Sunil is a common Hindu male name meaning "deep, dark blue color". It may refer to:

• Sunil (actor), actor in the Telugu film industry
• Sunil Kumar Ahuja (born 1961), professor of Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology & Biochemistry at University of Texas Health Science Center
• Sunil Chhetri (born 1984), Indian footballer
• Sunil Dhaniram (born 1968), Canadian cricketer
• Sunil Dutt (1928 – 2005), born as Balraj Dutt, Indian Hindi movie actor, producer, director and politician
• Sunil Dutta, author, social activist, scholar of music and poetry. He is the president of the North American Dhrupad Association
• Sunil Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan musician
• Sunil Erevelles Associate Professor of Marketing at the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina
• Sunil Gangopadhyay (born 1934), Indian poet and novelist
• Sunil Gavaskar, cricketer
• Sunil Gulati, current president of the United States Soccer Federation
• Sunil Khan, Indian politician
• Sunil Lahri, also called Sunil Lahiri or Sunil Lehri, Indian actor
• Sunil Mittal, Indian businessman
• Sunil Nayar, Indian American television writer and producer
• Sunil Babu Pant, Nepali politician
• Sunil Perera, Sri Lankan musician, part of the Sri Lankan band The Gypsies
• Sunil Prajapati
• Sunil Sharma Chairman, Gyanvihar University
• Sunil Sahu
• Sunil Santha
• Sunil Shetty, Actor
• Samvrutha Sunil
• Sunil Tagare
• Sunil Wettimuny
• Sunil Vaswani, Chairman of Stallion group, Nigerian billionaire
• Sunil, a character in the HBO drama In Treatment portrayed by Irrfan Khan

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Sunil Pal
Sunil Pal at Kailash Kher Kailasa's Rangeele Album Launch
Born	Sunil Pal
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Comedian, Actor, Voice actor
Known for	Stage comedy
Website
sunilpal.in

Sunil Pal was born in Chandrapur (Maharastra, India). He is a popular Indian comedian, actor and voice actor, and the 2005 winner of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge on STAR One. Lately he has been seen acting in many Bollywood flicks doing minor comic roles.

In 2010, he wrote and directed a comedy film, Bhavnao Ko Samjho, which featured a record 51 stand-up comedians.^[1]

Early life[link]

Sunil Pal came to Mumbai in 1995 when his father (who then used to work with Indian Railways) got transferred. He studied in Janata Vidyalaya city branch Ballarpur school. He joined the Junior College. There he used to mimic his professors and famous actors. After college, he struggled for three years.

Early Career[link]

During one of his interviews, he says that "I was working at a tea stall in Santacruz as waiter. Those days I'd sleep on the footpath. And I used to use the telephones of a nearby shop to keep in touch with my contacts in film industry." ^[2]

In 2000, Sunil got a chance to do a world tour with Aamir Khan (for Lagaan) as a junior artist. He was also involved in other tours of famous actors like Priety Zinta, Aishwarya Rai.

The Great Indian Laughter Challenge[link]

Later Sunil Pal contested in The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, and won the competition. He was the favourite of viewers, who were enthralled by his remarkable ability of impersonating many film actors (like Sunil Shetty, Nana Patekar, Sunny Deol, Dharmendra, Naseeruddin Shah, and Irfan Khan) with commanding progress. In addition, his self-created character of the drunkard "Ratan Noora" was widely admired.

Bollywood Career[link]

Soon after the show followed many small roles in Bollywood movies. So far he has worked in seven films. His first major Hindi film, Bombay to Goa released in 2007, although he has played small roles in Hum Tum and Phir Hera Pheri. On a tour with Sonu Nigam, he met Neeraj Vohra (writer and director) who later gave him a role in Phir Hera Pheri (2006). He has also worked in Apna Sapna Money Money and he has produced, written, and directed a film called Bhavnao ko Samjho. The film is in the Guinness Book of World Records for a record 51 stand up comedians acting in a single film. While the film was bashed by critics, audience members who follow The Great Indian Laughter Challenge enjoyed the film due to the stand-up comedians acting in the film and similar jokes.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sunil Pal at the Internet Movie Database

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Sunil Dutt
Personal details
Born	Balraj Dutt (1929-06-06)6 June 1929 Jhelum, British India
Died	25 May 2005(2005-05-25) (aged 75) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse(s)	Nargis Dutt (1958–1981, her death)
Children	Sanjay Dutt, Priya Dutt, and Namrata Dutt
Residence	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Actor, Producer, Director, Politician
Religion	Hindu
As of September 25, 2010

Sunil Dutt (सुनील दत्त (Hindi); ਸੁਨੀਲ ਦੱਤ (Punjabi)) (6 June 1929 – 25 May 2005), born Balraj Dutt, was an Indian Hindi movie actor (also acted in some Punjabi movies), producer, director and politician. He was the cabinet minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government (2004–2005). His son, Sanjay Dutt, is also an actor.^[1]

In 1984 he joined the Congress (I) party and was elected to Parliament for five terms from the constituency of Mumbai North West. In 1968, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

Early life[link]

Sunil Dutt was born on 6 June 1929 in the village of Khurd in the Jalandhar District of Punjab, British India now in Pakistan, in a Mohyal Brahmin family.

After the Partition of India his family settled in a small village on the bank of river Yamuna called Mandoli in what was Ambala district of East Punjab (now Yamuna Nagar district of Haryana). The Partition had a great toll on his family who had lost all their wealth and, in fact, he was left begging in the streets of Delhi before he re-joined his family. Later he moved to lucknow and spent a long time in Aminabad Galli during graduation and to fulfill his dreams he moved to Mumbai. In Mumbai, he joined Jai Hind College as an undergraduate and took up a job.

Career[link]

Starting out in radio, Sunil Dutt was a hugely popular on the Hindi Service of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia. He moved to acting in Hindi films and got introduced to the film industry in the 1955 film Railway Platform. He shot to the stardom in the 1957 film Mother India in which he co-starred with Nargis, whom he married on 11 March 1958. In the film, Dutt played a short-tempered, angry son of Nargis. During the making of this film a fire accident happened on the sets. It is believed that Dutt braved the raging fire to save Nargis and thereby won her love.

He had one son Sanjay Dutt, also a successful film actor and two daughters, Priya Dutt and Namrata Dutt(Anju). His daughter Namrata married Kumar Gaurav, son of Rajendra Kumar. The two fathers were good friends and also co-stars in Mother India.

Dutt was one of the major stars of Hindi Cinema in the late 1950s and 1960s and continued to star in many successful films which included Sadhna (1958), Sujata (1959), Mujhe Jeene Do (1963), Khandaan (1965) and Padosan (1967). His collaboration with B.R. Chopra proved to be successful in films such as Gumraah (1963), Waqt (1965) and Hamraaz (1967). One of his favourite writers and friend until the end was Aghajani Kashmeri who wrote his Ghazal, Mujhe Jeene Do, Yeh Raaste Hain Pyar Ke, among others. Aghajani had a special connection to him because Sunil's wife Nargis was launched by Aghajani in a movie he wrote for the famous director-producer Mehboob Khan, called Taqdeer. Aghajani and Mehboob visited Nargis' mother's home on Marine Drive in Mumbai as she came home from school and both decided she would play the lead role. "It was a heart rending letter of condolence that Sunil Dutt wrote to me", says Kashmeri's son Zuhair Kashmeri when the former died in 1998 in Toronto, Canada.

He created a record of sorts by directing and starring in the unique film Yaadein (1964) in which he was the only actor in the cast. He later turned producer of the 1968 film Man Ka Meet which introduced his brother Som Dutt who was unsuccessful in films. In 1971 he produced, directed and starred in the big-budget period romantic film Reshma Aur Shera (1971) which was a huge failure at the box office.

He bounced back when he continued to star in hit films which included Pran Jaye Par Vachan Na Jaye (1974), Nagin (1976), Jaani Dushman (1979) and Shaan (1980).

He also starred in a series of Punjabi religious movies in the 1970s: Man Jeete Jag Jeet (1973), Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam (1974), and Sat Sri Akal (1977).

He launched his son Sanjay's career with the film Rocky in 1981 which was a success. However shortly after its release his wife died of pancreatic cancer. He set up Nargis Dutt foundation in memory of his wife for the cure of cancer patients. He was also a sponsor of the India Project, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated organization akin to Operation Smile for the treatment of Indian children with facial deformities.

In 1982 he was appointed as the Sheriff of Mumbai, an apolitical titular position, a position bestowed on him by the Maharashtra government for the period of a year. He turned character actor in the 1980s often playing an elderly police officer or family patriarch at the centre of family feuds. He retired from the film industry in the early 1990s to turn to politics after his last few film releases including Parampara (1992) and Kshatriya (1993).

His political career was halted for some years in the early 1990s when he worked to free his son from jail after he was arrested following Hindu-Muslim clashes in Mumbai.

In 1995 he won the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the film industry for four decades.

He returned to films shortly before his death in the 2003 film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.. In this film he shared the screen with son Sanjay for the first time although they had both appeared earlier in Rocky (1981) and Kshatriya (1993) but did not appear in any scenes together.

He died of a heart attack ^[2] at his residence in Bandra, Mumbai in his sleep. His seat in Parliament was contested by his daughter, Priya Dutt who eventually won it and is a Member of Parliament from North West Mumbai. His death coincided with the death of film producer Ismail Merchant who was famous for his Merchant-Ivory productions.

Awards and honours[link]

• 1963 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Mujhe Jeene Do
• 1965 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Khandaan
• 1967 - BFJA Best Actor for Milan ^[3]
• 1968 - Padma Shri
• 1982 - Sheriff of Mumbai
• 1995 - Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1997 - Star Screen Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1998 - Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award^[4]
• 2000 - Lifetime Achievement Award at the Anandalok Awards
• 2001 - Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 2005 - Phalke Ratna Award by the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy.^[5]
• Dutt was a recipient of the Glory of India Award by IIFS, London.^[6]

Selected filmography[link]

Co-stars[link]

• Meena Kumari
• Nargis
• Vyjayanthimala
• Nutan
• Waheeda Rehman
• Sadhana
• Mala Sinha
• Asha Parekh
• Saira Banu

Further reading[link]

• Mr. and Mrs. Dutt: Memories of our Parents, Namrata Dutt Kumar and Priya Dutt, 2007, Roli Books. ISBN 978-81-7436-455-5.^[7]
• Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt, Kishwar Desai. 2007, Harper Collins. ISBN 978-81-7223-697-7.

See also[link]

• Radio Ceylon
• List of Hindi broadcasters of Radio Ceylon

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Sunil Dutt at the Internet Movie Database

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M. S. Narayana (Telugu: ఎం. ఎస్. నారాయణ) is a comedian and director in Tollywood. He has acted in more than 500 films & is noted for his comic timing and facial expressions with witty dialogues.

Filmography[link]

Actor[link]

Director[link]

1. Bhajantrilu (2007)
2. Koduku

Singer[link]

1. Kabaddi Kabaddi
2. Gabbar Singh

References[link]

1. ^ http://www.cinegoer.com/telugu-cinema/news-archives/january-2012/venkatesh-srikanth-starrer-shadow-muhurat-held-270112.html

External links[link]

• M.S. Narayana at the Internet Movie Database
• TLCA members felicitation to M. S. Narayana
• Koduku Movie Announcement

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Sunil Shetty
Shetty on the sets of Loot
Born	Sunil Shetty (1961-08-11) 11 August 1961 (age 50) Mulki, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Other names	Suniel Shetty
Occupation	Actor, Producer, Television presenter
Years active	1992–Present
Spouse	Mana Shetty
Children	Atiya Shetty Aahan Shetty

Sunil Shetty (born 11 August 1961) is an Indian film actor, producer, hotelier and liquor and fashion boutique owner. He is mainly active in Bollywood.

Career[link]

Shetty made his acting debut in the 1992 in the film Balwaan, which was an average success. He gave 2 average grossers films in 1993 Pehchaan and Waqt Hamara Hai. His first major blockbuster hit was the 1994 action thriller Mohra. Later that year he also had another hit with the romantic drama film Dilwale and average success Gopi Kishan. He went on to star in many films throughout the 1990s mostly in the action genre. In 1997, his film Bhai released on Diwali was a success despite coinciding with Shahrukh Khans Dil To Pagal Hai. In 1997. he got recognition for his role in the war epic Border. He went on to play patriotic roles in films such as Refugee (2001), Qayamat: City Under Threat (2003) and LOC Kargil (2003). He also ventured into comedy roles in hit films such as Hera Pheri (2000), Awara Paagal Deewana (2002), Phir Hera Pheri (2006) and De Dana Dan (2009). He won a Filmfare Award for Best Villain in 2001 for his performance in Dhadkan (2000). He also won SAIFF (South Asia International Film Festival) 2009 as a Best Actor for the film Red Alert: The War Within.

As a producer, he set up a production company called Popcorn Motion Pictures Ltd, which produced the films Khel – No Ordinary Game (2003), Rakht: What If You Can See the Future and Bhagam Bhag (2006). In recent years he has mostly played small roles in multi-starred films. Besides Bollywood he appeared in the English film Don't Stop Dreaming in 2007 and the Tamil film 12B. He also hosted Biggest Loser Jeetega on Sahara One.^[1] In 2010, he starred in Daddy Cool, De Dana Dan, and No Problem, whereas in 2011, he only starred in Thank You, which was a box office average.

His latest release is Loot. He is currently working on films, Chai Garam

Sunil Shetty is now also captain of the Mumbai Heroes cricket team in the Celebrity cricket league.

Personal life[link]

Sunil Shetty was born in a ethnic Bunt^[2][3] family on 11 August 1961 in Mulki, India^[2] He also owns some hotels specializing in Udupi cuisine (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) and a clothing boutique named Mischief and has launched a company called Popcorn Entertainment to promote Bollywood actors touring abroad for stage shows and/or concerts.

He is married to Mana Shetty and has two children called Ahan and Athiya. He is often called as the He-Man of the Indian Bollywood industry. He has a Black Belt in Kick Boxing.^[4]

Awards[link]

Winner

• 2000: Filmfare Best Villain Award for Dhadkan^[5]
• 2009: SAIFF Award for Best Actor for Red Alert: The War Within^[6]
• 2011: Stardust Search Light Award for Best Actor for Red Alert: The War Within^[7]

Nominated

• 1994: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Dilwale^[5]
• 1997: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Border^[5]
• 2000: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Refugee^[5]
• 2004: Filmfare Best Villain Award for Main Hoon Na^[5]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

8^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265452/ http://www.srivideo.net/vijay-tv-shows/8290-star-teams-in-celebrity-cricket-league-ccl-t20-2011-team-squads-ccl-t20-live-on-vijay-tv.html http://www.bollywoodmantra.com/picture/mumbai-heroes-league-2011/

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sunil Shetty

• Sunil Shetty at the Internet Movie Database
• Viveik, Sunil and Sanjay in Soham Shah's next

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