Famous Indian Personalities Born On This Day - 25/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. Cheteshwar Pujara
Cheteshwar Pujara is Indian cricketer who has nickname of "Good Boy" and is considered as mainstay of India's middle order in tests along with Virat Kohli.
He was born in Rajkot, Gujarat and plays Ranji cricket for Saurashtra team.
He is regarded as an able replacement to "The Wall" Rahul Dravid because of his playing style and technically sound batting like Rahul Dravid.
Pujara can stay at crease for hours and days just like Rahul Dravid.
Pujara has played 58 tests scoring close to 4500 runs with an average more than 51 which includes 14 hundreds(3 of them are double centuries) and 16 half centuries.
In 2013, he was named by International Cricket Council(ICC) as "ICC Emerging Player of the Year".
2. Kavita Krishnamurthy
Kavita Krishnamurthy is an Indian playback singer who has sung more than 15,000 songs in different Indian languages with renowned music composers like Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Naushad, S H Bihari, Kaifi Azmi, Anjan, O P Nayyar, Khayyam, Hemant Kumar, Ravinder Jain, Babpi Lehri, Sameer, Javid Akthar, Anu Malik, R. D. Burman, Hamsalekha and A. R. Rahman.
She is wife of renowned violinist Dr. L Subramanian.
She is a recipient of 4 Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer and an awardee of Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award.
As such most of her songs are a hit, but some prominent ones include "Dola Re Dola" with Shreya Ghoshal from movie Devdas, "Aaj Main Upar" from Khamoshi, "Mera Piya Ghar Aaya" from Yaraana, "Pyaar Hua Chupke Se" from 1942: A Love Story, "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam" from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam will always be remembered.
3. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Michael Madhusudan Dutt was an 19th century Bengali poet and dramatist who was known as Father of Bengali sonnet and one of the greatest among Bengali poets.
He is also regarded as the first to write Bengali plays in English style with segregation of play into acts and scenes.
Some of his major works include King Porus, Visions of the Past, Padmavati, Meghnad Badh Kavya(a sad epic), Veerangana Kavya, Bongobani.
4. Bibek Debroy
Bibek Debroy is an Indian economist and a member of NITI Aayog, the think tank of Indian government and is Chief of Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM).
Previously, he worked as professor at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and was a visiting honorary research fellow for Institute for South Asian Studies in National University of Singapore.
He has been an awardee of fourth highest Indian civilian honour Padma Shri in 2015 and honorary Doctorates from different universities.
5. Rupam Islam
Rupam Islam is an Indian playback singer, songwriter, composer and lead singer in the band Fossils.
In 2010, he won a National Award for Best Male Playback Singer for movie Mahanagar@Kolkata.
He is part of West Bengal state government's cultural committee for music.
Some of his works include Tor Bhorshatey, Fossil, Fossil 2, Epitaph, Mahanagar@Kolkata, Notun Niyom.
this is a very informative post. thanks for sharing! 😊
Thank you @melanie0625. Nice to know that you liked it. Thanks for visiting.
Hii Coolguy
A lot of people in the world are watching indian movies, I remember that they call it bolleywood or something like that, and I don't even know one of this list! I bet many people know them all! I think I miss a little bit what's going on in the world :p thank you for sharing! I try to remember this people as a kind of birthday present!
Love,
Sha
Thank you, so kind of you to know about Indian movies.
Yes, those are called as Bollywood movies.
Bollywood actors are huge in number with some of them even making it to Hollywood(Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Nasiruddin Sha, Kabir Bedi to name a few).
Keep visiting, good day.
It sounds maybe pretty weird to you, but in the Netherlands, they teach us some things about bolleywood in school!
Oh really? That's cool, So, either someone is inspired by Bollywood movies there or there might some Indians staying there and have an influence on that?
Just the pure dutch people are inspired by it, and say it is the second holleywood! Its a great compliment for India I guess! Traveling to india is on my bucket list too!
You are most welcome, there are many places here to visit. You will not be disappointed.
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