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- Natalie Bridgette Becker is a South African actress (of Cape Coloured descent) born in George, Western Cape province and raised in Cape Town. Considered one of her country's top actresses, Natalie started her career as an announcer on Good Hope FM, a regional radio station affiliated with the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
Later, she moved into television and was a presenter on the long-running glamour show Top Billing.
As an actress, Natalie appeared alongside Meg Ryan and William H. Macy in The Deal, John Malkovich in the film adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace and also starred in Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015).
Natalie has spoken of growing up lonely on a small holding because her mother and step-father were in a "mixed-raced marriage" that was illegal at the time under apartheid laws in South Africa. She earned a BSocScience from the University of Cape Town in 2004. She has two brothers. - Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889, in Allahabad, India. He was the son of Swaroop Rani and Motilal Nehru, a wealthy lawyer and a prominent leader of the Indian independence movement. The Nehru family belonged to the saraswat Brahmin caste. Nehru graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University and came back to India in 1912. In 1916, by his parents' arrangement, he married 17-year-old Kamala from a Kashmiri business family in Delhi. He became the top political leader of the Indian National Congress Party along with his mentor, Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Nehru and his family made transformations in their upper class lifestyle. They followed Gandhi and abandoned fashionable British clothes and expensive possessions. Nehru and his family adopted the native language of Hindu, or Hindustani for their common use. Nehru also wore a khadi kurta and a Gandhi cap as an Indian nationalist uniform. When Nehru's father joined the Swaraj Party in opposition to Gandhi, Jawaharlal stayed with Gandhi. Together they led the nation of India to independence in 1947.
Nehru signed the first constitution of independent India in 1949. He was an outstanding public speaker. He served as the first Prime Minister of India from 1947 until May 27, 1964, the day he died. He was one of the founders of the international non-aligned movement. - Writer
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Jaddanbai was born in 1892 in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, British India. She was a writer and director, known for Madam Fashion (1936), Hriday Manthan (1936) and Moti Ka Haar (1937). She died on 8 April 1949.- Writer
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Lucal C Wesker (/Lucal Crosszeria Wesker/; born May 15, 1996) is an African-American Film Director, Cinematographer and Screenwriter. With several portraits that have inspired many, he has revealed how creativity is one's gateway to the future. Lucal Wesker was born Lucal Crosszeria Wesker in May 15, 1996 in the bustling Western Province. He developed a passion for the arts, history and literary since he was young and spend days going though piles of literature, reading them and taking photographs. Wesker would read exploration books about various regions in the world and come up with interestingly ideological facts and drawings. In 2019 he debuted as a film director releasing a short, Age of Enlightenment (2019) a documentary film that tells the stories you've never heard, what you think or have always thought. Following the release of Age of Enlightenment (2019), he also released another short documentary film, The Chase (2019) in the same year. This two films brought him at the pinnacle of film, television, art and inspiration. Most of Wesker's portraits depict himself and are rather monochromatic, and the details are quite simplified and lack much transitional tones. This makes them even more alluring and elegant to look at. At one point, he stares at his portraits for long and says, "My portraits are my art of observation. Sometimes you'll will never comprehend what's in them. There is this reality and emotion so subtle that they become more real than reality and In a gallery full of art. I'd still stare at myself. How ironic."- British hunter who spent most of his adult life in India. He was born in a hill station in India, the second youngest of thirteen children. One of his older stepsisters had survived the siege of Agra during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. His father died when he was 4, while serving at the 'volatile' Afghan border. He was brought up by his mother on their Naini Tal estate and their "Irish cottage" at Kaladhungi, fifteen miles away. He was fascinated with the jungles as a child and collected birds eggs, studied wildlife and learnt to hunt. From the age of 18 he worked for over twenty years for a railroad company in India. During World War I he was captain of the 500 man 70th Kumaon Labor Corps to France. After the war he was promoted to Major and sent to the North West Frontier as Commandant of the 114th Labor Battalion in the Third Afghan War. From 1920 to 1936 he spent half of each year in Tanganyika, Africa, where he hunted and tracked big game. He supervised growing of coffee and maize on his plantation on slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. In 1930 he gave up hunting big game when he discovered the wonders of a 16 mm movie camera. Instead he began to 'shoot' animals with his camera. He continued, however, to hunt man-eaters who were disrupting human communities. Corbett shot the "Bachelor of Powalgarh," the most prized big-game trophy of the decade. His other famous kills included the "Champawat man-eater" and the "Man-eaters of Kumaon", the latter whom he killed in 1907 after they had killed nearly 436 victims. His last man-eater hunt was the Thak man-eater in 1938. His most famous book about his exploits in tracking and killing man-eating tigers, lions and leopards in India - Man-Eaters of Kumaon was published in 1944.
- Hemasiri Liyanage was born on 25 December 1942 in Bulathsinhala, Western Province, Sri Lanka. He is an actor, known for Aswesuma (2001), Papa's House and Leopard Do Not Bite (2015).
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Bhagwati Prasad Mishra was born in Payasi village of Deoria District.
He gave break to Prithvi Raj Kapoor as an Actor in film Cinegirl.
He directed film Alam Ara which was the first Indian film with sound and also played a role in it as an actor
Other films directed by him are Draupadi, Cinegirl etc.- Saradindu Bandopadhyay was born on 30 March 1899 in Jaunpur, North Western Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India. Saradindu was a writer, known for Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015), Jhinder Bandi (1961) and The Zoo (1967). Saradindu died on 22 September 1970 in Poona, Maharashtra, India.
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Partner & Producer of X10 Productions. Been in the industry for over 15 years working on multitude of businesses. Has an extensive knowledge and understanding of the total production process in producing films, commercial productions & radio productions. Has worked at ABC Networks - Hiru FM, MAX TV & radio, Design TV.- Director
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Anand Prasad Kapoor was born in 1892 in Benares, North-Western Provinces, British India. He was a director and writer, known for Bansari Bala (1927), June-E-Daulat (1931) and Chirag E Kohistan (1929). He died on 16 September 1966 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.- Hastings Ismay was born on 21 June 1887 in Nainital, North-Western Provinces, British India [now Uttarakhand, India]. He died on 17 December 1965 in Broadway, Worcestershire, England, UK.
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was born on 18 August 1900 in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, British India. She died on 1 December 1990 in Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Aga Hashr Kashmiri was born on 3 April 1879 in Benares, North-Western Provinces, British India. He was a writer and director, known for Wealth or Love (1922), Matri Snara (1922) and Sansar Chakra (1925). He died on 28 April 1935 in Lahore, Punjab, British India.- Himashi s Nishell was born on 17 February 2000 in Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka. She is an actress, known for U Turn (2019).
- Chathuranga Dilshan Wijethunga, known professionally as Chathuranga Wijethunga, is a Sri Lankan music director, singer, arranger, and well-known music producer. His works are noted for integrating HipHop/RnB/Trap with electronic music, world music, and modern musical arrangements. Since the childhood chathuranga Loved the computer and also he had a little music keyboard. He interested to play this keyboard very much. IN 2003 he entered Bandaranayake collage of mirigama for his primary education. However in 2014 he faced to O/L exam which is very decisive for his life. He passed it. After a while He got a chance to enter the D.S Senanayake College of mirigama. This is the beginning of his success. And also He is now an undergraduate in Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology in malabe. He got a huge desire for music production. But he figured that this is a massive workflow. In age 23 he learned music production by himself. In march of 2020 he started his YouTube channel.
- Mason Kenway was born on 3 February 1998 in Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka.
- Lakshika Gayal is a famous Information Technology Journalist, Web developer, Music Composer, Singer, Music Producer, Digital Media / Social Media Consultant & Analyst, and Social Media Strategist in Sri Lanka. He considers himself a 'forever student,' eager to both builds on his academic foundations and stays in tune with the latest digital marketing strategies through continued coursework and professional development. Lakshika Gayal was born in Maharagama and is resides in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Kinsey Peile was born on 20 December 1862 in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, British India. He was an actor and writer, known for The Vortex (1928), The Face at the Window (1920) and The Presumption of Stanley Hay, MP (1925). He died on 13 April 1934 in the UK.- Director
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B. Baljinniam was born on 21 November 1942 in Chandmani sum, Khovd province, Western Mongolia. B. is a director and cinematographer, known for Five Fingers of One Hand (1983) and The Mirage Above the Gobi Desert (1980). B. has been married to Nadmid Tseren Borjigon since 1966. They have four children.