तिरंगा ध्वज उन झण्डों को कहते हैं जिनमें तीन विभिन्न रंग की पट्टियाँ हों। ये पट्टियाँ छोटी-बड़ी या समान हो सकती हैं; क्षैतिज या उर्ध्व विभाजित हो सकती हैं। भारत का तिरंगा झण्डा इसका एक उदाहरण है।
कुछ अन्य तिरंगे ध्वज
कुछ अन्य तिरंगे ध्वज
الأحد، 26 يناير 2020
Jana Gana Mana
Jana Gana Mana is the national anthem of India. It was originally composed as Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore.[6][7] Later, it was written in sadhu Bengali or tatsama Bengali which is heavily sanskiritised.[8] The first stanza of the song Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India as the National Anthem on 24 January 1950.[9][10] A formal rendition of the national anthem takes approximately 52 seconds. A shortened version consisting of the first and last lines (and taking about 20 seconds to play) is also staged occasionally.[11] It was first publicly sung on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta (now Kolkata) Session of the Indian National Congress
History
The poem was first publicly recited on the second day of the annual session of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta (now Kolkata) on 27 December 1911, and again in January 1912 at the annual event of the Adi Brahmo Samaj,[13][14] however, it was largely unknown except to the readers of the Adi Brahmo Samaj journal, Tattwabodhini Patrika. The poem was published in February 1905 under the title Bharat Bhagya Bidhata in the Tatwabodhini Patrika, which was the official publication of the Brahmo Samaj with Tagore then the Editor.
In 1912 Song was performed by Sarala Devi Chowdhurani, Tagore’s niece, along with a group of school students, in front of prominent Congress members like Bishan Narayan Dhar, Indian National Congress President, and Ambika Charan Majumdar.
Outside of Calcutta, the song was first sung by the bard himself at a session in Besant Theosophical College in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh on 28 February 1919 when Tagore visited the college and sung the song. The song enthralled the college students while Margaret Cousins, then vice-principal of the college (also an expert in European music and wife of Irish poet James Cousins), both requested Tagore to create an English translation of the song and set down the musical notation to the national anthem, which is followed only when the song is sung in the original slow rendition style. Tagore translated the work into English while at the college on 28 February 1919, titled The Morning Song of India – via Wikisource. The college adopted Tagore's translation of the song as their prayer song which is sung till today.
Before it was the national anthem of India, "Jana Gana Mana" was heard in the film Hamrahi (1945).[15] It was also the official song of The Doon School, Dehradun.
On the occasion of India attaining freedom, the Indian Constituent Assembly assembled for the first time as a sovereign body on 14 August 1947, midnight and the session closed with a unanimous performance of Jana Gana Mana.
The members of the Indian Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations held at New York in 1947 gave a recording of Jana Gana Mana as the country’s national anthem. The song was played by the house orchestra in front of a gathering consisting of representatives from all over the world.
Code of conduct
The National Anthem of India is played or sung on various occasions. Instructions have been issued from time to time about the correct versions of the Anthem, the occasions on which these are to be played or sung, and about the need for paying respect to the anthem by observance of proper decorum on such occasions. The substance of these instructions has been embodied in the information sheet issued by the government of India for general information and guidance. The approximate duration of the Full Version of National Anthem of India is 52 seconds and 20 seconds for shorter version.[11]
Lyrics
The poem was composed in a literary register of the Bengali language called sadhu bhasa, which is heavily sanskritised. The song has been written almost entirely using nouns that also can function as verbs
History
The poem was first publicly recited on the second day of the annual session of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta (now Kolkata) on 27 December 1911, and again in January 1912 at the annual event of the Adi Brahmo Samaj,[13][14] however, it was largely unknown except to the readers of the Adi Brahmo Samaj journal, Tattwabodhini Patrika. The poem was published in February 1905 under the title Bharat Bhagya Bidhata in the Tatwabodhini Patrika, which was the official publication of the Brahmo Samaj with Tagore then the Editor.
In 1912 Song was performed by Sarala Devi Chowdhurani, Tagore’s niece, along with a group of school students, in front of prominent Congress members like Bishan Narayan Dhar, Indian National Congress President, and Ambika Charan Majumdar.
Outside of Calcutta, the song was first sung by the bard himself at a session in Besant Theosophical College in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh on 28 February 1919 when Tagore visited the college and sung the song. The song enthralled the college students while Margaret Cousins, then vice-principal of the college (also an expert in European music and wife of Irish poet James Cousins), both requested Tagore to create an English translation of the song and set down the musical notation to the national anthem, which is followed only when the song is sung in the original slow rendition style. Tagore translated the work into English while at the college on 28 February 1919, titled The Morning Song of India – via Wikisource. The college adopted Tagore's translation of the song as their prayer song which is sung till today.
Before it was the national anthem of India, "Jana Gana Mana" was heard in the film Hamrahi (1945).[15] It was also the official song of The Doon School, Dehradun.
On the occasion of India attaining freedom, the Indian Constituent Assembly assembled for the first time as a sovereign body on 14 August 1947, midnight and the session closed with a unanimous performance of Jana Gana Mana.
The members of the Indian Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations held at New York in 1947 gave a recording of Jana Gana Mana as the country’s national anthem. The song was played by the house orchestra in front of a gathering consisting of representatives from all over the world.
Code of conduct
The National Anthem of India is played or sung on various occasions. Instructions have been issued from time to time about the correct versions of the Anthem, the occasions on which these are to be played or sung, and about the need for paying respect to the anthem by observance of proper decorum on such occasions. The substance of these instructions has been embodied in the information sheet issued by the government of India for general information and guidance. The approximate duration of the Full Version of National Anthem of India is 52 seconds and 20 seconds for shorter version.[11]
Lyrics
The poem was composed in a literary register of the Bengali language called sadhu bhasa, which is heavily sanskritised. The song has been written almost entirely using nouns that also can function as verbs
عدنان سميع
عدنان سميع هو مغني وموسيقي وملحن وممثل هندي وباكستان وكندي، ولد في 15 أغسطس 1971 بلندن في المملكة المتحدة. من الجوائز التي نالها Nigar Awards
أعمال
أفلام
(2005) لا وقت للحب
(2010) فرصة رقص
أعمال
أفلام
(2005) لا وقت للحب
(2010) فرصة رقص
Adnan Sami
Adnan Sami Khan (born 15 August 1971) is an Indian singer, musician, music composer, pianist and actor.[3][4] He performs Indian and Western music, including for Hindi movies. His most notable instrument is the piano. He has been credited as "the first musician to have played the santoor & Indian classical music on the piano".[5] A review in the US-based Keyboard magazine described him as the fastest keyboard player in the world[6] and called him the keyboard discovery of the nineties.[7] He was awarded the Padma Shri on 26th January 2020.
He was born in London to Arshad Sami Khan, a Pakistani Air force vet and diplomat of Pashtun origin, and Naureen, who was originally from Jammu and Kashmir state.[2][6][8] The Times of India has called him the "Sultan of Music
Early life and education
Adnan Sami was born in 1971 in London.[2] He was raised and educated in the United Kingdom. His father, Arshad Sami Khan, was a Pashtun[5][12] while his mother Naureen Khan was from Jammu.[5][13] Adnan's father served as a Pakistan Air Force pilot, before becoming a senior bureaucrat and serving as Pakistan's ambassador to 14 countries.[14][15] His paternal great-grandfather, General Ahmed Jan, was from Afghanistan and a military advisor to king Abdur Rahman Khan.[15] His paternal grandfather Agha Mehfooz Jan was the governor of four Afghan provinces under King Amanullah Khan's reign and was also the King's first cousin. He was assassinated by Habibullah Kalakani and therefore his father's family migrated to Peshawar, then in British India.[16]
Sami attended Rugby School in Rugby, West Midlands, UK.[17] Adnan followed his bachelor's degree with a law degree (LLB) from King's College London.[18] He went on to qualify as a barrister from Lincoln's Inn, England.[1]
He had played the piano since the age of five and composed his first piece of music when he was nine years old. Sami began taking lessons in Indian classical music from the santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma when visiting India during his school vacations. Indian singer Asha Bhosle saw him at age ten at an R. D. Burman concert in London, and encouraged him to take up music as a career. He is an accomplished concert pianist, music composer and singer with a command of Indian and Western classical/semi-classical music, jazz, rock and pop music. As a teenager, Adnan, when performing on the piano on a TV program in Stockholm, was described by the US-based Keyboard magazine as the fastest man on keyboard in the world[6] and the keyboard discovery of the nineties.[7] Sami went on to learn Indian classical music from Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, the Santoor maestro in India. At the age of sixteen, Sami was approached to write a song for famine-hit Ethiopia, for which he won a special award from UNICEF.[4]
In his career of 32 years, Sami has won many international awards including the Nigar Award, Bolan Academy Award and Graduate Award. Adnan is the youngest recipient of the Naushad Music Award for Excellence in Music. Previous recipients of this award include Lata Mangeshkar and Music Maestro Khayam. Sami was invited as a member of the jury of the music festival Voice of Asia competition held annually at Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Career
His first single, "Run for His Life", was released in 1986. It was in English, and recorded for UNICEF. It went to No. 1 in the music charts in the Middle East.[19] This was followed by three more No. 1s: "Talk to Me", "Hot Summer Day" and "You're My Best Kept Secret".[20]
His first formal album, The One & Only (1989), was a classical album on the piano accompanied by tabla maestro Zakir Hussain. He released his first vocal solo album Raag Time in 1991.[21] The song from his album Teri Yaad was the title track of his first album, which became a huge hit in Pakistan.
In 1994, he composed music for a film for the first time.[22] The 1995 Pakistani film Sargam, in which he was the lead actor and Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle did the playback Sargam, was a box office success.[23] It was also the first time that an Indian playback singer was featured in an album in Pakistan. To date Sargam is the only film Sami has acted in, and the score is the best-selling album of all time in Pakistan.[24]
In 2000, Asha Bhosle collaborated with Sami on a collection of love songs named Kabhi to Nazar Milao[25] in India. The music was also composed by Adnan. The album became an instant success and topped the Indipop charts[26] for most of 2001 and 2002.[27] According to Business Week magazine, the album sold 4 million copies in India alone.[28]
Two songs from the album Kabhi To Nazar Milao, whose music video featured model Aditi Gowitrikar,[29] and Lift Karaa De, whose music video starred the popular Indian actor Govinda became popular at that time. The videos were shot by Anil Mehta, who had shot popular Hindi films like Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Lagaan.[30] Because of the album's success, Magnasound and Sami released an album named Always Yours which was a remix version of numbers from that album.[31]
He soon became popular, which led Hindi filmmaker Boney Kapoor to invite him to provide music for his film.[32] This was the beginning for him to compose and sing for Hindi films and for the top Hindi film producers of the time like Yash Chopra and Subhash Ghai. Due to the popularity of his music videos and live performances, he started getting acting offers at the same time.[33]
The song "Tu Sirf Mera Mehboob" from the Hindi film Ajnabee, sung by Adnan, became popular[34] and was declared a "superhit" by Screen Magazine, who called him the pop personality of the year in 2001.[27]
In 2002, Pepsi Foods made Sami its brand ambassador in India, a contract which involved hosting a series of live music concerts across cities as well as featuring in ads for Pepsi products.[35][36] He is the only artist in all of Asia and Europe to have endorsed Pepsi Cola and Coca-Cola together.[37][38]
According to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, no Pakistani artist has ever managed to gain as much popularity in India as Sami has.[39] According to an article in The Times of India, Sami is the "most successful face in non-film music in India".[40]
His second studio album, Tera Chehra, was released in October 2002 to critical acclaim.[41] The music videos for this album were shot by Binod Pradhan, who had shot the popular 2002 Hindi film Devdas. The album features Bollywood stars Rani Mukerji in the title track and Amitabh Bachchan in the track "Kabhi Nahi", who also sang the duet with Sami.[30][42] Actress Mahima Chaudhry was also seen in another song.[43] The title track was written by well-known Hindi movie lyricist Sameer.[42] According to Screen Magazine, it was the only successful pop album of the year.[44] Sami's Tera Chehra broke sales records by becoming India's best-selling album of 2002 (including film soundtracks), continuing its No. 1 position in 2003, and by becoming the best-selling Indian album of all time (including film soundtracks) in the U.S. and Canada. The album stayed in the No. 1 position in all the music charts of India from the time of its release in September 2002 for over a year, beating his debut album's No. 1 record.
Saathiya (2002) brought him the opportunity to work with A. R. Rahman in the form of "Aye Udi Udi". According to Screen Magazine, the song was "the highlight of the album".[45] Rediff.com called him the "Reigning King of Indipop" in early 2003 based on the sales of his albums in the previous two years.[43]
His most successful albums have been Kabhi To Nazar Milao (with Asha Bhosle) and Tera Chehra,[46] and his music videos usually have had Bollywood stars in them, including Namrata Shirodkar ("Bheegi Bheegi Raat"), Mahima Chaudhry, Raveena Tandon, Rani Mukerji ("Tera Chehra"), Govinda, Fardeen Khan, Amisha Patel ("O Meri Jaan"), Bhumika Chawla ("Maahiya"), Dia Mirza ("Pal Do Pal") and Amitabh Bachchan (Kabhi Nahi).[46]
Since 2003, he has sung for a few Tamil movies like Boys, Aaytha Ezhuthu composed by A. R. Rahman. The songs, "Boom Boom" from Boys[47] and "Nenjamellam Kadhal" from Aayitha Ezhuthu, were hits.[citation needed] He also sang for the Tamil and Telugu versions besides the Hindi version of songs from the movie Yuva (2004), whose music was also composed by A. R. Rahman. Besides Rahman, he has also worked with composer Yuvan Shankar Raja, and sang the Tamil songs "Oh Intha Kadhal" from Satham Podathey and "OruKal" from Siva Manasula Sakthi.[citation needed] He sang the song "Chanchadi Adi Urang Nee" in the Malayalam movie Makalkku.[citation needed] He has also sung for a Kannada film. His first Kannada song was "Don't Worry Madabeda" for the film Super Star starring Upendra. He has also worked with music composers Devi Sri Prasad and M. M. Keeravani and sang songs in Telugu films Varsham, Chatrapathi, Shankar Dada MBBS and 100% Love.[citation needed]
In 2005, he suffered from lymphoedema and developed an abscess in the knee, which interrupted his career.[48][49]
In 2006, he took a sabbatical and reportedly lost over 160 kg.[50] He came back in April 2007 with the album Kisi Din.[citation needed] In 2007, he sang the soundtrack "Dil Kya Kare" from the Hindi film Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love and "Noor-e-Khuda" from My Name Is Khan. He was also one of the guest judges on the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007.[citation needed]
He has composed film music for several other Hindi films, including Lucky: No Time for Love, Yeh Raaste Hain Pyar Ke, Dhamaal, 1920, Chance Pe Dance, Mumbai Salsa, Khubsoorat, Sadiyaan, Shaurya and several others.[51]
As a classical concert pianist, Sami has given solo performances before royalty such as the King of Sweden and King Hussein of Jordan.[52][53] He has performed before heads of state and governments such as President Mitterrand of France, the President of the United Arab Emirates, the President and Prime Minister of India, the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan, the President and Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, the Prime Minister of Sweden and Princess Christina of Sweden. Adnan has performed for music festivals to sold-out stadiums of his solo concert tours all over the world in over forty countries.
Sami wrote a song for India during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. The video of this song captures the nationalistic spirit of competition, depicting Adnan performing with the Indian cricket team with guest appearances from Indian film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Fardeen Khan and Kareena Kapoor.[54][55]
His work has associated him with prominent people from the Indian film and music industry.
On 15 December 2002, BBC World Service celebrated 70 years of broadcasting by organizing a worldwide live concert with artists representing different parts of the world who performed before a global audience via satellite. Sami was chosen to represent India.[56]
In the summer of 2003, Sami became the only musical artist from the entire Asian region to have sold out Wembley Stadium in London for two nights in a row; this was recorded in the Limca Book of World Records[57][58] (Asia's equivalent to the West's Guinness Book of World Records). He did this again in 2005, 2008, and 2012.
In 2010, Sami received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Prime Minister of Pakistan at a ceremony by Pakistan Television.[59][60]
In 2011, Sami was given the "Glory of India Award" by the Government of India. This was the 350th anniversary of the completion of the Taj Mahal, and Sami gave a solo concert performance in front of the Taj Mahal on the final night of the celebrations.[61] After this performance, the Indian media dubbed him the "Sultan of Music".[62]
He hosted the Indian version of the American music game show Don't Forget the Lyrics! called Bol Baby Bol on the Star TV network in 2008.[63][64] Prior to that in 2005, he was the sole jury for the singing competition program on Channel [V] called Super Singer. In 2011, Adnan returned as a judge on the singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs, which became popular worldwide.[65]
His performance of a qawwali called "Bhar Do Jholi Meri" from the blockbuster film Bajrangi Bhaijaan, released in July 2015, became a worldwide hit; he appeared in the movie as well. This was the first time he attempted to sing a qawwali at the insistence of actor Salman Khan,[citation needed] who starred in the film.
Personal life
Sami was first married to actress Zeba Bakhtiar in 1993, with whom he had a son named Azaan Sami Khan. They divorced after three years.
Sami began living in India on 13 March 2001, on a visitor's visa which was extended from time to time.[66]
In 2001, Sami married Dubai-based Arab Sabah Galadari. This was his second marriage and Sabah's second marriage as well; she had a son from her previous marriage. This relationship also ended in divorce, a year-and-a-half later.
In June 2006, he weighed 230 kilograms (506 lb); he claimed his doctor had given him just six months to live. By diet and exercise, he lost 167 kilograms (368 lb) in 16 months.[67][68][69][70]
In 2008, his wife Sabah returned to Mumbai, remarried him and began living with him, but the marriage only lasted one year, after which Sabah filed for divorce again.[71][72]
In 2009, his father died of pancreatic cancer, which he described as the "biggest blow" of his life, saying that he had been extremely close to his father.[73][74]
On 29 January 2010 Sami married Roya Sami Khan, the daughter of a retired diplomat and army general.[12][75] He first met Roya in India during her visit in 2010 and proposed to her after some time.[76] On 10 May 2017, he became a father to a daughter, Medina Sami Khan.[77]
On 26 May 2015, he submitted a request for Indian citizenship to the Ministry of Home Affairs, when his Pakistani passport expired and was not renewed by Pakistan's government.[66] In late December 2015, the Indian Home Ministry approved his request for legal status as a citizen of India,[78] effective as of 1 January 2016.
Awards and accolades
Sami has won a number of international awards, including the Nigar Award,[79] the Bolan Academy Award,[79] and the Graduate Award.[42] He was given a special award by UNICEF for the song he wrote for famine-hit Ethiopia as a teenager and a United Nations Peace Medal for a song he wrote and performed for Africa.[42]
A review of his piano solo performance on British TV Channel 4 in Keyboard magazine called him the "Keyboard Discovery of the 90s".[7][42]
In 2001, he was awarded the Breakthrough Artist of the Year by MTV.[43][80]
Swedish and British radio and television have often referred to him as the fastest keyboard player in the world.[81][82] Adnan has performed for prestigious music festivals to sold-out stadiums of his solo concert tours all over the world in over forty countries. In summer 2003, he became the only Asian artist to have sold out Wembley Stadium, London, for two consecutive nights, which won him a place in the Limca Book of Records.[57][58]
As a classical concert pianist, Sami has given performances before the King of Sweden and King Hussein of Jordan.[7][83]
In 2007, Sami was given a Special Award from the U.K. Parliament (House of Commons) for his 'Outstanding Contribution to Sub-Continental Music'.
In 2008, he was presented the "Naushad Music Award" by Andhra Pradesh Department of Culture, in Hyderabad.[84][85]
In 2008 he also won "Best International Act" at the UK Asian Music Awards.[86]
In 2013, he was given the BrandLaureate International Brand Personality award by the President of The BrandLaureate, Dr KK Johan, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[87]
Later in 2013, Sami was given a Special Award by the Canadian Parliament for his 'Exceptional Services to Indian Music'.
In April 2017, Sami became the first South Asian to have performed at London's Wembley Stadium 8 times; tickets were sold out on all 8 occasions.[88] The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, attended the concert.[89]
On 25 January 2020, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in the field of Arts, by the state of Maharashtra.[90] The award caused controversy due to Sami having been a Pakistani citizen
He was born in London to Arshad Sami Khan, a Pakistani Air force vet and diplomat of Pashtun origin, and Naureen, who was originally from Jammu and Kashmir state.[2][6][8] The Times of India has called him the "Sultan of Music
Early life and education
Adnan Sami was born in 1971 in London.[2] He was raised and educated in the United Kingdom. His father, Arshad Sami Khan, was a Pashtun[5][12] while his mother Naureen Khan was from Jammu.[5][13] Adnan's father served as a Pakistan Air Force pilot, before becoming a senior bureaucrat and serving as Pakistan's ambassador to 14 countries.[14][15] His paternal great-grandfather, General Ahmed Jan, was from Afghanistan and a military advisor to king Abdur Rahman Khan.[15] His paternal grandfather Agha Mehfooz Jan was the governor of four Afghan provinces under King Amanullah Khan's reign and was also the King's first cousin. He was assassinated by Habibullah Kalakani and therefore his father's family migrated to Peshawar, then in British India.[16]
Sami attended Rugby School in Rugby, West Midlands, UK.[17] Adnan followed his bachelor's degree with a law degree (LLB) from King's College London.[18] He went on to qualify as a barrister from Lincoln's Inn, England.[1]
He had played the piano since the age of five and composed his first piece of music when he was nine years old. Sami began taking lessons in Indian classical music from the santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma when visiting India during his school vacations. Indian singer Asha Bhosle saw him at age ten at an R. D. Burman concert in London, and encouraged him to take up music as a career. He is an accomplished concert pianist, music composer and singer with a command of Indian and Western classical/semi-classical music, jazz, rock and pop music. As a teenager, Adnan, when performing on the piano on a TV program in Stockholm, was described by the US-based Keyboard magazine as the fastest man on keyboard in the world[6] and the keyboard discovery of the nineties.[7] Sami went on to learn Indian classical music from Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, the Santoor maestro in India. At the age of sixteen, Sami was approached to write a song for famine-hit Ethiopia, for which he won a special award from UNICEF.[4]
In his career of 32 years, Sami has won many international awards including the Nigar Award, Bolan Academy Award and Graduate Award. Adnan is the youngest recipient of the Naushad Music Award for Excellence in Music. Previous recipients of this award include Lata Mangeshkar and Music Maestro Khayam. Sami was invited as a member of the jury of the music festival Voice of Asia competition held annually at Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Career
His first single, "Run for His Life", was released in 1986. It was in English, and recorded for UNICEF. It went to No. 1 in the music charts in the Middle East.[19] This was followed by three more No. 1s: "Talk to Me", "Hot Summer Day" and "You're My Best Kept Secret".[20]
His first formal album, The One & Only (1989), was a classical album on the piano accompanied by tabla maestro Zakir Hussain. He released his first vocal solo album Raag Time in 1991.[21] The song from his album Teri Yaad was the title track of his first album, which became a huge hit in Pakistan.
In 1994, he composed music for a film for the first time.[22] The 1995 Pakistani film Sargam, in which he was the lead actor and Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle did the playback Sargam, was a box office success.[23] It was also the first time that an Indian playback singer was featured in an album in Pakistan. To date Sargam is the only film Sami has acted in, and the score is the best-selling album of all time in Pakistan.[24]
In 2000, Asha Bhosle collaborated with Sami on a collection of love songs named Kabhi to Nazar Milao[25] in India. The music was also composed by Adnan. The album became an instant success and topped the Indipop charts[26] for most of 2001 and 2002.[27] According to Business Week magazine, the album sold 4 million copies in India alone.[28]
Two songs from the album Kabhi To Nazar Milao, whose music video featured model Aditi Gowitrikar,[29] and Lift Karaa De, whose music video starred the popular Indian actor Govinda became popular at that time. The videos were shot by Anil Mehta, who had shot popular Hindi films like Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Lagaan.[30] Because of the album's success, Magnasound and Sami released an album named Always Yours which was a remix version of numbers from that album.[31]
He soon became popular, which led Hindi filmmaker Boney Kapoor to invite him to provide music for his film.[32] This was the beginning for him to compose and sing for Hindi films and for the top Hindi film producers of the time like Yash Chopra and Subhash Ghai. Due to the popularity of his music videos and live performances, he started getting acting offers at the same time.[33]
The song "Tu Sirf Mera Mehboob" from the Hindi film Ajnabee, sung by Adnan, became popular[34] and was declared a "superhit" by Screen Magazine, who called him the pop personality of the year in 2001.[27]
In 2002, Pepsi Foods made Sami its brand ambassador in India, a contract which involved hosting a series of live music concerts across cities as well as featuring in ads for Pepsi products.[35][36] He is the only artist in all of Asia and Europe to have endorsed Pepsi Cola and Coca-Cola together.[37][38]
According to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, no Pakistani artist has ever managed to gain as much popularity in India as Sami has.[39] According to an article in The Times of India, Sami is the "most successful face in non-film music in India".[40]
His second studio album, Tera Chehra, was released in October 2002 to critical acclaim.[41] The music videos for this album were shot by Binod Pradhan, who had shot the popular 2002 Hindi film Devdas. The album features Bollywood stars Rani Mukerji in the title track and Amitabh Bachchan in the track "Kabhi Nahi", who also sang the duet with Sami.[30][42] Actress Mahima Chaudhry was also seen in another song.[43] The title track was written by well-known Hindi movie lyricist Sameer.[42] According to Screen Magazine, it was the only successful pop album of the year.[44] Sami's Tera Chehra broke sales records by becoming India's best-selling album of 2002 (including film soundtracks), continuing its No. 1 position in 2003, and by becoming the best-selling Indian album of all time (including film soundtracks) in the U.S. and Canada. The album stayed in the No. 1 position in all the music charts of India from the time of its release in September 2002 for over a year, beating his debut album's No. 1 record.
Saathiya (2002) brought him the opportunity to work with A. R. Rahman in the form of "Aye Udi Udi". According to Screen Magazine, the song was "the highlight of the album".[45] Rediff.com called him the "Reigning King of Indipop" in early 2003 based on the sales of his albums in the previous two years.[43]
His most successful albums have been Kabhi To Nazar Milao (with Asha Bhosle) and Tera Chehra,[46] and his music videos usually have had Bollywood stars in them, including Namrata Shirodkar ("Bheegi Bheegi Raat"), Mahima Chaudhry, Raveena Tandon, Rani Mukerji ("Tera Chehra"), Govinda, Fardeen Khan, Amisha Patel ("O Meri Jaan"), Bhumika Chawla ("Maahiya"), Dia Mirza ("Pal Do Pal") and Amitabh Bachchan (Kabhi Nahi).[46]
Since 2003, he has sung for a few Tamil movies like Boys, Aaytha Ezhuthu composed by A. R. Rahman. The songs, "Boom Boom" from Boys[47] and "Nenjamellam Kadhal" from Aayitha Ezhuthu, were hits.[citation needed] He also sang for the Tamil and Telugu versions besides the Hindi version of songs from the movie Yuva (2004), whose music was also composed by A. R. Rahman. Besides Rahman, he has also worked with composer Yuvan Shankar Raja, and sang the Tamil songs "Oh Intha Kadhal" from Satham Podathey and "OruKal" from Siva Manasula Sakthi.[citation needed] He sang the song "Chanchadi Adi Urang Nee" in the Malayalam movie Makalkku.[citation needed] He has also sung for a Kannada film. His first Kannada song was "Don't Worry Madabeda" for the film Super Star starring Upendra. He has also worked with music composers Devi Sri Prasad and M. M. Keeravani and sang songs in Telugu films Varsham, Chatrapathi, Shankar Dada MBBS and 100% Love.[citation needed]
In 2005, he suffered from lymphoedema and developed an abscess in the knee, which interrupted his career.[48][49]
In 2006, he took a sabbatical and reportedly lost over 160 kg.[50] He came back in April 2007 with the album Kisi Din.[citation needed] In 2007, he sang the soundtrack "Dil Kya Kare" from the Hindi film Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love and "Noor-e-Khuda" from My Name Is Khan. He was also one of the guest judges on the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007.[citation needed]
He has composed film music for several other Hindi films, including Lucky: No Time for Love, Yeh Raaste Hain Pyar Ke, Dhamaal, 1920, Chance Pe Dance, Mumbai Salsa, Khubsoorat, Sadiyaan, Shaurya and several others.[51]
As a classical concert pianist, Sami has given solo performances before royalty such as the King of Sweden and King Hussein of Jordan.[52][53] He has performed before heads of state and governments such as President Mitterrand of France, the President of the United Arab Emirates, the President and Prime Minister of India, the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan, the President and Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, the Prime Minister of Sweden and Princess Christina of Sweden. Adnan has performed for music festivals to sold-out stadiums of his solo concert tours all over the world in over forty countries.
Sami wrote a song for India during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. The video of this song captures the nationalistic spirit of competition, depicting Adnan performing with the Indian cricket team with guest appearances from Indian film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Fardeen Khan and Kareena Kapoor.[54][55]
His work has associated him with prominent people from the Indian film and music industry.
On 15 December 2002, BBC World Service celebrated 70 years of broadcasting by organizing a worldwide live concert with artists representing different parts of the world who performed before a global audience via satellite. Sami was chosen to represent India.[56]
In the summer of 2003, Sami became the only musical artist from the entire Asian region to have sold out Wembley Stadium in London for two nights in a row; this was recorded in the Limca Book of World Records[57][58] (Asia's equivalent to the West's Guinness Book of World Records). He did this again in 2005, 2008, and 2012.
In 2010, Sami received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Prime Minister of Pakistan at a ceremony by Pakistan Television.[59][60]
In 2011, Sami was given the "Glory of India Award" by the Government of India. This was the 350th anniversary of the completion of the Taj Mahal, and Sami gave a solo concert performance in front of the Taj Mahal on the final night of the celebrations.[61] After this performance, the Indian media dubbed him the "Sultan of Music".[62]
He hosted the Indian version of the American music game show Don't Forget the Lyrics! called Bol Baby Bol on the Star TV network in 2008.[63][64] Prior to that in 2005, he was the sole jury for the singing competition program on Channel [V] called Super Singer. In 2011, Adnan returned as a judge on the singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs, which became popular worldwide.[65]
His performance of a qawwali called "Bhar Do Jholi Meri" from the blockbuster film Bajrangi Bhaijaan, released in July 2015, became a worldwide hit; he appeared in the movie as well. This was the first time he attempted to sing a qawwali at the insistence of actor Salman Khan,[citation needed] who starred in the film.
Personal life
Sami was first married to actress Zeba Bakhtiar in 1993, with whom he had a son named Azaan Sami Khan. They divorced after three years.
Sami began living in India on 13 March 2001, on a visitor's visa which was extended from time to time.[66]
In 2001, Sami married Dubai-based Arab Sabah Galadari. This was his second marriage and Sabah's second marriage as well; she had a son from her previous marriage. This relationship also ended in divorce, a year-and-a-half later.
In June 2006, he weighed 230 kilograms (506 lb); he claimed his doctor had given him just six months to live. By diet and exercise, he lost 167 kilograms (368 lb) in 16 months.[67][68][69][70]
In 2008, his wife Sabah returned to Mumbai, remarried him and began living with him, but the marriage only lasted one year, after which Sabah filed for divorce again.[71][72]
In 2009, his father died of pancreatic cancer, which he described as the "biggest blow" of his life, saying that he had been extremely close to his father.[73][74]
On 29 January 2010 Sami married Roya Sami Khan, the daughter of a retired diplomat and army general.[12][75] He first met Roya in India during her visit in 2010 and proposed to her after some time.[76] On 10 May 2017, he became a father to a daughter, Medina Sami Khan.[77]
On 26 May 2015, he submitted a request for Indian citizenship to the Ministry of Home Affairs, when his Pakistani passport expired and was not renewed by Pakistan's government.[66] In late December 2015, the Indian Home Ministry approved his request for legal status as a citizen of India,[78] effective as of 1 January 2016.
Awards and accolades
Sami has won a number of international awards, including the Nigar Award,[79] the Bolan Academy Award,[79] and the Graduate Award.[42] He was given a special award by UNICEF for the song he wrote for famine-hit Ethiopia as a teenager and a United Nations Peace Medal for a song he wrote and performed for Africa.[42]
A review of his piano solo performance on British TV Channel 4 in Keyboard magazine called him the "Keyboard Discovery of the 90s".[7][42]
In 2001, he was awarded the Breakthrough Artist of the Year by MTV.[43][80]
Swedish and British radio and television have often referred to him as the fastest keyboard player in the world.[81][82] Adnan has performed for prestigious music festivals to sold-out stadiums of his solo concert tours all over the world in over forty countries. In summer 2003, he became the only Asian artist to have sold out Wembley Stadium, London, for two consecutive nights, which won him a place in the Limca Book of Records.[57][58]
As a classical concert pianist, Sami has given performances before the King of Sweden and King Hussein of Jordan.[7][83]
In 2007, Sami was given a Special Award from the U.K. Parliament (House of Commons) for his 'Outstanding Contribution to Sub-Continental Music'.
In 2008, he was presented the "Naushad Music Award" by Andhra Pradesh Department of Culture, in Hyderabad.[84][85]
In 2008 he also won "Best International Act" at the UK Asian Music Awards.[86]
In 2013, he was given the BrandLaureate International Brand Personality award by the President of The BrandLaureate, Dr KK Johan, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[87]
Later in 2013, Sami was given a Special Award by the Canadian Parliament for his 'Exceptional Services to Indian Music'.
In April 2017, Sami became the first South Asian to have performed at London's Wembley Stadium 8 times; tickets were sold out on all 8 occasions.[88] The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, attended the concert.[89]
On 25 January 2020, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in the field of Arts, by the state of Maharashtra.[90] The award caused controversy due to Sami having been a Pakistani citizen
Republic Day In hindi
गणतन्त्र दिवस भारत का एक राष्ट्रीय पर्व है जो प्रति वर्ष 26 जनवरी को मनाया जाता है। इसी दिन सन् 1950 को भारत सरकार अधिनियम (एक्ट) (1935) को हटाकर भारत का संविधान लागू किया गया था। एक स्वतंत्र गणराज्य बनने और देश में कानून का राज स्थापित करने के लिए संविधान को 26 नवम्बर 1949 को भारतीय संविधान सभा द्वारा अपनाया गया और 26 जनवरी 1950 को इसे एक लोकतांत्रिक सरकार प्रणाली के साथ लागू किया गया था। 26 जनवरी को इसलिए चुना गया था क्योंकि 1930 में इसी दिन भारतीय राष्ट्रीय कांग्रेस (आई० एन० सी०) ने भारत को पूर्ण स्वराज घोषित किया था। यह भारत के तीन राष्ट्रीय अवकाशों में से एक है, अन्य दो स्वतंत्रता दिवस और गांधी जयंती हैं।
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सन् 1929 के दिसंबर में लाहौर में भारतीय राष्ट्रीय कांग्रेस का अधिवेशन पंडित जवाहरलाल नेहरू की अध्यक्षता में हुआ जिसमें प्रस्ताव पारित कर इस बात की घोषणा की गई कि यदि अंग्रेज सरकार 26 जनवरी 1930 तक भारत को स्वायत्तयोपनिवेश (डोमीनियन) का पद नहीं प्रदान करेगी, जिसके तहत भारत ब्रिटिश साम्राज्य में ही स्वशासित एकाई बन जाने उस दिन भारत की पूर्ण स्वतंत्रता के निश्चय की घोषणा की और अपना सक्रिय आंदोलन आरंभ किया। उस दिन से 1947 में स्वतंत्रता प्राप्त होने तक 26 जनवरी स्वतंत्रता दिवस के रूप में मनाया जाता रहा। इसके पश्चात स्वतंत्रता प्राप्ति के वास्तविक दिन 15 अगस्त को भारत के स्वतंत्रता दिवस के रूप में स्वीकार किया गया। भारत के आज़ाद हो जाने के बाद संविधान सभा की घोषणा हुई और इसने अपना कार्य 9 दिसम्बर 1947 से आरम्भ कर दिया। संविधान सभा के सदस्य भारत के राज्यों की सभाओं के निर्वाचित सदस्यों के द्वारा चुने गए थे। डॉ० भीमराव अम्बेडकर, जवाहरलाल नेहरू, डॉ राजेन्द्र प्रसाद, सरदार वल्लभ भाई पटेल, मौलाना अबुल कलाम आजाद आदि इस सभा के प्रमुख सदस्य थे। संविधान निर्माण में कुल 22 समितीयां थी जिसमें प्रारूप समिति (ड्राफ्टींग कमेटी) सबसे प्रमुख एवं महत्त्वपूर्ण समिति थी और इस समिति का कार्य संपूर्ण ‘संविधान लिखना’ या ‘निर्माण करना’ था। प्रारूप समिति के अध्यक्ष विधिवेत्ता डॉ० भीमराव आंबेडकर थे। प्रारूप समिति ने और उसमें विशेष रूप से डॉ. आंबेडकर जी ने 2 वर्ष, 11 माह, 18 दिन में भारतीय संविधान का निर्माण किया और संविधान सभा के अध्यक्ष डॉ. राजेन्द्र प्रसाद को 26 नवम्बर 1949 को भारत का संविधान सुपूर्द किया, इसलिए 26 नवम्बर दिवस को भारत में संविधान दिवस के रूप में प्रति वर्ष मनाया जाता है। संविधान सभा ने संविधान निर्माण के समय कुल 114 दिन बैठक की। इसकी बैठकों में प्रेस और जनता को भाग लेने की स्वतन्त्रता थी। अनेक सुधारों और बदलावों के बाद सभा के 308 सदस्यों ने 24 जनवरी 1950 को संविधान की दो हस्तलिखित कॉपियों पर हस्ताक्षर किये। इसके दो दिन बाद संविधान 26 जनवरी को यह देश भर में लागू हो गया। 26 जनवरी का महत्व बनाए रखने के लिए इसी दिन संविधान निर्मात्री सभा (कांस्टीट्यूएंट असेंबली) द्वारा स्वीकृत संविधान में भारत के गणतंत्र स्वरूप को मान्यता प्रदान की गई।
गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह
26 जनवरी को गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह पर भारत के राष्ट्रपति द्वारा भारतीय राष्ट्र ध्वज को फहराया जाता हैं और इसके बाद सामूहिक रूप में खड़े होकर राष्ट्रगान गाया जाता है। फिर राष्ट्रीय ध्वज तिरंगा को सलामी दिया जाता है । गणतंत्र दिवस को पूरे देश में विशेष रूप से भारत की राजधानी दिल्ली में बहुत उत्साह के साथ मनाया जाता है। इस अवसर के महत्व को चिह्नित करने के लिए हर साल एक भव्य परेड इंडिया गेट से राष्ट्रपति भवन (राष्ट्रपति के निवास) तक राजपथ पर राजधानी, नई दिल्ली में आयोजित किया जाता है। इस भव्य परेड में भारतीय सेना के विभिन्न रेजिमेंट, वायुसेना, नौसेना आदि सभी भाग लेते हैं। इस समारोह में भाग लेने के लिए देश के सभी हिस्सों से राष्ट्रीय कडेट कोर व विभिन्न विद्यालयों से बच्चे आते हैं, समारोह में भाग लेना एक सम्मान की बात होती है। परेड प्रारंभ करते हुए प्रधानमंत्री अमर जवान ज्योति (सैनिकों के लिए एक स्मारक) जो राजपथ के एक छोर पर इंडिया गेट पर स्थित है पर पुष्प माला डालते हैं| इसके बाद शहीद सैनिकों की स्मृति में दो मिनट मौन रखा जाता है। यह देश की संप्रभुता की रक्षा के लिए लड़े युद्ध व स्वतंत्रता आंदोलन में देश के लिए बलिदान देने वाले शहीदों के बलिदान का एक स्मारक है। इसके बाद प्रधानमंत्री, अन्य व्यक्तियों के साथ राजपथ पर स्थित मंच तक आते हैं, राष्ट्रपति बाद में अवसर के मुख्य अतिथि के साथ आते हैं।
परेड में विभिन्न राज्यों की प्रदर्शनी भी होती हैं, प्रदर्शनी में हर राज्य के लोगों की विशेषता, उनके लोक गीत व कला का दृश्यचित्र प्रस्तुत किया जाता है। हर प्रदर्शिनी भारत की विविधता व सांस्कृतिक समृद्धि प्रदर्शित करती है। परेड और जुलूस राष्ट्रीय टेलीविजन पर प्रसारित होता है और देश के हर कोने में करोड़ों दर्शकों के द्वारा देखा जाता है। 2014 में, भारत के 64वें गणतंत्र दिवस के अवसर पर, महाराष्ट्र सरकार के प्रोटोकॉल विभाग ने पहली बार मुंबई के मरीन ड्राईव पर परेड आयोजित की, जैसी हर वर्ष नई दिल्ली में राजपथ में होती है।[
इतिहास
सन् 1929 के दिसंबर में लाहौर में भारतीय राष्ट्रीय कांग्रेस का अधिवेशन पंडित जवाहरलाल नेहरू की अध्यक्षता में हुआ जिसमें प्रस्ताव पारित कर इस बात की घोषणा की गई कि यदि अंग्रेज सरकार 26 जनवरी 1930 तक भारत को स्वायत्तयोपनिवेश (डोमीनियन) का पद नहीं प्रदान करेगी, जिसके तहत भारत ब्रिटिश साम्राज्य में ही स्वशासित एकाई बन जाने उस दिन भारत की पूर्ण स्वतंत्रता के निश्चय की घोषणा की और अपना सक्रिय आंदोलन आरंभ किया। उस दिन से 1947 में स्वतंत्रता प्राप्त होने तक 26 जनवरी स्वतंत्रता दिवस के रूप में मनाया जाता रहा। इसके पश्चात स्वतंत्रता प्राप्ति के वास्तविक दिन 15 अगस्त को भारत के स्वतंत्रता दिवस के रूप में स्वीकार किया गया। भारत के आज़ाद हो जाने के बाद संविधान सभा की घोषणा हुई और इसने अपना कार्य 9 दिसम्बर 1947 से आरम्भ कर दिया। संविधान सभा के सदस्य भारत के राज्यों की सभाओं के निर्वाचित सदस्यों के द्वारा चुने गए थे। डॉ० भीमराव अम्बेडकर, जवाहरलाल नेहरू, डॉ राजेन्द्र प्रसाद, सरदार वल्लभ भाई पटेल, मौलाना अबुल कलाम आजाद आदि इस सभा के प्रमुख सदस्य थे। संविधान निर्माण में कुल 22 समितीयां थी जिसमें प्रारूप समिति (ड्राफ्टींग कमेटी) सबसे प्रमुख एवं महत्त्वपूर्ण समिति थी और इस समिति का कार्य संपूर्ण ‘संविधान लिखना’ या ‘निर्माण करना’ था। प्रारूप समिति के अध्यक्ष विधिवेत्ता डॉ० भीमराव आंबेडकर थे। प्रारूप समिति ने और उसमें विशेष रूप से डॉ. आंबेडकर जी ने 2 वर्ष, 11 माह, 18 दिन में भारतीय संविधान का निर्माण किया और संविधान सभा के अध्यक्ष डॉ. राजेन्द्र प्रसाद को 26 नवम्बर 1949 को भारत का संविधान सुपूर्द किया, इसलिए 26 नवम्बर दिवस को भारत में संविधान दिवस के रूप में प्रति वर्ष मनाया जाता है। संविधान सभा ने संविधान निर्माण के समय कुल 114 दिन बैठक की। इसकी बैठकों में प्रेस और जनता को भाग लेने की स्वतन्त्रता थी। अनेक सुधारों और बदलावों के बाद सभा के 308 सदस्यों ने 24 जनवरी 1950 को संविधान की दो हस्तलिखित कॉपियों पर हस्ताक्षर किये। इसके दो दिन बाद संविधान 26 जनवरी को यह देश भर में लागू हो गया। 26 जनवरी का महत्व बनाए रखने के लिए इसी दिन संविधान निर्मात्री सभा (कांस्टीट्यूएंट असेंबली) द्वारा स्वीकृत संविधान में भारत के गणतंत्र स्वरूप को मान्यता प्रदान की गई।
गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह
26 जनवरी को गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह पर भारत के राष्ट्रपति द्वारा भारतीय राष्ट्र ध्वज को फहराया जाता हैं और इसके बाद सामूहिक रूप में खड़े होकर राष्ट्रगान गाया जाता है। फिर राष्ट्रीय ध्वज तिरंगा को सलामी दिया जाता है । गणतंत्र दिवस को पूरे देश में विशेष रूप से भारत की राजधानी दिल्ली में बहुत उत्साह के साथ मनाया जाता है। इस अवसर के महत्व को चिह्नित करने के लिए हर साल एक भव्य परेड इंडिया गेट से राष्ट्रपति भवन (राष्ट्रपति के निवास) तक राजपथ पर राजधानी, नई दिल्ली में आयोजित किया जाता है। इस भव्य परेड में भारतीय सेना के विभिन्न रेजिमेंट, वायुसेना, नौसेना आदि सभी भाग लेते हैं। इस समारोह में भाग लेने के लिए देश के सभी हिस्सों से राष्ट्रीय कडेट कोर व विभिन्न विद्यालयों से बच्चे आते हैं, समारोह में भाग लेना एक सम्मान की बात होती है। परेड प्रारंभ करते हुए प्रधानमंत्री अमर जवान ज्योति (सैनिकों के लिए एक स्मारक) जो राजपथ के एक छोर पर इंडिया गेट पर स्थित है पर पुष्प माला डालते हैं| इसके बाद शहीद सैनिकों की स्मृति में दो मिनट मौन रखा जाता है। यह देश की संप्रभुता की रक्षा के लिए लड़े युद्ध व स्वतंत्रता आंदोलन में देश के लिए बलिदान देने वाले शहीदों के बलिदान का एक स्मारक है। इसके बाद प्रधानमंत्री, अन्य व्यक्तियों के साथ राजपथ पर स्थित मंच तक आते हैं, राष्ट्रपति बाद में अवसर के मुख्य अतिथि के साथ आते हैं।
परेड में विभिन्न राज्यों की प्रदर्शनी भी होती हैं, प्रदर्शनी में हर राज्य के लोगों की विशेषता, उनके लोक गीत व कला का दृश्यचित्र प्रस्तुत किया जाता है। हर प्रदर्शिनी भारत की विविधता व सांस्कृतिक समृद्धि प्रदर्शित करती है। परेड और जुलूस राष्ट्रीय टेलीविजन पर प्रसारित होता है और देश के हर कोने में करोड़ों दर्शकों के द्वारा देखा जाता है। 2014 में, भारत के 64वें गणतंत्र दिवस के अवसर पर, महाराष्ट्र सरकार के प्रोटोकॉल विभाग ने पहली बार मुंबई के मरीन ड्राईव पर परेड आयोजित की, जैसी हर वर्ष नई दिल्ली में राजपथ में होती है।[
Royal Rumble 2020
Royal Rumble (2020) is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their Raw and SmackDown brands. It will take place on January 26, 2020 at the Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.[1][2][3] It will be the thirty-third event under the Royal Rumble chronology.
Production
Background
The Royal Rumble is an annual gimmick pay-per-view, produced every January by WWE since 1988. It is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, dubbed the "Big Four".[4] It is named after the Royal Rumble match, a modified battle royal in which the participants enter at timed intervals instead of all beginning in the ring at the same time. Both the men's and women's matches generally feature 30 wrestlers. Traditionally, the winner of the match earns a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For 2020, the men and women can choose to challenge for either brand's top championship at WrestleMania 36: the men have their choice between Raw's WWE Championship or SmackDown's Universal Championship, while the women can choose either the Raw Women's Championship or SmackDown Women's Championship. 2020 will be the thirty-third event in the Royal Rumble chronology and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands.[5][6]
Storylines
The event will include matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands,[7][8] while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.[9]
Raw
While the WWE Championship is generally defended at every year's Royal Rumble pay-per-view, on the January 6 episode of Raw, it was revealed that there would not be a WWE Championship defense at 2020's event. Instead, as he felt that there was no one on any brand who deserved an opportunity, WWE Champion Brock Lesnar decided to enter himself into the Royal Rumble match as entrant number one. There were no changes to the rules of the match, despite Lesnar holding one of the two world championships that the winner can challenge for at WrestleMania 36.[10] On the January 20 episode, Lesnar's advocate Paul Heyman reminded the fans of the prize of the Royal Rumble match, but said that there was no one worthy enough to face Lesnar in the main event of WrestleMania, implying that if Lesnar won, he would abstain his prize.[11]
At TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs, The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) defeated the team of Raw Women's Champion Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match to retain the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship.[12] In a backstage interview on the following Raw, Lynch stated that she had not been herself the past few months and felt that management had been putting her into tag team matches to protect her from facing Asuka alone and losing. She also stated that she had never defeated Asuka and needed to change that.[13] The following week, Lynch challenged Asuka to a match with her Raw Women's Championship on the line which Asuka accepted.[14] The match was scheduled for the Royal Rumble.[15]
On the TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs Kickoff pre-show, Humberto Carrillo defeated Andrade.[16] On the following episode of Raw, both were scheduled to participate in a gauntlet match to determine the number one contender against Rey Mysterio for the United States Championship. Carrillo advanced to the final to face Andrade, who did not appear during his entrance. Andrade instead attacked Carrillo from behind and then performed a Hammerlock DDT on Carillo onto the exposed concrete floor. Due to this, the gauntlet match ended in a no-contest.[13] Andrade then won the US title from Mysterio at a WWE Live event in Madison Square Garden on December 26.[17] After Andrade retained the title against Mysterio in a ladder match on the January 20 episode of Raw, Andrade attempted to perform the Hammerlock DDT on Mysterio on the exposed concrete floor, only for Carrillo to appear to aid Mysterio and fought off Andrade, who retreated along with Zelina Vega.[11] Backstage, Carrillo issued a challenge to Andrade for the United States Championship at the Royal Rumble, which was made official.[18]
SmackDown
At Survivor Series, "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt defeated Daniel Bryan to retain the Universal Championship.[19] On the following SmackDown, after Bryan accepted another rematch for the title at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs, The Fiend appeared and attacked Bryan, ripping out his hair.[20] The Miz, who had been intertwined in the feud, appeared the following week and said that Bryan had not been seen since The Fiend's attack and in turn became Wyatt's opponent in a non-title match at TLC,[21] where Wyatt (as his Firefly Fun House character and not The Fiend) defeated Miz. Following the match, a hooded figure attacked Wyatt and then revealed himself as a returning Bryan, now with a buzz cut and shorter beard.[12] On the following SmackDown, both Bryan and Miz stated their desire to take the Universal Championship from Wyatt due to their respective personal issues with him. They were then interrupted by King Corbin, who felt that he deserved an opportunity for the title due to his victory over Roman Reigns at TLC.[22] On the December 27 episode, Bryan defeated Miz and Corbin in a triple threat match to earn another Universal Championship match against The Fiend at the Royal Rumble.[23] On the January 17 episode, Bryan delivered a running knee to The Fiend and attacked him, only for The Fiend to retreat. Frustrated, Bryan changed the stipulation of their match to a strap match so that The Fiend could not run away.[24]
During the triple threat match to determine the number one contender for the Universal Championship, Roman Reigns attacked King Corbin, costing him the title opportunity.[23] The following week, Reigns announced his participation in the Royal Rumble match. Later that night, Reigns teamed with Daniel Bryan to face Corbin and Dolph Ziggler which ended in a no-contest. Following the match, Corbin and Ziggler attacked Reigns only for The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) to return and aid Reigns by attacking both Corbin and Ziggler.[25] On the January 10 episode, Corbin announced his participation in the Royal Rumble match and stated that Reigns was scared to face him again, hence why Reigns was also competing in the match. In response, Reigns challenged Corbin to a rematch at the event which Corbin accepted.[26] The following week, Reigns defeated the returning Robert Roode in a tables match, allowing him to choose the stipulation for his match with Corbin, and he chose a Falls Count Anywhere match.[24]
On the SmackDown following Survivor Series, SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley and Team SmackDown women's captain Sasha Banks criticized their brand's women's division for letting them down at the event, as both Bayley and Team SmackDown lost their respective matches. Team member Lacey Evans interrupted and performed a Women's Right on Banks, with Evans turning face.[20] Evans questioned the leadership of both Bayley and Banks, having several confrontations with them over the following weeks.[21][27][22][23][25] On the January 10 episode, Evans was scheduled to face Banks, who no-showed and Bayley appeared on the TitanTron taunting Evans. In response, Evans went backstage where the two brawled.[26] The following week, Evans was once again scheduled to face Banks, however, Banks was unable to compete due to her injured ankle. Bayley took her place in the match, but lost to Evans. Due to Evans' win, she earned herself a title match at the Royal Rumble.[24]
After a seven-month hiatus, Sheamus appeared in a vignette on the November 29 episode of SmackDown, announcing that he would be returning to in-ring action.[20] Over the next several weeks, more vignettes aired, with Sheamus claiming that SmackDown had become soft in his absence. On the January 3 episode, as Shorty G was being attacked by The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder), Sheamus returned, seemingly to aid Shorty G. However, after The Revival cleared the ring, Sheamus delivered a Brogue Kick to Shorty G.[25] Sheamus claimed that Shorty G embodied everything wrong with SmackDown and continued to target him over the next few weeks, and a match between the two was scheduled for the Royal Rumble
Production
Background
The Royal Rumble is an annual gimmick pay-per-view, produced every January by WWE since 1988. It is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, dubbed the "Big Four".[4] It is named after the Royal Rumble match, a modified battle royal in which the participants enter at timed intervals instead of all beginning in the ring at the same time. Both the men's and women's matches generally feature 30 wrestlers. Traditionally, the winner of the match earns a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For 2020, the men and women can choose to challenge for either brand's top championship at WrestleMania 36: the men have their choice between Raw's WWE Championship or SmackDown's Universal Championship, while the women can choose either the Raw Women's Championship or SmackDown Women's Championship. 2020 will be the thirty-third event in the Royal Rumble chronology and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands.[5][6]
Storylines
The event will include matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands,[7][8] while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.[9]
Raw
While the WWE Championship is generally defended at every year's Royal Rumble pay-per-view, on the January 6 episode of Raw, it was revealed that there would not be a WWE Championship defense at 2020's event. Instead, as he felt that there was no one on any brand who deserved an opportunity, WWE Champion Brock Lesnar decided to enter himself into the Royal Rumble match as entrant number one. There were no changes to the rules of the match, despite Lesnar holding one of the two world championships that the winner can challenge for at WrestleMania 36.[10] On the January 20 episode, Lesnar's advocate Paul Heyman reminded the fans of the prize of the Royal Rumble match, but said that there was no one worthy enough to face Lesnar in the main event of WrestleMania, implying that if Lesnar won, he would abstain his prize.[11]
At TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs, The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) defeated the team of Raw Women's Champion Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match to retain the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship.[12] In a backstage interview on the following Raw, Lynch stated that she had not been herself the past few months and felt that management had been putting her into tag team matches to protect her from facing Asuka alone and losing. She also stated that she had never defeated Asuka and needed to change that.[13] The following week, Lynch challenged Asuka to a match with her Raw Women's Championship on the line which Asuka accepted.[14] The match was scheduled for the Royal Rumble.[15]
On the TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs Kickoff pre-show, Humberto Carrillo defeated Andrade.[16] On the following episode of Raw, both were scheduled to participate in a gauntlet match to determine the number one contender against Rey Mysterio for the United States Championship. Carrillo advanced to the final to face Andrade, who did not appear during his entrance. Andrade instead attacked Carrillo from behind and then performed a Hammerlock DDT on Carillo onto the exposed concrete floor. Due to this, the gauntlet match ended in a no-contest.[13] Andrade then won the US title from Mysterio at a WWE Live event in Madison Square Garden on December 26.[17] After Andrade retained the title against Mysterio in a ladder match on the January 20 episode of Raw, Andrade attempted to perform the Hammerlock DDT on Mysterio on the exposed concrete floor, only for Carrillo to appear to aid Mysterio and fought off Andrade, who retreated along with Zelina Vega.[11] Backstage, Carrillo issued a challenge to Andrade for the United States Championship at the Royal Rumble, which was made official.[18]
SmackDown
At Survivor Series, "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt defeated Daniel Bryan to retain the Universal Championship.[19] On the following SmackDown, after Bryan accepted another rematch for the title at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs, The Fiend appeared and attacked Bryan, ripping out his hair.[20] The Miz, who had been intertwined in the feud, appeared the following week and said that Bryan had not been seen since The Fiend's attack and in turn became Wyatt's opponent in a non-title match at TLC,[21] where Wyatt (as his Firefly Fun House character and not The Fiend) defeated Miz. Following the match, a hooded figure attacked Wyatt and then revealed himself as a returning Bryan, now with a buzz cut and shorter beard.[12] On the following SmackDown, both Bryan and Miz stated their desire to take the Universal Championship from Wyatt due to their respective personal issues with him. They were then interrupted by King Corbin, who felt that he deserved an opportunity for the title due to his victory over Roman Reigns at TLC.[22] On the December 27 episode, Bryan defeated Miz and Corbin in a triple threat match to earn another Universal Championship match against The Fiend at the Royal Rumble.[23] On the January 17 episode, Bryan delivered a running knee to The Fiend and attacked him, only for The Fiend to retreat. Frustrated, Bryan changed the stipulation of their match to a strap match so that The Fiend could not run away.[24]
During the triple threat match to determine the number one contender for the Universal Championship, Roman Reigns attacked King Corbin, costing him the title opportunity.[23] The following week, Reigns announced his participation in the Royal Rumble match. Later that night, Reigns teamed with Daniel Bryan to face Corbin and Dolph Ziggler which ended in a no-contest. Following the match, Corbin and Ziggler attacked Reigns only for The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) to return and aid Reigns by attacking both Corbin and Ziggler.[25] On the January 10 episode, Corbin announced his participation in the Royal Rumble match and stated that Reigns was scared to face him again, hence why Reigns was also competing in the match. In response, Reigns challenged Corbin to a rematch at the event which Corbin accepted.[26] The following week, Reigns defeated the returning Robert Roode in a tables match, allowing him to choose the stipulation for his match with Corbin, and he chose a Falls Count Anywhere match.[24]
On the SmackDown following Survivor Series, SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley and Team SmackDown women's captain Sasha Banks criticized their brand's women's division for letting them down at the event, as both Bayley and Team SmackDown lost their respective matches. Team member Lacey Evans interrupted and performed a Women's Right on Banks, with Evans turning face.[20] Evans questioned the leadership of both Bayley and Banks, having several confrontations with them over the following weeks.[21][27][22][23][25] On the January 10 episode, Evans was scheduled to face Banks, who no-showed and Bayley appeared on the TitanTron taunting Evans. In response, Evans went backstage where the two brawled.[26] The following week, Evans was once again scheduled to face Banks, however, Banks was unable to compete due to her injured ankle. Bayley took her place in the match, but lost to Evans. Due to Evans' win, she earned herself a title match at the Royal Rumble.[24]
After a seven-month hiatus, Sheamus appeared in a vignette on the November 29 episode of SmackDown, announcing that he would be returning to in-ring action.[20] Over the next several weeks, more vignettes aired, with Sheamus claiming that SmackDown had become soft in his absence. On the January 3 episode, as Shorty G was being attacked by The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder), Sheamus returned, seemingly to aid Shorty G. However, after The Revival cleared the ring, Sheamus delivered a Brogue Kick to Shorty G.[25] Sheamus claimed that Shorty G embodied everything wrong with SmackDown and continued to target him over the next few weeks, and a match between the two was scheduled for the Royal Rumble
Disha Patani
Disha Patani is an Indian actress who works primarily in Hindi films. She began her acting career with the Telugu film Loafer (2015), opposite Varun Tej. After making her Bollywood debut in the sports biopic M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016), she starred in the Chinese action comedy Kung Fu Yoga (2017), which ranks among one of the highest-grossing Chinese films of all time. She went on to play the romantic interest of the lead male character in the commercially successful Hindi action films Baaghi 2 (2018) and Bharat (2019).
Early life
Patani hails from Uttarakhand.[3]
Career
Patani debuted with a Telugu film, Loafer alongside Varun Tej in 2015.[4] She played the role of Mouni, a girl who runs from home to escape a forced marriage.[5] Directed by Puri Jagannadh and produced by C. Kalyan under C.K. Entertainment, the film was made on a budget of ₹200 million and performed poorly at the box office with a lifetime collection of ₹106 million.[6] In the following year, Disha appeared in a music video, Befikra along with Tiger Shroff which was produced by Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar under T-Series and composed by Meet Bros. Written and directed by Meet Bros, the singer, Aditi Singh Sharma lent her voice.[citation needed]
Patani found her commercial break with Neeraj Pandey's M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, a biographical sports film based on the life story of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the former captain of the Indian Cricket Team along with Sushant Singh Rajput and Kiara Advani.[7] She played the role of Priyanka Jha, the girlfriend of Mahendra Singh Dhoni who died in a car accident. Directed by Neeraj Pandey and produced by Fox Star Studios, the film was released on 30 September 2016 and was a massive hit with the collections of ₹ 2.16 Billion emerging to be the highest-grossing film for both Sushant Singh Rajput and Disha.[8] Her performance was widely accepted. In her review, Renuka Vyavahare of Times of India reviewed, "the performance of Disha in the film deserves a special mention as her performance tugs at your heartstrings."[9] In addition, she also starred in Jackie Chan's Kung Fu Yoga, along with Sonu Sood.[10]
Patani then acted in Baaghi 2 along with Tiger Shroff, a sequel to 2016 hit Baaghi also starring Tiger Shroff along with Shraddha Kapoor. Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and directed by Ahmed Khan, the film was released on 30 March 2018 worldwide and grossed approximately ₹243 crore.
Early life
Patani hails from Uttarakhand.[3]
Career
Patani debuted with a Telugu film, Loafer alongside Varun Tej in 2015.[4] She played the role of Mouni, a girl who runs from home to escape a forced marriage.[5] Directed by Puri Jagannadh and produced by C. Kalyan under C.K. Entertainment, the film was made on a budget of ₹200 million and performed poorly at the box office with a lifetime collection of ₹106 million.[6] In the following year, Disha appeared in a music video, Befikra along with Tiger Shroff which was produced by Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar under T-Series and composed by Meet Bros. Written and directed by Meet Bros, the singer, Aditi Singh Sharma lent her voice.[citation needed]
Patani found her commercial break with Neeraj Pandey's M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, a biographical sports film based on the life story of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the former captain of the Indian Cricket Team along with Sushant Singh Rajput and Kiara Advani.[7] She played the role of Priyanka Jha, the girlfriend of Mahendra Singh Dhoni who died in a car accident. Directed by Neeraj Pandey and produced by Fox Star Studios, the film was released on 30 September 2016 and was a massive hit with the collections of ₹ 2.16 Billion emerging to be the highest-grossing film for both Sushant Singh Rajput and Disha.[8] Her performance was widely accepted. In her review, Renuka Vyavahare of Times of India reviewed, "the performance of Disha in the film deserves a special mention as her performance tugs at your heartstrings."[9] In addition, she also starred in Jackie Chan's Kung Fu Yoga, along with Sonu Sood.[10]
Patani then acted in Baaghi 2 along with Tiger Shroff, a sequel to 2016 hit Baaghi also starring Tiger Shroff along with Shraddha Kapoor. Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and directed by Ahmed Khan, the film was released on 30 March 2018 worldwide and grossed approximately ₹243 crore.
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