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J. P. Dutta
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Jyoti Prakash Dutta is an Indian Bollywood film producer and director. Dutta is married to the Bollywood film actress Bindiya Goswami with whom he has two daughters Nidhi and Siddhi and his daughter Nidhi would make her debut with his next film. Dutta produces his films under the banner of JP Films and he is known for directing many patriotic war films and films in the action genre. His films often have ensemble star casts, in 1998, he was awarded the National Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration from President of India for his super hit film Border. Due to the scale of the National Film Awards, it is considered equivalent of the American Academy Awards. Ministry of Defense gives him support for his war films. Some of the Bollywood Hindi films that he has written, produced and directed are Border, Refugee, LOC Kargil and he headed the feature film section jury for the National Film Awards, according to sources in the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. In 2013, it was announced that Dutta would undertake sequels to his 1997 film Border, and he owns the production company titled J P Gene
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Abhishek Bachchan
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Abhishek Bachchan is an Indian actor, producer and playback singer best known for his work in Hindi films. He is the son of veteran actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan and he made his film debut in the war drama Refugee, which did not perform well at the box office, but had earned him appreciation from critics. For the next few years, Bachchan starred in a series of films that failed to propel his career forward. Bachchan then established himself as an actor of Hindi cinema with the blockbuster action thriller Dhoom. Since then, he has starred in successful films, including Bunty Aur Babli, Dus, Bluffmaster, Dhoom 2, Guru, Sarkar Raj, Dostana, Bol Bachchan. He has also featured in Dhoom 3 and Happy New Year, since 2007, Bachchan has been married to actress Aishwarya Rai and they have a daughter named Aaradhya born on 16 November 2011. Abhishek Bachchan was born on 5 February 1976 to veteran actors of Hindi cinema, Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan and he is married to Aishwarya Rai, a former Miss World and leading Bollywood actress. His grandfather, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, was a poet of the Nayi Kavita Literary Movement of the Hindi literature. The original surname of his family is Srivastava, Bachchan being the pen used by his grandfather. However, when Amitabh entered films, he did so under his fathers pen name, Bachchan is of Kayastha heritage on his fathers side, Bengali from his mothers side and Punjabi from his grandmothers side. Time magazine listed Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai on its list of most influential Indians, Bachchan was dyslexic as a child, this was referred to by Aamir Khan in the film Taare Zameen Par. He attended Jamnabai Narsee School and Bombay Scottish School in Mumbai, Modern School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi and he then attended Boston University, and subsequently moved to Bollywood. In 2000, Bachchan made his debut playing the male lead in J. P. Duttas war drama Refugee opposite Kareena Kapoor. Although the film did not fare well at the box office. Film critic Taran Adarsh wrote that he has all it takes to emerge a competent actor in years to come, even in his debut-making film, Abhishek comes across as a fine actor and lives up to his family name. After Refugee, Bachchan starred in a series of poorly received films that failed to make a mark at the box office, however, his performance in Sooraj R. His next two films were Phir Milenge and Naach, neither of which performed well at the box office. The film emerged as the second highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2005 and this film also marked his first professional collaboration with his father Amitabh Bachchan, who played a police officer closely following the lead pair
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Kareena Kapoor
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Kareena Kapoor, also known by her married name Kareena Kapoor Khan, is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films. She is the daughter of actors Randhir Kapoor and Babita, and this initial success was followed by a series of commercial failures and repetitive roles, which garnered her negative reviews. The year 2004 marked a point for Kapoor when she played against type in the role of a sex worker in the drama Chameli. She went on to receive Filmfare Awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the 2007 romantic comedy Jab We Met, married to actor Saif Ali Khan, with whom she has a son, Kapoors off-screen life is the subject of widespread coverage in India. She has a reputation for being outspoken and assertive, and is recognised for her contributions to the industry through her fashion style. In addition to acting, Kapoor is a stage performer and has contributed as a co-author to three books, an autobiographical memoir and two nutrition guides. She has also launched her own clothing line in association with the retail chain Globus, born on 21 September 1980 in Bombay, Kapoor is the younger daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita, her elder sister Karisma is also an actress. She is the granddaughter of actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor, maternal granddaughter of actor Hari Shivdasani. According to Kapoor, the name Kareena was derived from the book Anna Karenina and she is of Punjabi descent on her fathers side, and on her mothers side she is of Sindhi and British descent. As a child, Kapoor regularly practised Hinduism with her family, despite her family background, her father disapproved of women entering films because he believed it conflicted with the traditional maternal duties and responsibility of women in the family. This led to a conflict between her parents, and they separated and she was then raised by her mother, who worked several jobs to support her daughters until Karisma debuted as an actress in 1991. After living separately for years, her parents reconciled in October 2007. Kapoor remarked My father is also an important factor in my life though we did not see him often in our initial years, Kapoor attended Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai, followed by Welham Girls School in Dehradun. She attended the institution primarily to satisfy her mother, though later admitted to liking the experience, according to Kapoor, she wasnt inclined towards academics though received good grades in all her classes except mathematics. After graduating from Welham she studied commerce for two years at Mithibai College in Vile Parle, Kapoor then registered for a three-month summer course in microcomputers at Harvard Summer School in the United States. She later developed an interest in law, and enrolled at the Government Law College, Mumbai, during this period, however, after completing her first year, Kapoor decided to pursue her interest to become an actress. She began training at an institute in Mumbai mentored by Kishore Namit Kapoor. While training at the institute, Kapoor was cast as the lead in Rakesh Roshans Kaho Naa
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Jackie Shroff
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Jaikishen Kakubhai Jackie Shroff is an Indian actor. He has been in the Hindi cinema industry for almost four decades, Shroff was born Jaikishen Kakubhai Shroff in Udgir, Latur, Maharashtra. His father, Kakubhai Haribhai Shroff, was a Gujarati and his mother and they lived in the Teen Batti area of Malabar Hill, Mumbai. Before entering the industry, he was a local toughie. He modelled in a few advertisements and it was director/producer Subhash Ghai who gave Shroff his screen name Jackie when he launched him in the film Hero. Shroff was a judge on a show, Indias Magic Star. The show began on 3 July 2010 and ended on 5 September 2010, in 1982, Shroff made his acting debut in Dev Anands movie, Swami Dada. In 1983, Subhash Ghai cast him in lead role for the movie, Hero and he continued to work in Subhash Ghai movies, irrespective of any role that was offered. After Hero, he did other films, amongst which Andar Baahar. In 1986 he did Karma which became the film of 1986. His next film to be released was Kaash, later films, such as Dehleez and Sachche Ka Bol Bala were critically acclaimed but failed at the box office. He married his girlfriend, Ayesha Dutt, who later became a film producer, on her birthday. The couple runs a company, Jackie Shroff Entertainment Limited. They jointly owned 10% shares in Sony TV since its launch until 2012 when they sold their stake and they have two children, a son, Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff and daughter, Krishna. He is the member of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy of Film & Television He has an organic farm
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Suniel Shetty
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Suniel Shetty is an Indian film actor, producer and entrepreneur predominantly active in Bollywood who has acted in more than 110 films. His major works have been action films, suneil Shettys debut film was Balwaan opposite the late Divya Bharti. The film was an average grosser and launched his career as an action hero. In 2014, he changed the spelling of his name from Sunil to Suniel for numerological reasons, Shetty was involved primarily in action films throughout the 1990s, playing the male protagonist in most of the movies he acted in during the decade. From early 2000, he appeared in multi-starrers in across genres. He also starred opposite Isha Koppikar in Arjun Rampals debut movie Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat, Shetty won the Filmfare Award for Best Villain in 2001 for Dhadkan. Shetty also produced such as Khel – No Ordinary Game, Rakht. He hosted Biggest Loser Jeetega on Sahara One, Suniel Shetty is captain of the Mumbai Heroes cricket team in the Celebrity cricket league. Suniel Shetty was born in a Tulu speaking ethnic Bunt family on 11 August 1961 in Mulki, Mangalore, Karnataka and he is married to Mana Shetty and has two children, actress Athiya Shetty and Ahan. Athiya made her debut opposite actor Aditya Pancholis son Sooraj Pancholi in Hero. Mana runs an NGO for under-privileged kids, Shetty has a Black Belt in Kickboxing. He owns clothing boutiques as well as specializing in Udupi cuisine
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Anu Malik
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Anu Malik, born Anwar Sardaar Malik, is an Indian music director, singer, actor, director, and producer who primarily works in the Hindi film industry. Son of Sardar Malek, Anu Malik made his debut as a composer in 1980. In the 1990s he wrote music for the films Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee, Baazigar and he trained in music and made his debut in Hindi films in 1980 with the film Hunterwali 77. Malik has been judging the television show Indian Idol since its inception, as a music director, he has produced music for various genres of films, and has written several commercially successful songs for the Hindi film music industry. Malik made his debut in Hunterwali in 1980 and he composed for the films Sohni Mahiwal, Mard, Ganga Jamuna Saraswati and Jeete Hain Shaan Se. Other early films were Poonam, Ek Jaan Hain Hum, Mard, Maa, Maalamaal, Love Marriage, Aasman, Jaal, Allah Rakha and he also sang songs like Julie Julie Johnny ka dil tujh pe aiya julie, Jeete Hain Shaan Se with Kavita Krishnamurthy. In 1993 Malik released the songs for Mahesh Bhatt’s Sir and Phir Teri Kahaani Yaad Aayee, along with music for Baazigar, Main Khiladi Tu Anari, later his music for Virasat and Border, and his songs for Indra Kumar’s Ishq were commerciall successful. This was followed by the music for Jaanam Samjha Karo, Baadshah, Josh, Refugee, Har Dil Jo Pyaar karega, in 2001 Maliks music was used in the films Mujhe Kuch Kehna hai, Aks, Ajnabee, Yaadein and Asoka. In 2004 he composed the music for Main Hoon Naa, Fida and his recent work includes music for Kambakkht Ishq, Shootout at Wadala, Yamla Pagla Deewana and Dum Laga Ke Haisha. Malik has been accused of multiple times, a charge he denies. The movie Baazigar received the Filmfare Award for Best Music Direction, the music of Asoka has a rhythm and life of its own as it recreates a heady mix of powerful sensuousness. The high point of San Sanana is the use of the mridang. Sensuality casts its spell in Raat Ka Nasha as immensely engaging track, roshni Se is a rich composition, which includes some awesome Buddhist chanting and the intriguing vocal chemistry between Abhijeet and Alka Yagnik. O Re Kanchi captures the feel of Oriya music, in addition to some funky drumbeats. Aa Tayar Hoja proves to be a fast-paced, upbeat track that promises to grow on you after a couple of hearings. Malik and Alisha Chinai jointly composed the successful singles Sexy Sexy and Ruk Ruk Ruk from Vijaypath, Chot Dil Pe Lagi from Ishq Vishk. His collaborations with Indian film director/producer J. P. Dutta have included songs from Border in 1997, Refugee in 2000, LOC Kargil in 2003, shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, and others. During 80s he mostly worked with singers like Mohammad Aziz, Shabbir Kumar, Manhar Udhas, Suresh Wadkar, Nitin Mukesh, Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik sang in most of the singles composed by Malik
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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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Amitabh Bachchan
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Amitabh Harivansh Rai Shrivastava Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies like Zanjeer and Deewaar, referred to as the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Star of the Millennium or Big B, he has since appeared in over 190 Indian films in a career spanning almost five decades. Bachchan is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema, so total was his dominance on the movie scene in the 1970s and 1980s that the French director François Truffaut called him a one-man industry. Bachchan has won accolades in his career, including four National Film Awards as Best Actor and many awards at international film festivals. He has won fifteen Filmfare Awards and is the performer in any major acting category at Filmfare. In addition to acting, Bachchan has worked as a singer, film producer. He has hosted several seasons of the show, Kaun Banega Crorepati, Indias version of the game show franchise. He also had a stint in politics in the 1980s, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1984, the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2015 for his contributions to the arts. The Government of France honoured him with its highest civilian honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour, in 2007 for his career in the world of cinema. Bachchan made his Hollywood debut in 2013 with The Great Gatsby, Bachchan was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, in north central India. His ancestors hailed from a village called Babupatti in the Raniganj taluka of Pratapgarh district in Uttar Pradesh and his father Harivansh Rai Srivastava was a well-known Hindi poet and his mother Teji Bachchan was a Punjabi Sikh from Lyallpur, Punjab. Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab, inspired by the phrase Inquilab Zindabad popularly used during the Indian independence struggle, in English, Inquilab Zindabad means Long live the revolution. However, at the suggestion of fellow poet Sumitranandan Pant, Harivansh Rai changed the name to Amitabh. Although his surname was Shrivastava, Amitabhs father had adopted the pen name Bachchan and it is with this last name that Amitabh debuted in films and for all other practical purposes, Bachchan has become the surname for all of his immediate family. Bachchans father died in 2003, and his mother in 2007, Bachchan is an alumnus of Sherwood College, Nainital. He later attended Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi and he has a younger brother, Ajitabh. His mother had a keen interest in theatre and was offered a film role. Teji had some influence in Amitabh Bachchans choice of career because she insisted that he should take the centre stage
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Karisma Kapoor
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Karisma Kapoor is an Indian actress, who appears in Hindi films. Kapoor is often regarded as the nations most beautiful actress, and is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Film Award and four Filmfare Awards. Born and raised in Mumbai, she is a member of the Kapoor family, despite her family background, her father disliked women entering films, and separated from her mother. Kapoor, at the age of seventeen, left her studies to pursue a career for financial support. Subsequently, Kapoor starred in a number of hits, including the dramas Jigar and Anari, the comedies Raja Babu, Coolie No.1 and Saajan Chale Sasural. However, she was criticised for her brief, repetitivein roles, the 1996 blockbuster romance Raja Hindustani marked a significant turning point in Kapoors career, earning her praise and a Filmfare Award for Best Actress. She later won the National Film Award and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of a dancer in Yash Chopras blockbuster musical romance Dil To Pagal Hai. Kapoor achieved further success by featuring as the lead in three of David Dhawans top grossing romantic comedies—Hero No.1, Biwi No. She also received praise for her performance in the 2002 revenge drama Shakti. Kapoor took a sabbatical from acting in 2004, and made her comeback with the 2012 supernatural thriller Dangerous Ishqq. Kapoor was born on 25 June 1974 in Mumbai, to actors Randhir Kapoor and her younger sister, Kareena, is also an actress. Her paternal grandfather was the actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor, while her grandfather was actor Hari Shivdasani. She is the niece of actors Rishi and Rajiv, and insurance agent Ritu, actor Ranbir Kapoor and businessman Nikhil Nanda are her first cousins, while actress Sasha Agha is her distant relative. Actress Sadhana, was her mothers first cousin, according to Kapoor, the name Lolo was derived after her mother made a passing reference to the Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida. Both of her paternal and maternal grandparents were from Peshawar, Lyallpur and Karachi respectively, Kapoor is of Hindu Punjabi descent on her fathers side, and on her mothers side she is of Sindhi and British descent. She was particularly inspired by the work of actresses Sridevi and Madhuri Dixit, despite her family background, her father disapproved of women working in films, because he believed it conflicted with the traditional maternal duties and responsibility of women in the family. This led to a conflict between her parents and they separated in 1988 and she and her sister, Kareena, were raised by her mother, who worked several jobs to raise them, until she made her debut in films as an actress. The couple reconciled in 2007, after living separately for several years, Kapoor studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School and later, for a few months, at Sophia College
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Anupam Kher
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Anupam Kher is an Indian actor who has appeared in over 400 films and many plays. Russells 2013 Oscar-winning Silver Linings Playbook, Kher has won the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role five times. For his performance in the 1988 film Vijay he won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor and he has held the post of chairman of Central Board of Film Certification and National School of Drama in India. He is currently the chairman at Actor Prepares, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2004 and the Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution in the field of cinema and arts. His wife, actress Kirron Kher, is a Member of the Indian Parliament from Chandigarh, Kher was born on 7 March 1955 in Shimla in a Kashmiri Pandit family. His father was a clerk and he had a modest upbringing, in his struggling days as an actor in Mumbai, he slept on railway platforms. He is an alumnus and a chairperson of the National School of Drama. Some of his roles were in plays performed at the Himachal Pradesh University. Kher made his debut in the 1982 Hindi movie Aagman. Then in 1984 came Saaransh, where 28-year-old Kher played a middle class Maharashtrian man who has lost his son. He has had many comic roles but has played the villain such as his acclaimed role as terrorist Dr. Dang in Karma. For his role in Daddy he received the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance and he has starred alongside Hindi Cinemas superstar Shahrukh Khan many times in films such as Darr, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Chaahat, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Mohabbatein, Veer-Zaara and Happy New Year. He ventured into directing with Om Jai Jagadish and has been a producer and he produced and starred in the film Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara. He received the Best Actor Award from the Karachi International Film Festival for his performance, the role of the Police Commissioner Rathor, played by him in critically and commercially acclaimed A Wednesday is also very much appreciated. Kher is known internationally for Bend It Like Beckham, Bride and Prejudice, Speedy Singhs, his appearance on the hit TV show ER, in 2012 he co-starred in the Academy Award-winning Silver Linings Playbook. Kher has written and starred in a play about his own life called Kucch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai, until recently he served as chairman of the Indian Film Censor Board. He is an alumnus of National School of Drama and was its director between 2001 and 2004, in 2007, Anupam Kher, with his batchmate of NSD, Satish Kaushik, started a film production company, Karol Bagh Productions. Their first film, Tere Sang, was directed by Satish Kaushik and he was appointed in 2010 as the goodwill ambassador of the Pratham Education Foundation, which strives to improve childrens education in India
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