SONAL CHAUHAN

Sonal Singh Chauhan (born May 16, 1985) is an Indian fashion model and actress. She has won several beauty contests and made her acting debut in the movie Jannat directed by Mukesh Bhatt.

1. Early life
She was born in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India , originally hailing from the state of Uttar Pradesh/UP. Her father is a police inspector, and she has one elder brother and two younger sisters. She studied at DPS, Noida and then Philosophy honors at Gargi College in New Delhi.

2. Modelling career
She was crowned as the Miss World Tourism 2005 at Miri, Sarawak state of Malaysia.[1] She was a noteworthy former Miss India contestant. She is the first Indian to have claimed Miss World Tourism title. She has been a popular model of Delhi, and has appeared in a number of advertisement campaigns in print and electronic media. She appeared in the ads of brands like Ponds and Nokia. She also appeared on the cover page of FHM magazine.

3. Acting career
She came to screen in Himesh Reshammiya's album Aap Kaa Surroor. She made her film debut in Mukesh Bhatt's Jannat[2] paired opposite Emraan Hashmi. She played the character of girl called Zoya who works in a call center. She is the love interest of Emraan Hashmi, a bookie. Being a model for two years, having an experience of various ramp shows and print campaigns for big brands like LG, Reliance CDMA, Hero Honda Passion, Nokia, Hindustan Times, Delhi Times, and many more.
She has also signed a Hollywood movie called Final Life casting Rahul . The movie is being directed by Mark Hayden.
4. The Movie Scene

2008 Sonal got her first break opposite serial kisser Emraan Hashmi in Jannat that was her debut movie and in a Telugu movie Rainbow.
2009 She is shooting for the sequel Raaz – The Mystery Continues with Emraan Hashmi and Kangana Ranaut. That’s just the beginning. She also has a Hollywood movie Final Life and a Kannada movie with Shivraajkumar called Cheluveya Ninna Nodalu to be out in theaters this year.

Neetu Chandra

Neetu Chandra (born on June 20 in Bihar) is an Indian theatre and film actress.
Neetu Chandra was born in Patna, India. She is 5'7" tall. Before entering Hindi film Industry, Neetu was an avid sportsperson. She is a black belt holder in Taekwondo. She has represented India in two different games, which is very rare. She has represented India in International Taekwondo Championship at Hong Kong in 1996 and represented India in World Korfball Championship in 1995 at New Delhi. She is a national games Silver Medal winner in Taek-won-do. After completing her basic education, she started struggling for small print ad campaign in Delhi. But her hard work and persevarance took her to the Hindi film Industry. She entered film in 2005 in Garam Masala in which she portrayed Sweety, an airhostess. Then in 2006 she starred in the Telugu film Godavari in which she played the role of Rajeshwari. The film was directed by Sekhar Kammula.
In 2007 she appeared in the film Traffic Signal. In preparation Chandra in order to enter her character spent a whole week living on the streets of Mumbai and living by a traffic light [1].
In 2003, she received the Best Student Award for Sports and Academics given to her by the Prime Minister of India himself.
She is the life member of International Film And Television Club Of Asian Academy Of Film & Television. In the year 2008, she has four releases by Directors, Dibakar Banerjee, Rahul Dholakia, Ashwini Dheer and Vikram.
She is currently acting in the Tamil film, Yavarum Nalam with Madhavan. On 20 March, 2008, a company named 7Seas Technologies announced that they will develop a 3D mobile game with Neetu Chandra playing the lead character. The game titled on her name Neetu (The Alien Killer), is based on a unique game story and revolves around the lead character killing different aliens. Neetu The Alien Killer Game Story: 3000 AD when more than half of the world was destroyed due to greenhouse effect. Atlanto City was captured by the Aliens, who came from the inner solar systems of the Andromeda galaxy. Thousands of Atlanto citizens were killed brutally. The Atlanto Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (ASETI) sends Neetu, a valiant and intelligent female and the only hope of the Atlantians, to redeem the Earth from the alien regime.
Neetu was on the cover of Maxim India on the January 2009 issue of the magazine

THE SONG OF THE SENSIBLE

What way the winds blow, I can understand
Why we show our backs to it, I can understand
I understand the meaning of blood
The value of money I understand
What is for and what is against, I can understand
I even understand this
We are scared to be able to understand, and remain silent.

I can understand the meaning of remaining quiet
When we speak we speak with thinking and understanding
The freedom to speak
Its meaning, I can understand
For a pathetic and measly employment
To sell our freedom, the meaning of that I can understand
But what can we do
When unemployment
Rises faster than the injustice
The dangers of freedom and unemployment, I understand
We narrowly escape the dangers of terror
I can understand
Why we escape and get saved, this too I can understand.

We remain disappointed and are pained by the Almighty if he does not just remain an imagination
We remain disappointed and are pained by the Government why it does not understand
We remain disappointed and pained by the common man because it succumbs to a herd mentality.

We remain pained by the pain of the entire world
I can understand
But how much we remain pained by this pain this too
I can understand
That opposition is the desired step to take
I can understand
At every step we make compromising understandings
I can understand
We make deep commitments for this understanding
Every deep commitment we present in ambiguous language
I can understand
The reason for this ambiguous language also
I understand.

Incidently, we do not consider ourselves
Less than anyone, I can understand
Every black to white
And white to black we are capable of converting
We are capable of creating a storm in a tea cup
If we want we can start a revolution also
If the Government is weak and the common man understanding
But I can understand
That there is nothing that we can do
Why there is nothing that we can do
This too I can understand.

Satyam-Truth be damned ?

If a stock dives 55 percent, is it time to go bargain hunting?
Absolutely not! At least that was the case with India’s Satyam Computer Services after it shocked investors on Wednesday by disclosing most of its profits were cooked up.
The disclosure came after the company’s botched attempt last month to buy two construction firms partly owned by its founders, which sent its shares diving 55 percent in one session by angry investors.
Chairman Ramalinga Raju said: “It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten.”

The shares tumbled nearly 80 percent, roiling investor confidence in India and bringing an undignified end to the illustrious career of one of the country’s top businessmen.
The accounting fraud which analysts instantly dubbed as “India’s Enron”, battered confidence in Indian companies and cast a shadow on the once-booming outsourcing industry.
The biggest Indian corporate scandal in memory threatens future foreign investment flows into Asia’s third-largest economy, already facing slowdown pangs.
The scandal rakes up a number of issues not to mention how profits could have been inflated for several years without anyone noticing. Knock Knock. Independent directors? Anyone listening?
And all this from a company which won an award for corporate governance just three months ago.

GHAJINI

Director: A R Murgadoss

Cast: Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan

Aamir Khan suffers from short-term memory loss in Ghajini, a cerebral disorder by which his memory lasts only for 15 minutes. Seemingly director A R Murgadoss suffered from the same while deriving from Memento, for he seems to have retained only about 15% of the original masterpiece and fabricated the rest as per his formulaic sensibilities. So while you still have the Polaroid camera, post it notes and a tattooed body from Memento, the nonlinear narrative and conspiracy theory is compromised for a prolonged romance track and exaggerated revenge drama. Sadly gimmicks like 8-pack abs or trimmed hairline can't cover up loopholes of a flawed script. Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan) has been hit on the head which gives him recurring bouts of amnesia, almost every fifteen minutes. He is hunting for a person named Ghajini (Pradeep Rawat), and to remember his target, he has inscribed his initials and related clues on his body, has pasted post-it notes all across his apartment and carries a Polaroid camera to click pictures of people important to him. An investigating officer gets hold of his daily diary that gives a background account of his character. Sanjay is an affluent industrialist and falls in love with a girl named Kalpana (Asin). The diary changes hands from the inspector to a medical student (Jiah Khan) but the flashback account continues to stretch from the first half to the second with a long-drawn-out love story between the two. With ample song-dance-romance, the story is Indianized but that's the only redeeming factor for the director fails to exploit the psychological side of the story. Don't cry a spoiler when I say that Ghajini killed Kalpana since that is awfully obvious from the very start with the tattoos on Sanjay's body and his quest to kill Ghajini. And if you still expect a twist in the tale for some suspenseful impact, be prepared to know that this one just ends up being a regular revenge drama. The action sequence in the climax is shamelessly stretched, as long as Sanjay can sustain his memory, for fifteen literal minutes. At its core, Ghajini is essentially a romance track culminating into a revenge drama. Only externally it is sewed up with the memory loss syndrome which could have been the highlight. And even the memory loss isn't sensibly justified in the script. The major flaw of the film is how Sanjay remembers Ghajini's sidekicks and traces them from nowhere. Almost every scene seems to have been written to cover up the earlier penned scene. The length could surely have been trimmed for the extra runtime doesn't add to the conviction like in a Lagaan or a Jodhaa Akbar. A R Rahman's music is melodious and songs are choreographed with typical South Indian flamboyancy. Strangely the background theme piece sounds like Sare Jahan Se Acha. Aamir is not bad but one expects more from the actor than Rajnikant style amplified-action sequences or anger bouts reminiscent of a hysterical Kamal Hassan from Abhay. Asin is pleasing and Jiah Khan is decent. Pradeep Rawat hams in the title role. If you are expecting an intelligent psychological suspense thriller, watch Memento. If you are looking for an intense desi action masala watch the Tamil Ghajini. For the Hindi version doesn't show much difference other than trimming the twin villain from the original into a single baddie. By now we are prone to digesting the exaggerated action in south cinema. It would still take some time to accept Aamir Khan doing the same. Rather, the question in first place is, would we ever want to accept Aamir in such avatar?

26th-29th Mumbai Attacks

The poem(THE SONG OF THE SENSIBLE) has been written by poet Gorakh Pandey and is my very inept translation.
The poet was a troubled human. Intelligent and anguished by the state of the nation. He had wanted to inspire with his writing and the strength of his thinking. When he failed he committed suicide. He was a brilliant student from the Benares Hindu University and later was with JNU - Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
The entire day has been spent in front of the TV and watching in anguish and in anger the proceedings on the streets of Mumbai. I have been riveted to Times Now and to the incredible anchoring of Arnab. He has been at it non stop for almost 24 hrs; reporting, discussing, interviewing, taking opinion, tirelessly.
My pain has been the sight and plight of my innocent and vulnerable and completely insecure countrymen, facing the wrath of this terror attack. And my anger has been at the ineptitude of the authorities that have been ordained to look after us. I have simply loved and endorsed the sentiments expressed by one of those that came on for comments on the Arnab reportage, Suhel Seth. They were strong, precise and most apt. And of course I have had the greatest pride in those from the forces that have and continue to fight for our freedom. Brilliant officers and police personnel have laid down their lives for us. I can only but salute them and respect their sincerity in the call of duty.
And for God’s sake, let us stop reiterating that cliched ”Sprit of Mumbai” retort. Yes Mumbai is strong and resilient and shall not be cowed down by any such occurrence. But let us not conveniently use it as our cover sheet, pull it over our heads and go off to sleep. Because that is what has been happening every time. Incidents of grave disaster have continued to be camouflaged with ‘oh, this is Mumbai, we have a great spirit, we will spring back’. Fine, we will, of course. But who is assuring us that the disaster will not !!

As an Indian, I need to live in my own land, on my own soil with dignity and without fear. And I need an assurance on that.

Deepali Kishore

Deepali Kishore (Hindi:दीपाली किशोर)(born 06 January 1989 in Patna,Bihar) is a finalist of Indian Idol 3. She was eliminated from Indian Idol on August 11,2007 after having reached the top 7. She says that singing is very important to her and if her studies get missed it is OK.Deepali Kishore (Hindi:दीपाली किशोर)(born 06 January 1989 in Patna,Bihar) is a finalist of Indian Idol 3. She was eliminated from Indian Idol on August 11,2007 after having reached the top 7. She says that singing is very important to her and if her studies get missed it is OK.

Indian Idol

1. As a Participant
Deepali has participated in Indian Idol 3.She was counted as one of the best singers and was commented that she can be the next Indian Idol.When she was eliminated everyone was shocked. Javed Akhtar, renowned lyricist and one of the judges said that everyone is watching her ,not hearing her and so that is the reason for her elimination. She also had a little misunderstanding with Ankita Mishra during a live stage performance when Deepali commented Ankita that because of her dance, good singers are being eliminated from Indian Idol 3. When she was eliminated on 11 August 2007 after giving a well-appreciated performance, Anu Malik offered her a chance to record a song for him.
2. Rumors
It was rumoured in Indian Idol that she was having a crush on another participant Chang, who was also a finalist as he gave her a rose in Gala 3. In Gala 5, she was commented by Anu Malik badly. He said, "Your crush is crushing your voice." . Later on, Chang and Deepali clarified that the whole idea of offering rose to her was part of choreography and they are just friends. After the harsh comments from Anu Malik, Deeapali performances namely "Nimbooda Nimbooda" and "Dhol Bajne Laga" were greatly appreciated by all the judges.
3. Personal life
Deepali's parents are from Patna, Bihar. She has studied in Mt. Carmel School and Patna Women's College. Deepali also topped in her 12th grade examination. This result was announced by Indian Idol Show host, Mini Mathur during the competition. She has learnt classical music for five years and is also a good dancer and actor. She wants to use her talent to become a singer. She also wants to take up mass communication and become a radio jockey. She loves to imitate people around her such as her friends, teachers and even passersbies. Her hobbies include dancing, acting, watching TV and travelling.
4. Songs Performed in Indian Idol :
Jab chaye mera jadoo from film 'Lootmaar' ,
Luka chuppi from film 'Rang De Basanti' ,
Aao twist kare ,
Aaj kal tere mere pyar ke,
Beedi jalaile from film 'Omakara',
Baras jaye baadal ,
Salaam e ishq ,
Woh sikander hai from film 'Jo Jita Wahi Sikandar',
Tere bin nahi jeena marna jana ,
Ab ki sajan saawan ,
Dheeme dheeme gaoon from film 'Zubeinda',
Jaan e jaan ,
Tere bina jiya jaye na from film 'Ghar',
Baahon mein chale aao & Pren Jaal ,
Nimbooda Nimbooda from film 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam' ,
Dhol Bajne Laga from film 'Virasat' .
5. Recent News
On 19 September 2007, Deepali and Emon recorded a song for Anu Malik for forthcoming film under Shakti films banner. Anu Malik promised Deepali at the time of her eviction in Gala round of Indian Idol 3 and kept his promise by giving the breakthrough in Indian film industry. This was announced by Anu Malik himself in Aaj Tak and TV Indian news channel. Anu Malik said that the film is untitled venture of Shakti Films, directed by Ashim starring Mithun Chakroborthy, Parveen Dabbas and Hrishita Bhatt in the lead roles. Deepali and Emon are very thrilled by getting the chance to sing for Bollywood films.
On 23 September 2007, Deepali appeared on the Indian Idol final stage in New Delhi and performed her favourite song,"Mera Piya Ghar Aya" along with Bollywood singer Sukhwinder Singh. She also performed "Aisa Jadu Dala Re". Javed Akhtar commented that all 13 gala round finalist were very good singers, Deepali was one among them. She also appeared along with Bollywood actor John Abraham and performed a group song from film Goal.
On 29 September 2007, Deepali along with Indian Idol Prashant Tamang and fellow finalist Ankita Mishra gave live performance in Nepal. They also met Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala.
Deepali along with fellow contestant of Indian Idol, Emon feartured in the music for movie Don Muthuswami. The song is 'I love you', composed by Anu Malik.