Marital Status: Arjun Rampal is married to supermodel and Ex-Miss India Mehr Jessia. The couple got married on 1997. The couple has two daughters Maahika and Myra.
Awards: The dark, tall and handsome actor of Bollywood has bagged 10 awards and 15 nominations in this little span of time. The model cum actor won Apsara Film & Television Producer Guild Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (2011) for the film Raajneeti, Film Fare Awards for Best Supporting Actor (2009) for Rock On!!, International Indian Film Academy Awards for Star Debut Of The Year-Male (2002) for Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat, Best Supporting Actor (2011) for Rajneeti and for Rock On!! (2009), National Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor for Rock On!! (2009). He also won Screen Awards as Most Promising Newcomer-Male (2002) for Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat, Moksha:Salvation, Dewaanapan and also Best Supporting Actor (2009) for Rock On!!, Zee Cine Awards for Best Actor in a Negative Role (2007) for Om Shanti Om and Best Actor in a Supporting Role-Male (2011) Rajneeti. The hero villain of Bollywood got nominations for Zee Cine Awards (2002) for Best Male Debut for Deewanapan, Screen Awards (2008) for Best Villain for Om Shanti Om, International Indian Film Academy Awards (2008) for Best Performance in a Negetive Role for Om Shanti Om, Filmfare Awards (2002), (2011) for Best Male Debut in Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat and Best Supporting Actor in Rock On!! respectively. Arjun got nominated for Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards (2008) for Best Actor in a Negetive Role in Om Shanti Om.
Trivia: Arjun Rampal is an Indian supermodel. He was the proclaimed Society’s Face Of The Year, 1994. Arjun Rampal is cousin to the Bollywood bombshell Kim Sharma. Arjun Rampal was a former model and is son of Sikh Amarjeet Rampal and Dutch Guen Rampal. He even appeared with his cousin Kim in Yakeen. Arjun’s villain role in Om Shanti Om was formerly offered to Shiney Ahuja who dropped the offer and it went to Arjun. He has even acted with Nicole Kidman in the ad for Schweppes Drink produced by Gladiator director Sir Ridley Scott and directed by Shekhar Kapoor. Arjun has featured in the Temptation Tour alongside his best buddy Shahrukh Khan. He started his production house Chasing Ganesha and his first production was I See You (2006) with himself in the lead. Arjun family launched a Resto-Bar named LAP Lounge inside the hotel Samrat. The bar was collectively designed by Rampal, Mehr and Shahrukh Khan’s wife Gauri Khan.
Biography: The Bolly hunk is born of a mixture of culture. Arjun comes from a high class Ramgariha Punjabi Sikh background. He went to the Kodaikanal International School with his sister in Tamil Nadu. Rampal boy collected his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Hindu College in Delhi.
Rampal was unsuccessful in his earlier career and was highly criticized for his failed start with lead roles in Moksha:Salvation (2001), Deewaanapan (2001), Vaada (2005), Yakeen (2005), Dil Hai Tumhar (2002), Dil Ka Rishta (2003), Asambhav (2004), Fox (2009), EMI (2008). His debut film was Rajiv Rai’s Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat (2001). But Moksha with Manisha Koirala was his actual first film but as it released later it could not earn the title of Arjun’s debut.
Rampal’s first critically acclaimed role was of a blind man from the film Aankhen (2002). His career graph moved up from this point. He did various genres of films and worked with varieties of actresses. His films include Ek Ajnabee (2005) opposite Big B, Tehzeeb(2003), asambhav (2004) an action thriller, Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai (2006), Darna Zaroori Hai (2006).
The desired actor’s success reached the height as the supporting actor in Don-The Chase Begins Again (2006) which was the remake of 1978 movie Don.
Rampal’s producing career begins with I See You (2006), himself as the leading actor and his wife Mehr Jesia as coproducer.
The stylish Rampal’s career as the villain hero took the flight with Om Shanti Om (2007) opposite the debuting Deepika Padukone and King Khan. It was the biggest hit of his career.
The next film was Rock On!! In the year 2008 which again after Om Shanti Om earned him awards.
He starred in Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear, English arthouse film with Priety Zinta and Amitabh Bacchan. The film was premiered on different Film Festivals.
Rampal tried his hand on comedy with Housefull (2010), a Sajid Khan film. The film hit the Box Office with bang.
He also featured in We Are Family opposite Kareena and Kajol.
In 2011 again Rampal took a negative acting in Anubhav Sinha’s Ra.One.
The choco villain did small roles in movies like Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007).
He has not yet bid goodbye to his filmograph and his upcoming movies include Heroine, Ishq In Paris, Chakravyuh. These films are hoped to strike the silver screen this year. The next year upcoming fils are The Legend Of Kunal, Ajab Gajab Love, Zanjeer. Thse films are on processof shooting.
The cool hunk is going to debut in Telegu, Tamil and English with the film Amma 3D. The film is a pre-production and the shooting in different languages are going on simultaneously.
He had a shaky career at the beginning but proved himself the dark horse of a race with his determination, dedication and hard work. Carry on and achieve what you dream![/img][/SIZE][/I]
Marital Status: Married to MTV VJ Maria Goretti since 1999. The couple has two children- an 8 year old son named Zeke, and a 5 year old girl names Zene Zoe.
Awards: Arshad Warsi won the Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in Comic Role for Munnabhai M.B.B.S. and the GIFA Best Comedian Award for Hulchul. He won four awards for Lage Raho Munnabhai- the Filmfare Best Comedian Award, the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in Comic Role and the Star Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was also the winner of the Star Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Ishqiya.
Trivia: Not all people know that the actor with a brilliant comic timing is a superb choreographer as well. Before stepping into the world of dance and acting, he did odd jobs. He has been the winner of major dance competitions in 1991 and 1992. Besides having acted in 40-odd films, he has also been a television presenter and the producer of two films.
Biography: The versatile actor was born in Mumbai and studied at a boarding school in Nashik. He lost his parents at age 14, as a consequence of which he faced plenty of hardships to survive in Mumbai during his early career phase. He worked as a door-to-door cosmetics salesman and also as a photo lab assistant just to support himself.
Following his interest in dancing, he joined Akbar Sami’s dance group, which set the stage for a bright future for him. He assisted filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt in two of his films- Thikana and Kaash. Arshad later won the Indian Dance Competition in 1991, and the following year, he finished fourth in the World Dance Championship in London in the modern jazz category. This victory opened up new vistas for him, and he started his own dance studio named ‘Awesome’. His association with Bharat Dabholkara and an English theatre group helped him bag the opportunity to choreograph the title song of Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja in 1993.
Life took a new turn for this talented actor- dancer in 1996 when he was chosen to play one of the lead roles in Tere Mere Sapne, which was being produced by Amitabh Bachchan’s production company ABCL. The film’s positive response helped Arshad Warsi gain some recognition. This was followed by a number of films in the subsequent years, all of which failed to make an impact at the box office. And then came Munnabhai M.B.B.S. in 2003, and changed things for the better! The Rajkumar Hirani film has Arshad playing the supporting role named Circuit, which went on to become of the most historical characters in the history of Indian cinema.
Thereafter, he appeared many successful films like Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya, Salaam Namaste, Golmaal and Kabul Express, mainly doing supporting yet noticeable roles. In 2006, he starred in Lage Raho Munnabhai, the sequel to Munnabhai M.B.B.S., for which he won four prestigious awards, including his first Filmfare Award. He then acted in films like Dhamaal, Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal, Golmaal Returns, Ishqiya and Golmaal 3. His performance in Ishqiya was hugely appreciated and he was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Arshad Warsi produced a film named Hum Tum Aur Ghost in 2010. He has lent his voice for two songs- one each in Munnabhai M.B.B.S. and Lage Raho Munnabhai. He hosted a dance show called Razzmatazz on Zee TV, the first season of popular reality show Bigg Boss on Sony TV and the second season of dance show Zara Nachke Dikha on Star Plus.
Some of the upcoming films of this all-in-one actor-producer-presenter-singer are Bhaiyyaji Superhit, Zilla Ghaziabad, Total Dhamaal, Jolly LLB, Golmaal 4, Hungame Pe Hungama and Kismat Ki Kompony.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Awards: He earned a nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 18th Star Screen Awards for his performance in ‘Yeh Saali Zindagi’.
Trivia: Although from a political family, Arunoday Singh chose films over politics. His keen interest has earned him a place in the Hindi film industry, and he has proved through his films that he is here to stay.
Biography: Born in 1983 to a Rajput family in Madhya Pradesh, Arunoday Singh is the son of Ajay Singh, leader of opposition of MP State Assembly. His late grandfather, Arjun Singh, was the former Chief Minister and Union Minister. He completed his education from a boarding school in Kodaikanal, after which he studied in Brandeis University.
The acting bug bit Singh when he watched actor Marlon Brando in ‘On the Waterfront’. Once he completed his graduation, he studied acting in New York Film Academy and performed in many plays. A series of auditions, and soon he bagged a role in Piyush Jha’s 2009 film ‘Sikandar’. Singh played a Kashmiri terrorist in the film.
The 6’ 4” tall actor also bagged a supporting role in Anil Kapoor’s 2010 home production ‘Aisha’ starring Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol. Although the film was not very successful, he got more noticed than his first film. In the same year, he played the main character of a struggling filmmaker in Vinay Shukla’s Mirch. The film also starred Raima Sen and Konkona Sen Sharma.
Arunoday Singh’s last released film ‘Yeh Saali Zindagi’ saw his deliver his best performance so far. The intensity and power with which he played his character alongside Irrfan Khan and Aditi Rao Hydari earned him a nomination for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role at a popular award ceremony.
Singh’s latest upcoming film is Pooja Bhatt’s erotic thriller ‘Jism 2’ opposite Canadian porn-star Sunny Leone. The film, where he plays an intelligence officer, also stars Randeep Hooda and will hit the theatres on 3rd August.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Marital Status: Arya Babbar has a girlfriend named Shrishti Nayyar.
Awards: Arya has been the recipient of the National Award of the Journalist Association.
Trivia: Hailing from an acting background, Arya was naturally inclined in the film industry. A little above a dozen films old, he is a popular actor in Punjabi films, although he is yet to establish himself in the Hindi film industry.
Biography: Arya Babbar was born in Mumbai to parents Raj Babbar and Nadira Babbar. While the former is a renowned actor turned politician, the latter is also a famous talented theatre and film actress. Arya has two siblings, sister Juhi Babbar and half- brother Prateik Babbar.
The actor started his Bollywood journey in 2002 with Raj Kanwar’s film Ab Ke Baras, in which he co-starred with Amrita Rao. Although the film failed to click at the box office, he got nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer- Male at the Star Screen Awards. After appearing in a few unsuccessful films, he got a chance to work with ace director Mani Ratnam in 2007 in Guru. The same year, he also starred in a film called Partition, which was a foreign collaboration based on the partition of India. The film was nominated at foreign award functions like Leo Award and Genie Award.
Arya also played supporting roles in Kabeer Kaushik’s Chamku and Madhur Bhandarkar’s Jail in 2008 and 2009 respectively. In 2010, he starred in a Punjabi film named Virsa, where he played the character of a rich spoilt brat. The film, essentially dealing with the warmth of different relations, was a hit at the box office. He played supporting roles n film like Tees Maar Khan and Ready, which got him more noticed. Another successful film came his way in the form of Punjabi film Yaar Annmulle, which was based on friendship and love, and earned good numbers at the box office.
More recently, Arya was seen in Dangerous Ishq and Joker, both of which failed to do well. He will be seen next in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola, which is due for release on 11th January 2013. He has recently been the proud recipient of the National Award of the Journalist Association for Upcoming Actor in Action.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Marital Status:Atul Kulkarni tied the knot with Geetanjali Kulkarni, the theatrical actress whom he had met at the prestigious National School of Drama (NSD).
Awards:
1) In the year 2000, Atul Kulkarni won the National Film Award for the Best Supporting Role in the film, ‘Hey Ram’ directed by Kamal Hassan.
2) Two years later in 2002, he received another National Film Award for the Best Supporting Role for his performance in the Madhur Bhandarkardirected film ‘Chandni Bar’.
3) In 2001, he was nominated for the prestigious Filmfare BEst Supporting Actor award for his role in ‘Hey Ram’.
4) In the year 2010, Atul Kulkarni also earned the nomination for an Asia Pacific Screen Bestaward in the ‘Best Performance by an Actor’ category for his performance in the film ‘Natarang’, directed by Ravi Jadhav.
Biography: Atul Kulkarni, the Indian actor was born on the 10th of September in the year 1965 at Belgaum in Karnataka, India. He pursued his secondary education from the Haribhai Deokaran High School located in Solapur, Maharashtra. Later on he did his 12th standard studies from Belgaum and soon after, he started doing electrical engineering from the prestigious College of Engineering, Pune (full form for COEP). After getting into an engineering college, he developed a dislike for engineering and soon enough he quit his college and he came back to the city of Solapur and there he enrolled himself in the prestigious D. A. V. College. He did his graduation in the field of English Literature.
Atul Kulkarni first tried out his part on stage during his school days and later on during his college days he was actively involved in any cultural event which was organized in his college. While studying, he had enrolled himself in an amateur theatre group by the name of Natya Aradhana situated at Solapur. He gained a lot of experience through this theatre group and later on he started working backstage before getting an opportunity to appear on stage as an actor. Soon enough he wanted to take upacting as his primary career option.
In the year 1992, he joined the renowned National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi and he had received a postgraduate diploma in the field of dramatic arts from this institution. One of his top notch performances was in the Ravi Jadhav directed Marathi blockbuster flick titled ‘Natarang’. Here Atul Kulkarni played the character role of a poor village labourer by the name of Guna Kagalkar. His very first Kannada movie was ‘Bhoomi Geetha’ in the year 1997.
‘Singularity’, directed by Roland Joffe is one upcoming English film of Atul Kulakarni.
2) Indian Television Academy Awards for Best Anchor of Music Show or Film Show – “Just Dance” in 2011
3) Cosmopolitan Fun and Fearless Award for Best Television Anchor in 2012.
4) Star Parivaar Awards for Best Television Anchor in 2012.
Biography: He is a young Chandigarh lad who dreamed to make it big in tinsel world. He studied at D.A.V Chandigarh and majored in English Literature and pursued his masters in Mass Communication from University of Punjab. He had carved quite a name for himself in his city by working actively in theatre for five years. He also helped his college D.A.V establish their prominent theater groups Manchtantra and Aaghaaz. The nukkad nataks, plays and street plays conceptualized by him went on to win him and his team much accolades and prizes at many national fests of popular institutions like IIT Mumbai, BIT Pilani and so on.
MTV Roadies came as a huge break for him. He was declared the winner of Season 2 of the television’s ultimate popular youth show. He temporarily worked as Radio Jockey for Big FM, New Delhi and hosted the show “Big Chai” which won him a couple of awards as well. MTV then signed him for their show “Wassup – The Voice of Youngistan” and he began his illustrious journey as one of MTV’s most popular Video Jockeys. He worked for a host of shows in MTV. The world of television anchoring opened up from here and he worked as a host for Colors TV’s popular reality show, “India’s Got Talent” and Star’s “Music ka Mahamuqabla”. He was conspicuously noticed while hosting “Extra Innings T20 for IPL Season 3” on Set Max and Star’s “Just Dance” which was judged by Bollywood Biggies like Vaibhavi Merchant, Farah Khan and mostly Hrithik Roshan.
2012 was the earmark year of his life. John Abraham’s debut as a producer went off to be a huge hit. He starred in his film “Vicky Donor” which went on to be a huge commercial success. Ayushmann’s role and character was much appreciated and so was his chemistry with his co-star Yami Gautam. The movie remains one of the year’s biggest hit.
In 2013, he will be seen in “Hamara Bajaj” and also in Rohan Sippy’s next film “Nautanki Saala” along with Kunal Roy Kapoor.
He writes exquisite Hindi poems and is an active blogger. He sang for his 2012 movie Vicky Donor and his songs touched the soul of his audiences.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Marital Status: Bobby Deol is married to Tanya Ahuja and they have two sons.
Awards:
1) Bobby Deol was awarded the prestigious Filmfare Best Debut Award for his performance in ‘Barsaat’ (1995).
2) In the year 2002, he also received the Filmfare Best Actor Award for ‘Humraaz’.
Biography: Bobby Deol, the renowned Indian actor was born on the 27th of January in the year 1969 as Vijay Singh Deol. He was born in the City of Dreams Mumbai into a Punjabi background and he is legendary actor Dharmendra’s second son as well as the brother of actor Sunny Deol. Bobby is also the brother to two sisters, Ajita and Vijeyta. He also has two half-sisters- Ahana and Esha Deol, resulting from Dharmendra’s second marriage to renowned actress Hema Malini.The Bollywood actor, Abhay Deol is also his younger cousin. He wanted to pursue his schooling from The Lawrence School in Sanawar, but later on he had to join the Mayo College at Ajmer.
In the year 1977, Bobby Deol debuted as a child actor in the Manmohan Desai directed ‘Dharam Veer’, starring Dharmendra, Zeenat Aman, Jeetendra Singh, Neetu Singh, Ranjeet, Jeevan, Pran and Indrani Mukherjee. As a grown up individual, Deol’s very first flick was the Rajkumar Santoshi directed 1995 film called ‘Barsaat’ where he starred alongside Twinkle Khanna. Here he enacted the role of a character by the name of Badal who moves to a big city from a rural village and there he falls into the clutches of gangsters and corrupt police officials along with falling in love. This movie was a moderate success and Bobby Deol was bestowed with the prestigious Filmfare Award in the Best Debut Actor category for this film.
Next up in 1997, he signed up for Rajiv Rai’s suspense thriller titled ‘Gupt: The Hidden Truth’. In this film, he starred alongside Raj Babbar, Om Puri, Kajol, Manisha Koirala and Paresh Rawal. Here Deol donned the role of a young man by the name of Sahil who was blamed for murdering his step-father and was hence imprisoned. According to the story, Sahil eventually escapes from the prison compound and sets out on a journey to track down his step-father’s real killer. This film which was greatly appreciated for its brilliant storyline and music was a huge success at the box office. In the very same year, Deol had also starred opposite actress Aishwariya Rai Bachchan in Rahul Rawail’s ‘Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya’. However, this film did miserably at the theatres. The following year in 1998, Deol appeared alongside Neha in ‘Kareeb’, directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Same year he also starred alongside Preity Zinta and Raakhee in Abbas Mustan’s film, ‘Soldier’. In 1999 he appeared in his brother Sunny Deol’s directorial debut film, ‘Dillagi’. Sunny Deol had also acted alongside Bobby Deol in this film. This film basically deal with the story of two brothers who constantly fought with each other for a girl called Shalini, played by Urmila Matondkar.
In the year 2000, Bobby Deol was casted in the action drama flick ‘Badal’, directed by Raj Kanwar and starring alongside actress Rani Mukherji. This film depicted the kind of life led by people during the 1984 riots in Delhi and Punjab. ‘Badal’ was based on Alan J. Pakula’s 1997 flick, ‘The Devil’s Own’ starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt. In the year 2000, Deol had also signed up for two more projects: ‘Hum to Mohabbat Karega’, directed by Kundan Shah and ‘Bichhoo’, directed by Guddu Dhanoa. ‘Bichhoo’ was a remake of the 1994 film titled ‘Leon’, directed by Luc Besson and starring Natalie Portman and Jean Reno in the lead roles. In the year 2001, Bobby Deol signed up for ‘Aashiq’ directed by Indra Kumar. Here he shared the screen space with Rahul Dev and Karisma Kapoor. Next up he worked on the sets of ‘Ajnabee’ alongside Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor and Bipasha Basu. In 2002, Sunny Deol appeared on screen with his brother, Sunny Deol in the movie, ‘23rd March 1931: Shaheed’, directed by Guddu Dhanoa. This movie revolves around the time when India was under the rule of the British Raj. Here the film depicts the various events which led to the hanging of the freedom fighters, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru on the 23rd of March in the year 1931. Here the role of Bhagat Singh was played by Bobby Deol whereas Sunny Deol donned the role of the revolutionary called Chandrashekhar Azad. This film received mixed reviews and Deol received various positive remarks for his performance in the film. Bobby Deol was nominated for the prestigious Filmfare Best Actor Award for his performance in the Abbas Mustan directed ‘Humraaz’, where Deol played the role of a rich shipping businessman. This particular movie had its inspirational roots in the 1954 film, ‘Dial M for Murder’, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ‘Humraaz’ portrays Bobby Deol in an epic love triangle with Amisha Patel and Akshaye Khanna. ‘Chor Machaaye Shor’ by David Dhawan was Deol’s last project in 2002 where he starred alongside Om Puri, Bipasha Basu, Shilpa Shetty and Paresh Rawal.
He took a break from acting in the year 2003. He made his comeback the following year in 2004 with the Guddu Dhanoa directed ‘Kismat’, starring Priyanka Chopra, Kabir Bedi and Bobby Deol himself. Soon after ‘Kismat’, Deol signed up for E. NIwas’s drama and thriller flick titled ‘Bardaasht’, starring alongside Rahul Dev and Lara Dutta. ‘Baardasht’ depicts the brutality of the police force and the various forms of corruption in the country. He also worked on the sets of ‘Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo’, directed by Anil Sharma. This film had among its star cast some of the eminent personalities from the Bollywood industry namely Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar. This film, despite having great box office expectations failed miserably at the theatres. Here Deol enacted the role of a Lieutenant Commander named Vikramjeet Singh/ Kunaljit Singh and for this role, he had to wear a turban on his head. This attracted more Punjabi audience and Deol received various positive remarks from people stating that he looked better wearing a turban.
In the year 2005, he played the role of a rich businessman called Avinash Malhotra, in Vikram Bhatt’s directed thriller film called ‘Jurm’. Deol was praised for his spectacular performance in the film. Next up he appeared along with Sunil Shetty, Ajay Devgan and Sanjay Dutt in the film, ‘Tango Charlie’, directed by Mani Ratnam. Here he played the role of Tarun Chauhan, an Indian soldier belonging to the 101st BSF Battalion and operating in the north eastern Indian province. In 2006, he signed up for ‘Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai’, a musical love story directed by Raj Kanwar.
The year 2007 saw him appearing in six films namely ‘Shakalaka Boom Boom’, ‘Jhoom Barabar Jhoom’, ‘Apne’, ‘Naqaab’, ‘Om Shanti Om’ (special appearance) and ‘Nanhe Jaisalmer’ (special appearance). ‘Apne’, directed by Anil Sharma was all-in-all a family affair, starring father Dharmendra, a retired boxer who trains his two sons (Bobby Deol and Sunny Deol) for a boxing championship and in the process of doing so, he ends up creating a rift between the family members. This film created a great impact at the box office.
Some of his recent films include ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana’ (2011), ‘Thank You’ (2011) and ‘Players’ (2012). One of his upcoming film is ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana 2’, directed by Sangeeth Sivan and starring Kristina Akheeva, Bobby Deol, Sunny Deol, Neha Sharma and Dharmendra. This flick which is a sequel to the 2011 film, ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana’, will be releasing on the 7th of June, 2013.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Marital status: Married, has two sons Danesh and Kayur.
Awards: One Filmfare Award
Biography: Boman Irani started his acting career as a theatre artist and at the age of 44 made his Bollywood debut with a role in Shah Rukh Khan starrer Josh in 2000. After appearing in some films it was his role in the 2003 super-hit film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. that brought him into limelight. He was recognized as an actor after this film and was seen in many films since then. Some of his notable films include Main Hoon Na, Veer Zara in 2004 and No Entry in 2005. In 2006 he was seen in Lage Raho Munna Bhai and this role earned him Nomination at the Filmfare Awards. Irani’s role of a college principal in Rajkumar Hirani’s blockbuster film 3 Idiots is one of his most remembered roles and also earned him his first Filmfare Award. His upcoming films in 2012 are Housefull 2 and Tezz.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Biography: Chandan Roy Sanyal is an experienced Indian actor who has worked both in the Hindi as well as the Bengali film industry. He was born on the 30th of January, 1980 in the capital city of Delhi. He was born into a Bengali family. Chandan Roy Sanyal received his education from the prestigious ZakirHussain College, Delhi University. He graduated with a Honours degree in the field of Mathematics.
In the year 2006, Chandan marked his entry into Bollywood with RakyeshOmprakashMehra’s drama film, ‘Rang De Basanti’, starring Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi, Siddharth Narayan, Alice Patten, Atul Kulkarni, Kunal Kapoor, Soha Ali Khan, R. Madhavan, WaheedaRehman and Chandan Roy Sanyal himself. Here he enacted the role of the character of BatukeshwarDutt. His first major breakthrough came three years later when he starred in Vishal Bharadwaj’s caper thriller, ‘Kaminey’ starring Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Amole Gupta in the lead roles. Chandan’s performance in the film as Mikhail was greatly appreciated by all. A year later in 2010, Chandan appeared in the SumanMukhopadhyay directed Bengali flick ‘Mahanagar@Kolkata’ starring Anjan Dutta, SreelekhaMitra, Arun Mukherjee and RituparnaSengupta. The following year Chandan played a supporting role in ‘F.A.L.T.U’ directed by Remo D’Souza and starring JackkyBhagnani, Arshad Warsi, Puja Gupta and RiteshDeshmukh in the lead roles. He also did an excellent job in Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s ‘AparajitaTumi’ (2012).
One of his upcoming films is ‘Prague’ directed by Ashish Shukla and starring Elena Kazan, Sonia Bindra, ArfiLamba, Mayank Kumar and Chandan Roy Sanyal himself. Here he dons the role of an architect who supposedly falls in love with some German girl. However things between them start getting more and more complicated because the architect suffers from schizophrenia.
His filmography includes ‘Rang De Basanti’ (2006), ‘Kaminey’ (2009), ‘Mahanagar@Kolkata’ (2010), ‘F. A. L. T. U’ (2011), ‘Tell Me O Khuda’ (2011), ‘Love You To Death’ (2012), ‘Staying Alive’ (2012), ‘AparajitaTumi’ (2012), ‘Winds of Change’ (2012), ‘Prague’ (2013) and ‘D-Day’ (2013).[/img][/I][/SIZE]
Marital Status: Chandrachur Singh tied the knot to AvantikaKumari. AvantikaKumari, who was the daughter of Ajai Singh used to study at the prestigious St Lawrence School, Sanawar. This couple now has a son by the name of Shraanajai Singh.
Awards:
1) In the year 1996, Chandrachur Singh was declared the winner for the Filmfare Best Debut Award for his performance in the film ‘Maachis’ (1996), directed by Gulzar.
2) Four years later in the year 2000, he was nominated for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for the film, ‘Kya Kehna’, directed by Kundan Shah.
Biography: Chandrachur Singh was born on the 11th of October in 1968 at New Delhi in India.Chandrachur’s mother belongs to the highly affluent family of the Maharaja of Bolangir in the state of Orissa and Chandrachur’s father is a former MLA from the city of Khair in Aligarh district. He pursued his education from the prestigious Doon School in Dehradun as well as from St. Stephens in Delhi. Before he started getting success in the field of acting, he had been teaching music to the students at The Doon School.
Chandrachur Singh, first came into the Bollywood film industry in the year 1996 when he was offered a role in the Joy Augustine directed ‘Tere Mere Sapne’. The very same year she also appeared in another film called ‘Maachis’, directed by Gulzar and it had Tabu, Om Puri and Jimmy Shergill in its cast crew. Following ‘Maachis’, he starred in various other films such as ‘Betaabi’, ‘Sham Ghansham’ and ‘Dil Kya Kare’, which did not fetch him much of a success. He did derive some amount of success in the multi starrer films like ‘Daag: The Fire’, directed by Raj Kanwar and starring Sanjay Dutt, Mahima Chaudhry and Shakti Kapoor. He was also successful in the Kundan Shah directed ‘Kya Kehna’ (2000) where he starred alongside Saif Ali Khan, PreityZinta, Farida Jalal and AnupamKher. He also starred in Mansoor Khan’s ‘Josh’ (2000) opposite Shahrukh Khan and AishwariyaRaiBachhcan.
There was a point of time in between his career when he had dislocated his shoulder joint while he was water skiing in the waters of Goa, due to which he suffered a setback professionally. Due to this problem, Chandrachur could not work out in order to keep himself fit and as a result he gained a fair amount of weight for which he could not sign up for specific roles.
In the year 2012, Chandrachurstarred in Samir Karnik’s ‘Chaar Din Ki Chandni’, starring Farida Jalal,Tusshar Kapoor, Om Puri, AnupamKherand Kulraj Randhawa. This film failed miserably at the box office and it got mixed reviews from the critics. Presently, he is working on another project called ‘Zila Ghaziabad’, directed by Anand Kumar and starring Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, MinisshaLamba, VivekOberoi, PareshRawal, Sunil Grover and Ravi Kishan. This film will be hitting the screens on the 22nd of February, 2013. Apart from this film, he has also signed up for Mira Nair’s political thriller film titled ‘The Reluctant Dundamentalist’. This film is based on a novel called ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ written by a Pakistani author by the name of Mohsin Hamid.
Some of his filmography includes ‘Tere Mere Sapne’ (1996), ‘MohabbatHoGayiHaiTumse’ (2005), ‘Dil Kya Kare’ (1999), ‘Maachis’ (1996), ‘Betaabi’ (1997), ‘Sham Ghansham’ (1998), ‘Daag: The Fire’ (1999), ‘Josh’ (2000), ‘Kya Kehna’ (2000), ‘SilsilaHaiPyarKa’ (1999), ‘Junoon’ (2002), ‘Bharat BhagyaVidhata’ (2002), ‘SarhadPaar’ (2006), ‘MarutiMera Dost’ (2009),‘AamdaniAtthaniKharchaRupaiyaa’ (2001), ‘KemitiAeBandhana’ (2011), ‘Char Din Ki Chandni’ (2012), ‘Zilla Ghaziabad’ (2013) and‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ (2013).[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Marital Status: Married to Bhavna Pandey in 1988. The couple is blessed with two daughters.
Biography: Born Suyash Pandey, he took up the screen name of Chunky Pandey. His career in Bollywood started with “Aag Hi Aag” in the year 1987 opposite Neelam. He was first prominently noticed for his role in the 1988 film Tezaab, as Anil Kapoor’s best friend in the film. The role also won him a nomination in the Filmfare Best Supporting actor category.
Chunky Pandey has been active in Bollywood now for over twenty years. His films are always packed with utmost entertainment. He has achieved quite a celebrity status in Bangladeshi cinema as well. His film “Parda hi Parda” was a box office success. But he was more successful as a supporting actor in films.
His duo pairing with many actors including Govinda and Sunny Deol was much liked by the cinegoers. His films “Vishwatma” in 1992, “Paap ki Duniya” in 1988 and “Aankhein” and “Lootere” both in 1993 were huge commercially successful films. In the 1990s he suffered a setback in Bollywood as actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan were getting more popular. His style of acting and cinema was turning more and more outdated. It was during this time he gave Bollywood a second seat and worked for regionally Bangladeshi cinema which shot him to the superstar status there.
He did work in smaller roles in multi-star cast films like “Qayamat” and “Don: The Chase Begins Again”, Bollywood had become quite secondary for him in the middle. In 2005 he made a comeback in his supporting role specialty for the film “D”. He played the ally of underworld don Ibrahem Dawood. The critics were all of praise for him and his role. This helped him bag more lucrative Bollywood roles which suited him better. He got better roles in films like “Apna Sapna Money Money” and “Housefull”. He is a good character artist, has a funny bone, with a decent sense of comic timing and all this is his USP.
He along with his wife Bhavna runs a popular heath-food joint cum restaurant in Mumbai.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Marital Status: Danny is married to Gawa Denzongpa who hailed from Sikkim and both of them presently reside in Juhu, Mumbai. They have a son by the name of Rinzing and a daughter called Prerna.
Awards:
1) In the year 2003, Danny Denzongpa was bestowed with the prestigious Padma Shree honour which is the fourth highest civilian honour in India.
2) In the year 1992, he won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor award for his role in Saawan Kumar Tak’s ‘Sanam Bewafa’, starring Salman Khan, Chandni, Kanchan and Pran.
3) The following year he won a similar award for Mukul S. Anand’s ‘Khuda Gawah’.
4) Previously, Danny had also been nominated for numerous awards including the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Awards for ‘Devtaa’, ‘Kanoon Kya Karega’, ‘Agneepath’ in the year 1979, 1985 and 1990 respectively.
5) He had also received nominations in the Filmfare Best Villain category for ‘Hum’, ‘Krantiveer’, ‘Vijaypath’, ‘Barsaat’, ‘Ghatak’ in the year 1992, 1995, 1995, 1996 and 1997 respectively.
Biography: Danny Denzongpa was born in the Indian state of Sikkim on the 25th of February in the year 1948 as Tshering Phintso Denzongpa. At a ripe age, Danny had a craze about riding horses as his parents used to breed horses.He did his early-schooling at Sikkim and later on in the year 1965 he completed his education from the prestigious Birla Vidya Mandir situated in Nainital, Uttarakhand.Ever since his childhood Danny had an ambition of joining the Indian Army. The West Bengal government gave him the Best Cadet Award. He had been selected for a seat at the famous Armed Forces Medical College situated in Pune but then, he withdrew admission in order to get himself enrolled in the prestigious Film and Television Institute (FTII) in Pune.
Jaya Bhaduri, the actress was also his batchmate at the institute gave him the simpler name of ‘Danny’ as ‘Tshering Phintso Denzongpa’ was a tough name to pronounce for all the other students of his batch.
Early in his career, he used to learn the art of speaking in Hindi by conversing with the ocean, although the Urdu which he knew came to much use in movies like ‘Khuda Gawah’ by Mukul S. Anand and ‘Sanam Bewafa’, by Sawan Kumar.
In the 70s, Danny used to sign up for smaller roles and his performances in these films did bring him under the lime light.His very first film was a B-grade film called ‘Zaroorat’, directed by B. R. Chopra. Next up he appeared in ‘Mere Apne’ (1971), ‘Yeh Gulistan Humara’ (1972), ‘Rakhi Aur Hathkadi’ (1972), ‘Milap’ (1972), ‘Khoon Khoon’ (1973). In 1973 he played the major role of Thakur Ranjit Singh, a crippled husband to a wife, in B. R. Chopra’s ‘Dhund’, starring Sanjay Khan, Zeenat Aman and Ashok Kumar. In the year 1979 he starred in Mahesh Bhatt’s ‘Lahu Ke Do Rang’, starring Vinod Khanna, Shabana Azmi and Helen. Here Danny played the role of a diver by the name of Suraj and his performance was greatly appreciated by all and soon after the success of this film, he started getting job offers for more important and lengthy roles. Next up throughout the 80s and 90s, he mostly played the primary negative roles opposite eminent actors such as Sunny Deol, Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Jeetendra and Mithun Chakraborty. Some of these films include ‘Pukar’ (2000), ‘Krantiveer’ (1994), ‘Ghatak’, ‘Hum’ (1992), ‘Agneepath’ (1990), ‘Bhagwan Dada’ (1986), ‘Andhi Toofan’ (1986) and ‘Andar Baahar’ (1984). Most of the negative roles which he played were that of a mingy landlord, a corrupt police officer, a traitor, unscrupulous politician and several other antihero roles.
Danny was also the primary choice to have played the role of icon Gabbar Singh in the epic movie, ‘Sholay’, but since Danny was busy on the sets of Feroz Khan’s ‘Dharmatma’, the role of Gabbar eventually went to actor Amjad Khan.
Besides acting, Danny is also an accomplished singer and he had shared the singing platform with eminent singers such as Asha Bhonsle, Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi. Danny had sung numerous songs in Nepalese for a number of Nepalese films. Two of his most popular songs include “Manko kura lai bandhi narakha” (meaning “Do not keep the words of the heart tied”) and “Chiso Chiso Hawama” (meaning “In the cool air”). In the year 1987, Danny starred in the hit Nepali film titled ‘Saino’, directed by Ugyan Chopel. Apart from acting Danny had also wriiten the story of this film and had also sung most of the songs of this film including “Suna Katha Euta Geet”, “Aamai Le Bhanthey Dhara Ko Paani” and “Jyaurey”. ‘Saino’ waslater remade in Hindi as ‘Ajnaabi’, a doordarshan telefilm.
In the last decade he gave some stupendous performances in films like ’16 December’ (2002) and ‘Asoka’. He had also starred alongside Aishwariya Rai Bachchan and Rajinikanth in Shankar’s Tamil flick ‘Enthiran’. Here he enacted the negative role of a scientist by the name of Bohra who implants a chip inside Chitti and converts him (which was played by actor Rajinikanth) into a destructive and evil robot. This film was a commercial success and his performance in the film was very well appreciated by the audience as well as by the critics.
He had even starred an international project, a film tiled ‘Seven Years in Tibet’ directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Here Danny shared the screen with Brad Pitt, David Thwelis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Victor Wong, Jetsun Pema, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Ingeborga Dapkunaite and Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk.
Some of his upcoming releases include ‘Boss’ (2013) directed by Anthony D’Souza and starring Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Ronit Roy and Shiv Pandit. This film would be hitting the theatres on the 16th of October in the year 2013. He would also be appearing in Sohail Khan’s ‘Mental : For A Cause’, starring Salman Khan, Sana Khan, Daisy Shah and Tabu in the primary roles. He has also signed up for Siddharth Anand’s 2014 project, ‘Bang Bang’ starring Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif and Javed Jaffrey.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
1) In the year 2010, Deepak Dobriyal was nominated for the prestigious Apsara Award in the Best Performance in a Negative Role category for his role in ‘Gulaal’, directed by AnuragKashyap.
2) In the year 2006, he won the Filmfare Special performance award for his role in the Vishal Bhardwaj directed ‘Omkara’, starring Naseeruddin Shah, BipashaBasu, KonkonaSen Sharma, VivekOberoi, Saif Ali Khan, Kareen Kapoor and Ajay Devgan.
3) In 2012, Deepak was given the Apsara Award in the Best Performance in a Comic role award for his role of ‘Pappiji’ in the film ‘Tanu Weds Manu’ directed by Anand L. Rai.
Biography: Deepak Dobriyal, the well known film and theatre actor began his career in Bollywood in the year 1994. His parents hail from Kabra village situated near Satpuli and Reethakhal village, PauriGarhwal in the Indian state of Uttarakhan. When Deepak was five years of age, his family shifted to Delhi.
In the year 1994, he started working with Arvind Gaur, the famous theatre director. Some of Deepak’s major plays include ‘EkMamooliAdmi’ by Ashok Lal, ‘The Good Doctor’ by Neil Simons, ‘The Good Person of Szechwan’, ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’, ‘Operation Three Star’ by Dario Fo, ‘Court Martial’, ‘RaktKalyan’ also known as Taledanda, ‘Desire Under The Elms’, ‘Final Solutions’, ‘AndhaYug’, ‘Tughlaq’ and several others. After working for six long years at Asmita theatre, Deepak joined hands with Pt. N. K. Sharma’s Act One theatre group. Deepak acted in plays such as ‘Aksar Maine SochaTha’, ‘HamaarBaabujikichhattri’ and ‘AaoSaathiSapnaDekhe’.
One of his recent films include the Salman Khan starrer, ‘Dabangg 2’, directed by Arbaaz Khan. In this film Deepak played the character role of Bachcha’s (enacted by actor Prakash Raj) brother Genda, who used to be involved in all the illegal activities under Bachcha.
Deepak Dobriyal’s filmography includes ‘Maqbool’, ‘Omkara’, ‘1971’, ‘The Blue Umbrella’, ‘Shaurya’, ‘Delhi-6’, ‘13B’, ‘Gulaal’, ‘DaayenYaBaayen’, ‘Tanu Weds Manu’, ‘Tanu weds Bhai’, ‘Not A Love Story’ and ‘Dabangg 2’. He also did a voiceover in the Nikhil Advani directed bilingual stereoscopic 3-Dimensional animation film, ‘Delhi Safari’.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Biography: Dev Goel is an upcoming Bollywood actor who will be making his debut in the Jyotin Goel directed comic misadventure love story titled ‘Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke’, starring Sanjay Dutt, Juhi Chawla, Anupam Kher, Vivek Vaswani, Chunky Pandey, Adah Sharma, Rati Agnihotri, Ranglani Ashish, Ganesh Venkatraman and Dev Goel himself.This movie deals with the story of one night road trip of two people. Jyotin Goel, the eminent director is Dev Goel’s father. This love comedy is set to hit the theatres on the 24th of May, 2013.
Dev Goel is the grandson of Devendra Goel, the renowned filmmaker. Dev Goel is greatly influenced by Hollywood star Sylvester Stallon and he always follows this star’s footsteps.Just like Sylvester Stallon had debuted as an actor and writer for the 1976 hit flick ‘Rocky’, similarly Dev Goel has acted as well as written ‘Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke’s’ story. Dev had been born and brought up in filming background. His family has two production houses named Goel Cine Corporation and Goel Screencraft. These production houses has been producing films since the year 1948. Dev learnt the art of filmmaking from the prestigious Florida State University Film School.
Dev Goel first had to appear in front of the camera when he was six years of age when he made a special appearance as the son of Sanjay Dutt in the 1990 Jyotin Goel directed ‘Zahreelay’. He had also written the story of his father’s 2010 animation flick titled ‘Bird Idol’. Dev Goel had also been an apprentice director for the 1999 Jyotin Goel directed film, ‘Safari’.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Marital Status: On the 18th of November, 2004, Dhanush tied the knot with Aishwariya, Rajnikanth’s daughter. They are the parents of two sons, one named Linga and the other named Yatra.
Awards:
1) In the year 2011, Dhanush was awarded with the Asianet Film Award in the ‘Popular Tamil Actor’ category.
2) The very same year, he won the National Film Award for the ‘Best Actor’ category, for the 2011 film, ‘Aadukalam’, directed by Vetrimaran.
3) In 2011, Dhanush was also given the prestigious SIMA Award for the Best Actor (Tamil) category for ‘Aadukalam’.
4) He won the Vijay Award for being the Entertainer of the year, for the 2008 Mithran Jawahar directed Tamil drama film named ‘Yaaradi Nee Mohini’. Three years later in 2011, Dhanish won the same award for ‘Aadukalam’ and ‘Mayakkam Enna’.
5) Dhanush had also received the Filmfare Best Tamil Actor award for ‘Aadukalam’ in the year 2011.
Trivia:
1) Dhanush had been nominated to become PETA’s brand ambassador with the title of ‘India’s Hottest Vegetarian Celebrity of 2011’.
2) To support ‘Earth Hour 2012’ Dhanush had even joined WWF India.
3) Dhanush was introduced in the department of playback singing in ‘Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan’ by Yuvan Shankar Raja, the composer.
Biography: Dhanush was born on the 28th of July, 1983 to Kasthuri Raja, who was a well-known film director. He completed his higher studies from the St. John Matriculation Higher Secondary School Alwarthirunagar. Under the pressure given by his brother cum director Selvaraghavan, Dhanush decided to take acting as his career.
Dhanush, the Tamil lyricist, actor, producer and playback singer made his first entry into the industry with his father’s film ‘Thulluvado Llamai’, starring Dhanush himself, Sherin, Abhinay, Ramesh, Shilpa, Gangeshwari and Ramesh Khanna.This movie was directed by his father and the story was written by his brother, Selvaraghavan. This film was a blockbuster and it brought to him the much needed glory that he craved for in his first film.
Dhanush came under the limelight with his brother, Selvaraghavan’s very first directional venture titled ‘Kadhal Kondein’, starring Dhanush, Sonia Agarwal, Sudeep, Nagesh, Srikanth and Daniel Balaji. This film, which was released on the 4th of July, 2003, portrayed Dhanush as Vinod, a mentally disturbed young man, who fell in love with his friend (played by Sonia Agarwal) and eventually this love turning into possessiveness over her. This film was a huge success and it catapulted him into the main foray of Tamil actors in the Tamil film industry. Next up, he starred in Subramaniam Siva’s ‘Thiruda Thirudi’ along with Chaya Singh and Manikka Vinayagam. This was Dhanush’s first ever hero centric movie and he received lots of positive feedback for his performance in the movie.
During 2004 and 2005, Dhanush had a setback in his acting career as most of his films released during this time gap were failures at the box office. Although the first three of his movie released during this period were comparatively profitable, the rest were just big commercial failures. His first failure was ‘Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan’, directed and written by S. S. Stanley and featuring Dhanush and Aparna Pillai in the lead roles. Next up he appeared in Ramana’s 2004 Tamil flick named ‘Sullan’. This film again was a box office failure. His third failure was Kasthuri Raja’s 2004 film titled ‘Dreams’, starring Dhanush, Diya and Parul Yadav. ‘Dream’s remains to be one of Dhanush’s biggest failures till date.
In 2005, Dhanush appeared to two films which were average grossers. The first was Boopathy Pandian’s ‘Devathayai Kanden’, starring Dhanush himself along with Sridevi Vijaykumar. His second movie was ‘Adhu Oru Kanu Kaalam’, directed by Balu Mahendra and produced by Sai Suresh. This film was an off beat venture and inspite of receiving rave reviews, it did not do well at the theatres.
In terms of film budget, one of Dhanush’s biggest projects was the 2006 Tamil gangster flick titled ‘Pudhupettai’, directed by Selvaraghavan and starring Dhanush, Sneha and Sonia Agarwal. This film was praised worldwide but it failed to capture the attention of the Tamil audience and it just became an average grosser film. The version of this movie which was dubbed in Tamil (titled ‘Dhoolpet’) fared slightly better. Later on, Dhanush appeared in Boopathy Pandian’s comedy flick titled ‘Thiruvilaiyaadal Arambam’, starring Dhanush, Prakash Raj and Sriya Saran. This film became Dhanush’s first hit film in three years.
In the year 2007, Dhanush’s first release was the Suresh Krishna directed ‘Parattai Engira Azhagu Sudaram’, starring Dhanush, Meera Jasmine and Archana. This movie which was a remake of ‘Jogi’, a Kannada language movie, failed at the box office and in the process it received lots of negative reviews. Next up, Dhanush made his appearance in the 2007 Vetrimaaran directed Tamil flick titled ‘Polladhavan’. This film, packed with his stupendous performance, was a blockbuster at the theatres. This movie which was based on Vittorio De Sica’s ‘The Bicycle Thieves’ casted Dhanush opposite the well-known Divya Spandana.
In 2008, he starred in Mithran Jawahar’s Tamil drama flick titled ‘Yaaradi Nee Mohini’, which was a remake of the Telegu film, ‘Aadavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule’, directed by his brother, Selvaraghavan. ‘Yaaradi Nee Mohini’ which was released on the 4th of April, 2008 was a big blockbuster at the theatres. Next up he did a special appearance in a song sequence in the Ranjnikanth starrer ‘Kuselan’, directed by P. Basu. Next up in 2009, he was seen opposite Tamannaah Bhatiya in Suraj’s Tamil action comedy, ‘Padikathavan’, starring Dhanush, Tamannaah, Sayaji Shinde, Atul Kulkarni, Suman and Pratap Pothan. He received lots of accolades and appreciation for his spectacular performance in this film. In the year 2010, he appeared in Mithran Jawahar’s ‘Uthamaputhiran’ and ‘Kutty’, both of which were hits despite receiving mixed reviews.
In 2011, Dhanush’s very first release was the Vetrimaran directed ‘Aadukalam’, which he had been working for over three years. This film where Dhanush played the role of a cockfighter, got lots of positive reviews and it won 6 awards at the 58th National Film Awards. Dhanush himself received the National Film Best Actor Award for his performance in this film and he became one of the youngest actors to receive this award. Next up Dhanush did an extended cameo in ‘Seedan’, directed by Subramania Siva, where he portrayed the character of a god. Dhanush’s next two projects were action packed films: the first being ‘Mappillai’, directed by Suraj and the second was ‘Venghai’, directed by Hari. Both of these films received mixed reviews. Following these two films, he appeared in the 2011 Selvaraghavan directed romantic drama flick titled ‘Mayakkam Enna’, starring Dhanush and Richa Gangopadhyay and this film was successful at the box office. One of Dhanush’s recent films includes the Tamil romantic thriller directed by Aishwariya Rajnikanth, his wife. Titled ‘3’, this film paired Dhanush with Shruti Saran and even befire this film was released, this film gained a lot of popularity with the release of ‘Why This Kolaveri Di’, a song from the film’s soundtrack. ‘Why This Kolaveri Di’, which was written and sung by Dhanush became a hit worldwide. He had also sung another song in this film named ‘Kannazhaga’.
Some of his upcoming projects include Bharat Bhala’s ‘Mariyaan’ and the Aanand L. Rai directed ‘Raanjhnaa’. ‘Raanjhnaa’ would be Dhanush’s first ever Hindi film. Dhanush had also signed up for his second Hindi film, where he would play the role of Dashrath Manji, in Manish Jha’s biopic. Apart from the above films, Dhanush has also enrolled himself in Thomson K. Thomas’s ‘Kammath & Kammath’ which would be Dhanush’s first Malayalam film.
As a playback singer, Dhanush sung several numbers in various films such as ‘3’, ‘Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan’, Pudhupettai’, ‘Aayirathil Oruvan’ and ‘Mayakkam Enna’.
As a producer, he will be producing the 2013 Senthil directed ‘Ethir Neechal’, starring Sivakarthikeyan, Nandita and Priya Anand.
Marital Status: Dharmendra has been maintaining 2 relationships simultaneously. When was of 19 years old, he tied the knot to Prakash Kaur in 1954 and they together are the parents of two sons, Bobby Deol and Sunny Deol, and two daughters named Ajeeta and Vijeeta. Later on, Dharmendra married the renowned actress, Hema Malini and presently they have two daughters Ahana Deol and Esha Deol.
Awards:
1) In the year 2012, Dharmendra was honoured with the prestigious Padma Bhushan by the Indian Government.
2) In 1991, Dharmendra was given the National Film Award inthe ‘Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment’ category for the movie ‘Ghayal’, for which he was the producer. Same year ‘Ghayal’ (1990) received the Filmfare Best Movie Award as well.
3) Six years later in 1997, Dharmendra was honoured with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his significant contribution to the Indian film industry.
4) Some other awards received by Dharmendra are as follows:
> In the1970s, he was voted as the world’s most handsome person.
> He also has to his credit, the World Iron Man Award.
> He also received a special award at the Kalakar Awards for his outstanding contribution to the Indian Film industry.
> Dharmendra had also received the ‘Living Legend Award’ from the FICCI for his dedication and exceptional contribution to the film industry in India.
> In the year 2003, at the Sansui Viewers’ Choice Film Awards, he was awarded with one Lifetime Achievement Award.
> Next year in 2004, Dharmendra was given an honour for the Best Contribution to Indian Cinema. The following year, he was awarded the Zee Cine Lifetime Achievement Award.
> He also got another Lifetime Achievement Award at PIFF (Pune International Film Festival) in 2007. Same year he also received two more Lifetime Achievement Awards: one from the IIFA and another given by DBR Entertainment.
> That very year, a Punjabi newspaper named ‘Quami Ekta’ also honoured Dharmendra for his outstanding contribution to the film industry.
> At the well-known Max Stardust Award ceremony, Dharmendra was named ‘Actor Par Excellence’ in 2008.
> Same year, he got the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award at the 10th MAMI International Film Festival. Next year, he got another similar award at the NIFF.
> A year later in 2010, at the Big Star Entertainment Awards, Dharmendra was honoured with the title of the ‘Big Star Entertainer’.
> In the year 2011, at the Apsara Awards, Dharmendra was awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award. That year, he also received the ‘Salaam Maharashtra Award’ for completing a span of fifty years in the Indian Film Industry.Same year, at the Global Indian Film & Television Honours, Dharmendra was given an honour, for his outstanding performance during the 50 years of his career.
> He was also given the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award in 2011. He had also been bestowed with the prestigious ‘The ITA Scroll of Honour’ in the occasion of the Indian Television Academy Awards.
> In the year 2012, at the prestigious PTC Punjabi Film Awards, Dharmendra was given the ‘Icon of Punjab Award’.
Trivia:
1) In the year 2011, Dharmendra appeared on the television reality show called ‘India’s Got Talent’ as the judge.
2) In the domain of politics, Dharmendra has played an active role. At the 2004 general elections, Dharmendra was elected as a Member of the Parliament from the north western city of Rajasthan on a BJP (Bharatiya Janata Park).
3) In the year 2000, Dharmendra set up Vijayta Films, his very own production house. It’s very first film was the 1983 flick called ‘Betaab’, having Sunny Deol in the lead role.
Biography: Dharam Singh Deol, known popularly as Dharmendra was born on the 8th of December, 1935 to a Punjabi Sikh background, in the Indian state of Punjab. Kewal Kishan Singh Deol was his father and Satwant Kaur, his mother. He spent his early part of his childhood days at a village named Sahnewal. His father was the village school master at Lalton, Ludhiana. Dharmendra after winning the Filmfare new talent award, he shifted to the metropolitan city of Mumbai in search for work.
He began his illustrious career with the 1960 Arjun Hingorani directed ‘Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere’, starring Dharmendra himself, Balraj Sahni and Kum Kum. After this film he appeared in various other black and white romantic moviesand he got his first major breakthrough with the 1966 O. P. Ralhan directed blockbuster film named ‘Phool Aur Patthar’ (1966). This film catapulted him to greater heights of fame and glory, as this movie was the highest grossing movie that year and Dharmendra also earned his first Filmfare nomination in the Best Actor category for this film. At the initial stages of his career, Dharmendra was often portrayed in films as a romantic hero but sooner after 1974, he started playing action roles in films. During his initial days in the industry, he got the opportunity to star with some of the renowned actresses of his times. He worked with the actress, Nutan on the sets of ‘Bandini’ (1963) and ‘Soorat Aur Seerat’ (1962). He even worked with Meena Kumari in ‘Kaajal’ (1965), ‘Phool Aur Patthar’ (1966), ‘Poornima’ (1965) and ‘Main Bhi Ladki Hoon’ (1964); with Mala Singh in ‘Pooja Ke Phool’ (1964) and in ‘Anpadh’ (1962) and with Saira Banu in the 1964 film titled ‘Ayee Milan Ki Bela’ and in ‘Shaadi’, the 1962 film. He displayed great on screen chemistries with actresses such as Hema Malini, Zeenat Aman, Sharmila Tagore, Rekha, Saira Banu, Meena Kumari, Asha Parekh and Mumtaz. Dharmendra and Hema Malini was the most successful on-screen pairing that time and together they gave several hits which include ‘Raja Jani’, ‘Sharafat’, ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’, ‘Tum Haseen Main Jawaan’, ‘Dost’, ‘Jugnu’, ‘Charas’, ‘Chacha Bhatija’, ‘Maa’, ‘Sholay’ and ‘Azad’.
His most noteworthy performance was in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1969 film named ‘Satyakam’ and in Ramesh Sippy’s action adventure packed ‘Sholay’ (1975). ‘Sholay’ became one of the greatest films in the history of Indian Cinema. In the seventies and eighties, Dharmendra starred in numerous movies such as ‘Dharam Veer’, ‘Pratigya’, ‘Azad’, ‘Charas’, ‘Katilon Ke Kaatil’, ‘Bhagawat’, ‘Ghazab’, ‘Dharam Aur Kanoon’, ‘Raj Tilak’, ‘Hukumat’, ‘Aag Hi Aag’, ‘Watan Ke Rakhwale’, ‘Hathyar’, ‘Loha’ and ‘Ghulami’.
Dharmendra has even worked in different types of films with various directors such as: with Mohan Kumar and Bimal Roy in drama based films, Raghunath Jhalani and Yash Chopra in romantic movies, Ramesh Sippy, Raj Khosla, Anil Sharma, Rajkumar Santoshi and Arjun Hingorani in action movies and with Basu Chatterjee, Rajkumar Kohli and Hrishikesh Mukherjee in comedy packed flicks.
Besides Hindi films, Dharmendra had also appeared in several Punjabi films as well. These include ‘Kankan De Ole’ (1970) where he made a special appearance, ‘Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam’ (1974), ‘Do Sher’ (1974), ‘Teri Meri Ik Jindri’ in 1975, ‘Qurbani Jatt Di’ in the year 1990 and the 1982 film, ‘Putt Jattan De’.
Dharmendra as producer introduced both of his sons in the industry: Bobby Deol in the Rajkumar Santoshi directed 1995 romantic film named ‘Barsaat’ and Sunny Deol in Rahul Rawail’s ‘Betaab’ in 1983. He even launched Abhay Deol, his nephew, in Imtiaz Ali’s 2005 flick, ‘Socha Na Tha’, starring Abhay Deol, Apoorva Jha and Ayesha Takia.
Some of his latest films are ‘Life In a… Metro’, ‘Apne’, ‘Johnny Gaddaar’, ‘Om Shanti Om’, ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana’ and ‘Tell Me O Kkhuda’.
As a producer, he produced the following films: ‘Ghayal’ (1990), ‘Barsaat’ (1995), ‘Indian’ (2001), ‘23rd March 1931: Shaheed’ (2003), ‘Socha Na Tha’ (2005) and ‘Apne’ (2007). & more.....[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Marital Status: In the year 1966, Dilip Kumar married the very young Saira Banu. She was 22 years of age back then. Later on in the year 1980, Dilip tied the knot with a girl called Asma. Soon enough his second marriage broke up when he got to know that Asma, with the aid of her former husband was cheating on him and was disclosing most of his secrets to the media. Later on he again got back together with Saira.
Trivia:
1) In 1980, Dilip Kumar was given the honoured position of the Sheriff of Mumbai.
2) The Government of India bestowed upon him the prestigious Padma Bhushan and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1991 and 1994 respectively.
3) In the year 1997, Dilip Kumar was given the NTR National Award by the Andhra Pradesh Government.
4) Dilip Kumar received the Nishan-e-Imtiaz award from the Pakistan Government in the year 1997. This award was the highest civilian award in Pakistan.
5) IN 2009, Dilip Kumar was honoured with the CNN-BN Lifetime Achievement Award.
6) ‘Ganga Jamuna’, directed by Nitin Bose was the only film which Dilip Kumar ever produced.
7) His original name was Muhammad Yusuf Khan. The screen name of Dilip Kumar was coined by Bhagwati Charan Verma, a Hindi writer.
8) He holds the record for winning the Filmfare Best Actor award three times in succession in 1995, 1956 and in 1957.
9) Dilip Kumar recently joined Twitter and he made his first tweet on his 89th birthday.
Awards:
1) Dilip Kumar holds the prestigious Guinness World Record for having the most number of awards ever won by any Indian actor.
2) In 1993, he was given the most coveted Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.
3) Apart from the above mentioned awards, Dilip Kumar has won numerous other awards throughout his illustrious career including nineteen Filmfare nominations and eight Filmfare awards in the Best Actor category.
Biography: Dilip Kumar, the King of Tragedy was born in Peshawar as Muhammad Yusuf Khan on the 11th of December, 1922. He is one of the evergreen actors of the Indian film industry and his performances throughout the years starting right back from the year 1944 till the year 1998 has been a treat to watch.
Dilip Kumar was born to a Hindu speaking Pashtun family of 12 children. Lala Ghulam Sarwar, his father used to sell fruits and even had his own orchards at Deolali(Maharashtra, India) and at Peshawar. In the 1930s, Dilip Kumar and his entire family shifted to the City of Dreams, Mumbai in India. Dilip Kumar began his career as a supplier of dry fruits and he even owned a canteen in Pune. His entry into the film world was made possible by the actress Devika Rani and Himanshu Rai, her husband who owned the Bombay Talkies. Both of them noticed Dilip Kumar at Aundh Military canteen and without much ado they casted him with a lead role in the 1994 flick, ‘Jwar Bhata’. This film being his first film did not bring him that much needed kick start, but with the film, ‘Jugnu’, directed by Shaukat Hussain Rizvi in 1947 he shot into prominenceas this film was a major hit at the box office. Following the success of Jugni, Dilip Kumar went on to appear in sevral other hit films like ‘Madhumati’ (1958), ‘Yahudi’ (1958), ‘Devdas’ (1955), ‘Deedar’ (1951), ‘Mela’ (1948) ‘Andaz’ (1949) and several others. He co-starred with the well-known Raj Kapoor in ‘Andaz’, the romantic melodrama directed by Mehboob Khan and with Dev Anand in the 1955 flick, ‘Insaaniyat’, directed by S.S Vasan. Some of his top on-screen pairings are with Kamini Kaushal, Nargis, Vyjanthimala, Meena Kumari and Madhubala. After doing several tragic roles in numerous movies, Dilip Kumar started taking on lighter roles in films like ‘Kohinoor’ (1960), ‘Aan’ (1952) and ‘Azaad’ (1955). In 1960, he enacted the character of Prince Salim in the K. Asif directed movie, ‘Mughal-e- Azam’. Apart from Dilip Kumar, this film had Madhubala, Durga Khote and Prithviraj Kumar in the pivotal roles. This film was a blockbuster and till 2008, it held the record for being the second highest grossing movie in the history of Bollywood.
In 1961, Dilip Kumar produced and acted in a film called ‘Ganga Jamua’ where he and Nasir Khan, his brother appeared in the lead roles. David Lean, the British directed gave him a role in his film ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, but Dilip Kumar turned down this offer.Some other films which Dilip Kumar refused are ‘The Rains Came’ and ‘Sangam’.This role was later on given to the Egyptian actor, Omar Sharif. Next up, he came out with the film ‘Leader’ in the year 1964 which failed to create much of an impact at the box office. In 1967, he appeared in ‘Ram Aur Shyam’ which was directed by Tapi Chanakya. In this movie, he played the double role of twins which were separated when they were born.This film went to become a big hit at the theatres. The ever growing career graph of Dilip Kumar slumped a bit during the 1970s when he did movies such as ‘Bairaag’ (1976) and ‘Dastaan’ (1970).From 1976 to 1981, Dilip Kumar took a break from films. He made his comeback into the film industry in the year 1981 with the multistarrer film, ’Kranti’, directed by Manoj Kumar.This film went on to become the biggest film of the year. Next up he started playing single roles in some hit films such as ‘Karma’ (1986), ‘Mashaal’ (1984), ‘Shakti’ (1982) and ‘Vidhaata’ (1982). ‘Saudagar’ in 1991 directed by Subhash Ghai was Dilip Kumar’s last hit film.In the year 1996, he was busy behind his first directorial debut film ‘Kalinga’ but the film later on got shelved.
In 1998, he ultimate appearance was in the film ‘Quila’ directed by Umesh Mehra where he played a villainous role.
Both his movies ‘Naya Daur’ and ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ were colorised and released to the public in 2008 and 2004 respectively. [/img][/SIZE][/I]
Divyendu Sharma won the prestigious Screen Award in the Most Promising Newcomer- Male category for his performance in the film ‘PyaarKaPunchnama’.
Biography: Divyendu Sharma, the Indian actor is popularly known for his role in the film ‘PyaarKaPunchnama’. He was born in the city of Delhi, India and it was from there that he graduated in the field of political science. He also learnt the art of theatre acting during his early days in Delhi and later on he enrolled himself in the prestigious FTII, Pune for obtaining a diploma in the department of acting.During his theatre days he had acted in plays like Hawalat and Goal. Previously, Divyendu had also appeared on the television in numerous commercials for top notch brands such as Fidelity Mutual Funds, Virgin Mobile and Birla Sun Life.
His very first venture into the glamour and glitz filled world of Bollywood began with the film ‘PyaarKaPunchnama’, directed by Luv Ranjanand starringKartik Tiwari, RayoBakhirta, SonalliSehgall, NushratBharucha, Ishita Sharma and Divyendu Sharma himself.Here he played the role of a bachelor by the name of Liquid.His performance in this film was greatly appreciated by all and he grabbed the all important Screen Award for the Most Promising Newcomer- Male.
His second project is the upcoming film called ‘ChashmeBaddoor’, directed by David Dhawan.The cast crew would be consisting of Divyendu Sharma along with Ali Zafar, TaapseePannu and Siddharth. He will be playing the character role of a poet by the name of Omi. This film is all set to hit the theatres on the 5th of April, 2013.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Marital status: Married to Parveen Shahani; has one son, Ayaan.
Trivia: Emraan Hashmi had briefly changed his name to Farhan, but then decided to stay with his original name.
Before starting his career as an actor, Emraan had worked with Vishesh Films as an assistant director.
Emraan Hashmi Biography
Six years in Bollywood have earned Emraan Hashmi the title of a “serial kisser” owing to a surplus of scorching, lingering, fleeting kisses that his roles have demanded of him, ensuring that he is always in demand.
Emraan was born to Anwar Hashmi and Maherahh Hashmi. His father is a Muslim and his mother a Roman Catholic. He studied animation and graphics from Sydenham College in Mumbai. Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt is his uncle and actress-turned-director Pooja Bhatt is his cousin.
Hashmi made his film debut in 2003 with Footpath, which did not do well at the box-office. He and co-star Mallika Sherawat shot to fame with the thriller, Murder (2004), which went on to become a super hit at the box-office.
In 2005, he appeared in several films such as Zeher, Aashiq Banaya Apne and Kalyug which did moderately well at the box office. In 2006, his film Gangster was a semi-hit,while Aksar and The Killer were flops. In 2007, Hashmi had three back to back releases, while Good Boy Bad Boy and The Train both failed at the box office, the big budgeted, Awarapan did moderately well.
In 2008, Jannat, starring Emraan and Sonal Chauhan, took a good opening, making the film a commercial success.His first release in 2009, Raaz – The Mystery Continues…, opened well and became the first box office success of that year.His second film of the yea, Tum Mile, opened to mixed reviews and was rated a box-office failure.
In 2010, Emraan appeared in Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai and Crook: It’s Good To Be Bad, of which the former opened to positive reviews and was declared a hit at the box-office while the latter sank without a trace.
Emraan’s first release of 2011 was moderate success Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji, followed by a hit Murder 2. Emraan was also seen in the Vidya Balan starrer, The Dirty Picture. The film turned to be a super-hit and Emraan’s role was well appreciated.
His upcoming films in 2012 are Jannat 2, Shanghai and Raaz 3.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
Trivia: Son of the Bollywood legend, Feroz Khan and son-in-law of Bollywood siren, Mumtaz. He was arrested on the charges of possessing cocaine (2001).
Biography: Lady Luck seems to be perpetually evading this Khan! Fardeen Khan made his debut in Prem Agan (1998). However, the film fared average at the box-office.
After this solo debut, Fardeen Khan acted in several multi-starrers like Jungle (2000), Pyar Tune Kya Kiya (2001), Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega (2001), Hum Ho Gaye Aapke (2001), Kitne Door Kitne Paas (2002), Om Jagdish Hare (2002), Bhoot (2003), Janasheen (2003), Fida (2004), all received moderate success at the box office. No Entry (2005), Shaadi No. 1 (2005), Heyy Babyy (2007), Darling (2007), All The Best – Fun Begins (2009) did good business, however they failed to establish Fardeen Khan as a star by himself.
Fardeen was last seen alongside Sushmita Sen in 2010 film Dulha Mil Gaya. The film failed to do much at the box-office.[/img][/SIZE][/I]
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