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Advani
Advani () is a surname found among Sindhis. , url=https://www.amazon.com/Causes-Identification-Employees-Politics-Avinash/dp/3659772690 Advani is most commonly used to refer to Lal Krishna Advani, former Deputy Prime Minister of India, and Kiara Advani, a Bollywood actress also known as Alia Advani. Other people with this surname include: * Pratibha Advani, Indian talk show host and daughter of Lal Krishna Advani * Bherumal Meharchand Advani, Indian writer * Bhudo Advani, Indian film actor * Hotchand Gopaldas Advani, Indian Lawyer, Educationalist and Businessman * Kalyan Bulchand Advani, Sindhi language scholar of India * Nikkhil Advani Nikhil Suresh Advani (born 28 April 1971) is an Indian film and television director, writer and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He along with his sister, Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani, co-founded the entertainment company Emmay Entert ..., Indian film director * Pankaj Advani, Indian snooker player * Suresh H. Advani, Indian onco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lal Krishna Advani
Lal Krishna Advani (born 8 November 1927) is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. Advani is one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a longtime member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a volunteer organisation. He also served as Minister of Home Affairs in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government from 1998 to 2004. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the 10th Lok Sabha and 14th Lok Sabha and also the longest serving person of this post. He is widely considered architect of Hindutva politics and was the power centre of BJP in 1990s. He was the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP in 2009. Advani began his political career as a volunteer of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a volunteer organisation.He is credited for rise of BJP from 2 seats in 1984 to 182 seats in 1998. In 2015 he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour. He has held numero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiara Advani
Alia Advani (born 31 July 1991), known professionally as Kiara Advani (), is an Indian actress who works in Hindi and Telugu language films. After making her acting debut in the comedy film '' Fugly'' (2014), she played MS Dhoni's wife in the sports biopic '' M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story'' (2016). She gained praise for playing a sexually unsatisfied wife in the Netflix anthology film ''Lust Stories'' (2018) and played the leading lady in the political thriller ''Bharat Ane Nenu'' (2018). Advani received wider attention for starring in the romantic drama '' Kabir Singh'' and the comedy drama '' Good Newwz'', two of the highest-grossing Hindi films of 2019. She won the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. This success continued with her roles in the 2021 film ''Shershaah'', for which she was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress, and the 2022 films '' Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2'', ''Jugjugg Jeeyo'', and '' Govinda Naam Mera''. Early life Advani was born to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pankaj Arjan Advani
Pankaj Arjan Advani (born 24 July 1985) is an Indian billiards and former professional snooker player. He is a 25-time International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) world champion. He has won 17 billiards world titles, the IBSF World Billiards Championship on 16 occasions and the World Team Billiards Championship once. In snooker, he won the IBSF World Snooker Championship three times, IBSF World six-red championship twice and the IBSF World Team Cup and IBSF World Team Championship one time each. He has the record number of IBSF world championships. He became a snooker professional in 2012/2013. In recognition of his achievements, the Government of India has bestowed several awards upon Advani: the Arjuna Award in 2004, Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2006, Padma Shri in 2009 and Padma Bhushan in 2018. Early life Pankaj Advani was born on 24 July 1985 to a Sindhi family in Pune, India. Advani spent his initial years in Kuwait before moving to Bangalore, India. He r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikkhil Advani
Nikhil Suresh Advani (born 28 April 1971) is an Indian film and television director, writer and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He along with his sister, Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani, co-founded the entertainment company Emmay Entertainment. Early life and family Advani was born and raised in Bombay, Maharashtra, India, into a Sindhi Hindu family. His father is a retired professional who worked in senior management positions with multinationals in the chemical and pharmaceuticals industry and his mother is an advertising professional. His father is Sindhi and mother Maharashtrian. He studied at Green Lawns High School, Breach Candy, and later did his Masters in chemistry at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He married his college friend Suparna Gupta with whom he has a daughter Keya. Advani is the grand nephew of late producer N. N. Sippy and second cousin of actor Tusshar Kapoor and producer Ekta Kapoor. His wife, Suparna Gupta is a child rights activist. Winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhudo Advani
Bhudo Advani (17 August 1905 – 25 July 1985) was an Indian character actor and comedian. He started his acting career in theatre with the notion of spreading awareness on social issues. He came to Bombay on the advice of an Ajanta Cinetone representative and was offered a role in the film ''Afzal'', also called ''Hoor-E-Haram'' in 1933, directed by Mohan Bhavnani.BA, p. 217 He later joined Sagar Movietone, becoming an important fixture in most films produced by them. He turned from character roles to comedy performing in ''Dr. Madhurika'' (1935), directed by Sarvottam Badami, '' Deccan Queen'' (1936) and '' Do Diwaane'' (1936), by C. Luhar. Advani also became a vital part in director Mehboob Khan's films, acting in all the pictures directed by Mehboob while at Sagar Movietone. When Sagar shut down in 1939, Mehboob formed his own production company, National Studios, Bhudo Advani become a member there, but by the beginning of the 1940s, Advani was doing freelance work. In a ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bherumal Meharchand Advani
Bherumal Meharchand Advani (1875/76 – 7 July 1950) was an Indian poet and prose writer who wrote in Sindhi. He was also a scholar, educationist, novelist, linguist and historian who authored more than 40 books. Biography He was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). The exact date of his birth and even year of birth is not known. It is either 1875 or 1876. His father's name was Meharchand Advani. He studied at Mission School and Union Academy Hyderabad. The Union Academy was founded by Sadhu Navalrai and Heeranand Shaukiram on 28 October 1888. The aim of this school was to impart religious instruction, to spread the knowledge of Sanskrit, and to built up of a sound footing the character of the young generation. At Union Academy he learnt poetry of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai from the renowned scholars Heeranand and Tarachand Shaukiram. He married three times. From first wife, he did not have any child. From his second marriage, he had one son and one daughter. From his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotchand Gopaldas Advani
Hotchand Gopaldas Advani (22 April 1907 - 9 May 1991) was an Indian lawyer, educationist, social reformist and a businessman. He was one of the founders of K.C. College, K.C. Law College and Jai Hind Cooperative Bank of India. He served as founding president of Hyderabad (Sindh) National Collegiate Board, and chairman of the Sindhu Resettlement Corporation Gandhidham, India. Early life and career Hotchand Advani was born on 22 April 1907 in Hyderabad, Sindh, British India (now Pakistan). His father Gopaldas Jhatmal Advani was a notable lawyer of Sindh. He got early education in Hyderabad and graduated from King's College London. He served as a Municipal Councillor of Hyderabad and the President, Hyderabad Bar Association. He was the legal advisor of Hyderabad Municipality, Hyderabad District Local Board, and many other institutions of name and fame. He was also director and member of many banks, institutions, clubs and societies of Sindh. During the partition of British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poornima Advani
Poornima Advani is an Indian lawyer, author and social worker. She has served as the chairperson of National Commission for Women (NCW), from January 2002 to January 2005. Biography Her mother, Meera Govind Advani is an author. Advani holds a doctorate in law from the University of Bombay and a post-graduate diploma in physiotherapy Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy, is one of the allied health professions. It is provided by physical therapists who promote, maintain, or restore health through physical examination, diagnosis, management, prognosis, patient .... She was a member of the NCW and has written legal and medical publications. She was also a lecturer in the department of law, University of Bombay and also in many global universities, including University of Queensland (Australia), School of Oriental and South African Studies, London; University of East London; and London School of Economics. She is currently a Partner at The Law Point, a natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalyan Bulchand Advani
Kalyan Bulchand Advani (10 December 1911 - 17 March 1994) was an Indian poet, critic, and scholar of Sindhi literature. He compiled an edition of the Shah Jo Risalo in 1958 and translated Kalidas’s work Shakuntala in Sindhi. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by the Government of India in 1968. Biography Kalyan Advani was born on 10 December 1911 at Hyderabad, Sindh. After the partition of the subcontinent, he migrated to India in 1948 and joined Jai Hind College Bombay (now Mumbai). There, he retired as a Professor of English and Persian in 1976. Literary Contributions Kalyan Advani contributed articles to the college magazine Phuleli. After joining as a lecturer, he started a magazine ''Latifi Bari'', named after the saint and poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai. He regularly contributed to the literary magazines Sindhu, Latifi Bari, and others. His first award-winning literary contribution came in 1946. This was the translation of Kalidasa's drama Shakuntala into Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pratibha Advani
Pratibha Advani is an Indian talk show host anchor and a television producer. She is the daughter of L. K. Advani, former deputy Prime Minister of India. She heads Swayam Infotainment, a media company engaged in the production of entertainment software for Indian television. She is producer of two famous shows on the broadcast network Doordarshan: ''Yaadein'' and ''Take Care''. Advani also hosted many other shows like ''Retake with Pratibha Advani'' and ''Namaste Cinema''. She produced a documentary film ''Ananya Bharati'' on the subject of patriotism in Hindi cinema Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo .... References External links Hindustan Times (Ram and only Ram) Indiantelevision.comLK.Advani’s daughter anchors a chat showPratibha on politics and beyondIs Prat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindhis
Sindhis ( sd, سنڌي Perso-Arabic: सिन्धी Devanagari; ) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the province of Sindh in Pakistan. After the partition of British Indian empire in 1947, many Sindhi Hindus and Sindhi Sikhs migrated to the newly independent Dominion of India and other parts of the world. Pakistani Sindhis are predominantly Muslim with a smaller Sikh and Hindu minority, whereas Indian Sindhis are predominantly Hindu with a Sikh, Jain and Muslim minority. Sindhi people have been native to Sindh throughout history, apart from that their historical region has always came from the South-eastern side of Balochistan, the Bahawalpur region of Punjab and the Kutch region of Gujarat, India. The Sindhi diaspora is growing around the world, especially in the Middle East, owing to better employment opportunities. Etymology The name Sindhi is derived from the Sanskrit ''Sindhu'' which translates as river or sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suresh H
Suresh is an Indian masculine given name originating in the Sanskrit word ' (compound of ' and '). Its meaning is "Ruler of Gods" and it has been used an epithet for the Hindu gods Indra, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. People named Suresh include: *Suresh (actor), Indian actor in Telugu and Tamil films *Suresh (director), Tamil film director *Suresh Balaje, Indian film producer * Suresh Bharadwaj, Indian politician *Suresh Gopi (born 1960), Indian Malayalam film actor * Suresh Heblikar, Indian Kannada film actor *Suresh Joachim, Tamil Canadian film actor, producer and multiple Guinness World Record holder *Suresh Joshi, Indian poet, writer and literary critic * Suresh Krishna, Indian Malayali film actor *Suresh Krissna, Indian Tamil film director *Suresh Kumar (government official), American economist and businessman, Director-General of the U.S. Foreign Commercial Service *Suresh Oberoi, Indian Hindi movie actor *Suresh Pachouri, Indian politician *Suresh Raina, Indian cricketer *Sure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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