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Saal may refer to the following places in Germany:

• Saal an der Donau, in the district of Kelheim, Bavaria
• Saal an der Saale, in the district Rhön-Grabfeld, Bavaria
• Saal, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the district Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• The Saal Railway a 153 kilometre-long double-track main line of the German railways.

Saal might refer to:

• Saal Bulas syndrome listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• Maria Saal, a market town in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in Austria.
• Jason Saal, a retired professional ice hockey who last played with the Adirondack Frostbite in the UHL.
• Garthan Saal is Supernova aka Nova Omega a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe.
• Solva Saal, a 1958 Hindi movie.
• Bees Saal Baad, a 1962 Bollywood film.
• Bees Saal Pehle, a 1972 Bollywood drama film.

See also[link]

• Sal (disambiguation)

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Diljit (born 6 January 1984; as Diljit Singh Dosanjh) is a Punjabi singer and film actor.^[1]

Career[link]

Music[link]

Diljit Dosanjh debuted with his album Ishq Da Uda Ada. It was released by T-Series. He has come out with 6 albums so far.His most successful album, The Next Level is also his most recent.

Feature films[link]

Diljit made his acting debut in the Punjabi action flick, The Lion of Punjab which opened to negative reviews from critics, though managed to end up successful at the box office. In 2011, he starred in the critically acclaimed Jihne Mera Dil Luteya which turned out to be a critical and commercial blockbuster. Critics praised Diljit's comic performance in the film. In February 2012 he was seen in the Hindi romance film Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya, in which he appeared in a guest appearance through the song "Pee Pa Pee Pa" which he also sang. His first official release of 2012 is announced to be a love story Jatt & Juliet opposite Neeru Bajwa,^[2] it's currently under-production, and will be released on 29 June 2012. His next Jatt Romantic pairs him opposite Neeru Bajwa again and is directed by leading Bollywood director Dharmesh Darshan.

Controversies[link]

Diljit Dosanjh is going through a difficult phase of Internet war. The whole incident started last year when Diljit fell on the stage while performing his songs in one event. One of the viewers captured the Incident video and uploaded on the Social Networking site Facebook. Following that a series of comments started on that video both positive as well as negative. Diljit got annoyed with all the negative comments and sung one abusing song for all Facebook fans who posted negatives comments and uploaded the video under the title Facebook de Dakiye on YouTube. After that a real internet war started between Diljit and his fans, Punjabi community from different parts of the world is uploading videos day by day against Diljit. after this incident Diljit officially announce to cancel Urban Pendu Album along with 15 Saal.^[3] But the song 15 Saal is leaked on the YouTube. now Urban Pendu album is also releasing in Aug 2012

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Lion of Punjab Film/Music Release Date
• Official Facebook Page

Honey Singh
Background information
Also known as	Yo Yo Honey Singh
Born	(1984-03-15) March 15, 1984 (age 28) Hoshiarpur
Origin	punjabi
Genres	Desi Hip Hop Music Producer
Occupations	Rapper, Singer, Music Producer and Film Actor.
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Mafia Mundeer,
Associated acts	Diljit Dosanjh, Gippy Grewal , Jassi Sidhu , Malkit Singh, Amrinder Gill
Website	YoYoHoneySingh.com www.facebook.com/theyoyosingh

Honey Singh also known as Yo Yo Honey Singh^[1] is a Punjabi rapper, singer and a film actor. He started as a session and recording artist, and became a Bhangra producer.^[2]

Promotion[link]

Honey Singh has received the ETC award for the Best sound in 2006 for his song Glassi and the PTC award for the Best Folk Pop Award 2009 for Rebirth and PTC PUNJABI Best Music Director 2011.^[3]

It has been reported that he has been paid the highest fees ever for a song (as of 2012) of 70 lakh (US$139,700) for a song in the film Mastaan.^[4]

Early life[link]

He was born on 15 March 1984 in Hoshiarpur.^[5] While in the UK, he studied music at the Trinity School.

Career[link]

It is reported that Honey Singh prefers to sing in his native language Punjabi rather than English, Spanish and French.^[6] The Punjabi album International Villager was released on 11 November 2011 (11-11-11).^[7] The track Gabru from International Villager featuring singer J-Star topped Asian music charts (including world iTunes and the official BBC asian charts) ^[8][9]

He has performed at many college festivals including at Ansal Institute of Technology and Ramjas College, Delhi.^[10]

Bollywood[link]

He became popular after his debut music featuring Gagan Sidhu for the title track of the movie called Shakal Pe Mat Ja released on November 18, 2011. The Central Board of Film Certification suggested removing the abusive language contained in the title track of the movie.^{[citation needed]}

Honey Singh also acted in Punjabi Movie Mirza- The Untold Story^[11]

Honey Singh is now the highest paid music star^[12] pop artiste in Bollywood. Honey Singh has charged Rs. 70 lakh^[13] for a song in a film titled Mastaan, starring Naseeruddin Shah and his younger son, Vivaan. It is the biggest amount paid to a song artist in Bollywood to date.

Also Song Angreji Beat sung by Gippy Grewal & Yo Yo Honey Singh, originally from Honey Singh's Album International Villager released in November 2011, will be used in the film Cocktail.^[14]

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

Movies[link]

Filmography[link]

Feature films as Actor

Awards[link]

• The ETC award for the Best sound in 2006 for Glassi
• The PTC award for the Best Folk Pop Award 2009 for Rebirth
• PTC PUNJABI Best Music Director 2010 for song Desi Daroo^[17]
• PTC PUNJABI Best Music Director 2011 for album The Folkstar^[18][19]
• PTC PUNJABI Best Music Director 2012 for album I.V.(International Villager)^[20]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Official Facebook Page of Honey Singh
• Official Twitter Account

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Monica Bedi
Monica Bedi at Hira Manek Women's Achievers Awards
Born	(1975-01-18) 18 January 1975 (age 37) Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India
Residence	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Actress, Television presenter
Years active	1995–Present
Partner	Abu Salem (1997-2002)
Website
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Monica Bedi (born 18 January 1975) is an Indian/Norwegian actress, television-presenter, television-contestant. She debuted in Hindi films in mid 1990s. However, her career was severely damaged when she was arrested along with her consort Mumbai underworld mastermind Abu Salem in Portugal for passport forgery, which was followed by extradition to India and jail sentence.

Early life[link]

Bedi was born to Dr. Prem Kumar Bedi and Shakuntala Bedi on January 18, 1975 in a village named Chabbewal in the district Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Her parents migrated to Norway in 1976, when she was 10 months old where they run a garment business. She has one brother, living in Norway. She went to school in Norway. At the age of 18 she left college to follow the big dream. Monica returned to India at the age of 18 and entered Bollywood. She studied at Oxford University in London,^{[clarification needed]} United Kingdom and completed her acting education at University Of Delhi. She got into films after she met producer Manoj Kumar in England while she was studying English literature at Oxford in 1992.

Career[link]

Monica Bedi is most known for her films such as Janam Samja Karo, where she was in the lead role with Urmilla, opposite Salman Khan, Jodi no.1 opposite with Sanjay Dutt and Govinda, Pyar, Ishq Aur Mohabbat opposite with Arjun Rampal and Aftab Shivdasani and Tirchi Topi Wale. Monica was most talked about inmate in Big Boss 2, an Television based reality show on Colors. Monica Bedi had acted more than a dozen films in Telugu. It is ace producer D. Ramanaidu who introduced her in Telugu in his film, TAJMAHAL, after she shot in to fame with her debut Hindi film, Tirchi Topiwale. She got many offers in Telugu as she has no qualms with exposing to any extent.

Monica Bedi came to Mumbai from Delhi to try her luck in the film industry. It was here that she came in contact with Mukesh Duggal, a film producer, who took her to Dubai for a stage show. Monica was one of the contestants of the reality dance show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 3 on Sony Entertainment Television channel. Her choreographer partner was Javed Sanadi. Monica was also a contestant on NDTV Imagine's Desi Girl reality show. She sung the divine chants ‘Ek Onkar’ for spiritual music album on Universal Music. Ek Onkaar launched in Chandigarh. It is a spiritual offering where Monica has rendered her voice. The album is a compilation of the revered mantra of the Sikhs called ‘Mool Mantra’ which is one of the holiest chants from the holy book of Sikhism ‘Guru Granth Saheb’.

Monica Bedi is back in action on big screen again after some years. She is doing a Nepali movie ‘Parichay’, In the movie, Monica is cast opposite Nikhil Upreti, Nepal’s action hero. “Parichay” is directed by Mumbai-based director Akash Pandey. She is shooting two tamil films, which will be released in 2012. She will also launch two reality-tv projects in 2012.

She is playing the title role in a Tamil movie as ‘Devadasi' The story revolves around an aged use of Devadasi complement as well as Monica plays a Devadasi from Peddhapuram area in Andhra Pradesh.

She is acting in a punjabi movie titled Sirr Phire as the main female lead opposite Priyachu Chaterji, Preet Harpal and Roshan Prince, directed by Harjith Singh Ricky and produced by Angad Singh.

[edit] Bigg Boss (Season 2)

On 17 August 2008 (telecast date), Bedi was ushered into the Bigg Boss (Season 2) as one of the 14 contestants in the second season of the Indian version of Big Brother. She was evicted from the house on 5 September (telecast date).^[1]

[edit] Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 3)

Monica paired with Javed Sanadi for the show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. She was eliminated in round 6 although her improvement was highly appreciated by the judges. She regarded the show as a new beginning of her life and career.

[edit] Desi Girl

Monica was a contestant on NDTV Imagine's reality show Desi Girl. She was the fourth to get eliminated as the contestants objected to her stay.

Jail sentence[link]

In September 2002, she was arrested along with fugitive underworld don Abu Salem by the Lisbon police for entering Portugal with forged documents.^[2] After years of legal battle, they were deported to India on 11 November 2005, after India promised Portugal that Salem would not receive death sentence.

On 29 September 2006, an Indian Court convicted Monica Bedi for passport forgery. CBI had filed a case against Bedi under section 420 (cheating), 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and section 12 of the Passport Act for procuring a passport on a fictitious name.^[3]

Bedi was acquitted of all criminal charges by a Bhopal court on 16 July 2007 due to lack of evidence against her. Yet another case for possessing a passport from Hyderabad on forged documents in the name of Sana Malik is pending in a Hyderabad court. The Hyderabad Court however denied her bail in the case as she failed to produce her original passport. Monica said she lost her passport in Dubai. On 25 July 2007 she was released from the Chanchalguda Central Jail and was received by her father Prem Kumar Bedi. She said that she planned to make a comeback to films and claimed to be getting offers from both Bollywood and the Telugu film industry. Upon her release from the prison, she moved back to her village, Chabbewal in district Hoshiarpur, Punjab and stayed there for a few months.

Filmography[link]

Telugu

• Taj Mahal (1995)
• Sogadi Pellam (1996)
• Circus Sathipandu (1997)
• Sivayya (1998)
• Agneepath (2005)

Kannada

• Nannaseya Hoove (1999)

Hindi

• Suraksha (1995)
• Aashiq Mastana (1995)
• Khilona (1996)
• Ek Phool Teen Kante (1997)
• Jeeyo Shaan Se (1997)
• Tirchhi Topiwale (1998)
• Zanzjeer (1998)
• Kaalicharan (1998)
• Mera Desh] (1998)
• Jaanam Samjha Karo (1999)
• Kaala Samrajya (1999)
• Lohpurush (1999)
• Sikandar Sadak Ka (1999)
• Jodi No. 1 (2001)
• Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat (2001)
• Tada (2003)

Punjabi

• Sirphire (2012)

Nepal

• Parichay (2012)

Tamil

• Devdasi (2012)

References[link]

http://www.actressmonicabedi.com

External links[link]

• Bigg Boss 2 - Profile of Monica Bedi
• Bigg Boss 2
• A brief report on Bedi's career