తమిళ కవిరాజు కన్నదాసన్ వర్ధంతి ( 17 అక్టోబర్ 1927 )
కన్నదాసన్
కన్నదాసన్ వర్ధంతి నేడు : ( 24 జూన్ 1927 -- 17 అక్టోబర్ 1981 )
24 జూన్ 1927 నాడు తమిళనాడు లోని సిరుకూడల్పట్టి లో పుట్టిన A. L. ముత్తయ్య పుట్టాడు. మొదట్లో నాస్తికుడిగా ఉన్న ముత్తయ్య కన్నన్ అనే తమిళ సంఘ సంస్కర్త మీద అభిమానం తో తన పేరును కన్నదాసన్ గా మార్చుకున్నాడు.
కాని ఒకసారి ఆండాళ్ తిరుప్పావై చదివి అందులోని సాహిత్యానికి ముగ్ధుడై ఆస్తికునిగా మారాడు. హిందూ మతం గొప్పదనం గురించి 10 సంపుటాల ' అర్థ ముళ్ళ హిందూమత ' అనే గ్రంధం రాశాడు. తమిళ ప్రజలు కన్నదాసన్ ను కవి అరసు ( కవిరాజు) గా పిలుచుకుంటారు. ' చేరమాన్ కడలి ' నవలకు కేంద్ర సాహిత్య అకాడెమీ అవార్డ్ వచ్చింది. కంబ రామాయణం రాసిన కంబన్ అంటే కన్నదాసన్ కు ఎంతో అభిమానం.
సుమారు 5000 తమిళ సినిమా పాటలు రాసిన కన్నదాసన్ అటు తమిళ సాహిత్యం లో కూడా ఎన్నో రచనలు చేశారు. సినీ గీతాల్లో కూడా సాహిత్య విలువలు నిలిపిన రచయిత కన్నదాసన్.
అమెరికా లోని చికాగో లో జరిగిన తమిళ సభలకు వెళ్లి 17 అక్టోబర్ 1981 లో పరమపదించారు కన్నదాసన్ గారు.
Raaj Kumar (8 October 1926 – 3 July 1996), born Kulbhushan Pandit, was a Hindi film actor. Raaj Kumar started out as sub-inspector i.a.s. of Mumbai Police in the late 1940s before he turned to acting with the 1952 film Rangeeli. He appeared in the Oscar-nominated 1957 film Mother India and went onto star in over 70 Hindi films in a career that spanned over four decades.
Raaj Kumar was born at Loralai Balochistan, Pakistan in a Kashmiri Pandit family. In the late 1940s he moved to Mumbai, India where he became Sub-inspector of the Mumbai Police. He married Jennifer, an Anglo Indian, whom he met on a flight where she was the air hostess. She later changed her name to Gayatri based on her horoscope as per Hindu customs. They had three children, two sons named Puru Raajkumar (a Bollywood actor), Panini Raajkumar and a daughter named Vastavikta Raajkumar, who made her screen debut in 2006 film Eight: The Power of Shani.
Raaj Kumar made his acting debut in Rangili and appeared in films like Aabshar, Ghamand and Lakhon Mein Ek, but it was as Prince Naushazad in Sohrab Modi’s Nausherwan-E-Adil (1957) that he became famous. In 1957, he achieved prominence with his brief role as the husband of Nargis in Mother India. He followed this with the unglamorous role of a mill worker in Paigham alongside Dilip Kumar. He was cast with Sunil Dutt, Shashi Kapoor and Balraj Sahni in Yash Chopra’s family drama Waqt. In Sridhar’s Dil Ek Mandir, Raaj Kumar played the role of a cancer patient for which he won the Filmfare Award in the Best supporting actor category for movies Dil Ek Mandir and Waqt. He became known for his distinct style of dialogue delivery.
His other notable films included Hamraaz (1967), Heer Raanjha (1971), Lal Patthar (1971) and Pakeezah (1972). He acted in fewer films by the mid 1970s and became a character actor in the 1980s with films like Kudrat (1981), Ek Nai Paheli (1984), Marte Dam Tak (1987), Muqaddar Ka Faisla (1987) and Jung Baaz (1989). In 1991, he reunited with Dilip Kumar after 32 years in Subhash Ghai's Saudagar.
From his screen debut in Rangeeli to his last film God & Gun in 1995, he played memorable characters in 60-odd films.
He died of throat cancer at the age of 69 on 3 July 1996. According to Puru Raaj Kumar in his interview to Farhana Farook, his father suffered from Hodgkins for which he had chemotherapy. The last two years were bad with the nodes recurring in the lungs and ribs.
7 అక్టోబర్ 1914 లో ఉత్తర ప్రదేశ్ లోని ఫైజాబాద్ జిల్లాలో పుట్టింది బేగం అఖ్తర్ .
1942 లో వచ్చిన " రోటి " సినిమా లోని బేగం అఖ్తర్ స్టిల్
Akhtari Bai Faizabadi, also known as Begum Akhtar (7 October 1914 – 30 October 1974), was a well known Indian singer of Ghazal, and Dadra, and Thumri genres of Hindustani classical music.
She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for vocal music, and was awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan (posthumously) by Govt. of India. She was given the title of Mallika-e-Ghazal (Queen of Ghazals).
Begum Akhtar was born in Bada Darwaza, Town Bhadarsa, Bharatkund, Faizabad District, Uttar Pradesh. Her father, Asghar Hussain, a young lawyer who fell in love with her mother Mushtari and made her his second wife, subsequently disowned her and his twin daughters Zohra and Bibbi (Akhtar).
Akhtar was barely seven when she was captivated by the music of Chandra Bai, an artist attached to a touring theatre group. However at her uncle's insistence she was sent to train under Ustad Imdad Khan, the great sarangi exponent from Patna, and later under Ata Mohammed Khan of Patiala. Later, she travelled to Calcutta with her mother and learnt music from classical stalwarts like Mohammad Khan, Abdul Waheed Khan of Lahore, and finally she became the disciple of Ustad Jhande Khan.
Her first public performance was at the age of fifteen. The famous poetess, Sarojini Naidu, appreciated her singing during a concert which was organised in the aid of victims of the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake. This encouraged her to continue singing ghazals with more enthusiasm. She cut her first disc for the Megaphone Record Company, at that time. A number of gramophone records were released carrying her ghazals, dadras, thumris, etc. She was amongst the early female singers to give public concert, and break away from singing in mehfils or private gatherings, and in time came to be known as Mallika-e-Ghazal (Queen of Ghazal).
Begum Akhtar's good looks and sensitive voice made her an ideal candidate for a film career in her early years. When she heard great musicians like Gauhar Jaan and Malak Jan, however, she decided to forsake the glamour of the film world for a career in Indian classical music. Her supreme artistry in light classical music had its moorings in the tradition of pure classicism. She chose her repertoire in primarily classical modes: a variety of raags, ranging from simple to complex. After the advent of talkie era in India, Beghum Akhtar acted in a few Hindi movies in the 1930s. East India Film Company of Calcutta approached her to act in "King for a Day" (alias Ek Din Ka Badshah) and Nal Damayanti in 1933.
During her last concert in Ahmedabad she raised the pitch of her voice as she felt that her singing had not been as good as she had wanted it to be and she felt unwell. The additional demand and stress that she put herself under resulted in her falling ill and was rushed to the hospital.
She died on 30 October 1974 in the arms of Nilam Gamadia, her friend, who invited her to Ahmedabad, which has become her final performance.
Her tomb was built in a mango orchard within her home, ‘Pasanda Bagh’ in Thakurganj area, of Lucknow. She was buried alongside her mother, Mushtari Sahiba. However, over the years, much of the garden of lost to the growing city, and the tomb fell into disrepair. The marble graves enclosed in a red brick enclosure, were restored in 2012, along with their pietra dura style marble inlay. Attempts are on to convert her home built in 1936 in China bazaar, Lucknow into a museum.
Amongst her disciples include Shanti Hiranand, who herself later received Padma Shri and wrote, a biography Begum Akhtar: The Story of My Ammi (2005). Art critic, S. Kalidas directed a documentary on her titled, Hai Akhtari.
New Delhi: Music aficionados and Bollywood fanatics will soon witness the life and times of renowned ghazal and thumri singer Begum Akhtar on the big screen in "Ae Mohabbat" and if things go as planned, actors Irrfan Khan and Kangana Ranaut could be seen together onscreen for the first time.
Shri Anup Jalota Productions and Ae Mohabbat Productions on Tuesday announced the film on the life and times of Begum Akhtar, also the recipient of Padmabhushan and an icon of Indian classical music.
ఇక్కడే నీ నీలి కురుల చుట్టూ పరిభ్రమిస్తుంటుందఇదే గీతం నీ కోసం పాడటానికి వస్తాను.
Sujata is a 1959 Hindi language Bimal Roy film. The film starred Sunil Dutt and Nutan supported by Lalita Pawar and Shashikala. Based on a Bengali short story by the same name by writer, Subodh Ghosh,[1] the film explored the situation of caste in India. The music is by S. D. Burman and the lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Sujata is a romance between a Brahmin young man, Adheer (Sunil Dutt) and an untouchable woman, Sujata (Nutan). The movie has Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's fight against untouchability and the myth of Chandalika in hinduism as its subtexts on the basis of which it tries to criticize the practice of untouchability in India.
Brahmin couple Upen and Charu bring up the orphaned Sujata. Although Upen is fond of the adoptive child, his wife Charu and mother can never fully embrace Sujata because she is an untouchable. They never fail to remind Sujata that she doesn't belong amongst Brahmins. One day, Upen's wife falls down the stairs and is rushed to the hospital. The doctors tell the family that in order to save Charu, they need blood of a rare group. Only Sujata's blood matches, and she willingly donates blood. When Upen's wife knows that her life was saved by Sujata, she realizes her mistakes and accepts her as her daughter. Sujata and Adheer are finally married.
Awards
Golden Palm - Cannes Film Festival - Nominated [3]
Filmfare Best Actress Award - Nutan - Won
Filmfare Best Director Award - Bimal Roy - Won
Filmfare Best Movie Award - Bimal Roy - Won
Filmfare Best Story Award - Subodh Ghosh - Won
National Film Awards (1959) All India Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
