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Namaste and Hello guys to your favorite blog about India !! Today I will be discussing about actresses of India. Romance, action, comedy you name it and an Indian actor will do it. The more versatile the actor is the more appealing he is to the audience and the critics. So you enjoy watching Indian movies and daily soaps because of their good acting.

HERE ARE TOP 5 ACTRESSES (According To Me)

1. Katrina Kaif
2. Kareena Kapoor
3. Ashwaria Rai Bacchan
4. Priyanca Chopra
4. Deepika Padukone
5.  Anushka Sharma


Picture - http://www.realbollywood.com/2011/11/katrina-kaif-bikini-dhoom-3.html

       
Katrina Kaif is my favorite actress !! She is a British Indian actress and former model who appears in Indian films, mainly Hindi-language film industry. Her mother is from Britain and her father is an Indian. Although when she first came to Bollywood she did not know Hindi but as time passed she learned Hindi. She is one of the most beautiful women I have seen. Kaif made her acting debut with Kaizad Gustad's box bomb Boom (2003). She tasted success in 2007 with Vipul Shah's Namastey London and followed with such films as Anees Bazmee's Welcome (2007), Abbas-Mustan's Race (2008) and Yash Chopra's New York (2009). She has since appeared in critically and commercially successful films like Prakash Jha's political thriller Rajneeti (2010) and Zoya Akhtar's dramedy Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011). The link below shows a small trailer of her last movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (This means you live only once). 


YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GAm2Y_3Gck

Songs 
Bollywood songs are very catchy and interesting to listen as well as see. I mean that they set up a really nice dance and effects to entertain the audience. Although there are many songs that I like but I am going to write some of them.

TOP 5 FAVORITE HINDI SONGS (according to me)

1.Señorita
2. All is well
3. Chamak Challo
4. Amplifier
5. Why this Kolavari di ?

Señorita is a very popular song in India. It is quite a unique song in India as it has two languages in it as you can see. Hindi mixed with Spanish. It is really amazing to see as well hear the mixture of both of the languages. Actually in this story there are three friends who live in different places and a different life style but one of them plans to meet and organizes a picnic to Spain for them. They try to do something new and different from their normal life as you saw in the small trailer of the movie.  The link below is the song - Señorita  !! I hope you will like it !!

YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVPHlpMpsw

  So it is time to say bye !! The following is a dialogue from a Hindi movie called Om Shanti Om
"picture abhi baki hai mere dost"
This means that if it is not a happy ending it means that the picture is not over yet!!

So expect some more excitement !! Stay tuned :)

Bollywood Then and Now

Namaste! and Hello! I am your lovely Indian friend teaching you about Hindi and India. in this blog we are going to know more about Bollywood, it's history, some of my favorite movies and my favorite part about all the famous actors and actresses who work in Bollywood.

The movie making industry started in Bombay (Mumbai) in the 1930s. The first Indian movie was a silent movie called Raja Harishchandra (1913), by Dadasaheb Phalke. the word Bollywood was coined as from Hollywood, which was/is the movie industry in Los Angeles and took it's mane from the city of Bombay (Now Mumbai).


Indian love to see movies and the movies are in general a reflection of the society, although all the movies have the same masala (mix of spices). Even then the grace for watching movies is not diminished. Bollywood movies have now become big budget and in the recent past, the collections of number of Bollywood movies has crossed more than 20 million dollars. The movies are usually 3-4 hours long (including the intermission) with many songs and dances (which include 100 or so choreographed dancers), top stars,  the story between the songs of boy meets girl (without kissing), lots of action (though no bloodshed), and always - a happy ending.   


ACTOR AND ACTRESSES-     

Top 5 Male Actors 2011 (According to ME)
                                                                                    
1. Shahrukh Khan
2. Salman Khan
3. Akshay Kumar
4. Shahid Kapoor                                                    
5. Abishek Bachhan

Picture - http://aboutview.com/shahrukh-khan/

Shahrukh Khan is one of the most famous actor in India and is one of my favorite actor. He is often referred to as "The King of Bollywood". His started his career with a film called 'Deewana' (1992). His latest film, called RA ONE crossed a budget of 20 million dollars !!!!! Although it was a flop movie in India but still was quite famous outside India. It also has a song called Chammak Challo which is song by famous pop singer, Akon. It really like this song. The link below is a link to YouTube which shows a smaller version of the song Chammak Challo.

YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh2K9VlGj9Q



Top 5 Movies 2011 (According to me)-
                                                                                             
1. 3 Idiots
2. Ladies v/s Ricky bahl
3. Dil Chahta Hai (Meaning- heart wants)                    
4. All the best
5. Golmaal (all versions)

Picture - http://www.cine25.com/pelicula/7805/3-idiots

   3 Idiots is my all time favorite movie. It is a movie based on 3 best friends who live together in an engineering hostel. And the rest of the story goes on in the hostel. It is a must watch movie. You can see the movie with English subtitles.

Like 3 idiots, Dil Chahta Hai is also my all time favorite movie and is a story of again 3 best friend. They decide to go to Goa (place in India with full of beaches) to enjoy their vacations. I just loved both the movies and can see them many times.


So.......... as everything has a time to end, I will have to end this blog but I will soon come with another blog. I am Sorry I could not talk about famous actresses in Bollywood and much more but I will surely post another blog on all the actresses and actors !!!!!!!!!!!

So stay tuned !!!!!!!!!!!

       

Visit to India

Namaste and Hi guys to the amazing world of languages! It's been a long time since I wrote a blog because I went to India in my Christmas holidays. The holidays were for only for three weeks and it takes at least 24 hours to reach India. So I feel that I just touched my house and came back. For the 1st week I went to live in Delhi (northern part of India) with my maternal grandparents. I didn't go out for some time because I just wanted to spend some time with my grandparents as meet them after a long time. After that for the next week I went to Dehradun (7 hours from Delhi by train) to live with my paternal grandparents. I really missed my grandparents and I was happy to see them after a long time. I really enjoyed there and I looked at my old stuff which I left in there before leaving India. So I felt really good after seeing my old things and I left my cycle there as it was not possible to bring it from India to Venezuela so cycled every day in the afternoon. My dad lived there before his marriage and my mom's uncle lived there so she used to visit Dehradun in her vacations. And even my mom and dad got married in Dehradun. So they were all excited to share there old memories with me and my brother. We went to see my father's old school and my mother's grandparent's house. We went to market a lot and really good Indian stuff like we bought some CD's with Hindi songs in it. We bought that for my driver as he likes to listen Indian songs although he doesn't understand that. We ate lots of Indian food as there is not even a single Indian joint in Caracas. There was a big mela (fair) going on near my house and we all went there. There was every Indian thing you can think of expect all the ration items like wheat, rice etc. But there was a big stall of Indian spicy things like chat, bhelpuri, panipuri (they a type of Indian food that is really spicy). I ate a lot of that because I was missing all these here in Caracas. There was also a stall of Rajashtani food (north- west part of India) from which my father ate. Then there was stall of cosmetics, clothes, shoes, accessories. I bought a lot of accessories from there. There were also stalls of antique things like paintings and statues of God and some tradition things made out of wood. well there also some rides over there but as I am too big for these rides but still I wanted to although. The next day we went to Mussoorie. Its a place near Dehradun. We went to a temple in Mussoorie. The picture below is of my and my family in a famous temple of Missouri. In there you get a tasty prashad (food of God). It is really tasty and I really liked it.

My mother's uncle lived there so he called all of us for Dinner. I enjoyed very much over there. My mother's aunt made really delicious dinner and she made rasgulla (Indian sweet - as discussed in the blog on food) which I ate after a really long time as so you it is difficult to get milk over here and rasgulla is made out of milk. I even celebrated my new year in Dehradun. I really liked Dehradun and then the next day I went back to New Delhi by train. We started at 5:30 in the morning and reached at 11 in the morning. I was really tired that day so I just went to my grandparents house, talked to them and watched T.V. a lot. The next day I woke up fresh and got ready for shopping! :)



I went to this mall called ' The Great India Place' in Noida, Delhi.. It is the biggest mall in New Delhi. I have been there many times and i really like all the shops over there. You can like find any store or any company over there like 'Mango' etc. On the top floor there is a food court over there. I always eat there whenever I go to the mall. I shopped a lot in India as the stuff you get in Venezuela is not up to the mark.

Over all I really enjoyed my trip to India even though it was really less time over there. In this trip I went to Dehradun (North India) after a very long time as I last went there when I was 5 year old. I got to see my old house there and the Mossuri Temple. I was glad to see both my grandparents and they were very happy to see me.