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New Delhi
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New Delhi is the capital of India and one of Delhi citys 11 districts. The National Capital Region is a larger entity comprising the entire National Capital Territory along with adjoining districts. The foundation stone of the city was laid by George V and it was designed by British architects, Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker. The new capital was inaugurated on 13 February 1931, by Viceroy, New Delhi has been selected as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under Prime Minister of India Narendra Modis flagship Smart Cities Mission. Calcutta was the capital of India during the British Raj until December 1911, Delhi had served as the political and financial centre of several empires of ancient India and the Delhi Sultanate, most notably of the Mughal Empire from 1649 to 1857. During the early 1900s, a proposal was made to the British administration to shift the capital of the British Indian Empire, as India was officially named, from Calcutta on the east coast, to Delhi. The Government of British India felt that it would be easier to administer India from Delhi in the centre of northern India. The land for building the new city of Delhi was acquired under the Land Acquisition Act 1894. The foundation stone of New Delhi was laid by King George V and Queen Mary at the site of Delhi Durbar of 1911 at Kingsway Camp on 15 December 1911, during their imperial visit. Large parts of New Delhi were planned by Edwin Lutyens, who first visited Delhi in 1912, the contract was given to Sobha Singh. The original plan called for its construction in Tughlaqabad, inside the Tughlaqabad fort, construction really began after World War I and was completed by 1931. The city that was later dubbed Lutyens Delhi was inaugurated in ceremonies beginning on 10 February 1931 by Lord Irwin, Lutyens designed the central administrative area of the city as a testament to Britains imperial aspirations. Soon Lutyens started considering other places, however, it was rejected by the Viceroy when the cost of acquiring the necessary properties was found to be too high. The central axis of New Delhi, which faces east at India Gate, was previously meant to be a north-south axis linking the Viceroys House at one end with Paharganj at the other. During the projects early years, many believed it was a gate from Earth to Heaven itself. Eventually, owing to space constraints and the presence of a number of heritage sites in the North side. A site atop the Raisina Hill, formerly Raisina Village, a Meo village, was chosen for the Rashtrapati Bhawan, then known as the Viceroys House. The reason for this choice was that the hill lay directly opposite the Dinapanah citadel, which was considered the site of Indraprastha
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Delhi
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Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi or NCT, is a city and a union territory of India. It is bordered by Haryana on three sides and by Uttar Pradesh to the east, the NCT covers an area of 1,484 square kilometres. According to 2011 census, Delhis city population was about 11 million, Delhis urban area is now considered to extend beyond the NCT boundary to include an estimated population of over 26 million people making it the worlds second largest urban area. As of 2016 recent estimates of the economy of its urban area have ranked Delhi either the top or second most productive metro area of India. Delhi is the second wealthiest city after Mumbai in India, with a wealth of $450 billion. Delhi has been inhabited since the 6th century BC. Through most of its history, Delhi has served as a capital of various kingdoms and it has been captured, ransacked and rebuilt several times, particularly during the medieval period, and modern Delhi is a cluster of a number of cities spread across the metropolitan region. New Delhi is jointly administered by the government of India and the local government of Delhi. Delhi is also the centre of the National Capital Region, which is a unique interstate regional planning area created by the National Capital Region Planning Board Act of 1985, Delhi ranks among the cities with the worst air pollution in the world. There are a number of myths and legends associated with the origin of the name Delhi, one of them is derived from Dhillu or Dilu, a king who built a city at this location in 50 BC and named it after himself. The coins in circulation in the region under the Tomaras were called dehliwal, according to the Bhavishya Purana, King Prithiviraja of Indraprastha built a new fort in the modern-day Purana Qila area for the convenience of all four castes in his kingdom. He ordered the construction of a gateway to the fort and later named the fort dehali, another theory suggests that the citys original name was Dhillika. The people of Delhi are referred to as Delhiites or Dilliwalas, the city is referenced in various idioms of the Northern Indo-Aryan languages. Dilli dilwalon ka shehr or Dilli Dilwalon ki meaning Delhi belongs to the large-hearted/daring, aas-paas barse, Dilli pani tarse, literally meaning it pours all around, while Delhi lies parched. An allusion to the sometimes semi-arid climate of Delhi, it refers to situations of deprivation when one is surrounded by plenty. The area around Delhi was probably inhabited before the second millennium BC, the city is believed to be the site of Indraprastha, the legendary capital of the Pandavas in the Indian epic Mahabharata. According to Mahabharata, this land was initially a huge mass of forests called Khandavaprastha which was burnt down to build the city of Indraprastha, the earliest architectural relics date back to the Maurya period, in 1966, an inscription of the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka was discovered near Srinivaspuri. Remains of eight cities have been discovered in Delhi
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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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Mumbai
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Mumbai is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India and the ninth most populous agglomeration in the world, Mumbai lies on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2008, Mumbai was named a world city. It is also the wealthiest city in India, and has the highest GDP of any city in South, West, Mumbai has the highest number of billionaires and millionaires among all cities in India. The seven islands that came to constitute Mumbai were home to communities of fishing colonies, during the mid-18th century, Bombay was reshaped by the Hornby Vellard project, which undertook reclamation of the area between the seven islands from the sea. Along with construction of roads and railways, the reclamation project, completed in 1845. Bombay in the 19th century was characterised by economic and educational development, during the early 20th century it became a strong base for the Indian independence movement. Upon Indias independence in 1947 the city was incorporated into Bombay State, in 1960, following the Samyukta Maharashtra movement, a new state of Maharashtra was created with Bombay as the capital. Mumbai is the financial, commercial and entertainment capital of India and it is also home to some of Indias premier scientific and nuclear institutes like BARC, NPCL, IREL, TIFR, AERB, AECI, and the Department of Atomic Energy. The city also houses Indias Hindi and Marathi film and television industry, Mumbais business opportunities, as well as its potential to offer a higher standard of living, attract migrants from all over India, making the city a melting pot of many communities and cultures. The oldest known names for the city are Kakamuchee and Galajunkja, in 1508, Portuguese writer Gaspar Correia used the name Bombaim, in his Lendas da Índia. This name possibly originated as the Old Portuguese phrase bom baim, meaning good little bay, in 1516, Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa used the name Tana-Maiambu, Tana appears to refer to the adjoining town of Thane and Maiambu to Mumbadevi. Other variations recorded in the 16th and the 17th centuries include, Mombayn, Bombay, Bombain, Bombaym, Monbaym, Mombaim, Mombaym, Bambaye, Bombaiim, Bombeye, Boon Bay, and Bon Bahia. After the English gained possession of the city in the 17th century, Ali Muhammad Khan, imperial diwan or revenue minister of the Gujarat province, in the Mirat-i-Ahmedi referred to the city as Manbai. By the late 20th century, the city was referred to as Mumbai or Mambai in the Indian statewise official languages of Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Kannada and Sindhi, the Government of India officially changed the English name to Mumbai in November 1995. According to Slate magazine, they argued that Bombay was a corrupted English version of Mumbai, Slate also said The push to rename Bombay was part of a larger movement to strengthen Marathi identity in the Maharashtra region. A resident of Mumbai is called mumbaikar in the Marathi language, the term has been in use for quite some time but it gained popularity after the official name change to Mumbai. Mumbai is built on what was once an archipelago of seven islands, Bombay Island, Parel, Mazagaon, Mahim, Colaba, Worli and it is not exactly known when these islands were first inhabited
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Maharashtra
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Four Maharashtra is a state in the western region of India and is Indias second-most populous state and third-largest state by area. It is the wealthiest Indian state and it is also the worlds second-most populous sub-national entity. It has over 112 million inhabitants and its capital, Mumbai, has a population of approximately 18 million, Nagpur is Maharashtras second capital as well as its winter capital. Maharashtras business opportunities along with its potential to offer a standard of living attract migrants from all over India. Ancient and medieval Maharashtra included the empires of the Satavahana dynasty, Rashtrakuta dynasty, Western Chalukyas, Mughals, the major rivers of the state are Godavari, and Krishna. The Narmada and Tapti Rivers flow near the border between Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, Maharashtra is the second most urbanised state in India. The state has several popular Hindu places of pilgrimage including Pandharpur, Dehu and Alandi, other places that attract pilgrims from other parts of India and beyond include Hazur Sahib Gurudwara at Nanded, Sai Baba shrine at Shirdi and Dikshabhumi at Nagpur. Maharashtra is the wealthiest and one of the most developed states in India, as of 2011, the state had a per capita income of ₹1.0035 lakh, more than the national average of ₹0.73 lakh. Its GDP per capita crossed the ₹1.20 lakh threshold for the first time in 2013, however, as of 2014, the GDP per capita reduced to ₹1.03 lakh Agriculture and industries are the largest parts of the states economy. Major industries include chemical products, electrical and non-electrical machinery, textiles, petroleum, Jai Maharashtra The modern Marathi language developed from the Maharashtri Prakrit, and the word Mahratta is found in the Jain Maharashtri literature. The terms Maharashtra, Maharashtri, Marathi and Maratha may have derived from the same root, however, their exact etymology is uncertain. But the Marathas as a people do not seem to be mentioned before the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the most widely accepted theory among the linguistic scholars is that the words Maratha and Maharashtra ultimately derived from a combination of Maha and rashtrika. The word rashtrika is a Sanskritized form of Ratta, the name of a tribe or dynasty of petty chiefs ruling in the Deccan region. Another theory is that the term is derived from Maha and ratha / rathi, an alternative theory states that the term derives from the word Maha and Rashtra. However, this theory has not found acceptance among scholars who believe it to be the Sanskritised interpretation of later writers. Maharashtra was ruled by the Maurya Empire in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE, around 230 BCE Maharashtra came under the rule of the Satavahana dynasty for 400 years. The greatest ruler of the Satavahana Dynasty was Gautamiputra Satakarni, in 90 CE Vedishri, son of the Satavahana king Satakarni, the Lord of Dakshinapatha, wielder of the unchecked wheel of Sovereignty, made Junnar, thirty miles north of Pune, the capital of his kingdom. The state was ruled by Western Satraps, Gupta Empire, Gurjara-Pratihara, Vakataka, Kadambas, Chalukya Empire, Rashtrakuta Dynasty, and Western Chalukya before finally
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Indian people
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Indian people are citizens of India, the second most populous nation containing 17. 50% of the worlds population. Indian refers to nationality, but not ethnicity or language, the Indian nationality consists of many regional ethno-linguistic groups, reflecting the rich and complex history of India. India hosts all major ethnic groups found in the Indian Subcontinent, population estimates vary from a conservative 12 million to 20 million diaspora. The name Bhārata has been used as a name by people of the Indian subcontinent. The designation Bhārata appears in the official Sanskrit name of the country, the name is derived from the ancient Vedic and Puranas, which refer to the land that comprises India as Bhārata varṣam and uses this term to distinguish it from other varṣas or continents. The Bhāratas were a tribe mentioned in the Rigveda, notably participating in the Battle of the Ten Kings. India is named after legendary Emperor Bharata who was a descendant of the Bhāratas tribe, in early Vedic literature, the term Āryāvarta was in popular use before Bhārata. The Manusmṛti gives the name Āryāvarta to the tract between the Himalaya and the Vindhya ranges, from the Eastern to the Western Sea, while the word Indian and India is derived from Greek Ἰνδία, via Latin India. The name is derived ultimately from Sindhu, the Sanskrit name of the river Indus, the next great ancient Empire of the Indian people was the Gupta Empire. This period, witnessing a Hindu religious and intellectual resurgence, is known as the classical or Golden Age of India, the ancient Indian mathematicians Aryabhata, Bhāskara I and Brahmagupta invented the concept of zero and the Hindu decimal system during this period. During this period Indian cultural influence spread over parts of Southeast Asia which led to the establishment of Indianized kingdoms in Southeast Asia. During the early period the great Rashtrakuta dynasty dominated the major part of the Indian subcontinent. From the 8th to 10th century and the Indian Emperor Amoghavarsha of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty was described by the Arab traveller Sulaiman as one of the four kings of the world. The greatest maritime Empire of the medieval Indians was the Chola dynasty, under the great Indian Emperors Rajaraja Chola I and his successor Rajendra Chola I the Chola dynasty became a military, economic and cultural power in South Asia and South-East Asia. The Mughal Empire unified much of Indian sub-continent under one realm, under the Mughals India developed a strong and stable economy, leading to commercial expansion and greater patronage of culture. This marked a huge influence in the Indian society, the Mughal Empire balanced and pacified local societies through new administrative practices and had diverse and inclusive ruling elites, leading to more systematic, centralised, and uniform rule. The Marathas and Sikhs emerged in the 17th century and established the Maratha Empire, the Maratha Empire is credited to a large extent for ending the Mughal rule in India. The empire at its peak stretched from Tamil Nadu in the south, to Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north and Bengal, India is one of the worlds oldest civilisations
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Shah Rukh Khan
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Shah Rukh Khan, also known as SRK, is an Indian film actor, producer and television personality. Referred to in the media as the Baadshah of Bollywood, King of Bollywood or King Khan, he has appeared in more than 80 Bollywood films, Khan has a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide. In terms of size and income, he has been described as one of the most successful film stars in the world. Khan began his career appearances in several television series in the late 1980s. He made his Bollywood debut in 1992 with Deewana, early in his career, Khan was recognised for portraying villainous roles in the films Darr, Baazigar and Anjaam. He then rose to prominence starring in a series of romantic films, including Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dil To Pagal Hai, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Mohabbatein. He earned critical acclaim for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Devdas, a NASA scientist in Swades, India and a man with Asperger syndrome in My Name Is Khan. His highest-grossing films include the comedies Chennai Express and Happy New Year, many of his films display themes of Indian national identity and connections with diaspora communities, or gender, racial, social and religious differences and grievances. For his contributions to film, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, and he is a frequent television presenter and stage show performer. The media often label him as Brand SRK because of his many endorsement, Khans philanthropic endeavours have provided health care and disaster relief, and he was honoured with UNESCOs Pyramide con Marni award in 2011 for his support of childrens education. He regularly features in listings of the most influential people in Indian culture, Khan was born on 2 November 1965 in a Muslim family in New Delhi. He spent the first five years of his life in Mangalore, according to Khan, his paternal grandfather, Jan Muhammad, an ethnic Pathan was from Afghanistan. Shah Rukh Khan also said in his interviews that he is a Pathan from Peshawar, Khans father, Meer Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist in Peshawar, British India. As of 2010, Khans paternal family was living in Shah Wali Qataal area of Peshawars Qissa Khawani Bazaar. Meer was a follower of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and affiliated with the All Indian National Congress and he moved to New Delhi in 1948 partition of India. Khans mother, Lateef Fatima, was the daughter of a government engineer. His parents were married in 1959, Khan described himself on Twitter as half Hyderabadi, half Pathan, some Kashmiri. His paternal cousins in Peshawar claim that the family is of Hindkowan origin from Kashmir, not Pashtun, Khan grew up in the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood of Delhi
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Interior design
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An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordinates, and manages such projects. Interior design is the process of shaping the experience of interior space, in the past, interiors were put together instinctively as a part of the process of building. The profession of design has been a consequence of the development of society. The pursuit of effective use of space, user well-being and functional design has contributed to the development of the interior design profession. The profession of design is separate and distinct from the role of Interior Decorator. The term is common in the UK where the profession of interior design is still unregulated and therefore, strictly speaking. In ancient India, architects used to work as interior designers and this can be seen from the references of Vishwakarma the architect - one of the gods in Indian mythology. Additionally, the sculptures depicting ancient texts and events are seen in palaces built in 17th century India, in ancient Egypt, soul houses or models of houses were placed in tombs as receptacles for food offerings. Architects would also employ craftsmen or artisans to complete design for their buildings. Large furniture firms began to branch out into general interior design and management and this business model flourished from the mid-century to 1914, when this role was increasingly usurped by independent, often amateur, designers. This paved the way for the emergence of the interior design in the mid-20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, upholsterers began to expand their business remits and they framed their business more broadly and in artistic terms and began to advertise their furnishings to the public. Firms began to publish and circulate catalogs with prints for different lavish styles to attract the attention of expanding middle classes, as department stores increased in number and size, retail spaces within shops were furnished in different styles as examples for customers. One particularly effective advertising tool was to set up rooms at national and international exhibitions in showrooms for the public to see. Some of the firms in this regard were Waring & Gillow, James Shoolbred, Mintons. This type of firm emerged in America after the Civil War, the Herter Brothers, founded by two German emigre brothers, began as an upholstery warehouse and became one of the first firms of furniture makers and interior decorators. A pivotal figure in popularizing theories of interior design to the class was the architect Owen Jones. His most significant publication was The Grammar of Ornament, in which Jones formulated 37 key principles of interior design, in 1882, the London Directory of the Post Office listed 80 interior decorators
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Red Chillies Entertainment
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Red Chillies Entertainment founded in 2002, is an Indian motion picture production, distribution and a premier visual effects company based in the city of Mumbai. The company was founded in 2002 by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan and it was transformed from the now defunct Dreamz Unlimited. Red Chillies Entertainment has formed a film studio in India. The studios activities span across creative development, production, marketing, distribution, licensing, merchandising and syndication of films in India and worldwide. When it comes to digital and marketing innovations for films, Red Chillies Entertainments Pvt Ltd has always been at the top of the game, apart from film production, RCE has a visual effects studio known as Red Chillies VFX. The company also has a 49% stake in the Indian Premier League cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders, sanjiv Chawla was the former CEO of the company, while Gauri Khan serves as a producer. In February 2013, Venky Mysore, the CEO of Kolkata Knight Riders took over responsibility as chief of Red Chillies Entertainment as well. In 2004, choreographer Farah Khan, a friend of Khan. The movie did well at the box office, becoming the second highest-grossing film of the year, the third film produced by the company was Farah Khans mega-budget Om Shanti Om, which was released in November 2007. The film was set in the 1970s and 2000s and paid tribute to Indian film industry of both these eras. Upon release, it broke box office records, grossing over ₹1.48 billion. The 2009 film Billu starring Irrfan Khan and Lara Dutta was the next release, the film opened to good reviews. The film made by Roshan Abbas, Always Kabhi Kabhi, did poorly, the company continued working on other projects until finally deciding on Ra. One starring Khan himself, Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal. The pre-production work began in 2007 after the release of Om Shanti Om. The films crew consisted of more than 5,000 members from India, Italy and the US and it saw the inclusion of several visual effects techniques being incorporated in the production which were carried out by Red Chillies VFX. With an estimated budget of ₹1.25 billion, Ra. One was the second-most expensive film produced in Indian cinema. The film went on to break multiple box-office records and according to its distributors, is the second highest-grossing Bollywood film worldwide earning over ₹2.4 billion and their next production was Karan Johars directorial venture, Student of the Year, which was co-produced by Johars production company. The company also has a visual effects known as Red Chillies VFX which flagged off in 2005
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Main Hoon Na
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Main Hoon Na is a 2004 Indian action drama film co-written and directed by Farah Khan in her directorial debut. The screenplay was written by Farah Khan and Abbas Tyrewala based on the story by Anvita Dutt Guptan and it stars Shah Rukh Khan, Sunil Shetty, Sushmita Sen, Zayed Khan and Amrita Rao in the main cast. It was remade into Tamil as Aegan starring Ajith Kumar, Nayantara, Main Hoon Na is one of the most successful Indian films discussing the Indo-Pakistani conflict from a neutral point of view. The film was shot at St. Pauls School, Darjeeling and it is the first film of Shah Rukh Khans production company Red Chillies Entertainment and choreographer Farah Khans directorial debut film. It was released on 30 April 2004 and was declared a blockbuster at the box office The movie takes place against the background of the relationship between India and Pakistan. The governments of the two countries have launched, Project Milap, where both the governments will release the POWs from the previous wars. Major Raghavan, a rogue ex-para commando-turned-militant does not want the peaceful operation to turn to reality, while trying to rescue Gen. Bakshi, Brigadier Shekhar Sharma falls prey to a stray bullet. On his deathbed, Shekhar confesses to his son, Major Ram Prasad Sharma, that Ram is his illegitimate child and he tells Ram that his last wish is to see his family reunited under one roof, and dies. Gen. Bakshi tells Ram that his teenage daughter Sanjanas life is in danger, Ram is reluctant at first but then learns that his younger brother Laxman Lucky is studying at the same college. Ram agrees, and starts off on his mission, personal and national. At first, Ram is not able to fit into college life due to his age, Ram meets Sanjana, who is Luckys friend and is secretly in love with him. Lucky is portrayed as a student who is not interested in studies and has been at the college for some time now, unable. Sanjana is constantly irritated by Ram because of his attempts at friendship, Lucky and another student, Vivek, then end up in a competition, which involves getting to the roof of the school. Lucky slips off the roof, but is caught just in time by Ram, soon thereafter, Ms. Sharma, Luckys mother, advertises for a paying guest in their house in order to make ends meet, and Ram takes this opportunity to live in their house. Ram finally starts assimilating to college life, building a relationship amongst the other students. He succeeds in wooing his lecturer, Ms. Chandini, and Lucky, at the same time, Major Raghavan arrives at the college, also posing undercover as a member of staff. Ms. Sharma finds out that Ram is actually Shekars son, Ram then explains why he entered their lives, revealing his fathers ashes and his last wish. This causes Mrs. Sharma to have a change of heart, Major Raghavan kidnaps Sanjana and holds a large number of students and staff members hostage
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Om Shanti Om
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Om Shanti Om is a 2007 Indian supernatural romantic musical film co-written, choreographed and directed by Farah Khan. It stars Shah Rukh Khan and debutant Deepika Padukone in the lead roles while Arjun Rampal, Shreyas Talpade, more than forty-two well-known Hindi movie stars appear in the course of the film, including thirty of them in one song alone. The film is set in the 1970s and 2000s, it pays tribute to, and pokes fun at, the film was released in 2,000 prints worldwide making it the largest Indian cinematic release at the time. Om Shanti Om was released on 9 November 2007 to universal acclaim from critics and it grossed ₹1.50 billion worldwide and thus became the highest-grossing Hindi film at the time of its release. Om Prakash Makhija is a junior artist in 1970s Hindi cinema, one evening, Om views the premiere of Shantis film Dreamy Girl, posing as Manoj Kumar. Later that night, Om becomes drunk and describes his vision of himself as a famous, wealthy film star winning the Filmfare Award for Best Actor to his friend Pappu and some local children. At the shooting of a film, Om rescues Shanti from a fire scene where the fire has escaped control. One day, after following Shanti, he overhears her and producer Mukesh Mehras conversation, Mukesh says he is really happy with the news, and invites Shanti at the set of their soon-to-be-made film Om Shanti Om. Shanti tearfully begs Mukesh to release her but he leaves anyway, Om attempts to rescue Shanti, but is attacked by Mukeshs guards. After the guards leave, he attempts to rescue Shanti. He finds Shanti but he is thrown from the building by an explosion, the building explodes after he is thrown from it and Shanti appears to have died. Om is hit by a car owned by Rajesh Kapoor, an actor taking his wife pregnant Lovely to the hospital, at the hospital, Om remembers his moments with Shanti as he dies due to these injuries while Lovely gives birth to a son, also named Om. Om Prakash reincarnates as Om Kapoor and sets out to avenge Shantis death and he is nicknamed O. K. and lives the luxurious life imagined by Om Prakash, but experiences pyrophobia and subconsciously inherits Om Prakashs memories. In acceptance of an award, O. K. unexpectedly delivers Om Prakashs drunken speech to the assembly. At a celebration of his award, O. K. is introduced by his father to Mukesh and he later reunites with Oms mother Bela and Pappu and conspires to avenge Shantis death by making Mukesh confess his crime. To that end, O. K. convinces Mukesh to restart Om Shanti Om, to impersonate Shanti, O. K. finds Sandhya alias Sandy, a doppelgänger of Shanti. Throughout the films shooting, O. K. and his friends arrange incidents to remind Mukesh of his crime. During the music launch of the film, O. K. taunts Mukesh by revealing, through a song, but when Mukesh runs after Sandy thinking she is a ghost of Shanti, Sandy accidentally cuts her arm and bleeds
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My Name Is Khan
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My Name Is Khan is a 2010 Indian thriller drama film directed by Karan Johar and produced by Hiroo Yash Johar and Gauri Khan and stars Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in lead roles. It is also the highest buyover for any Indian film, surpassing Ghajinis record of ₹90 crore and my Name Is Khan debuted in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on 10 February 2010. It premiered globally in cinemas on 12 February 2010 and it was also screened as part of the 60th Berlin International Film Festivals official selection the same month. Upon its release, the film broke box office records. My Name Is Khan was the highest-grossing Bollywood film overseas at the time, within four weeks, the film crossed the ₹70 crore mark in India and became the first film of 2010 to do so. In the overseas markets, the film grossed ₹110.34 crore and my Name Is Khan earned a worldwide gross of 200 crores. The film was released in India on DVD on 28 April 2010, blu-ray in India, plus a DVD release worldwide followed on 10 August 2010. Rizwan Khan is a Muslim child who grew up with his brother Zakir, Rizwan is different from other children as he has autism. However, he has gifts, particularly a special ability to repair things. Despite this initial resentment, as an adult Zakir sponsors Rizwan to come and it is at this time that Zakirs wife, Haseena diagnoses Rizwan as having Aspergers syndrome. Rizwan also begins to work for Zakir and in the process he meets a Hindu woman, Mandira and her son, Sameer. Despite Zakirs hostility to the match, they marry and settle down in the town of Banville. They also live next door to the Garrick family, consisting of Mark, the couples perfect existence is disrupted after the September 11 attacks on the twin towers in New York City. Mark goes to cover the war in Afghanistan and dies there, at the same time, the Khan family begins to experience post 9-11 prejudice in their community and Reese begins to turn against Sameer as well. One afternoon, an argument between them turns into a racially motivated schoolyard fight between Sameer and a number of older students, Reese tries to stop the fight but is held back and Sameer dies from his injuries. A shattered Mandira blames Rizwan for his death stating that Sameer died only because his name was Khan and she then tells Rizwan that she no longer wants to be with him. Rizwan thus sets out on a journey takes him from one US state to another, in order to first meet President George W. Bush. During this quest, he travels to a town in Georgia and befriends Mama Jenny
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Chennai Express
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Chennai Express /tʃᵻˈnaɪ/ /ɪkˈsprɛs/ is a 2013 Indian romantic action comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty, and produced by Gauri Khan for Red Chillies Entertainment. The film features Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in lead roles, the film is about a mans journey from Mumbai to Rameswaram, and what happens along the way after he falls in love with the daughter of a local don. Principal photography began on 27 September 2012, filming began in October 2012 and was completed by May 2013, Chennai Express was released in the overseas markets on 8 August 2013, and a day later in India. Extensive paid previews were held in India on 8 August as well, although the film received mixed reviews from critics, it broke several box office records in India and abroad, becoming the quickest film to collect ₹1 billion net domestically at that time. The film currently ranks as the eighth highest grossing Indian film of all time, Rahul Mithaiwala is a forty-year-old bachelor living in Mumbai. His parents died in a car accident when he was eight years old, Rahuls grandfather owns a chain of confectionery shops. Before his grandfathers 100th birthday celebration, two of Rahuls friends invite him to them on a vacation in Goa, which he accepts. Rahuls grandfather dies on the eve of the celebration, just when he witnesses Sachin Tendulkar on TV in a cricket match get dismissed on his 99th run. His grandmother tells Rahul that his wanted his ashes to be divided into two parts—one of each to be immersed in the Ganges and Rameswaram. She asks Rahul to take the ashes to Rameswaram and disperse them, reluctantly, he accepts her request but is also eager to attend the Goa trip. Rahul and his friends plan to dump the ashes at Goa but his grandmother wants to see him off and he books a single ticket on the Chennai Express, planning to meet his friends along the way, at Kalyan Junction station. However, Rahul forgets to take the ashes, and he almost misses the train when he returns to collect them, as he tries to leave the train, he notices a young woman running to board it. He helps her and four other people board the moving train, Rahul tries to flirt with the woman, who starts communicating by singing parodies of Hindi film songs, and explains that the four men are trying to kidnap her. Rahul lends her his phone so that she can contact her friends. Rahul is annoyed, but says nothing because the men are carrying weapons, Rahul tells the ticket inspector about them, but they push the inspector into a river below a bridge. Panicked, Rahul learns that the men are her cousins, and she is fleeing from a forced marriage to Tangaballi. Her father, Durgeshwara Azhagusundaram is a headman of the local mafia in Tamil Nadu. Meena takes Rahul to her father and introduces him as her lover, Tangaballi challenges Rahul to a duel that Rahul unknowingly accepts, due to his lack of knowledge in Tamil
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Happy New Year (2014 film)
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Happy New Year, sometimes abbreviated as HNY is a 2014 Indian musical heist comedy directed by Farah Khan and produced by Gauri Khan under the banner of Red Chillies Entertainment. The film has an ensemble cast, which includes Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah, the film was distributed worldwide by Yash Raj Films. The film marked a collaboration of Khan with the director, they previously worked on Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om. The film was released on Diwali,24 October 2014 in three different languages, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu in around 5000 screens in India, the biggest release for a Hindi film in India. The film received reviews from critics, but was a commercial success. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences features the script in their library. Chandramohan Manohar Sharma, better known as Charlie, is a fighter who has been yearning for revenge from Charan Grover for 8 years. Grover, with his rich and despicable mind, labeled Charlies father, Charlie finds out through the media that diamonds worth $300 crore will reach the Atlantis Hotel on Christmas Eve. He wants to steal the diamonds and frame Grover. To accomplish this, he must assemble a dynamic team, second on his team is Tehmton Irani, or Tammy, who is an overweight jogger and suffers from epileptic fits. It is also revealed that Tammy and Manohar were best friends, third on the team is Rohan Singh, a young hacker who Charlie believes can hack into Shalimars computerized system. After thoroughly researching about the vault, the team finds the main vault comprises a biometric lock, the problem is that only one person can access the vault at any time, Vicky Grover, Charans son. So they enlist the aid of a lookalike, Nandu Bhide, Charlie describe his team as ek full time bewda, ek sanki jadeya, ek bhari banduk sipahi, ek badmaash bachcha. The team heads to a warehouse which was originally their workshop for a rehearsal and it is revealed that Tammy was immensely in love with the Shalimar vault and he is the only one to open the vault without the combination. The real Shalimar vault has a shield in front of the vault whose code combination is changed everyday. Charlie then explains a problem, being that room 9C is booked for a participating in the World Dance Championship. The group refuses, but Charlie re-motivates the group, convincing them to become a dance team, the real story is eventually revealed, Manohar was an engineer in vaults. He met Charan Grover, who was a dealer in African diamonds, after the vault was completed, Charan drugged Manohar and conned him into stealing the diamonds by using his fingerprint
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Dilwale (2015 film)
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The film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Varun Dhawan, and Kriti Sanon in lead roles, with Johnny Lever and Varun Sharma in supporting roles. Dilwale has grossed over ₹372 crore worldwide, becoming the second highest-grossing film starring Shah Rukh Khan after Chennai Express, Dilwale is the highest-grossing film starring Shah Rukh Khan in overseas markets. The song Gerua performed well in the charts, however, Khan expressed disappointment with the box office collections and the films performance, especially in India, as did Kajol, who stated that she regretted doing the film. The movie begins in Goa, where Raj leaves his auto shop to confront Mani for stealing a man’s cell phone. Mani tells Raj that he is stealing it for his younger brother, while out driving, Veer sees a woman, Ishita, hitchhiking but his friend refuses to pick her up. However, after he stops the car to urinate and leave his friend and went back to ishita, for penance, Raj forces Veer to work in the shop day and night. Veer’s friend Siddhu provides him with coffee so he can stay awake to fix the car, however, he falls asleep anyway and awakes to find that the car’s sound system has been stolen. Siddhu takes it to a shop to sell it, having stolen the sound system while Veer was asleep. The men of the gang leader, King, try to sell drugs at a crab shack. Veer beats them up after they threaten Ishita and they then come back later to exact revenge on Veer, but Raj breaks up the fight. Raj’s men find him at the hospital where Veer is staying, Raj goes to Kings hideout, incapacitates the gang members, and burns their drug stash. Raj tells King’s men his gangster name, Kaali, King stops by Raj’s shop the next day to present a deal where Raj will fix all of King’s cars in exchange for protection. The film then back to Bulgaria. Raj is in a car chase with a gang, trying to make off with a container of gold. When he gets out to help her, the gang catches up with him. Later, Raj runs into Meera again, who works as a sketch artist and he reveals to her that he is a gangster, and that he is the son of Randhir Bakshi, the leader of the gang. Veer attends a school where Raj only comes to visit once a month. Randhir and Raj talk about how Raj was adopted, Raj meets with Meera again, and she asks him to take care of some guys who are troubling her
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Raees (film)
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It stars Shah Rukh Khan, Mahira Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Raees was said to be based on criminal Abdul Latifs life but, the film was released on 25 January 2017. Raees, from Fatehpur, Gujarat gets involved in illegal liquor trade at a young age. Along with Sadiq, Raees works for a notorious gangster Jairaj, smuggles alcohol illegally by bribing the police. Though he is a smuggler, he lives by the philosophy, as taught by his mother that every occupation is good and he decides to part ways with Jairaj and start operating on his own. He meets Musabhai and Nawab in Mumbai, and with their help he starts his bootlegging business, meanwhile, an honest police offer of the IPS cadre, J. A. Majmudar, wants to end this illegal liquor trade. Raees is already in love with Aasiya and she accepts the proposal to marry him, Majmudar gets transferred to Fatehpur, and starts a major crackdown on alcohol dealers. All the dealers decide to collaborate except Raees, Majmudar continues to gather intelligence about Raees, and Raees consistently find ways to avert him and continues on with his trade. Due to his differences with Raees, Jairaj tries to get Raees killed, musa informs Raees about Jairaj’s attempt and Raees survives by killing Jairaj and his associates at a bar, thus his philosophy gets broken. Majmudar gets transferred from Fatehpur to Kutch, gujarats Chief Minister and Pashabhai, dealing with politics supports Raees for liquor and money. With his money, intelligence and tact, Raees wins over the administration and he also assists his community by offering employment to women to sew cloth bags, which he uses to smuggle alcohol and get them delivered to homes. In the meantime, Aasiya delivers a baby boy, Raees is offered a project by the Chief Minister to eliminate the illegal occupants at a land and construct a housing project. Still a hindrance to Raees business, Raees manages to get Majmudar transferred to control room department, however, tables turn with Majmudars transfer as he starts listening in to all the Raees telephonic conversations and get the updates of his every move. Pashabhai plans a march to end illicit liquor trade, as a part of his election campaign, the CM advises Raees to go to jail for a while for his act but assures he would get all the facilities and carry on his trade from there. While still locked up, the CM and Pasha form an alliance, to counter them, Raees decides to fight the election from jail and wins. Raees visits the location of the project with his wife. He dreams that there would be abundance in the air of that locality, meanwhile, Majmudar gets transferred back to Fatehpura as SP – Crime. Communal riots break out in the state, people start running out of food
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Punjabis
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The Punjabis, or Punjabi people, are an ethno-linguistic group associated with the Punjab, who speak Punjabi, an Indo-Aryan language. Punjab literally means the land of five waters (Persian, panj āb, Punjab is often referred to as the breadbasket in both Pakistan and India. The coalescence of the tribes, castes and the inhabitants of the Punjab into a broader common Punjabi identity initiated from the onset of the 18th century CE. Traditionally, Punjabi identity is primarily linguistic, geographical and cultural, integration and assimilation are important parts of Punjabi culture, since Punjabi identity is not based solely on tribal connections. More or less all Punjabis share the cultural background. Historically, the Punjabi people were a group and were subdivided into a number of clans called biradari or tribes. However, Punjabi identity also included those who did not belong to any of the historical tribes, the 1947 independence of India and Pakistan, and the subsequent partition of Punjab, is considered by historians to be the beginning of the end of the British Empire. The UNHCR estimates 14 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims were displaced during the partition, to date, this is considered the largest mass migration in human history. Until 1947, the province of Punjab was ruled by a coalition comprising the Indian National Congress, the Sikh-led Shiromani Akali Dal, however, the growth of Muslim nationalism led to the All India Muslim League becoming the dominant party in the 1946 elections. As Muslim separatism increased, the opposition from Punjabi Hindus and Sikhs increased substantially, communal violence on the eve of Indian independence led to the dismissal of the coalition government, although the succeeding League ministry was unable to form a majority. Partition was accompanied by violence on both sides, claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. West Punjab was virtually cleansed of its Hindu and Sikh populations, by the 1960s, Indian Punjab underwent reorganisation as demands for a linguistic Punjabi state increased. The Hindi-speaking areas were formed into the states of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana respectively, in the 1980s, Sikh separatism combined with popular anger against the Indian Armys counter-insurgency operations led to violence and disorder in Indian Punjab, which only subsided in the 1990s. Political power in Indian Punjab is contested between the secular Congress Party and the Sikh religious party Akali Dal and its allies, the Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian Punjab remains one of the most prosperous of Indias states and is considered the breadbasket of India. Subsequent to partition, West Punjabis made up a majority of the Pakistani population, today, Punjabis continue to be the largest ethnic group in Pakistan, accounting for half of the countrys population. They reside predominantly in the province of Punjab, neighbouring Azad Kashmir in the region of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjabis are also found in large communities in the largest city of Pakistan, Karachi, located in the Sindh province. Punjabis in India can be found in the states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, large communities of Punjabis are also found in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir and in Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. In Delhi, Punjabis make up half of the population of Pakistan
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Hindu
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Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism. It has historically used as a geographical, cultural, or religious identifier for people indigenous to South Asia. The historical meaning of the term Hindu has evolved with time, by the 16th century, the term began to refer to residents of India who were not Turks or Muslims. The historical development of Hindu self-identity within the Indian population, in a religious or cultural sense, is unclear, competing theories state that Hindu identity developed in the British colonial era, or that it developed post-8th century CE after the Islamic invasion and medieval Hindu-Muslim wars. A sense of Hindu identity and the term Hindu appears in texts dated between the 13th and 18th century in Sanskrit and regional languages. The 14th- and 18th-century Indian poets such as Vidyapati, Kabir and Eknath used the phrase Hindu dharma, the Christian friar Sebastiao Manrique used the term Hindu in religious context in 1649. In the 18th century, the European merchants and colonists began to refer to the followers of Indian religions collectively as Hindus, in contrast to Mohamedans for Mughals, scholars state that the custom of distinguishing between Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs is a modern phenomenon. Hindoo is a spelling variant, whose use today may be considered derogatory. At more than 1.03 billion, Hindus are the third largest group after Christians. The vast majority of Hindus, approximately 966 million, live in India, according to Indias 2011 census. After India, the next 9 countries with the largest Hindu populations are, in decreasing order, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom and Myanmar. These together accounted for 99% of the worlds Hindu population, the word Hindu is derived from the Indo-Aryan and Sanskrit word Sindhu, which means a large body of water, covering river, ocean. It was used as the name of the Indus river and also referred to its tributaries, the Punjab region, called Sapta Sindhava in the Vedas, is called Hapta Hindu in Zend Avesta. The 6th-century BCE inscription of Darius I mentions the province of Hidush, the people of India were referred to as Hinduvān and hindavī was used as the adjective for Indian in the 8th century text Chachnama. The term Hindu in these ancient records is an ethno-geographical term, the Arabic equivalent Al-Hind likewise referred to the country of India. Among the earliest known records of Hindu with connotations of religion may be in the 7th-century CE Chinese text Record of the Western Regions by the Buddhist scholar Xuanzang, Xuanzang uses the transliterated term In-tu whose connotation overflows in the religious according to Arvind Sharma. The Hindu community occurs as the amorphous Other of the Muslim community in the court chronicles, wilfred Cantwell Smith notes that Hindu retained its geographical reference initially, Indian, indigenous, local, virtually native. Slowly, the Indian groups themselves started using the term, differentiating themselves, the poet Vidyapatis poem Kirtilata contrasts the cultures of Hindus and Turks in a city and concludes The Hindus and the Turks live close together, Each makes fun of the others religion
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Brahmin
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Brahmin is a varna in Hinduism specialising as priests of sacred learning across generations. However, Indian texts suggest that Brahmins were often agriculturalists in medieval India, the Gautama Dharmasutra states in verse 10.3 that it is obligatory on a Brahmin to learn and teach the Vedas. The text forbids a Brahmin from engaging in the trade of animals for slaughter, meat, medicines, the Apastamba Dharmasutra asserts in verse 1.20.10 that trade is generally not sanctioned for Brahmins, but in the times of adversity he may do so. The chapter 1.20 of Apastamba, states Olivelle, forbids the trade of the following under any circumstances, human beings, meat, skins, weapons, barren cows, sesame seeds, pepper, and merits. The 1st millennium CE Dharmasastras, that followed the Dharmasutras contain similar recommendations on occupations for a Brahmin, both in prosperous or normal times, and in the times of adversity. The widely studied Manusmriti, for example, states, Except during a time of adversity and he should gather wealth just sufficient for his subsistence through irreproachable activities that are specific to him, without fatiguing his body. –4. 2–4.3 He must never follow a worldly occupation for the sake of livelihood, one who seeks happiness should become supremely content and self controlled, for happiness is rooted in contentment and its opposite is the root of unhappiness. –4. 11–4.12 The Manusmriti recommends that a Brahmins occupation must never involve forbidden activities such as producing or trading poison, weapons, meat, trapping birds and others. It also lists six occupations that it deems proper for a Brahmin, teaching, studying, offering yajna, officiating at yajna, giving gifts, of these, states Manusmriti, three which provide a Brahmin with a livelihood are teaching, officiating at yajna, and accepting gifts. The text states that teaching is best, and ranks the accepting of gifts as the lowest of the six, in the times of adversity, Manusmriti recommends that a Brahmin may live by engaging in the occupations of the warrior class, or agriculture or cattle herding or trade. Of these, Manusmriti in verses 10. 83–10, the term Brahmin in Indian texts has signified someone who is good and virtuous, not just someone of priestly class. Both Buddhist and Brahmanical literature, states Patrick Olivelle, repeatedly define Brahmin not in terms of family of birth and these virtues and characteristics mirror the values cherished in Hinduism during the Sannyasa stage of life, or the life of renunciation for spiritual pursuits. Brahmins, states Olivelle, were the class from which most ascetics came. The earliest inferred reference to Brahmin as a social class is in the Rigveda, occurs once. Ancient texts describing community-oriented Vedic yajna rituals mention four to five priests, the hotar, the adhvaryu, the udgatar, the functions associated with the priests were, The Hotri recites invocations and litanies drawn from the Rigveda. The Adhvaryu is the assistant and is in charge of the physical details of the ritual like measuring the ground. The Udgatri is the chanter of hymns set to melodies and music drawn from the Samaveda, the udgatar, like the hotar, chants the introductory, accompanying and benediction hymns. The Brahmin recites from the Atharvaveda, the Ritvij is the chief operating priest
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Rawalpindi
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Rawalpindi, commonly known as Pindi, is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the fourth-largest city in Pakistan by population, while the larger Islamabad Rawalpindi metropolitan area is the countrys third-largest area, the economy of Rawalpindi is interlinked with Islamabad, and the two are jointly known as the twin cities. The city is the seat of the Rawalpindi District. Rawalpindi is located on the Pothohar Plateau, which is known for the existence of a Buddhist community, particularly in neighbouring town of Taxila, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city was destroyed during the invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni before being taken over Gakhars who went on to name the city as Rawalpind in 1493, in 1765, the Gakhars were defeated as Rawalpindi became part of the Sikh Empire. The city became part of the British Raj in 1849 and in 1851 became the largest garrison town for the British Indian Army, after the partition of India in 1947, the city became home to the headquarters of Pakistan Army hence retaining its status as a major military city. The city received a major boost with the start of the construction of Islamabad in 1961 which saw greater investment, the city is also a major transit point due to presence on the Grand Trunk Road and presence of Benazir Airport and the under-construction Liaquat Airport. The city is also a tourist attraction due to its historical havelis, while it is a transit point for tourists visiting Rohtas Fort, Azad Kashmir, Taxila. The word Rawalpindi consists of two Punjabi words, Rawal, and Pindi, Rawal translates to lake in Punjabi, and Pind translates to village. Historically, this region was called Rawal Pind, the population of Rawalpindi is 4,700,000 in 2017. There are 84% of population are Punjabi and 9% consist of Pashto people, there are different ethnic group who are migrated from different part of countries. Balochi, Brahvi, Balti, Hunzai, Kohistani, Khowar, Shina, Sindhi, Rawalpindi has been inhabited for thousands of years, it is believed that a distinct culture flourished on this plateau as far back as c.1000 BC. The material remains found at the site prove the existence of a Buddhist establishment contemporary to Taxila, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the nearby town of Taxila is home to the worlds oldest university - Takshashila University. Sir Alexander Cunningham identified certain ruins on the site of the cantonment with the ancient city of Ganjipur, graeco-Bactrian coins, together with ancient bricks, occur over an area of 500 hectares. Known within historical times as Fatehpur Baori, Rawalpindi fell into decay during one of the Mongol invasions in the 14th century and it appears that the ancient city went into oblivion as a result of the White Hun devastation. The first Muslim invader, Mahmud of Ghazni, gave the city to a Gakhar Chief. The town, however, being on a route, could not prosper and remained deserted until Jhanda Khan, another Gakhar Chief, restored it. The present native infantry lines mark the site of a battle fought by the Gakhars under their famous chief Sultan Mukarrab Khan in 1765, sardar Milkha Singh invited traders from the neighboring commercial centers of Jhelum and Shahpur to settle in the territory
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Loreto Convent School, Delhi
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Loreto Convent School is a girls school in Delhi, India. It is first established in January 1965 at 28 Mall Road, with Mother Francis Clare as the Founder Principal, Loreto Convent, Delhi is an all-female Christian school. The school comes under the Loreto Educational Society in India, which runs and it is an English medium school situated in New Delhi cantt. It is affiliated to CBSE board, the school was started by sisters known as Loreto sisters who belong to the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was first founded by a nun Mary Ward in England in 1609, ten Loreto sisters came from Ireland to Calcutta to open the first Loreto convent in India in 1842. Loreto, Delhi is one of the 17 schools in India, there are 119 Loreto schools in 12 countries and on 6 continents. The current principal of the school is Sr. Mercia Dsouza including 2 coordinators for senior and junior school, the school celebrated its golden jubilee in 2014. Each junior school class has 2 sections and rest all classes have 3 sections, Loreto Convent is an all girls English medium school affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education. It has a school starting from nursery till class IV. After school hours it provides education to poor girls residing in the nearby areas. Various subjects like physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, accountancy, economics, business studies, now there are 3 streams in the school giving children a better environment for studies - humanities, science and commerce. There are four houses, Various intra-school sports competitions are held, such as basketball, volleyball, kho-kho, badminton, cricket, other events include drawing competitions, creative writing competitions, general knowledge quizzes, extempores, declamations and debate competitions. The school is situated in Delhi Cantt. The school building is huge and is painted in pink colour and it has all the basic infrastructure like chemistry, biology and physics labs, computer lab, AV room, basketball and volleyball ground. It also has a vast land area where drill and march past is conducted
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Lady Shri Ram College for Women
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Lady Shri Ram College for Women is a constituent womens college of the University of Delhi for Social Sciences, Humanities and Commerce. It is a prestigious and well-known arts and commerce college, and it has been ranked 1 in Arts, Today, the college is located in a 15-acre campus in Lajpat Nagar in South Delhi. It has approximately 2000 students, over 150 faculty, administrative, lSRs infrastructure includes a newly refurbished, computerized user-friendly library with internet access,1,20,000 books,5000 online journals and 127 in-house journals and periodicals. Its Board of Governors is chaired by industrialist and philanthropist Bharat Ram, the new principal of the college is Suman Sharma. B. A. Economics, English, Hindi, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Sanskrit, mathematics, Statistics B. El. Ed Postgraduate Diploma in Conflict Transformation and Peace-building Journalism and Mass Communication Tarang is the annual cultural festival of Lady Shri Ram College. Tarang is known for bringing together the best student talent from across the country in fields of music, dance, dramatics, debating, fine arts, quiz, and film. LSR also has 20 other clubs for extra-curricular activities such as Hive for art enthusiasts, anDebsoc for debates, lSRs choreography group is one of the best among all Delhi University colleges. Both classical and international music are popular clubs here, in addition, there is also a compulsory enrollment in NSS, NSO or NCC. St. Xaviers College, Mumbai, University of Mumbai, Mumbai Official website
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Bachelor of Arts
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confused with baccalaureatus, degree diplomas generally are printed on high-quality paper or parchment, individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees. In Pakistan, the Bachelor of Arts degree can also be attained within two years as an external degree, in colleges and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study. Unlike in other countries, students do not receive a grade for their Bachelor of Arts degree with varying levels of honours. Qualified students may be admitted, after they have achieved their Bachelors program with an overall grade point average. Thus, to achieve a Bachelor Honours degree, a postgraduate year. A student who holds a Honours degree is eligible for entry to either a Doctorate or a very high research Master´s degree program. Education in Canada is controlled by the Provinces and can be different depending on the province in Canada. Canadian universities typically offer a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degrees, in many universities and colleges, Bachelor of Arts degrees are differentiated either as Bachelors of Arts or as honours Bachelor of Arts degree. The honours degrees are designated with the abbreviation in brackets of. It should not be confused with the consecutive Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, Latin Baccalaureatus in Artibus Cum Honore, BA hon. de jure without brackets and with a dot. It is a degree, which is considered to be the equivalent of a corresponding maîtrise degree under the French influenced system. Going back in history, a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree was called a pass degree or general degree. Students may be required to undertake a long high-quality research empirical thesis combined with a selection of courses from the relevant field of studies. The consecutive B. cum Honore degree is essential if students ultimate goal is to study towards a two- or three-year very high research masters´ degree qualification. A student holding a Baccalaureatus Cum Honore degree also may choose to complete a Doctor of Philosophy program without the requirement to first complete a masters degree, over the years, in some universities certain Baccalaureatus cum Honore programs have been changed to corresponding master´s degrees. In general, in all four countries, the B. A. degree is the standard required for entry into a masters programme, in science, a BA hons degree is generally a prerequisite for entrance to a Ph. D program or a very-high-research-activity master´s programme
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Farah Khan
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Farah Khan also known by her married name Farah Khan Kunder is an Indian film director, film producer, actress and choreographer. She is best known for her work in numerous Bollywood films. She has choreographed dance routines for more than a hundred songs in over 80 Hindi films and she has since become a film director as well. In addition, she has worked on projects such as Marigold, An Adventure in India, Monsoon Wedding. Khan was born on 9 January 1965 and her mother, Menaka Irani, is the sister of screenwriter, Honey Irani and former child actor Daisy Irani. Farahs brother Sajid Khan is a comedian, actor and film director, when their parents marriage broke up, Farah and Sajid were shuttled between different homes. Film personalities Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar are Farahs cousins, Khan is of Parsi origin from her mothers side and of Muslim faith from her fathers side. Farah Khan married Shirish Kunder, the editor of her film Main Hoon Na and they have since worked together on each others films, such as Jaan-E-Mann, Om Shanti Om, and Tees Maar Khan. Khan gave birth to triplets in 2008, one son and two daughters, Farah Khan was studying sociology in St. Xaviers College, Mumbai when Michael Jacksons Thriller was telecast. She was so inspired, that although she hadn’t danced before that and she learned to dance basically on her own, and set up a dance group. When the choreographer Saroj Khan walked out of the film Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar and this was followed by many more songs. She met actor Shahrukh Khan on the set of Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, Farah Khans work in Monsoon Wedding, Bombay Dreams and Vanity Fair was nominated for a 2004 Tony Award as Best Choreographer, along with collaborator Anthony van Laast, for Bombay Dreams. She has won the Filmfare Best Choreography Award six times, Khan then went on to direct her first film Main Hoon Na Starring Shah Rukh Khan which was produced by Red Chillies Entertainment. Khan became the female director to be nominated for Filmfare Best Director Award. As a director, her second movie Om Shanti Om Starring Shah Rukh Khan, Tees Maar Khan was her next directorial release. In 2012 she made her acting debut in a leading role in Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi. Khan initially announced her plans to direct Happy New Year in 2005, multiple delays, the project has again been reported as being in the works as of 2012. Farah Khan trained Colombian pop star Shakira for a Bollywood version of her song Hips Dont Lie for the MTV Video Music Awards on 31 August 2006, Khan has also choreographed Kylie Minogue for the song Chiggy Wiggy in the 2009 movie Blue
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MTV India
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MTV India is the Indian version of MTV, a channel specialising in music, reality, and youth culture programming. It was launched in 1996 and is now part of the Viacom 18 Media Pvt, ltd based in Mumbai, a 50/50 joint venture operation between Viacom Inc. and Network TV18. MTV India is one of the oldest music television networks in Asia, Music has always been distinctively recognized and acknowledged with respect to India, thus MTV India has been very successful there. MTV India is one of the most popular music channels across the Indian subcontinent, having viewership shares in India and also countries like Bangladesh, most of the programming on the channel is in Hindi. MTV India creates shows across genres of music, reality television, MTV India has its office in Vile Parle in Mumbai. The channel is available as a standalone on CAS networks. Of late MTV India has put a focus on reality shows. The show MTV-Roadies seems to have eclipsed the entire MTV India with a series of reality shows, MTV India broadcasts many famous television programs, for people with varied interests. Its main emphasis is on music based entertainment and reality shows, such as the wildly popular Jersey Shore, of late, it has also ventured into youth-based fiction dramedies with Indias first youth-based sitcom, MTV Reality Stars, which captures the comedy and chaos in the showbiz industry. The following shows have been broadcast on MTV India, VJs serve as hosts of MTV shows, a few of the popular VJs are listed below. The MTV India awards include the following, MTV Nickelodeon India MTV Mandarin VH1 India Official website
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Bandra
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Bandra is a suburb of West Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra, India. Bandra is a locality and often called the queen of the suburbs. In Marathi, Bandra is known as Vandre, which means port and is possibly derived from the same Urdu/Persian word. The area was under the rule of the Silhara dynasty in the 12th century, Bandra was a tiny fishing village inhabited by Kolis and farmers. It was acquired by the British East India Company while the rest of Mumbai belonged to the Portuguese, in 1534, a sea captain called Diego da Silveira entered Bandra creek and burned the fishing town he found there. With that, Bandra came under the rule of the Portuguese crown and this turmoil was the start of a long period of Christianization of Bandra. It was Father Manuel Gomes who really turned the Catholic Church into the institution it has become here, in 1580, he baptized 2,000 fishermen, and that was just a beginning. By the time he died 11 years later, Father Gomes invincible strength of soul — as one described it — had converted 6,000 people of the area. It was Father Gomes who established St Andrews church, the Portuguese enfeoffed Bandra, Kurla, Mazagaon and four other villages in 1548 to a certain António Pessoa as a reward for his military services. This was confirmed by the Royal Chancellery on the 2 February 1550, as these villages were given for a period of two lives, they reverted to the Crown after the death of Isabel Botelha, Pessoss widow. The Jesuits who had applied for these villages in anticipation of the death of Isabel Botelha obtained them from the Viceroy in 1568, in 1661, when King Charles married Catherina of Portugal, the island of Mumbai was given to England as part of the dowry. However, Salsette Island, on which Bandra lay, was not part of this treaty, the Portuguese built additional churches in Bandra, one of the earliest being St. Andrews Church in 1575. Their Jesuit missionaries, who learned local languages and cultures, attracted many Indian converts to Catholicism among the villagers on the island. Bandra became part of English territory with the signing the Treaty of Surat in 1775 but was retroceded back to the Marathas in 1779 during the First Anglo-Maratha War. In 1802, Bajirao II signed the Treaty of Bassein with the English, surrendering sovereignty and again ceding Bandra, on 12 April 1867, the first railway service was inaugurated, with one train per day between Virar and Mumbai. Six years later, it was increased to 24 each day, in the 21st century,940 trains stop daily at Bandra. As late as the 1930s, Bandra had only one bus service from Pali Naka, other people just walked to the nearest railway station. After World War II, the boom started to accommodate immigrants
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Sussanne Khan
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Sussanne Roshan is an Indian interior designer. She is the daughter of actors Sanjay Khan and Zarine Khan, sister of Bollywood actor Zayed Khan, and she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in interior design from Brooks College, California. She established a design studio called The Charcoal Project. In June,2016 a case was registered against her under Section 420 of the IPC for falsely representing herself as an architect to a Goa based developer, designs submitted by her as part of her contract were substandard. In 2000, she married actor Hrithik Roshan, and the couple has two sons, Hrehaan and Hridhaan, in December 2014, it was announced that Sussanne and Hrithik had decided to end their 17-year-long relationship. Their divorce was finalized by Bandra family court in November 2014
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Vadodara
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Vadodara, the Cultural Capital of Gujarat, is the third largest city in the Western Indian State of Gujarat, after Ahmedabad and Surat. It is the headquarters of Vadodara District and is located on the banks of the Vishwamitri river. The railway line and NH8 that connect Delhi and Mumbai pass through Vadodara, as of 2011, Vadodara had a population of almost 2.2 million+ people. The city is known for the Lakshmi Vilas Palace, the residence of Baroda States Maratha royal family and it is also the home of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, the largest university in Gujarat. The first recorded history of the city is that of the early settlers who settled in the region in 812 AD. The province was mainly Hindu-dominated with Hindu kings ruling until 1297, the Gupta Empire was the first power in the region in the early years of the CE. Later, the region was taken over by the Chaulukya dynasty, by this time Muslim rule had spread across India, and the reins of power were then snatched by the Delhi Sultans. The city was ruled for a time by these Sultans. The city used to be called Chandanavati after its ruler Raja Chandan of the Dor tribe of Rajputs, the capital was also known as Virakshetra or Viravati. Later on it was known as Vadpatraka or Vadodará, which according to tradition is a form of the Sanskrit word vatodar meaning in the belly of the Banyan tree. In 1974, the name of the city was changed to Vadodara. In 1907, a village and township in Michigan, United States, were named after Baroda. It is believed that early man lived on the banks of the Mahi River, there is evidence of the existence of early man in the Mahi River valley at a number of sites within 10 to 20 kilometres to the north-east of Vadodara. However, no evidence of the existence of people is found in. This may be because of the absence of gravels and cobbles on the banks of the Vishwamitri rivulet, Baroda State was a former Indian State in Western India. Vadodaras more recent history began when the Maratha general Pilaji Gaekwad conquered Songadh from the Mughals in 1726, before the Gaekwads captured Baroda, it was ruled by the Babi Nawabs, who were the officers of the Mughal rulers. Most notably, from 1705–1716, Sardar Senapati Khanderao Dabhade led the Maratha Empire forces in Baroda, except for a short period, Baroda continued to be in the reign of the Gaekwads from 1734 to 1948. Initially detailed to collect revenue on behalf of the Peshwa in Gujarat, damajirao, son and successor of Pilaji Gaekwad, defeated the Mughal armies and conquered Baroda in 1734
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Worli
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Worli is a locality in the city of Mumbai in Indian state of Maharashtra. It is also spelt as, Varli, Worlee, Warli and it is an important commercial and industrial centre in the city. Worli was one of the seven islands that constituted the city of Mumbai. Although primarily a village, the Worli Fort, a British fort that is now in ruins, is located there. It is known for being home to Dishankeshwar Kalsi, considered Indias first homosexual stage performer, Worli later became known as the land of the Kalsi. Worli has a mosque, the Haji Ali Dargah, on a rock in the sea, the island of Worli was connected to the main island of Bombay in 1784, with the completion of the Hornby Vellard. The Hornby Vellard is now known as Lala Lajpat Rai Road, in 1842, the Love Grove sewage pumping station was completed. It has special mitre gates opening to the sea, which are opened during periods of low tide, the pumping station is built on Dr Annie Besant road which was formerly known as the Love Grove Road. The British had built four bungalows for its administrative heads on the stretch ahead of the Love Grove Pumping station back in the 1930s and these bungalows are now replaced by the ATRIA Mall. D. Y. Patil International High School Maratha Mandir R. A, podar Medical College GreenLawns School Worli Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar School Unnati Night High School French International School of Bombay The Japanese School of Mumbai was formerly located in Worli. Worli is a part of South Mumbai which extends from Haji Ali to Prabhadevi and it is bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the neighbourhoods of Haji Ali to the south, Mahalaxmi to the east and Prabhadevi to the north. The nearest railway station to the neighbourhood is Mahalaxmi And Elphinstone is also nearest railway station from Worli, with the commissioning of the Bandra-Worli Sealink, Worli Sea-Face is now better connected with Western Suburbs. Aditya Birla Group has its office in Worli. Childline India has its office on the fourth floor of the Sumer Kendra Building in P. B. Worli has been one of the busiest office areas in Mumbai since the late 70s, the first major development was the Shivsagar Estate located on Dr Annie Besant Road. The major companies having properties here are GSK Pharma, TATA, Novartis, HDFC Bank, Yes Bank, Siemens, CEAT, till September 1997 Poonam Chambers had the offices of companies like ESAB, US Vitamins But after the building collapsed they had to shift. The latest developments are happening in the old Mill lands with many television stations having their studios in them, even multinational companies like Deloitte have set their base in Worli. Even malls have emerged with Launch of Atria on 20 May 2006, the Worli-Bandra Sealink is located on Worli Sea Face
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Juhu
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Juhu is a neighbourhood of Mumbai. It is most famous for the sprawling Juhu beach and it surrounded by the Arabian Sea to the west, Versova to the north, Santacruz and Vile Parle to the east, and Khar to the south. Juhu is among the most affluent areas of the city and home to many Bollywood celebrities, the nearest railway stations are Santacruz, Andheri and Vile Parle on the Western Line and Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway. The nearest Metro Station is D. N Nagar. There are two minor B. E. S. T bus depots in Juhu. J. R. D. Tata, the father of aviation in India, made his maiden voyage to Juhu Airport from Drigh Road airstrip, Karachi, via Ahmedabad. In the nineteenth century, Juhu was an island, a long and it could be reached during low tides by walking across the tidal inlet. Juhu was called Juvem by the Portuguese, at its north point, nestled the village of Juhu, inhabited by Bhandaris, Agris and Kulbis and at its south point, opposite Bandra island, lived a small colony of fisher folk and cultivators. The inhabitants of Juhu were mainly East Indians and there was a section of Goans. The Church of St. Joseph was built by the Portuguese in 1853, the open beaches of Juhu have attracted the well-heeled and the most affluent among Mumbais population for almost a century. In the 1890s, Jamsetji Tata purchased land on Juhu and built a bungalow there and he planned to develop 1200 acres in Juhu Tara. This was to yield 500 plots of one each and a seaside resort. Simultaneously he wanted to extend the Mahim Causeway to Santacruz, to access to this area, after his death in 1904, the scheme was abandoned. With the dawn of aviation in the 20th century, the Bombay Flying Club commenced operations in 1929 at what became the present Juhu Aerodrome. During the freedom struggle Mahatma Gandhi visited Mumbai and took many walks at Juhu Beach and we may recall the famous photograph of Gandhiji poking his grandson Kanaa during a walk at Juhu Beach, Bombay,1937. To mark Gandhis visit in Juhu, there is statue of Gandhi by the beach. There is also a Gandhi Shiksha Bhavan school in Juhu, in the 1970s Bhaktivedanta Swami started the Hare Krishna Movement and built ISKCON Temple, giving Juhu its global recognition. He also gave various philosophical and spiritual discourses and wrote many books here and his lectures on Bhagavat Samkhya given in ISKCON Juhu has become a important source for research especially in the field of Quantum Mechanics. Juhu enjoys a uniform climate throughout the year, in summers the maximum temperature reaches 35 °C and the minimum temperature is 25 °C
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Roberto Cavalli
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Roberto Cavalli is an Italian fashion designer and inventor. He is known for prints and for creating the sand-blasted look for jeans. He is also the founder of the high-end Italian fashion house Roberto Cavalli which sells clothing, perfume. Roberto Cavalli was born in Florence, Tuscany and his grandfather, Giuseppe Rossi, was an artist and a member of the Macchiaioli Movement, whose work is exhibited in the Uffizi Gallery. Cavalli enrolled at the local Art Institute, concentrating in textile print, while still a student, he made a series of flower prints on knit that caught the attention of major Italian hosiery factories. In the early 1970s, he invented and patented a printing procedure on leather and he debuted these techniques in Paris, immediately getting commissions from the likes of Hermès and Pierre Cardin. At age 32, he presented his first namesake collection at the Salon for Prêt-à-Porter in Paris. He brought it to the catwalks of the Sala Bianca of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, and later on those of Milano Collezioni, jeans made of printed denim, intarsia leathers, brocade and he then opened his first boutique in 1972 in Saint-Tropez. In 1980, Roberto Cavalli married Eva Düringer, in Milan in 1994, Cavalli presented the first sand-blasted jeans. By December of the year, he had opened boutiques in Saint Barth, in the French Caribbean, followed by others in Venice. There is also the Angels & Devils Children Collection, the Class line, in 2002, Cavalli opened his first café-store in Florence, revamping it with his signature animal prints. This was shortly followed by the opening in Milan of the Just Cavalli café at Torre Branca, Roberto Cavalli was a judge at the Miss Universe 1977 pageant where his future wife was a contestant, who represented Austria and won second place. The woman that won was the first Black Miss Universe, in July 2011, his company collection was presented at the catwalk of The Brandery fashion show in Barcelona. Cavalli has five children, Tommaso and Christiana from his first marriage, and Robert, Rachele, on June 18,2013, he was awarded an Honorary Master Diploma in Fashion Management from Domus Academy in Milan, during a ceremony after which he held a lectio magistralis. Many leading models have worked for the brand, Jessica Stam, Eva Riccobono, Laetitia Casta, Natasha Poly, Mariacarla Boscono, Karen Elson, Karolina Kurkova and Ivan Olita amongst others. In May 2014, Cavalli approached Investcorp, an investment firm in the Persian Gulf, Cavalli was sharply criticized in 2004 by the Hindu community for marketing a line of feminine underwear which featured the images of Hindu goddesses. The line was withdrawn and formal apologies were made. The Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi school of Islamic Sufism accused Cavalli of copying their sacred emblem for branding the Just Cavalli line, the Sufi school brought forth a proceeding in Europe to the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
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Ralph Lauren
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Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and business executive, best known for the Ralph Lauren Corporation, a global multibillion-dollar enterprise. He has also become known for his collection of rare automobiles. Lauren stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of the company in September 2015 but remains its Executive Chairman, as of October 2016, Forbes estimates his wealth at $5.5 billion, which makes Ralph Lauren the 233rd richest person in the world. Ralph Lauren was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants, Frieda and Frank Lifshitz and he is the youngest of four siblings – two brothers and one sister. Lauren attended day school followed by MTA, before graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1957. He grew up playing basketball and baseball and he wanted to be Joe DiMaggio, and then he wanted to be a movie star. Lauren constantly draws inspiration from his heroes including Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant and he went to Baruch College, at the City University of New York where he studied business, although he dropped out after two years. From 1962 to 1964 he served in the United States Army, the Ralph Lauren Corporation started in 1967 with men’s ties. At 28 years-old, Lauren worked for the tie manufacturer Beau Brummell, drawing on his interests in sports, Ralph Lauren named his first full line of menswear ‘Polo’ in 1968. He worked out of a drawer from a showroom in the Empire State Building. By 1969, the Manhattan department store Bloomingdales sold Lauren’s men line exclusively and it was the first time that Bloomingdale’s had given a designer their own in-store boutique. In 1971, Ralph Lauren Corporation launched a line of tailored shirts for women, the first full women’s collection was launched the following year. 1971 also marked the opening of Ralph Lauren’s store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and this is the first freestanding store for an American designer. In 1972 the Ralph Lauren Corporation introduced a signature cotton mesh Polo shirt in various colors, featuring the polo player logo at the chest, the shirt became emblematic of the preppy look—one of Ralph Laurens signature styles. The tag line for the ad campaign was, Every team has its color -- Polo has seventeen, in 1977, Diane Keaton and Woody Allen wore Lauren’s clothes throughout their Oscar-winning film, Annie Hall. The first Ralph Lauren fragrances, produced by Warner-Lauren, Ltd. were launched at Bloomingdales in March 1978, Lauren, a fragrance for women, on March 12 and Polo, cologne for men, on March 26. This was the first time that a designer has introduced two fragrances – one for men and one for women – simultaneously, Ralph Lauren opens his first flagship in the Rhinelander mansion, on Madison Avenue and 72nd Street in New York City in 1986. Lauren re-creates the buildings original opulence with a design consultant named Naomi Leff
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Vogue India
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Vogue India is the Indian edition of the monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine called Vogue. It is the 17th international edition of Vogue and the first edition in South Asia, Vogue India is published by Condé Nast India Pvt. Ltd. a 100% owned subsidiary of Condé Nast International. Vogue India was the first magazine released in India that is 100% foreign owned, Condé Nast India is based in Mumbai and also has an office in New Delhi. The magazine was founded in 2007, the first issue of Vogue India was the October 2007 issue, which was released on 20 September 2007. The cover featured Bipasha Basu, Gemma Ward and Priyanka Chopra on the cover, and Monikangana Dutta, Preity Zinta. The cover was shot by photographer Patrick Demarchelier, in February 2011, Vogue launched an iPad app called Vogue 365. In June 2011, Vogue launched an app for BlackBerry called Vogue Stylist, the following have served as Editor-in-Chief of Vogue India, Official website
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Karan Johar
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He is the son of Hiroo Johar and the acclaimed producer Yash Johar. Johar made his debut with the blockbuster romance Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. His next two films were the ensemble dramas Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna and his counter-terrorism drama My Name Is Khan earned him his second Filmfare Award for Best Director. These, along with the successful films he has produced under the Dharma Productions banner, have established him as one of the leading director-producers in Hindi cinema. Karan Johar was born in Mumbai, India to Indian Bollywood film producer Yash Johar, founder of Dharma Productions and he studied at the Greenlawns High School and attended H. R. College of Commerce and Economics, both in Mumbai and he received a masters degree in French. Johar started his career in entertainment industry as an actor, he played the role of Shrikant in 1989 Doordarshan Serial Indradhanush, as a child, he was influenced by commercial Indian cinema, He cites Raj Kapoor, Yash Chopra and Sooraj R. Barjatya as his inspirations. For a time, Johar followed numerology, creating film titles in which the first word, after watching the 2006 film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai which was critical of numerology, Johar decided to stop this practice. Johar is a father to twins through surrogacy. The twins were born at Masrani Hospital in Mumbai, Johar named his son Yash – after his father, and his daugter Roohi – rearranged from his mothers name Hiroo. Johar entered the industry as an assistant director on Aditya Chopras Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. He then made his own directorial debut with the blockbuster romance Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, the film became a major blockbuster at the box office and received mostly positive reviews from critics. Writing for Planet Bollywood, critic Anish Khanna commented that Karan Johar makes an impressive debut, has a good script sense. It won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment and it swept most of the major awards at the 44th Filmfare Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and all four acting awards. Johars next directorial venture was the family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. The film starred Amitabh Bachchan as a rich industrialist, Jaya Bachchan as his compassionate wife. It also featured Kajol and Kareena Kapoor as sisters from a family who become the love interests of Khan and Roshan respectively. The film became Johars second major blockbuster at the box office, critic Taran Adarsh commented that Johar confirms the fact that he is the brightest in film firmament
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Islam
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Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion which professes that there is only one and incomparable God and that Muhammad is the last messenger of God. It is the worlds second-largest religion and the major religion in the world, with over 1.7 billion followers or 23% of the global population. Islam teaches that God is merciful, all-powerful, and unique, and He has guided mankind through revealed scriptures, natural signs, and a line of prophets sealed by Muhammad. The primary scriptures of Islam are the Quran, viewed by Muslims as the word of God. Muslims believe that Islam is the original, complete and universal version of a faith that was revealed many times before through prophets including Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses. As for the Quran, Muslims consider it to be the unaltered, certain religious rites and customs are observed by the Muslims in their family and social life, while social responsibilities to parents, relatives, and neighbors have also been defined. Besides, the Quran and the sunnah of Muhammad prescribe a comprehensive body of moral guidelines for Muslims to be followed in their personal, social, political, Islam began in the early 7th century. Originating in Mecca, it spread in the Arabian Peninsula. The expansion of the Muslim world involved various caliphates and empires, traders, most Muslims are of one of two denominations, Sunni or Shia. Islam is the dominant religion in the Middle East, North Africa, sizable Muslim communities are also found in Horn of Africa, Europe, China, Russia, Mainland Southeast Asia, Philippines, Northern Borneo, Caucasus and the Americas. Converts and immigrant communities are found in almost every part of the world, Islam is a verbal noun originating from the triliteral root s-l-m which forms a large class of words mostly relating to concepts of wholeness, submission, safeness and peace. In a religious context it means voluntary submission to God, Islām is the verbal noun of Form IV of the root, and means submission or surrender. Muslim, the word for an adherent of Islam, is the active participle of the verb form. The word sometimes has connotations in its various occurrences in the Quran. In some verses, there is stress on the quality of Islam as a state, Whomsoever God desires to guide. Other verses connect Islām and dīn, Today, I have perfected your religion for you, I have completed My blessing upon you, still others describe Islam as an action of returning to God—more than just a verbal affirmation of faith. In the Hadith of Gabriel, islām is presented as one part of a triad that also includes imān, Islam was historically called Muhammadanism in Anglophone societies. This term has fallen out of use and is said to be offensive because it suggests that a human being rather than God is central to Muslims religion
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Quran
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The Quran is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God. It is widely regarded as the finest work in classical Arabic literature, the Quran is divided into chapters, which are then divided into verses. The word Quran occurs some 70 times in the text of the Quran, although different names, according to the traditional narrative, several companions of Muhammad served as scribes and were responsible for writing down the revelations. Shortly after Muhammads death, the Quran was compiled by his companions who wrote down and these codices had differences that motivated the Caliph Uthman to establish a standard version now known as Uthmans codex, which is generally considered the archetype of the Quran known today. There are, however, variant readings, with minor differences in meaning. The Quran assumes familiarity with major narratives recounted in the Biblical scriptures and it summarizes some, dwells at length on others and, in some cases, presents alternative accounts and interpretations of events. The Quran describes itself as a book of guidance and it sometimes offers detailed accounts of specific historical events, and it often emphasizes the moral significance of an event over its narrative sequence. The Quran is used along with the hadith to interpret sharia law, during prayers, the Quran is recited only in Arabic. Someone who has memorized the entire Quran is called a hafiz, some Muslims read Quranic ayah with elocution, which is often called tajwid. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims typically complete the recitation of the whole Quran during tarawih prayers, in order to extrapolate the meaning of a particular Quranic verse, most Muslims rely on the tafsir. The word qurʼān appears about 70 times in the Quran itself and it is a verbal noun of the Arabic verb qaraʼa, meaning he read or he recited. The Syriac equivalent is qeryānā, which refers to reading or lesson. While some Western scholars consider the word to be derived from the Syriac, regardless, it had become an Arabic term by Muhammads lifetime. An important meaning of the word is the act of reciting, as reflected in an early Quranic passage, It is for Us to collect it, in other verses, the word refers to an individual passage recited. Its liturgical context is seen in a number of passages, for example, So when al-qurʼān is recited, listen to it, the word may also assume the meaning of a codified scripture when mentioned with other scriptures such as the Torah and Gospel. The term also has closely related synonyms that are employed throughout the Quran, each synonym possesses its own distinct meaning, but its use may converge with that of qurʼān in certain contexts. Such terms include kitāb, āyah, and sūrah, the latter two terms also denote units of revelation. In the large majority of contexts, usually with an article, the word is referred to as the revelation
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Kaal
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Kaal also known as Kaal, The Jungle is a Bollywood natural horror film directed by Soham Shah, and jointly produced by Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan. The film stars Ajay Devgan, John Abraham, Vivek Oberoi, Esha Deol and it released on 29 April 2005. The story relates the struggle of wildlife expert Krish Thapar, his wife Riya Thapar and a group of friends, the film sends out the message on protecting the precious wildlife of India. Two British nationals are killed by a tiger in corbett National Park in India. This incident follows several other attacks, and many deaths result, prompting National Geographic to send a correspondent, Krish Thapar to the national park. Thapar is accompanied by his wife Riya, a group of youngsters, consisting of Dev Malhotra, Ishika, Sajid and Vishal, on a hunting trip also arrive in corbett National Park in the hopes of sighting and shooting some big prey. Both the Thapars and the meet with each other. Kaali tells them about a recent story of how hunting was destroying the jungle, one local guide got very upset by this and started leading tourists astray and getting them killed by tigers. When this started affecting the tourism, other villagers and local guides beat that guide, the local villagers now believe that his ghost is killing everyone who breaks the jungles rules. It is finally understood that Kaali is the spirit of the dead tourist guide and is responsible for the recent deaths, somehow Krish, Dev, Ishika manage to get out of the national park. 25 Litres of real blood was used in the film, the idea of using computer-generated tigers was dropped because of the lack of its realism. The three tigers shown in Kaal were also used in the Hollywood film Gladiator, scenes involving tigers were shot in Bangkok, where they used to roam free on sets. Vivek Oberoi earlier wanted to do Devgns role, but later accepted the one offered, the film was shot at the Jim Corbett National Park. The film received positive to mixed reviews from critics noting it to be a different type of horror film, at the box office it performed moderately well, grossing an approx Rs.19 Crores and was given the final verdict of an above-average grosser. It was also the tenth highest-grossing film of 2005, the music is composed by Salim-Sulaiman and Anand Raj Anand. The lyrics are penned by Shabbir Ahmed, Anand Raj Anand, Kaal at the Internet Movie Database
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Dharma Productions
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Dharma Productions Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian production and distribution company established by Yash Johar in 1979. It was taken over in 2004 after his death by his son Karan Johar, based in Mumbai it mainly produces and distributes Hindi films. The companys first production was Raj Khoslas Dostana starring Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, the film was the highest-grossing Bollywood film of the year. The company then went on to produce Duniya and Muqaddar Ka Faisla and its next film was Agneepath, which was not a major box office success, but won a National Film Award for its lead actor Amitabh Bachchan. Its next two films were Gumrah and Duplicate, which were directed by Mahesh Bhatt. The film won awards, including the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment and the Filmfare Award for Best Film. The companys next film was Karan Johars family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, featuring a large ensemble cast including Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Hrithik Roshan, and Kareena Kapoor. This was followed by Nikhil Advanis tear-jerking romantic drama Kal Ho Naa Ho starring Jaya Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, both of these films earned commercial success and critical acclaim. Dharmas next release was the horror film Kaal, which received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Dharmas next release was Tarun Mansukhanis commercially successful romantic comedy Dostana starring Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham and this was followed by Ayan Mukerjis coming-of-age film Wake Up Sid starring Ranbir Kapoor and Konkona Sen Sharma. Rensil DSilvas counter-terrorism thriller Kurbaan starring Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, both Wake Up Sid and Kurbaan received critical acclaim, but the latter failed to make a mark at the box office. In 2010, Dharma produced two of the top ten highest-grossing Bollywood films of the year, later that year, the production house produced the family drama We Are Family, a Hindi remake of the Hollywood film Stepmom. The film was not a commercial success, but received praise for the performances of the two lead actresses Kajol and Kareena Kapoor. The companys first film of 2012 was Karan Malhotras Agneepath, a retelling of Dharma’s 1990 film of the same name and this film emerged as much larger commercial success than the original Agneepath. This was followed by Shakun Batra’s moderately successful romantic comedy Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu starring Imran Khan, after this came Karan Johar’s coming-of-age comedy-drama Student of the Year, which marked the debut of its three lead actors Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt. Dharma’s first release of 2013 was the teen comedy Gippi. The film became a commercial success upon its release and still ranks among the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all-time. Dharma was also one of the production houses associated with the widely acclaimed drama The Lunchbox starring Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur
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Paheli
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Paheli is a Bollywood fantasy film, which released in India on 24 June 2005. It is a remake of the 1973 Hindi movie Duvidha and it was directed by Amol Palekar and produced by Juhi Chawla, Aziz Mirza, Sanjiv Chawla and Shah Rukh Khan, who also plays the male lead. Sunil Shetty, Juhi Chawla, Rajpal Yadav and Amitabh Bachchan have supporting roles in the film, the story has been previously adapted into film, Duvidha by Mani Kaul. The movie opened the ninth Zimbabwe International Film Festival at the Libertie Cinema Complex in Harare and it was also screened at both the Sundance Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The working title of the movie was Ghost Ka Dost, Paheli was Indias official entry to the 2006 Oscars. The movie is narrated by two puppets, voiced by Naseeruddin Shah and his real-life wife Ratna Pathak Shah, enthusiastic young Lachchi is to be married to Kishan, the son of the rich merchant Banwarlal. Kishan is a son who honors his fathers wish to start a new, far-away business on a predetermined auspicious date. On the wedding night, Kishan turns away from his wife to finish his bookkeeping, Lachchi is devastated, Gajrobai, her husbands sister-in-law, consoles her, empathizing on the grounds that Gajrobais husband Sunderlal has also disappeared. The next day, a ghost appears, having taken Kishans shape, Lachchi is thus presented a riddle between the representation of all of her desires in the form of the ghost and her real husband. She takes this new, fond, sexual, magical, social, as Kishan, the ghost befriends all of the real Kishans family and keeps Bhanwarlal happy by providing him with magical, possibly illusory, gold coins. Lachchis bliss goes on until four years later, when she is pregnant and he returns to find the ghost in his own form. Kishans family is unable to determine which of the doppelgangers is the real Kishan and they decide to visit the king so that he can arbitrate. On the way to the king they meet an old shepherd Gadariya who helps them out and he asks the real son of Bhanwarlal to pick up hot coals, asks the real husband to gather the sheep, and asks Lachchis real paramour to enter a water-bottle. The real Kishan is found out and everyone returns home, Lachchi is devastated over the loss of the ghost. In the very end it is revealed that the ghost has escaped the bottle, by now Lachchi has given birth to a daughter, Looni Ma, by whom the ghost exposes his identity to Lachchi. The puppets close the story, remarking that the plot is an old story. K, hangal as Jeevraj Naseeruddin Shah as Male Puppet Ratna Pathak as Female puppet Paheli was shot entirely in Rajasthan in a period of 45 days. In 2004, Amol Palekar went to Shah Rukh Khan with a request for a hearing, after listening to the script, Khan asked Palekar if he could produce it as well as star in it. According to Khan, Paheli is a womans liberation film that deals with the issues of marriage and asks whether a woman must stay with a man due to marriage
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Cameo appearance
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A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves. Short appearances by celebrities, film directors, politicians, athletes or musicians are common, a crew member of the show or movie playing a minor role can be referred to as a cameo as well, such as Alfred Hitchcocks frequently performed cameos. Originally cameo role meant a character part that stands out from the other minor parts. The Oxford English Dictionary connects this with the meaning a short literary sketch or portrait, which is based on the meaning of cameo. More recently, cameo has come to refer to any short appearances, whether as a character or as oneself, such as the examples below. Cameos are generally not credited because of their brevity, or a mismatch between the celebritys stature and the film or TV show in which he or she is appearing. Others are acknowledgments of a contribution to an earlier work, as in the case of many film adaptations of TV series. Others honour artists or celebrities known for work in a particular field, possibly the best-known series of cameos was by the director Alfred Hitchcock, who made very brief appearances in most of his films. Cameos also occur in novels and other literary works, “Literary cameos” usually involve an established character from another work who makes a brief appearance to establish a shared universe setting, to make a point, or to offer homage. Balzac often employed this practice, as in his Comédie humaine, a cameo appearance can be made by the author of a work to put a sort of personal signature on a story. Vladimir Nabokov often put himself in his novels, for instance, quentin Tarantino provides cameos or small roles in at least 10 of his movies. Likewise, Peter Jackson has made cameos in all of his movies, except for his first feature-length movie Bad Taste in which he plays a main character. For example, he plays a peasant eating a carrot in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Desolation of Smaug, a Rohan warrior in The Two Towers, director Martin Scorsese appears in the background of his films as a bystander or an unseen character. In Whos That Knocking at My Door, he appears as one of the gangsters, he is a crew man in After Hours. He opens up his 1986 film The Color of Money with a monologue on the art of playing pool. In addition, he appears with his wife and daughter as wealthy New Yorkers in Gangs of New York, in a same way, Roman Polanski appears as a hired hoodlum in his film Chinatown, slitting Jack Nicholsons nose with the blade of his clasp knife. Directors sometimes cast well-known lead actors with whom they have worked in the past in other films, mike Todds film Around the World in 80 Days was filled with cameo roles, and others. The stars in cameo roles were pictured in oval insets in posters for the film, among the many cameos featured in the film Maverick, actor Danny Glover appears as the lead bank robber
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Billu
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It stars Irrfan Khan and Lara Dutta in the lead roles and features Shah Rukh Khan, Om Puri, Rajpal Yadav and Asrani in supporting roles. Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, and Priyanka Chopra make guest appearances in item numbers, the film was released on the 13 February 2009. It is an adaptation of the 2007 critically acclaimed Malayalam film Kadha Parayumbol and 2008 Tamil film Kuselan. It is also a retelling of the story of Sudama and Krishna, the film was screened at the 2009 Hawaii International Film Festival. Billu is a barber who lives with his wife Bindiya. He also spends time with his close friends Budbudiya and Naubat Chacha, though struggling, Billu lives an uneventful life until Bollywood superstar Sahir Khan comes to the village for a film shoot. Billu has mentioned to his family that he knows Sahir from the past but has never elaborated how he knows the star, when his children talk about their fathers friendship with the star, word spreads throughout the village. Virtually overnight, Billu, who had previously been scorned by most due to his lowly state, people who had spurned him only the week before now call him a close friend so that he will introduce them to Sahir. Billu refuses and downplays the friendship, even so, the powerful businessman Sahukaar Daamchand demands to see Sahir and offers Billu expensive gifts in order to gain such a meeting. When Billu consistently fails to introduce the people of the village to Sahir and he is accused of lying about his friendship and everyone – including his wife and children – begin to doubt his character and integrity. Rather than defend himself, Billu remains quiet about the nature of his, on Sahirs last day in the village, the star speaks at a local school. He tells the children about his own impoverished childhood when he had nothing but a bond of friendship with another young boy. It was Billu who had care of Sahir and eventually helped him travel to Mumbai City by giving him his gold earring where Sahir became a star. Billu, who is standing at the back of the event, however the townspeople realized their error, and take Sahir to Billus house. Billus children come home and apologise to their father, then, Sahir appears in his car and is reunited with Billu. In the end, Sahir must leave for another shoot but promises that his and Billus friendship is reignited, director Priyadarshan cast Shah Rukh Khan and Lara Dutta in pivotal roles in the film. While these roles were offered to Akshay Kumar and Tabu. The director then offered Kumars and Tabus role to Shahrukh Khan and Amisha Patel respectively, Patel also opted out of the film and sources have indicated that Juhi Chawla was signed on for the role
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Always Kabhi Kabhi
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Always Kabhi Kabhi is a 2011 Hindi romance film directed by Roshan Abbas, and produced by Shahrukh Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment. It introduced Ali Fazal, along with Giselli Monteiro and Zoa Morani, along with Satyajeet Dubey while Satish Shah, Lilette Dubey, Vijay Raaz, Mukesh Tiwari, the film released on 17 June 2011. It focuses on four teenagers embarking on a journey during their incident-packed final year at school. Always Kabhi Kabhi focuses on four students and their struggle through their final year at St Marks School, the first teenager is Shortcut Sam, Sameer Khanna, the jock, who falls in love with Aishwarya Dhawan who is about to become a Bollywood actress. Aishwarya is a new student who befriends Sam on her first day, a Shakespeare play approaches in which Aish automatically gains the role of Juliet, much to the chagrin of her classmates. Sam tries his level best to learn the lines of Romeo so as to impress Mrs. Das, the next two friends, Tariq Naqvi and Nandy Bull, Nandini Oberoi, love to fight and argue with each other, but do not understand that they are in love. Nandinis parents dont spend any time with her and are always travelling, in the absence of her parents, she goes to illegal clubs and parties every day and spends money lavishly. Tariq, on the hand, is burdened by his parents to achieve their dream of studying in MIT. They realise their love for each other during Nandys struggle to get approval of her apology after she forwards Tariqs MIT denial letter, Sam gives a party in Hellfire but then theres a raid and he gets arrested while saving Aish. The two corrupt policemen try to bag 50,000 rupees from Sam and he tries his best to avoid the policemen and tries to pay them in instalments. After she heard that Sam had sacrificed himself to save her, during Aishs 18th birthday, Sam confesses his love for her only to be caught together by her mother who disapproves of them. Her agent renames her Kashish for the films and even persuades her to do a shoot in which she only has to wear a bikini. When Sam finds out that the money of the inter-school Shakespeare play competition is Rs.50,000. Meanwhile, Aish is being offered a contract that she doesnt want to do. During a meeting, she rips the contract and runs to meet Sam, enraged by Aishs absence during practice, Sam confronts her, oblivious to what she had done for him. Aish didnt know about the money he owes the policemen and does not understand the reason of his anger and she runs into the streets, distraught and crying, only to be hit by a car and go into coma. Aishwaryas mother confronts Sam about the accident because she believed that he was the cause, while dropping Aishwaryas clothes, Tariq and Nandy notice Aishwaryas phone has an electronic diary and reads it. It shows her point of view about everyone in the group and they perform the song Antenna to convey their thoughts
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Ra.One
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The film follows Shekhar Subramanium, a game designer who creates a motion sensor-based game in which the antagonist is more powerful than the protagonist. The former escapes from the virtual world and enters the real world, his aim is to kill Lucifer, the game ID of Shekhars son. Relentlessly pursued, the family is forced to bring out G. One from the world to defeat Ra. One. Principal photography began in March 2010 and took place in India and the United Kingdom, the post-production involved 3-D conversion and the application of visual effects, the latter being recognised as a technological breakthrough among Indian films. With a budget of ₹150 crore, inclusive of publicity costs, the producers spent ₹150 crore out of a ₹52 crore marketing budget, which involved a nine-month publicity campaign, brand tie-ups, merchandise, video games and viral marketing. Ra. One was initially scheduled to release on 3 June 2011, the film also faced controversies involving plagiarism, content leaks and copyright challenges. The film witnessed the largest international theatrical release for an Indian film as of 2011, upon release, Ra. One received mixed reviews, with critics praising the visuals and music, but criticising the script and direction. As the film earned more than Rs 170 crores it was considered as a film as the distributors recovered their investment. The film subsequently won a number of awards for its technical aspects, notably one National Film Award, one Filmfare Award and four International Indian Film Academy Awards. Shekhar Subramanium, a designer who also works at Barron Industries, has delivered a number of commercial failures. To impress his sceptical son Prateek, and upon the request of his wife Sonia and his colleague, computer programmer Jenny uses Shekhars face as a model for that of the games protagonist G. One, while the shape-shifting antagonist Ra. One is made faceless. Another colleague, Akashi, implements the characters movements, the game, named Ra. One, contains three levels, the final level being the only one in which either character can be killed. Each character possesses a special device – the H. A. R. T which gives them their powers. Upon reaching the last level, the characters gain a gun with one bullet, when Ra. One undergoes final tests, Akashi notices unusual glitches but chooses to ignore them. When the game is launched, it receives a standing ovation from the audience. He logs in under the ID Lucifer and proceeds to the second level, Ra. One, unable to end his turn with Lucifer and angry that a player has proceeded so far, becomes determined that Lucifer will die. He uses a technology to enter the real world, a process which causes the mainframe to malfunction. Akashi informs Shekhar, who understands the situation and rushes home
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Student of the Year
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The movie features newcomers Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt in the lead roles with Rishi Kapoor, Sana Saeed, Ronit Roy, Sahil Anand, Ram Kapoor and Farida Jalal in supporting roles. The movie also features Boman Irani, Kajol, Farah Khan and this is Karan Johars first directorial venture without Shah Rukh Khan. Student of the Year was released on 19 October 2012 in over 1400 locations across India, the movie is one of the highest grossing Bollywood films of 2012. Former principal Dean Yogendra Vashisht has aged and fallen ill and he desires to see the students from his last batch, who were part of the Student of the Year competition. Some former students arrive to the hospital to meet the Dean and they hold themselves responsible for the lively Dean having falling ill. The film then goes into a set ten years back at the college. The richest and most popular guy in the college, Rohan Nanda, is the son of a business tycoon. His father wants him to be a businessman like him and disagrees with his passion for music, Shanaya Singhania, a fashion addict and the most popular girl in the campus is Rohans girlfriend. She is unsatisfied with her family, as her mother constantly divorces and marries rich men, Shanaya gets upset with Rohans regular flirting with Tanya, another student. Abhimanyu Singh arrives at the college and becomes the classy new heartthrobAbhi becomes the most popular guy in the collage. He plays the role of the perfect student and he is an orphan from a middle-class family, and lives with his aunt, uncle and grandmothers. His dream is to become a big business tycoon like Rohans father, Rohan and Abhimanyu argue at first but soon become best friends. Rohan introduces Shanaya to Abhimanyu, warning Abhimanyu not to get involved with her romantically, Abhimanyu is invited to Rohans elder brothers destination wedding in Thailand, which Shanaya and other rich family friends are attending as well. In Thailand, Shanaya sees Tanya and Rohan flirting again and gets more upset when Rohan is rude to her. Abhimanyu tells her that they can teach Rohan to respect his girlfriend, at a party, Shanaya openly flirts with Abhimanyu, attempting to make Rohan jealous. The plan works but Rohan discovers she did this to get him back on track, on the wedding day, Rohan apologizes to her and is easily forgiven while Abhimanyu realizes that he is in love with Shanaya. They head back to India, where the Student Of The Year competition, the first round is the treasure hunt. Abhimanyu and Shanayas team wins in the though Rohans team also qualifies, abhimanyus grandmother falls sick and eventually dies. Shanaya stands by him during this difficult time, upset, Abhimanyu sends Shanaya away, but she, now also attracted to him, stays back and they happen to kiss
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