Showing posts with label Khan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Khan. Show all posts

Monday, March 14, 2011

Aamir Hussain Khan

Born Aamir Hussain Khan on March 14, 1965
Aamir Khan (pronounced [ɑːmɪr xɑːn]; Devanāgarī: आमिर ख़ान, is an Indian actor,film director and film producer.




Khan began his film career as a child actor in a home production, produced and directed by Nasir Hussain, titled Yaadon Ki Baraat (1973) and Madhosh (1974). Eleven years later, he made his adult acting debut in a role that went quite unnoticed in Ketan Mehta's Holi (1984).

Khan's first notable leading role came in 1988 in the film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak which was directed by his cousin and Nasir Hussain's son Mansoor Khan. This film was a breakthrough commercial success, effectively launching Khan's career as a leading actor. Having the typical 'chocolate hero' looks, he was publicised as a teen idol. After that, he went on to appear in several other films in the late '80s and early '90s: Dil (1990), which became the highest grossing film of the year, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin (1991), Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992), Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (1993) (for which he also wrote the screenplay), and Rangeela (1995). Most of these films were successful critically and commercially.Other successes include Andaz Apna Apna, co-starring Salman Khan. At the time of its release the movie was reviewed unfavorably by critics, but over the years has gained a cult status

Khan founded his own production company, Aamir Khan Productions, to help finance his long time friend Ashutosh Gowariker's dream of making the film Lagaan. The movie was released in 2001, starring Khan as the lead actor. The film was a major critical and commercial success, and was selected as India's official entry to the 74th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. It was eventually chosen and nominated in that category along with four other foreign films, but lost to No Man's Land. Additionally, the film gathered critical acclaim at several international film festivals, apart from winning numerous Bollywood awards, including National Film Awards. Khan himself won his second Filmfare Best Actor Award and commented on loss of Lagaan at the Oscars, saying, "Certainly we were disappointed. But the thing that really kept us in our spirits was that the entire country was behind us".

The success of Lagaan was followed by Dil Chahta Hai later that year, in which Khan co-starred with Akshaye Khanna and Saif Ali Khan, with Preity Zinta playing his love interest. The film was written and directed by the then newcomer Farhan Akhtar. According to critics, the film broke new grounds by showing Indian urban youth as they really are today. The characters depicted were modern, suave and cosmopolitan. The film did moderately well and was a success mostly in urban cities

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's award-winning, Rang De Basanti, was Khan's first release in 2006. His role was critically acclaimed, earning him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance and various nominations for Best Actor. The film went on to become one of the highest grossing films of the year, and was selected as India's official entry to the Oscars. Although the film was not shortlisted as a nominee, it received a nomination for Best Foreign Film at the BAFTA Awards in England. Khan's work in his next movie, Fanaa (2006) was also appreciated, and the film went on to become one of the highest grossing Indian films of 2006

His 2007 film, Taare Zameen Par (about a teacher who befriends and helps a dyslexic child), which Khan produced and also starred in, marked his directorial debut. The film, which was the second offering from Aamir Khan Productions, opened to excellent responses from critics and audiences alike. His work won him two awards at the Filmfare, the Best Movie and the Best Director awards, and established his status as a competent director and a story-teller. The film was also selected as India's official entry to the 2009 Oscars

Playback singing
Year Film Song

1998 Ghulam Aati Kya Khandala
2000 Mela Dekho 2000 Zamana Aa Gaya
2005 The Rising Holi Re
2006 Rang De Basanti Lalkaar

Fanaa Chanda Chamke
2007 Taare Zameen Par Bum Bum Bole

Producer

Year Film Director
2001 Lagaan Ashutosh Gowariker

Winner, Filmfare Best Movie Award
2007 Taare Zameen Par Aamir Khan
Winner, Filmfare Best Movie Award
2008 Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Abbas Tyrewala
2008 Ghajini A. R. Murugadoss

Writer/Director
Year Film Notes
1988 Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak Story writer
1993 Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke Screenwriter
2007 Taare Zameen Par Director
Winner, Filmfare Best Director Award




Soha Ali Khan (Hindi: सोहा अली खान)

Born on October 4, 1978 in New Delhi, India
Soha Ali Khan (Hindi: सोहा अली खान) is an Indian actress .






Soha Ali Khan was born into the family of nawabs of Pataudi. Her father, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, the current nawab, is a former captain of the Indian cricket team. Her mother, Sharmila Tagore, is a noted film actress, and a distant relative of the nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Her brother, Saif Ali Khan is also a Bollywood actor . She is dating Siddharth a popular and predominant hero in Down South especially in Telugu movies. Soha is seeing him from the time of Rang De Basanti

Before embarking upon her film career, Soha worked for the Ford Foundation and Citibank. She is involved in a range of activities outside the acting world, including serving on the Advisory Board for a new project of the public entrepreneur group, Res Publica. She has also recently modeled for the spring-summer collection of Globus, an Indian chain of boutiques.

Soha made her acting debut with the Bollywood production Dil Maange More (2004), where she shared credits with Shahid Kapoor and two other leading ladies(Ayesha Takia and Tulip joshi).She has since received critical acclaim for her performances in the Bengali film Antar Mahal (2005) and Rang De Basanti (2006). Her latest release Khoya Khoya Chand (Sudhir Mishra)(2007) though did not do well at the boxoffice, earned her critical acclaim.

Awards

* 2007:Star's Sabsey Favourite Nayi Heroine
* 2007:GIFA Best Supporting Actress for Rang De Basanti
* 2007:IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for Rang De Basanti

She was born in Mumbai and at the age of six shifted to delhi. She studied at British School and use to study hard to get good marks. She enjoyed sports and theatre. Then she did her under graduate at Oxford and master's at London School of Economics in International Relations. Studying abroad has given her international outlook and understand and be tolerant towards other cultures

While studying she know exactly that she wanted to be in films in terms of career. She know if started acting before accomplishing her academy, then it wouldn't be possible for her to go back to studying. Her parents had the typical normal parental concerns about joining the films. When she was 12, she meant to play the child in Mira Nair's "Mississippi Masala" and taken two months leave from school also. But couldn't do the film because she had to get braces

Filmography
Year Film Role Other notes
2004 Iti Srikanta Kamallata
2004 Dil Maange More Neha
2005 Pyaar Mein Twist Ria
2005 Shaadi No. 1 Sonia
2005 Antar Mahal Jasomati
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006 Rang De Basanti Sonia Winner IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award
2006 Ahista Ahista Megha
2007 Khoya Khoya
Chand Nikhat
2008 Mumbai Meri Jaan Rupali Joshi
2008 Airport Filming
2008 Dil Kabaddi Mita Releasing on December 5, 2008
2009 Dhoondte Reh Jaoge Filming
2009 Tera Kya Hoga Johnny Filming
2009 99 Filming







Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Claudia Ciesla

Born February 12, 1987 in Wodzisław Śląski, Poland
Claudia Ciesla is a German model, actress, and singer of Polish descent. She grew up in the town of Bukow, Poland, five miles from the Czech border in an area called Silesia with a minority German population. Her father is Polish and her mother is German. Despite her heritage, she is a fan of Yorkshire football team Leeds United and in August 2008 visited Elland Road following the UK release of her debut single.


Ciesla started modeling at the age of 15 working for shows involved in fashion and dancing. At the age of 17 she moved to Bamberg, Germany and became an Internet glamour model. Her original stage name is "CClaudia", but she also appears frequently under her real name. - She then appeared in print in the German Matador magazine. She was discovered by the former German Chief Editor, Stefan Gessulat, and appeared in the August 2005 Matador issue as Miss Matador. .

She has done many glamorous bikini style and fashion modeling shoots and her photos have been published on many Internet websites. - The German newspaper Bild arranged an examination of Ciesla by a plastic surgeon and reported, that her breasts were entirely natural.

In March 2006, Ciesla won a subscribers poll on the internet websites of Auto Bild, Bild, Sat.1, T-Online and Kabeleins and she obtained the most votes with a big lead over her rivals with 350,000 hits to her profile to give her first place as Germany's Super Girl 2006. In May 2006 she was selected by Bild as the Football/Soccer Worldcup Girl 2006, and during the World Cup 2006 she was featured on the front page of a total of seven publications of that newspaper.

In 2007 and again in 2008 she was appearing on the German Internet soap opera Beach House, playing the part of Daisy Vandenburg. In November 2007 she told in an interview, that she plans after her modelling career to become a tax consultant.

In 2008 Claudia Ciesla was in Austria chosen for the Snow Queen 2008. In the touristic season 2007-2008 she was representing the snowrichest tourist Ski-Village in the World and was showing up on various events and promotional appearances, photo shoots for magazines, advertising and brochures, and did a shoot for the magazine “MOTOR-Freizeit and TRENDS“ in Austria. - The New Indian Express reported that Ciesla is acting in a Bollywood film Karma along with leads Carlucci Weyant, Alma Saraci, and DJ Perry as part of an international filmcrew to be filmed in India. Film Director M.S. Shahjahan mentioned in an interview that there will be more assignments for Ciesla in Bollywood.

Her summer 2008 single I love dancing I Espania is written by English composer Gordon Lorenz, and the video shot at his home in Llandudno, Wales.

In July 2008 Ciesla played the role of CLAUDIA in the new italian TV-Sitcom "Outsiders in Palermo" shooted in Palermo/Italy. - In Aug. 2008 Claudia played the female lead in the German-Indian Film "Ki Jana Pardes" - In Aug/Sept Claudia shooted in Calcutta, India in the role of a German journalist for the Film "10:10" (Directed by "Arin Paul"), together with awardwinning filmstar Soumitra Chatterjee and sang the titlesong of this movie.

During 2009, she will participate as an actress at the next Uwe Boll movie "Silent Night in Algona".

"It was so great...perfect organisation, great hospitality everywhere... met so many wonderful and nice people in the Bollywood film industry," says Claudia Ciesla who has has come back to Germany after filming for 'Karma', a $5 million thriller shot in India, directed by renowned South Indian filmmaker M.R. Shahjahan, writes Kathy Robinson

And! She's happy to bare it all- well..more or less! However, Claudia Ciesla insists she has stopped doing topless work for some time. "During the last two years I have received hundreds of offers, some of them quite lucrative, for topless and nude work but I said no to all," clarifies Claudia.

But she also confesses that she 'did pose topless' for Matador, a well known Lifestyle magazine in Germany, as Miss Matador on 10 pages, and 3 times for Bild, a German daily tabloid. Bild is known for its controversial stories and page-3 style-pin-ups. It's also the best-selling newspaper in Europe and claims to have the seventh-largest circulation worldwide.

Now, listen to the best part of Claudia's raunchy story.

Claudia, of course, is proud of her natural assets- 40, 26, 38 to be precise! So much proud... that she allowed herself to be tested and examined by a plastic surgeon just to refute allegations that her assets were all fake. She subjected herself to a rigorous test before a surgeon who was acting on behalf of the Bild newspaper.

Claudia admits that Bild's mission was to find out whether, like many other sexy models, she had any implants- 'a foreign hand' as they say in India and 'boob job' in the industry.

"Her breasts are entirely natural," declared a satisfied surgeon much to the relief of Bild's millions of readers.

Interestingly, Claudia is a believer in Karma-the Hindu theory of one's actions and deeds, and the end result. Though film Karma's story reminds one of the Hindi films based on 'milan and punar janm'- rebirth cycle. Not very original. Vik returns to his ancestral home in Ooty, South India. Meets his mysterious father after a long gap of 30 years. He's not alone. Anna, his American wife, has come along with him. The moment sexy Anna reaches Ooty things go topsy turvy. She gets visions of her previous birth- thirty years ago, Vik's father was involved in some macabre happenings. A girl was raped and murdered! Finally, the murderer is found and the identity crisis of Anna gets resolved, happily. That's Karma!

She featured in:

Moschen-Bayern, one of the most exclusive fashion events in Germany,
Zsport (Sport-Fashion) Paris,
Anna Roxxaa, Les chal des Stars Paris,
Orangedental, hig-tech Dental Equipment in Germany,
Jacuzzi Whirlpools, Italy,
Pille-Film, one of the largest film Equipment Companies in Germany,
Oktoberfest, biggest Beer-Fest worldwide, Munich/Germany,
Whiskyship (biggest Whisky-Event in Europe) Zurich, Switzerland, Damüls Touristic, Austria
and many more
.

Filmography


Actress:

1. 10:10 (2008) .... Serin - German Journalist
2. Karma: Crime, Passion, Reincarnation (2008) .... Linda

Birth location: Wodzisław Śląski, Poland
Measurements: 32DD 38-26-37 in
(98-64-96 cm)
Height: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight: 125 lb (57 kg)
Eye colour: Blue-Green
Hair colour: Dark-Blond
Ethnicity: German/Polish
Official web site http://www.cclaudia.net/
Claudia Ciesla at IMDb