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Shripal Morakhia
Shripal Morakhia (Marathi: श्रीपाल मोराखिया) is an Indian businessman, film director and film producer. Morakhia is best known for his directorial debut Naina (2005). Presently, Morakhia is chairman of ''Smaaash'' a sports entertainment venture with his equity partner and former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. Early life Morakhia was a stock broker and executive assistant to President of New York Stock Exchange. Thereafter, Morakhia also opened an investment bank outfit SSKI and online portal Sharekhan. Venture in sports entertainment Morakhia founded entertainment centre ''Smaaash'' in 2012 which holds the equity of 1.5 billion rupees after the investment by FW Sports Investment Fund (FSIF). The venture is co-operated by STAR India. Venture into film industry Morakhia also launched his film production and film distribution company named ''iDream Productions'' in early 2000 and distributed many films. Morakhia holds 50% stake of the production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marathi Language
Marathi (; ''Marāṭhī'', ) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the official language of Maharashtra, and additional official language in the state of Goa. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India, with 83 million speakers as of 2011. Marathi ranks 11th in the list of languages with most native speakers in the world. Marathi has the third largest number of native speakers in India, after Hindi and Bengali. The language has some of the oldest literature of all modern Indian languages. The major dialects of Marathi are Standard Marathi and the Varhadi dialect. Marathi distinguishes inclusive and exclusive forms of 'we' and possesses a three-way gender system, that features the neuter in addition to the masculine and the feminine. In its phonology, it contrasts apico-alveolar with alveopalatal affricates and alveolar with retroflex laterals ( and (Marathi letters and respectively). H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
