Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Top 20 Horror Films

1.“The Exorcist”

2.“Halloween”

3.“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)”

4.“The Silence of the Lambs”

5.“Nightmare on Elm Street”

6.“The Omen (1976)”

7.“The Ring (2002)”

8.“Black Christmas”

9.“28 Days Later”

10.“Friday the 13th”

11.“The Exorcism of Emily Rose”

12."[Rec] (2007)"

13. "The Grudge"

14."The Echo"

15."Shutter"

16."The Thing"

17."The Silent Hill"

18."Paranormal Activity"

19."Hills have eyes"

20."Mirrors"

Friday, 27 May 2011

"S R K" the king Khan

Born - 2 November 1965 (1965-11-02) (age 45)
New Delhi, India


Other names - Shah Rukh Khan, King Khan, SRK


Occupation - Actor, producer, television presenter
Years active -  1988–present
Spouse -  Gauri Khan (1991–present)


Khan was born in 1965 to Muslim parents of Pathan descent in New Delhi, India.His father, Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawar, British India. According to Khan, his paternal grandfather was originally from Afghanistan.His mother, Lateef Fatima, was the adopted daughter of Major General Shah Nawaz Khan of the Janjua Rajput clan, who served as a General in the Indian National Army of Subash Chandra Bose.Khan's father came to New Delhi from Qissa Khawani Bazaar in Peshawar before the partition of India,while his mother's family came from Rawalpindi, British India.Khan has an elder sister named Shehnaz.


Growing up in Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood,Khan attended St. Columba's School where he was accomplished in sports, drama, and academics. He won the Sword of Honour, an annual award given to the student who best represents the spirit of the school. Khan later attended the Hansraj College (1985–1988) and earned his Bachelors degree in Economics (honors). Though he pursued a Masters Degree in Mass Communications at Jamia Millia Islamia, he later opted out to make his career in Bollywood.


After the death of his parents, Khan moved to Mumbai in 1991.In that same year, before any of his films were released, he married Gauri Chibber, a Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991.They have two children, son Aryan (b. 1997) and daughter Suhana (b. 2000). According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Allah, he also values his wife's religion. At home, his children follow both religions, with the Qur'an being situated next to the Hindu deities.


In 2005, Nasreen Munni Kabir produced a two-part documentary on Khan, titled The Inner and Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan. Featuring his 2004 Temptations concert tour, the film contrasted Khan's inner world of family and daily life with the outer world of his work. The book Still Reading Khan, which details his family life, was released in 2006. Another book by Anupama Chopra, King of Bollywood: Shahrukh Khan and the seductive world of Indian cinema, was released in 2007. It describes the world of Bollywood through Khan's life.

Khan studied acting under celebrated Theatre Director Barry John at Delhi's Theatre Action Group (TAG). In 2007, John commented thus on his former pupil that, “The credit for the phenomenally successful development and management of Shahrukh's career goes to the superstar himself”.Khan made his acting debut in 1988 when he appeared in the television series, Fauji, playing the role of Commando Abhimanyu Rai.He went on to appear in several other television serials, most notably in the 1989 serial, Aziz Mirza's Circus, which depicted the life of circus performers.The same year, Khan also had a minor role in the made-for-television English-language film, In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones, which was based on life at Delhi University and was written by Arundhati Roy. When Khan appeared in those teleserials, people found in him some resemblance with legendary actor Dilip Kumar and also compared his acting style with the thespian.

God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar

Personal information

Full name - Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born - 24 April 1973 (1973-04-24) (age 38)
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Nickname - Little Master, Tendlya,
The God of Cricket,
Master Blaster,
The Master,
The Little Champion,
Height - 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Batting style - Right-handed
Bowling style -  Right-arm leg spin, off spin, medium pace
Role - Batsman

International information

National side -  India
Test debut (cap 187) 15 November 1989 v Pakistan
Last Test 2 January 2011 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 74) 18 December 1989 v Pakistan
Last ODI 2 April 2011 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no. 10

Domestic team information

Years Team
1988–present Mumbai
2008–present Mumbai Indians (Indian Premier League)
1992 Yorkshire

Career statistics

Competition             Test           ODI         FC            LA
Matches                   177             453         280           540
Runs scored          14, 692       18,111     23,585      21,663
Batting average     56.95          45.16       59.86       45.89
                              100s/50s      51/59        48/95      77/105 59/113
Top score                248*          200*         248*          200*
Balls bowled         4,096          8,032        7,461       10,220
Wickets                  45               154           70           201
Bowling average   53.07         44.32        59.86       42.11
5 wickets in innings 0                 2               0              2
10 wickets in match 0               n/a              0             n/a
Best bowling          3/10            5/32         3/10         5/32
Catches/stumpings 106/–          136/–       174/–      171/–


Tendulkar was born in Bombay (now Mumbai). His mother Rajni worked in the insurance industry, and his father Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist, named Tendulkar after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman. Tendulkar's elder brother Ajit encouraged him to play cricket. Tendulkar has two other siblings: a brother Nitin, and sister Savita.

Tendulkar attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir (High School),[where he began his cricketing career under the guidance of his coach and mentor, Ramakant Achrekar. During his school days he attended the MRF Pace Foundation to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who took a world record 355 Test wickets, was unimpressed, suggesting that Tendulkar focus on his batting instead.

When he was young, Tendulkar would practice for hours on end in the nets. If he became exhausted, Achrekar would put a one-rupee coin on the top of the stumps, and the bowler who dismissed Tendulkar would get the coin. If Tendulkar passed the whole session without getting dismissed, the coach would give him the coin. Tendulkar now considers the 13 coins he won then as some of his most prized possessions.

While at school, he developed a reputation as a child prodigy. He had become a common conversation point in Mumbai circles, where there were suggestions already that he would become one of the greats. His season in 1988 was extraordinary, with Tendulkar scoring a century in every innings he played. He was involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Lord Harris Shield inter-school game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli, who would also go on to represent India. The destructive pair reduced one bowler to tears and made the rest of the opposition unwilling to continue the game. Tendulkar scored 326* in this innings and scored over a thousand runs in the tournament.This was a record partnership in any form of cricket until 2006, when it was broken by two under-13 batsmen in a match held at Hyderabad in India.

At 14, Tendulkar was a ball boy for the India versus Zimbabwe game at the Wankhede Stadium during the 1987 World Cup.When he was 14, Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar gave him a pair of his own ultra light pads. "It was the greatest source of encouragement for me," he said nearly 20 years later after surpassing Gavaskar's world record of 34 Test centuries.On 24 May 1995,Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali, a paediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta and British social worker Annabel Mehta. They have two children, Sara (born 12 October 1997), and Arjun (born 24 September 1999). Anjali is six years elder to him.


Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and surface vessels allegedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Popular culture has attributed these disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings.

The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones.Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery At Our Back Door",a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place.

Unexpected Love


Monalisa Minz

It was the same usual days of my college life with regular classes, projects, labs and seminars when I saw him for the first time. Tall, dusky with shabbily trimmed moustache, white shirt n denim jeans. I felt as if my heart had just moved out of its place thudding hard. At first I felt like it was a crush as my feelings were just bursting out of nowhere. My eyes were just caught and I wanted to talk to him. But he was junior to me and my mouth was shut due to junior senior spacing in college which didn’t let me speak out to him.

Since that day, my eyes started searching him whenever it got a chance. Those were the unknown baby steps towards an unusual love story. Ever since I saw him, I wished I could just talk to him. At first it seemed like a crush but then I realized with time that each passing time I began to like him more and more and I don’t even remember when it turned into love. I could not express my feelings to him and how my heart felt for him and at the same time I just kept on thinking about him day and night.

Finally whether I was lucky enough or was coincidence don’t know but I got a chance to talk to him. There was a project in which both of us had to work together. He was kind of unsocialising but that didn’t make me worry because being with him did not push me to talk to him I just wanted him to be with me. He never talked to me but we just exchanged glances at each other. He never called me by my name or anything just gave me signals and I could very well understand that. While working together also he was so perfectly perfect that I couldn’t find him making a single mistake. Finally the projects were over and the day came for which we were awaiting for so long and for the first time I was so close to him that I could even feel his breath. And the very touch of his breath was as if he had taken me all into his embrace with his long strong arms.

Our mission was a grand success. This was the first good news. The other came the next day. He asked me to be his date for the prom! It was like a dream come true. I was so very happy that I had to pinch myself several times to make sure that I was not sleeping or dreaming. We went to the prom. That was the happiest night of my life. We danced and for the first time I saw him laughing with me. After that he dropped me home. I was all in smiles but he still looked grave and a bit shaky. He kissed my cheek and hugged me hard and went away without a word.

The next day I went to the college but he did not come. I called him several times but he did not receive my call. I did not know whom to ask for he did not have friends. I also did not know where to search for. One day passed, then another, then another. In this way a whole year passed away. I still waited for him to come back. But the years started flying quickly and soon it was almost more than 3 years. I had already graduated. I missed him hard and every night I cried myself to sleep.

One day when I returned from work I saw a large brown box tied in jute strings. There was no name of the sender. Just my name and address. I got curious to know. I opened it and there were huge stacks of paper. At first I thought it to be a rude joke but then I saw that those were not blank pages. Instead they were letters addressed to me. Starting from the day I and he started to work together. And every letter said the same thing. How much in love he was with me. I cried with every letter. There were a total of 1430 letters.

He had been writing to me since last 3 years and 11 months. The last letter was dated a month ago. And this too said the same. But the next shocking papers were his medical reports. He was diagnosed with brain tumor and he left for US the night he last said good bye. He was going for a radiation therapy and it was not sure if he would ever return. One by one everything flashed into my mind. He never liked to create a bond of friendship. He never refused to help anyone. He was so good just very reserved. No one ever asked why and he never reasoned it. The last hug was to feel me within him. He wanted to feel me for the last time so that he could cherish the memories for ever till the day he dies.

The next letter was written by his parents. They thanked me. For it was because of my love that he wanted to live. Every night before sleeping he prayed to lengthen his life so that he could get well soon and go back and claim his love. It was for my love that he survived for three and a half years. The letter went on saying that his last wish was to deliver these letters to you and apologize to you for leaving you alone when you needed him so badly and that he says that this time the life was short. In the next birth he has asked god to grant him a long life so that he could do everything that he wanted to do for me in this life.

There came the last letter again from him. It said that he too felt the connection between us but was too scared to accept. He did not want me to weep for him before time. All this time he wanted to see me happy. He tried hard not to fall in love but he could not help it and that was his biggest mistake. It read that if falling in love with me was his mistake then he is ready to commit such a mistake without any regret. It said that he was ready to exchange all his next births if only he could get a chance to live with me for one life time.

I could not speak a word except cry, feel sad that he is no more, or happy that he loved me. It was all very confusing. Just the sweet memories of the time when we were together. The mesmerizing memories of Piya and Varun.

Upcoming goldstar's movie Don 2 teaser

The world is waiting for the first teaser of Don 2, but what if we bring it to you right here and right now? As always, you get it here first on Bollywood Hungama. Don't be surprised! You may not be able to see the promo of Don 2 so soon but you may picture it in your mind.

A close source who happened to see the sneak peek of Don 2 teaser trailer a few weeks ago informs us, "Don 2 is a true sequel to make, cause to make a sequel to an original story like Don it is very difficult to keep up to the expectations of the first film. The teaser surely does live up to that expectations and what a teaser it is. Don 2 looks bigger in terms of visuals and content and action. We always wanted to know how Farhan Akhtar is going to do it but after the trailer it seems Farhan and Shah Rukh Khan have hit the nail bang on and hard."

The source gave
Bollywood Hungama the first exclusive sneak peek into the next big thing coming from SRK, Farhan and Excel Entertainment, "The teaser kicks off with SRK in jail in his dreadlocked look. There are cuts of SRK's introduction and a background song that signifies that he is back. It's the theme of Don playing in your ears as you see the action ripple the big screen. There are explosions and SRK jumping off a tall building and Priyanka Chopra coming in small clips here and there. It's a one minute teaser where you also see SRK standing on a small power jet boat with wind hitting his hair introducing the fearless Don aka Shah Rukh Khan. The trailer ends with explosion and smoke coming out SRK's mouth, a continuation from the last shot of how Don ended."