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Zoya Afroz (born 10 January 1994) is an Indian actress and model who appears in Hindi films. She was the winner of Pond's Femina Miss India Indore 2013. She was later crowned as Pond’s Femina Miss India International 2013 at the 50th edition of Pond’s Femina Miss India, held at Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai on 24 March 2013. She has also worked in numerous films, serials and commercials as a child artist.

Afroz was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. She has done her schooling from R N Shah High School, and attended Mithibai College in Vile Parle, Mumbai.

Afroz was one of the top five finalists of Femina Miss India 2013. She was crowned Miss India International 2013 in the contest by previous year winner Rochelle Maria Rao.

Afroz got her break with Rasna Mahasearch Contest at the age of three after which she did a TV commercial for the same brand. She was also seen in other TV commercials like Whirlpool, Shoppers stop, Jet Airways, PSPO fan and New York Life Insurance, as a child artist.

She appeared in the films Hum Saath Saath Hain and Kuch Naa Kaho as a child. At the age of 18 she was crowned the winner of Pond’s Femina Miss India Indore 2013. In addition to acting, Afroz is an active celebrity endorser for several brands and products, including Pond's Face wash.

In 2016, Zoya did a short film for One Plus smartphone opposite Amit Sadh. She is doing a film Sweetie Desai weds NRI opposite Himansh Kohli.

It looks like 2014 is going to be an exciting year for Sheeba Lourdhes, former Tamil Nadu Miss Beautiful Eyes and Miss Beautiful Hair.

Yes, this model, after completing an international project, has signed three movies in Kollywood! “I was in Croatia for an assignment when a Croatian producer approached me for a role in his film, titled Dobardhan. I played an Indian friend of the Croatian heroine. I had only 15 scenes in that movie, but I had ample scope to prove my talent,” she says.

And when she came down to Chennai, the first thing she did was to meet and greet producers and directors. “I wasn’t familiar with the industry. So, I wanted to see if I would fit the tab. And guess what, I’ve done? I have signed three projects – one with C Srinivasan of Satrumun Kidaitha Thagaval fame, titled Aduthathu and another, En Manadhai Kollai Adithal, a love story. It’s about a girl who’s madly in love with an orthodox guy.

Aishwarya Rajessh" is an Indian film actress, who has appeared in leading roles primarily in Tamil cinema. After winning the reality show Maanada Mayilada, she made her debut in Avargalum Ivargalum (2011) and became known after starring in Attakathi (2012) portraying the role of Amudha.

Career

Aishwarya's father Rajesh was an actor who had appeared in 50 films in Tamil. Her grandfather Amarnath too acted in lead roles, while her aunt Srilakshmi, is a Telugu comedy actor with over 500 films to her credit.

She studied at Ethiraj College for Women and graduated with a B.Com degree. She started to learn dance since she needed to choreograph a stage show for a student cultural fest and later entered the reality show Maanada Mayilada on Kalaignar TV. She won the show's third season and got offered roles in films thereafter.

Aishwarya made her debut in the 2011 film Avargalum Ivargalum, playing one of the lead roles, which was followed by minor roles in S. A. Chandrasekhar's Sattapadi Kutram and Vilayada Vaa. She appeared in the 2012 cult film, Attakathi, portraying the character of Amudha. She also acted in the films Aachariyangal and Puthagam, in which she was paired opposite Sanjay Bharathi.

In 2014, she was seen alongside Vijay Sethupathi in two films, Rummy, and Pannaiyarum Padminiyum, released within two weeks. While the first film was a village drama set in the 1980s, the latter was based on a short film of the same name, and revolved around an old man and his vintage car Premier Padmini. Critics praised her performances, especially in Rummy. Hindustan Times wrote that she was "extremely promising" while film critic Baradwaj Rangan noted that she was "expressive", calling her "a tonic for nerves frayed by the alabaster automatons we usually get as heroines". Later that year, she appeared in a song sequence in R. Parthiepan's Kathai Thiraikathai Vasanam Iyakkam and as the female lead in Thirudan Police.


Aishwarya's first release in 2015 was Kaaka Muttai. Her portrayal of a slum dweller and mother of two children was lauded by critics. Baradwaj Rangan wrote, "it features stunning performances from everyone...especially Aishwarya Rajesh, who plays the kids' mother with a world-weariness that belies her years". Other reviewers stated that she was "excellent", played her role with "with extraordinary ease"  and that she "leaves you awe-struck". That year, she also made her the stage debut, playing Cinderella from the same-titled fairytale that was adapted as a "musical dance drama".


As of late 2015, she is working simultaneously on multiple upcoming projects. She has completed filming for Seenu Ramasamy's Idam Porul Yaeval, in which she portrays a patti mandram (debate) speaker, Kutramae Thandanai that sees her collaborating with Kaaka Muttai director Manikandan and the horror comedy film Hello Naan Pei Pesuren, in which she plays a tele-shopping sales girl. Aaradhu Sinam, a remake of the Malayalam film Memories, and newcomer Bhuvan Nullan's Mo.

Pallavi Sharda is an Indian-Australian film/theatre actress and dancer, trained in Bharatha Natyam.

Pallavi is the daughter of Dr. Hema Sharda (Director of South Asian Relations at the University of Western Australia), and Dr. Nalin Kant Sharda (Professor of Computer Science at Victoria University).  Her parents are from Delhi, her father is a Punjabi.  Both her parents are IIT alumni and have PhDs in science and engineering. They migrated to Australia in the 1980s, before she was born where they are now professors.  Born in Perth and brought up in Melbourne into an academic family, Sharda commenced her LLB and BA (Media & Communications) & Diploma in Modern Languages (French) at the University of Melbourne, at the age of 16.

Sharda shifted base from Melbourne to Mumbai in 2008.

Sharda started her Bollywood career by playing a cameo in Karan Johar's My Name Is Khan (2010). In March 2010 Sharda was crowned 'Miss India Australia' in Sydney.

She next starred in the comedic-drama film, Dus Tola (2010), in which she played the role of Geeta, 'the village dance teacher' opposite actor Manoj Bajpai. Dus Tola hit Indian theatres on 22 October 2010 and Pallavi's performance garnered critical acclaim.  Sharda's second release, an Indo-American film called Walkaway was released on 29 October 2010 across USA. Sharda's next Bollywood release, Love Breakups Zindagi released on 7 October 2011.

In 2011 and 2012 Sharda was the lead actress of the theatrical musical, Taj Express directed by Shruti Merchant and choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant.

Sharda made her Australian film debut with comedy film Save Your Legs, which released on 28 February 2013.  She made her debut in Bollywood commercial cinema with Abhinav Kashyap's Besharam, in which she is cast opposite Ranbir Kapoor.

Sharda has recently been signed on for Vibhu Puri's period film opposite Ayushmann Khurrana.

The girl in yellow boots a.k.a. Kalki Koechlin is from a small village of Pondicherry. Her father is Joel Koechlin who is originally French and was a hippy who later settled in India as he loved the country. Her mother Francoise Armandie who was living in Auroville married her father as both are devotees of Sri Aurobindo. After marriage they got settled in Kallattty, near Ooty where Kalki's father established a business.

Kalki finished her schooling from Hebron School in Ooty and then she went to London to study drama and theatre at the University of London. The talented young lady can speak many languages like Tamil, English, French and Hindi. There she joined a theatre company known as Theatre of Relativity and she acted in various plays there. After completing her studies the polyglot decided to shift to Mumbai to try her luck in Hindi films. She got many modeling assignments and she did many television commercials during that period. Then she got shortlisted for the role of Chandramukhi in Anurag Kashyap's film 'Dev D'. She got lots of appreciation for her acting in this film. They both fell in love with each other soon and recently tied a knot in Ooty.

The 'Shaitan' girl never looked back after the success of 'Dev D'. She has delivered splendid acts in many genres of films, and she did a variety of roles in the parallel cinema also. She has received many awards and critical appreciation for her skilled acting in various films like 'Shaitan', 'Dev D', 'That Girl in Yellow Boots' , 'My friend Pinto' , 'Shanghai' etc.

The Indo-French beauty is determined to prove her talent in the tinsel town and hopes to get the opportunity to work in different genres of films. Her future projects are 'Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani' directed by Ayan Mukerji and 'Ek Thi Daayan' directed by Kannan Iyer starring Emraan Hashmi as her opposite.

Preetha Vijayakumar is an Indian film actress in the Tamil film industry. Her parents are noted actors Vijayakumar and Manjula.  She is married to Hari, a Tamil film director.

Career

Preetha had first signed up to portray the leading role in Ravi Raja Pinisetty's Telugu film Rukmini opposite Vineeth in 1997, but delays meant her Tamil projects released first.

Personal life

She was born as Preethi Vijayakumar but opted to change her first name to Preetha to avoid confusion with other actresses, Preity Zinta and Preeti Jhangiani.

Hrithik Roshan is an Indian film actor. Having appeared as a child actor in several films throughout the 1980s, Roshan made his film debut in a leading role in Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai in 2000. His performance in the film earned him Filmfare Awards for Best Actor and Best Male Debut. He followed it with leading roles in Fiza and Mission Kashmir (both 2000) and a supporting part in the blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), which was India's highest-grossing film in the overseas market up to then.

Mehdi Nebbou is a French actor.



He was born into a Muslim family in Bayonne, France, to a German mother and an Algerian father.[1] His brother is the film director Safy Nebbou.



He started his career by appearing in the film My Sweet Home, directed by Filipos Tsitos.



In 2004, the director Samir Nasr offered him the leading role in the film Seeds of Doubt, which won the Golden Gate Award for best film at the San Francisco Film Festival. 2005 was a turning point in Nebbou's career thanks to the film Schläfer by German film director Benjamin He is enberg. The film received excellent reviews and was selected for the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.



In 2006 he played Ali Hassan Salameh in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster film Munich.



In 2007 for his performance in Teresas Zimmer, directed by German film director Constanze Knoche, he won the award for best actor First Steps Awards.



In 2008 Nebbou worked in the Ridley Scott film Body of Lies with Leonardo DiCaprio. There he played Nizar, an Iraqi linguistics doctorate turned Al-Qaeda operative who approaches CIA to defect after being enlisted by his jihadist superiors for suicide bombing. In addition, he played in several French TV series and films, among them as a disabled ex-middleweight boxing world champion in Douce France for which he won the award for best actor at 2009 at the Rochelle TV Festival. He also played Mustafa Larbi, a sadistic and unpredictable drug dealer in Season 2 of Spiral, the successful Canal+ TV series.



In 2010 he played Bruno in the Salvatore Allocca Italian romantic comedy Come trovare nel modo giusto l'uomo sbagliato and in 2011 Amin in the French action film Forces spéciales with Diane Krüger.



In 2012, he debuted in an Bollywood film English Vinglish starring opposite to Sridevi.


He is fluent in French, German, English and Italian.

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer.

Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. He has recorded more than 50,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English during a career spanning five decades. He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and Kashmiri.He also composed a number of Malayalam film songs in the 1970s and 1980s.Yesudas is fondly called Gana Gandharvan (The Celestial Singer).


Yesudas has won the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer seven times (the most by any Indian singer) and the State Award for the Best Playback Singer 43 times, which consists of awards by the state governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and West Bengal. He was awarded Padma Shri in 1975 and Padma Bhushan in 2002 by the Government of India for his contributions to the arts. In 2011 Yesudas was honoured with the CNN-IBN outstanding achievement award having recorded over 50,000 songs in a five-decade career.



K. J. Yesudas was born at Fort Kochi, in the erstwhile Kingdom of Cochin, into a Roman Catholic Latin Rite family to late Augustine Joseph and late Alicekutty. His father, who was a well-known Malayalam classical musician and stage actor, was his first guru. Later he joined the R.L.V. Music Academy at Thrippunithura and underwent training. Later he studied at Sree Swati Thirunal music college, Thiruvananthapuram under the late Semmangudy Sreenivasa Iyer. But he could not complete his studies due to financial constraints. For a brief period, he was with Sri Vechur Harihara Subramania Iyer, after which he took advanced training from Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar. In 2011 he completed his 50 Years as a Play Back Singer.


Completed the Ganabooshanam course at R.L.V. Music Academy, Thripunithura, CochinGraduated from the Sree Swathithirunal Music Academy, TrivandrumTrained under K. R. Kumaraswamy (former principal of the Music College, Kochi), Thripunithura Shri K.C Kalyanasundaram Master, Kunjuvelan Aasan (a disciple of Nadaswara Vidwan Rajaratnam Pillai), Augustine Joseph (his father), V. Dakshinamoorthy, Ramankutti Bagavathar, Sivaraman Nayar, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar.Playback singing career Debut and Early career: In 1960'sYesudas with poet and lyricist O. N. V. KurupThe first song sung by Yesudas is Jaathi Bhedam Matha Dwesham (music: M B Sreenivasan) on 14 Nov 1961, which he usually sings on all the special occasions in front of the audience. Yesudas began his career in playback singing in the Malayalam movie Kaalpadukal and Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies in the early 1960s.


He got the first break in his music career with the hit Malayalam film named Bharya ( music by G. Devarajan and lyrics by Vayalar Ramavarma). He sang in Tamil for Bommai first (music: S. Balachander), but the first released movie was Konjum Kumari (music: Veda).


The trio of Salil, Yesudas and Prem Nazir (the evergreen hero of Malayalam Cinema) took the Malayalam Cinema Industry of the 70's by storm. It was generally agreed that Yesudas's voice was the most suited one for Prem Nazir.
In 1970 he was nominated to head the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy and was the youngest person ever to occupy the post.


On 9 Dec 1971, Yesudas missed a flight which later crashed on the way to Madurai. A Hawker Siddeley HS 748 near Chinnamanur was descending into Madurai in reduced visibility. It flew into high terrain about 50 mi (80 km) from the airport, killing the four crew members and 17 passengers.


1970s By the 1970s Yesudas entered Bollywood. The first Hindi song he sang was for the movie Jai Jawan Jai Kissan (1971), but the first released movie was Chhoti Si Baat. He has sung Hindi songs for many leading actors in Hindi cinema including Amitabh Bachchan, Amol Palekar and Jeetendra. He has sung many evergreen Hindi film songs for music directors including Ravindra Jain, Bappi Lahiri, Khayyam, Rajkamal and Salil Chowdhury.


Yesudas's most popular Hindi songs are in the 1976 movie Chitchor, with music given by Ravindra Jain. The greatest tribute to Yesudas was paid by Ravindra Jain, in an interview wherein the blind music director confessed that if ever he happened to regain vision, the first person he would like to see would be Yesudas.


Prominence over the world Yesudas has performed in many major cities around the world. In 1965, he was invited by the Soviet Union government to perform at music concerts in various cities in the USSR and also sang a Russian song over Radio Kazakhstan.Yesudas became one of the senate members in the International Parliament for Safety and Peace. On 14 November 1999, Yesudas was presented with an honorary award by UNESCO for "Outstanding Achievements in Music and Peace" at the "Music for Peace" event in Paris.a concert held to mark the dawn of the new millennium and whose attendees included artistes such as Lionel Richie, Ray Charles, Montserrat Caballé, and Zubin Mehta.


In 1971, during the Indo-Pakistani War, Yesudas travelled all around Kerala with his musical troupe to raise funds for the Indian prime minister's National Defense Fund.


In 2001 he sang for album Ahimsa in Sanskrit, Latin and English and in a mix of styles including New Age and Carnatic. In his music concerts in the Middle East he sings Arabic songs in the Carnatic style. He frequently serves as a cultural ambassador for India through his performances abroad, promoting Indian music.
In 2009 Yesudas began a cross-country musical campaign against terrorism in Thiruvananthapuram, with the motto 'Music For Peace'.Kavita Karkare, wife of Hemant Karkare, handed over the torch to Yesudas to mark the launch of the 'Shanthi Sangeetha Yatra'.


Yesudas is married to Prabha. They have three sons, Vinod, Vijay and Vishal. Their second son Vijay Yesudas is a musician who won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 2007 and 2013. The family is currently settled in Chennai and Trivandrum. He also owns estates in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA and Flower Mound, TX, USA for personal and business reasons.


Sree Narayana Guru’s great message, One religion and One God for all humanity", influenced young Yesudas in his dealings with his fellow men. He had his own heroes among the musicians too. Mohammed Rafi, Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar and Balamurali Krishna are the ones he admires the most.


For the past 30 years Yesudas has been visiting Kollur Mookambika temple, Kollur, Karnataka on his birthday to sing keerthans of Saraswati devi, the Goddess of knowledge, music and the arts. The music festival started on his 60th birthday. The nine-day music festival begins every January at Kollur Mookambika Temple. On Sunday, 10 January 2010, he celebrated his 70th birthday (Sapthathi) at Kollur Sri Mookambika Temple with 'Sangeetharchana' (classical devotional songs), along with 70 singers before goddess Mookambika. The Sangeetharchana included "Pancharatna Gayana" of Thyagaraja's poems. He also took part in the Vidyarambha function. All India Radio broadcast the special Sangeetharchana all over Kerala.


In 1980 Yesudas established the Tharangani Studio at Trivandrum. In 1992 the office and studio were moved to Chennai, Tamil Nadu and the company was incorporated in the US in 1998. Tharangni Studio and Tharangni Records became a recording center in Kerala which, for the first time, brought out audio cassettes of Malayalam film songs in stereo. The record company also had a voice mixing studio in Studio27, Chennai. The studio continues to produce and present events of Yesudas both for film and Indian classical music concerts throughout the world.