, linguistic reconstruction suggests that Proto-Dravidian was spoken around the third millennium BC, possibly in the region around the lower Godavari river basin in peninsular India. The material evidence suggests that the speakers of Proto-Dravidian were of the associated with the Neolithic societies of South India. A legend gives the Lepakshi town a significant place in the Ramayana — this was where the bird Jatayu fell, when Sri Rama reached the spot, he saw the bird and said compassionately, “Le Pakshi” — ‘rise, bird’ in Telugu. This indicates the presence of Telugu Language during Ramayana period, there is a mention of Telugu people or Telugu country in ancient Tamil literature as Telunka Nadu. Telugu words were found in Hebrew literature, inscriptions with Telugu words dating back to 400 BC to 100 BC have been discovered in Bhattiprolu in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh
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Pawan Kalyan
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Konidela Kalyan Babu, better known by his stage name Pawan Kalyan, is an Indian film actor, producer, director, screenwriter, writer, and politician. His film works are predominantly in Telugu cinema and he is the younger brother of popular actor turned politician Chiranjeevi. Kalyan made his debut in 1996 Telugu film Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi. In 1998, he starred in Tholi Prema which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu for that year and he was listed 26th in the Forbes India list of top 100 Celebrities of 2013. As of 2014, he holds a net worth of ₹185 million and he produces films under the banners Anjana Productions and Pawan Kalyan Creative Works. In March 2014, he ventured into politics, founding the Jana Sena Party, during that period, Pawan Kalyan was listed by Google as the most searched Indian celebrity politician on Google search. Kalyan was born to Konidela Venkat Rao and Anjana Devi, in Bapatla and he is the younger brother of Chiranjeevi and Nagendra Babu. He started using the name Pawan after a martial arts presentation he organized to demonstrate his training and he holds a black belt in karate. Pawan Kalyan has been married three times, to Nandini from 1997 to 2007, to Renu Desai from 2009 to 2012 and he has a son, Akira, and a daughter, Aadhya, with Renu Desai. Pawan Kalyan entered the Telugu movie industry with the 1996 film Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi as Kalyan Kumar and his second movie was Gokulamlo Seetha in 1997, which was a remake of the 1996 Tamil film Gokulathil Seethai. This movie was directed by Muthyala Subbaiah and produced by G. V. G, in 1997, he also appeared in Suswagatham, a remake of 1997 Tamil film Love Today. In 1998, Tholi Prema was released and won a National Award, after Tholi Prema, Pawan kalyan acted in Thammudu, playing the role of a kick boxer. Thammudu was released on 15 July 1999 and was written and directed by P. A. Arun Prasad, Next he acted in Puri Jagannadhs first directorial venture Badri. In 2001, he was the ambassador for Pepsi at the time his brother Chiranjeevi was promoting Coca-Cola. In 2001, Pawan Kalyan acted in the film Kushi, the film was released on 27 April 2001 and was directed by S. J. Surya. Next film Johnny, written and directed by Kalyan, released on 26 April 2003. Kalyan also starred in the film, along with Renu Desai, in 2004, his film Gudumba Shankar was released. The film was directed by Veera Shankar and produced by Pawans brother Nagendra Babu on Anjana Productions banner, the films script and screenplay were written by Kalyan and also choreographed three songs in this film and actions scenes were conceived and choreographed by him. In 2005, the film Balu ABCDEFG, directed by A. Karunakaran was released and this was A. Karunakarans second film with Pawan Kalyan after Tholi Prema
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Samantha Akkineni
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Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian actress and model. She has established a career in the Telugu and Tamil film industries, Samantha was born and raised in Chennai to parents of Telugu and Malayali ancestry, and as an undergraduate pursuing a degree in commerce, she worked part-time on modelling assignments. She donates her earnings from endorsements, product launches and inauguration events to support the foundation, despite her mixed regional background, Samantha has cited that she sees herself as a Tamilian, as she was brought up speaking Tamil and English at home. As a part of her education, Samantha schooled at Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School and then completed a degree in commerce at Stella Maris College, Chennai. Towards the end of her degree, she got involved in modelling, notably working with Naidu Hall. Samantha began her film career with Gautham Menons Telugu film. The actress successfully auditioned and was signed up for the project in mid August 2009 and worked on the film in India and the United States, while the film was released on 26 February 2010. In the film, Samantha played the lead character Jessie, a Malayali Saint Thomas Christian girl living in Hyderabad, with whom the male protagonist, played by Naga Chaitanya, falls in love. Upon release of the film, Samantha received very positive reviews for her portrayal, Critics at Sify praised Samantha as a scene-stealer and her beauty as alluring, adding, she was the girl to watch out for. Samantha appeared in a role in the Tamil version of the film. Both the Telugu and the Tamil versions of the proved to be grand successes. Samanthas next release was the drama, Baana Kaathadi, opposite Adharvaa. The film was actually the third Tamil project signed by the actress, Samantha portrayed a student of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, the first such role in Tamil cinema. Her next release was Ravi Varmans Moscowin Kavery, originally the first film she began work on, the shooting for the film began in August 2007, with Samantha, then briefly credited with the screen name Yasodha, joining the team later in the year. In an interview held in 2008, Ravi Varman mentioned that he had decided that Samantha would be the actress for his film within three minutes after viewing one of her commercial assignments. He went on to describe her as an actress with intelligence and potential, whilst drawing comparisons with the noted actress, however, due to Ravi Varmans prior commitments as cinematographer in other projects, the film languished in development hell, eventually releasing in August 2010. The film earned poor reviews from critics, though Samanthas performance was credited as one of the highlights that the film offered. In August 2008, while completing her last three projects, Samantha also signed up to play the lead role of a modern girl in the Narain starrer, Pookada Ravi
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Pranitha Subhash
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Pranitha Subhash is an Indian film actress, model who predominantly appears in Kannada, Telugu and Tamil films. She was raised in Bangalore and pursued a career in modelling before plunging into films and she debuted as an actor in the 2010 Kannada film, Porki, a remake of Telugu film Pokiri, and in the same year starred in the Telugu film, Em Pillo Em Pillado. Her Tamil debut was with the film Udhayan and she went on to appear in several commercially successful Telugu films like Baava and Attarintiki Daredi. In 2012, she starred in a critically acclaimed parallel cinema, Bheema Theeradalli for which she was nominated for Filmfare award for Best Kannada actress, Pranitha was born 17 October 1992, Bengaluru, India Pranitha was born into a Kannadiga family. Her father Subhash is a physician and her mother Jayashri is a Gynaecologist and they run a hospital in Bangalore. She is the child of her parents. Pranitha Subhash made her debut in films with the 2010 Kannada film Porki, after the success of Porki, she refused several offers from Kannada films and became choosy about her projects before signing the Telugu film Baava, a love story where she starred opposite Siddharth. She was praised unanimously for her portrayal of a Telugu village belle in the film and she then went on to appear in her first Tamil film, Udhayan starring Arulnithi. She was then signed up for her second Tamil project Saguni opposite Karthi which released in both Tamil and Telugu languages, Saguni was her biggest release, a film that released in a record 1,150 theaters all over the world. She then appeared in Jarasandha and Bheema Theeradalli, a story of a naxalite. Pranitha was praised for her portrayal of Bheemavva by critics and won a Filmfare nomination for the same and she won the Santosham award that year for Bheema Theeradalli. She then acted in the Kannada film Whistle for which she earned a nomination at the SIIMA awards and it also won her nominations at various award events. The film is being remade in other languages, during the same time, she worked on a Kannada film Brahma opposite Upendra. She also worked on Pandavulu Pandavulu Thummeda starring Raveena Tandon and Mohan Babu in which she was paired opposite Manchu Manoj, after a brief gap of two years she signed another Tamil film Masss opposite Suriya in late November 2014. In late 2014 she signed a Telugu film Dynamite opposite Manchu Vishnu, in late June 2015 she the Telugu film Brahmotsavam featuring Mahesh Babu. Pranitha AlexSubhash has endorsed brands like Joyalukkas, SVB Silks Salem, Bombay Jewellery, Welight Academy of Education, Sri Lakshmi Jewellery, Pondichery and she was signed as the brand ambassador of the team Karnataka Bulldozers in the Celebrity Cricket League in its third season in 2013. In October 2014, Pranitha along with Anu Prabhakar was selected as the ambassador for the Jewels of India - a fashion jewellery exhibition in Bangalore, Pranitha was the brand ambassador of Jewels Exotica the following year. She was the face of GRB and Lulu mall among others
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Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
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Sabyasachi Chakrabarty is an Indian Bengali actor of theater, films and television. He is considered to be one of the most prolific actors of West Bengal and his parents, Jagadish Chandra Chakrabarty and Monica Chakrabarty, used to lovingly call him Benu. In 1975, he passed Higher Secondary Examination from Andrews High School and he earned a degree in B. Sc from Hansraj College, University of Delhi. He cleared his AMI examination from Delhi in 1978, apart from acting, his love for nature and forests is well known. He takes ardent interest in wild life photography, Sabyasachi got married in 1986 to Mithu Chakrabarty, who is also a popular face in the Bengali entertainment industry. He has two sons, Gaurav and Arjun, both of whom are talented actors and they are working in both film and television. Sabyasachis first mainstream work was a role in the 1987 TV series Tero Parbon for Kolkata Doordarshan channel. Tero Parbon was critically acclaimed with a soundtrack in which his role as the character Gora was well-received. He made his debut in Tapan Sinha’s Antardhan in 1992. He continued to work in television series and shows. He has directed many TV shows and some shows for children and he got involved with Charbak theatre group in 1983. He has worked in a number of Hindi movies and TV shows as well, in 2002 Chakrabarty was awarded the Best Actor award for Ek Je Aachhe Kanya and in 2004 he was awarded Best Actor for his performance in Bombaiyer Bombete by Anandalok Awards. Sabyasachi Chakrabarty was the recipient of the Best Actor award in a Supporting Role by the BFJA in 1995,2000 and 2003 and he has received many other awards including the 2nd International Indo-Bangladesh Kala Music Award. As an actor, Chakrabarty receives plenty of recognition from institutions and he is a recipient of Kalakar Awards. Sabyasachi portrayed Feluda on both small and big screens after legendary Soumitra Chatterjee donned the hat in two films directed by Ray himself in 1970s. Soumitra Chatterjee originally played Feluda in Satyajit Rays Feluda series and he acted in Sonar Kella and Joi Baba Felunath as Feluda. Both Soumitra and Sabyasachi played the Feluda character with great success, as Sabyasachi said in many interviews that Feluda is one of his idol and favourite hero from his young age. In the late 80s Sabyasachi met the author of Feluda series Satyajit Ray, then Sabyasachi met Sandip Ray, but Sandip Ray had no plan of making any Feluda film at that time
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Soundtrack
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In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own track, and these are mixed together to make what is called the composite track. A dubbing track is later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as a M & E track containing all sound elements minus dialogue which is supplied by the foreign distributor in the native language of its territory. The contraction soundtrack came into public consciousness with the advent of so-called soundtrack albums in the late 1940s and these phrases were soon shortened to just original motion picture soundtrack. More accurately, such recordings are made from a music track, because they usually consist of the isolated music from a film, not the composite track with dialogue. The soundtrack to the 1937 Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first commercially issued film soundtrack. It was released by RCA Victor Records on multiple 78 RPM discs in January 1938 as Songs from Walt Disneys Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and has since seen numerous expansions and reissues. The first live-action musical film to have a commercially issued soundtrack album was MGM’s 1946 film biography of Show Boat composer Jerome Kern, the album was originally issued as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records. Only eight selections from the film were included in this first edition of the album, in order to fit the songs onto the record sides the musical material needed editing and manipulation. Needless to say, it was several generations removed from the original, the playback recordings were purposely recorded very dry, otherwise it would come across as too hollow sounding in large movie theatres. This made these albums sound flat and boxy, the phrase is also sometimes incorrectly used for Broadway cast recordings. While it is correct in some instances to call a soundtrack a cast recording it is never correct to call a cast recording a soundtrack, contributing to the vagueness of the term are projects such as The Sound of Music Live. Which was filmed live on the set for an NBC holiday season special first broadcast in 2013, film score albums did not really become popular until the LP era, although a few were issued in 78-rpm albums. Like the 1967 re-release of the film, this version of the score was artificially enhanced for stereo, in recent years, Rhino Records has released a 2-CD set of the complete Gone With the Wind score, restored to its original mono sound. One of the film scores of all time was John Williams music from the movie Star Wars. Many film score albums go out-of-print after the films finish their theatrical runs, in a few rare instances an entire film dialogue track was issued on records. The 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film of Romeo and Juliet was issued as a 4-LP set, as a single LP with musical and dialogue excerpts, and as an album containing only the films musical score
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Sonu Nigam
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Sonu Nigam is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi and Kannada. He has also sung in Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Tulu, Assamese, Odia, Nepali, Maithili and he has also released Indian pop albums and acted in a number of films. He has been one of the highest paid Indian singers and his singing style is considered similar to the legendary Mohd. Rafi whom he considers his motivation. He has come into limelight through the Kannada film Mungaru Male, Sonu Agam Kumar Nigam was born on 30 July 1973 to Agam Kumar Nigam and Shobha Agam Kumar Nigam in the city of Faridabad, Haryana. Nigam began his career at the age of four, when he joined his father Agam Kumar Nigam on stage to sing Mohammed Rafis song Kya hua tera wada. From then on, Nigam accompanied his father on his appearances at weddings. He moved to Mumbai with his father to begin his Bollywood singing career at the age of 18 and he was trained by Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Nigam married Madhurima Agam Kumar Nigam on 15 February 2002, Nigam has released pop albums in Hindi, Kannada, Odia, Chhattisgarhi and Punjabi, as well as Hindu and Islamic devotional albums. He has released several Buddhist albums, Nigam has performed in countries in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. In May–June 2007, he participated in The Incredibles tour with Asha Bhosle, Kunal Ganjawala, in September–October of the same year, he gave solo concerts titled Simply Sonu in Canada and Germany, the first Indian singer to do so. In April 2008, he toured India promoting his Punjabi single Punjabi Please, nigams first film song as a playback singer was for Janam, which was never officially released. He then began making radio commercials and also acted in some of them and his first released song was O Aasman Wale from the movie Aaja Meri Jaan. Sonu had also sung title Track Of Aaja Meri Jaan, but it Was Dubbed By SP Balasubramaniam. He released his first album Rafi Ki Yaadein in 1992, after this he sung in some movies included as Muqabla, Meharban, Shabnam, Aag, Khuddar, Hulchul, Stuntman, Ramjaane, Gaddar etc. He began hosting the TV show, Sa Re Ga Ma in 1995 and sang Accha Sila Diya for the film Bewafa Sanam and he sang the Anu Malik-composed song Sandese Aate Hai in Border and performed the Nadeem-Shravan-composed song Yeh Dil Deewana in Pardes in 1997. Nigams album Deewana, with directed by Sajid-Wajid, was released by T-Series in 1999. Nigam provided playback singing for Hindi movies including the song for the film Kal Ho Naa Ho in 2003
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Shaan (singer)
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Shantanu Mukherjee, known as Shaan, is an Indian playback singer more active in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada films and a television host. He hosted the shows Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs, Star Voice of India, in Music Ka Maha Muqabla, his team, Shaans Strikers, finished as the runners up to Shankar Mahadevan’s team. He has also sung many Pakistani songs, Shaan has sung on the Konkani album Tujhe Vinem. He is considered as one of the most popular voices for romantic as well as songs and is one of the most versatile singers. He has sung songs of different genres like pop, sad songs, patriotic, jazz, ghazals, hip-hop, rock and he has sung songs in Konkani, Kannada, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali, English, Hindi, Oriya, Malayalam, Telugu, Marathi and Assamese. He also started his career at a young age of 17 years in year 1989. He has been showered with titles like Golden Voice of India, Voice of Paradise, Magician of Melody and he appeared as a judge in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs 2014–2015 and The Voice India Kids 2016. In 2015, Shaan appeared in the first season of The Voice where he was the coach of Pawandeep Rajan, Shaan was born on 30 September 1972. His grandfather was the lyricist Jahar Mukherjee, his father was the music director Manas Mukherjee. His father died when Shaan was 13, after which his mother work as a singer. As a child, Shaan began his career singing jingles for advertisements, after giving it up for a brief period he returned and, along with jingles, began to sing remixes and cover versions. In the 1989 movie Parinda, aged only 17, Shaan sang a line in the song. He entered the pop scene with sister Sagarika, singing Biddu’s melodies, then came Roop Tera Mastana, a remix album of R. D. Burmans songs, that brought them further into the limelight. Shaan launched Loveology after this, which was well received and he wrote the lyrics of the ballad Bhool Ja on his second album Tanha Dil, which appeared in the charts within days of its release and was popular on radio. In 2000 he won the MTV Asia Music Award for best solo album for his album Tanha Dil, three years later Shaan launched his album Aksar which was successful and contained songs featuring international stars such as Blue, Mel C and Samira Said. For both the albums Tanha Dil and Aksar, Shaan sang, composed and wrote the lyrics of all the songs and he released Tomar Aakash in 2004, a Bengali album, along with his sister and featuring his fathers unreleased songs. He also plans to release an album remaking his fathers compositions with his sister in Hindi and he recently sang one of his fathers compositions on sets of STAR Pluss Music Ka Maha Muqqabla. In 2006, he released a song with MLTR, Take me to your heart, the song appears on his album Tishnagi which is produced by Ranjit Barot and engineered by Ashish Manchanda
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Shweta Pandit
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Shweta Pandit is a popular Bollywood playback/recording vocalist, songwriter, composer, performing artist and actress. She has also recorded songs for various Telugu and Tamil film songs, at the age of four, Shweta worked with Indian composer, Ilayaraja for the award-winning film Anjali, which was re-recorded in Hindi. She dubbed for the role in the film in Hindi. She had her breakthrough with Yash Raj Films and Aditya Chopras Mohabbatein with five songs at the age of 12 and she was chosen to sing in the film, after she auditioned for the final selection among almost 500 singers. Her debut record album Main Zindagi Hoon released when she was only 16 years old with EMI Virgin Records and she released 3 videos from this album, featuring herself. Her other albums include Aplam Chaplam and she sang and featured for various television commercials. In 2012, she sang her first Tamil song for the movie Vettai for composer Yuvan Shankar Raja. and Billa II, in 2011, Shweta collaborated with popular Punjabi singer and actor Harbhajan Mann for the song Sun Mere Chann Mahiya for the album Heer Ranjha. Her first reality show as a playback singer in 2008, Mission Ustaad on Channel 9x, was produced by the United Nations and judged by A. R. Rahman. The show was one of the biggest television series presented by the United Nations and had accomplished singers from Bollywood performing together for various causes for the United Nations. Performing with the Music Legend as a leading vocalist, around the world, including India, Australia, US, UK and the Middle East and Asia. Shweta performed the track Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire with AR Rahman on 11 December 2010 in Oslo, Norway in an event which hosted by Denzel Washington and Anne Hathaway. Shweta Pandit Productions has also released the album of her sister Shrradha Pandits Teri Heer in October 2008, with Sony Music. She featured in the CocaCola Commercial featuring Cricketer Gautam Gambhir and directed by acclaimed Dibakar Banerjee and she acted in David, directed by Bejoy Nambiar. She has also acted with Anil Kapoor in 24, directed by AbhineyDeo on Colors channel, in 2015, she did a powerful role as Madhu, with actor Sara Loren in Barkhaa
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The Times of India
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The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. It is the fourth-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the according to Audit Bureau of Circulations. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India still in circulation, in 1991, the BBC ranked The Times of India among the worlds six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In 2014 however, The Times of India was ranked 174th among Indias most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2014, the Times of India issued its first edition 3 November 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. In 1850, it began to publish daily editions, in 1860, editor Robert Knight bought the Indian shareholders interests, merged with rival Bombay Standard, and started Indias first news agency. It wired Times dispatches to papers across the country and became the Indian agent for Reuters news service, in 1861, he changed the name from the Bombay Times and Standard to The Times of India. In the 19th century, this company employed more than 800 people and had a sizeable circulation in India. In 1946, Bennett Coleman & Co, Ltd was sold to sugar magnate Ramkrishna Dalmia of the then-famous industrial family, the Dalmiyas, for Rs 20 million, as India was becoming independent and the British owners were leaving. In the court case followed, Ramkrishna Dalmia was sentenced to two years in Tihar Jail after having been convicted of embezzlement and fraud. But for most of the term he managed to spend in hospital. Upon his release, his son-in-law, Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, to whom he had entrusted the running of Bennett, in the early 1960s, Shanti Prasad Jain was imprisoned on charges of selling newsprint on the black market. Based on the pleading, Justice directed the Government to assume control of the newspaper which resulted in replacing half of the directors, curiously, the court appointed D K Kunte as Chairman of the Board. Kunte had no business experience and was also an Opposition member of the Lok Sabha. In 1976, during the Emergency in India, the Government transferred ownership of the back to Ashok Kumar Jain. The move was a critique of Prime Minister Indira Gandhis 21-month state of emergency, in late 2006, Times Group acquired Vijayanand Printers Limited. VPL previously published two Kannada newspapers, Vijay Karnataka and Usha Kiran, and an English daily, Vijay Times, Vijay Karnataka was the leader in the Kannada newspaper segment then. The paper launched a Chennai edition,12 April 2008 and it launched a Kolhapur edition, February 2013
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Hindustan Times
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Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period. The newspaper is owned by Rajya Sabha M. P. Shobhana Bhartia and it is the flagship publication of HT Media. Hindustan Times is one of the largest newspapers in India, by circulation, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.16 million copies as of November 2015. The Indian Readership Survey 2014 revealed that HT is the second most widely read English newspaper in India after The Times of India. It is popular in North India, with editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Bhopal. The print location of Jaipur was discontinued from June 2006 and that of Nagpur edition was discontinued from September 1997, HT launched a youth daily, HT Next, in 2004. The Mumbai edition was launched on 14 July 2005 and the Kolkata edition was launched in early 2000. In 2014 however, Hindustan Times was ranked 360th among Indias most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2014, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory, other sister publications of Hindustan Times are Mint, Hindustan, Nandan and Kadambani. Hindustan Times is owned by the KK Birla branch of the Birla family, Hindustan Times was founded in 1924 by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab Province. S Mangal Singh Gill and S. Chanchal Singh were made in charge of the newspaper, Madan Mohan Malaviya and Tara Singh were among the members of the Managing Committee. The Managing Chairman and Chief Patron was Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, K. M. Panikkar was its first editor, Devdas Gandhi on the editors panel, and later editor. The opening ceremony was performed by Mahatma Gandhi on 26 September 1924, the first issue was published from Naya Bazar, Delhi. As an Oxonian, historian, and litterateur, Panikkar must have hoped to make his paper eventually more than an Akali sheet and he became the editor and funds flowed freely from activist Akali patrons. He exerted himself strenuously, but the paper made very little headway, in two years Panikkar could not take the print order any higher than 3,000. By then the Akali movement appeared to lose steam and funds dried up, the paper was saved from an untimely demise when Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya stepped in to realise his vision of a newspaper in Delhi. Malaviya raised ₹50,000 rupees to acquire the Hindustan Times along with the help of nationalist leaders Lajpat Rai and M. R. Jayakar and industrialist G. D. Birla, Birla took full control of the paper in 1933. The paper continues to be owned by the Birla family and it has its roots in the Indian independence movement of the first half of the twentieth century and even faced the noted Hindustan Times Contempt Case at Allahabad High Court. It was edited at times by many important people in India, including Devdas Gandhi, Sri Mulgaonkar, B. G. Verghese, sanjoy Narayan was editor in chief of the paper from August 2008 till July 2016
