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# Arshad Warsi lost his parents at the age of14 and he had to spend his nights on the streets of Mumbai in the cold.

# The actor used to sell nail polish and lipsticks on the streets for his livelihood.

# He , being blessed with the dance, joined a dance group.

# He participated in the World English Jazz Dancing Competition and won the fourth prize and with that money he opened a dance school in Mumbai.

# The actor was a judge to a dance competition at St Xavier’s College fest in Mumbai it was there he met Maria and later they fell in love.

# He made his acting debut with the film Tere Mere Sapne alongside Chandrachur Singh in 1996 which failed at the box-office.

# He came to limelight as “Circuit” after Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. he also won Zee Cine Award Best Actor in a Comic Role for his performance in Munnabhai M.B.B.S.

# The actor hosted a award show Sabsey Favourite Kaun on STAR Gold for three years.

# He also hosted a show on Sony TV, Bigg Boss – Big Brother India.

# He married Maria Goretti on February 14, 1999. They have a son named Zeke Warsi, born on August 10, 2004.

# The actor won Filmfare Best Comedian Award for Lage Raho Munna Bhai in 2006.

# He received minor injuries while shooting for the film ‘Sunday’ in New Delhi.

Arshad Warsi quotes

# ” I’m just taking scripts that sound good to me. If tomorrow I get a good script that has the same kind of character, I will do it. if I feel I will have fun doing the role, I will do it.” [speaking about the way he chooses movies]

# ” I like doing comedy and I know people enjoy watching me doing comedy. So I have no problem doing it. In fact, I have to do a comedy after two or three serious movies. It’s like a vacation for me.”

# ” I did some horrible films before but I don’t have any regrets. It’s a process of learning. Before, I would listen to the script and picturise the story in my head. And it would look good to me. But I wasn’t in a position to ask the director what his vision was like. The director had his own vision of the movie and it sucked!” [about his early experiences in the industry]

# ” I love choreography, and have been asked to do it in every film. I will do it, but only if I’m dancing. I won’t be comfortable doing it for someone else.”

# “Well, frankly speaking, I am not dying to do one. I still consider myself as a struggling actor and not a star. I am not confident about taking the whole responsibility of the film on myself”.

Arshad Warsi best movie list

• Munna Bhai M.B.B.S [ Sanjay Dutt , Arshad Warsi , Sunil Dutt , Gracy Singh and Boman Irani ]
• Hulchul [ Akshay Khanna , Kareena Kapoor , Sunil Shetty , Amrish Puri , Paresh Rawal , Jackie Shroff , Arbaaz Khan , Shakti Kapoor , Farha , Laxmi and Arshad Warsi ]
• Salaam Namaste [ Saif Ali Khan , Preity zinta , Arshad Warsi , Tania Zaetta , Jugal Hansraj ]
• Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya [ Salman Khan , Sushmita Sen , Katrina Kaif , Sohail Khan , Arshad Warsi , Isha Koppikar ]
• Golmaal [ Ajay Devgan , Arshad Warsi , Sharman Joshi , Tusshar Kapoor and Rimi Sen ]
• Kabul Express [ John Abraham , Arshad Warsi ,  Hanif Humghum ]
• Lage Raho Munna Bhai [ Sanjay Dutt , Arshad Warsi , Vidya Balan , Boman Irani , Dilip Prabhavalkar , Diya Mirza , Jimmy Shergill ]

Biography / Biodata

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# After flirting with Sunita for a couple of months on the phone, Anil Kapoor fell in love with her. Later they met. It was love at first sight. After five long years they got married in a very private ceremony attended only by my family and close friends on the 19th of May 1984.

# The actor has shaved off his chest and got tattoos done all over his body for his role in the film ‘Tashan’.

# He acted with Shashi Kapoor in Tu Payal Main Geet, as a child artiste in the lead, but the movie was never released.

# Once The actor was sent out of the college due to his lack attendence.

# He won the Best Actor Trophy at an inter-collegiate competition during his college days. Shashi Kapoor was the chief guest at that function and he was the first professional actor to encourage Anil.

# He also worked as a Playback Singer for Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai and Woh Saat Din.

# The actor Produced Badhaai Ho Badhaai, My Wife’S Murder, Shortcut – The Con Is On , Gandhi My Father etc.

# His elder brother, Boney Kapoor, is a producer, younger brother Sanjay Kapoor is also a well known Bollywood actor.

# He is the brother-in-law of the actress Sridevi with whom he had starred in many films.

Anil Kapoor quotes

# “Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.”

# “I didn’t make too many friends while I was growing up. I was a loner and a dreamer and possibly too restless. It was only with the passage of time and a degree of success, that I have been able to make friends with a few like-minded people, mainly film makers. My best friend, however, remains my wife Sunita. ”

# “They are constantly embarrassed. They’re embarrassed about me, about my films, they are embarrassed about everything I do.” [ about his children]

# “I have never cared about the statistic and numbers involved in filmmaking. I have always made films that have appealed to me irrespective of it’s commercial viability. And I have done it again with Gandhi My Father. I hope everyone likes the film.”

# “After the wonderful experience on Gandhi My Father if I had my way I’d cast Akshaye in all my films. I’m very very fond of him as an actor and as a friend.”

# “Yes, once the camera was switched on Anil and I were fiercely focussed on doing our best. And what’s wrong with that? Race is a thriller. Anil and I had a ball working together as actors again after Subhash Ghai’s Taal. Yes we were really in competition for Race. From ‘start camera’ to ‘cut’ we became co-stars. Once the camera was switched off we were comparing notes. Kaisa kya kiya….tu kaisa tha…main theek tha?? ” [Akshaye khanna about Amil kapoor]

# “The entire South African cabinet was there with us. The President himself spent more than five hours with me and the director and cast of Gandhi My Father. Nelson Mandela sent a special message to open the film. Mandela not only spoke about Gandhi, he spoke about me. What was heartwarming and humbling was that Mandela thanked me for making this film, whereas in truth I should thank Mandela and South Africa for letting me shoot Gandhi My Father in their country and allowing me to hold the world premiere there. Mandela identified deeply with the film.”

# “It’s gone beyond any of my expectations. Gandhi My Father has taken on its own life. I don’t know where this film is taking me.When President Mbeki said that he’ll show Gandhi My Father on the Ivory Coast I felt I had got the biggest award of my life. He feels the film might bring together the warring factions on the Ivory Coast. I feel the film is going beyond boundaries now.”

Anil Kapoor best movie list

• Pallavi Anu Pallavi [ Anil Kapoor , Lakshmi ]
• Meri Jung [ Anil Kapoor , Meenakshi Sheshadri , Nutan , Amrish Puri , Javed Jaffrey , A. K. Hangal , Iftekhar , Kushboo and Parikshat Sahni ]
• Karma [ Dilip Kumar , Nutan , Naseeruddin Shah , Jackie Shroff , Anil Kapoor , Anupam Kher ]
• Mr. India [ Anil Kapoor , Sridevi ]
• Tezaab [ Anil Kapoor , Madhuri Dixit , Anupam Kher , Chunky Pandey ]
• Ram Lakhan [ Anil Kapoor , Jackie Shroff , Madhuri Dixit , Dimple Kapadia and Raakhee Gulzar ]
• Lamhe [ Anil Kapoor , Sridevi , Waheeda Rehman , Anupam Kher ]
• 1942: A Love Story [ Anil Kapoor , Manisha Koirala , Jackie Shroff , Anupam Kher , Danny Denzongpa and Pran ]
• Judaai [ Anil Kapoor , Sridevi , Urmila Matondkar , Paresh Rawal ]
• Virasat [ Anil Kapoor , Tabu , Pooja Batra ]
• Deewana Mastana [ Anil Kapoor , Govinda , Juhi Chawla , Johnny Lever , Anupam Kher ]
• Biwi No.1 [ Salman Khan , Karisma kapoor , Sushmita Sen , Anil Kapoor , Tabu , Saif Ali Khan ]
• Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain [ Anil Kapoor , Kajol , Anupam Kher , Shakti Kapoor , Parmeet Sethi ]
• Taal [ Anil Kapoor , Akshay Khanna , Aishwarya Rai , Amrish Puri and Alok Nath ]
• Pukar [ Anil Kapoor , Madhuri Dixit , Namrata Shirodkar , Danny Denzongpa and Om Puri ]
• Nayak [ Anil Kapoor , Rani Mukherjee , Sushmita Sen , Pooja Batra , Amrish Puri ]
• No Entry [ Salman Khan , Anil Kapoor , Fardeen Khan , Lara Dutta , Celina Jaitley , Esha Deol , Bipasha Basu , Sameera Reddy ]
• Salaam-e-Ishq [ Salman Khan , Priyanka Chopra , Anil Kapoor , Juhi Chawla , Akshay Khanna , Ayesha Takia ,  John Abraham , Vidya Balan , Govinda , Shannon Esra , Sohail Khan and Isha Koppikar ]

Biography / Biodata

Hot facts in Biography

# As a student Akshaye had no interest in studies. He learnt martial art in class 8th.

# South African legend Nelson Mandela has sent a special message about Mahatma Gandhi for the viewers at the premiere of the film Gandhi My Father held at Johannesburg. [Akshaye has a leading role in the movie]

# In Humraaz (2002), the hot actor played a negative role for the first time his performance was appreciated and also earned him IIFA -Best Villain Award.

# During his schooling the actor actively participated in plays.

# He joined an acting school under the guidence of Krishen Kapoor and learnt acting ,dancing, fighting and horse riding as well.

# Akshaye won Filmfare Best Debut Award, [ Border, 1998], Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, [Dil Chahta Hai, 2002] and IIFA- Best Villain Award,[ Humraaz, 2003]

Akshaye Khanna quotes [ From interview]

# “I know there is a problem with my image. I’m not really the difficult sort. I have to do something about it. Maybe I should start wooing the media. ”

# “I don’t regret anything in life. In retrospect my life has turned out just the way I would had wanted. Everything has fallen into place. I’ve always known who I am in terms of what brings me happiness. And that’s not negotiable.”

# ‘I believe failure sometimes teaches you more than success. And a leader is one who can learn from his mistakes and move on to bigger, better things.”

# ‘I don’t do things because people are watching me. I believe today’s youth does not like to emulate somebody. They are smart and sharp and like to take their own decisions, based on their personal experience.’

# “It is important to me to choose the right people to work with and, most importantly my role. All the films I’ve done so far, I’ve chosen on the basis of all these factors put together.”

# “All I’ve ever wanted to do in my life was become an actor. Everything about it attracted me to this profession. I always visited my father on the sets simply because I used to love the whole atmosphere. The work, the people, the fame, the excitement, I just loved the whole set-up. And that urged me on to join films.”

# “I’m just six films old. I have so much to learn and grow. So far, I’ve gone with what I felt was the right subject and set-up. After that, it’s the audience who decides what is to happen.”

Akshaye Khanna best movie list

• Border [ Sunny Deol , Jackie Shroff , Sunil Shetty , Akshaye Khanna , Pooja Bhatt , Sharbani Mukherjee and Tabu ]
• Taal [ Anil Kapoor , Akshaye Khanna , Aishwarya Rai , Amrish Puri and Alok Nath ]
• Dil Chahta Hai [ Aamir Khan , Saif Ali Khan , Akshaye Khanna , Preity zinta , Sonali Kulkarni , Dimple Kapadia ]
• Humraaz [ Bobby Deol , Akshaye Khanna and Amisha Patel ]
• Hungama [ Akshaye Khanna , Aftab Shivdasani , Paresh Rawal , Rimi Sen , Shakti Kapoor ]
• LOC Kargil [ Sanjay Dutt , Ajay Devgan , Saif Ali Khan , Sunil Shetty , Sanjay Kapoor , Abhishek Bachchan , Akshaye Khanna & Rani Mukherjee ]
• Hulchul [ Akshay Khanna , Kareena Kapoor , Sunil Shetty , Amrish Puri , Paresh Rawal , Jackie Shroff , Arbaaz Khan , Shakti Kapoor , Farha , Laxmi and Arshad Warsi ]
• Shadi Se Pehle [ Akshay Khanna , Ayesha Takia , Mallika Sherawat , Sunil Shetty , Aaftab Shivdasani ]
• 36 China Town [ Akshay Khanna , Kareena Kapoor , Shahid kapoor , Upen Patel and Isha Koppikar ]
• Aap Ki Khatir  [ Akshay Khanna , Priyanka Chopra , Amisha Patel , Dino Morea , Sunil Shetty ]
• Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute To Love [ Salman Khan , Priyanka Chopra , Anil Kapoor , Juhi Chawla , Akshay Khanna , Ayesha Takia , John Abraham , Vidya Balan , Govinda , Shannon Esra , Sohail Khan and Isha Koppikar ]
• Gandhi, My Father [ Darshan Jariwala , Akshay Khanna , Bhumika Chawla , Shefali Shah ]
• Race [Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Katrina Kaif, Bipasha Basu]

Salman Khan convicted 

Today the session court in Jodhpur rejected Salman Khan’s appeal against his conviction in the Chinkara hunting case. He was sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment along with Rs 25,000 fine by the lower court. He was remanded to Jodhpur jail, and remained there until April 13, 2006. Later he was released on bail. Salman Khan has appealed against the verdict. The case was going on in the Jodhpur court.

Salman Khan was not present in the court today. However he was represented by his advocate accompanied by his sister Alvira Khan. His Counsel prayed for the postponement of the case but court rejected both his Appeal and petition to defer the hearing. The court upheld the judgement of lower court.

Salman Khan has to surrender on Monday. A Non-bailable arrest warrant will be issued against him in case he fails to surrender before the proper authority. But Salman still has a chance of appeal in the High Court of Rajasthan. But salman khan has to surrender before appealing. If the court delays the hearing of the case due to overburden salman khan has to spend atleast few days in the jail. His counsels are trying to secure more time for his surrender.

Actor complete profile:  Salman Khan

Biography / Biodata

Hot facts in Biography

# He is a black belt in Full Contact Kick Boxing.

# His performance in Dhadkan was very much praised and he received the Filmfare Best Villain Award for that.

# The hot actor canceled his birth day celebration on 10th Aug 2007 as his best friend Sanjay Dutt is in Jail. Sunil is upset ever since Sanjay Dutt was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment.

# He has a production company called Popcorn Entertainment it produced films such as Khel (2003) and Rakht (2004).

# Though his name consists “Shetty” he is not related to Shilpa Shetty , bollywood actress.

# The actor is married to Manna Manna and they have two children named Atiya and Aahan.

#  Actor turned entrepreneur Sunil Shetty will be opening a chain of stores having salon, coffee shop, artefacts and some cloth brands.

# There was a charity cricket match between IIFA team and UK celebrity team. The IIFA team included Sunil Shetty , Abhishek Bachchan , Saif Ali Khan , Fardeen Khan , Ritesh Deshmukh , Sohail Khan , Bobby Deol, Anil Kapoor, Zayed Khan, Kapil Dev and Ajay Jadeja.

Sunil Shetty quotes  [From interview]

# “My image is that of a family man, both on and off screen.”

# “My son does enjoy my action films. But the women in my family would be happier if I did socially relevant films. My mother, like any mother, says, ‘What a lovely film!’ and ‘You have improved!’ Which I know isn’t true.”

# ” I’m more about style than steps. I’m very graceful as a fighter because my honed instincts come into play here. But when it comes to dancing, I’m no good.”

# “Before each shot, I would rehearse it 30, 40 times. See, my producer has selected me for his film, so he also has to take the time and trouble to groom me where I am weak. For action scenes, I don’t need rehearsals or retakes. But for dance, I do rehearse — and the results are showing, which is something I am happy about.”

Sunil Shetty best movie list

• Mohra [ Sunil Shetty , Akshay Kumar , Raveena Tandon , Paresh Rawal ]
• Hera Pheri [ Akshay Kumar , Paresh Rawal , Suniel Shetty , Tabu ]
• Refugee [ Abhishek Bachchan , Kareena Kapoor , Sunil Shetty , Jackie Shroff ]
• Dhadkan [ Akshay Kumar , Shilpa Shetty , Sunil Shetty ]
• Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi [ Sunil Shetty , Rishi Kapoor , Rati Agnihotri ]
• Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat [ Sunil Shetty , Aftab Shivdasani , Arjun Rampal ]
• Kaante [ Amitabh Bachchan , Sanjay Dutt , Suniel Shetty , Kumar Gaurav , Namrata Singh Gujral , Rati Agnihotri , Isha Koppikar ]
• LOC Kargil [ Sanjay Dutt , Ajay Devgan , Saif Ali Khan , Suniel Shetty , Sanjay Kapoor , Abhishek Bachchan , Rani Mukherjee ]
• Lakeer [ Sunny Deol , Sunil Shetty , John Abraham ]
• Main Hoon Na [ Shahrukh khan , Sunil Shetty , Sushmita Sen , Zayed Khan , Amrita Rao ]
• Rakht [ Bipasha Basu , Sanjay Dutt , Dino Morea , Neha Dhupia , Sunil Shetty , and Amrita Arora ]
• Hulchul [ Akshaye Khanna , Kareena Kapoor , Sunil Shetty , Amrish Puri , Paresh Rawal ]
  
• Paheli [ Shahrukh khan , Rani Mukherjee , Amitabh Bachchan , Sunil Shetty , Juhi Chawla ]
• Dus [ Sanjay Dutt , Sunil Shetty , Abhishek Bachchan , Shilpa Shetty , Zayed Khan , Esha Deol and Diya Mirza ]
• Kyon Ki [ Salman Khan , Kareena Kapoor , Rimi Sen , Jackie Shroff , Om Puri and Sunil Shetty ]
• Fight Club [ Zayed Khan , Sunil Shetty , Riteish Deshmukh , Dino Morea , Diya Mirza ]
• Phir Hera Pheri [ Akshay Kumar , Suniel Shetty , Paresh Rawal , Bipasha Basu ]
• Umrao Jaan [ Aishwarya Rai , Shabana Azmi , Sunil Shetty , Abhishek Bachchan ]
• Shootout at Lokhandwala [ Amitabh Bachchan , Sanjay Dutt , Suniel Shetty , Vivek Oberoi , Tusshar Kapoor ]
  

Biography / Biodata

Hot facts in Biography

# His father Vipin Reshammiya is a Gujurati music director.

# At just 16 years Himesh Reshammiya went into music direction, he produced television serials for TV.

# Himesh Reshammiya avoided speaking about his personal life in media until July 2007. During talk show “Koffee with Karan”, he revealed that he is married to Komal.

# His debut as music director was for the film Bandhan (1998), in which he worked with Anand Raj Anand.

# He has developed his own unique style of composition, based on pop and techno beats.

# He later became popular for his vocals which have the distinctive high-pitched nasal twang.

# He won a Filmfare Award in 2005 for Best Male Playback Singer in his debut as a singer(for the title song of Aashiq Banaya Aapne), becoming the first music composer to achieve this feat.

# Himesh is the first Indian to perform at the Wembley Stadium in London in October 2006.

# His acting debut in Aap Ka Suroor which released on June 29, 2007 was hit.

# Himesh Reshammiya’s trademark style includes a baseball cap, stubble reminiscent of George Michael, form-fitting jeans, and a belt with an oversized buckle.

# His style of handling the microphone with the bottom facing upwards, and the black trenchcoat that he wears in concerts are consistent elements of his style.

Himesh Reshammiya controversies

# In November 2006, Himesh and his co-artists were questioned by the Income Tax department about their income from a concert in Surat.

# On June 27, 2007, Himesh Reshammiya visited the shrine of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti, disguised in a burqa, reportedly to avoid crowd of fans. Some people objected to this, and some even felt that it was a publicity stunt for his forthcoming film. Later, Reshammiya issued an apology for “offending religious sentiments”.

# Himesh Reshammiya initially defended himself saying that his voice is not nasal, but “high-pitched singing”. Later, in an interview with The Times of India, he said “I accept I’m a nasal singer.”

# In November 2006, Himesh Reshammiya remarked that Mukesh, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and R D Burman had a nasal style of singing but none of the artists “ever gave the same number of hits in a year”. He said this in response to allegations that all his songs are nasal-based. The remark invited the wrath of late R D Burman’s wife, Asha Bhosle. Later, Himesh Reshammiya apologized.

# In his Aap Ka Suroor Himesh Reshammiya added a song Tanhaiyaan from Boney Kapoor’s proposed film Milenge Milenge. Initially, Himesh had composed the song for Kapoor’s film but later decided to use it for his own movie. Tips, which held the audio rights of Milenge Milenge, accused Reshammiya of copyright violation, as audio rights for Aap Ka Suroor were acquired by T-Series. But Himesh defended that he had made Kapoor listen to the song, but it wasn’t included in Milenge Milenge.