name	Abhay Deol
birthname	Abhay Singh Deol
yearsactive	2005–present
birth date	March 15, 1976
birth place	Mumbai, India
occupation	Actor
partner	Preeti Desai }}

Abhay Deol ( , ; full name: Abhay Singh Deol; b. 15 March 1976) is an Indian actor from Mumbai, India. He is an Indian film actor and producer whose family has a long history in the Hindi film industry. Deol has appeared in films such as ''Dev.D'' and ''Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!''. He is the nephew of Bollywood actor Dharmendra, and the cousin of Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol. His father is Ajit Singh Deol, younger brother of Dharmendra.

Career

Abhay Deol stated in an interview with Rediff that he is not into acting because of his father, but because he was involved in theatre since school. "At 18, I decided to take the plunge. It took me 10 years because I didn't want to leave my education to get into films. "

He made his film debut in the 2005 film ''Socha Na Tha''. His second film was ''Ahista Ahista'' in 2006. His first 2007 release was ''Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.'' which had a multi-star cast and emerged as a box office success. His second release for the year was ''Ek Chalis Ki Last Local''. His third film in 2007 was ''Manorama Six Feet Under'', which won the Best Film at the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York City. He also won Best Actor award for his role for the same. His only 2008 release was ''Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!'' which became extremely popular. Deol devised and enacted the title role of Devdas in the 2009 Hindi film ''Dev.D''. ''Nikhat Kazmi'', the critic for ''Times of India'' gave the movie a perfect 5 out 5 stars in her review. Abhay Deol has been the cover of ''Man's World'' and ''Time Out Mumbai'', with titles such as ''The New Face of Indian Cinema''. He was placed seventh on Zoom's "50 Most Desirable Hotties" poll for 2009. He did ''Road, Movie'' with Tannishtha Chatterjee. Deol has also started producing films through his company Forbidden Films. For ''Basra'', the first film under his new production company, Deol learned the Israeli martial art Krav Maga. Abhay did a special Item number for the movie Tera Kya Hoga Johnny in 2010. He also trained to be a deep-sea diver for his film ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'' which was filmed in Spain.

Personal life

Deol is in a romantic relationship with actress Preeti Desai. Deol lives in Mumbai, where he also grew up. He is a self-described fan of "cinema that has the 'real' element" and lists his favourite films as ''Chupke Chupke'', ''Mother India'', and ''Dr. Strangelove''. His family roots include being the younger cousin of Sunny and Bobby Deol

Filmography

Actor

Ahista Ahista (2006 film)Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.Ek Chalis Ki Last LocalManorama Six Feet UnderOye LuckyDev.DRoad, MovieTera Kya Hoga JohnnyAisha (film)Zindagi Na Milegi DobaraShanghai (2011 film)Singularity (film)ChakravyuhRock The Shaadi

Year !! Film !! Role !! Notes
2005	Socha Na Tha	Viren Oberoi
2006	Ahista Ahista ||	Ankush Ramdev
2007	|	Aspi
2007	|	Nilesh Rastogi
2007	|	Satyaveer Singh Randhawa
2008	Lucky Oye!
2009	|	Dev	Movie won 6 Filmfare Awards in 2009
2010	|	Vishnu	Special screening at the Toronto International Film Festival
2010	|	Himself	Special appearance in song 'Shaher Ki Rani'
2010	Aisha ||	Arjun Burman
2011	|	Kabir Dewan	Nominated- Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor
2012	Shanghai ||	Raj Goyal	Releasing June 8, 2012
2012	Singularity ||	Udaji	Post-production
2012	|		Filming
2012	|		Filming

References

External links

Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:Indian film actors Category:Punjabi people Category:Indian Sikhs Category:Indian taekwondo practitioners

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name	Imran Khan Niaziعمران خان نیازی
birth date	November 25, 1952
birth place	Lahore, West Punjab, Dominion of Pakistan
party	Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
spouse	Jemima Khan (1995–2004)
children	Sulaiman Qasim Khan
residence	Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
occupation	Politician Philanthropist Cricketer
religion	Islam
alma mater	Keble College, Oxford
website	PTI }}

Imran Khan Niazi (}}; born 25 November 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics. Currently, besides his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founder and Chairman Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

Arguably Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and served as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup, he was called back to join the team in 1988. At 39, Khan led his teammates to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992. He has a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, making him one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches. On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

In April 1996, Khan founded and became the chairman of a political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice). He represented Mianwali as a member of the National Assembly from November 2002 to October 2007. Foreign Policy magazine has described him as Pakistan's Ron Paul.

Through worldwide fundraising, he has also helped establish the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre in 1996 and Mianwali's Namal College in 2008.

Family, education, and personal life

Imran Khan was born in Lahore, the only son of Ikramullah Khan Niazi, and his wife Shaukat Khanum. Although long settled in Punjab, the family were of Pashtun (Pathan) ethnicity and belonged to the Niazi Shermankhel tribe of Mianwali. A quiet and shy boy in his youth, Khan grew up with his four sisters in relatively affluent (upper middle-class) circumstances and received a privileged education. He was educated the Cathedral School in Lahore, the Royal Grammar School Worcester in England, where he excelled at cricket, and at Aitchison College, Lahore. In 1972, he enrolled to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated with a second-class degree in Politics and a third in Economics. Khan's mother hailed from the Burki family which had produced several successful hockey players, as also cricketers such as Javed Burki and Majid Khan. Early in life, Khan developed an interest in cricket, which is an extremely popular sport in Pakistan.

Marriage to Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith

On 16 May 1995, Khan married Jemima Goldsmith, in an Islamic ceremony in Paris. A month later, on 21 June, they were married again in a civil ceremony at the Richmond register office in England, followed by a reception at the Goldsmiths' house in Surrey. The marriage, described as "tough" by Khan, produced two sons, Sulaiman Isa (born 18 November 1996) and Kasim (born 10 April 1999). As an agreement of his marriage, Khan spent four months a year in England. On 22 June 2004, it was announced that the Khans had divorced because it was "difficult for Jemima to adapt to life in Pakistan". The marriage ended amicably. Imran has regular access to his children and his relationship with his ex-wife is friendly. Khan now resides in Bani Gala, Islamabad, where he built a farmhouse with the money he gained from selling his London flat. He grows fruit trees, wheat, and keeps cows, while also maintaining a cricket ground for his two sons, who visit during their holidays.

Cricket career

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living	true
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runs1	3,807
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deliveries1	19,458
wickets1	362
bowl avg1	22.81
fivefor1	23
tenfor1	6
best bowling1	8/58
catches/stumpings1	28/–
column2	ODI
matches2	175
runs2	3,709
bat avg2	33.41
100s/50s2	1/19
top score2	102*
deliveries2	7,461
wickets2	182
bowl avg2	26.61
fivefor2	1
tenfor2	n/a
best bowling2	6/14
catches/stumpings2	36/–
column3	FC
matches3	382
runs3	17,771
bat avg3	36.79
100s/50s3	30/93
top score3	170
deliveries3	65,224
wickets3	1,287
bowl avg3	22.32
fivefor3	70
tenfor3	13
best bowling3	8/34
catches/stumpings3	117/–
column4	LA
matches4	425
runs4	10,100
bat avg4	33.22
100s/50s4	5/66
top score4	114*
deliveries4	19,122
wickets4	507
bowl avg4	22.31
fivefor4	6
tenfor4	n/a
best bowling4	6/14
catches/stumpings4	84/–
date	24 December
year	2011
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name	Pride of Performance Award Recipient
country	Islamic Republic of Pakistan
date	1983
presenter	Islamic Republic of Pakistan }}

name	Hilal-i-Imtiaz Award Recipient
country	Islamic Republic of Pakistan
date	1992
presenter	Islamic Republic of Pakistan }}

Khan made a lacklustre first-class cricket debut at the age of sixteen in Lahore. By the start of the 1970s, he was playing for his home teams of Lahore A (1969–70), Lahore B (1969–70), Lahore Greens (1970–71) and, eventually, Lahore (1970–71). Khan was part of Oxford University's Blues Cricket team during the 1973–75 seasons. At Worcestershire, where he played county cricket from 1971 to 1976, he was regarded as only an average medium pace bowler. During this decade, other teams represented by Khan include Dawood Industries (1975–76) and Pakistan International Airlines (1975–76 to 1980–81). From 1983 to 1988, he played for Sussex.

In 1971, Khan made his Test cricket debut against England at Birmingham. Three years later, he debuted in the One Day International (ODI) match, once again playing against England at Nottingham for the Prudential Trophy. After graduating from Oxford and finishing his tenure at Worcestershire, he returned to Pakistan in 1976 and secured a permanent place on his native national team starting from the 1976–77 season, during which they faced New Zealand and Australia. Following the Australian series, he toured the West Indies, where he met Tony Greig, who signed him up for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket. His credentials as one of the fastest bowlers of the world started to establish when he finished third at 139.7 km/h in a fast bowling contest at Perth in 1978, behind Jeff Thomson and Michael Holding, but ahead of Dennis Lillee, Garth Le Roux and Andy Roberts.

As a fast bowler, Khan reached the peak of his powers in 1982. In 9 Tests, he got 62 wickets at 13.29 each, the lowest average of any bowler in Test history with at least 50 wickets in a calendar year. In January 1983, playing against India, he attained a Test bowling rating of 922 points. Although calculated retrospectively (ICC player ratings did not exist at the time), Khan's form and performance during this period ranks third in the ICC's All-Time Test Bowling Rankings.

Khan achieved the all-rounder's triple (securing 3000 runs and 300 wickets) in 75 Tests, the second fastest record behind Ian Botham's 72. He is also established as having the second highest all-time batting average of 61.86 for a Test batsman playing at position 6 of the batting order. He played his last Test match for Pakistan in January 1992, against Sri Lanka at Faisalabad. Khan retired permanently from cricket six months after his last ODI, the historic 1992 World Cup final against England at Melbourne, Australia. He ended his career with 88 Test matches, 126 innings and scored 3807 runs at an average of 37.69, including six centuries and 18 fifties. His highest score was 136 runs. As a bowler, he took 362 wickets in Test cricket, which made him the first Pakistani and world's fourth bowler to do so. In ODIs, he played 175 matches and scored 3709 runs at an average of 33.41. His highest score remains 102 not out. His best ODI bowling is documented at 6 wickets for 14 runs.

Captaincy

At the height of his career, in 1982, the thirty-year-old Khan took over the captaincy of the Pakistan cricket team from Javed Miandad. Recalling his initial discomfort with this new role, he later said, "When I became the cricket captain, I couldn’t speak to the team directly I was so shy. I had to tell the manager, I said listen can you talk to them, this is what I want to convey to the team. I mean early team meetings I use to be so shy and embarrassed I couldn’t talk to the team." As a captain, Khan played 48 Test matches, out of which 14 were won by Pakistan, 8 lost and the rest of 26 were drawn. He also played 139 ODIs, winning 77, losing 57 and ending one in a tie.

In the team's second match under his leadership, Khan led them to their first Test win on English soil for 28 years at Lord's. Khan's first year as captain was the peak of his legacy as a fast bowler as well as an all-rounder. He recorded the best Test bowling of his career while taking 8 wickets for 58 runs against Sri Lanka at Lahore in 1981–82. He also topped both the bowling and batting averages against England in three Test series in 1982, taking 21 wickets and averaging 56 with the bat. Later the same year, he put up a highly acknowledged performance in a home series against the formidable Indian team by taking 40 wickets in six Tests at an average of 13.95. By the end of this series in 1982–83, Khan had taken 88 wickets in 13 Test matches over a period of one year as captain.

This same Test series against India, however, also resulted in a stress fracture in his shin that kept him out of cricket for more than two years. An experimental treatment funded by the Pakistani government helped him recover by the end of 1984 and he made a successful comeback to international cricket in the latter part of the 1984–85 season.

In 1987, Khan led Pakistan to its first ever Test series win in India, which was followed by Pakistan's first series victory in England the same year. During the 1980s, his team also recorded three creditable draws against the West Indies. India and Pakistan co-hosted the 1987 World Cup, but neither ventured beyond the semi-finals. Khan retired from international cricket at the end of the World Cup. In 1988, he was asked to return to the captaincy by the President Of Pakistan, General Zia-Ul-Haq, and on 18 January, he announced his decision to rejoin the team. Soon after returning to the captaincy, Khan led Pakistan to another winning tour in the West Indies, which he has recounted as "the last time I really bowled well". He was declared Man of the Series against West Indies in 1988 when he took 23 wickets in 3 tests.

Khan's career-high as a captain and cricketer came when he led Pakistan to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Playing with a brittle batting line-up, Khan promoted himself as a batsman to play in the top order along with Javed Miandad, but his contribution as a bowler was minimal. At the age of 39, Khan scored the highest runs of all the Pakistani batsmen and took the winning last wicket himself.

Post-retirement

In 1994, Khan had admitted that, during Test matches, he "occasionally scratched the side of the ball and lifted the seam." He had also added, "Only once did I use an object. When Sussex were playing Hampshire in 1981 the ball was not deviating at all. I got the 12th man to bring out a bottle top and it started to move around a lot." In 1996, Khan successfully defended himself in a libel action brought forth by former English captain and all-rounder Ian Botham and batsman Allan Lamb over comments they alleged were made by Khan in two articles about the above-mentioned ball-tampering and another article published in an Indian magazine, ''India Today''. They claimed that, in the latter publication, Khan had called the two cricketers "racist, ill-educated and lacking in class." Khan protested that he had been misquoted, saying that he was defending himself after having admitted that he tampered with a ball in a county match 18 years ago. Khan won the libel case, which the judge labelled a "complete exercise in futility", with a 10–2 majority decision by the jury.

Since retiring, Khan has written opinion pieces on cricket for various British and Asian newspapers, especially regarding the Pakistani national team. His contributions have been published in India's ''Outlook'' magazine, the ''Guardian'', the ''Independent'', and the ''Telegraph''. Khan also sometimes appears as a cricket commentator on Asian and British sports networks, including BBC Urdu and the Star TV network. In 2004, when the Indian cricket team toured Pakistan after 14 years, he was a commentator on TEN Sports' special live show, Straight Drive, while he was also a columnist for sify.com for the 2005 India-Pakistan Test series. He has provided analysis for every cricket World Cup since 1992, which includes providing match summaries for BBC during the 1999 World Cup.

In November 2009 Khan underwent emergency surgery at Lahore's Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital to remove an obstruction in his small intestine.

Social work

For more than four years after retiring from cricket in 1992, Khan focused his efforts solely on social work. By 1991, he had founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, a charity organisation bearing the name of his mother, Mrs. Shaukat Khanum. As the Trust's maiden endeavour, Khan established Pakistan's first and only cancer hospital, constructed using donations and funds exceeding $25 million, raised by Khan from all over the world. Inspired by the memory of his mother, who died of cancer, the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, a charitable cancer hospital with 75 percent free care, opened in Lahore on 29 December 1994. Khan currently serves as the chairman of the hospital and continues to raise funds through charity and public donations.

During the 1990s, Khan also served as UNICEF's Special Representative for Sports and promoted health and immunisation programmes in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

On 27 April 2008, Khan's brainchild, a technical college in the Mianwali District called Namal College, was inaugurated. Namal College was built by the Mianwali Development Trust (MDT), as chaired by Khan, and was made an associate college of the University of Bradford (of which Khan is Chancellor) in December 2005. Currently, Khan is building another cancer hospital in Karachi, using his successful Lahore institution as a model. While in London, he also works with the Lord’s Taverners, a cricket charity.

Political work

In 1996, Khan founded a political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which emphasized on anti-corruption policies. The newly formed party was unable to win a seat during the 1997 Pakistani general election. Khan supported General Pervez Musharraf's military coup in 1999, believing Musharraf would "end corruption, clear out the political mafias". According to Khan, he was Musharraf's choice of prime minister in 2002 but turned down the offer. The 2002 Pakistani general election were held in October across 272 constituencies. Khan anticipated doing well in the elections and was prepared to form a coalition if his party did not get a majority of the vote. He was elected from the NA-71 constituency of Mianwali and being the only party member to have secured a seat, PTI won only 0.8% of the popular vote. Khan, who was sworn in as an MP on 16 November, remained part of the Standing Committees on Kashmir and Public Accounts, and expressed legislative interest in Foreign Affairs, Education and Justice.

On 6 May 2005, Khan became one of the first Muslim figures to criticise a 300-word ''Newsweek'' story about the alleged desecration of the Qur'an in a U.S. military prison at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Khan held a press conference to denounce the article and demanded that Gen. Pervez Musharraf secure an apology from the American president George W. Bush for the incident.. In June 2007, the federal Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr. Sher Afghan Khan Niazi and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party filed separate ineligibility references against Khan, asking for his disqualification as member of the National Assembly on grounds of immorality. Both references, filed on the basis of articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution of Pakistan, were rejected on 5 September.

On 2 October 2007, as part of the All Parties Democratic Movement, Khan joined 85 other MPs to resign from Parliament in protest of the Presidential election scheduled for 6 October, which General Musharraf was contesting without resigning as army chief. On 3 November 2007, Khan was put under house arrest at his father's home hours after President Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan. Khan had demanded the death penalty for Musharraf after the imposition of emergency rule, which he equated to "committing treason". The next day, on 4 November, Khan escaped and went into peripatetic hiding. He eventually came out of hiding on 14 November to join a student protest at the University of the Punjab. At the rally, Khan was captured by students from the Jamaat-i-Islami political party, who claimed that Khan was an uninvited nuisance at the rally, and they handed him over to the police, who charged him under the Anti-terrorism act for allegedly inciting people to pick up arms, calling for civil disobedience, and for spreading hatred..

Ideology

Khan's proclaimed political platform and declarations include: Islamic values, to which he rededicated himself in the 1990s; liberal economics, with the promise of deregulating the economy and creating a welfare state; decreased bureaucracy and the implementation of anti-corruption laws, to create and ensure a clean government; the establishment of an independent judiciary; overhaul of the country's police system; and an anti-militant vision for a democratic Pakistan.

Khan told Britain's ''Daily Telegraph'', "I want Pakistan to be a welfare state and a genuine democracy with a rule of law and an independent judiciary." Other ideas he has presented include a requirement of all students to spend a year after graduation teaching in the countryside and cutting down the over-staffed bureaucracy in order to send them to teach too. "We need decentralisation, empowering people at the grass roots," he has said.

Criticism

Imran khan has a love-child named Tyrian from one Ana-Luisa White (Sita White). The concealed fact stood confirmed by a judgement of paternity rendered by a Superior Court of the State of California for the county of Los Angeles in favour of the said Sita White wherein it was held that the respondent was the father of the minor child named Tyrian Jade born on June 15, 1992. The respondent had not challenged that judgement and finally in the year 2004 accepted Tyrian Jade as his daughter and he and his wife Jamima Khan had become her guardian.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Khan became known as a socialite due to his "non-stop partying" at London nightclubs such as Annabel's and Tramp, though he claims to have hated English pubs and never drunk alcohol. He also gained notoriety in London gossip columns for romancing young debutantes such as Susannah Constantine, Lady Liza Campbell and the artist Emma Sergeant.

Khan is often dismissed as a political lightweight and a celebrity outsider in Pakistan, where national newspapers also refer to him as a "spoiler politician". The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, has asserted that Khan is "a sick person who has been a total failure in politics and is alive just because of the media coverage". Political observers say the crowds he draws are attracted by his cricketing celebrity, and the public has been reported to view him as a figure of entertainment rather than a serious political authority.

Declan Walsh in ''The Guardian'' newspaper in England in 2005 described Khan as a "miserable politician," observing that, "Khan's ideas and affiliations since entering politics in 1996 have swerved and skidded like a rickshaw in a rainshower... He preaches democracy one day but gives a vote to reactionary mullahs the next." The charge constantly raised against Khan is that of hypocrisy and opportunism, including what has been called his life's "playboy to puritan U-turn." Political commentator Najam Sethi, stated that, "A lot of the Imran Khan story is about backtracking on a lot of things he said earlier, which is why this doesn’t inspire people."

In 2008, as part of the Hall of Shame awards for 2007, Pakistan's ''Newsline'' magazine gave Khan the "Paris Hilton award for being the most undeserving media darling." The 'citation' for Khan read: "He is the leader of a party that is the proud holder of one National Assembly seat (and) gets media coverage inversely proportional to his political influence." ''The Guardian'' has described the coverage garnered by Khan's post-retirement activities in England, where he made his name as a cricket star and a night-club regular, as "terrible tosh, with danger attached. It turns a great (and greatly miserable) Third World nation into a gossip-column annexe. We may all choke on such frivolity." After the 2008 general elections, political columnist Azam Khalil addressed Khan as one of the "utter failures in Pakistani politics".

Awards and honours

In 1992, Khan was given Pakistan's civil award, the Hilal-i-Imtiaz

In 1983, he had received the President’s Pride of Performance Award

In 2011 he was given Jinnah award.

Khan is featured in the University of Oxford's Hall of Fame and has been an honorary fellow of Oxford's Keble College.

On 7 December 2005, Khan was appointed the fifth Chancellor of the University of Bradford, where he is also a patron of the Born in Bradford research project.

In 1976 as well as 1980, Khan was awarded The Cricket Society Wetherall Award for being the leading all-rounder in English first-class cricket.

In 1983, he was also named Wisden Cricketer of the Year

In 1985, Sussex Cricket Society Player of the Year

In 1990, Indian Cricket Cricketer of the Year On 5 July 2008, he was one of several veteran Asian cricketers presented special silver jubilee awards at the inaugural Asian cricket Council (ACC) award ceremony in Karachi. On 8 July 2004, Khan was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2004 Asian Jewel Awards in London, for "acting as a figurehead for many international charities and working passionately and extensively in fund-raising activities. On 13 December 2007, Khan received the Humanitarian Award at the Asian Sports Awards in Kuala Lumpur for his efforts in setting up the first cancer hospital in Pakistan. In 2009, at International Cricket Council's centennial year celebration, Khan was one of fifty-five cricketers inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.

Writings by Khan

Khan has published six works of non-fiction, including an autobiography co-written with Patrick Murphy. He periodically writes editorials on cricket and Pakistani politics in several leading Pakistani and British newspapers. It was revealed in 2008 that Khan's second book, ''Indus Journey: A Personal View of Pakistan'', had required heavy editing from the publisher. The publisher Jeremy Lewis revealed in a memoir that when he asked Khan to show his writing for publication, "he handed me a leatherbound notebook or diary containing a few jottings and autobiographical snippets. It took me, at most, five minutes to read them; and that, it soon became apparent, was all we had to go on."

Books Articles

Guardian comments, political and cricket commentary by Khan

Telegraph columns, sports articles penned by Khan from 2000 to present

We must address the root causes of this terror, Khan's editorial in the ''Independent'' following the 11 September attacks

Benazir Bhutto has only herself to blame, Khan's 2007 editorial on Bhutto's return to Pakistan

In popular culture

After the permission from him, he Kaptaan is a biographical film about him.

References

Further reading

External links

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Khan's political party

Chancellor: Imran Khan at the University of Bradford

Column archive at ''The Guardian''

;Articles

The NS Interview: Imran Khan Mehdi Hasan, ''New Statesman'', 20 August 2010

Imran Khan's revolution, Murtaza Razvi, ''Dawn'', 27 April 2011

Imran Khan: Pakistan's next leader?, ''Frost Over the World'', ''Aljazeera English'', 10 December 2011

Thousands rally for Pakistan's Imran Khan, ''Aljazeera English'', 25 December 2011

Hundreds of thousands gather at PTI rally in Karachi, ''Dawn'', 25 December 2011

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name	Kiran Rao
birth date	November 07, 1973
birth place	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
yearsactive	2001–present
spouse	Aamir Khan
occupation	Director, Producer, Screenwriter }}

Kiran Rao (Konkani: किरण राव) is an Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director.

Early life

Rao was born in Bangalore into a Hindu Maratha][Patil] family on November 7, 1973. She was raised in Calcutta where she attended Loreto House and La Martiniere Calcutta. In 1992, her parents decided to leave Calcutta so she shifted to Mumbai. She graduated with an economics major from the [[Sophia College, Mumbai|Sophia College for Women (Bombay) in 1995. She attended the Social Communications Media course at the Sophia Polytechnic for two months, but then left for Delhi. She got her Masters at AJK Mass Communication Research Center at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Career

Kiran Rao started her career as an assistant director in the epic film ''Lagaan'' directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, whom she also assisted later on ''Swades: We, the People''. ''Lagaan'' was nominated for 74th Academy Awards in the foreign language film category. Aamir Khan produced and starred in the same film. She also worked as Second Assistant Director with Academy Award nominated director Mira Nair on the indie hit ''Monsoon Wedding''. She scripted and directed the film ''Dhobi Ghat'', which was released in January 2011 under Aamir Khan Productions. She has started writing her next film which will have roots in Calcutta.

Personal life

Rao married actor/film director Aamir Khan in 2005, after he divorced his first wife Reena Dutta in 2002. They met on the sets of movie ''Lagaan''. Kiran Rao was one of the film's assistant directors. They married in December 2005 and now live in Bandra, an upscale Mumbai suburb. Kiran Rao and Actor Aamir Khan have a baby boy. The baby boy is named Azad Rao Khan following Aamir's uncle Maulana Azad Khan's popularity in 1st December 2011.

Actor

Director

''Dhobi Ghat'' (''Mumbai Diaries'') (2011)

Assistant Director

''Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India'' (2001)

''Monsoon Wedding'' (2001)

''Saathiya'' (2002)

''Swades: We, the People'' (2004)

Producer

''Taare Zameen Par'' (2007) (associate producer)

''Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na'' (2008) (associate producer)

''Peepli Live'' (2010) (producer)

''Dhobi Ghat'' (2011) (producer)

''Delhi Belly'' (2011) (producer)

See also

Aamir Khan

References

External links

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Name	Dibakar Banerjee
Birth date	21 June 1969
Birth place	New Delhi
Death date
Nationality	Indian
Known for	Khosla Ka Ghosla, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Love Sex aur Dhokha
Years active	2006-present
Occupation	film director, screenwriter
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Dibakar Banerjee (born 1969) is an Indian film director and screenwriter, who is most known for films, ''Khosla Ka Ghosla'' (2006), ''Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!'' (2008), which he also wrote, both of which won National Film Awards. He started his career in advertising, and continues as an ad filmmaker, in 2010 he also directed a Coca Cola commercial.

In 2010, he made his third film, ''Love Sex aur Dhokha'', where one of the three sub-plots in the movie is loosely based on the infamous 2004 DPS MMS scandal.

Early life and education

Dibaker Banerjee was born and brought up at New Rohtak Road near Karol Bagh, in West Delhi, and studied at Bal Bharati Public School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, Delhi.

After finishing his schooling he joined the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad to study visual communications and graphic design, but left it two and a half years later. Back in Delhi, seven months later he started working with corporate audio-visual filmmaker Sam Mathews, as a trainee.

Career

He joined advertising as a copywriter first with Shems Combit and then TBWA Anthem, and later he joined Contract Advertising, Delhi, where he worked under Pradeep Sarkar, who was then a creative director at the agency. Screenwriter Jaideep Sahni was also one of his colleagues, who later penned Khosla Ka Ghosla’s story, screenplay, dialogues and lyrics.

In 1997, he left Contract to launch his own company, 'Watermark', with two ex- NID friends, making ad films and promos for Channel V and MTV.

He was contacted for directing a movie "about Delhi, based in Delhi" by producers for Pritish Nandy Films, and shot his debut feature film, ''Khosla Ka Ghosla'' (2006) starring Anupam Kher and Boman Irani, in 45 days in locations in and around New Delhi. The film went on to receive not just accolades for him but also a National Film Award amongst others, and brought him in the list of new filmmakers who were bringing about a marked shift in Bollywood themes, which typically focuses on stories & characters from in and around Bombay.

In 2008, he co-wrote and directed his second feature, also set in his hometown Delhi, ''Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!'', with Abhay Deol and Paresh Rawal, it was premiered at the IFFI, Goa, and also at MoMA, New York. Commercially it was released in the 26/11 weekend, though it went on to become a sleeper hit; later ''New York Times'' described it as "a breezy mix of satire and realism", and the film won three Filmfare Awards.

Dibaker continues to make ad films under his new banner, Freshwater Films. This includes recent films for Promise Toothpaste and a series for Horlicks Malted Milk Drinks Brands.

In 2010, he directed India's first film shot entirely on Digital Camera, ''Love Sex aur Dhokha'' (LSD),which won him critical acclaim. A cutting satire on lapsing social mores fueled by materialistic greed and technological media advancement, it continued his oeuvre of grappling with the life of anchor-less middle-class & the completely amoral nouveau riche thrown up by India's economic boom of the 1990s.

Upcoming projects

Shanghai, his next project, is slated to be a political thriller involving an assassination, wherein Abhay Deol, who was the lead in his previous film ''Oye Lucky!'', is set to play one of the three principal characters of the film, a Tamil boy. The film based on a European novel published in the mid-1960s, is set go on the floors late in 2011.

Personal life

Dibakar Banerjee is married to Richa Puranesh, who also has an advertising background, and the couple lived in Delhi for many years. After the success of Khosla Ka Ghosla, the couple moved to Bombay and is currently living in Parel, suburb of Mumbai with their 2 year old daughter Ira.

Controversies

In March 2011, Bollywood actress Payal Rohatgi accused Dibakar of asking sexual favors in exchange for a role in his upcoming film Shanghai. However, Dibakar clarified that although he was friends with Payal Rohatgi, he made the comment about her putting on weight in the studio in front of a lot of people and not at her place. He did visit her home, but nothing happened there that can be termed as “sexual favors”.

Filmography

''Khosla Ka Ghosla'' (2006)

''Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008)

''Love Sex aur Dhokha'' (2010)

''Shanghai'' (2012)

Awards

National Film Award

* 2007: Best Feature Film in Hindi: ''Khosla Ka Ghosla''

2009: Best Popular Film: ''Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!''

Zee Cine Award

* 2007: Most Promising Director: ''Khosla Ka Ghosla''

References

External links

Dibakar Banerjee website

Dibakar Banerjee Dibakar Banerjee's Blog on PassionForCinema.com

Dibaker Banerjee Bollywood Hungama

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Miss Great Britain is a female beauty contest currently held in London. Between 1956 and 1989, it was held in the seaside resort of Morecambe. It is one of the oldest of its kind in the country, with the first edition held in 1945. Previous title holder Miss Great Britain 1997 Liz Fuller is the new owner of the business.

Unlike other beauty pageants, the annual event is not held to send its winner (or participants) to any specific international contests. Some of the international pageants which had been represented by Miss Great Britain were Miss Universe, Miss World, Top Model of the World and Miss World Tourism. The current title holder is Miss GB 2010 Amy Carrier from Liverpool. The Grand Final of Miss Great Britain 2010 will be held in December in Western Super Mare at the new Grand Pier.

As opposed to its British counterparts such as Miss England, Miss Northern Ireland, Miss Scotland, Miss Wales and Miss United Kingdom, Miss Great Britain is not affiliated with the Miss World Organisation.

2006 event

The 2006 title holder was Preeti Desai who hailed from Cleveland. Desai made history when she became the first ever winner of Indian ethnicity when she replaced the dethroned Danielle Lloyd. Lloyd had lost the crown after stirring up scandals for posing nude for Playboy magazine and dating one of the judges during her participation in the pageant. Danielle Lloyd has been re-instated into the Wall of Fame/ Previous winners as of January 11, 2010.

2007 event

Rachael Tennent, a project co-ordinator, was awarded the crown of Miss Great Britain. Along with the crown, the new titleholder also bagged a car, jewellery and a modelling contract. Tennent had previously competed for the Miss Scotland 2006 title which she placed 2nd runner-up. The event was held in Grosvenor House in Park Lane, London.

Tennent did not complete her reign which resulted in Gemma Garrett (who was the 1st runner up in 2007) taking over the title of Miss Great Britain for the rest of the year.

2008 event

The 2008 event did not take place due to financial difficulties as a result of the global financial crisis.

2009 event

The event took place on May 12, 2009 at the Café de Paris in Central London. Following the previous years non-event, a strong PR campaign orchestrated by the show's executive producer Jade Reuben, helped to re-introduce the event to the nation, with some 70,000 online entrants being whittled down through national heats to the final 12 girls. Heavily covered by the media, the eventual winner was Miss Newcastle - Sophie Gradon, 23. She will not go to Miss Universe as reported by the press; please see above. That girl is Clair Cooper.

Title holders

!Year	!Winner
2010	Amy Carrier
2009	Sophie Gradon
2008	(no contest)
2007	Gemma Garrett
2006	Preeti Desai / Danielle Lloyd
2005	(no contest)
2004	Emma Spellar
2003	Nicki Lane
2002	Yana Booth
2001	Michelle Evans
2000	Michelle Walker
1999	Rennell Kilner
1998	Leilani Dowding
1997	Liz Fuller
1996	Anita St Rose
1994	Sarah Southwick
1993 - 1990	(no contest)
1989	Amanda Dyson
1988	Gillian Bell
1987	Linzi Butler
1986	Lesley Ann Musgrave
1985	Jill Saxby
1984	Debbie Greenwood
1983	Rose McGrory
1982	Viviennne Farnen
1981	Michelle Hobson
1980	Sue Berger
1979	(no contest)
1978	Patricia Morgan
1977	Susan Hempel
1976	Dinah May
1975	Susan Cuff
1974	Marylin Ward
1973	Gay Spink
1972	Elizabeth Robinson
1971	Carolyn Moore
1970	Kathleen Winstanley
1969	Wendy Anne George
1968	Yvonne Ormes
1967	Jennifer Gurley
1966	Carole Fletcher
1965	Diane Hickinbotham
1964	Carole Redhead
1963	Gillian Taylor
1962	Joy Black
1961	Libby Walker
1960
1959	Valerie Martin
1958	Christine Mayo
1957	Leila Williams
1956	ris Waller
1955	Jennifer Chimes
1954	Patricia Butler
1953	Brenda Mee
1952	Dorothy Dawn
1951	Marlene Dee
1950
1949	Elaine Pryce
1948	Pamela Bayliss
1947	June Mitchell
1946	June Rivers
1945	Lydia Read

Archives

Archives of Miss Great Britain are held at The Women's Library at London Metropolitan University, ref 5MGB

References

www.missgreatbritain.co.uk

External links

Remembering seaside beauty contests

Miss Tourism World Organisation

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