Thursday, December 29, 2011

A job well done

It looks quite fair to say, Mr. Obama has done great at handling the things that he has taken care of as the President of America so far.  
With the saying “We Can”, he played his part in the best manner towards accomplishing the things he had promised towards his goals when he was elected as the 44th president.
 As America had been experiencing the rigours of recession in the year 2008, its people were awaiting a president who could lead his nation back to economical prosperity.
The calamity of recession took its toil on the American people leaving many companies bankrupt, businesses shut down and many a people jobless. Amid such a complicated and difficult situation while people were losing hope of relief to their suffering, stepping up with concrete determination and an unchanging resolve was our enthusiastic and well appraised 44th president, elected in the 20th January of 2009, Mr. Barak Hussein Obama.
While the numerous achievements of our president are too profuse to list, his foremost and notable achievements include preventing another great depression in America, passing the bill for universal healthcare, reforming the financial industry, concluding the war in Iraq and implementing education reforms.   

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

So what's special about DILIP KUMAR





The indian movie actor, the bombay film industry bollywood's legend and the king for the last 5 decates, won a number of awards for his ever lasting acting he performed for his world class famous movies such as 'Azad' 1955, Devdas 1956, Naya Daur 1957, Ganga Jamna 1961, thats what made him stand alone, unique of all to make a remarkable histroy in the film industry of india.

There are a number of stories about Dilip Kumar (Yousuf Khan), but all of them agree upon his extra-ordinary, unmatched acting talents, inspired many actors, many of them copied and beleived in his style of acting as the key to be a successful actor.

Dilip Kumar, real name Yousuf Khan, born in 1922 in Peshawar in a large Pathan family. His father was a fruit merchant who later moved to Maharashtra and set up a business in Bombay.

It was 1940 when he was introduced to the Film Industry by Devika Rani, the leading actress of Indian Film world and was also the wife of the Bombay Talkies theater that time. His first movie was Jawar Bhata produced in 1944. He became the most successful as hero from the very beginning of his film career with release of his movies Jawar Bahat 1944, Jugnu 1947, Mela 1948 and Andaaz 1949.

The repeated tragic type of roles he played in the movies during 1950s, where that earned him the image of Tragedy King, it also affected his health. He consulted a psychiatrist in London who advised him to play a variant light types of roles rather than playing the continued tragic type that were adopting to his psycology. Breaking the image, he later did Ganga Jamuna and Ram aur Shyam that broke all box office records.

On the romantic side he was linked to many a actress in his personal life. In early period it was Kamini Kausal, then Madhubala and then Vijayanti Mala. However, he married the beauty queen Saira Banu in 1966 at the age of 44.




After a break in 1970s, Dilip Kumar made a come back in 1981 in the charecter roles, yet again delivered hit movies i.e., Karanti, Shakti, Vidhata, Karma and Saudagar.

Dilip Kumar was nominated and took the charge as the Sheriff of Bombay in 1980.

The most popular films he acted in:

Jawar Bhata 1944, Milan 1946, Jugnu 1947, Mela, Nadiya ke paar, Shaheed 1948, Andaz, Aarzoo, Babul and Jogan 1950, Deedar, Halchal and Tarana 1951, Aan, Daag and Sangdil 1952, Footpath, Shikast 1953, Amar 1954, Azad, Devdas, Insaniyaat and Udan Khatola 1955, Naya Daur, Musafir 1957, Madhumati and Yahudi 1958, Paigham 1959, Kohinoor and Moghl-e-Azam 1960, Ganga Jumna 1961, Leader 1964, Dil Diya Dard Liya 1966, Ram aur Shyam 1967, Admi and Sangharsh 1968, Sagina Mahato, Gopi 1970, Dastaan 1972, Bairaag 1976, Mashaal, Duniya 1984, Karma 1986, Saudagar 1991 and Qila 1998.

Superlatives shows Dilip Kumar as the most Filmfare Award winner, that counts as many as 8 awards in total.

1954 Dilip Kumar movie 'Daag'
1956 Dilip Kumar movie 'Azaad'
1957 Dilip Kumar movie 'Devdas'
1958 Dilip Kumar movie 'Nayadaur'
1961 Dilip Kumar movie 'Kohinoor'
1965 Dilip Kumar movie 'Leader'
1968 Dilip Kumar movie 'Ram aur Shyam'
1983 Dilip Kumar movie 'Shakti'

What people say about Dilip Kumar please check out at

Dilip Kumar's fans on facebook

Dilip Kumar in Naya Daur

Saturday, March 28, 2009

The Speeches I ever liked

Th American Hero
Mr. Bill Clinton's Speeches

President Mr. Barack Obama since being elected as the 44th President of the United States to take over has proved his successful leadership. His courage and persistence with CAN DO revolution to take up challenges that America faces is enormous.

There have been a number of excellent speakers and leaders in America, but when I think of that the first name comes to my mind is none other than that of the ex President of USA Mr. Bill Clinton. He stands out of all for his style that makes him unique. I have watched all of the speeches given by Mr. Bill Clinton a number of times. Some of them were live on the Television and the others on the videos available on Youtube. I appreciate Youtube for making Mr. Bill Clinton's speeches and conversations available on the web for the people to watch. Those are the excellent examples of speeches for one to learn from and win.

I find Mr. Bill Clinton's speeches visionary, well aware, strong, thoughtful, best analyzed, based on researched real facts that convinced and touched the millions and millions of people's heart around the world. In his speeches he clearly seemed to be striving for truth. A few links of Mr. Bill Clinton's speeches are here:

President Clinton 1993 Inaugural Address

Presidential Debate 1992-1

Presidential Debate 1992-2

President Bill Clinton- Inaugural Address

At Democratic National Converntion

At Harvard's 2007 Class Day (1/3)


"My Life" the autobiography of Mr. Bill Clinton:
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
My Life is a 2004 autobiography of the former President of the United States, Mr. Bill Clinton written by himself. Mr. Bill Clinton left his Presidential office on January 20, 2001 and the book “My Life” was released on June 22, 2004 published by the Knopf Publishing Group. The book marked sale in excess of 2,250,000 copies. For this book Mr. Clinton had received the world's highest record book advance fee, which was believed to have been worth around US$12 million; at the announcement of media personality Oprah Winfrey's future weight loss book, it was said that her undisclosed advance fee had broken this record. In April 2008, the Clinton' tax records confirmed that the advance for My Life was actually $15 million.

Release DateJune 22, 2004 (hardback)
ISBN978-0375414572
PublisherKnopf Publishing Group (Random House)
Author