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Waar Parriwar
''Waar Parriwar'' () is a singing reality television show on Sony Entertainment Television in 2008. It featured Urmila Matondkar as the host, and Jatin Pandit as the in-house guru and trainer to the competing families. Concept The show is a unique show which seamlessly blends, family bond with their love for music. It followed the journey of families from across India – their trials and tribulations, highs of victory and disappointment of defeat, their love for each other during tough times and eventually culminate in finding "Sangeet Ka Naya Gharana". The families competed against each other to win the title of best "Sangeet Ka Naya Gharana". The show was judged by different celebrity judges each week and by India's foremost music families combined with audience voting. *The wildcard entry took place on Monday 14 July in which Ali Ghani Parriwar and Ramshankar Parriwar (now known as Shambhu Pandit Parriwar) have won among all other participants. Misbah was the runner up a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urmila Matondkar
Urmila Matondkar (born 4 February 1974) is an Indian actress and politician. Known for her work primarily in Hindi cinema, Hindi films, in addition to Telugu cinema, Telugu, Malayalam cinema, Malayalam, Marathi cinema, Marathi and Tamil cinema, Tamil films, she has received List of awards and nominations received by Urmila Matondkar, numerous accolades, including the Filmfare Awards, Filmfare Award and the Nandi Awards, Nandi Award. Having established a distinctive on-screen persona, she is known for her acting skills, style statements and dancing skills. After making her debut as a child in the 1977 film ''Karm'', Matondkar gained recognition with ''Masoom (1983 film), Masoom'' (1983), following which she appeared in few other films. Her first lead role came with the Malayalam cinema, Malayalam film ''Chanakyan'' (1989), and her subsequent lead role in Hindi cinema with ''Narsimha (1991 film), Narsimha'' (1991), both of which were commercial successes. After a brief setback, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Aparesh Lahiri (born Alokesh Aparesh Lahiri; 27 November 1952 – 15 February 2022), also known as Bappi Da, was an Indian singer, composer and record producer. He popularised the use of synthesised disco music in Indian music industry and sang some of his own compositions. He was popular in the 1980s and 1990s with filmi soundtracks. He delivered major box office successes primarily in Hindi, Telugu, and Bengali films. His music was well received into the 21st century. In 1986, he was recognised by Guinness World Records for recording more than 180 songs in one year. Early life Alokesh Aparesh Lahiri was born on 27 November 1952 in Siliguri, West Bengal. His parents, Aparesh and Bansuri Lahiri, both were Bengali singers and musicians in classical music and Shyama Sangeet. He belonged to the Bengali Brahmin Lahiri-Mohan family of Mohanpur, Sirajganj (in present-day Bangladesh). The family migrated to West Bengal after the Partition of Bengal in 1947. His parents, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in India as well as the List of first-level administrative divisions by population, most populous country subdivision in the world – more populous than List of countries and dependencies by population, all but four other countries outside of India (China, United States, Indonesia, and Pakistan) – and accounting for 16.5 percent of the population of India or around 3 percent of the total world population. The state is bordered by Rajasthan to the west, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi to the northwest, Uttarakhand and Nepal to the north, Bihar to the east, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to the south. It is the List of states of India by area, fourth-largest Indian state by area covering , accounting for 7.3 percent of the total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjab (India)
Punjab () is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab, Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the States and union territories of India, Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the north and northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, and Rajasthan to the southwest; by the Indian union territory, union territories of Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jammu and Kashmir to the north and Chandigarh to the east. To the west, it shares an international border with the identically named Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, and as such is sometimes referred to as East Punjab or Indian Punjab for disambiguation purposes. The state covers an area of 50,362 square kilometres (19,445 square miles), which is 1.53% of India's total geographical area, making it List of states and union territories of India by area, the 19th-largest Indian state by area out of 28 Indian states (20th larges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durga Jasraj
Durga Jasraj (born 12 September 1966) is an Indian original content producer, actor and Hindustani classical singer. She focuses on creating indigenous content in formats for multiple media, viz. Live, Television, Online, Mobile VAS, Radio, CD/DVDs. She founded "Art And Artistes (I) Pvt. Ltd.", an entertainment programming company in 1999. She subsequently co-founded the Indian Music Academy (IMA) in 2006. Early life Jasraj was born in Mumbai to classical vocalist Pandit JasrajHelp for old and ailing musicians '''', 29 November 2010. and Madhura Pandit. She has an older brother, music director Shaarang Dev. Her maternal gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandit Jasraj
Pandit Jasraj (28 January 1930 – 17 August 2020) was an Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the ''Mewati gharana'' (musical apprenticeship lineage). His musical career spanned 75 years resulting in national and international fame, respect and numerous major awards and accolades. His legacy includes memorable performances of classical and semi-classical vocal music, classical and devotional music, albums and film soundtracks, innovations in various genres including '' Haveli Sangeet'' and popularizing the ''Mewati Gharana'' – a school of thought in Hindustani classical music. Pandit Jasraj taught music to amateur and professional students in India, Europe, Canada and the United States. Early life Pandit Jasraj was born on 28 January 1930 in Pili Mandori, a village in the then Hisar district (now in Fatehabad district) of Haryana, in an artistic Brahmin family to Pandit Motiram, a classical singer and Krishna Bai. He was the youngest of three sons, in a family o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hijack (2008 Film)
''Hijack'' is a 2008 Indian action thriller film starring Shiney Ahuja and Esha Deol. The film is written and directed by Kunal Shivdasani and is based on the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814. The film premiered on 5 September 2008. Plot Vikram Madan (Shiney Ahuja) is a ground maintenance engineer at the Chandigarh Airport. His social life is limited to one friend, Rajeev, the security chief of the same airport. Vikram's daughter Priya ( Ishitha Chauhan) is traveling with her teacher for a debate contest to Amritsar from Delhi. That flight gets hijacked by a group of six terrorists working for a man named Rasheed (KK Raina) who has been captured by the Indian police. The flight is forced to land at the Chandigarh Airport. These terrorists demand the release of Rasheed from the Indian Government or they threaten to kill the hostages inside the aircraft. Now Vikram is faced with a dilemma of being the only man who can sneak inside the aircraft and try to save the life of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaveri Jha
Kaveri Jha is an Indian model, film actress and flight attendant. She works in Hindi and Telugu language films. Early life Jha was born in Bihar. Her family had to move frequently as her father is an Indian government employee. She went on to win the Ms Personality award on Miss India contest in 2005. Career After winning the award, she started modeling and appeared in a few music videos. She also hosted a TV show named ''Super Sale'' along with Sajid Khan. After appearing in a small role in Priyadarshan's ''Bhool Bhulaiyaa'' (2007), she made her Hindi film debut in ''Hijack'' (2008), playing Shiney Ahuja's wife on screen. Thereafter she acted in a few Hindi movies, but it was Telugu films where she moved towards later on making her debut in 2008 with ''Nagaram'', alongside Srikanth. She juggles being a flight attendant with Air India Air India is the flag carrier of India with its main hub at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, and secondary hubs at Kempegow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiney Ahuja
Shiney Suraj Ahuja (born 15 May 1973) is an Indian former actor who worked in Bollywood. He won the Filmfare Best Male Debut Award for '' Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi'' in 2006 and then followed with several hit films like ''Gangster'', '' Woh Lamhe'', '' Life in a Metro'', '' Bhool Bhulaiyaa'', and ''Welcome Back''. Early life and education Ahuja was born on 15 May 1973 into a Punjabi family in New Delhi, India. His mother is from Shimla, with her family originally from Sargoda, and his father Suraj Ahuja's ancestry is from Sahiwal, both in modern day Pakistan. His father was born in Dehradun, and was a colonel in the Indian Army. Ahuja studied at St. Xavier's Senior Secondary School, Delhi and Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, before attending Hansraj College of the University of Delhi, followed by R.V. College of Engineering in Bangalore. Later, he joined the theatre group "TAG" where he met Barry John. Shortly thereafter, he joined John's acting school in Delhi. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumar Sanu
Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), professionally known as Kumar Sanu, is a leading Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Hindi film songs. He is widely regarded as the Melody King of Bollywood. He holds the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer from 1991 to 1995. He also holds the Guinness World Record for recording the maximum number of songs (28 songs) in a single day since 1993.Apart from Hindi, he has also sung in other languages including Marathi, Nepali, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Manipuri, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, Odia, Chhattisgarhi, Urdu, Pali, English and his native language Bengali. For his contribution to Indian cinema and music, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India. Many of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time". Early life Kumar Sanu's father, Pashupati Bhattacharya, was a vocalist and composer. His a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonali Rathod
Sunali Rathod is an Indian playback singer. She is also a trained classical singer. Personal life Sunali Rathod was born Sonali Sheth on 17 January 1970 into a Gujarati family in Mumbai. She studied in St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She was bhajan singer Anup Jalota's first wife and married him (against his family's approval) while still a music student, but subsequently divorced him to marry Roop Kumar Rathod, (tabla player), playback singer, music director and a composer. They have a daughter named Surshree or Reewa. Career She started to perform at the age of 10 under the guidance of Gujarati music composer Shri Purshottam Upadhyay. During this stage she was introduced to Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, who became her mentor. She also learnt the intricacies of Indian classical music Classical music under Ustaad Faiyyaz, Niyaz Ahmed Khan, Ustad Mashkoor and Mubarak Ali Khan of Kirana School of Music. She sings in languages like Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, English, Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
