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The Manchus (Manchu: Manju; simplified Chinese: 满族; traditional Chinese: 滿族; pinyin: Mǎnzú) are an ethnic minority of China who originated in Manchuria (northeastern China).
For centuries, the Manchu ethnicity has acculturated with the majority Han ethnicity of China. Most Manchu today speak Standard Chinese, while the Manchu language is only spoken by elderly people in remote northeastern China and a few scholars; there are around ten thousand speakers of Xibe, a closely related language spoken in the Ili region of Xinjiang. In recent years, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in Manchu culture among both ethnic Manchus and Han. The number of Chinese today with some Manchu ancestry is quite large—with 10.68 million members (in China), Manchu is the 3rd largest ethnic group in China after the Han and the Zhuang. The adoption of favorable policies towards ethnic minorities (such as preferential university admission, government employment opportunities and exemption from the one child policy) has encouraged some people with mixed Han and Manchu ancestry to re-identify themselves as Manchu.
Lakshmi Prasanna Manchu (Telugu: లక్ష్మి ప్రసన్న మంచు) is an Indian film actress, producer and a television host. She is the only daughter of actor Mohan Babu and his first wife late Vidya Devi. She graduated with a Bachelors in Theater Oklahoma City University. She has acted in the American Television series Las Vegas and Desperate Housewives. She has also appeared in commercials for Toyota, AARP and Chevrolet.
Lakshmi became known through her role in the American television series Las Vegas, where she played the role of Sarasvati Kumar, the love interest of James Lesure. The show gave her the chance to work with many stars, such as James Caan, Sylvestor Stallone, just to name a few. She has appeared in national commercials campaigns for AARP, Chevrolet, and Toyota. In 2006, she acted, directed, and produced Perfect Lives, a short film that was accepted and screened at the Wilshire Fine Arts Theater as part of the La Femme Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Mohan Babu (born Manchu Bakthavatsalam Naidu) is an actor and producer in Telugu Cinema. He is also an educationist and a former Member of Parliament – Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh. He received the Padma Shri in 2007.
Mohan was born on 19 March 1952 at Modhugulapalem village near the banks of the river Swarnamukhi, and sandwiched between two famous pilgrim centers, Tirupati (abode of Lord Venkateshwara) and Srikalahasti (abode of Lord Vayulingeswara) in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. He has three younger brothers – Ranganath Chowdary, Ramachandra Chowdary and Krishna – and a sister Vijaya. He had his schooling at Yerpedu village and Tirupati. He took his degree in Physical Education in Chennai. He worked as a physical education instructor for a brief while, before making his debut as an actor in the Telugu film industry. Mohan Babu also worked in the film direction department for about half a decade in the early 1970s. He was a class mate of Rajinikanth while they studied at the Madras Film Institute.
Actors: Martin Metz (miscellaneous crew), Pierre Philippe Hendrickx (miscellaneous crew), Wendee Lee (actress), Karen Strassman (actress), Bob Buchholz (miscellaneous crew), Adrian Politowski (producer), Gilles Waterkeyn (producer), Sam Riegel (actor), Frank Welker (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Michael McConnohie (actor), Bernd Wefelmeyer (composer), Barbara Goodson (actress), Iwona Sellers (miscellaneous crew), Frank Hübner (producer),
Plot: Somewhere in the majestic Chinese highlands of our days: The Pandas' survival is severely endangered as the bamboo is becoming scarce, and humans continuously expand into their habitat. And laziness being one of the Pandas' most significant character traits, what the community now requires is someone to rouse them. Manchu, with the help of his friends, stands up to all the trials. The group has nearly reached their destination when suddenly the humans unleash the floods of their newly-built dam, aimed at the Pandas' valley!
Genres: Animation,Actors: Bill Kerr (actor), Kris Noble (producer), Paul D. Barron (producer), Paul D. Barron (writer), Bill McCluskey (actor), Geoff Kelso (actor), Ron Elliott (writer), Sue Taylor (producer), Jeremy Callaghan (actor), Mike Frencham (actor), Michael Loney (actor), Heath Bergersen (actor), Vito de Francesco (actor), Meredith Watson Jeffrey (editor), Kate Hall (actress),
Plot: Southern Cross is an Australian family drama. Two immigrant children's mom dies, and her children are put in a detention center. Instead of waiting around, the children plan to escape and go across the land to their surviving relatives far away.
Keywords: based-on-novelActors: Nick Rotundo (writer), James Hong (actor), Nick Rotundo (director), Joanna Syrokomla (costume designer), Daniel Bernhardt (actor), Gary Koftinoff (composer), Paco Alvarez (producer), Christopher Lee Clements (actor), Simon Kim (actor), James Kim (actor), Louis Paquette (actor), Jung-Yul Kim (actor), Scott Hogarth (actor), David Fujino (actor), Michael Chow (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure,Actors: Rob Schneider (actor), Keone Young (actor), David Kitay (composer), Leslie Nielsen (actor), John Karlen (actor), Alex L. Worman (miscellaneous crew), Kelly Hu (actress), Neal Israel (director), Pete Antico (actor), Neal Israel (actor), Philip Tan (actor), Deborah Simmrin (miscellaneous crew), Tom Walls (editor), Sara Risher (producer), Ernie Reyes Jr. (actor),
Plot: Brothers Johnny, an adolescent surf talent, and Adam, a preadolescent video-game addict, grow up care-free in California as adopted sons of Marines veteran Mac, inseparable friends of wacky local lout Iggy. Colonel Chi's military reign of terror culminates in their tiny birth-land, island state Patu San, off the Viet Nam coast. Former royal guards officer Zatch comes to summon the brothers to return and restore the pacific monarchy, because they are the sons of the murdered king, whom Mac took in exile for safety. They are joined on the adventurous journey by a bored Californian police detective whose attention was drawn by the ninja team that failed, thanks to Zatch, to murder the brothers in Mac's home.
Keywords: action-hero, adoption, animal, army, asian-american, bandana, bo-staff, bodyguard, brawl, brother-brother-relationship