Life is a perceptual rhythmic experience and celebrities know how and when to produce the right sound bytes. The hairstyles and dress up becomes the fashion statement that tune up to trend and their off-screen activities attract media attention. They can give company to the lonely, the topic for an interesting conversation, killing up distress and the laughter to the sad; they have a strong influence on people
Kamaal Rashid Khan (Born 20th May, 1975) is a Indian Actor and a film producer who gained popularity after his appearance in Bigg Boss. He acted in several low budget Hindi and Bhojpuri films. He made his first debut film in 2005 for Sitam which he produced. He got married and has two kids in Dubai. But Khan got mainstream attention with 2008 film Deshdrohi which he produced and acted in. Working on a follow up to Desh Drohi, khan is reportedly working on the series for the film titled Desh Drohi 2 which will reflect the incident that happened in 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack.
Kamaal Rashid Khan ran away from his home to Mumbai in order to become an Indian actor. At first, he didn’t succeed so he started a garment and construction business where he began to flourished and decided to invest his money on films. After that he appeared on the renowned Indian reality TV series Bigg Boss in the 3rd season.
Vijender Singh Beniwal (Born 29th October, 1985) is an Indian boxer who won the Bronze medal in Olympics, Beijing born to a Hindu Family in Kalwas village, Bhiwani district in Haryana. He did his schooling in his village only and also received his bachelor’s degree in local collage in Bhiwani. Vijender was a athletic and had a great dedication for sports, he used to practiced boxing at the Bhiwani Boxing Club through Coach Jagdish Singh who appreciated his talent and encouraged him to take it as his profession.
Vijender started competing for sub-junior nationals and national level competitions. He started playing for India in 2003 in Afro Asian Games. His boxing style – hooks & uppercut were very similar to Hollywood movie star Sylvester Stallone. In 2004 Vijender went to compete Athens Summer Olympics in the welterweight division, in 2006 he defeated England’s Neil Perkins in the semifinal in Commonwealth Games. Also he played in Asian Games Doha where he won Bronze medal. In 2008, he qualified for Beijing Olympics scored himself and his country a bronze medal in Middleweight championship tournament.
2009 – Bronze (Middleweight) – World Amateur Boxing Championship, Milan
After his Olympics win, Vijender emerged into the eyes of media as the medalist took part in Ramp Shows. Vijender also appeared in Salman Khan’s Game show 10 ka dum with Mallika Sherawat and also appeared in Indian Dance Realty show Nach Baliye with actor Bipasha Basu. It’s also heard his taking up roles in Indian movies that would be coming up recently.
Ayaan Ali Khan (born 5th September 1979) is the younger son of the famous Sarod Titan Maestro Amjad Ali Khan and an Indian classical musician who plays Sarod. Ayaan and his brother Amaan Ali Khan together represents the seventh generation of a musical lineage known as the Senia Bangash School. Both Ayaan and Amaan were taught music from a very early age by their father. Ayaan started playing in concert with his brother and father in concerts since the late 1980’s. Ayaan has been now performing concerts worldwide after giving his solo debut at eight, since then Ayaan has started appearing at Carnegie Hall in 1997, and concerts like Palais Beaux Arts in Brussels, Esplanade in Singapore, Smith Sonian, Summer Art Festival in Seattle, Chicago Symphony Center, Edinburgh Music Festival and the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Ayaan and Amaan were nominated for Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album “Moksha” and released by Real World Records in 2005. Ajaad also hosted the musical talent show on Zee TV “Sa Re Ga Ma” with his brother for three years. Ayaan and Amaan together wrote the title as “Abba- God’s greatest gift”. Ayaan got married to Neema Sharma on 21st February 2008.
Shibani Kashyap (Born in Delhi) is a renowned female singer and composer in India. Shibani Kashyap started her carrier by singing the signature tune for AIR FM channel of All India Radio and Amul India. She is actively working with Bollywood Industry and has given a variety of songs like “Sajnaa AA Bhi Jaa” for the Hindi film Waisa Bhi Hota Hain in 2003 and “Zinda Hoon Main” & “Kya Kashmakash Hain Yeh”. She loves to experiment with music and mostly composes music in Sufi Western Blend. She was first Indian artist to represent India in 1999 for Annual International Music Festival “Azia Dauysy” held in Kazakhstan and in 2000 she released her Sufi album called “Nagmagee”
She is a graduate from University of Delhi in English Literature and also has specialized in Western and Indian Classical music. She won the best female Pop Singer award in 2005 for the album “Nazakat” in San Francisco. Shibani Kashyap has also been chosen by Gibson to endorse Gibson Guitar in India.
Hard Kaur (born 1979, name Taran Kaur Dhillon), is the first Indian rapper and hip hop singer as a playback singer in Hindi films and albums. She was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. She lost her father in 1984 in anti Sikh riot when she was only 5 years old and her mother who use to run a small beauty parlor which was also burnt down during the riot. So she, her brother and mother came to Ludhiana where they stayed for couple of years at their grandparent’s maternal house. Latter her mother got remarried to an NRI and they all moved to Birmingham, England, where Taran worked and studied her school. But growing up in the city, she had a keen interest in Hip Hop and so did start developing her musical carrier as a rapper.
She decided to come to Bollywood to start her carrier for rapping in Indian Music. Her first shot with the song “Ek Glassy” was the biggest hit. She broke to Bollywood in 2007 and sung numerous songs in films like Johnny Gaddar, Ugly aur Pagli, Singh is King, Kismat Konnection, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Aag, and more.
And the more fascinating news above all Hard Kaur collaborated with Eminem’s group D12 for the next album. Moreover Hard Kaur was featured on the cover of Canada’s ANOKHI Magazine.
Raghav Sachar (born July 24th, 1981)is an Indian singer and son of R.K. Sachar and Usha Sachar. The youngest of the three children in the family; Raghav was interested in music from a very early age and he started playing music instrument harmonica at an age when he was only 4 yrs old. Raghav plays a number of instruments and plays more than 32 music instruments; he won the best drummer award at the Pepsi Cornucopia contest in 1994 and won the best keyboard player in BITS Pilani. He was also in a band named “Canzona” before proceeding to Berklee College of music, Boston to study in music.
He worked with the Indian pop sensation Viva and Shubha Mudgal on albums for recording jingles and film soundtracks. He was awarded the Golden Key Award and the Earnest Award for academic excellence in 2000 when he was studying music from Berklee College of Music, Boston. Charming Lootera, the title song of his album was pretty successful throughout India.
Allah Rakha Rahman (born 6 January, 1966) was born into a Christian Family which latter converted to Islam in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. A.R. Rahman started his music line when he was only 11 as a keyboard player in ilaiyaraaja’s troupe. A.R. Rahman is renowned as a Indian Tamil Film composer, record producer, singer and a versatile Musician which has won a double Oscar Award for Best Original Music Score and Best in 2009 for Jai Ho which was also covered by USA’s Pop/ R&B girl group named The Pussycat Dolls.
Social Rahman
A.R. Rahman has three children Khatija, Rahim & Aman and wife Saira Bano. Music was the inborn talent in Rahman; He was as young as four when he struck the keys of the piano. His father R. K. Shekhar was one of the great music composer and conductor for Malayalam Movies but he passed away when Rahman was only nine years old. He earned the living through music when he was eleven. He debut his first music compose for the movie Roja, one of the greatest music ever composed, and he definitely made up everyone’s mind that he could do magic with his music.
Social Services
Rahman is also involved in many charitable causes, for he worked with Cat Sevens/ Yusuf Islam for the cause of Tsunami, supporting charities like Save the Children. In 2008, he participated along with percussionist Sivamani for the Free Hugs Campaign where he composed a song title Jiya Se Jiya.
Awards Received
Throughout the career span over a decade A. R. Rahman has won: - 14 Filmfare Awards, 4 National Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, two Grammy Awards and two Academy Awards, apart from it he was won the Padma Shri Award by Government of India along with Mauritius National Awards & Malaysian Award.
A.R Rahman had sold more than 150 million copies of his music records and soundtrack worldwide for music composed in Bollywood and Malayalam films from year 1992.
