Irrfan Khan

His real name is Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan popularly known as Irrfan Khan born on 30th November 1962 a Sagittarius . Irrfan is an actor who has performed in Television, Theatre and Films. He has given outstanding performances in the movies like The Warrior in 2001,Maqbool in 2003, Haasil in 2004, in 2006 The Namesake and the year 2008 brought him out with Slumdog Millionare.


Do you still remember the Vodafone Commercials ? These ads have given him a unique identity as he has got a very appealing and different style of acting .He has won two Filmfare Awards, along with Screen Actors Guild Award, with a nomination of Independent Spirit Award. Irrfan belongs to Jaipur's Muslim Nawab family and his mother's name is Sayeeda Begum father was Jagirdar of Khajuriya village .

Irrfan earned a scholarship to pursue his study at National School of Drama when he was studying for M.A degree,his acting has got a lo of intensity tht directly touches the hearts. Irrfan has tied a knot with writer Sutapa Sikdar who was an NSD graduate having two children Ayan and Babil . Irrfan is also called as the gem of Jaipur, Irrfan's chain of awards is:

* 2003 Filmfare Best Villain Award for Haasil
* 2007 Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Life in a Metro
* 2007 Independent Spirit Award: Best Supporting Male for The Namesake
Nominated
* 2008 IIFA Award:IIFA Best Supporting Actor for Life in a Metro
* 2008 Stardust Best Supporting Actor Award for The Namesake
* 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture - Slumdog Millionaire

Karan spoils his actors-Imraan Khan

Well the most talked about movie I Hate Love Storys has really got a youthful feel whether it is off screen or on screen, the movies promotion campaign is on its peak and every one is so excited about the movie including the starcast and specially Imraan Khan and above all producer Karan Johar is very happy as he has left the whole venture in the energetic hands of Youngistaan brigade.


As the movie is going to knock the theatres on July 2nd and the team is regarding it as a welcome change and there is a blend of new things that has been offered to the viewers, among all Imraan Khan, is in a chirpy mood and he is looking forward something really exciting with his bright workmates, he says "Karan spoils his actors. And though this is my first film with him, I never really felt that way".

Imraan is very excited in doing more films with Karan, he i really inspired by the Director Punit Malhotra as he is terrific, young and has got wonderful sense of humour he felt a very good level of comfort while working with him ,it was like a dream team, even the director Punit praises and adds Karan is a wonderful producer and every director in town should work with him.

Zayed Khan

His full name is Zayed Abbas Khan, born on 5th July 1980, sun sign is Cancer ,son of bollywood actor Sanjay Khan and interior designer Zarine Khan, yes he is Zayed Khan, among four siblings he is the youngest, he is a cousin of bollywood actor Fardeen Khan, his elder sisters are Simone Khan, Farah Khan Ali and Sussane Roshan, Zayed Khan has a long way to go ahead as Bollyood has got lots of opportunities for him.

Zayed Khan went to Welham Boys School, Dehradun, after that he attended Kodaikanal International school at Kodaikanal, he was studying there with childhood friend Esha Deol as well as Mallaika Parekh she later became his wife, as they tied knot on on 20 November 2005 in an Islamic Nikah Ceremony, he has a son Ziddan born on 18 January 2008.

Zayed knocked the doors of bollywood with the movie Chura liya hai tumne, and he was nominated for Zee Cine Award as Best male debut, but the milestone of his career was Main Hoon Na a real big success of his career, he played the role of younger brother of Shahrukh Khan, the movie was embedded with all the big stars, then Zayed came up with the movie Dus.

Then Mission Istanbul, a special appearance in Om Shanti Om, with Yuvvraaj and Blue, his solo movies were Rocky: The Rebal and Chura liya hai tumne, now he is looking forward for "Anjaana Anjaani" and "Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene"

Legendary Kishore Kumar

Synonym of acting, an acting institution in itself owner of versatility yes he is one and only Kishore Kumar 4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987, was an actor as well as playback singer, even today he is remembered for his heart touching acting and singing, as Kishore Kumar was one of the leading singers of bollywood, he has ruled over film industry, he is known as Master of acting and singing.

He was a prolific vocalist and has given his touching and melodious voice in so many languages like Hindi, Marathi, Asamese, Bengali, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya , Bhojpuri and Malayalam, he was an outstanding personality as he got achieved notable success as a director,lyricist, composer,screenwriter , producer and scriptwriter.He was born in to a Brahmin family, his birth name was Abhas Kumar Ganguly.

Kishore Kumar's father was a lawyer, his mother belonged to wealthy family, he was second youngest among four siblings, Ashok Kumar eldest, Sati Devi and Anoop Kumar. He regarded Kundan Lal Saigal as his Guru and followed his singing style, he achieved success from the movie New Delhi in 1957 along with his home production Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, he sang for all leading actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Sanjiv Kumar ,Dharmendra, Jackie Shroff and Mithun.

Feroz Khan the "style icon"

Feroz Khan a versatile personality he was an actor, director, film editor and producer 25 September 1939 – 27 April 2009, ha had his own different and unique style he discovered a new definition of style in Indian cinema with cowboyish swagger and the grand persona of cigar toting that really revolutionised Indian film industry, Feroz Khan was known as the style icon of bollywood as was called as Clint Eastwood of the east.

Feroz Khan has performed in around 50 films, he was really a best loved actor and became heart favourite of every one in the movie Qurbaani, he was a wonderful director as well as his creation is Dayavan in the year 1988 along with the movie Janbaaz in the year 1986, in the year 1970 he won Filmfare Best Supporting Actor award for the movie Aadmi aur Insaan, in 2000 he was entitled with Film fare Lifetime Achievement Award.

He was born in Bangalore, father Sadiq Ali Khan Tanoli, an Afghan mother an Iranian, he got education from Bishop Cotton Boys' School Bangalore and St. Germain's Boys High School, Bangalore itself, bothers are Sanjay Khan , Akbar Khan(director), Shahrukh Khan (business man) and Sameer Khan having a sister Dilshad Bibi, he made his debut as second lead in 1960 the movie was Didi. He has a son named Fardeen Khan who is an actor.

Vinod Khanna

Very handsome and talented actor of his time, he was a heart beat of so many girls well if you are guessing about Vinod Khanna then you are absolutely right, his father was KC Khanna and mother was Kamla, his father was a businessman who used to deal in textiles,chemicals and dyes, he has three sisters and a brother as he was born and brought in a joint family. He has done his schooling from St Xavier’s High School and Queen Mary’s School and did graduation from Sydenham
College.


Vinod Khanna tied a knot with Geetanjali,two sons Akshaye and Rahul Khanna he became a follower of Osho (Acharya Rajneesh), in 1980 he moved to Rajneeshpuram, he cleaned dishes and did gardening there this caused so much of stress in his married life finally resulted in divorce, in 1990 he married with Kavita his second wife.He made a debut with Man Ka Meet as a villain, he did negative roles in the movies like Purab aur Paschim, Mera Gaon Mera Desh.

In the year 1974 he got Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Haath Ki Safai, in 1999 Vinod Khanna was entitled with Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, Stardust Awards - Role Model for the Year in 2006 and in 2007 Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement. His hit list is in the year 1977 with Amar Akbar Anthony, Parvarish and Khoon Pasina, year 1980 also brought him out with The Burning Train,Qurbani and in 1978 with Muqaddar Ka Sikander .

He left the film industry for eight years in 1979, in the year 1990 he introduced his son Akshaye with Himalay Putra, his recent outcomes are Deewaanapan (2002) and Risk (2007), presently he is doing T.V serial Mere Apne produced by Smriti Irani, aires on new channel 9x. In the year 1997 he joined BJP, he was elected from Gurdaspur constituency from Punjab.

Dara Singh "Jatt Sikh Punjabi wrestler and film actor"

His name is well known since decades, yes he is Jatt Sikh Punjabi wrestler and film actor you guessed right he is one and only Dara Singh was born on 19 November 1928, he belongs to Village Dharmchuk, Distt Amritsar, Punjab,India. Presently he has gained the poisition of president of All India Jat Mahasabha. Dara Singh is a well known wrestler, he had a long journey from an Indian Wrestling Champion to
the World Championship.


This great wrestler as well as an actor has competed against big names like Lou Thesz. he defeated Stanislaus Zbyszko, due to his strong physique Dra Singh deviated towards Pehlwani, it is an Indian style of wrestling, these fights are usually done at akhara, he has shown his wrestling talent in haats and melas , he has wrestled in foreign countries , aftre his came back to India he got immense popularity.

Then he stepped to silver screen and got so much of fame by doing acting in Hindi movies. Upon his return to India he gained unprecedented popularity by having wrestling bouts across the country in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, including a very popular series of matches with Lou Thesz in the late '60s.[4] He then translated this to celluloid fame by making a large number of Bollywood films which had him in the lead. One of his notable finds was the actress Mumtaz with whom he had performed in 16 Hindi films.

He then went on to 1980s and 90s television fame, when he played the role of Hanuman in the television adaptation of the epic Ramayan. The series is amongst the most widely viewed in history. He has acted in over 100 films. His latest Hindi movie is Jab We Met and his latest Punjabi movie is Dil Apna Punjabi.He also acted in National Award winner film MAIN MAA PUNJAB DEE(Director Balwant Dullat). He also worked in some television serial shows, most notable is 'Had Kar Di' which was aired on Zee TV. He has two sons named Vindu Dara Singh and Amrik Singh and also 3 daughters. Vindu stays in Mumbai while Amrik stays in Chandigarh. Singh retired from active wrestling in 1983. [4] In 1996 he was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.

Aaftab Shivdasani

He is known as the shy guy of bollywood,born on June 25 th 1978, his nick name is Faffy, and he knocked the doors of bollywood with the movie Mast, he is Aftab Shivdasani,he has done his education from HR College, Mumbai.he has done Bachelor of Commerce,he won Filmfare Best Debut Award for "Mast" for his wonderful performance.


Along with that he won Zee Cine Best Villain Award for "Kasoor" and Nation Honor Awards for "Kya Yehi Pyaar Hai", well Aftab has been doing work since his child hood, in late 80's and early 90's he performed in the films like "Shahenshah", "Mr. India" "Insaniyat". and "Chaalbaaz", as his lead role he came out Mast that was not successful but he gained appreciation he was opposite Urmila .

Aaftab Shivdasani did "Kasoor" he was casted opposite Lisa Ray,it was a thriller and he cme out with negative performance, he has worked in almost more than dozen movies and he got mixed responses for all that,his hit list is "Hungama, "Masti" and -"Awara Paagal Deewana",he is still active and getting favourable reviews for his acting even from the critics.

His parents are from different religious backgrounds,father is Hindu and mother is a Parsi,he has done his schooling from St. Xavier's High School, Mumbai and he shares his birthday with his father.

Jackie Shroff 'Jaggu Dada'

He is 'Jaggu Dada' of bollywood and performed very well, hr has got his special place in the hearts of people and of course he is very talented yes he is none other than Jackie Shroff,was born on 1st February, 1957 his nick name is Jagga, he made his wonderful presence in the bollywood with his first movie 'Swami Dada', and for his outstanding roles he got Filmfare Best Actor Award for "Parinda"that
was the first award .

Jackie got two more awards as Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for "Rangeela" and for "1942 A Love Story", he was introduced by Dev Anand, and he got one night fame as he got a lead role in Subhash Ghai's film "Hero, that movie made him star, he formed a wonderful pair with another actor Anil Kapoor ,togethr they bring out so many memorable movies.

Their combined hits were "Ram Lakhan","Parinda" and "Karma", in the movie Angaar he left his great impression by playing the role of frustrated youth who is fed up of corruption and crime, the movie Gardish gave him new dimensions, his other outstanding outcomes were "1942 a Love Story, "Tridev" ,"Khalnayak","Devdas and "Rangeela" .

Presently he was appeared in the role of supporting actor in the movie "Bhagam Bhag" and "Apna Sapna Money Money, he has set up his production company named 'Jackie Shroff Entertainment Limited'. His real name is Jaikishan Kakubhai Shroff , he tied a knot with Ayesha and has two children, Jackie Shroff is a fan of former actress Asha Parekh.

Dharmendra

"Main Jat yamla pagla Diwana" well you guessed right this punjabi jat of bollywod has made his special place of its own in the hearts of the people, very talented actor Dharmendra was born on 8th December, 1935. He i the He- man of bollywood, Dharmendra was entitled with Filmfare Life Time Achievement Award, he knocked the doors of bollywood with his very first movie named "Dil Bhi Tera, Hum Bhi
Tere".


Dharmendra was born at Phagwara in Punjab, he initially casted as romantic hero, he was signed by Arjun Hingorani but his major hit was "Phool Aur Patthar". He has also proved his talent in the movie "Chupke Chupke, that was a pure comedy flick and really an unforgettable masterpiece of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. In the year 1970 he emerged out as an action hero .

As there was an era of action movies, he changed his image from a romantic hero to an action star,the quality of Dharmendra is that he is versatile he can do romance, comedy and action all the flavours at the same time, his most memorable outcome well it would be better to call it as a milestone of Hindi movies yes the movies Sholay where he was casted with Amitabh Bachchan, he is the only actor that has got the opportunity to work with all the Kapoors except Prithviraj Kapoor
and Kareena.

Dharmendra got married to Hema Malini after opting Islam religion, he has two daughters Esha and Ahana, and two sons Sunny and Bobby deol from his first wife Praksh Kaur,his latest film are "Metro" and "Apne" they were hits, in th movie "Johnny Gaddar" he came ou as performing villainous role. His important movies are Sholay, Ayee Milan Ki Bela, Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya, Trinetra,Soorma Bhopali, The Burning Train and Dream Girl.

Legendary Guru Dutt

Born on 9th July 1925, this legendary actor has given a new definition of acting to Indian Cinema, he knocked the doors of bollywood with the movie : "Chand", and his most memorable movie is "Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam" that fetch him Filmfare Best Film Award , yes he is Guru Dutt, he was an actor with deep sense of intensity, as it was clearly reflected in his acting.

Guru Dutt was born on at Bangalore in Karnataka his father was Shivsankar Rao Padukone and mother was Vasanthi Padukone,he has done his schooling from Kolkata, then he joined Uday Shankar India Culture Centre at Almora, Uttaranchal where he got a scholar ship for five years of Rs. 75 annually. Then he moved to Mumbai,he got a job with Prabhat Film Company in Pune, under three year contract, it was arranged by his uncle.

Where he met Dev Anand and Rehman, and they became good friends, besides acting he assisted director Vishram Bedekar the movie was "Lakhrani".As the Prabhat Film Company collapsed he moved to Mumbai, where Guru Dutt worked with Gyan Mukherjee and Amiya Chakravarthy,he also directed movies his movie was Baazi as a director, the movie got big success.

As an actor and director he gave so many movies like "Pyasa", "Aar Paar","Sailab", "C I D" Chaudhvin Ka Chand' , "Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam", Kaagaz Ke Phool were some of his remarkable movies, he was married to Geeta Dutt, famous play back singer , his family life was not happy he smoked heavily, drank heavily, Guru Dutt left this world on 10th October, 1964.