Dev Anand Biography

Nickname

Dev Saab

Height

5' 7" (1.70 m)

Date of Birth

26 September 1923, Gurdaspur, Punjab, India

Achievements - Dev Anand is amongst the most distinguished actors of the Indian film industry. A fast dialogue delivery style and nodding while doing do so was the famous trademarks of Dev's acting in movies that was not only well received by the audiences, but also hugely copied. He has worked in several super hit films and won several awards.

Dev Anand is amongst the most distinguished actors of the Indian film industry. At the time when his stardom was at its pinnacle, Dev Anand was considered the most suave among his contemporaries. Born on 26 September 1923 at Gurdaspur in undivided Punjab, Dev Anand who was originally called Dharam Dev Anand, is the second of three brothers. Elder brother, Chetan Anand was a film director and so was his younger one, Vijay Anand. Dev Anand was also a film producer. Read on more about the biography of Dev Anand.

It was the passion for acting for which Dev Anand left his home for the movie industry hub in India i.e. Mumbai city. And it was here, he started his career at the military censor office at Churchgate for a salary of Rs 160. Luck favored Dev Anand and he soon got an opportunity to work as actor in the film Hum Ek Hain in 1946. However, the first big break came when Dev Anand was offered role for the Bombay Talkies production 'Ziddi' in 1948 and it became a huge hit.

The history of Dev Anand's life and career took another crucial turn when he launched his own company 'Navketan' in 1949. Though his first film flopped, his next movie 'Hare Rama Hare Krishna' released in 1971 with Zeenat Aman turned out to be a blockbuster hit. Things only smoothened out further with time for Dev Anand, who essayed even negative characters like in the film Jaal. Taxi Driver was declared another mega hit.

A fast dialogue delivery style and nodding while doing do soon became the famous trademarks of Dev's acting in movies like Munimji, CID and Paying Guest. His acting was not only well received by the audiences, but also hugely copied. Though he received a moderate flaking by the critics, he shut them all up through his classic acting in 1958's Kala Pani. He won the Best Actor Award for this film.

Most of Dev Anand's movies explored his viewpoint of the world and often highlighted many socially relevant topics. Another notable feature in Anand's movie was the soul stirring music. He was on very friendly terms with most of the Bollywood music composers like O. P. Nayyar, Sachin Dev Burman and his son, Rahul Dev Burman. Others known to Dev Anand were lyricists Majrooh Sultanpuri, Neeraj, Shailendra, and playback singers Mohammad Rafi and Kishore Kumar.

Trivia

Uncle of Ketan Anand.

Father of Suneil Anand.

Brother of Vijay Anand.

Brother of Chetan Anand.

Formed a popular screen couple with Nutan

Aishwarya’s new born baby got a new name Beti-B.

Morphed Picture:-
First there were a picture that circulating among the internet of Aishwarya holds her baby on her arm, later Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan both have said that the picture is fake. Amitabh Bachchan tweeted by saying that many morphed picture of Ash and her baby doing around internet are fake!!!!!!!!!!! Most  jokingly  Abhishek Bachchan tweeted and gave all the credits to creativity to that people who made this morphed pictures.
After that Amitabh Bachchan tweeted that they are shooting with a 3D camera of his grand daughter but he mentioned that its very personal for them so he can’t share this photographs with the worlds.

Aaishwarya With her baby daughter

Veena Malik Biography

Veena Malik has claimed to be born on 26 February 1980 in Lahore, Pakistan, to a doctor working at an army medical hospital. The family soon settled in Rawalpindi after the child was born. Her grandmother named her Zahida but the parents insisted on keeping Veena as the girl's first name. Her father's busy schedule led her grandmother to become Veena's guardian from the time she was six years old and nurtured her until her teens when she died.

When she grew up, Veena expressed interest in joining films and her grandmother encouraged her. Her father however pondered over his daughter's fate in an industry that was deemed unsuitable for girls in Pakistan and looked down upon by the mostly conservative middle-class, and he initially resisted his daughter's attempts to pursue a career in entertainment. Veena received continuous support from her grandmother however, whose persuasiveness finally enabled her father to allow her to join film and television. People still, some even close to her, scorned her choice of career.

Veena Malik, born Zahida Malik, is a Pakistani actress, comedian and model.

Coming from a conservative Muslim family, Veena has faced great adversity from members of her family, especially her father,on her decision to join show business but has emerged as one of the leading women in the Pakistani television and films with her abilities to mimic others and improvise. Veena has worked as a representative at the World Health Organisation for two years and sponsors a child at the SOS Children's Village, an NGO based in Pakistan working with orphaned children.

Like all people desiring to join the industry in Pakistan, Veena started with the film industry in Lahore, the home of Lollywood, an amalgamation of the city's name with Hollywood. She was to meet the likes of Mukhtar Ahmed and Jarar Rizvi in 1999, who landed her a role in the epic Pakistani film Tere Pyar Mein. By the end of the year, she was already being considered for other such projects when she became a part of a growing scandal. 

Veena Malik has claimed to be born on 26 February 1980 in Lahore, Pakistan, to a doctor working at an army medical hospital. The family soon settled in Rawalpindi after the child was born. Her grandmother named her Zahida but the parents insisted on keeping Veena as the girl's first name. Her father's busy schedule led her grandmother to become Veena's guardian from the time she was six years old and nurtured her until her teens when she died.

When she grew up, Veena expressed interest in joining films and her grandmother encouraged her. Her father however pondered over his daughter's fate in an industry that was deemed unsuitable for girls in Pakistan and looked down upon by the mostly conservative middle-class, and he initially resisted his daughter's attempts to pursue a career in entertainment. Veena received continuous support from her grandmother however, whose persuasiveness finally enabled her father to allow her to join film and television. People still, some even close to her, scorned her choice of career.

Veena Malik, born Zahida Malik, is a Pakistani actress, comedian and model.

Coming from a conservative Muslim family, Veena has faced great adversity from members of her family, especially her father,on her decision to join show business but has emerged as one of the leading women in the Pakistani television and films with her abilities to mimic others and improvise. Veena has worked as a representative at the World Health Organisation for two years and sponsors a child at the SOS Children's Village, an NGO based in Pakistan working with orphaned children.

Like all people desiring to join the industry in Pakistan, Veena started with the film industry in Lahore, the home of Lollywood, an amalgamation of the city's name with Hollywood. She was to meet the likes of Mukhtar Ahmed and Jarar Rizvi in 1999, who landed her a role in the epic Pakistani film Tere Pyar Mein. By the end of the year, she was already being considered for other such projects when she became a part of a growing scandal.  










Veena Malik Performance in Big Boss 4 with Salman Khan

Poonam Pandey Biography

• Real Name: Poonam Pandey
• Date of Birth: March 11, 1991
• Origin: Mumbai
• Occupation: Model, Actress
• Active: 2011

Poonam Pandey, a dusky model, is one of the girls to sizzle on the Kingfisher Calendar 2011.

Poonam’s main asset is her svelte figure and sensuous looks. She’s as much comfortable posing in skimpy bikinis as in single-piece swimsuits.

Poonam Pandey, simmering hot model from Mumbai is the latest to join the league of Catherine Zeta Jones, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Sharon Stone. The beautiful diva replaces Many Top Models as the most downloaded model on the internet.
Poonam Pandey was born on March 11, 1991 in Mumbai.
The new internet queen Poonam Pandey sounded pretty upbeat about her achievement when asked what kind of shoots, she enjoys the most, “I love shooting for swimwear, fashion, casual, print, just about anything. Let’s shoot.” She quips.
To her credit Poonam Pandey has shot a whopping 27 calendars for the year 2011 including the most-awaited Gladrags Calendar. Also she beat thousands of contenders from around the world to get into the Kingfisher Calendar Girl Hunt 2011. About working with renowned photographer Atul Kasbekar for the KF calendar hunt, she says, “it’s a privilege to work with him and Milind Soman who are both veterans and I had a lot to learn from them.”
Interestingly, Poonam Pandey was also amongst the top 8 contestants in ‘Gladrags 2010’.

This new Beauty Goddess will soon be seen in DJ Vipin’s remix music video. Vipin, whose first album Club Trippin was already a chart buster is totally ga-ga over the glam world’s new generation style symbol, “I was thrilled to see an Indian model carry bikini so well. Her enigmatic smile and perfect body stole my heart and I could not resist signing her for my new music album.”
With oodles of charisma, a body to-die-for and that killer smile – Poonam Pandey is definitely the face to watch out for and is already creating ripples across the glamour world. Well, Poonam Pandey, what can we say? Way to go Girl, We are waiting… Do we feel the heat wave already?

 


Poonam Pandey Photo

AR Rahman Biography

Name : Allah Rakha Rahman (A.R.Rahman)
Birth Name: A.S.Dileep Kumar.
Date of Birth : January 6, 1967
Birth City : Madras, India.
Into Music : Started piano at the age of 4.
Career : Started as a keyboard player in the troupe of ilayaraja at the age of 11.
First Film : "ROJA" directed by Mani Ratnam in 1992
Greatest Achievement:Two oscar awards
Wife : Saira Banu
Children : Two Daughters - Khadijah, Rahima, Son - Aameen (Roomi))
Total Films: 96 Films and 6 Albums

The name A.R.Rahman needs no introduction. The man who redefined contemporary Indian music and is the pride of the entire nation and an idol for millions all over the world needs no preamble. But if you  happen to be one, still among the few unfortunate souls, who are a stranger to him and his heavenly music, then read on.

Allah Rakha Rahman, who is better known as AR Rahman, is a world-class musician of India. Born as A. S. Dileep Kumar on 6 January 1967 at Chennai in Tamil Nadu, AR Rahman holds the credit for totally overhauling the style in which music was being made in India. Soundtracks and scores composed by him for Indian films have a strong impression of classical, folk, jazz, reggae, soft rock and other genres. Due to his creative brilliance, AR Rahman is often referred to as the Mozart of Madras by his fans in India and abroad.

The biography of AR Rahman's career spans somewhere over a decade, but he has already sold over one hundred million records world-wide and more than two hundred million cassettes. This has brought Rahman into the category of the world's top 25 all-time top selling recording artists. Though AR Rahman is the undisputed leader in Indian contemporary music in the present times, he has seen his share of struggle in the professional life.

His father, R K Shekhar, who was a composer, arranger and conductor for Malayalam films died when Rahman was just 9 years-old and his family rented out musical equipment as a source of income. Later there was a turning point when Dileep Kumar decided to rechristen himself as A R Rahman. This incident happened when Rahman's sister was very ill once. A Muslim friend suggested if he prayed in a particular mosque, his sister would recover and so did happen. This caused the entire family to convert to Islam.

A R Rahman With Wife

The life history of AR Rahman's music career started scaling upwards 1991 onwards when began his own studio and started making music for advertisements, television channels and so on. Rahman got his very first break into the Indian film industry when film director, Mani Ratnam offered him a chance to compose music for his Tamil film, Roja at mere Rs 25,000. This movie turned out to be blockbuster hit and then there was no looking back for A.R. Rahman.

Roja debut made AR Rahman bag the Rajat Kamal award for best music director at the National Film Awards. This was a historic moment as for the first time ever in Indian film industry, this award was being handed to a first-time film composer. There was no looking back for AR Rahman after this as film offers just started pouring in. There are now an impressive number of music tracks created by Rahman and all of them have sold like hot cakes across India and even abroad. He has made songs for super hit films like Rangeela, Dil Se Taal, Rang De Basanti, Bombay et al


a r rahman live concert

KISHORE KUMAR BIOGRAPHY

Date of Birth
4 August 1929, Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India

Date of Death
13 October 1987, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (heart attack) 

Birth Name

Abhas Kumar Kunjilal Ganguly

Height 
5' 8½" (1.74 m)

Kishore Kumar was an actor, and playback singer in Bollywood films.  He was most active from 1949 until his death in 1987.  He was famous for singing upbeat light songs, and light comical acting roles.  However in his long career, he worked in almost every capacity in the film industry; not only as a a singer and actor but as a screenwriter, producer, director, and script writer.

Kishore Kumar was born Abhas Kumar Ganguly on August 4, 1929 in Khandwa (present day Madhya Pradesh).  Although this is a Hindi speaking area he was a Bengali.  His father was a lawyer named was Kunjilal, and his mother's name was Gouri Devi.  He was one of four children.  He had two older brothers named Ashok Kumar and Anoop Kumar, and a younger sister named Sati.
Kishore Kumar's entrance to the film industry was very different from most people.  Most of the famous playback singers struggled hard to find a position and struggled equally hard, often unsuccessfully to retain that position.  However Kishore Kumar easily slid into the film industry without any real effort.  The reason for this was through the influence of his elder brother Ashok Kumar.

he young Kishore and his family used to visit Ashok Kumar in Bombay very often.  There was 18 years difference between Ashok and Kishore, so the elder Ashok was well established in the film field while Kishore was still just a kid.  Due to his brother's connections, Kishore was able to secure odd positions at an early age.  When quite young he became a chorus singer for Bombay Talkies, where his brother Ashok worked.  This was in spite of the fact that Kishore never had any formal training in music.  Several other films also came his way.  Kishore got his first role in "Shikari" (1946); he was only about 17 at the time.  He was also hired by Khemchand Prakash to sing a song for the film "Ziddi" (1948).  These were just odd assignments, Kishore was still with his family then and not in Bombay where the Hindi film industry was centred.
Kishore Kumar never had any formal musical training but this did not stop him.  In his career he showed proficiency in a variety of musical styles.  Furthermore he was able to pick up the piano and played it well.

Kishore Kumar live studio recording