Sunil

Sunil (hindi : सुनील) is a Hindu/Sanskrit Indian popular masculine given name, which means "dark blue".

Notable people named Sunil

Sunil (director)

Sunil is an Indian film director in Malayalam movies. He directed more than 20 Malayalam movies. His popular movies are Maanathe Kottaram,Priyappetta Kukku, Vridhanmaare Sookshikkuka, Bharanakoodam and Alancherry Thambrakkal.

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Sunil (actor)

Sunil Varma is an Indian actor from the Telugu film industry. His roles usually are to provide comic relief to the audience.

Varma has won two Filmfare Awards and three Nandi Awards. He appeared in the lead role for the first time in Andala Ramudu (2006), but he got his breakthrough with Maryada Ramanna (2010) directed by S. S. Rajamouli. Sunil Celebrated his 40th birthday for a noble cause donating to a blind school and spending time with them.

Career

Sunil's career began on a slow note with movies like Second Hand (which was stopped from production), and Peruleni Cinema. Prema kadha and Swayamvaram were his first real opportunities in the industry. Chiru Navvuto and Nuvve Kavali were the first films that he acted in. Nuvve Kavali was the first one to release.

Sunil was cast in the lead role in Poola Rangadu, which was released across 450 theatres worldwide. The film received positive reviews.

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Veena

The Veena (Sanskrit: वीणा) is a plucked stringed instrument originating in ancient India, used mainly in Carnatic classical music and Hindustani classical music. The name is used for several instruments belonging to different families, mainly the Rudra Veena (a zither) and the Saraswati veena (a necked bowl lute) but also to other types of plucked string instruments (Mohan Veena, Ancient Veena etc).

The earliest Veena was an instrument of the harp type whose type survives in the Burmese harp, whereas in the last centuries and nowadays, the word has tended to be applied to instruments of the lute type or even, recently, to certain kinds of guitars developed in India. The more popular sitar is believed to have been derived from a type of Veena which was modified by a Mughal court musician to conform with the tastes of his Persian patrons. A person who plays a Veena is called a vainika.

Etymology and history

The Sanskrit word veena (वीणा) (sometimes transliterated as vina) which is attested already in the Rigveda has designated in the course of Indian history a variety of instruments of various types, as it is a generic term for all kinds of string instruments, just as the Tamil word yaaḻ (யாழ்) (often written yaazh or yaal). In the last centuries and today the instruments designated under the designation veena of which there are several kinds, have tended to be mostly instruments of the lute or cithar type, and recently the word was even applied to modified Western guitars. But the early veenaas could be plucked string instruments of any type.

Veena (disambiguation)

The veena is a plucked musical instrument originating from India.

Veena may also refer to:

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Veena (actress)

Veena (18 July 1926 – 14 November 2004), also known as Veena Kumari, real name Tajour Sultana, was an Indian actress.

Early life and background

Veena was born as Tajour Sultana on 4 July 1926 in Quetta, Baluchistan Agency, British India. At some point of time, her family shifted to Lahore and she belonged to Lahore's Chuna Mandi.

Career

She started out playing heroine roles in Pre-Partition films. She made her debut with Garib and Gawandhi (1942) at around sixteen years of age. Garib was made in Urdu and Gawandhi was made in Punjabi and directed by Mehboob Khan. In Garib, she played the role of Lata and in Gawandhi she played heroine opposite Shyam who played the hero. She became known for her roles in Pre-Partition Hindi and Urdu films. Her early years in films came with films like Najma (1943), Phool (1945), and Humayun (1945). Her last film before the Partition of India was Rajputani (1946) in which she played a supporting role. She decided to remain in India after the partition and she acted through the mid-to-late-1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and early-1980s. She played roles in big films like Halaku (1956), Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958), Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), Taj Mahal (1963) (for which she received the Filmfare's Award for Best Supporting Actress), Do Raaste (1969), and Pakeezah (1972). She retired in 1983 after the release of Razia Sultan (1983) in which she played Empress Shah Turkhan. She died in Bombay in 2004 after 21 years of retirement when she was 78 years old after suffering from a protracted illness. She had appeared in over 70 feature films in a career spanning 41 years (1942 till 1983).