راجيش خانا

راجيش خانا

راجيش كانا (بالهندية: राजेश खन्ना) ممثل من مواليد مدينة امسيرطار بالهند في 29 ديسمبر 1942. اسمه الحقيقي هو جاتين كانا، كان أول أفلامه "اخري خات" سنة 1966 وهو والد تونكل كانا ورينكي كانا، وصل الي أعلي درجات النجومية والشهرة في أواخر ستينات القرن العشرين، ويعد من أشهر ممثلي الهند في فترة 70 و80 ولقب بالنجم الأول والأصلي في الهند وملك الرومانسية، وهو النجم الهندي الوحيد في تاريخ بوليود الذي حقق 15 فيلماً متتالياً بنجاح ساحق. قدم أكثر من 160 فيلماً، واحتفظ بلقب الأول والأعلي في الأجر من 1970 وحتي 1990، ثم اتجه للعمل بالسياسة من 1992 وحتي 1996 كعضو في الكونغرس الهندي.

تزوج من الممثلة ديمبل كابديا عام 1973 وله منها بنتان الكبري تونكل كانا زوجة الممثل اكشاي كومار وابنته الصغري رينكي كانا.

مرض كانا مرضاً شديداً عام 2011، وتوفي علي أثره في 18 يوليو عام 2012. حاز كانا علي العديد من الجوائز والتقديرات في حياته كان آخرها جائزة بادما باشان ثالث أكبر جائزة تقديرية في الهند، وتم طباعة طابع بريدي فخري يحمل صورته من مكتب بريد الهند وتمثال من البرونز في أول ذكري لوفاته في بندرا باندستند في مومباي.

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Rajesh Khanna

born Jatin Khanna; 29 December 1942 – 18 July 2012) was an Indian actor, film producer and politician who is best known for his work in the Hindi cinema. He is referred to as the "First Superstar" of Indian cinema.  He starred in 15 consecutive solo hit films from 1969 to 1971, a record unbroken. He was also one of the most successful actors in the history of Indian Cinema. 

He did 106 solo hero films of which 97 were released between 1967 and 2013. He acted in only 22 films with multi-star cast. 82 of the 127 films with Rajesh Khanna as the lead protagonist (of them 117 released and 11 unreleased) were critically acclaimed films with ratings above 4 stars out of 5 by film reviewers of various newspapers of that time unanimously.

He made his debut in 1966 with Aakhri Khat which was also India's first official Oscar Entry in 1967.  During his career he appeared in more than 168 feature films and 12 short films.  He received the Filmfare Best Actor Award three times and the BFJA Awards for Best Actor (Hindi) four times.  In 1991, he was awarded the Filmfare Special Award for completing 26 years in the Hindi cinema and in 2005, he was honoured with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award on the 50th Anniversary of the Filmfare Awards.  He was the highest paid Indian actor from 1970 to 1987 whereas Amitabh Bachchan shared the same tag with Rajesh Khanna from 1980 to 1987.

He was a Member of Parliament in the 10th Lok Sabha from New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency between 1992 and 1996, elected in the 1992 New Delhi by-election as an Indian National Congress candidate.

He was married to Dimple Kapadia in March 1973, eight months before her debut film Bobby was released and had two daughters from the marriage. Their elder daughter Twinkle Khanna is an actress and a best selling author who is married to actor Akshay Kumar, while they also have a younger daughter Rinke Khanna.

Khanna died on 18 July 2012, after a period of illness.  He has been posthumously awarded India's third highest civilian honour, Padma Bhushan. He has also been honoured with a stamp and statue in his likeness, and a road renamed after him by the Prime Minister of India. In 2014, his biography Rajesh Khanna – The untold story of India's first Superstar by Yasser Usman was published by Penguin Books.  In 2018, a one kilometre fitness trail in Lajpat Nagar National Park was named after Khanna, which was inaugurated by his wife Dimple Kapadia
Rajesh Khanna was born on 29 December 1942, in Amritsar in the present-day state of Punjab, ] as Jatin Khanna.  He was adopted and raised by Chunnilal Khanna and Leelawati Khanna,  who were relatives of his biological parents. His father had migrated from West Punjab to Gali Tiwarian in Amritsar. His biological parents were Lala Hiranand Khanna and Chandrani Khanna. Lala worked as headmaster of the MC High School in Burewala (in present-day Vehari District, Punjab, Pakistan).  His adoptive parents belonged to a family of railway contractors who had moved from Lahore to Bombay in 1935  Khanna lived in Saraswati Niwas,  in Thakurdwar near Girgaon, Mumbai.

He attended St. Sebastian's Goan High School with his friend Ravi Kapoor, who later took the stage name Jeetendra.  Khanna gradually started taking interest in theatre, did many of stage and theatre plays in his school and college days, and won many prizes in inter-college drama competitions.

In 1962 Khanna played a wounded mute soldier in the play Andha Yug and impressed with his performance; the chief guest suggested that he get into films soon.  Khanna became a rare newcomer who had his own MG sports car, who once struggled to get work in theatre and films in the early 1960s.  Khanna studied in K. C. College, Mumbai and Jeetendra studied from Siddharth Jain College. Khanna tutored Jeetendra for his first film audition. Khanna's uncle KK Talwar changed Khanna's first name to Rajesh when he decided to enter films.  His friends and his wife called him Kaka (meaning a baby faced boy in Punjabi). 
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Bhumi Pednekar

Bhumi Pednekar

Bhumi Pednekar (born 18 July 1989) is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films. After working as an assistant casting director at Yash Raj Films for six years, she made her film debut as an overweight bride in the company's romantic comedy Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015), which earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.

Pednekar rose to prominence by playing headstrong small-town women in the comedy-dramas Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017), Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (2017), Bala (2019), and Pati Patni Aur Woh (2019).  For her portrayal of the septuagenarian sharpshooter Chandro Tomar in Saand Ki Aankh (2019), she won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.

Pednekar was born in Bombay (present-day Mumbai) on 18 July 1989.  She is of Marathi and Haryanvi descent; her father, Satish, was a former home and labour minister of Maharashtra, and her mother, Sumitra, worked as an anti-tobacco activist after the death of her husband from oral cancer.  She did her schooling from Arya Vidya Mandir in Juhu.   At the age of 15, her parents took out a study loan for her to study acting at Whistling Woods International, but she was expelled due to poor attendance.  Within a year and a half, she joined Yash Raj Films as an assistant film director, and paid off the loan. She went on to work with the company for six years under Shanoo Sharma

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/mænˈdɛlə/; Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.

A Xhosa speaker, Mandela was born to the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, Union of South Africa. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943 and co-founding its Youth League in 1944. After the National Party's white-only government established apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged whites, he and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. Mandela was appointed President of the ANC's Transvaal branch, rising to prominence for his involvement in the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People. He was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the banned South African Communist Party (SACP). Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 and led a sabotage campaign against the government. He was arrested and imprisoned in 1962, and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to overthrow the state following the Rivonia Trial.

Mandela served 27 years in prison, split between Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. Amid growing domestic and international pressure, and with fears of a racial civil war, President F. W. de Klerk released him in 1990. Mandela and de Klerk led efforts to negotiate an end to apartheid, which resulted in the 1994 multiracial general election in which Mandela led the ANC to victory and became president. Leading a broad coalition government which promulgated a new constitution, Mandela emphasised reconciliation between the country's racial groups and created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. Economically, Mandela's administration retained its predecessor's liberal framework despite his own socialist beliefs, also introducing measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial and served as Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999. He declined a second presidential term and was succeeded by his deputy, Thabo Mbeki. Mandela became an elder statesman and focused on combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the charitable Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Mandela was a controversial figure for much of his life. Although critics on the right denounced him as a communist terrorist and those on the far-left deemed him too eager to negotiate and reconcile with apartheid's supporters, he gained international acclaim for his activism. Widely regarded as an icon of democracy and social justice, he received more than 250 honours, including the Nobel Peace Prize. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Thembu clan name, Madiba, and described as the "Father of the Nation".

Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in the village of Mvezo in Umtata, then part of South Africa's Cape Province  Given the forename Rolihlahla,  a Xhosa term colloquially meaning "troublemaker",  in later years he became known by his clan name, Madiba.  His patrilineal great-grandfather, Ngubengcuka, was king of the Thembu people in the Transkeian Territories of South Africa's modern Eastern Cape province  One of Ngubengcuka's sons, named Mandela, was Nelson's grandfather and the source of his surname.  Because Mandela was the king's child by a wife of the Ixhiba clan, a so-called "Left-Hand House", the descendants of his cadet branch of the royal family were morganatic, ineligible to inherit the throne but recognised as hereditary royal councillors. 

Nelson Mandela's father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa Mandela (1880–1928), was a local chief and councillor to the monarch; he was appointed to the position in 1915, after his predecessor was accused of corruption by a governing white magistrate. In 1926, Gadla was also sacked for corruption, but Nelson was told that his father had lost his job for standing up to the magistrate's unreasonable demands. A devotee of the god Qamata,  Gadla was a polygamist with four wives, four sons and nine daughters, who lived in different villages. Nelson's mother was Gadla's third wife, Nosekeni Fanny, daughter of Nkedama of the Right Hand House and a member of the amaMpemvu clan of the Thembu kingdom.

Mandela later stated that his early life was dominated by traditional Thembu custom and taboo.  He grew up with two sisters in his mother's kraal in the village of Qunu, where he tended herds as a cattle-boy and spent much time outside with other boys.  Both his parents were illiterate, but being a devout Christian, his mother sent him to a local Methodist school when he was about seven. Baptised a Methodist, Mandela was given the English forename of "Nelson" by his teacher.  When Mandela was about nine, his father came to stay at Qunu, where he died of an undiagnosed ailment which Mandela believed to be lung disease.  Feeling "cut adrift", he later said that he inherited his father's "proud rebelliousness" and "stubborn sense of fairness". 

Mandela's mother took him to the "Great Place" palace at Mqhekezweni, where he was entrusted to the guardianship of the Thembu regent, Chief Jongintaba Dalindyebo. Although he did not see his mother again for many years, Mandela felt that Jongintaba and his wife Noengland treated him as their own child, raising him alongside their son, Justice, and daughter, Nomafu.  As Mandela attended church services every Sunday with his guardians, Christianity became a significant part of his life.[19] He attended a Methodist mission school located next to the palace, where he studied English, Xhosa, history and geography.  He developed a love of African history, listening to the tales told by elderly visitors to the palace, and was influenced by the anti-imperialist rhetoric of a visiting chief, Joyi.  At the time he nevertheless considered the European colonialists not as oppressors but as benefactors who had brought education and other benefits to southern Africa.  Aged 16, he, Justice and several other boys travelled to Tyhalarha to undergo the ulwaluko circumcision ritual that symbolically marked their transition from boys to men; afterwards he was given the name Dalibunga. 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela

بريانكا شوبرا

بريانكا شوبرا

بريانكا تشوبرا (بالهندية: प्रियंका चोपड़ा) (بالإنجليزية: Priyanka Chopra)‏ ولدت 18 يوليو/ تموز 1982، هي ممثلة ومغنية هندية، والفائزة في مسابقة ملكة جمال العالم لعام 2000. خلال مسيرتها الفنية الناجحة أصبحت بريانكا واحدة من فنانات بوليوود الأعلى أجرًا، وواحدة من الشخصيات الأكثر شعبية في الهند. حصلت على العديد من الجوائز من بينهم جائزة الفيلم الوطني لأفضل ممثلة وجائزة فيلم فير في خمس فئات.

وُلدت تشوبرا في جمشيدبور لوالدين كلاهما أطباء في الجيش الهندي متسببًا ذلك في انتقال العائلة بشكل متكرر أثناء طفولتها، وعلى الرغم من ذلك فهي تعتبر باريلت موطنها الحقيقي. وأثناء فترات مراهقتها عاشت مع خالتها لعدة سنوات في الولايات المتحدة. في عام 2000، سجلت والدتها اسمها في مسابقة ملكة جمال الهند فاحتلت المركز الثاني وحصلت على اللقب العالمي لملكة جمال الهند. ومن ثم دخلت مسابقة ملكة جمال العالم حيث تُوجت بلقب ملكة جمال العالم 2000، وملكة جمال العالم القاري- ملكة جمال آسيا وأوقيانوسيا، لتصبح بذلك الهندية الخامسة التي تفوز في المسابقة. على الرغم من تطلعها ذات مرة لدراسة الهندسة أو الطب النفسي، قبلت تشوبرا عروض للانضمام إلى صناعة السينما الهندية الذي جاء نتيجة لفوزها في مسابقات ملكات الجمال، حيث قامت بأول ظهور لها في الفيلم التأميلي تاميزان في عام 2002. وفي العام التالي، قامت ببطولة فيلم البطل الذي كان أول انطلاقة لها في السينما الهندية، وتبع ذلك فيلم أنداز الذي حقق نجاحًا على شباك التذاكر. وفي وقت لاحق، نالت تشوبرا اهتمامًا نقديًا كبيرًا لقيامها بدور الفاتنة في فيلم أيتراز عام 2004. وبحلول عام 2006، رسخت تشوبرا نفسها لتصبح ممثلة رائدة في السينما الهندية لمشاركتها في أدوار البطولة في أفلام ناجحة للغاية- كريش ودون. وبعد سلسلة من الأفلام غير الناجحة، تلقت تشوبرا إشادة من النقاد لقيامها بدور عارضة أزياء في فيلم فاشون عام 2008 الذي كان نقطة تحول مهمة في مسيرتها الفنية. وفيما بعد تمت الإشارة إلى براعتها في رسم سلسلة من الشخصيات غير التقليدية من بينها: امرأة مهاراتي مشاكسة في فيلم كاميني عام 2009، سفاحة في فيلم نويرالجديد العفو عن سبعة قتلة في عام 2011، امرأة التوحد في الفيلم الكوميدي الرومانسي بارفي في عام 2012، وملاكمة في الفيلم الذي يحكي السيرة الذاتية للرياضية ماري كوم في عام 2014. شاركت تشوبرا، بالإضافة إلى التمثيل في الأفلام، في عروض المسرح، واستضافت عرض واقعي على شاشة التليفزيون، وكتبت أعمدة للصحف، كما أنها شاركت في الأنشطة الخيرية وعينت سفيرة للنوايا الحسنة لدى اليونيسف لحقوق الأطفال في 10 أغسطس 2010. وأطلقت أول أغنية لها في مدينتي عام 2012، والثانية إكزوتيك لأول مرة في 2013، وانتشرت في بلاد أمثال الولايات المتحدة وكندا.

ولدت بريانكا تشوبرا في 18 يوليو/ تموز 1982 في جمشيدبور، ولاية بيهار( الآن في جهارخاند)، لوالدين، أشوك تشوبرا ومادو، كلاهما أطباء في الجيش الهندي. كان والدها من عرق بنجابي، في حين كانت والدتها من جهارخاند. ولديها شقيقها، سيدهارث يصغرها بسبع سنوات. وهناك الممثلات أمثال: بارنيتي تشوبرا، وميرا تشوبرا، ومانارا فهن بنات عمومتها. ونتيجة لطبيعة عمل والديها انتقلت العائلة إلى العديد من المدن الهندية منها: دلهى، بيون، لكناو، باريلي، لاداخ، شانديغار، وأمبالا. ومن بين المدارس التي التحقت تشوبرا بها: مدرسة لامارتينير للبنات في لكناو،  ومدرسة سانت ماريا غوريتي في باريلي. وقد قالت في حديث لها- نشرته الأخبار والتحليل اليومي، أنها لم تمانع يومًا التنقل بصفة مستمرة من مدينة إلى أخرى أو مدرسة إلى أخرى، بل رحبت بذلك على أنه تجربة جديدة وطريقة لاكتشاف المجتمع الهندي متعدد الثقافات. ومن بين العديد من الأماكن التي عاشت، وجدت تشوبرا ذكريات جميلة حينما كانت طفلة تلعب في وديان ليه؛ حيث المنطقة الصحراوية الهندية الشمالية الغربية الباردة- جامو وكاشمير. وقد قالت:" أظن أنني كنت في الفصل 4 عندما كنت في ليه، وقد وُلد أخي للتو، وحينها كان والدي في الجيش ومقيم هناك، وبقيت في ليه لمدة عام، وذكرياتي في هذا المكان كثيرة... كنا جميعًا هناك مثل أطفال جيش؛ لم نسكن في منازل بل في مخابئ في الوادي، وكان هناك ستوبا أعلى تل كانت تُستخدم في مراقبة الوادي، وقد اعتدنا على السباق حتى أعلاها" وتَعتبر تشوبرا باريلي موطنها الآن وتحافظ على صلاتها القوية هناك. وفي سن الثالثة عشر، انتقلت تشوبرا إلى الولايات المتحدة للدراسة والعيش مع خالتها والالتحاق بالمدارس في نيوتن، ماساتشوستس، وسيدار رابيدز، أيوا بعد توقف في كوينز، نيويورك حيث انتقلت عائلة خالتها في كثير من الأحيان. وبينما كانت في ماساتشوستس، شاركت تشوبرا في العديد من العروض المسرحية، ودرست الموسيقى الكلاسيكية الغربية والغناء الكورالي ورقص الكاثاك. كانت تشوبرا الهندية الوحيدة في صفها التي تم اختيارها على المستوى الدولي في المجموعة المبجلة الدولية للقطع الموسيقية. ومع ذلك، حينما كانت طالبة في السنة الثانية، كانت حريصة على أن تصبح مهندسة برمجيات أو طبيبة نفسية جنائية بدلًا من أن تصبح ممثلة. وأثناء فترة مراهقتها في أمريكا واجهت تشوبرا دائمًا قضايا عرقية وبلطجة، وقد قالت:" كنت طفلة خرقاء، لديها تدني احترام الذات، جاءت من طبقة متوسطة متواضعة، لديها علامات بيضاء على ساقيها... ولكني جادة ف العمل، واليوم ساقي تنافس حوالي 12 علامة تجارية ." بعد ثلاثة أعوام، عادت تشوبرا إلى الهند بعد أن أكملت السنة النهائية في التعليم الثانوي في مدرسة الجيش العامة في باريلي. وأثناء هذه الفترة فازت بالجائزة المحلية لملكة الجمال " ملكة مايو"، وبعدها تعقبها المعجبون مما أدى لقيام عائلتها بتزويد منزلهم بالحواجز لحمايتها. وعلى غرار ذلك قامت والدتها بتسجيل اسمها في مسابقة ملكة جمال الهند لعام 2000؛ فاحتلت المركز الثاني،  وفازت باللقب العالمي لملكة جمال الهند. وبعدها بملكة جمال العالم؛ حيث تُوجت بملكة جمال العالم لعام 2000 وملكة جمال العالم القاري- آسيا وأوقيانوسيا في قبة الألفية في لندن في الأول من ديسمبر/ كانون الأول عام 2000. كانت تشوبرا المتسابقة الهندية الخامسة التي فازت بلقب ملكة جمال العالم، والرابعة التي قامت بذلك في خلال سبع سنوات. كانت قد التحقت بالكلية ولكنها تركتها بعد فوزها في مسابقة ملكة جمال العالم. وقد أوضحت أن لقب ملكة جمال الهند ولقب ملكة جمال العالم قد جلب لها التمييز والاهتمام الخاص؛ وعليه بدأت تلقى عروض لأدوار في أفلام. وقد حافظت على الصلات الوثيقة مع عائلتها، وبما فيهم سيدهارث – شقيقها الأصغر، وعاشت في شقة في الطابق نفسه حيث تسكن عائلتها. كانت تشوبرا قريبة بالأخص إلى والدها الذي تُوفي في يونيه/ حزيران 2013؛ وقد جدت في عام 2012 وشم مكتوب عليه " فتاة أبيها المرحة" بخط يده. لم يكن لديها خلفية عن التمثيل في الأفلام، ولكنها تصف نفسها بأنها امرأة عصامية. وقد تخلت والدتها، طبيبة النساء المشهورة في باريلي، عن مهنتها وذلك لدعم تشوبرا التي شرعت في مهنة التمثيل.

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Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra Jonas (pronounced [prɪˈjəŋkaː ˈtʃoːpɽaː]; born 18 July 1982) is an Indian actress and singer. She was the winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant, and is one of India's highest-paid and most popular entertainers. Chopra has received numerous accolades, including a National Film Award and five Filmfare Awards. In 2016, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri and Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in the next two years Forbes listed her among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women.

Although Chopra initially aspired to study aeronautical engineering, she accepted offers to join the Indian film industry, which came as a result of her pageant wins, making her Bollywood debut in The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003). She played the leading lady in the box-office hits Andaaz (2003) and Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004) and received critical acclaim for her breakout role in the 2004 thriller Aitraaz. Chopra established herself with starring roles in the top-grossing productions Krrish and Don (both 2006), and she later reprised her role in their sequels.

Following a brief setback, she garnered success in 2008 for playing a troubled model in the drama Fashion, which won her the National Film Award for Best Actress, and a glamorous journalist in Dostana. Chopra gained wider recognition for portraying a range of characters in the films Kaminey (2009), 7 Khoon Maaf (2011), Barfi! (2012), Mary Kom (2014), and Bajirao Mastani (2015). From 2015 to 2018, she starred as Alex Parrish in the ABC thriller series Quantico. Chopra has since played supporting roles in the Hollywood comedies Baywatch (2017) and Isn't It Romantic (2019), and returned to Hindi cinema with a leading role in the biopic The Sky Is Pink (2019).

Chopra also promotes social causes such as environment and women's rights, and is vocal about gender equality, the gender pay gap, and feminism. She has worked with UNICEF since 2006 and was appointed as the national and global UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for child rights in 2010 and 2016, respectively. Her namesake foundation for health and education works towards providing support to unprivileged Indian children. As a recording artist, Chopra has released three singles and provided vocals for a number of her film songs. She is also the founder of the production company Purple Pebble Pictures, under which she has produced several regional Indians films, including the acclaimed Marathi film Ventilator (2016). Despite maintaining privacy, Chopra's off-screen life, including her marriage to American singer and actor Nick Jonas, is the subject of substantial media coverage.

Priyanka Chopra was born on 18 July 1982 in Jamshedpur, Bihar (present-day Jharkhand), to Ashok and Madhu Chopra, both physicians in the Indian Army. Her father was a Punjabi Hindu from Ambala. Her mother Madhu Chopra from Jharkhand, is the eldest daughter of Dr. Manohar Kishan Akhouri, a former Congress veteran and Madhu Jyotsna Akhouri (née Mary John), a former member of Bihar Legislative Assembly. Her late maternal grandmother, Mrs. Akhouri was a Jacobite Syrian Christian originally named Mary John, belonging to the Kavalappara family of Kumarakom, Kottayam district, Kerala.  Chopra has a brother, Siddharth, who is seven years her junior.  Bollywood actresses Parineeti Chopra, Meera Chopra and Mannara Chopra are cousins. 

Due to her parents' professions as military physicians, the family was posted in a number of places in India, including Delhi, Chandigarh, Ambala, Ladakh, Lucknow, Bareilly, and Pune. Among the schools she attended were La Martiniere Girls' School in Lucknow  and St. Maria Goretti College in Bareilly  In an interview published in Daily News and Analysis, Chopra said that she did not mind travelling regularly and changing schools; she welcomed it as a new experience and a way to discover India's multicultural society.  Among the many places that she lived, Chopra has fond memories as a child of playing in the valleys of Leh, in the cold northwestern Indian desert region of Ladakh. She has said, "I think I was in Class 4 when I was in Leh. My brother was just born. My dad was in the army and was posted there. I stayed in Leh for a year and my memories of that place are tremendous. We were all army kids there. We weren't living in houses, we were in bunkers in the valley and there was a stupa right on top of a hill which used to overlook our valley. We used to race up to the top of the stupa". She now considers Bareilly her home town, and maintains strong connections there. 

At 13, Chopra moved to the United States to study, living with her aunt, and attending schools in Newton, Massachusetts, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after a stop in Queens, New York, as her aunt's family also moved frequently. While in Massachusetts, she participated in several theatre productions, and studied Western classical music, and choral singing. During her teenage years in the United States, Chopra sometimes faced racial issues and was bullied for being Indian by an African-American classmate.  She has said, "I was a gawky kid, had low self-esteem, came from a modest middle-class background, had white marks on my legs. But I was damn hard working. Today, my legs sell 12 brands." After three years, Chopra returned to India, finishing the senior year of her high-school education at the Army Public School in Bareilly. 

During this period, she won the local May Queen beauty pageant after which she was pursued by admirers; her family equipped their home with bars for her protection.  Her mother entered her in the Femina Miss India contest of 2000  she finished second,  winning the Femina Miss India World title. Chopra next won the Miss World pageant, where she was crowned Miss World 2000 and Miss World Continental Queen of Beauty—Asia & Oceania at the Millennium Dome in London on 30 November 2000.  Chopra was the fifth Indian contestant to win Miss World, and the fourth to do so within seven years.  She had enrolled in college, but left after winning the Miss World pageant.  Chopra said that the Miss India and Miss World titles brought her recognition, and she began receiving offers for film roles

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priyanka_Chopra

Smriti Mandhana

Smriti Mandhana

Smriti Shriniwas Mandhana (born 18 July 1996) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women's national team.  In June 2018, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) named her as the Best Women's International Cricketer.  In December 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) awarded her with the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the best female cricketer of the year.  She was also named the ODI Player of the Year by the ICC at the same time

Mandhana was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai to Smita and Shrinivas Mandhana. 

When she was two, the family moved to Madhavnagar, Sangli in Maharashtra, where she completed her schooling. Both her father and brother, Shravan, played cricket at the district-level, for Sangli. She was inspired to take up cricket after watching her brother play at the Maharashtra state Under-16s tournaments. At the age of nine, she was selected in the Maharashtra's Under-15 team. At eleven, she was picked for the Maharashtra Under-19s team. 

Mandhana's family is closely involved in her cricketing activities. Her father Shrinivas, a chemical distributor, takes care of her cricket programme, her mother Smita is in charge of her diet, clothing and other organisation aspects, and her brother Shravan still bowls to her in the nets

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smriti_Mandhana