Adnan Sami Khan, better known as Adnan Sami is a music composer, lyricist, actor, singer and pianist. He was born in 1973 in London, England to Indian and Pakistani ancestors and is presently holds a Canadian citizenship. He is settled in Mumbai, India where he spends most of his time working with the Bollywood Film Industry as a music composer and singer.

He specialises in modern pop-rock and usually belts out tracks which are a mixture of South Asian classical along with Western music. With well over 100 songs and 10 chartbusters in the past decade, he is one of the well established musicians of the Bollywood Industry. Popular tracks like "Tera Chehraa", "Sun Zara" and "Kabhi Toh Nazar Milaao" shot him to fame. Judging popular T.V. shows like Indian Idol, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs made him more familiar with the audience and he became everyone's favorite.

Personal Life

Adnan was born to Arshad Sami Khan, a Pakistani Pathan and Naureen Khan, an Indian Muslim. While studying in Rugby School, Stockholm, Sami started playing the piano when he was as young as 5 years old. He would take piano lessons from Pandit Shivkumar Sharma in India. Then he started learning Indian classical music from Maharaj Kathak. Adnan graduated from King's College, University of London after which he went on to become the fastest man on the electric keyboard. Asha Bhonsle was one of his inspiration's to take up music full-time. He was given an award by UNICEF when he was only sixteen years of age after he wrote a song for Ethiopia which was famine-struck.

Adnan Sami married Zeba Bakhtiyar for a short period of time during which he had a son named Azaan Khan. Zeba played the leading female role opposite Adnan in the movie "Sargam". And after their separation, the Lahore High Court awarded the custody rights of Azaan to Zeba. In 1997, Adnan abducted Azaan and the two of them started living in Dubai. Zeba appealed to the High Court to regain custody of Azaan saying her husband abducted him. In May, 1998, Zeba appealed before the Canadian Court and was given back the custody of Azaan. According to Adnan, Canadian officials almost broke into his house, arrested him and quietly took away his son. He dearly loved his only son and after he was given away, he cancelled all his tours, concerts and recording dates because of which he lost millions of dollars. It was around that time when he started taking food to stay out of depression. This became a regular habbit and it reached it's peak in the year 2006, June, when Adnan weighed 206 kilos.

In the year 2001, Adnan married Sabah Galadari. However they decided to call it quits a year and a half later. In 2002, he again appealed to a Pakistani court to let him have custody over Azaan and stated that Zeba previously misguided the court to get rights over their son. After Adnan sued the Canadian Government for having whisked away Azaan and having $30 million in connection with it, he claims to have won the case. By 2006, Adnan had to undergo liposuction because of his increasing weight. He lost 130kilos in one surgery. In the year 2008, his wife Sabah returned to him and started living with him again. On the 19th of June 2012, the Bombay High-Court granted them a divorce as Sabah alleged Adnan of alcoholism. He married for the third time a German woman named Roya Faryabi in 3rd of April 2010.

Professional Life

Adnan started his career with his first solo album entitled "Raag Time" in the year 1991 and composed music for his film "Sargam". After that, he teamed up with legend Asha Bhonsle for "Kabhi toh Nazar Milao", and the album sold over 2 million copies in India alone. He got his first Bollywood offer Boney Kapoor followed by Yash Chopra and Subhash Ghai. Another song that became a craze was "Mehbooba Mehbooba" from the movie Ajnabee in 2001. In 2002, Pepsi made him its brand ambassador and he did a string of concerts all around the world endorsing the product. His third album, "Tera Chehra" released in October of 2002. This also became a huge hit and in the same year, Adnan worked with A.R. Rehman in the film "Saathiya".

Sami had also sung for a few Telegu Movies entitled "Boys" and "Aaytha Ezuthu" where he worked with Rehman again. His only Kannada song "Don't Worry Madabeda" from the movie "Super Star" was another blockbuster and he recieved two awards for it. After his surgery, he made a comeback with "Salaam e Ishq" and another solo album named "Kisi Din" in the year 2007. His last Bollywood composition was for a film named Sadiyaan that released in the year 2010.

“I didnot dissolve myself only in films. I was very much aware of the problems within my country – because I had come through those problems too – the partition of India had virtually brought us on the footpath. I owe whatever I am today, to the people of my country. I became popular because of them, because of their love for me.I want to do something in return of their love.” - Sunil Dutt in an interview to South Asian. Actor turned producer, director, social activist and then to politician, Sunil Dutt excelled in all the traits. Apart from being a famous actor, he is also known for his work as a social activist.

Personal Life

Sunil Dutt was born on 6th June, 1929 and grew up as as Balraj Dutt. He was born to a zamindar family in village of Khurd in Punjab, now part of Pakistan. He was the 5 years old when his father passed away. Sunil was 18 when he witnessed India Pakistan partition woes, stimulating Hindu Muslim roits. Managing to save their lives, the family settled in a small village in Yamuna Nagar in Haryana. For his higher studies Sunil moved to Mumbai, he took admission at Jai Hind college in Mumbai to complete his graduation. Sunil Dutt had three children, Sanjay Dutt, Priya Dutt and Namrata Dutt. His son Sanjay Dutt is also a successful actor in Bollywood. His elder daugther Priya Dutt is Indian Congress Party worker and was elected in 15th LokSabha in 2009 from Mumbai North Central constituency. His youngest daughter Namrata Dutt is married to Kumar Gaurav. Kumar Gaurav is the son of old time actor Rajendra Kumar who has shared onscreen presence with Sunil Dutt in 'Mother India'.

Professional life

Along with his graduation, Sunil also started working as a Radio show host for Hindi version of Radio Ceylon. Radio Ceylon was a renowned and oldest radio station an South Asia and got him the popularity of a celebrity interviewer and host. It was during on of the celebrity interview that he first met Nargis. 

In 1955, Sunil Dutt got chance to showcase his acting skills in 'Railway Platform'. He was offered the role of hero by the director Ramesh Saigal opposite Nalini Jayawant. In 1956 director B.R. Chopra signed him in a lead role for 'Ek Hi Raata' and thus began seven film long association with B. R. Chopra.  He signed movie 'Mother India'(1958)  which proved to be a breakthrough in his career. He played the role rebellious young man and Nargis played the role of his mother. It was at the sets of this film that they fell in love and got married on 11th March, 1958.

After the huge success of 'Mother India' Sunil Dutt worked on changing his image from a angry rebellious man to a romantic hero. He worked on movies that were female oriented and films that portrayed him in romantic roles. 1950s and 1960s proved to be very successful years in his career with hits like Sadhna (1958), Sujata (1959), Mujhe Jeene Do (1963), Gumraah (1963), Waqt (1965), Khandaan (1965), Milan (1967), Padosan (1967) and Humraaz (1967).

The milestone in his life was in year 1963 when he turned producer and produced Yeh Rasste Hain Pyar Ke and Mujhe Jeeno Do. Sunil Dutt produced Man Ka Meet (1968), through which his younger brother Som Dutt started his career in Hindi films. Reshma and Shera (1971), a big budget movie, was produced, directed and starred Sunil Dutt, was a unsuccessful at the box office.

In 1981, Sunil Dutt produced and directed 'Rocky' to introduce his son Sanjay Dutt in films. Soon after the release of 'Rocky', the life of Sunil Dutt was swayed by the death of his wife Nargis due to pancreatic cancer. In the memory of his wife he started Nargis Dutt foundation to extend medical help to cancer patients.

He was appointed as 'Sheriff of Mumbai' in 1982. This title is presented by Maharastra Givernment for a period of one year. In 1995, he was given Filmfare Lifetime Achievement award. Sunil Dutt joined Indian Congress Party in 1984 and represented Mumbai North West constituency. He was first elected in 1984 and was re-elected in 1989 and 1991. He took a break from his political career to support his son Sanjay, who was on trial for being involved in Hindu Muslim violence case.

Post his son's release, Dutt contested in 1999 election from the same constituency and won. He was re-elected in 2004 and became cabinet minister for youth affairs and sports in Manmohan singh's government. He returned to movies in 2003 and acted along with his son in Munnabhai M.B.B.S. This was his last movie before his death in 2005 because of heart attack.

For his contribution to Indian Films he was conferred with awards for outstanding appearance on lead role and lifetime achievement awards. He won accolades including the Padmashree in 1968, the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Award for National Integration and Communal Harmony in 1997, the Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan Award for International Peace, Communal Harmony, Unity and National Integration in 1997 and the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award in 1998.

Kumar Sanu was born in a Hindu family in Kolkata, October 20. His real name is Kedarnath Bhattacharya. Kumar Sanu’s father Pashupati Bhatacharya was also a vocalist, and made his son Kumar Sanu how to sing and how to play Tabla. Kumar Sanu started singing in the year 1979 publicly. He performed at many places near to kolkata, after getting a degree in commerce. Kumar Sanu tried to play back after a prominent singer known as Kishore Kumar but later on he developed his own style and began the era of his singing with his own talent. Kumar Sanu in his early life started his singing as a professional in some Bangladeshi films like Tin Kanya and the title song of this film which he sang was Tin konyar ek chobi. Later on he was also given a chance from a Bollywood Lyrist and Music Director known as Jagjit Singh. He offered Kumar Sanu his first Bollywood film song known as Aandhiyan and later on one after another song and proposals came to him from the prominent Music Directors like Kalyanji-Anandji who gave him a chance to sing in his film known as Jadugar. And he was the first person to give Kedarnath Bhattacharya his new name Kumar Sanu.

Personal & Professional Life

Kumar Sanu was from a Bengali Hindu family with a rich culture and background of music which he inherited from his father, who taught him playing table and singing. Kumar Sanu is also awarded with one of the India's highest civilian award known as the Padma Shri Award for his over 1700 songs. Kumar Sanu also holds a Guinness World Record for singing 28 songs in one day as well as he was also honored as an artist of the decade in IIFA awards. He also won the Filmfare Best Male Playback Singer for 5 times consecutively. For all this achievement Kumar Sanu started his playback career in the year 1987 by singing Bollywood songs and from then he was well known for his talent. Kumar Sanu had also worked with many composers like Naushad, Ravindra Jain, Hirydayanath Mangeshkar and many more who are most prominent in the Indian Bollywood film industry. For the year 1990 Nadeem –Shravan selected Kumar Sanu to sing all his songs for which he won the best Filmfare Best Male Playback Singer Award. He got awards for singing at Superhit movies which are saajan, deewana, bazigar and 1942: a love story. To reach the top most heights Kumar Sanu had also collaborated with other top most Music Directors and singers like Nadeem-Sharavan, Jatin Lalit, Anu Malik, as well as other composers like R.D burman, Himesh Reshamia, Vishal- Shekhar and many more.

The closest person of Kumar Sanu was his mother Saloni. Who was not only like his friend but also a teacher of love, compassion and as well as fearlessness. She always wanted Kumar sanu to be the Best Singer as well as a good father and a good husband. Kumar Sanu in his life time did many performances on stage, on air, play backs etc but he was best comfortable with stage performances as well as did many shows on the television for his fans like Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and etc. He was known as the legend of his high peak time. Even today many people love his songs as they are may be old but still the gold. He had two daughters from his first wife with whom he divorced and married after a some time. But his talent was the main thing with which he was in a long term relationship and for which he is well known today.

Being a prolific and stared singer Kumar Sanu is well known for his songs and music direction in many films. He started his career as a singer but directed music and gave lyrics and music to the songs of multiple films. He was even well known for his steps taken to become a great singer. He first started it by being and making his singing style like Kishore kumar but later on he used his own style for which he is famous now. He has now multiple studios and one of them is Sana music World.

Bhanurekha Ganesan, who was born on the 10th of October, in the year 1954, is one the most talented actresses the Indian cinema has ever had.  More renowned as Rekha, which is her stage name, she is popular for the versatility in her acting, and has featured in a large number of movies, mostly Hindi. Rekha started her acting career at the age of 12, as a child artist in a Telugu movie by the name Rangula Ratnam, in the year 1966. Four years later, in the year 1970, she made her Bollywood debut in the movie Sawan Bhadon, as the lead.  In spite of the fact that many of her earlier films were successful, she was very often criticized, especially for her looks. It was only in the later half of the 1970s, when she underwent a physical transformation that she was recognized as an actress, that is, in the true sense of the word. And since then she has become a representation of the sex symbol in Bollywood.

Rekha’s acting career spans over a time period of about 40 years, throughout which she has worked in more than one hundred and eighty movies. In almost all the movies she has featured in, she has played characters with immense strength. She has been a major part of not only the commercial cinema, but has also appeared in art house movies, popularly called the parallel cinema in India. She has been the recipient of three Filmfare Awards. Two of them were for Best Actress, in the movies Khubsoorat and Khoon Bhari Maang, and the third one for the Actress in a Supporting Role, for the movie Khiladiyon ka Khiladi.

She won the National Film Award for Best Actress, for her classical depiction of a courtesan in the movie Umrao Jaan, in the year 1981. Despite the fact that her acting career has gone through several periods of recession, she is known for her immense ability of reinventing herself every time she falls and her ability to maintain a consistency in her status. 

Early Life

Born in Madras (now Chennai), to Gemini Ganesan, the Tamil actor and Pushpavalli, the Telugu actress, Rekha had to follow the footsteps of her father, who was considerably successful in the field of acting. Rekha unfortunately did not have a very blissful childhood, largely because of the neglecting behavior of her father towards her. Her father’s behavior was usually explained by the fact that her parents were not married when she was born. In one of the interviews, during the successful years of her career, she had revealed that her father’s neglect still rankled her, and therefore she refused to respond to all the efforts made by her father in order to reconcile with her. She also stated that on a personal level, she did not have any dreams and desires that revolved around the career of acting. In fact she was compelled to drop her education, and take up the acting career in order to fend for her family, which was not in a very good economic condition.

Personal Life

Rekha was married to an industrialist residing in Delhi, by the name Mukesh Aggarwal, in the year 1990. This man was reported to have committed suicide the following year, while the actress was away in the States. He left a note which stated that he did not have anyone to blame. The actress, very expectedly, was ridiculed and humiliated by the media and press. This period, as one of the reporters then called it, was one of those immeasurable depths in her life.

One among the many rumors in her life is said that she had tied the knot with the actor Vinod Mehra, in the year 1973, were clearly denied by her in an interview with Simi Garewal, which was aired on television. Rekha referred to Vinod Mehra as being merely a well-wisher. Presently the actress resides in her home in Bandra in Mumbai.

Professional Career

Starting off as a child artist, in the Telugu movie, Rangula Ratnam (1966), Rekha made her acting debut in the Kannada movie by the name Goa dalli CID 999 (1969), where she acted opposite Rajkumar. Later in the very same year, she started shooting for her first Hindi movie called Anjaana Safar, starring opposite the lead actor Biswajit.  Due to certain censorship issues, the release date of the movie was postponed by about a decade’s time, finally releasing in the year 1979. It was renamed as Do Shikaari. Therefore, Sawan Bhadon, which released in the year 1970, became her Bollywood debut. The success of the movie brought Rekha in limelight overnight. She was a star. Some of her films that came out in the following years were Raampur ka Lakshman, Pran Jaye Par Vachan Na Jaye, and Kahaani Kismat Ki.

Rekha’s acting career took a huge leap with the movie Ghar, in 1978, for which she was given the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. Then, followed Muqaddar ka Sikander, which remained one of the blockbuster hits for the next ten years. In the 1980s, she appeared in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s comedy by the name Khoobsurat and earned her very first award for Best Actress. She also featured in Silsila, Umrao Jaan, Basera, Ek Hi Bhool, Jeevan Dhara and Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye. Some of her art house works would include Kalyug, Vijeta, Utsav and Ijaazat. Khoon Bhari Maang was another of her award winning movies. The 1990s had movies like Kama Sutra: a Tale of Love, and Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi.

In 2000, she started off with Bulandi, and Lajja, followed by Koi..Mil Gaya. Other movies in the decade include Bachke Rehna Re Baba and Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamana. She again appeared in Krrish, the sequel to Koi..Mil Gaya. Later this decade, in 2007, she appeared in the role of a courtesan in the movie Yatra. The government awarded the actress with the Padma Shri, in the year 2010.