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Sir Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727]) was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. He laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus. His work on optics and gravitation make him one of the greatest scientists the world has [...]]]></description>
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Sir Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727]) was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. He laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus. His work on optics and gravitation make him one of the greatest scientists the world has known. Isaac Newton were born on 4th Jan. 1643 in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth Lincolnshire, England in a poor farming family. He is the one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. At the time of Newton&#8217;s birth, England had not adopted the Gregorian calendar and therefore his date of birth was recorded as Christmas Day, 25 December 1642. <span id="more-2203"></span>Newton was born three months after the death of his father, a prosperous farmer also named Isaac Newton. His mother Hannah Ayscough married with Isaac Newton, the elder, in April 1642. His father Isaac Newton, the elder died in October 1642, and nearly three months later their only child Isaac Newton was born. <div id="attachment_2213" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 256px"><a href="http://www.authorpick.net/sir-isaac-newton-the-biography/newton-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-2213"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//newton-246x300.jpg" alt="Sir Isaac Newton" title="Isaac Newton" width="246" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-2213" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sir Isaac Newton</p></div>Isaac&#8217;s mother Hannah Ayscough remarried Barnabas Smith the minister of the church at North Witham, a nearby village, when Isaac was two years old. The young child was then left in the care of his grandmother Margery Ayscough at Woolsthorpe. Basically treated as an orphan, Isaac did not have a happy childhood.  Upon the death of his stepfather in 1653, Newton lived in an extended family consisting of his mother, his grandmother, one half-brother, and two half-sisters. His mother Hannah died in 1679.<br />
Isaac Newton father is a farmer his mother decided in 1659 that Isaac should also be a farmer, and thus took him away from his school studies. He spent a year away from school on the farm, at quite a critical time in his education. It was with great sadness to Lincolnshire farming that Isaac was not suited to this vocation, but modern physics is more than grateful for this lack of agricultural skill. Isaac went back to school in autumn 1660. From the age of about twelve until he was seventeen, Newton was educated at The King&#8217;s School, Grantham (where his signature can still be seen upon a library window sill). In 1661 Newton accordingly entered as a student at Cambridge, where for the first time he found himself among surroundings which were likely to develop his powers. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669. He remained at the university, lecturing in most years, until 1696. In 1665, he discovered the generalized binomial theorem and began to develop a mathematical theory that would later become infinitesimal calculus. There is a manuscript of his, dated May 28, 1665, written in the same year as that in which he took is B.A. degree, which is the earliest documentary proof of his invention of fluxions. The University temporarily closed as a precaution against the Great Plague. Although he had been undistinguished as a Cambridge student, Newton&#8217;s private studies at his home in Woolsthorpe over the subsequent two years saw the development of his theories on calculus, optics and the law of gravitation. In 1667 he returned to Cambridge as a fellow of Trinity. Newton suffered a mental breakdown in 1675 and was still recovering through 1679.</p>
<p><strong>Newton’s Law of Motions</strong><br />
Newton gives the famous three laws of motion:<div id="attachment_2212" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 276px"><a href="http://www.authorpick.net/sir-isaac-newton-the-biography/newton/" rel="attachment wp-att-2212"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//newton-266x300.gif" alt="Newton&#039;s First Law of Motion" title="newton&#039;s first law" width="266" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-2212" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Newton's First Law of Motion</p></div></p>
<p><strong>•	Newton&#8217;s First Law of Motion</strong> is also known as the Law of Inertia. The Newton&#8217;s first law of motion states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest and that an object in uniform motion tends to stay in uniform motion unless acted upon by a net external force.</p>
<p><strong>•	Newton&#8217;s Second Law of Motion</strong> states that an applied force, <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/sir-isaac-newton-the-biography/4e9ab0875a0738cea2aeeace5cda7851/" rel="attachment wp-att-2201"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//4e9ab0875a0738cea2aeeace5cda7851.png" alt="F- Vector" title="F- Vector" width="16" height="20" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2201" /></a>, on an object equals the rate of change of its momentum, <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/sir-isaac-newton-the-biography/e9b39065768c661cdf242556fe3bcc0e/" rel="attachment wp-att-2199"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//e9b39065768c661cdf242556fe3bcc0e.png" alt="P-Vector" title="P-Vector" width="14" height="19" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2199" /></a>, with time. Mathematically, this is expressed as<br />
<a href="http://www.authorpick.net/sir-isaac-newton-the-biography/2d775fdbec8b579d00f3cd9ffa569368/" rel="attachment wp-att-2200"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//2d775fdbec8b579d00f3cd9ffa569368-300x40.png" alt="Formula" title="Formula" width="300" height="40" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2200" /></a><br />
Since the second law applies to an object with constant mass (dm/dt = 0), the first term vanishes, and by substitution using the definition of acceleration, the equation can be written in the iconic form<br />
<a href="http://www.authorpick.net/sir-isaac-newton-the-biography/861157676340473f6e54ade1134bbe86/" rel="attachment wp-att-2202"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//861157676340473f6e54ade1134bbe86.png" alt="Formule" title="Formule" width="83" height="20" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2202" /></a><br />
The first and second laws represent a break with the physics of Aristotle, in which it was believed that a force was necessary in order to maintain motion. They state that a force is only needed <div id="attachment_2211" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.authorpick.net/sir-isaac-newton-the-biography/law2/" rel="attachment wp-att-2211"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//law2-300x154.jpg" alt="Newton&#039;s Second Law of Motion" title="second law" width="300" height="154" class="size-medium wp-image-2211" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Newton's Second Law of Motion</p></div>in order to change an object&#8217;s state of motion. The SI unit of force is the newton, named in Newton&#8217;s honour.<br />
The vector nature of the second law addresses the geometrical relationship between the direction of the force and the manner in which the object&#8217;s momentum changes. Before Newton, it had typically been assumed that a planet orbiting the sun would need a forward force to keep it moving. Newton showed instead that all that was needed was an inward attraction from the sun. Even many decades after the publication of the Principia, this counterintuitive idea was not universally accepted, and many scientists preferred Descartes&#8217; theory of vortices.</p>
<p><strong>•	Newton&#8217;s Third Law of Motion</strong> states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This means that any force exerted onto an object has a counterpart force that is exerted in the opposite direction back onto the first object. A common example is of <div id="attachment_2216" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.authorpick.net/sir-isaac-newton-the-biography/m3-3fig1/" rel="attachment wp-att-2216"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//M3-3fig1-300x265.gif" alt="Newton&#039;s Third Law of Motion" title="third law" width="300" height="265" class="size-medium wp-image-2216" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Newton's Third Law of Motion</p></div>two ice skaters pushing against each other and sliding apart in opposite directions. Another example is the recoil of a firearm, in which the force propelling the bullet is exerted equally back onto the gun and is felt by the shooter. Since the objects in question do not necessarily have the same mass, the resulting acceleration of the two objects can be different (as in the case of firearm recoil).<br />
Unlike Aristotle&#8217;s, Newton&#8217;s physics is meant to be universal. For example, the second law applies both to a planet and to a falling stone.</p>
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<div style="padding-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><img class="tex" alt="\mathbf{F} = \frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t}(m \mathbf{v})" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/a/2/8/a28d8d4e4a422c639a1d24d9ce9e3d8e.png" /><br /> <br />
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Energy • Momentum<br/></td>
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Lagrangian mechanics<br /> <br />
Hamiltonian mechanics</td>
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Dynamics<br /> <br />
Kinematics<br /> <br />
Applied mechanics<br /> <br />
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Joseph Louis Lagrange • Pierre-Simon Laplace • William Rowan Hamilton • Siméon-Denis Poisson</td>
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<p><strong>Newton’s  Apple Story</strong><br />
According to the well-known story, In the year 1666 he (Isaac Newton) retired again from Cambridge to his mother in Lincolnshire. Whilst he was pensively meandering in a garden it came into his thought that the power of gravity (which brought an apple from a tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from earth, but that this power must <div id="attachment_2210" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.authorpick.net/sir-isaac-newton-the-biography/isaac-newton-apple/" rel="attachment wp-att-2210"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//Isaac-Newton-apple-300x246.jpg" alt="The Famous Newton&#039;s Apple story" title="Isaac Newton&#039;s apple tree" width="300" height="246" class="size-medium wp-image-2210" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Famous Newton's Apple story</p></div>extend much further than was usually thought. Why not as high as the Moon said he to himself &#038; if so, that must influence her motion &#038; perhaps retain her in her orbit, whereupon he fell a calculating what would be the effect of that supposition.</p>
<p>Newton conceived that the same force governed the motion of the Moon and the apple. He calculated the force needed to hold the Moon in its orbit, as compared with the force pulling an object to the ground. He also calculated the centripetal force needed to hold a stone in a sling, and the relation between the length of a pendulum and the time of its swing. These early explorations were not soon exploited by Newton, though he studied astronomy and the problems of planetary motion.<br />
Correspondence with Hooke (1679-1680) redirected Newton to the problem of the path of a body subjected to a centrally directed force that varies as the inverse square of the distance; he determined it to be an ellipse, so informing Edmond Halley in August 1684. Halley&#8217;s interest led Newton to demonstrate the relationship afresh, to compose a brief tract on mechanics, and finally to write the Principia.</p>
<p><strong>Newton’s Religious Views</strong><br />
Historian Stephen D. Snobelen says of Newton, &#8220;Isaac Newton was a heretic. But &#8230; he never made a public declaration of his private faith — which the orthodox would have deemed extremely radical. In a view disputed by Snobelen, T.C. Pfizenmaier argues that Newton held the Eastern Orthodox view of the Trinity rather than the Western one held by Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and most Protestants.<br />
Although Newton&#8217;s novel idea of 1666 was to imagine that the Earth&#8217;s gravity influenced the Moon, counter- balancing its centrifugal force. From his law of centrifugal force and Kepler&#8217;s third law of planetary motion, Newton deduced the inverse-square law.<br />
In 1679 Newton corresponded with Hooke who had written to Newton claiming:-<br />
<strong>&#8230; that the Attraction always is in a duplicate proportion to the Distance from the Center Reciprocall &#8230;</strong><br />
Newton also wrote on Judaeo-Christian prophecy, whose decipherment was essential, he thought, to the understanding of God. His book on the subject, which was reprinted well into the Victorian Age, represented lifelong study. Its message was that Christianity went astray in the 4th century AD, when the first Council of Nicaea propounded erroneous doctrines of the nature of Christ. The full extent of Newton&#8217;s unorthodoxy was recognized only in the present century: but although a critic of accepted Trinitarian dogmas and the Council of Nicaea, he possessed a deep religious sense, venerated the Bible and accepted its account of creation. In late editions of his scientific works he expressed a strong sense of God&#8217;s providential role in nature. Thus, the ordered and dynamically informed Universe could be understood, and must be understood, by an active reason. He saw evidence of design in the system of the world: &#8220;Such a wonderful uniformity in the planetary system must be allowed the effect of choice&#8221;. But Newton insisted that divine intervention would eventually be required to reform the system, due to the slow growth of instabilities. For this Leibniz lampooned him: &#8220;God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion.&#8221; Newton&#8217;s position was vigorously defended by his follower Samuel Clarke in a famous correspondence.</p>
<p><strong>Some Other Achievments</strong><br />
In 1672 Newton was elected a fellow of the Royal Society after donating a reflecting telescope. Also in 1672 Newton published his first scientific paper on light and colour in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The paper was generally well received but Hooke and Huygens objected to Newton&#8217;s attempt to prove, by experiment alone, that light consists of the motion of small particles rather than waves. The reception that his publication received did nothing to improve Newton&#8217;s <div id="attachment_2215" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.authorpick.net/sir-isaac-newton-the-biography/sir-isaac-newton-001/" rel="attachment wp-att-2215"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//Sir-Isaac-Newton-001-300x180.jpg" alt="Sir Isaac Newton- The Great Scientist" title="Sir-Isaac-Newton" width="300" height="180" class="size-medium wp-image-2215" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sir Isaac Newton- The Great Scientist</p></div>attitude to making his results known to the world. He was always pulled in two directions, there was something in his nature which wanted fame and recognition yet another side of him feared criticism and the easiest way to avoid being criticised was to publish nothing.<br />
Newton&#8217;s relations with Hooke deteriorated further when, in 1675, Hooke claimed that Newton had stolen some of his optical results. Although the two men made their peace with an exchange of polite letters, Newton turned in on himself and away from the Royal Society which he associated with Hooke as one of its leaders. He delayed the publication of a full account of his optical researches until after the death of Hooke in 1703. Newton&#8217;s Opticks appeared in 1704. It dealt with the theory of light and colour and with </p>
<p><strong>•	investigations of the colours of thin sheets<br />
•	&#8216;Newton&#8217;s rings&#8217; and<br />
•	diffraction of light.</strong></p>
<p>Newton published an edition of Geographia generalis by the German geographer Varenius in 1672. His own letters on optics appeared in print from 1672 to 1676. Then he published nothing until the Principia (published in Latin in 1687; revised in 1713 and 1726; and translated into English in 1729). This was followed by Opticks in 1704; a revised edition in Latin appeared in 1706. Posthumously published writings include The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (1728), The System of the World (1728), the first draft of Book III of the Principia, and Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St John (1733). In a manuscript he wrote in 1704 in which he describes his attempts to extract scientific information from the Bible, he estimated that the world would end no earlier than 2060. In predicting this he said, &#8220;This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail.&#8221;<br />
Some more writings by Sir Isaac Newton  are:<br />
<strong>•	Method of Fluxions (1671)<br />
•	Of Natures Obvious Laws &#038; Processes in Vegetation (unpublished, c. 1671–75)<br />
•	De Motu Corporum in Gyrum (1684)<br />
•	Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)<br />
•	Opticks (1704)<br />
•	Reports as Master of the Mint (1701–25)<br />
•	Arithmetica Universalis (1707)<br />
•	The System of the World, Optical Lectures, The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, (Amended) and De mundi systemate (published posthumously in 1728)<br />
•	Observations on Daniel and The Apocalypse of St. John (1733)<br />
•	An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture (1754)</strong></p>
<p>Newton remains influential to scientists, as demonstrated by a 2005 survey of members of Britain&#8217;s Royal Society (formerly headed by Newton) asking who had the greater effect on the history of science, Newton or <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/the-great-scientist-albert-einstein-the-biography/">Albert Einstein</a>. Royal Society scientists deemed Newton to have made the greater overall contribution. In 1999, leading physicists from all over the world voted Einstein &#8220;greatest physicist ever;&#8221; Newton was the runner-up. </p>
<p><strong>Sir Isaac Newton’s Death</strong><br />
On March 31, 1727 at [OS: 20 March 1727] at the age of 84 in Kensington, Middlesex, England this great scientist takes his last breath.</p>
<h2>Sir Isaac Newton&#8217;s Quotes</h2>
<p>•	 If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.</p>
<p>•	 Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.</p>
<p>•	 I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.</p>
<p>•	 To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. </p>
<p>•	 We build too many walls and not enough bridges. </p>
<p>•	 I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. </p>
<p>•	 If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.</p>
<p>•	 No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess</p>
<p>•	 A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.</p>
<p>•	 I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations, having no other business at the time.</p>
<p>•	 We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.</p>
<p>•	 We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.</p>
<p>•	 I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.</p>
<p>•	 It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.</p>
<p>•	 About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition</p>
<p>•	 Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.</p>
<p>•	 Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief done! (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers</p>
<p>•	 Yet one thing secures us what ever betide,/ The scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.</p>
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Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 &#8211; April 18, 1955) was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany about 100 km east of Stuttgart.  Six weeks later the family moved to Munich. about 100 km east of Stuttgart. His father was Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer. His mother was Pauline Einstein. [...]]]></description>
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<strong>Albert Einstein</strong> (March 14, 1879 &#8211; April 18, 1955) was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany about 100 km east of Stuttgart.  Six weeks later the family moved to Munich. about 100 km east of Stuttgart. His father was Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer. His mother was Pauline Einstein. He enjoyed classical music and played the violin. After a failed attempt to skip high school and attend the Swiss Polytechnic University in 1895, Albert went to Aarau, Switzerland to finish high school. He graduated from high school at the age of 17 and enrolled at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich. Albert graduated in 1900 with a degree in physics. Albert attended a Catholic elementary school from the age of five until ten. In 1889 Max Talmud (later changed to Max Talmey) introduced the ten-year old Einstein to key texts in science, mathematics and philosophy, including Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Euclid’s Elements (which Einstein called the &#8220;holy little geometry book&#8221;). In 1894, following the failure of his fathers electrochemical business, the Einstein&#8217;s moved from Munich to Pavia, Italy (near Milan). Albert remained behind to finish school, completing a term by himself before rejoining his family in Pavia. in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. Einstein subsequently enrolled at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule. <span id="more-2049"></span>The same year, he renounced his Württemberg citizenship, becoming stateless. In 1900, he was granted a teaching diploma by the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his doctor&#8217;s degree.</p>
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<p>Albert Einstein received honorary doctorate degrees in science, medicine and philosophy from many European and American universities. During the 1920&#8217;s he lectured in Europe, America and the Far East and he was awarded Fellowships or Memberships of all the leading scientific academies throughout the world. He gained numerous awards in recognition of his work, including the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1925, and the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1935.<br />
In 1898, Einstein met and fell in love with Mileva Maric, a Serbian classmate (and friend of Nikola Tesla). Einstein and Marić married in January 1903. Einstein and Mileva Marić had a daughter they called Lieserl in their correspondence, born in January, 1902 in Novi Sad where the parents of Mileva lived. Lieserl, at the time, was considered illegitimate because the parents were unwed. In May 1904 the couple’s first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Bern, Switzerland. Their second son, Eduard, was born in Zurich in July 1910. Marić and Einstein divorced on 14 February 1919 in the same year he married his cousin, Elsa Löwenthal, who died in 1936.</p>
<p><strong>Albert Einstein- Scientific Career</strong><br />
Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds in world history. Einstein is known as a brilliant physicist who contributed more to the scientific world than any other person. Albert is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. Einstein is best known for his theories of special relativity and general relativity. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.” One story Einstein liked to tell about his childhood was of a wonder he saw when he was four or five years old: a magnetic compass. The needle&#8217;s invariable northward swing, guided by an invisible force, profoundly impressed the child. The compass convinced him that there had to be &#8220;something behind things, something deeply hidden.&#8221; Einstein published more than 300 scientific and over 150 non-scientific works. He is often regarded as the father of modern physics.</p>
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<p>Einstein&#8217;s theories on relativity paved the way for how science currently views time, space, energy, and gravity. Einstein was so advanced in his thinking that his studies and work set the standards for the control of scientific energy and space explorations currently being studied in the field of astrophysics.<br />
His first article in 1905, named &#8220;On the Motion—Required by the Molecular Kinetic Theory of Heat—of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid&#8221;, covered his study of Brownian motion. Using the then-controversial kinetic theory of fluids, it established that the phenomenon, which still lacked a satisfactory explanation decades after it was first observed, provided empirical evidence for the reality of atoms. It also lent credence to statistical mechanics, which was also controversial at the time. During his stay at the Patent Office, and in his spare time, he produced much of his remarkable work and in 1908 he was appointed Privatdozent in Berne. In 1909 he became Professor Extraordinary at Zurich, in 1911 Professor of Theoretical Physics at Prague, returning to Zurich in the following year to fill a similar post. In 1914 he was appointed Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute and Professor in the University of Berlin. Einstein thought about the nature of the gravitational field in the years 1909–1912, studying its properties by means of simple thought experiments. A notable one is the rotating disk. Einstein imagined an observer making experiments on a rotating turntable. He noted that such an observer would find a different value for the mathematical constant pi than the one predicted by Euclidean geometry. The reason is that the radius of a circle would be measured with an uncontracted ruler, but according to special relativity, the circumference would seem to be longer, because the ruler would be contracted.<br />
Since Einstein believed that the laws of physics were local, described by local fields, he concluded from this that spacetime could be locally curved. This led him to study Riemannian geometry, and to formulate general relativity in this language.<br />
In 1912, Einstein returned to Switzerland to accept a professorship at his alma mater, the ETH. Once back in Zurich, he immediately visited his old ETH classmate Marcel Grossmann, now a professor of mathematics, who introduced him to Riemannian geometry and, more generally, to differential geometry. On the recommendation of Italian mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita, Einstein began exploring the usefulness of general covariance (essentially the use of tensors) for his gravitational theory. For a while Einstein thought that there were problems with the approach, but he later returned to it and, by late 1915, had published his general theory of relativity in the form in which it is used today. This theory explains gravitation as distortion of the structure of spacetime by matter, affecting the inertial motion of other matter. During World War I, the work of Central Powers scientists was available only to Central Powers academics, for national security reasons. Some of Einstein’s work did reach the United Kingdom and the United States through the efforts of the Austrian Paul Ehrenfest and physicists in the Netherlands, especially 1902 Nobel Prize-winner Hendrik Lorentz and Willem de Sitter of Leiden University. After the war ended, Einstein maintained his relationship with Leiden University, accepting a contract as an Extraordinary Professor; for ten years, from 1920 to 1930, he travelled to Holland regularly to lecture. In 1933, he joined the staff of the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He accepted this position for life, living there until his death. Einstein is probably familiar to most people for his mathematical equation about the nature of energy, <strong>E = MC2</strong>.<br />
The idea of light quanta contradicted the wave theory of light that followed naturally from James Clerk Maxwell&#8217;s equations for electromagnetic behaviour and, more generally, the assumption of infinite divisibility of energy in physical systems. Even after experiments showed that Einstein&#8217;s equations for the photoelectric effect were accurate, his explanation was not universally accepted. However, by 1921, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize and his work on photoelectricity was mentioned by name in the award citation, most physicists thought that the equation <strong>(hf = Φ + Ek)</strong> was correct and light quanta were possible.<br />
The theory of light quanta was a strong indication of wave-particle duality, the concept, used as a fundamental principle by the creators of quantum mechanics, that physical systems can display both wave-like and particle-like properties. A complete picture of the photoelectric effect was only obtained after the maturity of quantum mechanics.<br />
In 1935, Einstein returned to the question of quantum mechanics. He considered how a measurement on one of two entangled particles would affect the other. He noted, along with his collaborators, that by performing different measurements on the distant particle, either of position or momentum, different properties of the entangled partner could be discovered without disturbing it in any way.<br />
He then used a hypothesis of local realism to conclude that the other particle had these properties already determined. The principle he proposed is that if it is possible to determine what the answer to a position or momentum measurement would be, without in any way disturbing the particle, then the particle actually has values of position or momentum.<br />
This principle distilled the essence of Einstein’s objection to quantum mechanics. As a physical principle, it has since been shown to be incompatible with experiments. Possibly, Albert Einstein&#8217;s most famous writing was a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 2, 1939. In his letter, he warned of the possibility of Germany building an atomic bomb and urged the President to do nuclear research and complete the bomb before the Germans did. Albert wrote the letter as a result of a request from a friend, Leo Szilard. Szilard had become alarmed after the discovery of uranium fission. Szilard also asked Einstein to warn the Belgian Queen Mother. At the time of this request in 1939, most American physicists doubted that atomic energy or atomic bombs were a possibility. Although not a well-known fact, there was two letters written and signed by Einstein to send to President Roosevelt . There was a short version and a long version. Einstein preferred the long version and so that was the one that was finally delivered to the President. The letter did not have much impact and World War II began on September 1, 1939.<br />
The theory of general relativity has two fundamental laws – the Einstein equations which describe how space curves, and the geodesic equation which describes how particles move.<br />
Since the equations of general relativity are non-linear, a lump of energy made out of pure gravitational fields, like a black hole, would move on a trajectory which is determined by the Einstein equations themselves, not by a new law. So Einstein proposed that the path of a singular solution, like a black hole, would be determined to be a geodesic from general relativity itself.</p>
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<p>This was established by Einstein, Infeld and Hoffmann for pointlike objects without angular momentum, and by Roy Kerr for spinning objects.</p>
<p><strong>Politics and Religious Views</strong><br />
Throughout the November Revolution in Germany Einstein signed an appeal for the foundation of a nationwide liberal and democratic party, hich was published in the Berliner Tageblatt on 16 November 1918, and became a member of the German Democratic Party. He participated in the 1927 congress of the League against Imperialism in Brussels. After World War II, as enmity between the former allies became a serious issue, Einstein wrote, “I do not know how the third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth – rocks!” In a 1949 Monthly Review article entitled “Why Socialism?” Albert Einstein described a chaotic capitalist society, a source of evil to be overcome, as the “predatory phase of human development” (Einstein 1949). With Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell, Einstein lobbied to stop nuclear testing and future bombs. Days before his death, Einstein signed the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which led to the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Einstein was a member of several civil rights groups, including the Princeton chapter of the NAACP. When the aged W. E. B. Du Bois was accused of being a Communist spy, Einstein volunteered as a character witness, and the case was dismissed shortly afterward. Einstein’s friendship with activist Paul Robeson, with whom he served as co-chair of the American Crusade to End Lynching, lasted twenty years.</p>
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<p>The question of scientific determinism gave rise to questions about Einstein’s position on theological determinism, and whether or not he believed in God, or in a god. In 1929, Einstein told Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein &#8220;I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Albert Einstein- Awards and Honors</strong><br />
In 1922, Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, &#8220;for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect&#8221;. It was long reported that Einstein gave the Nobel prize money directly to his first wife, Mileva Marić, in compliance with their 1919 divorce settlement. However, personal correspondence made public in 2006 shows that he invested much of it in the United States, and saw much of it wiped out in the Great Depression. Einstein traveled to New York City in the United States for the first time on 2 April, 1921. When asked where he got his scientific ideas, Einstein explained that he believed scientific work best proceeds from an examination of physical reality and a search for underlying axioms, with consistent explanations that apply in all instances and avoid contradicting each other. He also recommended theories with visualizable results (Einstein 1954). In 1999, Albert Einstein was named Person of the Century by Time magazine, a Gallup poll recorded him as the fourth most admired person of the 20th century in the U.S. and according to The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Einstein is &#8220;the greatest scientist of the twentieth century and one of the supreme intellects of all time.&#8221; Albert Einstein has been recognized many times over for his achievements. The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics named 2005 the “World Year of Physics” in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Annus Mirabilis Papers.<br />
The chemical element 99, einsteinium, was named for him in August 1955, four months after Einstein’s death. 2001 Einstein is an inner main belt asteroid discovered on March 5, 1973.<br />
The Albert Einstein Award (sometimes called the Albert Einstein Medal because it is accompanied with a gold medal) is an award in theoretical physics, that was established to recognize high achievement in the natural sciences. It was endowed by the Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund in honor of Albert Einstein’s 70th birthday. It was first awarded in 1951 and included a prize money of $ 15,000, which was later reduced to $ 5,000. The Albert Einstein Peace Prize is an award that is given yearly by the Chicago, Illinois-based Albert Einstein Peace Prize Foundation. Winners of the prize receive $50,000. In 1990, his name was added to the Walhalla temple.</p>
<p><strong>Albert Einstein Death</strong><br />
Albert Einstein&#8217;s gifts inevitably resulted in his dwelling much in intellectual solitude and, for relaxation, music played an important part in his life. On April 18, 1955 at Princeton, New Jersey this great Scientist was died.</p>
<p><strong>Albert Einstein’s Quotes</strong><br />
•	&#8220;A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy&#8221;</p>
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<p>•	&#8220;A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man&#8217;s actions&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;An empty stomach is not a good political adviser&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius &#8211; and a lot of courage &#8211; to move in the opposite direction&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex&#8230; It takes a touch of genius &#8211; and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;Anyone who doesn&#8217;t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;As far as I&#8217;m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;Before God we are all equally wise &#8211; and equally foolish&#8221;<br />
•	&#8220;Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Hansika Motwani- Biography</title>
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Hansika was born on August 9, 1991 in the Sindhi speaking Motwani family Born in Mangalore, India,is an Indian actress and a former child actor. Her dad, Pradeep Motwani, a businessman and Mona Motwani, a dermatologist. She has an elder brother, Prashant Motwani. Her parents divorced during 2004, while she continues to live in [...]]]></description>
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Hansika was born on August 9, 1991 in the Sindhi speaking Motwani family Born in Mangalore, India,is an Indian actress and a former child actor. Her dad, Pradeep Motwani, a businessman and Mona Motwani, a dermatologist. She has an elder brother, Prashant Motwani. Her parents divorced during 2004, while she continues to live in Andheri, Bombay, India, with her mom.<span id="more-1677"></span> She has completed 12th Grade from Podar International School. She is fluent in English, Hindi, Tulu and Telugu. her native tongue is Sindhi.<br />
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<p><strong>Hansika Motwani&#8217;s Career</strong><br />
She has appeared in many TV serials, for example &#8216;Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thee&#8217; as Saavri, &#8216;Hum 2 Hai Na&#8217; as Kareena/Koyal, &#8216;Desh Me Nikla Hoga Chand&#8217; as Tina. She featured in Boogie Woogie and Shaka Laka Boom Boom.  She also appeared as one of the children in Koi Mil Gaya. She has also appeared in ads like Hyundai Santro with Shah Rukh Khan on actress Juhi Chawla’s recommendation, as well as Samsung, Bournvita and Pepsi.<br />
Hansika made her debut in her filmi career Puri Jagannadh&#8217;s Telugu film, Desamuduru, starring opposite Allu Arjun. She won the Best Female Debut Award – Telugu. Hansika made her debut as a leading actress in Bollywood with Himesh Reshammiya in Aap Kaa Suroor &#8211; The Real Luv Story. 2008  Hansika’s first release was a Kannada movie Bindaas opposite Puneet Rajkumar. Kantri, a Telugu movie, was a hit. She paired with Jr. NTR in the film Kantri which was released in May 2008. The film was a moderate hit. She also,acted in a leading role with Ram in Maska. She is also in a Tamil film debut through Maapilai opposite actor Dhanush. Money Hai Tho Honey Hai with Govinda was a flop.<br />
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Hansika Motwani&#8217;s Filmography</strong></p>
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<th style="background:#B0C4DE;" colspan="5">Film</th>
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<th style="background: #CCCCCC;">Year</th>
<th style="background: #CCCCCC;">Title</th>
<th style="background: #CCCCCC;">Role</th>
<th style="background: #CCCCCC;">Language</th>
<th style="background: #CCCCCC;">Notes</th>
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<td rowspan="4">2003</td>
<td><em>Escape from Taliban</em></td>
<td>Guncha</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Child artist</td>
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<td><em>Hawa</em></td>
<td>Sanjana&#8217;s daughter</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Child artist</td>
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<td><em>Koi&#8230; Mil Gaya</em></td>
<td>Priya Six</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Child artist</td>
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<td><em>Aabra Ka Daabra</em></td>
<td>Pinky</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Child artist</td>
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<td rowspan="2">2004</td>
<td><em>Jaago</em></td>
<td>Shruti</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Child artist</td>
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<td><em>Hum Kaun Hai</em></td>
<td>Sara Williams</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Child artist</td>
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<td rowspan="2">2007</td>
<td><em>Desamuduru</em></td>
<td>Vaishali</td>
<td>Telugu</td>
<td><strong>Winner</strong>, Filmfare Best Female Debut (South)</td>
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<td><em>Aap Ka Surroor</em></td>
<td>Ria</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Nominated, Filmfare Best Female Debut Award</td>
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<td rowspan="3">2008</td>
<td><em>Bindaas</em></td>
<td>Preethi</td>
<td>Kannada</td>
<td></td>
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<td><em>Kantri</em></td>
<td>Varalakshmi</td>
<td>Telugu</td>
<td></td>
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<td><em>Money Hai Toh Honey Hai</em></td>
<td>Aashima Kapoor</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td></td>
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<td rowspan="3">2009</td>
<td><em>Maska</em></td>
<td>Meenu</td>
<td>Telugu</td>
<td></td>
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<td><em>Billa</em></td>
<td>Priya</td>
<td>Telugu</td>
<td>Cameo role</td>
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<td><em>Maapillai</em></td>
<td></td>
<td>Tamil</td>
<td></td>
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<td>2010</td>
<td><em>Jayeebhava</em></td>
<td></td>
<td>Telugu</td>
<td></td>
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<th style="background:#B0C4DE;" colspan="5">Television</th>
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<th style="background: #CCCCCC;">Year</th>
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<th style="background: #CCCCCC;">Role</th>
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<td>1999</td>
<td><em>Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi</em></td>
<td>Baavri Virani</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td></td>
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<td>1999</td>
<td><em>Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand</em></td>
<td>Tina</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td></td>
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<td>2003</td>
<td><em>Shaka Laka Boom Boom</em></td>
<td>Karuna</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td></td>
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<td>2004</td>
<td><em>Hum 2 Hain Na</em></td>
<td>Kareena / Koel</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td></td>
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<td></td>
<td><em>Karishma Kaa Karishma</em></td>
<td></td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td></td>
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		<title>Deepika Padukone- Biography</title>
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Deepika Padukone was born on January 5, 1986  in Copenhagen, Denmark is an Indian model turned actress who appears in Bollywood movies. Her family moved to Bangalore, India, when she was eleven months old. She is the daughter of Ujjala and the former badminton Champion Prakash Padukone. Padukone is of Mangalorean origin, Her [...]]]></description>
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Deepika Padukone was born on January 5, 1986  in Copenhagen, Denmark is an Indian model turned actress who appears in Bollywood movies. Her family moved to Bangalore, India, when she was eleven months old. She is the daughter of Ujjala and the former badminton Champion Prakash Padukone. Padukone is of Mangalorean origin, Her mother tongue is Konkani. Deepika attended Sophia High School in Bangalore. She completed her pre-university studies at Mount Carmel College in Bangalore, India. The sports genes runs in her family, for she herself played badminton at state level until 10th grade while her younger sister Anisha has taken to sports on a more professional level, with a strong interest in golf. <span id="more-1666"></span>she was not keen on pursuing a career as a badminton player and abandoned it to concentrate on her ICSE exams.</p>
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<p><strong>Deepika Padukone’s Personal Life</strong><br />
Kabhi Kabhie &#8211; Love Is Life (1976), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Rang-e khoda (1999), Cinderella Man (2005), and Mary Poppins (1964) are the favorite movies of Deepika Padukone. Her Favorite actresses are Hema Malini, Madhuri Dixit, Sridevi, Kajol, Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta, Sushmita Sen, and Juhi Chawla and Favorite actors are Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Johnny Depp, Richard Gere, Brad Pitt, and Amitabh Bachchan. Her Favorite Indian designers are Tarun Tahiliani, Manish Malhotra and Rohit Bal. Deepika loves to music, eating, sleeping, and watching movies. Deepika is also interested to plays a little bit of basketball, tennis, throw ball and baseball. Her mother is a travel agent while her father, a badminton player, played at the international level for India and won the All England Championship in 1980. Deepika loves the songs Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Mein from Kabhi Kabhie &#8211; Love Is Life (1976), Pehla Nasha from Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992),</p>
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<p>Angel by Lionel Richie, Ankhon Mein Teri Ajab Si from Om Shanti Om (2007), and We Are The World by Michael Jackson. Padukone is currently dating fellow actor Ranbir Kapoor, son of actors Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh She was also in news lately for her affairs with Indian cricketer and captain (Mahendra Singh Dhoni) and with Yuvraj Singh.</p>
<p><strong>Awards and Nominations</strong></p>
<p><strong>Filmfare Awards</strong><br />
Winner<br />
2008: Filmfare Best Female Debut Award; Om Shanti Om<br />
2008: Sony Head N Shoulders Fresh Face of the Year Award; Om Shanti Om<br />
&#8221;&#8217;Nominated&#8221;&#8217;<br />
2008: Filmfare Best Actress Award; Om Shanti Om</p>
<p><strong>Star Screen Awards</strong><br />
Winner<br />
2008: Star Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer &#8211; Female; Om Shanti Om<br />
2008: Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 along with Shahrukh Khan; Om Shanti Om</p>
<p><strong>Zee Cine Awards</strong><br />
Winner<br />
2008: Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut; Om Shanti Om<br />
Nominated<br />
2008: Zee Cine Award for Best Actor &#8211; Female; Om Shanti Om</p>
<p><strong>IIFA Awards</strong><br />
Winner<br />
2008: IIFA Awards&#8217; Best Debutant (Female); Om Shanti Om<br />
Nominated<br />
2008: IIFA Best Actress Award; Om Shanti Om</p>
<p><strong>Stardust Awards</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_1669" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1669" title="deepika-padukone-vogue-issue-unveiling" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//deepika-padukone-vogue-issue-unveiling-300x230.jpg" alt="Deepika in Awards Ceremony" width="300" height="230" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Deepika in Awards Ceremony</p></div>
<p>Nominated<br />
2008: Stardust Superstar of Tomorrow &#8211; Female; Om Shanti Om<br />
Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards<br />
Winner<br />
2008: Apsara Film &amp; Television Producers Guild Awards&#8217; Best Female Debut; Om Shanti Om</p>
<p><strong>Asian Film Awards</strong><br />
Nominated<br />
2008: Asian Film Awards&#8217; Best Actress; Om Shanti Om<br />
2009: Asian Film Awards&#8217; Best Actress; Chandni Chowk to China</p>
<p><strong>Other Awards</strong><br />
2007: Star&#8217;s Sabsey Favourite, Sabsey Favourite Nayi Heroine; Om Shanti Om<br />
2007: HT Café Film Awards, Best Newcomer Award (Female); Om Shanti Om<br />
2008: Reebok Zoom Glam Awards, Glam Debutant (Female); Om Shanti Om<br />
2008: Annual Central European Bollywood Awards, Breakthrough Role (Female); Om Shanti Om</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Deepika Padukone’s Filmography</strong></p>
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<tr align="center" bgcolor="#B0C4DE">
<th>Year</th>
<th>Film</th>
<th>Role</th>
<th>Language</th>
<th>Other notes</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2006</td>
<td><em>Aishwarya</em></td>
<td>Aishwarya</td>
<td>Kannada</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2007</td>
<td><em>Om Shanti Om</em></td>
<td>Shantipriya &amp;</p>
<p>Sandhya aka Sandy</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td><strong>Double-Winner</strong>, Filmfare Best Female Debut Award&amp;</p>
<p>Sony Head N Shoulders Fresh Face of the Year</p>
<p>Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2008</td>
<td><em>Bachna Ae Haseeno</em></td>
<td>Gayatri</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="5">2009</td>
<td><em>Chandni Chowk to China</em></td>
<td>Sakhi (Ms.TSM) &amp;</p>
<p>Meow Meow (Suzy)</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Double role</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Billu</em></td>
<td>Herself</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Special appearance in song <em>Love Mera Hit Hit</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Love Aaj Kal</em></td>
<td>Meera Pandit</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Main Aur Mrs. Khanna</em></td>
<td>Raina</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Special appearance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Love 4 Ever</em></td>
<td>Herself</td>
<td>Telugu</td>
<td>Special appearance (Item number)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">2010</td>
<td><em>Kartik Calling Kartik</em></td>
<td></td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Filming</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Housefull</em></td>
<td></td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>Filming</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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		<title>Amrita Rao- Biography</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amrita Rao
Amrita Rao’s birthdate is on the 7th of June. She was born in 1981 in Mumbai. she is an Indian model and Bollywood actress. Her father is Deepak Rao who runs an advertising agency. She belongs to a Brahmin family in Mangalore in Karnataka. She speaks Marathi, Hindi, English and her mother tongue, Konkani. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Amrita Rao</strong><br />
Amrita Rao’s birthdate is on the 7th of June. She was born in 1981 in Mumbai. she is an Indian model and Bollywood actress. Her father is Deepak Rao who runs an advertising agency. She belongs to a Brahmin family in Mangalore in Karnataka. She speaks Marathi, Hindi, English and her mother tongue, Konkani. She studied at C.G. High School and later graduated with a degree in Psychology from Sophia College.<span id="more-1512"></span> Amrita’s Philosophy of life is Life is short and sweet, so make others happy and never let anyone down. Amrita Rao&#8217;s younger sister Preeta Rao is a journalist/columnist and a movie critic.</p>
<div id="attachment_1513" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 219px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1513" title="amrita_rao_5" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//amrita_rao_5-209x300.jpg" alt="Gorgeous Amrita Rao" width="209" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Gorgeous Amrita Rao</p></div>
<p><strong>Amrita Rao&#8217;s Career</strong><br />
Amrita began her career in Bollywood after a successful foray into advertising where she was seen in more than 35 ads.she worked in the Fairever Face Cream ad while still in college. It was followed by Nestle Bru Coffee, Cadbury’s Perk, Close-Up, Parachute Hair Oil, Domino’s Pizza, Wriggly’s Chewing Gum, Pantene and Clean &amp; Clear facewash, to name a few. She’s also the brand ambassador for D’Damas gold jewelry. Amrita’s debut was with Raj Babbar’s son, Arya Babbar, in Ab Ke Baras which released in 2002, and followed that with her 2003 film, Ishq Vishk, in which she portrayed Payal. In 2004 her films Masti and Main Hoon Na, Deewaar (2004) were released. Her films in 2005, Vaah! Life Ho Tho Aisi and Shikhar didn’t get a good reception at the box office. Vivah in 2006, with <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/shahid-kapoor-biography/">Shahid Kapoor</a>, became one of the biggest commercial successes of the year. Shikhar (2005), and Pyare Mohan (2006) are the another movies of Amrita Rao. Her performance earned her a Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award. In 2006 Rao made her debut in Tollywood, with the Telugu film Athidhi <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1514" title="Sooraj-Barjatya,-Amrita-Rao" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//Sooraj-Barjatya-Amrita-Rao-300x200.jpg" alt="Sooraj-Barjatya,-Amrita-Rao" width="300" height="200" />opposite Mahesh Babu. Her 2008 releases include My Name is Anthony Gonsalves with Mithun Chakraborthy, Lilette Dubey and Nikhil Dwivedi which didn’t do well. Her performance as Kamala in Shyam Benegal’s comedy Welcome to Sajjanpur was praised. Amrita&#8217;s releases in 2009 are Victory, and Shortkut.</p>
<h2>Awards and Nominations</h2>
<p><strong>Filmfare Awards<br />
Nominated</strong><br />
2004: Filmfare Best Female Debut Award for Ishq Vishk<br />
2005: Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Main Hoon Na</p>
<p><strong>Stardust Awards<br />
Winner</strong><br />
2004: Stardust Superstar of Tomorrow &#8211; Female for Ishq Vishk<br />
2009: Stardust Best Actress Award for Welcome to Sajjanpur</p>
<p><strong>Star Screen Awards<br />
Nominated</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_1515" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 210px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1515" title="anil-kapoor-amrita-rao-akshaye-khanna-2009-6-13-12-51-18" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//anil-kapoor-amrita-rao-akshaye-khanna-2009-6-13-12-51-18-200x300.jpg" alt="Amrita Rao with Anil Kapoor and Akshay Khanna in Award Function" width="200" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Amrita Rao with Anil Kapoor and Akshay Khanna in Award Function</p></div>
<p>2003: Star Screen Award Most Promising Newcomer &#8211; Female for Ab Ke Baras<br />
2004: Star Screen Award Most Promising Newcomer &#8211; Female for Ishq Vishk<br />
2007: Star Screen Award Best Actress for Vivah[7]<br />
2007: Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 along with <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/shahid-kapoor-biography/">Shahid Kapoor</a> &#8211; Vivah</p>
<p><strong>International Indian Film Academy Awards<br />
Winner</strong><br />
2004: IIFA Awards, Best Female Debut for Ishq Vishk</p>
<p><strong>Zee Cine Awards<br />
Nominated</strong><br />
2004: Zee Cine Award Best Female Debut for Ishq Vishk</p>
<p><strong>Other Awards</strong><br />
2004: Sansui Awards, Best Debut &#8211; Female for Ishq Vishk<br />
2007: GR8 Women Awards, Young Achiever<br />
2007: Anandalok Puroshkar Awards, Most Promising New Talent for Vivah<br />
2007: Sports World Awards, Jodi of the Year along with <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/shahid-kapoor-biography/">Shahid Kapoor</a> for Vivah<br />
2007: Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award for Vivah<br />
<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1516" title="Amrita latest images for desktop" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//Amrita-latest-images-for-desktop-300x225.jpg" alt="Amrita latest images for desktop" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong> Amrita Rao’s Filmography</strong></h2>
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<th>Year</th>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Role</th>
<th>Other notes</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">2002</td>
<td><em>Ab Ke Baras</em></td>
<td>Anjali Thapar/Nandini</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>The Legend of Bhagat Singh</em></td>
<td>Mannewali</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2003</td>
<td><em>Ishq Vishk</em></td>
<td>Payal Mehra</td>
<td>Nominated, Filmfare Best Female Debut Award</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3">2004</td>
<td><em>Masti</em></td>
<td>Aanchal Mehta</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Main Hoon Na</em></td>
<td>Sanjana (Sanju) Bakshi</td>
<td>Nominated, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Deewaar</em></td>
<td>Radhika</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">2005</td>
<td><em>Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi</em></td>
<td>Priya</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Shikhar</em></td>
<td>Madhvi</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">2006</td>
<td><em>Pyare Mohan</em></td>
<td>Piya</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Vivah</em></td>
<td>Poonam</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">2007</td>
<td><em>Heyy Babyy</em></td>
<td></td>
<td>Special appearance in song <em>Heyy Babyy</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Athidhi</em></td>
<td>Amrita</td>
<td>Telugu film</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3">2008</td>
<td><em>My Name is Anthony Gonsalves</em></td>
<td>Riya</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Shaurya</em></td>
<td>Neerja Rathode</td>
<td>Cameo appearance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Welcome to Sajjanpur</em></td>
<td>Kamla</td>
<td><strong>Winner</strong>, Stardust Best Actress Award</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3">2009</td>
<td><em>Victory</em></td>
<td>Nandini</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Short Kut: The Con is On</em></td>
<td>Mansi</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Life Partner</em></td>
<td></td>
<td>Guest appearance</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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		<title>Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR)- Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Y.S.R’s Early Life and Family
Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, were born on July 8, 1949, in Pulivendula in the backward Rayalaseema region. Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, popularly known as YSR, was the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Public service was engrained in the family, as the late Chief Minister&#8217;s father Y.S.Raja Reddy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Y.S.R’s Early Life and Family</strong><br />
Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, were born on July 8, 1949, in Pulivendula in the backward Rayalaseema region. Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, popularly known as YSR, was the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Public service was engrained in the family, as the late Chief Minister&#8217;s father Y.S.Raja Reddy was also a dynamic political figure. <span id="more-1460"></span>Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy becomes the President of the Students union and the leader of the House Surgeon&#8217;s Association in S V Medical College, Tirupati. This shows the leadership qualities of Y.S.R.</p>
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<p>After completed his qualification as a doctor with an MBBS, for a very short time Y.S.R served as a medical officer at the Jammalamadugu Mission Hospital. He then established a charitable hospital named after his father, late Y.S.Raja Reddy at Pulivendula. Y.S.R married to Vijaya Lakshmi and has two children, Jagan Mohan Reddy and Sharmila.</p>
<p><strong>Y.S.R’s Career</strong><br />
YSR, Represented the Indian National Congress party. He was the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. YSR made his entry into politics in 1978. He was elected to the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Lok Sabha from the Kadapa constituency for four terms and to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for five terms from the</p>
<div id="attachment_1464" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1464" title="yeduguri-sandinti-rajasekhara-reddy-21" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//yeduguri-sandinti-rajasekhara-reddy-21-300x219.jpg" alt="YSR with Family" width="300" height="219" /><p class="wp-caption-text">YSR with Family</p></div>
<p>Pulivendula constituency.<br />
In 1978 he contested from pulivendula on Reddy-Congress Party and won the elections, Later he joined in Indira Congress. He were become the President of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) twice between 1983-1985 and 1998-2000. During mid-summer of 2003, he led a 1400 km long paadayaatra (journey on foot), covering some of the backward areas in the state to understand the ground realities and living conditions of the people there. As a novice in the legislature, Reddy rallied all the Congress MLAs from the Rayalaseema region and led an indefinite hunger strike demanding solution to the water crisis. He also led a paadayaatra from Lepakshi to Pothireddipadu in Kurnool district. YSR took over as chief minister for the first time on May 14, 2004 from N. Chandrababu Naidu of TDP, it was a dream came true for YSR. The leader from the badlands of Rayalaseema had come up the hard way in his public life spanning three decades and emerged as one of the strongest leaders the Congress has produced in the state. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy held important portfolios relating to Rural Development,<img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1463" title="yeduguri-sandinti-rajasekhara-reddy-09" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//yeduguri-sandinti-rajasekhara-reddy-09-300x237.jpg" alt="yeduguri-sandinti-rajasekhara-reddy-09" width="300" height="237" /> Medical &amp; Health and Education etc An efficient and dynamic leader as the world witnessed him, Y.S.R had an incredible business sense and entrepreneurial capabilities which aided him in his long political career of 25 years.<br />
Unfortunately on September 3rd, 2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YSR Reddy has been died in a helicopter crash while Begumpet and Shamshabad Air Traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft at 9:02 am while it was passing through the dense Nallamala forest area.</p>
<p><strong>YSR- As a Chief Minister</strong><br />
YSR Elected as chief minister for the first time on May 14, 2004 Andhra Pradesh by the Legislature party of the Indian National Congress after they later won 185 seats of the Legislative Assembly in the May 2004 elections. He were done lots of work and lots of Program for the Economy of Andhra Pradesh and for the benefit of the common people and farming community. After becoming<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1461" title="ysr1" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//ysr1-300x225.jpg" alt="ysr1" width="300" height="225" /> the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh his policies after assuming office as he gave free electricity to farmers, waived their loans, introduced several welfare schemes like pension for the aged, widows and handicapped, housing for poor, Rs.2-a-kg rice, Rajiv Arogyasri or community health insurance scheme and a massive programme to build irrigation projects.<br />
By all of these initiatives, the Congress won 156 of Andhra Pradesh’s 294 seats and bagged 33 of its 42 Lok Sabha seats in 2009 Elections.</p>
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		<title>Angelina Jolie- Biography and Filmography</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, to actor Jon Voight and French actress Marcheline Bertrand. She is also very famous with her nick names Angie, Catwoman, Ange, AJ. She is an American actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. Jolie Growing up in Los Angeles, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Angelina Jolie</strong><br />
Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, to actor Jon Voight and French actress Marcheline Bertrand. She is also very famous with her nick names Angie, Catwoman, Ange, AJ. She is an American actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. Jolie Growing up in Los Angeles, She later trained and performed at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she was seen in several stage productions. Angelina has been cited as one of the world&#8217;s most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. <span id="more-1302"></span>Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR.<div id="attachment_1303" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//Jolie2_1024-768-300x225.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie- Dream of Million Hearts" title="Jolie2_1024-768" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-1303" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Angelina Jolie- Dream of Million Hearts</p></div></p>
<p><strong>Agelina Jolie’s Family</strong><br />
Angelina Jolie was no stranger to the film industry, Jolie is the being the daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. Ange Raised mostly by her mother After her parent&#8217;s separation in 1976 she was still a baby, Jolie moved around a lot with her mother and brother. Her brother name is James Haven Voight She later recalled her time as a student at Beverly Hills High School (later Moreno High School), and her feeling of isolation among the children of some of the area&#8217;s more affluent families. Jolie&#8217;s mother survived on a more modest income, and Jolie often wore second-hand clothes. Jolie has been long estranged from her father. In July 2002, Jolie filed a request to legally change her name to &#8220;Angelina Jolie&#8221;, dropping Voight as her surname; the name change was made official on September 12, 2002. In August of the same year, Voight claimed that his daughter had &#8220;serious mental problems&#8221; on Access Hollywood. Jolie later indicated that she no longer wished to pursue a relationship with her father. On March 28, 1996,<div id="attachment_1304" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//6a00e398d79476000300fad6a44f2d0005-500pi-300x208.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie- With her Happy Family" title="6a00e398d79476000300fad6a44f2d0005-500pi" width="300" height="208" class="size-medium wp-image-1304" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Angelina Jolie- With her Happy Family</p></div> Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, but Jolie and Miller separated the following year and subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. And after that in May 5, 2000 Angelina again married with Billy Bob Thornton but once again her married life not be a succeed and Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Jolie was involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the reason for the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair during filming of Mr. &#038; Mrs. Smith (2005). While Jolie and Pitt never publicly commented on the nature of their relationship, speculations continued throughout 2005. During the summer Jolie and Pitt were seen together with increasing frequency and most of the entertainment media considered them a couple, dubbing them &#8220;Brangelina&#8221;. On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt&#8217;s child and thereby confirmed their relationship for the first time in public. Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt(born August 5, 2001 in Cambodia; adopted March 10, 2002), Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt(born November 29, 2003 in Vietnam; adopted March 15, 2007), Zahara <div id="attachment_1305" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//jolie-and-miller-225x300.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller" title="jolie and miller" width="225" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-1305" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller</p></div>Marley Jolie-Pitt(born January 8, 2005 in Ethiopia; adopted July 6, 2005), Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt(born May 27, 2006 in Swakopmund, Namibia), Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt(born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France), Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt(born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France) are the childerens of Angelina Jolie.</p>
<p><strong>Angelina Jolie&#8217;s Career</strong><br />
Angelia jolie did a fair amount of traveling as a professional model, She worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles, and has also appeared in music videos for such artists as Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, Antonello Venditti and The Lemonheads. In addition, she has acted in five student films for the USC School of Cinema, all directed by her brother, James Haven. The fledgling actress soon moved on to film with a small role in 1993&#8217;s Cyborg 2, followed in 1995 by her turn as a computer hacker in the more widely seen Hackers.<div id="attachment_1306" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 284px"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//billy-bob-274x300.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie with Billy Bob Thornton" title="billy bob" width="274" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-1306" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Angelina Jolie with Billy Bob Thornton</p></div> The film gave her her first taste of recognition, as well as an introduction to Trainspotting&#8217;s Jonny Lee Miller, to whom she was married for a short time. In the 1990s, Angelina Jolie became a popular actress. She gave a star-making performance in the 1998 television film Gia based on the short, tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi.<br />
But this is not the start of here career. Angelina made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin&#8217; to Get Out, Jolie&#8217;s acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). In the mid-1990s, Jolie appeared in various small films where she got good notices, including Hackers (1995) and Foxfire (1996).  Her critical acclaim increased when she played strong roles in the made-for-TV movies True Women (1997) (TV). Jolie&#8217;s career prospects began to improve after her performance as Cornelia Wallace in the 1997 biographical film George Wallace for which she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. In 1998, Jolie starred in HBO&#8217;s Gia, portraying supermodel Gia Carangi. The film depicted a world of sex, drugs and emotional drama, and chronicled the destruction of Carangi&#8217;s life and career as a result of her drug addiction, and her decline and death from AIDS. Another great dramatic role in Girl, Interrrupted (1999) brought Jolie her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Jolie then starred opposite Antonio Banderas as the mail-order bride Julia Russell in Original Sin (2001), She has continued to take on a variety of interesting roles, such as Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in 2003. The sequel, while not as lucrative as the original, earned $156 million at the international<div id="attachment_1307" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 224px"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//angelina-jolie-sag-awards-2009-04-214x300.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie with Brad Pitt" title="angelina-jolie-sag-awards-2009-04" width="214" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-1307" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Angelina Jolie with Brad Pitt</p></div> box-office. Later that year Jolie starred in Beyond Borders, a film about aid workers in Africa. Although reflecting Jolie&#8217;s real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, the film was critically and financially unsuccessful. In 2004, Jolie starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the thriller Taking Lives. Jolie&#8217;s only movie in 2005 was the action-comedy Mr. &#038; Mrs. Smith. The film, directed by Doug Liman. She next appeared in Robert De Niro&#8217;s The Good Shepherd (2006), a film about the early history of the CIA. In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary A Place in Time, which captures the life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week. The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and is intended to be distributed through the National Education Association, mainly in high schools.  A Mighty Heart (2007), about the kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. Beowulf (2007) which was created through the motion capture technique. Jolie co-starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the 2008 action movie Wanted, an adaptation of a graphic novel by Mark Millar. The film received predominately favorable reviews and proved to be an international success, earning $342 million worldwide. She also provided the voice of Master Tigress in the DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda (2008). <div id="attachment_1309" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//1995-hackers_1117982i-300x193.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie in Hackers" title="1995-hackers_1117982i" width="300" height="193" class="size-medium wp-image-1309" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Angelina Jolie in Hackers</p></div>With revenue of $632 million internationally, it became her highest grossing film to date. he same year, Jolie played Christine Collins, the lead in Clint Eastwood&#8217;s drama Changeling (2008), which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Jolie became more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. She has regularly attended World Refugee Day in Washington, D.C., and she was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005 and 2006. Jolie also began lobbying humanitarian interests in the U.S. capital, where she met with members of Congress at least 20 times from 2003. She explained in Forbes: &#8220;As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that&#8217;s the way to move the ball.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_1310" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//ang56h-300x225.jpg" alt="Beautiful Angelina" title="ang56h" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-1310" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Beautiful Angelina</p></div>
<p><strong>Angelina Jolie&#8217;s Filmography</strong></p>
<table class="authortable" style="font-size: 90%;" border="2" cellpadding="4">
<tr align="center">
<th style="background:#B0C4DE;">Year</th>
<th style="background:#B0C4DE;">Film</th>
<th style="background:#B0C4DE;">Role</th>
<th style="background:#B0C4DE;">Notes</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1982</td>
<td><i>Lookin&#8217; to Get Out</i></td>
<td>Tosh</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3">1993</td>
<td>&#8220;Angela &amp; Viril&#8221;</td>
<td>Angela</td>
<td>2 minute short film</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&#8220;Alice &amp; Viril&#8221;</td>
<td>Alice</td>
<td>2 minute short film</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Cyborg 2</i></td>
<td>Casella &#8220;Cash&#8221; Reese</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">1995</td>
<td><i>Without Evidence</i></td>
<td>Jodie Swearingen</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Hackers</i></td>
<td>Kate &#8220;Acid Burn&#8221; Libby</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3">1996</td>
<td><i>Mojave Moon</i></td>
<td>Eleanor &#8220;Elie&#8221; Rigby</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Love Is All There Is</i></td>
<td>Gina Malacici</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Foxfire</i></td>
<td>Margret &#8220;Legs&#8221; Sadovsky</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3">1997</td>
<td><i>True Women</i> (TV)</td>
<td>Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>George Wallace</i> (TV)</td>
<td>Cornelia Wallace</td>
<td>Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series/Miniseries/TV Movie<br/><br />
Nominated – Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Playing God</i></td>
<td>Claire</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="4">1998</td>
<td><i>Gia</i> (TV)</td>
<td>Gia Marie Carangi</td>
<td>Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV<br/><br />
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries<br/><br />
Nominated – Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Hell&#8217;s Kitchen</i></td>
<td>Gloria McNeary</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Playing by Heart</i></td>
<td>Joan</td>
<td>National Board of Review Award – Breakthrough Performance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Pushing Tin</i></td>
<td>Mary Bell</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">1999</td>
<td><i>The Bone Collector</i></td>
<td>Amelia Donaghy</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Girl, Interrupted</i></td>
<td>Lisa Rowe</td>
<td>Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress<br/><br />
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress<br/><br />
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture<br/><br />
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture<br/><br />
Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2000</td>
<td><i>Gone in Sixty Seconds</i></td>
<td>Sara &#8220;Sway&#8221; Wayland</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">2001</td>
<td><i>Lara Croft: Tomb Raider</i></td>
<td>Lara Croft</td>
<td>Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance<br/><br />
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Fight</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Original Sin</i></td>
<td>Julia Russell</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2002</td>
<td><i>Life or Something Like It</i></td>
<td>Lanie Kerrigan</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">2003</td>
<td><i>Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life</i></td>
<td>Lara Croft</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Beyond Borders</i></td>
<td>Sarah Jordan</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="5">2004</td>
<td><i>Taking Lives</i></td>
<td>Illeana Scott</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Shark Tale</i></td>
<td>Lola</td>
<td>Voice</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow</i></td>
<td>Francesca &#8220;Franky&#8221; Cook</td>
<td>People&#8217;s Choice Award – Favorite Female Action Star</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>The Fever</i> (TV)</td>
<td>Revolutionary</td>
<td>Cameo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Alexander</i></td>
<td>Olympias</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2005</td>
<td><i>Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith</i></td>
<td>Jane Smith</td>
<td>MTV Movie Award for Best Fight<br /> <br />
Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss<br /> <br />
Nominated – People&#8217;s Choice Award – Favorite Female Movie Star<br/><br />
Nominated – People&#8217;s Choice Award – Favorite Female Action Star</a><br/><br />
Nominated – People&#8217;s Choice Award – Favorite On-Screen Match-Up (with Brad Pitt)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2006</td>
<td><i>The Good Shepherd</i></td>
<td>Margaret Russell</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">2007</td>
<td><i>A Mighty Heart</i></td>
<td>Mariane Pearl</td>
<td>Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress<br/><br />
Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress<br/><br />
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama<br/><br />
Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female<br/><br />
Nominated – London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress<br/><br />
Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress<br/><br />
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Beowulf</i></td>
<td>Grendel&#8217;s mother</td>
<td>Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Villain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3">2008</td>
<td><i>Kung Fu Panda</i></td>
<td>Master Tigress</td>
<td>Voice</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Wanted</i></td>
<td>Fox</td>
<td>People&#8217;s Choice Award – Favorite Female Action Star<br/><br />
Nominated – People&#8217;s Choice Award – Favorite Female Movie Star<br/><br />
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance<br/><br />
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss<br/><br />
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best WTF Moment</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>Changeling</i></td>
<td>Christine Collins</td>
<td>Saturn Award for Best Actress<br/><br />
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actress<br/><br />
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role<br/><br />
Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress<br/><br />
Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress<br/><br />
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama<br/><br />
Nominated – London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress<br/><br />
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2010</td>
<td><i>Salt</i></td>
<td>Evelyn Salt</td>
<td>(in production)</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div id="attachment_1311" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 240px"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//scarpetta-angelina-jolie-230x300.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie in Awards ceremony" title="scarpetta-angelina-jolie" width="230" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-1311" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Angelina Jolie in Awards ceremony</p></div>
<p><strong>Award for Angelina Jolie</strong></p>
<table border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;">
<tr bgcolor="#B0C4DE" align="center">
<th>Year</th>
<th>Award</th>
<th>Category</th>
<th>Film</th>
<th>Result</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="4">1998</td>
<td>Emmy Award</td>
<td>Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie</td>
<td rowspan="2"><i>George Wallace</i></td>
<td style="background: #ffcccc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-no2">Nominated</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Golden Globe Award</td>
<td>Best Supporting Actress – Series/Miniseries/TV Movie</td>
<td style="background: #ccffcc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-yes2">Won</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>National Board of Review Award</td>
<td>Breakthrough Performance – Female</td>
<td><i>Playing by Heart</i></td>
<td style="background: #ccffcc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-yes2">Won</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Emmy Award</td>
<td>Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie</td>
<td rowspan="3"><i>Gia</i></td>
<td style="background: #ffcccc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-no2">Nominated</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">1999</td>
<td>Golden Globe Award</td>
<td>Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV</td>
<td style="background: #ccffcc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-yes2">Won</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Screen Actors Guild Award</td>
<td>Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries</td>
<td style="background: #ccffcc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-yes2">Won</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3">2000</td>
<td>Golden Globe Award</td>
<td>Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture</td>
<td rowspan="3"><i>Girl, Interrupted</i></td>
<td style="background: #ccffcc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-yes2">Won</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Screen Actors Guild Award</td>
<td>Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role</td>
<td style="background: #ccffcc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-yes2">Won</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Academy Award</td>
<td>Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role</td>
<td style="background: #ccffcc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-yes2">Won</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1">2004</td>
<td>People&#8217;s Choice Award</td>
<td>Favourite Female Action Star</td>
<td rowspan="1"><i>Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow</i></td>
<td style="background: #ccffcc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-yes2">Won</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">2008</td>
<td>Golden Globe Award</td>
<td>Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama</td>
<td rowspan="2"><i>A Mighty Heart</i></td>
<td style="background: #ffcccc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-no2">Nominated</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Screen Actors Guild Award</td>
<td>Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role</td>
<td style="background: #ffcccc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-no2">Nominated</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="4">2009</td>
<td>Golden Globe Award</td>
<td>Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama</td>
<td rowspan="4"><i>Changeling</i></td>
<td style="background: #ffcccc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-no2">Nominated</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Screen Actors Guild Award</td>
<td>Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role</td>
<td style="background: #ffcccc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-no2">Nominated</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>BAFTA Award</td>
<td>Best Actress in a Leading Role</td>
<td style="background: #ffcccc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-no2">Nominated</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Academy Award</td>
<td>Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role</td>
<td style="background: #ffcccc; color: black; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="table-no2">Nominated</td>
</tr>
</table>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kareena Kapoor was born to Sindhi-speaking Babita (nee Shivdasani) and Punjabi-speaking Randhir Kapoor on September 21, 1980 in Mumbai, India. She is also very famous with her nick name Bebo. She&#8217;s the new &#8216;Kapoor&#8217; on the horizon. She is born in a family that have been actors for generations, including her paternal great-grandfather, Prithviraj Kapoor; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kareena Kapoor was born to Sindhi-speaking Babita (nee Shivdasani) and Punjabi-speaking Randhir Kapoor on September 21, 1980 in Mumbai, India. She is also very famous with her nick name Bebo. She&#8217;s the new &#8216;Kapoor&#8217; on the horizon. She is born in a family that have been actors for generations, including her paternal great-grandfather, Prithviraj Kapoor; her grandfather, Raj Kapoor; her paternal uncles, Shammi, Shashi, Rishi, and Rajiv; as well as aunt, Neetu Singh, &amp; Jennifer Kendall, the wives of Rishi and Shashi respectively. On her maternal side, her grandfather, Hari Shivdasani, and aunt, Sadhana, have been actors in their own rights. As a child she studied in Jamnabai Narsee School in Juhu, Bombay, and thereafter was enrolled in Dehra   Dun&#8217;s prestigious Welham Girls&#8217; Boarding School. Then she re-located to Harvard for approximately 3 months to take a course in Information Technology and Microcomputers. Upon her return to India, she joined the Government Law College in Churchgate, Bombay, but left it after one year, to enroll in the Kishore  Namit Kapoor  Acting School.<span id="more-908"></span></p>
<div id="attachment_909" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-909" title="Kareena-Kapoor-Pic-028 copy" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//Kareena-Kapoor-Pic-028-copy-150x150.jpg" alt="Kareena kapoor " width="150" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Kareena kapoor </p></div>
<p>As children, the Kapoor sisters dreamed of becoming actresses. Kapoor was particularly inspired by actresses Nargis and Meena Kumari. However, despite her family background, her father disapproved of women acting because he believed it to be incompatible with their duty to the family. This led to conflict between her parents, and Kapoor&#8217;s mother ultimately left her father. Kapoor was raised in Lokhandwala by her mother who worked several jobs to support her daughters until Karisma debuted as an actress in 1991.</p>
<p><strong>Kareena Kapoor’s Personal Life</strong><br />
In 2004, Kareena began dating actor <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/shahid-kapoor-biography/">Shahid Kapoor</a> whom she eventually parted with during the filming of Jab We Met in 2007. In September 2007, speculation began to surface that she was dating Saif Ali Khan. On October 18, 2007, during Manish Malhotra&#8217;s grand finale show at the Lakme Fashion Week, Khan confirmed their relationship to the media.<br />
Bebo is very close to her family and has resided with her mother Babita for much of her life. Kapoor and her mother lived together in Lokhandwala and then at Park Avenue in Bandra, Mumbai for several years, and in 2008 Bebo and her mother purchased adjacent flats in Khar, Mumbai designed by Akshay Kumar&#8217;s wife Twinkle Khanna. Kapoor says she is an avid reader and swimmer in her leisure time.</p>
<div id="attachment_910" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-910" title="Prithviraj Kapoor to Kareena Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//Prithviraj-Kapoor-to-Kareena-Kapoor-and-Ranbir-Kapoor-150x150.jpg" alt="Kareena Kapoor's childhood pic with her family" width="150" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Kareena Kapoor&#39;s childhood pic with her family</p></div>
<p>Kapoor&#8217;s weight and diet have often been scrutinized by the media. In 2006, Kareena declared that she was becoming a vegetarian to keep her weight in check. Kapoor has denied rumours that she is suffering from anorexia and has attributed her weight loss to yoga and a closely-monitored, balanced diet. When Kapoor lost weight and collapsed on set during the filming of Tashan in 2008, media speculation about her health was rampant. She dismissed the incident as a minor health scare.</p>
<p><strong>Kareena Kapoor’s Career</strong><br />
Kareena Kapoor was not destined to make her debut in the super hit film, Kaho Na Pyar Hai, though she was being groomed for this film, fate had other plans. Her film debut was in the year 2000 with J P Dutta&#8217;s &#8216;Refugee&#8217; along with the debut of Amitabh Bachchan&#8217;s son, Abhishek. Refugee was the fifth-highest grossing film in India in 2000, and Kapoor&#8217;s performance earned her the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award. In 2001, she worked with Tusshar Kapoor in Mujhe Kuch Kehna Hai which was one of the successes of the year. Bebo next starred in Subhash Ghai&#8217;s family drama Yaadein alongside Jackie Shroff and Hrithik Roshan. Yaadein did not do well.  Kareena then appeared in the Abbas-Mustan thriller Ajnabee. The film, based on Consenting Adults (1992), was a moderate box office success in India. Her fiery Kaurwaki act in the epic Asoka with Shah Rukh Khan won her a nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress award. Her fourth film was the multi-starrer Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham in which she played the part of the haughty yet adorable Pooh. The film was her biggest commercial success. Her performance as &#8220;Poo&#8221; was well-received by critics and earned her a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress nomination.</p>
<div id="attachment_912" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-912" title="Hot-Actress-kareena-kapoor_SexyGirl" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//Hot-Actress-kareena-kapoor_SexyGirl-150x150.jpg" alt="Kareena Kapoor- The goegeous one" width="150" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Kareena Kapoor- The goegeous one</p></div>
<p>The next two years Kapoor experienced a slump in her career. She featured in six films — Mujhse Dosti Karoge!, Jeena Sirf Merre Liye, Talaash: The Hunt Begins&#8230;, Khushi, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon, and the four-hour war epic LOC Kargil — all of which proved critically and commercially unsuccessful in India. She stepped into the shoes of a sex worker in Chameli with Rahul Bose, earning a Filmfare Special Performance award and also this movie becomes the turning point of her career. The other critically acclaimed film was Dev with Amitabh Bacchan, in which she played Aaliya , a victim in the communal riots in Gujarat. She won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance. he played the villainous Neha Mehra in Fida. She had three releases in 2005: Bewafa, Kyun Ki and Dosti: Friends Forever, of which the latter did well in the United Kingdom. In 2006, Kareena appeared in three films. She first starred in the thriller 36 China Town followed by the comedy Chup Chup Ke; both films performed reasonably well. It was her role of Dolly in Omkara that clinched the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance. The film was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello and Dolly was based on Desdemona the movie Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. She also appeared in an item number in Farhan Akhtar’s Don, which was originally done by Helen.In 2007, Kapoor starred opposite <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/shahid-kapoor-biography/">Shahid Kapoor</a> in Imtiaz Ali&#8217;s romantic comedy Jab We Met. This will become year&#8217;s most successful films, earning a domestic total of Rs 303 million (US$ 6.24 million). Following Jab We Met, Kapoor featured alongside Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, and Anil Kapoor in the action-thriller Tashan (2008). Though an indiaFM poll named it the most anticipated film of the year, Tashan eventually became a commercial and critical failure. She has lent her voice to Laila in the animation flick Roadside Romeo and is part of Golmaal Returns, a sequel to the comedy hit Golmaal. In 2009, Kapoor appeared in Sabbir Khan&#8217;s romantic drama Kambakkht Ishq alongside Akshay Kumar. Some of the films Kareena’s fans can look forward to in 2009 are Main Aur Mrs.Khanna with Salman and Sohail Khan, Kambakth Ishq with Akshay Kumar, Three Idiots with Madhavan and Aamir Khan, Milenge Milenge with <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/shahid-kapoor-biography/">Shahid Kapoor</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Movies and Awards for Kareena Kapoor</strong></p>
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<tr align="center" bgcolor="#B0C4DE">
<th>Year</th>
<th>Film</th>
<th>Role</th>
<th>Other notes</th>
</tr>
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<td>2000</td>
<td><em>Refugee</em></td>
<td>Nazneen &#8220;Naaz&#8221; M. Ahmed</td>
<td><strong>Winner</strong>, Filmfare Best Female Debut Award</td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="5">2001</td>
<td><em>Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai</em></td>
<td>Pooja Saxena</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Yaadein</em></td>
<td>Isha Singh Puri</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Ajnabee</em></td>
<td>Priya Malhotra</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Asoka</em></td>
<td>Kaurwaki</td>
<td>Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award</td>
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<tr>
<td><em>Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham</em></td>
<td>Pooja &#8220;Poo&#8221; Sharma</td>
<td>Nominated, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award</td>
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<td rowspan="2">2002</td>
<td><em>Mujhse Dosti Karoge!</em></td>
<td>Tina Kapoor</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Jeena Sirf Merre Liye</em></td>
<td>Pooja/Pinky</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="4">2003</td>
<td><em>Talaash: The Hunt Begins&#8230;</em></td>
<td>Tina</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Khushi</em></td>
<td>Khushi Singh (Lali)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon</em></td>
<td>Sanjana</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>LOC Kargil</em></td>
<td>Simran</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="6">2004</td>
<td><em>Chameli</em></td>
<td>Chameli</td>
<td><strong>Winner</strong>,Filmfare Special Performance Award</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Yuva</em></td>
<td>Mira</td>
<td></td>
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<td><em>Dev</em></td>
<td>Aaliya</td>
<td><strong>Winner</strong>, Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance</p>
<p>Playback singing for the song <em>Jab Nahi Aaye The Tum</em></td>
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<td><em>Fida</em></td>
<td>Neha Mehra</td>
<td>First villain role</td>
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<td><em>Aitraaz</em></td>
<td>Priya Saxena/Malhotra</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Hulchul</em></td>
<td>Anjali</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="3">2005</td>
<td><em>Bewafaa</em></td>
<td>Anjali Sahai</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Kyon Ki</em></td>
<td>Dr. Tanvi Khurana</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Dosti: Friends Forever</em></td>
<td>Anjali</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="4">2006</td>
<td><em>36 China Town</em></td>
<td>Priya</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Chup Chup Ke</em></td>
<td>Shruti</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Omkara</em></td>
<td>Dolly R. Mishra</td>
<td><strong>Winner</strong>, Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance</p>
<p>Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Don &#8211; The Chase Begins Again</em></td>
<td>Kamini</td>
<td>Cameo</td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="2">2007</td>
<td><em>Kya Love Story Hai</em></td>
<td>Herself</td>
<td>Special appearance in song <em>It&#8217;s Rocking</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Jab We Met</em></td>
<td>Geet Dhillon</td>
<td><strong>Winner</strong>, Filmfare Best Actress Award</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="4">2008</td>
<td><em>Halla Bol</em></td>
<td>Herself</td>
<td>Special appearance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Tashan</em></td>
<td>Pooja Singh</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Roadside Romeo</em></td>
<td>Laila <span style="font-size:smaller; line-height:130%">(voice)</span></td>
<td>Voice over for first animated film</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Golmaal Returns</em></td>
<td>Ekta</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="6">2009</td>
<td><em>Luck by Chance</em></td>
<td>Herself</td>
<td>Special appearance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Billu</em></td>
<td>Herself</td>
<td>Special appearance in song <em>Marjaani</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Kambakkht Ishq</em></td>
<td>Simrita Rai</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Main Aurr Mrs Khanna</em></td>
<td>Raina Khanna</td>
<td>Post-production</td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Kurbaan</em></td>
<td></td>
<td>Filming</td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Three Idiots</em></td>
<td>Neha</td>
<td>Filming</td>
</tr>
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<td>2010</td>
<td><em>Milenge Milenge</em></td>
<td>Priya</td>
<td>Delayed</td>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shahid Kapoor Personal Life
Shahid Kapoor was born in Mumbai, on 25th February 1981 to actors Pankaj Kapoor and Neelima Azeem, who divorced when he was three years old and he mostly lived with his mother. He shared a good relationship with his father and stepmother Supriya Pathak. He studied in Rajhans Vidyalaya, Mumbai. Kapoor is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Shahid Kapoor Personal Life</strong><br />
Shahid Kapoor was born in Mumbai, on 25th February 1981 to actors Pankaj Kapoor and Neelima Azeem, who divorced when he was three years old and he mostly lived with his mother. He shared a good relationship with his father and stepmother Supriya Pathak. He studied in Rajhans Vidyalaya, Mumbai. Kapoor is also a vegetarian. His maternal grandfather was Anwar Azeem, a noted Marxist journalist and author from Bihar.<span id="more-841"></span></p>
<div id="attachment_842" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-842" title="shahid_kapoor" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//shahid_kapoor_114_1024x768.preview-150x150.jpg" alt="Shahid Kapoor- Very Handsome Looks " width="150" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Shahid Kapoor- Very Handsome Looks </p></div>
<p>His father married the actress Supriya Pathak. He has a brother Ruhan and sister Sana as well as a step-brother Ishaan Kapoor, Ishaan acted with him in the movie Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi. After completing his schooling from Raj Hans, he joined Shaimak Davar to get trained in dancing. When he was 18, he accidently landed the commercial for Pepsi which starred Shahrukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukherjee. He also starred in a music video for the band Aryans and met his college sweetheart Hrishita Bhatt, who also appeared in the video. While filming Fida, Kapoor began dating <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/kareena-kapoor-the-biography/">Kareena Kapoor</a>. They had dated for three years and then separated during the filming of Jab We Met. <img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-843" title="family_001" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//family_001-150x150.jpg" alt="family_001" width="150" height="150" />According to him, they remained on good terms, with him saying, &#8220;I wish her [Kareena] all the happiness in the world. I have great respect for her. She’s a wonderful girl.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Shahid Kapoor’s Career</strong><br />
Shahid is a fabulous dancer owing to the training he undertook at Shiamak Davar Institute for the Performing Arts. He was a background dancer in Subash Ghai’s 1998 release Taal. He was also part of music videos and ads like Pepsi. From an early age, he always wanted to do something in films and his first break came when he got a call from Ken Gosh&#8217;s office for a screen test. After working as an extra here and there, Shahid finally landed a leading role in Ken Ghosh&#8217;s Ishq Vishk in year 2003. winning the  Filmfare Best Male Debut award for his performance. The film also starred <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/amrita-rao-biography/">Amrita Rao</a> and MTV VJ Shenaz Treasurywala. Shahid and <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/amrita-rao-biography/">Amrita Rao</a> enjoy a popular onscreen chemistry.  2004  The year saw him in the thriller Fida and a romantic comedy Dil Maange More, both movie&#8217;s are average on box office. 2005  His releases Deewane Huye Paagal (based on the Hollywood comedy There’s Something About Mary) and Vah! Life Ho Tho Aisa, were both entertaining without creating an uproar at the box office. Shikhar, in which he worked with Ajay Devgan, earned him a Star Screen awards nomination for Best Actor. In 2006, Kapoor starred in 36 China Town. Revolving around the story of seven individuals and a murder, the film became a moderate success despite receiving mixed reviews from critics. With in very short Kapoor&#8217;s second release of the year, Priyadarshan&#8217;s comedy Chup Chup Ke, followed. The film became a moderate success at the box office. Shahid next movie Vivah, a drama of love, was a blockbuster and a high grosser, his performance as Prem widely appreciated. During the summer of 2006, Kapoor embarked on his first world tour, the Rockstars Concert, along with Bollywood stars, Salman Khan, <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/kareena-kapoor-the-biography/">Kareena Kapoor</a>, John Abraham, Esha Deol, Mallika Sherawat and Zayed Khan.</p>
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<p>2007  Fool and Final slid by, while for his role as Aditya Kashyap in Jab We Met, opposite <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/kareena-kapoor-the-biography/">Kareena Kapoor</a>, became one of the biggest hits of the year. Shahid was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Awards for the movie Jab we met. 2008  Kismat Connection with Vidya Balan failed to shake the box office and only added to the list of averages. In 2009, Kapoor portrayed the dual role of twins Charlie and Guddu in the crime film Kaminey. Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, the film received positive reviews and Kapoor&#8217;s performance was critically acclaimed. Later this year, Kapoor is going to appear in Anurag Singh&#8217;s romantic comedy Dil Bole Hadippa! alongside Rani Mukerji and Ahmed Khan&#8217;s upcoming film Paathshala. He is currently working on Ken Ghosh&#8217;s Chance Pe Dance opposite <a href="http://www.authorpick.net/genelia-dsouza-biography/">Genelia D&#8217;Souza</a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_847" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-847" title="19082009_233658593" src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//19082009_233658593-150x150.jpg" alt="Shahid &amp; Katrina in Award Ceremony " width="150" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Shahid &amp; Katrina in Award Ceremony </p></div>
<p><strong>Movies and Awards for Shahid Kapoor</strong></p>
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<th>Year</th>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Role</th>
<th>Other notes</th>
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<td>1999</td>
<td>Taal</td>
<td></td>
<td>Background dancer in song <em>Kahin Aag Lage Lag Jawe</em></td>
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<td>2003</td>
<td><em>Ishq Vishk</em></td>
<td>Rajiv Mathur</td>
<td><strong>Winner</strong>, Filmfare Best Male Debut Award</td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="2">2004</td>
<td><em>Fida</em></td>
<td>Jai Malhotra</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Dil Maange More</em></td>
<td>Nikhil Mathur</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="3">2005</td>
<td><em>Deewane Huye Paagal</em></td>
<td>Karan</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!</em></td>
<td>Aditya (Adi)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Shikhar</em></td>
<td>Jaidev Vardhan (Jai)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="3">2006</td>
<td><em>36 China Town</em></td>
<td>Raj Malhotra</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Chup Chup Ke</em></td>
<td>Jeetu/Khaniya</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Vivah</em></td>
<td>Prem</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="2">2007</td>
<td><em>Fool and Final</em></td>
<td>Raja/Rahul</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td><em>Jab We Met</em></td>
<td>Aditya Kashyap</td>
<td>Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award</td>
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<td>2008</td>
<td><em>Kismat Konnection</em></td>
<td>Raj Malhotra</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="3">2009</td>
<td><em>Kaminey</em></td>
<td>Charlie/Guddu</td>
<td>Double role</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Dil Bole Hadippa!</em></td>
<td>Rohan</td>
<td>Releasing on September 18, 2009</td>
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<td><em>Chance Pe Dance</em></td>
<td>Rohit</td>
<td>Releasing on November 6, 2009</td>
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<td rowspan="2">2010</td>
<td><em>Paathshala</em></td>
<td>Rahul</td>
<td>Post-production</td>
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<td><em>Milenge Milenge</em></td>
<td>Amit</td>
<td>Post-production</td>
</tr>
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		<title>Genelia D&#8217;Souza Biography and Career</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genelia D&#8217;Souza
Genelia D&#8217;Souza also known as Harini to close friends born on 5 August 1987 in England into a Mangalore Catholic family. She is an Indian film actress who appears in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu language films. Genelia is also very famous with her nickname Geenu and Cheenu. Geenu&#8217;s parents Neil D&#8217;Souza, senior official [...]]]></description>
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<p>Genelia D&#8217;Souza also known as Harini to close friends born on 5 August 1987 in England into a Mangalore Catholic family. She is an Indian film actress who appears in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu language films. Genelia is also very famous with her nickname Geenu and Cheenu. Geenu&#8217;s parents Neil D&#8217;Souza, <div id="attachment_2177" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 239px"><a href="http://www.authorpick.net/genelia-dsouza-biography/genelia-dsouza-1/" rel="attachment wp-att-2177"><img src="http://www.authorpick.net/&quot;wp-content/uploads//Genelia-Dsouza-1-229x300.jpg" alt="Genelia D&#039;souza" title="Genelia D&#039;souza" width="229" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-2177" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Genelia D'souza</p></div>a senior official with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Jeanette D&#8217;Souza, formerly secretary to Managing Director with a pharma MNC. She has also a elder Brother in her family. <span id="more-137"></span> Cheenu studied at the Apostolic Carmel High School in Bandra and then she joined St. Andrews College (Bandra) to pursue her Bachelor&#8217;s Degree of Management Studies. Genelia was also a National level Football player and State level athlete.</p>
<h3><strong>PERSONAL LIFE OF GENELIA D’SOUZA</strong></h3>
<p>Watching movies and Listning the old songs is the Hobbies of Genelia D&#8217;Souza. her favorite dress is</p>
<div id="attachment_139" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 230px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-139" title="gene-wallpaper" src="http://www.authorpick.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/gene-wallpaper-220x300.jpg" alt="Geenu Smiles" width="220" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Geenu Smiles</p></div>
<p>Jeans, T-Shirts and Salwar Kameez  Cheenu&#8217;s Favorite music director is AR Rehman and her favorite singer is Lucky Ali. Shahrukh Khan is the favorite actor and Kajol is favorite actress of Geenu.</p>
<h3><strong>GENELIA D&#8217;SOUZA&#8217;s CAREER</strong></h3>
<p>Genelia started her career in the year 2003 with three movies – first one was Hindi movie TUJHE MERI KASAM opposite Ritesh Deshmukh another one is the Tamil movie BOYS and the third one is the Telugu movie SATYAM opposite Sumanth. Hindi Movie Tujhe Meri Kasam, which was a remake of Telugu movie Nuvve Kavali and saw an average response. Tamil Movie Boys, on the other hand, which was a hit, as was Satyam. After that Cheenu doing several movies which built her popularity and raised her profile in south India. She acted in successful telugu films like SAMBA, HAPPY and SYE. She followed</p>
<div id="attachment_140" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 213px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-140" title="normal_Genelia D Souza featured in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Wallpaper (7)" src="http://www.authorpick.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/normal_Genelia-D-Souza-featured-in-Jaane-Tu-Ya-Jaane-Na-Wallpaper-7-203x300.jpg" alt="Genelia in Jaane tu ya Jaane naa" width="203" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Genelia in Jaane tu ya Jaane naa</p></div>
<p>it up with a pairing with actor Venkatesh in Subhash Chandra Bose which met with disappointment at the box-office. But in the year 2008 she has again appeared a golden come back in bollywood with moderately successful movie Priyadarshan’s MERE BAAP PEHLE AAP alongside Akshaye Khanna. And then Cheenu got her final breakthrough in Bollywood was through the blockbuster and the year’s hit JAANE TU YA JAANE NA. In this movie Geenu has a role of Aditi Mahant aka &#8220;Meow&#8221;. Her role has been widely admired for her sweetness and freshness, and new style of acting. And now her latest movie is a Telugu film READY in which she was paired opposite Ram was a super hit and a Hindi movie titled LIFE PARTNER with Fardeen Khan which is running successfully in theaters.<br />
Genelia D&#8217;Souza upcoming movies are It&#8217;s MY LIFE with Harman Baweja is to be released in 2009. She will also act in David Dhawan&#8217;s movie HOOK YA CROOK opposite John Abraham and Shreyas Talpade for the first time which is a cricket film, the film will be released in 2009. Geenu also now becomes the brand ambassador of the new Fanta replacing the bollywood princess Rani Mukherjee. And also the brand ambassador of chocolate Perk replacing the heart of bollywood Preity Zinta. She now holds a distinct Limca world record of delivering 4 different super hit films in 4 different languages (Satya (Kannada), Santosh Subramaniyam (Tamil), Ready (Telugu) and Jaane Tu&#8230; Ya Jaane Naa (Hindi)) in span of 1 calendar year.</p>
<h3><strong>AWARDS FOR GELENIA D’SOUZA</strong></h3>
<p>•	Filmfare Award for Best Female Actress for Bommarillu (Telugu), 2006</p>
<div id="attachment_147" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-147" title="Genelia" src="http://www.authorpick.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/56th-Idea-Filmfare-Awards-South-2008-Photos_-4-150x150.jpg" alt="Genelia with Filmfare Award" width="150" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Genelia with Filmfare Award</p></div>
<p>•             Nandi Jury Award for Bommarillu (Telugu), 2006<br />
•             Nandi Special Jury Award for Bommarillu (Telugu), 2006<br />
•             Santosham Award for Best Actress for Bommarillu,2006</p>
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