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Ismail Darbar is an Indian composer and violinist, a popular name in Bollywood. Ismail Darbar is from Surat, Gujarat. He worked for several years as... a session violinist for leading music directors Laxmikant Pyarelal, Kalyanji Anandji, Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Anand-Milind, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin-Lalit and A. R. Rahman. Finally he got the break after so many years with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. Earlier Darbar had played violin for Jatin-Lalit in the movie Khamoshi: The Musical. Later on his music in Bhansali's Devdas was acclaimed. He did not work with Bhansali after Devdas due to personal differences. It was also revealed that Darbar had only made some contributions to the music of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Devdas while it was Bhansali who wrote the music of both of his movies. After Devdas, Darbar did a few more movies but was unable to get much success. In 2005, he co-composed Subhash Ghai's Kisna: The Warrior Poet with A. R. Rahman. However Ghai would later say, "The music [of the film] has turned out so well that you can't distinguish an Ismail song from a Rahman one".
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Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir was an Indian film actress. She acted in the first Indian talkie movie Alam Ara . Her credits include early hits Devdas ,... and Sagar Movietone's first talkie, Meri Jaan. Originally from Surat, she was the daughter of Fatma Begum. She became a notable film actress and India's first woman film director and was the sister of actressess Shahzadi and Sultana. In the presence of seasoned actors like Prithviraj Kapoor and Master Vithal, Zubeida blossomed and wowed everyone with her singing, dancing and her speech. Zubeida was one of Indian cinema's earliest superstars and among the few girls who entered films at a time when it was not considered an appropriate profession for girls from respectable families, let alone Royalty. Born in Surat, Zubeida was a stunningly beautiful princess, the daughter of the Nawab of Sachin and Fatima Begum. Zubeida and her two sisters, Sultana and Shehzadi, egged on by their actress mother who was to become India's first woman director, entered films at a very young age. Zubeida was only 12 when she made her debut in Kohinoor.
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Siddharth Malhotra is well-known Indian model. He born in Surat,Gujarat,India on December 31, 1987. His family moved to Mumbai,Maharastra when he was... 8 years old child. He is the only child of his parents. He belongs to an educated family. His father Rajeev Malhotra is a doctor and his mother Leena Malhotra is a school principal. From his school days, Siddharth was interested in acting. He took part in drama and dance in his school as he was interested in acting and dancing. But Siddharth's parents wanted him to become an engineer. Siddharth choose modeling as a career when he was just 16 years old teenager. Malhotra was born in Surat,Gujarat to Rajeev Malhotra and Leena Malhotra. Siddharth spent her childhood in Surat and Mumbai. His father hailed from a family of Punjabi origin, settled in New Delhi and her mother comes from a family settled in Amritsar. Siddharth studied at St.Xaviers School in Mumbai as a young child. He began college in Mumbai, but left after career in modeling. Siddharth started going gym when he was 17 years old teen model. He got very attractive body in very young age. At the age of 19, he entered in Mr.Gujarat pageant in 2007 along with 19 competitor.
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