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Baba Ramdev (film)
''Baba Ramdev'' is a 1963 Rajasthani language devotional feature film directed by Nawal Mathur and Manibhai Vyas, and based on the life of the Hindu folk deity Ramdev Pir. Background The film was made in the 1960s and became a big commercial success, being considered a hit for Rajasthani cinema. This was a milestone in the history of the Rajasthani movie industry. The popular bhajan songs "Khamma Khamma" and "Runecha ra Dhaniya" are from this movie. Re-release 88 Rajasthani films had been produced in the period of mid-1942 to 2004. With the emergence of VCD and DVD technology, films which had otherwise been unavailable for years have become marketable and are being re-released in video format. ''Baba Ramdev'' was re-released by 'Modern Videos of Ajmer'. Cast * Mahipal *Anita Guha *Ratna Bhushan * Deepak *Madhumati *Dalda Dalda is a brand of vegetable oil (hydrogenated vegetable cooking oil) popular in South Asia. History An individual by the name Husse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nawal Mathur
or (Arabic: نوال ''nawāl'') is Arabic female given name literally meaning "unmerited favour of God" or "gift, grant, present, donation, award, offering" or also could mean "state or quality of being kind, act of kindness beyond what is due" or "grace, kindness, favour, charity". The name is actually an infinitive form of the adjective which stems from verb , meaning "to accomplish, achieve, earn, gain, receive". Generally, the name is used for girls but actually is gender-neutral. In Hindustani, () means 'new'. This name is used in many countries such as Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries throughout the world. People with the name include *Nawal (musician), Comorian musician *Nawal Kishore Dhawal, Indian writer *Nawal El Jack, Sudanese sprinter *Nawal al-Hawsawi, Saudi Arabian pilot and activist *Nawal El Kuwaitia, Kuwaiti singer *Nawal Mansouri, Algerian volleyball player *Nawal El Moutawakel, Moroccan hurdler *Nawal M. Nour Nawal M. Nour is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feature Film
A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originally referred to the main, full-length film in a cinema program that included a short film and often a newsreel. Matinee programs, especially in the US and Canada, in general, also included cartoons, at least one weekly serial and, typically, a second feature-length film on weekends. The first narrative feature film was the 60-minute ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'' (1906, Australia). Other early feature films include ''Les Misérables'' (1909, U.S.), ''L'Inferno'', ''Defence of Sevastopol'' (1911), '' Oliver Twist'' (American version), '' Oliver Twist'' (British version), '' Richard III'', ''From the Manger to the Cross'', ''Cleopatra'' (1912), '' Quo Vadis?'' (1913), ''Cabiria'' (1914) and ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915). Description The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Biographical Films
Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asian ethnic groups, referring to people of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the greater South Asia region prior to the 1947 partition of India * Anglo-Indians, people with mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent * East Indians, a Christian community in India Europe * British Indians, British people of Indian origin The Americas * Indo-Canadians, Canadian people of Indian origin * Indian Americans, American people of Indian origin * Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas and their descendants ** Plains Indians, the common name for the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains of North America ** Native Americans in the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Films
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic ''Cleopatra'' and two films with all-star casts, '' How the West Was Won'' and ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1963 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 9 – Joseph Vogel resigns as president of MGM and is replaced by Robert O'Brien. * February 20 – The classic epic western '' How the West Was Won'' premieres in the United States. It is an instant success with both audiences and critics and becomes the biggest moneymaker for MGM since '' Ben-Hur''. * June 12 – ''Cleopatra'', starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton, premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. Its staggering production costs nearly bankrupted Twentieth Century Fox and the adulterous affair between Taylor and Burton made the publicity even worse. ''Cleopatra'' marked the only instance that a film would be t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalda
Dalda is a brand of vegetable oil (hydrogenated vegetable cooking oil) popular in South Asia. History An individual by the name Hussein Dada, used to import vanaspati ghee from a Dutch company before the 1930s as a cheap substitute for desi ghee or clarified butter, prepared either from water buffalo's milk or cow's milk. In British India of those colonial days, desi ghee was considered an expensive product and not easily affordable for the common public. It was then used sparingly in Indian households. Hence the need existed for a cheaper and affordable substitute. In 1931, Hindustan Vanaspati Manufacturing Company was incorporated to manufacture synthetic ''vanaspati'' ''ghee.'' Until the early 1930s, hydrogenated vegetable oil available in India was imported into the country by Hussein Dada and Hindustan Vanaspati Manufacturing Co (now called Hindustan Unilever Limited and Unilever Pakistan). Hindustan Vanaspati wanted to start manufacturing hydrogenated vegetable oil l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepak
Deepak (दीपक) is a Hindi word meaning "lamp", from the Sanskrit source word for light. The name Deepak symbolizes a bright future. In the twentieth century, it became very popular as a first name for male Hindus. Names like ''Deepa'' (now commonly also used for females), ''Deepika'' (female), ''Deepthi'' (female), ''Deepam'' (male), ''Deepali'' (female), and many others are related to ''Deepak''. The names mentioned above are related to light or the holder of light: * Deepak (male) – a lamp or candle; meaning one who gives light on his own behalf * Deepa (male) – a lamp * Deep (male) – wick/flame of the lamp; Hindi/north Indian derivation of Sanskrit "Deepa" (male) * Deepankar (male) – one who lights lamps * Deependra (male) – lord of light * Deepit (male) – lighted * Deepanjali (female) – offerings of lamps * Deepmala (female) – garland of lamps, tower of lamps * Deepali (female) – collection of lamps * Deepika (female) – a little light * Deepamalika ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratna Bhushan
Ratna (रत्न) (also Rathna or Rathan) is a Sanskrit term for " jewel". It is also a popular female Hindu name. Ratna may refer to: People * Ratna, Queen Mother of Nepal (born 1928), Queen Consort of Nepal from 1955 to 1972 * Ratna Fabri, museologist of India * Ratna Pathak (born 1963), Indian actress of Bollywood films * Ratna Sari Devi Sukarno (born 1940), one of the wives of the first President of Indonesia, Sukarno * Ratna Singh (born 1959), Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party Other uses * The 14 ratnas that emerged from the sea of milk during the Samudra manthan * The Ratna is the pinnacle of a Hindu temple * Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award * Karnataka Ratna The Karnataka Ratna is the highest civilian honour of the State of Karnataka, India. It is awarded in recognition of a person's extraordinary contribution in any field. It was instituted in the year 1992 by Chief Minister S Bangarappa by the Go ..., highest civilian honour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhajan
Bhajan refers to any devotional song with a religious theme or spiritual ideas, specifically among Indian religions, in any language. The term bhajanam (Sanskrit: भजनम्) means ''reverence'' and originates from the root word ''bhaj'' (Sanskrit: भज्), which means ''to revere'', as in 'Bhaja Govindam' (''Revere Govinda'')''. ''The term bhajana also means ''sharing''. The term 'bhajan' is also commonly used to refer a group event, with one or more lead singers, accompanied with music, and sometimes dancing. Normally, bhajans are accompanied by percussion instruments such as ''tabla'', dholak or a tambourine. Handheld small cymbals (''kartals'') are also commonly used to maintain the beat. A bhajan may be sung in a temple, in a home, under a tree in the open, near a river bank or a place of historic significance.Anna King, John Brockington, ''The Intimate Other: Love Divine in Indic Religions'', Orient Longman 2005, p 179. Having no prescribed form, or set rules, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books by decree in 1586, it is the second oldest university press after Cambridge University Press. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics known as the Delegates of the Press, who are appointed by the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. The Delegates of the Press are led by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as OUP's chief executive and as its major representative on other university bodies. Oxford University Press has had a similar governance structure since the 17th century. The press is located on Walton Street, Oxford, opposite Somerville College, in the inner suburb of Jericho. For the last 500 years, OUP has primarily focused on the publication of pedagogical texts and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Routledge
Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, and social science. The company publishes approximately 1,800 journals and 5,000 new books each year and their backlist encompasses over 70,000 titles. Routledge is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences. In 1998, Routledge became a subdivision and imprint of its former rival, Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), as a result of a £90-million acquisition deal from Cinven, a venture capital group which had purchased it two years previously for £25 million. Following the merger of Informa and T&F in 2004, Routledge became a publishing unit and major imprint within the Informa "academic publishing" division. Routledge is headquartered in the main T&F office in Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramdev Pir
Baba Ramdev (or Ramdevji, or Ramdeo Pir, Ramsha Pir (1352–1385 AD; V.S. 1409–1442) is a Hindu deity of Gujarat and Rajasthan, India. He was a fourteenth-century ruler, said to have miraculous powers, who devoted his life uplifting the downtrodden and poor people. He is worshiped by many social groups of India as Ishta-deva. Background King Ajmal (Ajmal tanwar) married Queen Minaldevi, daughter of Pamji Bhati of Chhahan Baru village. The sonless king went to Dwaraka and pleaded with Krishna about his wish to have a child like him. They had two sons, the elder Viramdev and the younger Ramdev. Ramdev was born on Bhadra Shukla Dooj in V.S. 1409 in a Rajput family at Ramderiya. Barmer district. Ramdev believed in the equality of all human beings, be they high or low, rich or poor. He helped the down-trodden by granting them their wishes. He is often depicted on horseback. His followers are spread across in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, Mumbai, Del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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