Isha Sharvani

Isha performing on 'Jhalak'

                  Profile

Born              :-  Sept 29, 1984, Gujarat
Occupation   :-  Indian Contemporary Dancer, Actress
Years active   :- 2005-present

About Life

She has lived in Ahmedabad, from where she moved to different places like, Delhi, Orissa, Vrindavan and Bangalore, before settling down in Trivandrum.

Isha's parents founded an arts school called Academy for Art Research, Training and Innovation (AARTI) in Trivandrum, Kerala where she lived for 13–14 years. At the age of thirteen, she began formal learning in dance from her mother Daksha Sheth at her dance school and learned Kalaripayattu, Kathak and Chhau dance as well as giving performances in twenty-two countries over last seven years.

According to an interview with India Daily, Isha stated she "lived a different life poles apart from the film industry. For 11 years I have been training eight to 10 hours a day in a very disciplined atmosphere where there is no distinction between boys and girls. I was not supposed to cry over a clipped nail. Beyond stage even my wardrobe has mostly unisexual dresses, jeans and T-shirts" She is a trained Malkam dancer a part of folk dance.

Career

Isha never gave acting in Bollywood too much priority, until she was spotted by Subhash Ghai who required someone with talented dancing skills to perform in his movie Kisna (2005). He offered her a main role in the film opposite Vivek Oberoi. The film did not do well but her dance performances were appreciated. She was also the dancer opposite Hritik Roshan in the Parle Hide & Seek commercial, performing a much appreciated dance duet with Hritik.

Since then she has continued her dance performances on stage, as well as signing for several additional movies which were released in 2006 and 2007. She appeared as a female lead in the Hindi comedy Darwaza Bandh Rakho in 2006.

She is currently the lead dancer in the Daksha Sheth Dance Company, and has performed in front of live audiences throughout the world, including Mumbai, London, Perth and Muscat.

Isha joined the dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 5 as a participant which was aired on Colors TV. She was much appreciated for her dance performances in the show.

In 2013, she played the titular role as a housebreaker in the Malayalam short film Esha, a part of the anthology 5 Sundarikal.

Narendra Modi

Narendra modi

               Prime Minister of India 


                           Profile
     
Born       :-  17 Sept 1950,  Vadnagar, Bombay State
Died           :-  May 4, 2008 (aged 84)
Political party   :- Bharatiya Janata Party
Residence   :-   Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Father          :-   Damodardas Mulchand Modi

Introduction

is the designated Prime Minister of India, who will be sworn in on 26 May 2014.^[1]

Modi was a key strategist for the BJP in the successful 1995 and 1998 Gujarat state election campaigns, and was a major campaign figure in the 2009 general elections, eventually won by the Indian National Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

Modi in a conference 

 He first became chief minister of Gujarat in October 2001 after the resignation of his predecessor, Keshubhai Patel, and following the defeat of BJP in the by-elections. In July 2007, he became the longest-serving Chief Minister in Gujarat's history, at which point he had been in power for 2,063 days continuously.

Modi is a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and is described as a Hindu nationalist by media and scholars. He is a controversial figure both within India and internationally as his administration has been criticised for the incidents surrounding the 2002 Gujarat riots. He has been praised for his economic policies, which are credited with creating an environment for a high rate of economic growth in Gujarat. However, his administration has also been criticised for failing to make a significant positive impact upon the human development of the state.

About Life

Modi was born on 17 September 1950  to a family of grocers in Vadnagar in Mehsana district of what was then Bombay State(present-day Gujarat), India. He was the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and his wife, Heeraben. While a teenager, Modi ran a tea stall with his brother around a bus terminus. He completed his schooling in Vadnagar, where a teacher described him as being an average student but a keen debater.

Modi with mother

He began work in the staff canteen of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC), where he stayed till he became a full–timepracharak (propagator) of the RSS.^[16][18] After Modi had received some RSS training in Nagpur, which was a prerequisite for taking up an official position in the Sangh Parivar, he was given charge of Sangh's student wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), in Gujarat. Modi organised agitations and covert distribution of Sangh's pamphlets during the Emergency. During his years in the RSS, Modi came in touch with Vasant Gajendragadkar and Nathalal Jaghda, leaders of the Jan Sangh, who later founded the BJP's Gujarat state unit. Modi remained a pracharak in the RSS while he completed his Master's degree in political science from Gujarat University.

Career

In 1987 he joined the BJP and entered mainstream politics. Within just a year, he was elevated to the rank of General Secretary of the Gujarat unit of BJP. By this time he had already acquired a reputation in the party for being a highly efficient organizer. He took the challenging task of making the party cadres with right intent after which the party started gaining political mileage and formed a coalition government at the Centre in April 1990. Though this partnership short lived and fell apart within a few months, but the BJP gained hold of Gujarat and came to power with a two-third majority on its own in Gujarat in 1995. Since then, the BJP has been director of Gujarat. 

Due to his work from 1988 and 1995, Shri Narendra Modi now recognized as a master strategist and had successfully gained the necessary groundwork for making the Gujarat BJP the ruling party of the state. Shri Modi in this period was entrusted with the responsibility of organizing two massive and crucial national events for the BJP First was the Somnath to AyodhyaRathYatra (a very long march) of Shri L.K. Advani and Kanyakumari to Kashmir in the north (the southern part of India), similar to March These two highly successful events handled by Shri Modi are regarded as the reason for the ascent of the BJP to power in New Delhi in 1998. In 1995, ShriModi (a rare distinction for a young leader) was appointed the National Secretary of the party and given the charge of five major states in India. In 1998, he was promoted as the General Secretary (Organization) of BJP, a post he held until October 2001, when he was chosen to lead the state of Gujarat as Chief Minister of Gujarat which is one of the most prosperous and progressive states of India. 

At the time of some period Narendra Modi hand over some of the responsibilities of state level units having some part of its units and some of sensitive crucial states of Kashmir and north eastern states. He was the only person taking the responsibility against the party in org states in meanwhile working at national level. In the party Narendra Modi is the important person and played the main role on eminence occasions. During this period he traveled extensively throughout the world and interacts with renowned leaders of many countries. These experiences not only helped him develop a global approach but also his passion for serving India in the community of nations.

2014 general election campaign

Narendra Modi contested the election from two constituencies: Varanasi andVadodara. His candidacy was supported by spiritual leaders Ramdev and Morari Bapu, and by economists Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, who have stated that they, "...are impressed by Modi's economics."  His detractors included Nobel Prize laureate economist Amartya Sen, who said that he did not want Modi as a Prime Minister because he had not done enough to make minorities feel safe, and that under Modi, Gujarat's record in health and education provision has been "pretty bad".

Election victory

Modi won from both seats he contested; defeating Arvind Kejriwal, leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, in Varanasi and Madhusudhan Mistry of the Indian National Congress in Vadodara (by a margin of 5,70,128 votes, the second highest ever). He led the BJP-led NDA to a decisive victory in the general elections in which the ruling Indian National Congress suffered its worst ever defeat. Modi was unanimously elected as the leader of the BJP parliamentary party following his party's victory in the Indian parliamentary elections and was subsequently appointed the prime minister by India's president. He is to be sworn in as prime minister on 26 May 2014, at 6.00 PM, at the Rastrapati Bhavan. Modi is India's first prime minister born after the country's independence.

Sanaya Irani

Sanaya in IPKKND as 'Khushi"

                       Profile

Born              :-  Sept 17, 1983 (age 29), Mumbai
Occupation   :-  Actress
Years active   :-  2006 – Present
Other names  :-   Monaya, Tin Tin, Sarun, Sannu, Sun/Sunny

Height              :-  5' 5" (1.65 m)

Religion           :-  Zoroastrianism

About Life

Sanaya Irani was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra, and received her schooling in Ooty. Following this, she graduated from Sydenham College. She is also a Zoroastrian. Since 2009, she has been dating her former co-star Mohit Sehgalfrom Miley Jab Hum Tum. Sanaya Irani said in an interview that she loves Mohit a lot, and certain publications confirm both are in a committed relationship despite rumors arising elsewhere. 

Career

Sanaya in a promotion show

Her first portfolio was taken by photographer, now actor Boman Irani,  with which she began her modelling career. She appeared in various advertisements for companies such as Airtel, Reliance, and Pepsi in her early career, working with Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, and Priyanka Chopra in some instances. She made her performing debut withJagjit Singh's song "Tumko Dekha To Yeh" before appearing in other music videos. Sanaya began her acting career in 2006 as Bobo, the friend of the lead, Zooni (Kajol) in the Yash Raj movie Fanaa. Sanaya then made her television debut in the SAB TV drama Left Right Left as Sameera, a new joining cadet. This was followed by a negative role in Radhaa Ki Betiyaan Kuch Kar Dikhayengi on Imagine TV.

Her first role as a protagonist came in STAR One's Miley Jab Hum Tum, as the simple, studious and reclusive Gunjan, the younger sister of Nupur (Rati Pandey). She also briefly hosted the second season of Zara Nachke Dikha on STAR Plus with Mohit Sehgal.

After the end of Miley Jab Hum Tum, Sanaya's next major television role was as Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada, the female protagonist of Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?, which is Star Plus's most famous show of all time. Sanaya has gained popularity in many different countries for her portrayal of Khushi and her on-screen chemistry opposite male lead Barun Sobti. The show, which aired its final episode on November 30, 2012, had also consistently maintained its position as one of the top ten daily dramas on Indian general entertainment channels and has a tremendous fan following.

Sanaya in a seen of SAB TV’s Left Right Left

During the three months after Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?, Sanaya appeared as a contestant in Welcome - Baazi Mehmaan-Nawaazi ki, hosted by Ram Kapoor, and hosted Zee TV's Valentine's Day special Ishq Wala Love with Karan Grover.

Currently, Sanaya is playing the role of a vivacious and modern girl in Optimystix's new show Chhan Chhan on Sony TV.^[23][24] The show is loosely based on the Hindi movie Khubsoorat. She's also seen in few episodes of Colors TV's Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 6)as a Guest co-host with Kapil Sharma and as a Guest Contestant ( in Teen ka Tadka special episode).

Awards

• Indian Television Academy Awards (2008)
• Star Parivaar Awards ( 2 awards in 2012)
• Indian Telly Awards (2012)
• Zee Gold Awards (2 awards in 2012)
• People's Choice Awards India(2012)

 

Mahima Chaudhry

                           Profile

Born              :-  13 Sept 1973 , Darjeeling, West Bengal
Occupation   :-  Actress
Years active   :-  1997 – present 
Spouse(s)      :-  Bobby Mukherjee

Awards         :-   Filmfare Award,   1998: Best Debut 

Height              :-  5' 5" (1.65 m) 

About Life

Mahima in a Promotion event

Mahima  was born Ritu Chaudhry in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Her father is a Hindu Jatfrom Kakripur village in Baghpat, Western Uttar Pradesh. Her mother is of Nepali origin and hails from Darjeeling. She attended Darjeeling based famous convent school till class X and later moved to Loreto Convent for her plus two levels. She completed her ISC board in 1988. She also attended Loreto College inDarjeeling. She won a local beauty pageant in Darjeeling before moving to Delhi for college. Initially in the 1990s, she appeared in TV advertisements (Wall's ice cream ad when the brand entered India) also 1st Pepsi Ad with Aamir Khan and Ashwarya Rai, and was aVJ on music channels where she was noticed by Subhash Ghai. Ghai gave her a break in the movie Pardes, which was released in 1997. Ghai also renamed her due to some superstition. He considered M to be lucky for her.

        She married Bobby Mukherjee, an architect, in 2006. The two married at hoteliers' conference that was being held in Las Vegas. However Bobby Mukherjee has neither confirmed nor denied the rumours leading to speculation about the legitimacy of the marriage. She talked about their meeting and wedding in an interview with The Times of India, "I was making an appearance there and marriage wasn't part of the plan." She was there to enjoy herself and to be part of the event when love must have struck in the 24/7 city.Chaudhary went on to say: "At a function on 19 March amongst about 10,000 Indian hoteliers and their families where Mahima was performing, we got married and nobody had an inkling. I wore a red sari as if I was decked up for the function." They also had a formal ceremony on 23 March, which is not confirmed. She has a daughter named Aryana. Bobby also has living under his care sons from his previous marriage rumoured to be the bone of contention in the couple's troubled relationship.

                                                                                    Career

Mahima in Movie 'Pardesh'

During her acting career, Chaudry has played a variety of roles, starting with a village girl in Pardes (1997). Her other variety of roles include: Daag: The Fire (1999), where she played a nasty prostitute; in Pyaar Koi Khel Nahin (1999) she played a widow forced to marry her brother-in-law; in Dhadkan (2000) she is a loving friend of a man who is madly in love with another woman; in Deewane she plays a singer in love with a thief; in Kurukshetra she plays the stubborn wife of a police officer; in Lajja she plays a young bride forced to fight dowry; in Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar (2001) she plays a stubborn tenant who will not give up her home at any cost; in Om Jai Jagadish she is the loving homemaker; in Dil Hai Tumhaara she is the loving sister who would do anything for her sister's happiness; inDobara she is the frustrated housewife; in The Film she is a desperate struggling screenwriter; in Zameer: The Fire Within she's a paralytic dancer, in Film Star she is an uptight arrogant fading actress; in Home Delivery: Aapko... Ghar Tak (2005) she is an actress who will do anything to get into a big movie; and in Souten: The Other Woman (2006) she plays a desperate housewife who has an affair with her stepdaughter's boyfriend.

Next to doing a variety of films, she has also worked with numerous talented actresses, including Kajol, Shilpa Shetty, Urmila Matondkar, Manisha Koirala, Raveena Tandon, Rekha, Preity Zinta, Tabu, Padmini Kolhapure, and Hema Malini. When she was asked about this, she responded by saying that she enjoyed working with other actresses and she expressed her opinion to work with Juhi Chawla, her favorite actress.

Most recently, Chaudhary has starred in a Knightsbridge Media Production film, Pusher, directed by Assad Raja, also starring comedian Mani Liaqat. She is currently shooting a thriller, MumBhai - The Gangsters, co-starring Om Puri and Sanjay Kapoor.

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1997	Pardes	Kusum Ganga	Winner – Filmfare Best Debut Award Nominated – Filmfare Best Actress Award
1999	Manasulo Maata		Telugu film
	Dil Kya Kare	Kavita Kishore	Nominated – Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award
	Daag: The Fire	Kajal Verma / Kajri
	Pyaar Koi Khel Nahin	Nisha
2000	Dhadkan	Sheetal Varma	Nominated – Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award
	Deewane	Pooja
	Kurukshetra	Anjali P. Singh
	Khiladi 420	Ritu Bhardwaj
2001	Lajja	Maithili
	Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar	Saraswati
2002	Bharat Bhagya Vidhata
	Om Jai Jagadish	Ayesha
	Dil Hai Tumhaara	Nimmi
2003	Saaya	Tanya
	Tere Naam		Special Appearance (Song)
	Baghban	Arpita Raj	Special Appearance
	LOC Kargil	Reena Yadav
2004	Dobara	Dr. Anjali Sehgal
2005	Zameer: The Fire Within	Supriya Maheshwari
	The Film	Sushmita Banerjee
	Kuch Meetha Ho Jaye	Ghulab Khan
	Sehar	Anamika Kant
	Film Star	Heera Pandit
	Home Delivery: Aapko... Ghar Tak	The Sensational Maya
	Bhagmati	Bhagmati	Animated (Provided Voice)
2006	Souten: The Other Woman	Mitali 'Mita' R. Singh
	Sandwich	Sweety S Singh
	Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamana	Anjali
	Sarhad Paar	Simran
	Hope And A Little Sugar	Saloni
2008	Gumnaam – The Mystery	Ria
2010	Pusher	Anita
2012	MumBhai - The Gangsters	Gangster's Wife

Kishan Maharaj

                  Profile

Born       :-   Sept 3, 1923, Benares, United Provinces 
Died           :-  May 4, 2008 (aged 84)
Genres           :-  Indian classical music
Occupation   :-  tabla player
Years active  :-   1934–2008
Father             :-   Hari Maharaj



                                                      About Life
Kishan Maharaj was born in Kabir Chaura, Benaras into a family of professional musicians. He was initially trained in classical music by his father,Hari Maharaj. After his father's death, his training was taken over by his uncle, Kanthe Maharaj, a disciple of Baldeo Sahai of the Benares gharana.
  Kishan Maharaj died on May 4, 2008 at Khajuri near Varanasi at the age of 84.

Maharaj's disciples include Pandit Nandan Mehta, Pandit Kumar Bose,Pandit Balkrishna Mahant,sukhwinder singh namdhari sandeep das ,arivind kumar "azad" vineet vyas, Himanshu Mahant, Balkrishna Iyer, Shubh Maharaj, Pandit Pooran Maharaj (son), Anand "Maharaj" Lahiri, Arvind Kumar "Azad", Ranesh Mishra, Shashi Bellare.

Career

Kishan Maharaj, by the time he was eleven, he began performing in concerts. Within a few years, Kishan Maharaj was sharing the stage with stalwarts like Faiyaz Khan,Omkarnath Thakur, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Bhimsen Joshi, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Vilayat Khan, Girija Devi, Sitara Devi and many others.

Maharaj had the ability to play cross-rhythms and produce complex calculations, particularly in tihai patterns. Known as an excellent accompanist, Maharaj was extremely versatile and capable of playing with any accompaniment, be it with the Sitar, Sarod, Dhrupad,Dhamar or even dance.

Maharaj gave a number of solo concerts during his career and also gave `Sangat` to some great dancers like Sri Shambhu Maharaj,Sitara Devi, Natraj Gopi Krishna, and Birju Maharaj.

Among all his compositions, his "Tala Vadya Kacheri" with the Mridangam Vidwan, "Palghat Raghu" stood out. Maharaj extensively toured and participated in several prestigious events across the world, including the Edinburgh festival and the Commonwealth Arts festival in the United Kingdom in 1965.

Maharaj won the Padma Shri in 1973 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2002.^[3] For many years, he was married to Savita Devi, daughter ofSiddheshwari Devi.

Vivek Oberoi

                  Profile

Born              :-  3 Sept 1976,  Hyderabad,  Andhra Pradesh
Occupation   :-  Film actor
Years active   :-  2002–present
Father             :-   Suresh Oberoi
Spouse(s)       :-  Priyanka Alva Oberoi

Awards            :-  4 filmfare Awards 

Itroduction

Vivek with father and Mother

Vivek Oberoi made his film debut with Ram Gopal Varma's film Company. His performance in the film earned him Filmfare Awards for Best Male Debut and Best Supporting Actor. He has acted in several hit films which includes Saathiya, Masti and Yuva. He also starred in Ram Gopal Varma's critically acclaimed film Rakht Charitra.

                                                              

                                                                           About Life

Vivek with wife Priyanka

Born to a Tamil mother and a Punjabi father, a vetran bit-role actor in the Indian Film Industry , Vivek studied in the Mayo College, Ajmer. Thereafter, he attended Mithibai College, Juhu. At an actors' workshop in London he was spotted by the director of New York University who took Vivek off to New York, where he completed his Masters Degree in film acting. Vivek also worked as a script writer in India.

             On 29 October 2010, Vivek Oberoi married Priyanka Alva, daughter of Karnataka minister Jeevaraj Alva, in Bangalore.The couple is blessed with a son, Vivaan Veer Oberoi, born 6 February 2013 .

He credits Kareena Kapoor as his inspiration for adopting a vegetarian diet, and he has often turned up on PETA's annual list of Sexiest Vegetarians.

Career

Vivek in "Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story"(2013)

But the charmer's big break came when noted filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma offered Vivek a role in his gangster flick, Company (2002). Quite an unusual entrance for a debutant in Bollywood, because the norm for young actors is to play good lover boys till their place in Filmdom is secure. Not Vivek. Apparently, Ram Gopal Varma was having second thoughts about casting Vivek in Company because he thought Vivek looked too cute for a gangster - and told him so. Vivek, not to be outdone, went to the slums of Mumbai and did his homework and a couple of weeks later barged into Varma's office dressed as Chandu the gangster, swung his feet up on the table, and landed the contract pronto.

From there the road went uphill. Vivek's immaculate performance in Company - in which he starred opposite Bollywood Big Bad Boy Ajay Devgn, Miss Bolly Manisha Koirala and the granddaddy of Malayalam Cinema, Mohanlal - was more than enough to get the media singing Oberoi's praises. Next in line was the psycho-thriller Road (2002) (opposite Company co-star and co-newcomer Antara Mali), Dum (2003) (which sank without a trace - opposite Diya Mirza) and the next big catch, Saathiya (2002), opposite Rani Mukerji.