Sunday, April 14, 2013

Dadasaheb Phalke award 2012




Legendary actor Pran Krishan Sikand will receive the 2012 Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contribution to cinema. Well known by his screen name Pran, he received the Padma Bhushan in 2001. One of the most respected actors in Bollywood, Pran established himself as a legendary villain in the course of an acting career that spanned over 50 years and is made up of more than 400 films.
Of his own films, Pran’s personal favourites include Halaku, Madhumati, Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hain, and Zanjeer. He retired from acting in the 1990s.

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy


Gujarat today clinched the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 Championship beating Punjab in the finals. 

Electing to bat, Punjab suffered a top-order collapse to be reduced to 20 for four in the sixth over before they recovered a bit to score 122 for eight in their allotted 20 overs at the Holkar Stadium.

Gujarat chased down the target with 13 balls to spare.
The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is a Twenty20 cricket domestic championship in India, organized by Board of Control for Cricket in India, among the teams from Ranji Trophy. The 2008-09 season was the inaugural season for this trophy. It is named after a famous Indian cricketer, Syed Mushtaq Ali.

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