Vivek Oberoi Biography

Birth Name: Vivek Anand Oberoi
Veviek Oberoi who started his career with Ram Gopal Verma's Company has indeed come a long way. He has proved his versatility as an actor in his each films.
Date of Birth: 3 September 1976
Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Biography:
Vivek Oberoi was born in Mumbai and attended Mayo College in Ajmer. At an actors' workshop in London he was spotted by none other than the director of NYU who (unsurprisingly) whisked Vivek off to New York, where he completed his Masters Degree in film acting.

Vivek Oberoi debuted in Ram Gopal Varma's film Company. Next, he starred in Saathiya (2002) directed by Shaad Ali, and in the comedy Masti (2004). In 2004, he starred in Yuva. In 2005 he acted as title role in movie Kisna: The Warrior Poet.

In 2006, he appeared in Omkara, which was a commercial success. In 2007, he acted as the gangster Maya Dolas in the multi-starrer, Shootout at Lokhandwala.

In 2008, Vivek starred in a film called Mission Istanbul, which was directed by Apoorva Lakhia and produced by Ekta Kapoor. In 2009 he co-starred in Kurbaan. In 2010, he appeared in Prince, which Box office India declared a flop. In the same year, he appeared in Ram Gopal Varma's Rakht Charitra.

Vivek is slated to play the lead role in the film, Bloody Paki that will be directed by Shaad Ali and Shiva and produced by Mani Ratnam. He will be now seen in Rakesh Roshan's Krrish 2.
Personal Life:
On 29 October 2010, Vivek Oberoi married Priyanka Alva, daughter of Karnataka minister Jeevaraj Alva, in Bangalore.

Before getting married to Priyanka he was dating Aishwarya Rai for a while.
Controversy:
In 2003, he called a press conference at his house, where he alleged that actor Salman Khan had been threatening him because of his close relations with Aishwarya Rai. Salman Khan denied these allegations. In 2007, he apologized to Salman Khan at the Rajiv Gandhi Awards function at the Jamshed Bhabha Theatre.

Later, in 2010, he again publicly apologized to Salman Khan through Star News, for calling that press conference, and called it an immature step of a 24 year old boy.
Box Office Collection:
Shootout At Lokandwala: Rs 44.17 Crores (Total Gross Collection)
Filmography:
As an actor
Krrish 2 (2011) (Under Production) Bloody Paki (2011) (Under Production) Zila Ghaziabad (2011) (Under Production) ... Satbir Gujjar 7g Rainbow Colony (2011) (Under Production) Anubhav Sinha - Vikram Bhatt Film (2011) (Stuck/On Hold) Rakht Charitra - 2 (December 3, 2010) (Released)... Paritala Ravi Rakht Charitra - I (October 22, 2010) (Released)... Pratap Ravi Prince (April 9, 2010) (Released)... Prince Kurbaan (November 20, 2009) (Released)... Riyaz Mansoori Luck By Chance (January 30, 2009) (Released) ... Guest Appearance (As Himself) Mission Istaanbul (July 25, 2008) (Released) ... Rizwan Khan Fool N Final (June 1, 2007) (Released)... Luckee Shoot Out At Lokhandwala (May 25, 2007) (Released)... Maya Dolas Naksha (September 8, 2006) (Released)... Vicky Omkara (July 28, 2006) (Released)... Kesu (Cassio) Pyare Mohan (April 21, 2006) (Released) ... Mohan Home Delivery (December 2, 2005) (Released) ... Sunny Chopra Deewane Huye Paagal (November 25, 2005) (Released)... Narrator (Sutradhar) Kaal (April 29, 2005) (Released)... Dev Malhotra Kisna (January 21, 2005) (Released)... Kisna Kyun! Ho Gaya Na (August 13, 2004) (Released) ... Arjun Khanna Yuva (May 21, 2004) (Released)... Arjun Masti (April 9, 2004) (Released)... Meet Mehta Darna Mana Hai (July 25, 2003) (Released) ... Amar Dum (January 24, 2003) (Released)... Uday Shinde Saathiya (December 20, 2002) (Released) ... Aditya Sehgal Road (September 27, 2002) (Released)... Arvind Chauhan
Company (April 12, 2002) (Released)... Chandrakant (Chandu)
Awards:
Winner: IIFA Award for IIFA Green Global Award (2010)
Winner: Stardust Award for Standout Performance Of The Year (2008)
Movie: Shoot Out At Lokhandwala
Winner: IIFA Award for Best Performance In Negative Role (2008)
Movie: Shoot Out At Lokhandwala
Winner: Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Male (2003)
Movie: Company
Winner: Filmfare Award for Best Actor In Supporting Role (2002)
Movie: Company
Nominated: Screen Award for Best Actor In A Negative Role (2011)
Movie: Rakht Charitra - I
Nominated: The Global Indian Film And Television Honors for Best Performance In A Negative Role (2011)
Movie: Rakht Charitra - I
Nominated: The Global Indian Film And Television Honors for Best Actor In A Lead Role - Male (2011)
Movie: Rakht Charitra - I
Nominated: Apsara Award for Best Actor In Supporting Role (2010)
Movie: Kurbaan
Nominated: Stardust Award for Best Actor In A Supporting Role (2010)
Movie: Kurbaan
Nominated: Screen Award for Best Actor In A Negative Role (2008)
Movie: Shoot Out At Lokhandwala
Nominated: Stardust Award for Best Actor In A Negative Role (2008)
Movie: Shoot Out At Lokhandwala
Nominated: Apsara Award for Best Actor In A Negative Role (2008)
Movie: Shoot Out At Lokhandwala
Nominated: Screen Award for Best Actor (2003)
Movie: Saathiya
Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Actor (2002)
Movie: Saathiya

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Vindoo Dara Singh Biography

Vindoo Dara Singh was born on May 6, 1960. He is the son of noted actor and former Indian wrestler, legendary Dara Singh. He is not a recognizable face as yet, but is slowly working his way up the ladder in the industry.

He has played the role of Hanuman in a television serial. He has acted in some other movies like Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya (2005), Team - The Force (2008), Maruti Mera Dosst (2009) but it never took off the way, he expected. He was last seen in the movie Kambakkht Ishq along with Akshay Kumar.

Vindoo's career recently got a boost thanks to his new friend Akshay Kumar. He was last seen in Kambakkht Ishq where he played Akki's sidekick. Now their friendship has moved to real life from reel life. It is rumoured that Akshay is also responsible for securing Vindoo a place in Bigg Boss 3.

Vindoo was earlier married to Farah who is the elder sister of Tabu. He has a son with Farah named Fateh. The first time he shot to limelight was when he left her to go and live with a Russian model Dina Unirovia. Vindoo met a Dina through a good friend and after that they started dating. However, later a man from Germany, Matthias Stobber came out saying that he was married to Dina and they had not parted ways making it illegal for her to stay with him. She went back to Australia but they realized they are in life and they came back together. He is now happily married to Dina.
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Vikram Bhatt Biography

Vikram Bhatt was born on 27 January 1969 is a Bollywood writer and director. He is the grandson of Vijay Bhatt, who was one of the pioneer of Indian Films and the son of veteran cinematographer Pravin Bhatt. He has more than 21 films to his credit and at present he is the creative head of a conglomerate called ASA productions and enterprises pvt ltd.

Vikram Bhatt is a well-known name in Bollywood. Hes a writer turned director and comes from a film background. His father Mukesh Bhatt was a prolific producer. His films Ghulam and Awara Paagal Deewana did reasonably good business at the box-office.

He has one daughter from his earlier marriage but currently he is divorced. He has been linked with many high profile women such as Sushmita Sen and Ameesha Patel.

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Udit Narayan Biography

Udit Narayan Jha was born on December 1, 1960 at Saptari, Nepal.He is popularly known as Udit Narayan is a playback singer in commercial Hindi-, Tamil-, Telugu-, Malayalam-, Kannada-, and Nepali-language cinema. He was born in a village called Bharadah in Saptari, Nepal. Udit Narayan has sung more than 15,000 songs in more than 30 different languages.

Udit Narayan began his career by singing Nepali, Maithili,Bhojpuri,Nepal Bhasa at first when he was in his native country, Nepal. After his arrival to India he began singing Hindi songs; a contribution for Bollywood. Then simultaneously he started Bengali, English. He has sung folk songs for Radio Nepal in the early 1970s. In 1978, he moved to Mumbai on a music scholarship. In Bombay, he got trained in Indian classical music for six years at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. He currently lives in Bombay.

He got his first break in 1980, when noted music director (composer) Rajesh Roshan asked him to do a song for the Hindi movie "Unees Bees", in which he got opportunity to sing with his inspiration, Mohammed Rafi. However the actual success story of his career began in 1988 with the successful Bollywood movie Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, fetching him a Filmfare Award[citation needed]. The film also happened to bring actor Aamir Khan, actress Juhi Chawla and playback singer Alka Yagnik to stardom. After the success of Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, he became one of the leading playback singers in the Indian film industry, lending his voice mostly in Aamir Khan movies like Dil, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander, etc. At the same time, he became a well-known celebrity in Nepal and sang in most popular Nepalese movies. He even acted in some Nepalese movies like "Kusume Rumal" and "Pirati" but did not achieve that much success.

Throughout the 1990s, he was one of the most successful singers in India. In 1995, his song "Mehndi Lagake Rakhna" from the movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge won him his second Filmfare Award after 7 years. The following year 1996, he got nominated for three songs out of five and won his third award for the song "Pardesi Pardesi" from Raja Hindustani.

He has worked with musicians like Rahul Dev Burman, Jagjit Singh, Anu Malik, Jatin Lalit, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Kalyanji-Anandji, Bappi Lahiri, Vishal Bhardwaj, A. R. Rahman, Nadeem-Shravan, Rajesh Roshan, Shankar Mahadevan, Himesh Reshammiya, Pritam Chakraborty, Vishal-Shekhar etc., and leading directors like Yash Chopra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Karan Johar, etc. These include Darr, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dil To Pagal Hai, Mohabbatein, Devdas, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Swades, Veer Zaara, etc.

Udit Narayan is considered as one of the greatest singers of his generation along with Kumar Sanu and Sonu Nigam, whose singing abilities are often compared with legendary singers like Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar. Renowned singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Anup Jalota, Pankaj Udhas etc., have all collaborated with him.

His repertoire includes songs in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Tamil, English and Malayalam. At the same time, his discernible Nepalese accent and distinct pronunciation has many critics who find it difficult to decipher words in his songs.

He has worked in Nepalese films as well, in particular for composer Shambhujeet Baskota. During early singing career, he sang songs composed by Shiva Shankar, Natikaji and Gopal Yonzan. In 2004, he released his first private Nepalese album "Upahaar", in which he also sang duet songs with his wife Deepa Jha. It did well and one of the best selling albums of all time. He even ended up winning awards in two major categories - Record of the year and Album of the year during Hits FM Awards 2004, the most popular music awards in Nepal for the same album Upahaar.

Currently, he is in the panel of judges on Sony TV for Waar Pariwaar, a reality show based on the bringing together of a singing gharana, (family of singers) he shares judging duties with fellow playback singerKumar Sanu and Jatin Pandit of the famous music duo Jatin-Lalit. At the same time, he is one of the judges

He has most frequently sung for actors like Rishi Kapoor, Sunny Deol, Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Aamir Khan, Akshay Khanna, Saif Ali Khan, Hrithik Roshan etc,. Throughout the years he has sung numerous hit songs for these actors.

Udit Narayan is married and has one son. His wife Deepa Narayan, whom he married in 1985, is an accomplished Nepalese singer, and the two have recorded an album together titled Dil Deewana.

His son Aditya Narayan has also established himself as the voice of child artists in Hindi movies and acted as child artist in hit movies like Pardes, Rangeela, and Jab Pyar Kisise Hota Hai. His role as a son of actor Salman Khan in the movie Jab Pyar Kisise Hota Hai was widely acclaimed. However, Aditya Narayan has grown up and had taken a break from Bollywood since 2001, on account of his changing voice. He's now back on the scene and was hosting Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 then Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs and is now back with Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009.

On April 21,2006 - Ranjana Jha, a resident of Supual district in Nepal created a controversy by claiming to be Udit Narayan's first wife. While Udit initially rejected her claims, probably to avoid negative publicity, to avoid himself from anti-polygamy laws and possibly to protect existing family and his wealth, he finally agreed and reached a settlement with her.

source(Wikipedia)

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Surya Biography

Saravanan "Surya" Sivakumar (born on 23 July 1975), popularly known as Surya,is an Indian actor in the Tamil film industry. He is the son of Tamil actor Sivakumar and is married to Jyothika Saravanan, a popular former Tamil actress. He is well-known for his versatile roles in various films. He starred in several noted films such as Nandha, Kaakha Kaakha, Ghajini, Perazhagan, Pithamagan and Vaaranam Aayiram.

Surya's father is the renowned veteran Tamil actor Sivakumar. He is the eldest of three children, younger brother being the award-winning actor Karthik Sivakumar and a younger sister named Brindha, who is married to an industrialist named Sivakumar.

Surya went to the Prestigious St. Bede's School in Chennai. He graduated from Loyola College with a B.Com and worked for a few years in the garment industry, before foraying into the film industry. He is a good friend to popular Tamil film actor Joseph Vijay who was his classmate in college.

He married actress Jyothika Saravanan on September 11, 2006 in a star-studded, traditional wedding ceremony at the Park Sheraton Hotel in Chennai. The couple is widely recognized as an extremely popular celebrity couple in South India. Their daughter Diya was born on August 10, 2007.

Surya's father is the renowned veteran Tamil actor Sivakumar. He is the eldest of three children, younger brother being the award-winning actor Karthik Sivakumar and a younger sister named Brindha, who is married to an industrialist named Sivakumar.

Surya went to the Prestigious St. Bede's School in Chennai. He graduated from Loyola College with a B.Com and worked for a few years in the garment industry, before foraying into the film industry. He is a good friend to popular Tamil film actor Joseph Vijay who was his classmate in college.

He married actress Jyothika Saravanan on September 11, 2006 in a star-studded, traditional wedding ceremony at the Park Sheraton Hotel in Chennai. The couple is widely recognized as an extremely popular celebrity couple in South India. Their daughter Diya was born on August 10, 2007.

*source:Wikipedia

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