BOLLYWOOD: 2012

Wednesday 4 July 2012

Zayed Khan

Zayed Khan

Zayed Abbas Khan (Hindi: ज़ैईद अब्बास ख़ान, born 5 July 1980) is an Indian actor.Khan's parents are former Bollywood actor Sanjay Khanand interior designer Zarine Khan. Khan is the youngest of four children. His older sisters are Simone Khan (wife of Ajay Arora), Sussanne Roshan (married to actor Hrithik Roshan), and Farah Khan Ali (wife of DJ Aqeel). Khan is related as cousin brother to yet another Bollywood actor,Fardeen Khan, whose father is the late actor Feroz Khan, who was Khan's father's brother.
Khan made his screen debut in 2003 in the film Chura Liyaa Hai Tumne. He then starred in Main Hoon Na, which was one of the biggest hits in his career. Next, he appeared inRocky: The Rebel. He played a cop in Dus and a news reporter in Mission Istanbul. He made a special appearance in Om Shanti Om and Anjaana Anjaani. He also co-starred inYuvvraaj and Blue.

Zayed Khan

Vivek Oberoi

Vivek Oberoi

Vivek Oberoi (born 3 September 1976) is an Indianactor. He is the son of Bollywood actor Suresh Oberoiand Yashodhara Oberoi.Born to a Punjabi father and a Tamil mother, Vivek attended Mayo college in Ajmer. At an actors' workshop in London he was spotted by the director of New York University who took Vivek off to New York, where he completed his Masters Degree in film acting.Vivek also worked as a script writer in India.
In 2006, he appeared in Omkara, an adaptation of Shakespeare's play Othello. He played the character of Kesu, based on the character Michael Cassio in the original play. After seeing Oberoi's performance, Gulzar congratulated him. In 2007, he acted as the gangster Maya Dolas in the multi-starrer, Shootout at Lokhandwala,

In 2008, Oberoi starred in Mission Istanbul, which was directed by Apoorva Lakhia and produced by Ekta Kapoor. He performed to the song Apun Ke Saath, produced for the film by Vikas Kohli, at the 2008 International Indian Film Academy Awards.

Vivek Oberoi

Tuesday 3 July 2012

Vishnuvardhan

Vishnuvardhan

Sampath Kumar (Kannada: ಸಂಪತ್ ಕುಮಾರ್ 18 September 1950 – 30 December 2009), popularly known as Vishnuvardhan (Kannada: ವಿಷ್ಣುವರ್ಧನ್), was a prominent Indian film actor. He has acted in Kannada,Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films. He has acted in over 220 movies in total that includes 200 Kannada movies, 5 Hindi movies, 5 Telugu movies, 3 Malayalam movies and 6 Tamil movies. Vishnuvardhan was popularly called as Sahasa Simha ('valorous lion'). He was known as "The Phoenix Of Indian Cinema".
He adopted the name Vishnuvardhan at the insistence of Puttanna Kanagal, who directed his maiden film, Naagarahaavu. This movie gave him the recognition of the 'angry young man of Kannada cinema'. Vishnuvardhan started his career with the National Award-winning movie Vamshavruksha (1972) directed by Girish Karnad based on the novel of S. L. Bhyrappa. Naagarahaavu, directed by Puttanna Kanagal,which was again a novel_based story of T. R. Subba Rao in which he played a lead role for the first time, made him an overnight star. In his three-and-a-half decade-long career, he played a variety of popular roles in more than 220 films.

Vishnuvardhan

Vishal Krishna

Vishal Krishna

Vishal Krishna (born 29 August 1977) is an Indian film actor who has appeared in primarily Tamil cinema. Often starring in his home productions, Vishal became an actor after a stint as an assistant director in films.

Though born in a Telugu family, Vishal achieved fame only through Tamil films. He played his first role in the romantic thriller Chellamae, before going on to secure a run of three consecutive successes with roles as action hero in the 2005 film, Sandakozhi, and withThimiru in 2006.

His next film, the political drama Sivappathigaram directed by Karu Pazhaniappan and featuring Mamta Mohandas and Raghuvaranbecame a failure financially despite favourable reviews. His next released in January 2008, Hari's multi-starring family dramaThaamirabharani and the film went on to gain considerable box-office success, carrying good reports amidst other big budget releases. Later in the year he appeared Boopathy Pandian's Malaikottai, a comedy entertainer starring Priyamani.

Vishal Krishna

Vinod Khanna

Vinod Khanna

Vinod Khanna (born 6 October 1946) is an Indian actor,film producer and politician.Khanna was born in Peshawar to Kamla and Kishanchand Khanna, a textiles, dyes and chemicals businessman on 6 October 1946, in Peshawar, British India (now in Pakistan). He has three sisters and one brother. Shortly after his birth, India was partitioned and the family left Peshawar and reached Mumbai.
He went on to star in many hits throughout the mid 1970s and early 1980s, including "Inkaar", "Aap Ki Khatir", "Aarop", Parvarish(1977), Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Khoon Pasina (1977), Hera pheri (1976), Muqaddar Ka Sikander (1978), Zameer, The Burning Train (1980) and Qurbani (1980). Having peaked in Bollywood, he became a follower of the spiritual teacher Osho (Rajneesh) and left the film industry in 1979 for eight years. At this time, he was one of the most successful actors in the Bollywood Industry, competing with Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Shahtrughan Sinha & Jeetendra. He rejoined the industry, eight years later in mid 1980s. He continued to appear in many notable films from the mid 1980s to the 1990s such as Dayavan (1988), Chandni (1989), Kshatriya (1993),Eena Meena Deeka (1994) and Ekka Raja Rani (1994).

Vinod Khanna