Famous Indian Personalities Born On This Day - 31/Jan/2018

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This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous Indian personalities born on this day.

Courtesy of this information goes to onthisday.com, famousbirthdays.com and wikipedia.org and image source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.

1. Preity Zinta

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Preity Zinta is an Indian actress who mainly acts in Bollywood films and occasionally on South Indian movies.

She is the co-owner of Indian Premier League(IPL) team of Kings XI Punjab.

She made her acting debut in the movie Dil Se released in 1998.

She has acted in some biggest hit movies like Kal Ho Na Ho, Veer-Zara, Salaam Namaste, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna.

Besides being an actress, she also works as social activist, stage performer and television presenter.

She is also the founder of PZNZ Media, a film production company.

She is a winner of 2 Filmfare Awards, 3 IIFA Awards, Silver Hugo - Best Actress Award and Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film(for her Canadian film Heaven on Earth).

2. D. R. Bendre

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D. R. Bendre was an Kannada poet(Kannada Language, a South Indian state - Karnataka's language).

He is known as a poet of Navodaya period(Navodaya literally meaning New Birth) meaning the period of re-incarnation of Kannada poetry.

He is known with title Varakavi meaning the "Gifted Poet" and Karnataka Kula Tilaka meaning "The Ornament of Karnataka Family".

Bendre was the winner of "Jnanpith Award", the highest Indian literary award, Sahitya Academy Award and fourth highest Indian civilian award "Padma Shri".

3. Shalmali Kholgade

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Shalmali Kholgade is an Indian playback singer who mainly sings in Hindi language along with other Indian languages such as Marathi, Telugu, Tamil and Bengali.

She began her singing career in 2012 in the movie Ishaqzaade 2 for which, she won a Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer.

Some of her hit Hindi songs include "Aga Bai" from Aiyyaa, "Daaru Desi" from Cocktail, "Lat Lag Gayee" from Race 2, "Chingam Chabake" from Gori Tere Pyaar Mein, "Shanivaar Raati" and "Besharmi Ki Height" from Main Tera Hero, "D Se Dance" from Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, "Mohobbat Buri Bemari" from Bombay Velvet, "Shakira" from Welcome to Karachi and "Naach Meri Jaan" from ABCD 2.

4. Umar Alisha

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Umar Alisha is an Indian spiritual person who is the ninth peethapadhipati of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham(a theosophical congregation which states that it is based on the principles of oneness of God, and discovering divinity in the self.) which is about 545 year old institution.

Umar Alisha is also a poet who mainly writes in South Indian language Telugu.

Umar Alisha by profession is an Homepathy doctor who has completed his Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine & Surgery(BHMS).

5. Som Nath Sharma

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Som Nath Sharma was an Indian Army Officer who is remembered for his heroics in evicting the Pakistani infiltrators from Srinagar Airport in 1947 and winning the first Param Vir Chakra Award, the highest Indian military decoration which is considered as an equivalent of Medal of Honour in US and Victory Cross in UK.

Sharma was part of Indian Army troop which was in Burma for World War II.

He was also part of Indo Pak War of 1947, known as Battle of Badgam and that was the last war for him as he died in the same while trying to rescue Srinagar airport.