Tzipora Livni Israel’s Foreign Minister She is popular among Israelis

Tzipora (Tzipi) Livni is currently Israel’s Foreign Minister and Minister of Justice. Livni is considered a rising star in Ariel Sharon’s center-right Kadima Party. She was appointed foreign minister by Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in January 2006, becoming only the second female foreign minister of Israel, following Golda Meir decades earlier. Livni has expressed her support for Olmert as both acting prime minister and as Kadima’s leader.Livni hails from a prominent Israeli political family. Her father and mother were both underground fighters for the establishment of the state of Israel, and she followed her father’s footsteps into the Knesset in 1999. She has been a strong supporter of Sharon and backed his Gaza Disengagement Plan in 2005.Livni served as a lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces before graduating from Bar Ilan University’s Faculty of Law. Livni worked for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad in the 1980s and later for the Government Companies Authority (1996 to 1999), in charge of the privatization of government corporations and monopolies. She is popular among Israelis, and in 2004, she received the Champion of Good Government Award

Fumiko Hayashi Chief Executive, Daiei

Ms. Fumiko Hayashi has been serving as Vice Chairman of the Board in The Daiei, Inc. since May 24, 2007. Her previous title was Chairman of the Board and Representative Director. She previously worked for BMW Japan and BMW Tokyo and served as President and Representative Director in Volkswagen Tokyo. born May 5, 1946 in Tokyo, is the vice chairperson of the Japanese supermarket chainForbes named her the 39th most powerful woman in the world, the highest rank for a Japanese woman

Ekta Mam has being supportive and encouraging from the beginning

Prachi Desai became a household name after playing Bani, in the hit soap, Kasamh Se. She went on to win a million hearts as well as the title in Jhalak Dikhla Jaa.

Now, the actress understandably wants more, and has made the shift to Bollywood. Her first film will be Rock On, costarring Farhan Akhtar, in his debut acting role. Rajul Hegde talks to Prachi about her plans:

Are you quitting television?

I want to make it to clear that I am not quitting television. That is my first love. But I will take a break for some time. I am on contract, which says that I cannot be seen on television until Rock On is released. I also cannot work for the film and Kasamh Se at the same time. They want me to concentrate on the film and then give me in a new look.

What will happen to Kasamh Se?

I have already shot for Kasamh Se; there is a bank of episodes. Balaji Telefilmshas not yet decided about my replacement but they will definitely replace me, as they cannot wait until I finish my film. By the time the film is done, Kasamh Se may take another generation leap, you never know! I will shoot for Kasamh Se until the end of January.

Have you started shooting for Rock On?

I will start shooting for Rock On from February, in Mumbai. I don't know how long the shooting schedule will last. Even after that, I will not be able to return to television until the film is released.

Will you come back after the film's release?

Right now, I cannot tell you anything. Once the film is out, I am free to do anything. I hope Rock On does well.

Prachi DesaiHow did Balaji Telefilms chief Ekta Kapoor react to this?

She has being supportive and encouraging from the beginning. She is happy that I am growing. Of course, she is worried for Kasamh Se.

What will happen to the TRPs of Kasamh Se?

I just hope the serial does well.

What about the chat show you are supposed to do for Balaji?

I can do that only after my film's release.

How did you get the role in Rock On?

I auditioned for this role just before the Jhalak Dikhla Jaa finals, and got selected. I cannot say anything more about the film.

Neelie Kroes The European Commissioner for Competition

Neelie Kroes was born July 19, 1941 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland is a Dutch politician and businessperson.Neelie Kroes was a Member of Parliament in the Netherlands for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Later she was the Dutch State Secretary and Minister of Transport and Water Management. Neelie Kroes was member of the board of commissioners of several multinationals. She currently is the Dutch European Commissioner for Competition.Kroes went to a protestant grammar school in Rotterdam. She continued on a Protestant high school. In 1958 she went to study Economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. In 1961, Kroes was preses of the R.V.S.V. (the largest Rotterdam Sorority). She was also elected as a member of the University Council. After obtaining her Master of Science in Economics in 1965, she became a research fellow at the economic faculty at that university. During this period Kroes was involved in the women's organisation within the VVD. In this period she also was member of the board of Heavy Transporting company "ZwaTra", the company of her father.

Andrea Jung Chairman and Chief Executive, Avon Products

Andrea Jung BORN in 1959 in Toronto.Grew up in Wellesley, Mass. Shanghai-born mother, an accomplished pianist, worked as a chemical engineer. Hong Kong-born father was an architect.BA in English literature from Princeton University in 1979Jung, who became Avon's chief in 1999 and chairman in 2001, sticks to the beauty firm's original business model, using its sales force of five million, despite the explosion of online sales and the proliferation of specialty outlets like Sephora. Jung, who speaks Mandarin Chinese, has had to contend with weak profits and flat revenue growth lately and has had trouble selling into China

Ho Ching Chief Executive, Temasek Holdings Singapore

Ho Ching is the CEO of Temasek Holdings and the wife of the Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong.Temasek Holdings purchased Shin Corporation in 2006 from Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who was ousted by a military coup soon after allegations of corruption.Ms Ho graduated from the University of Singapore in 1976 with a Bachelor of Engineering after completing her pre-university education at National Junior College where she emerged Student of the Year and President Scholar. She also holds a Master of Science (Electrical) from Stanford University, USA. In 1995, Ms Ho was conferred our Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore.She is the eldest child of four children of retired businessman Ho Eng Hong and Chan Chiew Ping. In 1985, she married Lee Hsien Loong, who later became Singapore's third Prime Minister in August 2004.She began her career as an engineer with the Ministry of Defence. In 1987, she joined the Singapore Technologies group as Deputy Director of Engineering, and became its President and Chief Executive Officer before retiring in 2001. She later joined Temasek Holdings in May 2002.

Wu Xiaoling Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China

Wu Xiaoling, female, is of Han nationality. She was born in 1947 and studied at the graduate school of the People's Bank of China. She has held leading positions at the People's Bank of China and became its vice-president in 2000.No other woman is more powerful in the world of finance in China than Wu Xiaoling. Before Wu, 59, became China's No. 2 central banker, she was former deputy director of what is now called the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, where she wrote and enforced rules governing how the yuan was to be used in foreign exchange transactions. Wu won kudos for restoring confidence in China's economy and the yuan after she helped calm the markets during the Asian financial crisis in 1998

Suzanne Nora Chairman of the Global Markets Institute

Until 2007, Suzanne Nora Johnson was Vice Chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Chairman of the Global Markets Institute, Head of the firm’s Global Investment Research Division, and a Member of the firm’s Management Committee. She joined the firm in 1985 and became a partner in 1992. While at Goldman Sachs, she has chaired the Pine Street/Goldman Sachs University Board and served as a Board Member on the Goldman Sachs Foundation. Prior to joining the firm, Suzanne was an attorney with Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett and worked as a law clerk on the US Court of Appeals. Suzanne currently serves on the boards of Intuit, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Children NOW, he Council for Excellence in Government, the Markle Foundation, RAND Health, TechnoServe, the United Nations Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors, the United Nations Global Compact, the University of Southern California,and Women’s World Banking. She is on the Advisory Board of Councilors at Harvard Medical School (Departments of Cell Biology and Pathology). She is also an advisory board member to the Initiative on Financial Security at the Aspen Institute. She served as Chair of the Visiting Committee for the Institute for Innovations at Southwestern Medical School at the University of Texas (2003,2004) and as a member of the Visiting Committee at the Department of Embryology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (2000, 2004) and Harvard Law School (2006). Suzanne earned her JD from Harvard Law School and her BA from the University of Southern California.

Khaleda Zia Twice Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Begum Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, was born on 15 August 1945.
She was the third among the five children of her parents. She passed her Matriculation Examination from Dinajpur Government School and got admitted to Surendranath College, Dinajpur. She was married in August 1960 to Ziaur Rahman, then a Captain in the Pakistan Army who proclaimed the independence of Bangladesh in 1971 and later became the President of the Republic in 1977
It was the tragic death of her husband President Ziaur Rahman in May 1981, that changed her entire life-pattern and brought her into the mainstream of national politics, and eventually to the seat of power. Power, however, did not come automatically to Begum Khaleda Zia. She had to earn it at an immense cost and personal sacrifices. She encountered personal tragedies in the assassination of her husband, courted arrests eight times in nine years and had to continually undergo harassment and repression at the hands of the autocratic regime. But nothing could deter her from her mission of freeing the nation from autocratic rule and re-establishing a democratic polity in the country

Marjorie Scardino was President of the Economist Newspaper Group

Dame Marjorie has been Chief Executive of Pearson, the international education and media business made up of Pearson Education, Penguin and the Financial Times Group, since 1997. Between 1985 and 1997 she was successively President of the Economist Newspaper Group Inc. and Chief Executive of the Economist Group. Prior to 1985, she was a partner in a law firm in Savannah, Georgia, and founded and published the Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper, The Georgia Gazette. She is a non-executive director of Nokia Corporation and a member of a number of charitable and advisory boards, including The MacArthur Foundation and The Carter Center.Scardino is married to journalist Albert Scardino; the Scardinos have three children.

Christine Lagarde ,Trade Minister of France

Christine Lagarde was appointed Minister for Economy, Finance and Employment on June 19th, in the second Government of Prime Minister François Fillon.Born in Paris in 1956, Christine Lagarde completed her undergraduate studies in Le Havre. She then obtained degrees in Social Law (University of Paris X), and Master degrees from the Institute of Political Studies (Aix en Provence), and the Holton Arms School (Bethesda, USA). After being admitted as a lawyer to the Paris Bar, Christine Lagarde joined the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie as an associate, specializing in Labour and Anti-trust Law. Mrs Lagarde became Chairman of the Global Executive Committee of Baker & Mckenzie in 1999, and subsequently Chairman of the Global Strategic Committee in 2004. Under her leadership, Baker & McKenzie increased their gross revenues by 50 %, and ended the fiscal year 2004 at USD 1.228bln.

In 2004, Christine Lagarde was ranked the 30th most influential woman in the world by Forbes magazine, and the 5th best European executive woman by The Wall Street Journal Europe. Asked by the French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, to join his Government in June 2005, Christine Lagarde decided to put her skills and work experience to the service of her country. Her nomination as Minister of Foreign Trade allowed Mrs Lagarde to use her negotiation skills during the World Trade Organisation talks. She also promoted French exportations. After a brief stint as Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries under the newly elected President Nicolas Sarkozy she became the first woman to hold the post of Finance and Economy Minister of a G 7 country thanks to the ministerial reshuffle of June 2007. Her nomination was widely acclaimed in the international press. Mrs Lagarde has also a great sportmanship reputation - she was a member of the French national team of synchronyzed swimming.

Margaret Mary Beckett is a British Labour politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South

Margaret Mary Beckett is a British Labour politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South.Margaret Jackson was born in 1943, in Ashton-under-Lyne, into a working-class family. Her father was an English carpenter and her mother an Irish Roman Catholic. Her sister is a Catholic nun. She was educated at the Notre Dame High School for Girls (a state-school in Norwich), the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, where she qualified as a metallurgist.In 1961, Jackson joined Associated Electrical Industries as a student apprentice in metallurgy. She joined the Transport and General Workers Union in 1964 and remains a member to this day. She joined the University of Manchester in 1966 as an experiment officer in its metallurgy department. In 1970 Jackson went to work for the Labour Party as a researcher in industrial policy.She married party official Lionel "Leo" Beckett in Lincoln in 1979. She was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1992 to 1994 and was briefly its leader in 1994 following the premature death of John Smith. In Tony Blair's government, she held a series of Cabinet offices, including Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Foreign Secretary

Dr. Sima Samar is the Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission

Dr. Sima Samar is the Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). Before chairing the Commission, she was elected as the Vice Chair of the Emergency Loya Jirga in 2002. At the Bonn meeting in 2001, Dr. Samar was chosen to be the first Deputy Chair and Minister of Women’s Affairs in the Interim Administration of Afghanistan. Dr. Samar has received various international awards for her work on human rights and democracy. In 2001 she received the John Humphrey Freedom Award. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Dr. Samar was forced to flee after her husband was arrested. He was never heard from again. In Pakistan, Dr. Samar worked to set up medical services for Afghan refugees. In 1987, she helped open the first hospital for women, staffed by women in Quetta, Pakistan. In 1989, she established the Shuhada Organization, a non-governmental and non-profit organization committed to the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan with special emphasis on the empowerment of women and children. Sima Samar was born in February 1957 in Ghazni province. She obtained her degree in medicine in February 1982 from Kabul University; she was the first Hazara woman to achieve this in Afghanistan.

McCann handled a variety of clients including Sony, Keebler, McDonald's, and Dewar's

Renetta McCann, CEO, The Americas Starcom MediaVest Group was born Renetta E. Walker on December 8, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised by her mother, school teacher, Aditha Lorraine Collymore Walker and grandmother, Renetta Collymore, she attended Holy Cross Elementary School, St. Phillip Neri School and graduated from Aquinas Dominican High School in 1974. McCann, who excelled in forensics, earned her B.S. degree in speech from Northwestern University in 1978.
McCann joined Chicago's Leo Burnett advertising agency as a client service trainee in 1978 and rose rapidly to become Burnett's first African American media supervisor the following year. She then became the first African American vice president in 1988, and the first to be media director in 1989. As media director, McCann handled a variety of clients including Sony, Keebler, McDonald's, and Dewar's. She was named senior vice president in 1995. In 1998, she was promoted to managing director of Starcom. As Leo Burnett merged with D'Arcy, then McCann became CEO of the Americas Starcom MediaVest Group. McCann is responsible for the operation of the largest office in the Starcom MediaVest Group network encompassing Canada and the United States, including Starcom; MediaVest; GM Planworks; and Starlink. She oversees all annual business plan development and finance issues, maintains client relationships and drives the agency's strategic planning functions. Her responsibilities include the United States and Latin America.
McCann has developed Starcom into one of the advertising industries top strategic planning "think tanks". The winner of numerous Effies and Cannes Lions, McCann was selected as one of Ebony magazine's 57 Most Intriguing Blacks and Black Enterprise designated her as "2002 Executive of the Year". McCann was chosen "Media Maven" by Advertising Age in 1991, while the Women's Advertising Club of Chicago selected her as Advertising Woman of the Year for 2002. Recognized by Business Week and Chicago Magazine, Essence named McCann one of "50 Women Who Are Changing The World".

Christine Poon is Vice Chairman of Johnson & Johnson, and a member of the Office of the Chairman.

Born in Brentwood, Missouri, Ms. Poon received a bachelor's degree in biology from Northwestern University, a master's degree in biology/biochemistry from St. Louis University and an M.B.A. in finance from Boston University. Ms. Poon is married and resides in Princeton, NJ.Christine Poon is Vice Chairman of Johnson & Johnson, and a member of the Office of the Chairman.Ms. Poon began her career with Johnson & Johnson in November, 2000, as Company Group Chairman, Pharmaceuticals. In August, 2001, she was promoted to the Executive Committee and named Worldwide Chairman, Pharmaceuticals. Ms. Poon was appointed Worldwide Chairman, Medicines & Nutritionals, in October 2003. She was named a Vice Chairman of the Board in January 2005 and was elected to the Johnson & Johnson Board of Directors in April, 2005. She serves as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors and the Executive Committee and has responsibility for the pharmaceutical businesses. In January, 2007, she assumed responsibility for the Johnson & Johnson Corporation.

Susan Arnold,President, Global Business Units Procter & Gamble (PG)

Arnold joined P&G in 1980 and held a number of marketing and management positions before becoming category manager of P&G's cosmetics business in Canada in 1990. In 1999, she was the first woman to reach a president-level position at P&G when she assumed global responsibility for the company's personal beauty business. She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. She is on the executive committee of Catalyst, the leading research and advisory organization working with businesses and the professions to expand workplace diversity and opportunities for women. Check out the annual report: Arnold's name comes right after CEO A.G. Lafley's - and that may understate her importance. Arnold is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the three global business units in the $76 billion company. An organic growth goal of 4% to 6% annually means adding billions of dollars to the top line every year. But Arnold has done it before, transforming the once-sleepy health and beauty business.

Beth Axelrod,Senior Vice President, Human Resources, eBay

Whitman grew up in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, an affluent community on Long Island. She whipped through high school in three years and then went to Princeton, intending to become a doctor. Instead, she majored in economics, and following graduation headed to Harvard, where she got her M.B.A. in 1979.Whitman appears to be a big advocate for the consumer. She was very vocal in the political arena speaking on a variety of issues involving e-commerce. While many companies actually sell their customer lists to other companies, eBay doesn't. And although Ms. Whitman might not agree with the purpose of distributing customer characteristics including purchasing behaviors, she still believes Federal Regulation is unnecessary. She also spoke about eBay's volunteer removal of guns from their online trading options. Although she feels the trading of antique guns is a legitimate hobby for some collectors, she didn't feel comfortable knowing that there was no way to be sure who was actually on the receiving end when guns are bought and sold online.

Safra Catz the C.F.O and x president of Oracle Corporation

Safra A. Catz (born 1961 in Holon, Israel [1]) has been the Chief Financial Officer of Oracle Corporation since November 2005. She has also been a President of the company since January 2004 and a member of the company's Board of Directors since October 2001. She has been at Oracle Corporation since April 1999.Prior to joining Oracle, Catz was at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a global investment bank, where she was a Managing Director from 1997 and had previously held various investment banking positions since 1986.Catz earned a bachelor's degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 [1] and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986.[1] Catz is married and has two childrenSafra A. Catz has served as a President since January 2004, as Chief Financial Officer since November 2005, and as a Director since October 2001. She served as an Executive Vice President from November 1999 to January 2004, and as Senior Vice President from April 1999 to October 1999

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Prime Minister of New Zealand - Helen Clark.

Helen Clark was born in 1950, in Hamilton, and spent her first twelve years on the family sheep and cattle farm to the west of the city. She is the oldest of four girls. Helen attended Te Pahu Primary School.She attended Epsom Girls Grammar School in Auckland and then studied at Auckland University, and graduated with MA (Hons) in 1974.Her MA and PhD thesis research was on rural political behaviour and representation.She was a junior lecturer in political studies in Auckland from 1973-75, studied abroad on a University Grants Committee post-graduate scholarship in 1976, and then lectured in political studies at Auckland from 1977 until her election to Parliament in 1981. Helen Clark was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand on 27 November 1999. Her rise to the top of New Zealand politics is the culmination of almost thirty years of involvement with the Labour Party, and the latest chapter in a remarkable story which began in New Zealand's provincial, conservative heartland.In 1981 Helen Clark was elected as MP for Mt Albert. Nineteen years later, she has earned the unofficial title of 'Mother of the House' - the longest serving woman member among current MPs.

Mary Sammons, now president and ceo that pulled the drug chain back from the brink of bankruptcy

In just four years since joining Rite Aid, Mary Sammons, now president and ceo, has spearheaded a turnaround that pulled the drug chain back from the brink of bankruptcy, returned it to profitability and is now looking to grow based on a strong foundation of improved corporate culture and front-end operations nearly unparalleled in the industry. Not bad for a woman who graduated with a degree in French and holds a secondary-level teaching certificate.Sammons is a merchant in the truest sense of the word. Working her way up through the ranks--first at Fred Meyer and then taking the reins at Rite Aid as president and coo in 1999. In 26 years at Fred Meyer, Sammons held positions of increasing responsibility in all areas of operations and merchandising before becoming ceo of that company. She is also chairman of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, the chain drugstore industry's trade association.

Anne Sweeney serves as co-chair, Disney Media Networks

Anne Sweeney serves as co-chair, Disney Media Networks and president, Disney-ABC Television Group, where she is responsible for The Walt Disney Company’s entertainment and news television properties globally.Sweeney graduated from College of New Rochelle and Harvard University. From October 2000 to April 2004, Sweeney served as president of ABC Cable Networks Group and The Disney Channel Worldwide. Continuing with the strategy that was begun by her predecessor John F. Cooke, The Disney Channel more than quintupled its subscriber base with its mix of original series and movies and acquired programming. It is now available on basic cable in more than 87 million homes in the United States.Sweeney also oversaw the successful launch of the 24-hour animation channel Toon Disney in April 1998, and built it to its current reach of more than 52 million homes in the United States. Less than two years later, in January 2000, she oversaw the launch of SOAPnet, the 24-hour soap opera network now seen in more than 61.4 million homes.

Oprah Winfrey supervising producer of award-winning The Oprah Winfrey Show

Through the power of media, Oprah Winfrey has created an unparalleled connection with people around the world. As supervising producer and host of the top-rated, award-winning The Oprah Winfrey Show, she has entertained, enlightened and uplifted millions of viewers for the past two decades. Her accomplishments as a global media leader and philanthropist have established her as one of the most respected and admired public figures today.Oprah's story is America's story: a young girl from Mississippi, who grew up without electricity or running water but realized her promise through education and achieved her dreams in liberty. Oprah, 52, reminds us that we who flourish in freedom have a moral responsibility to help others who have the desire to succeed but just need an opportunity. Oprah is helping create those opportunities. Out of her own pocket, she built new homes—and gave new hope—to 65 families who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. In South Africa, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls will educate a new generation of women leaders. And just last year, Oprah launched a successful campaign to help victims of abuse find the justice they deserve, so they can move on with confidence.

Melinda Gates is the wife of the richest man in the world

Born - August 15, 1964 Dallas, Texas / Lives - United States of AmericaMelinda Gates is the wife of the richest man in the world, which makes her one of the most powerful women in the world according to the Forbes business magazine (ranked 12th in 2006). Along with her husband she founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and continues to spend much of her time working in the organization.She was born in Dallas Texas in 1964 as Melinda Ann French. Melinda received her bachelors degree in economics and computer science at the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She then went on to receive an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from the Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 1987.
In the same year she also started working at Microsoft where she would meet her future husband. Melinda worked her way into the position of General Manager of Information Products. Bill and Melinda also met that year and were married on the 1st of January, 1994.
The couple started the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 with $106 million. It has now grown to become one of the largest charitable foundations in the world. Melinda is very active in the foundation as a co-chairperson with her husband.

Irene Rosenfeld She holds a Ph.D. in Marketing and Statistics

Kraft Foods (KFT)has named Irene Rosenfeld as its chief executive, the company said Monday, replacing Roger Deromedi after a long period of sluggish results at the nation's largest food company.Ms. Rosenfeld is a 25-year veteran of the food and beverage industry and has a long history of bringing a consumer focus and innovation to building businesses. She began her career at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency in New York and later joined General Foods in consumer research. Over the years, she advanced in a variety of leadership roles at Kraft. Among her many accomplishments, she led the restructuring and turnaround of key businesses in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and the highly successful integration of the Nabisco acquisition. Ms. Rosenfeld also served on the senior team that led Kraft’s Initial Public Offering in 2001.
In 2004, Ms. Rosenfeld was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, where she led her organization to accelerated growth in better-for-you products and developed a pipeline of health and wellness offerings.
Ms. Rosenfeld is active in a number of industry and community organizations, including The Economic Club of Chicago. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Cornell University Board of Trustees.
She holds a Ph.D. in Marketing and Statistics, a Master of Science in Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Cornell University

Zoe crez was appointed co-president of morgan stanley

Zoe Cruz (born February 2, 1955) was appointed Co-President of Morgan Stanley on February 9, 2006.Cruz has a 24-year history with Morgan Stanley. She graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in Literature in 1977. She received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1982. She began her career at Morgan Stanley in 1982, becoming a Vice President in 1986, a Principal in 1988 and a Managing Director in 1990. From 2000 to 2005, she held the position of global Head of Fixed Income, Commodities and Foreign Exchange.Cruz is married to Ernesto Cruz, head of equity capital markets at the investment banking unit of Credit Suisse Group (CSR). Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) were principal underwriters of the 2004 Google IPO.On November 29, 2007 Morgan Stanley announced that Zoe Cruz was resigning as co-president of the firm and that she would retire immediately

She is daughter of one of the Burma’s most cherished heroes, the martyred General Aung San, who led his country’s fight for independence from Britain

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (pronounced Daw Aung Sawn Sue Chee) is one of the world's most renown freedom fighters and advocates of nonviolence, having served as the figurehead for Burma's struggle for democracy since 1988. Born on June 19th, 1945 to Burma's independence hero, Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi was educated in Burma, India, and the United Kingdom. Her father was assassinated when she was only two years old.In 1988, while living in London, she returned to Burma to nurse her dying mother, and was plunged into the country's nationwide uprising that had just begun. Joining the newly-forming National League for Democracy political party, Suu Kyi gave numerous speeches calling for freedom and democracy. The military regime responded to the uprising with brute force, shooting and otherwise killing up to 10,000 demonstrators — student, women, children, and others — in a mater of months. Unable to maintain its grip on power, the regime was forced to call for a general election in 1990. As Suu Kyi began to campaign for the NLD, she and many others were detained by the regime. Despite being held under house arrest, the NLD went on to win a staggering 82% of the seats in parliament. The regime never recognized the results. Suu Kyi has been in and out of arrest ever since. She was held from 1989-1995, and again from 2000-2002. She was again arrested and placed behind bars in May 2003 after the Depayin massacre, during which up to 100 of her supporters were beaten to death by the regime's cronies. She has moved from prison back into house arrest in late 2003 and has been held there ever since.She has won numerous international awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament, United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Jawaharlal Nehru Award from India. She has called on people around the world to join the struggle for freedom in Burma, saying "Please use your liberty to promote ours

Xie Qihuawas the iron lady

Xie Qihuawas (born in 1943), holding the reins to China's biggest steel manufacturer, is optimistic about the metal's future.A senior engineer, Xie began her career in the steel industry in 1968. Ten years later, she joined Shanghai Baoshan Steel Group and eventually became the director and deputy general manager of the group's engineering headquarters. In 1993, she was made director of the group's plan and development department. The woman who manages the world's No.6 steel group with a 20-million-ton yearly output has a gentle simplicity about her. But don't let external appearances fool you; she's not known as the "iron lady" for nothing. Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. under Baosteel Group is a listed company credited as being a stabilizing factor in the Chinese capital market, something which is widely seen as being due to Xie's no nonsense attitude and inspirational influence. Apart from Board Chairwoman of Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation, Xie boasts a string of other titles that include Alternate Member of the 16th Central Committee of Communist Party of China, President of China Iron and Steel Association, "Top 100 Powerful Women in the World" and "Most Powerful Business Leader of China." It's clear that this dynamic woman's efforts in the business world are not going unnoticed. On October 31, Forbes magazine published the list of "Top 50 Businesswomen in the World 2005." Xie Qihua and Ma Xuezheng, Chief Financial Officer of Lenovo Group Limited, broke into the top 10 rankings. As if to confirm her power status, Xie was simultaneously listed by the Wall Street Journal in their "Top 50 Businesswomen to Watch" rankings, an honor of significant prestige.

Xie Qihuawas (born in 1943), holding the reins to China's biggest steel manufacturer, is optimistic about the metal's future.A senior engineer, Xie began her career in the steel industry in 1968. Ten years later, she joined Shanghai Baoshan Steel Group and eventually became the director and deputy general manager of the group's engineering headquarters. In 1993, she was made director of the group's plan and development department. The woman who manages the world's No.6 steel group with a 20-million-ton yearly output has a gentle simplicity about her. But don't let external appearances fool you; she's not known as the "iron lady" for nothing. Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. under Baosteel Group is a listed company credited as being a stabilizing factor in the Chinese capital market, something which is widely seen as being due to Xie's no nonsense attitude and inspirational influence. Apart from Board Chairwoman of Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation, Xie boasts a string of other titles that include Alternate Member of the 16th Central Committee of Communist Party of China, President of China Iron and Steel Association, "Top 100 Powerful Women in the World" and "Most Powerful Business Leader of China." It's clear that this dynamic woman's efforts in the business world are not going unnoticed. On October 31, Forbes magazine published the list of "Top 50 Businesswomen in the World 2005." Xie Qihua and Ma Xuezheng, Chief Financial Officer of Lenovo Group Limited, broke into the top 10 rankings. As if to confirm her power status, Xie was simultaneously listed by the Wall Street Journal in their "Top 50 Businesswomen to Watch" rankings, an honor of significant prestige.

Patricia Russo the current chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent

Patricia Russo (born in 1953, in Trenton, New Jersey) is the current chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent, one of the world's largest communication equipment manufacturers.Prior to the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies, Patricia Russo was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucent. As one of the founding executives of the company, she helped launch Lucent in 1996 and spent more than 20 years of her career managing some of Lucent's and AT&T's largest divisions and most critical corporate functions.Before joining AT&T in 1981, Patricia Russo spent eight years in sales and marketing at IBM. Patricia also served as president and chief operating officer at Eastman Kodak Company before returning to Lucent as CEO.Patricia Russo received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University in 1989. She has received an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology

Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Julie Gerberding became the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) on July 3, 2002.Dr. Gerberding is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha (medical honor society), American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), American College of Physicians, the American Epidemiology Society, and is a Fellow in the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). She chaired and co-chaired IDSA's Committee on Professional Development and Diversity, was elected to serve as a member of the Nominations Committee, and co-chaired the Annual Program Committee. Dr. Gerberding is a member of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and previously served on its board for 3 years.In the past, Dr. Gerberding served as a member of CDC’s National Center for Infectious Diseases’ Board of Scientific Counselors, the CDC HIV Advisory Committee, and the Scientific Program Committee, National Conference on Human Retroviruses. She has also been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, the American Medical Association, CDC, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National AIDS Commission, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the World Health Organization.

Nancy Pelosi the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is currently the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Before becoming Speaker in the 110th Congress, she was the House Minority Leader from 2002 to 2007, holding the post during the 107th, 108th, and 109th Congresses.
Since 1987, she has represented the 8th Congressional District of California, which consists of four-fifths of the City and County of San Francisco. The district was numbered as the 5th during Pelosi's first three terms in the House.
With her election as Speaker, she is the first woman, the first Californian, and the first Italian-American to hold the Speakership. She is the second Speaker from a state west of the Rocky Mountains, with the first being Washington's Tom Foley, who was the last Democrat to hold the post before Pelosi. As Speaker of the House, Pelosi ranks second in the line of presidential succession, following Vice President Dick Cheney. She is therefore the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. Government.Pelosi was born to Italian-American parents in Baltimore, Maryland. The youngest of six children, she was involved with politics from an early age. Her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland and a Mayor of Baltimore. Her mother, Anunciata, was born in Italy and immigrated to the U.S. in 1911. Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro III, one of her five brothers, also served as Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971.
Pelosi graduated from Baltimore's Institute of Notre Dame high school and from Trinity College (now Trinity Washington University) in Washington, D.C. in 1962. Pelosi interned for Senator Daniel Brewster (D-Maryland) alongside future House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.She met Paul Pelosi while she was attending Trinity College, and then Georgetown University. They married in a Catholic Church on September 7, 1963. After the couple married they moved to New York, and then to San Francisco in 1969, where his brother Ronald Pelosi was a member of the city's board of supervisors (San Francisco city and county council).

Carleton "Carly" S. Fiorina was president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard

Carleton S. (Carly) Fiorina was president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company from 1999 to 2005. She served as chairman of the board from 2000 to 2005.
Prior to joining HP, Fiorina spent nearly 20 years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where she held a number of senior leadership positions and directed Lucent's initial public offering and subsequent spin-off from AT&T.
Fiorina was named an honorary fellow of the London Business School in July 2001. In 2002, she was honored with the Appeal of Conscience Award, and in 2003 she received the Concern Worldwide "Seeds of Hope" Award in recognition of her worldwide efforts to make global citizenship a priority for business.
The Private Sector Council honored Fiorina with its 2004 Leadership Award for her contributions to improving the business of government. Also in 2004, the White House appointed her to the U.S. Space Commission.
Fiorina has a bachelor's degree in medieval history and philosophy from Stanford University. She holds a master's degree in business administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, Md., and a master of science degree from MIT's Sloan School.She and her husband, Frank Fiorina, now retired, spend lots of time boating. Even though their first boat lacked sleeping quarters, they would spend weekends sleeping on it. Now, their Alchemy, a 52-foot boat with proper sleeping space, is moored in Jersey City.Her mother, Madelon, who passed away in December. ''She was the strongest person I've ever known. She had an unquenchable zest for life,'' Fiorina says. ''She worked incredibly hard to make me the best person I could be.''

Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal, who led the Philippines during the 1960s.

Born in 1947, Mrs Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal, who led the Philippines during the 1960s.
She was a classmate of former US President Bill Clinton at Georgetown University in Washington, and has a doctorate in economics from the University of the Philippines. Mrs Arroyo's route into politics was a conventional one. She started her government career with the Department of Trade and Industry, and was elected into the Senate in 1992, and again in 1995. Three years later she won a landslide victory to become vice-president to Mr Estrada.
Her style could not be more different from that of Mr Estrada, or his friend Fernando Poe Junior, who ran against her in the 2004 presidential election.
Her sometimes cold and businesslike manner has made it difficult for her to win the support of poorer voters.
She tried to address this problem during the run-up to the 2004 presidential campaign by injecting some glamour into her campaign.
She chose as her vice-president Noli De Castro, who got into politics because of his experience as a news anchor.

Megawati Sukarnoputri president of Indonesia

Megawati Sukarnoputri (1947- ), president of Indonesia (2001- ) and leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), who as vice president (1999-2001) replaced deposed president Abdurrahman Wahid.
Born in Yogyakarta, Megawati is the second child and eldest daughter of Indonesia’s founding president, Sukarno. He led Indonesia’s independence from Dutch colonial rule after World War II (1939-1945) and served as the country’s first president for two decades. Her full given name is Dyah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri, but she commonly uses only one name, Megawati, following Indonesian custom. The name Megawati roughly translates as “woman of the clouds,” and Sukarnoputri means “daughter of Sukarno.”
Megawati and her three younger siblings grew up in the presidential palace in the care of their father; their mother, Fatmawati, separated from Sukarno in 1954. After graduating high school Megawati began her university studies at the Bandung Institute of Technology. Before earning a degree, however, Megawati discontinued her studies during the political upheaval that resulted in her father’s replacement by General Suharto in 1968. Megawati then married Surindro Supjarso, an air force lieutenant, and went to live with him in Madiun. Sukarno died in June 1970. Then in January 1971 Surindro died in a plane crash.

This Clinton appointee to the United State's highest court is a former general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union and a longtime law profes

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Nathan Bader and Celia Amster Bader. In 1954, she married Martin D. Ginsburg, now a professor of tax law at Georgetown University Law Center. They have two children: Jane C. Ginsburg, a professor at Columbia Law School, and James S. Ginsburg, a producer of classical recordings.Elementary and high schools: P.S. 238 and James Madison High School, Brooklyn, New York. College: Cornell University, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, B.A. 1954, with high honors in Government and distinction in all subjects, College of Arts and Sciences Class Marshal. Law schools: attended Harvard Law School (1956-58), Harvard Law Review; Columbia Law School, LL.B. (J.D.) 1959, Columbia Law Review, Kent ScholarAdmitted to New York Bar in 1959 and District of Columbia Bar in 1975. American Civil Liberties Union: Women's Rights Project, Founder and Counsel (1972-80); General Counsel (1973-80); National Board of Directors (1974-80). Other affiliations include: American Bar Foundation Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Secretary (1979-89), American Bar Association Journal Board of Editors (1972-78); ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Council Member (1975-81); American Law Institute, Council Member (1978-1993); American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow (1982-); Council on Foreign Relations (1975-).Nominated by President Carter to United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; took oath of office June 30, 1980. Nominated by President Clinton as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; took oath of office August 10, 1993.

Sandra Day O'Connor the first woman justice to sit on the Supreme Court

Sandra Day O'Connor was born March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas. Her parents, Harry and Ada Mae, owned the Lazy-B-Cattle Ranch in southeastern Arizona, where O'Connor grew up. O'Connor experienced a difficult life on the ranch in her early childhood. The ranch itself did not receive electricity or running water until she was seven. Since their nearest neighbors lived 25 miles away, the family spent their days mostly in isolation. The isolated ranch made formal education difficult so O'Connor's parents sent her to live with her maternal grandmother in El Paso. Sandra attended the Radford School, a private academy for girls, from kindergarten through high school. Suffering from extreme homesickness, she withdrew and returned to Arizona for a year. Still, she graduated with good marks at the age of sixteen. O'Connor attributes much of her later success to her grandmother's influence. She credits her grandmother's confidence in her ability to succeed in any endeavor as her motivation for refusing to admit defeat.After high school, O'Connor attended Stanford University where she majored in economics. She chose economics originally with the intention of applying that knowledge towards the operation of a ranch of her own or even the Lazy-B Ranch. A legal dispute over her family's ranch, however, stirred her interest in law and O'Connor decided to enroll at Stanford Law School after receiving her baccalaureate degree magna cum laude in 1950.

Hillary Diane Rodham became a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund

Hillary Diane Rodham was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 26, 1947, daughter of Hugh and Dorothy Rodham. She and her younger two brothers grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, as a close-knit family. An excellent student, she was also a Girl Scout and a member of the local Methodist youth group. Hillary also enjoyed sports and was always interested in politics.
She entered Wellesley College in 1965. Graduating with high honors, she moved on to Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. While at Yale, she developed her special concern for protecting the best interests of children and their families. It was there that she met Bill Clinton, a fellow student.
In 1973, Hillary became a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund. A year later she was recruited by the Impeachment Inquiry staff of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives to work on the Watergate Impeachment proceedings.
Hillary left Washington and followed her heart to Arkansas, marrying Bill Clinton in 1975.

Laura Bush

Laura Bush is the wife of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. She holds a bachelor's degree in education from Southern Methodist University and a master's degree in library science from the University of Texas; after graduation she worked as an elementary school teacher and a librarian in Texas schools. She married Bush in 1977. During her husband's years as governor of Texas (1995-2001), Laura Bush became known as an advocate for education and literacy -- issues she continued to pursue in the White House. The Bushes have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna Bush.As the leader of President Bush's Helping America's Youth initiative, Mrs. Bush is listening to the concerns of young people, parents, and community leaders throughout the country and drawing attention to programs that help children avoid risky behaviors like drug and alcohol use, early sexual activity, and violence. She's highlighting the need of every child to have a caring adult role model in his or her life - whether that adult is a parent, grandparent, teacher, coach, or mentor.

3.Italian-born Sonia Gandhi is the latest torchbearer of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.

Born to Stefano and Paola Maino in Lusiana, a little village 50 km from vicenza Italy, Born Sonia Antonia Maino on December 9, 1946, is an Italian-born Indian politician, the President of the Indian National Congress and the widow of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi.She spent her adolescence in Orbassano, a town near Turin being raised in a Roman Catholic family and attending a Catholic school. Her father, a building contractor, died in 1983.Her mother and two sisters still live around Orbassano.
In 1964, she went to study English at The Bell Educational Trust's language school in the city of Cambridge. Being from a poor family she used to work in a restaurant as waitress for paying the tuition fees.While doing this certificate course she met Rajiv gandhi, who was enrolled at the time in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. They were married in 1969, after which she moved into the house of her mother-in-law and then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. She acquired Indian citizenship in 1983. The couple had two children, Rahul Gandhi(born 1970) and Priyanka Gandhi (born 1972).
Despite the family's heavy involvement in politics (her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, was Prime Minister), Sonia and Rajiv avoided all involvement - Rajiv worked as an airline pilot, and Sonia took care of her family.When Indira was ousted from office in 1977 and when Rajiv entered politics in 1982, Sonia continued to focus on her family and avoided all contact with public.

2.Ms. Wu Yi, "China’s Iron Lady,and is now the most powerful woman in the government

Wu Yi born in 1938 in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, to an intellectual family, she studied petroleum engineering in college and became deputy manager and Party secretary of the giant Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Corporation, 1983-1988.Ms. Wu Yi, "China’s Iron Lady", earned a reputation as a tough but flexible negotiator while minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation through the deals she orchestrated with the United States on copyright protection, trade and investment agreements. In 1993, when trade frictions with the United States were at a peak, Wu impressed the party brass with her handling of talks with Mickey Kantor and Charlene Barshefsky.Because of her toughness, intelligence and dedication to her work, as well as her close ties to Premier Zhu Rongji, she was promoted to the post of state councilor, the highest government rank below vice premier, and is now the most powerful woman in the government. Zhu put her in charge of foreign trade, in which capacity she has been overseeing sensitive negotiations for China’s accession to the World Trade Organization.

Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Condoleezza Rice Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001conquered the piano as a young girl and the complicated, controversial field of Soviet military affairs after receiving her Ph.D. Her reputation will turn on how she handles problems from hell like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea. In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University 's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching

Main agar Kahoon from movie OSO by Sonu nigam a very romantic song

Title track of Atif Aslam second album DOORIE expressing that no one bear far away from his beloved one

Tera Milna pal do pal ka from sonu nigam

Ab mujhe raat din-sonu nigam A memorable song which express your feeling to someone that U LOVE HIM/HER

Hey Shona from movie ta ra rum pum another lovely song by Shaan

Bhool ja by Shaan A song inspiring to forgot all things of past and to enjoy present

Tanha dil by Another beautiful song Shaan

Dekho na from Fanaa.A very romantic song in the rain

chand sifarish from movie Fanaa sung by Shaan and Kailash kher

Mere haah mein tera haath ho from movie Fanaa.A must listen song

funny mix of Kya Kool Hain Hum by Ekta Kapoor staring Tushar Kapoor,Ritesh Deshmuk,Esha kopikar,Neha Dhupia

Unke Nashe Mein from Shootout At Lokhandwala by Ekta Kapoor

Aey Ganpat from Shootout at Lokhandwala starring Tushar Kapoor brother of Indian soap queen Ekta Kapoor

bepanah pyaar hai aaja from movir Krishna Cottage by Ekta Kapoor

Suna Suna from Krishna Cottage directed by Ekta Kapoor.A very romantic song

tu hai aasman main from movie jhankar beats.Another heart touching song

Allah Ke Bande Has de by kailash Kher fro movie Waisa Bhi Hota Hai

ANGAD AND KRIPA IN TERA MERA RISHTA PURANA(remix) SUNG BY MUSTAFA ZAHID(PAKISTANI SINGER)

woh lamhe from movie zeher sung by Atif Aslam

kuch is tarah by Atif Aslam 1 of the most beautiful song i have heard

Kyo Kii... Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta - A portly Govinda prances around with a svelte Sushmita Sen

A portly Govinda prances around with a svelte Sushmita Sen. When he is bored of his 'hi-fi' heroine, he dives into a pool filled with lotus flowers and Rambha, much in danger of bursting out of her clothes.

He spouts absurd dialogues that compare a wife to a television and mistress to the Internet. (Biwi toh TV ki tarah hai -- jab bhi switch karo wohi programme chalta rahta hai. Tum toh Internet ki tarah ho -- jab bhi kholo toh naya site dikhayee deta hai)
Loud clothes dominate. And the audience is expected to cackle at corny situations like the one where the actors say 'cheers' and clink each other's pani puri.
Now, who would watch a mad caper like that?

Kyo Kii... Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta is senseless, an insult to the intelligence. But it is funny. If you are not laughing through the film, you are laughing at it.
After all, it's a David Dhawan film. Snob value aside, you must admit Govinda films are hilarious.

KKMJNB is about Raj Malhotra (Govinda), small-time lawyer who comes to Bombay to make his fortune. Shrewd and streetsmart, he wants to take the elevator to the top. Opportunity knocks in the form of the city's most celebrated advocate, Tejpal (Anupam Kher), whose accomplishments include two daughters.
Raj watches a hawkish Adarsh (Sharad Kapoor) -- in a blink-and-you-miss-him role -- who makes it big because he is married to Tejpal's elder daughter, played by a nameless someone.
Fortunately, Tejpal has another pretty daughter Sonal (Sushmita Sen) up for grabs. And Raj plots, manipulates, lies and dances in an effort to convince her into matrimony.
That accomplished, he just about settles down when wifey drops a bomb on him. She would rather live in her husband's humble abode (a chawl) than in her father's palace. You see, she has taken his protests of independence, pride and righteousness a tad too seriously.
As Raj's best laid plans to usurp his father in law's riches go awry, he decides to get to the top on his own. Why he didn't think of that in the beginning beats us. Then again, in a David Dhawan film, you don't ask questions.

Raj turns into a compulsive liar (not that he wasn't one before) and manipulates his way to riches. In seven years, he acquires fame, fortune and a son.
Then, one day, the otherwise cootchie-cooing, ever-forgiving wife stages a walkout. She can't bear the company he keeps anymore. It is now left to their six-year-old boy to make a wish upon a shooting star that his father stop fibbing, if he wants a happy married life.
His wish is granted, thanks to some clever manoeuvreing by the scriptwriters, who have suddenly decided that the film needs to take off on the lines of Jim Carey's Liar Liar.
Govinda is brilliant. His comic timing stands in good stead, once again. Though he is no patch on Carey when it comes to facial contortions, Govinda manages to raise more than a few laughs.
There is also no mistaking that age is telling on him. Through the film, he looks middle-aged. One wishes he shed those extra kilos.

Sushmita Sen sizzles. She dances like a dream and matches Govinda step for step. But as soon as she moves into the role of a wife, she becomes extremely boring. Suddenly, she sports salwar kameezes, heavy jewellery and the pativrata nari act. She fails to look convincing in Indian costumes.

She also has to work on her dialogue delivery. A highly accented Hindi and lots of hamming makes her grate on the nerves after some time.
Rambha, as the vamp, is wasted. She has precious little to do other than strut around in impossibly tight clothes that serve to highlight ungainly cellulite. But then, David Dhawan seems to have a fascination for ménage a trois, what with Gharwali Baharwali and Biwi No 1 revolving around the one-man-two-women theme.

The film is Govinda all the way. It could have well been called Govinda no 1.
The villain, Karla (Ashish Vidyarthi) seems like a paper cutout -- he is so one-dimensional.
The music by Anand Raj Anand is mediocre but the songs are livened up by Govinda's energetic steps in three-inch heels to match Sushmita's height.

With KKMJNB, Dhawan takes charge of the editing table and crafts a taut comedy that rarely sags. He knows what clicks with the masses: a lot of laughs, a lot of Govinda's mad antics and minimum effort on the grey matter.
KKMJNB is total paisa vasool and like they say in Bombay, fultoo timepass.

Krishna Cottage - supernatural thriller about a disgruntled ghoul on the prowl

Ram Gopal Varma's "Bhoot" meets Ekta Kapoor's "Kucch To Hai". And they both meet with a numbing nemesis in "Krishna Cottage", yet another supernatural thriller about a disgruntled ghoul on the prowl. Tragically, apart from the surname, director Santram Verma has nothing in common with his obvious source of inspiration. "Krishna Cottage" is a supernatural thriller that doesn't know its mind. It wavers between Hollywood's campus-slasher films and Bollywood's age-old spook yarns like "Woh Kaun Thi" and "Kohra" where a mysterious woman in white would entice the hero with a haunting melody.Anu Malik comes up with his haunt jaunt, "Bepanaah pyar hai aaja", and Isha Koppiker makes a comely ghoul, though hardly ever dressed in white. In eye-catching clothes and locales, Koppiker glides with famished fervour in search of a love she lost in her last life.

Lust lingers into afterlife, as the ghoul, now reinvented as a woman named Disha, goes after campus dude Manav (Sahail Khan) with steadfast come-hither steps.But the screenwriter takes the audiences for granted and crams the plot with so many improbable clichés from the teen-campus flicks that we wonder if "Krishna Cottage" is aimed as a spoof on the horror genre.
The shallow shiver-giver takes itself too seriously to be satire. The characters all look familiar. To take one example, the cynical Akshay (Hiten Tejwani) - we've seen that character played with far more arresting charm by Dino Morea in "Shhhhh".The problem with "Krishna Cottage", and by extension all supernatural films, is it follows too many preconditions of the genre. Characters keep running into ill-lit deserted homes and warehouses too often for comfort. Fortunately there're no creaky doors and gates. But the performances make up for the hinges.
Very soon we are more concerned with our growing horror at the banality and scarcity of sincere scares than the horror of the characters who discover that a book of horror stories holds the key to their lives. Turn the page quickly!

The bizarre killings inside a storeroom on the college campus are punctuated by guffaws, giggles and a few gasps, all recorded by practised hands on the soundtrack. The saturated sound effects get tedious after a while. We are finally forced to listen more than look at the goings-on.
The music by Anu Malik, which is an asset outside the film, seems to be as much without mooring in the film as the semi-seductive spirit who stalks Sohail with a sonorous song. A couple of riveting tracks get washed away in the storm of special effects, which incidentally are undoubtedly impressive. The scenes shot in snow-capped Simla remind us of Raj Khosla's "Woh Kaun Thi", though in colour the cinematography relentlessly replicates the rhythms of the black-and-white era.

In terms of the background, mood and visual effects, "Krishna Cottage" gets its packaging process correct. Also, a complete absence of visual and verbal vulgarity comes in telling contrast to some recent releases.But the absurdity of piling up the plot with the rituals of terror is a huge tactical error.By and large "Krishna Cottage" seems to be an extension of Ekta Kapoor's horror serials on TV and her last feature film, "Kucch To Hai". Like the earlier film, "Krishna Cottage" is a love triangle narrated in the 'slasher' ambience.

Natasha who was a quiet witness to her lover-boys' growing fondness for a mysterious woman in "Kucch To Hai" is here quite vocal of Sohail Khan's discernible affinity to Isha Koppiker. That Isha turns out to be a ghost takes the love triangle from the bed to the dead. The plot just about follows the love story to the grave. At heart "Krishna Cottage" is a story of unrequited love and its horrific aftermath. The plot's compelling core is twisted into shallow shapes of shivering horror that make the heart go cold for all the wrong reasons.

The performances are at best amateurish, and at worst, a horror. Rati Agnihotri acts and speaks like Rekha in "Bhoot". Eerily, the zingy item song "Bindaas" is filmed not on item girl Isha but Natasha. That's as unpredictable as debutant Santram Verma's direction gets.

Kyaa Kool Hai Hum - There's a serial killer on the loose

Kyaa Kool Hai Hum

While Ekta Kapoor's killer serials on the idiot box have been inflicting much mental trauma, for the big screen, she goes the 'serial killer' way. Karan (Riteish Deshmukh) and Rahul (Tusshar Kapoor) are wannabe cool dudes.

There's a serial killer on the loose. Dr. Screwvala (Anupam Kher), who's actually a nutcase, is put in charge of the case. Rahul is mistaken to be the killer. Enter Inspector Urmila Maar-todkar (Isha Koppikar) who is a pain in the ass for every smart-ass. She bolts with Screwvala to solve the case. And a comedy of errors - in fact an erroneous comedy follows. Meanwhile Karan gets into a happy and gay love liaison.

He is happy until he finds that his love is gay. Director Sangeeth Sivan takes the less-traversed path in Bollywood of implied humour garnished with non-veg jokes. Suggestive comedy can be an entertaining genre if handled well. Not that KKHH is a masterpiece sex-comedy but it has its moments of laughter. At times, the movie even goes from visually vulgar to grammatically garish. But barring some scenes, KKHH is enjoyable with a light-hearted open mind. With a 'til-on-her-dil' funda, the camera has plenty of excuses to capture Isha Koppikar's cleavage.

But all her oomph falls flat the moment she opens her mouth with her ghati Marathi dialect. Sex appeal khallas! Anupam Kher who gets sufficient screen footage after quite a long time almost plays a caricature. Tusshar Kapoor plays the dumb-head and for that he doesn't have to try to hard. But has he promised sister Ekta a cowboy song in every film?

Finally, it's Riteish Deshmukh, with his poker-faced deadpan expressions, who succeeds in making you laugh for the major part of the movie. If you plan to savour some non-veg 'masti' for the weekend, Kyaa Kool Hai Hum is your cup of kool drink. Just ensure you leave your mom and dad at home to avoid embarrassment.

Koi Aap Sa - The “K” game is back in play in Ekta Kapoor’s

The “K” game is back in play in Ekta Kapoor’s “Koi Aap Sa”. But there is something different—Aftab Shivdasani is the lead not Tusshar. Ekta has also gone back to Himesh Reshammiya (who as of late has gone from very pleasing hit albums to very familiar sounding hit albums), after their delicious collaboration in Kyaa Dil Ne Kahaa. And thus, the formula is very similar to Kyaa Dil Ne Kahaa, but not surprisingly—not as good.

Unoriginality screams from the melody behind “Seene Mein Dil”, which takes inspiration from a few including “Ek Ladki” from 1942 Love Story. But that is by far, not a surprise. Otherwise, the song is an apt romantic tune which can keep its listener attentive and enjoyed.

“Aadat Hai Chuki”, the “Nikamma” incarnate of this album is just that—an incarnate of several Reshammiya upbeat dance tunes. As peppy as it is it has become apparent that what is changing is the lyrics from album to album, and not the music. As always, there is a remix of this one later on as well.

Sunidhi Chauhan is great in “Aadat Hai Chuki”, but the other dance tune, “Baandh Mere Pairon Mein”, her voice seems a bit strained at places, as does Sonu Nigam’s. Perhaps this is the one time Reshammiya has chosen the wrong vocals for the right tune. This quickly paced song is more of a crowd pleaser than “Aadat Hai”, with its typical beats and mandatory English lyrics (best suited for Shaan, no?), and will probably end up somewhere in clubs quickly. A remix done by DJ Akbar Sami also follows.

Sonu Nigam, who is a good vocalist for Aftab Shivdasani, croons in the romantic ditty, “Tere Dil Ka Rishta”. The slow romance song is breezy with a pleasant back drop and ear pleasing without leaving the regular territory.

‘Tere Naam’ is oozing out of “Kabhi Na Sakoon”, in face shamelessly so! It’s hard to remain original, we know, especially with the original being a mere two years old. I do suppose that the uncanny resemblance won’t stop the song from becoming successful as it is as good as it’s original. Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik are good in both versions.

The title track is the most typical of them all following the trend of the opener “Seene Mein Dil”, it is a typical love song sung by your typical duet—Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik. Given that none of the other songs are astounding; this one not being that is almost expected thus making it pleasing and passable just as the rest.

For inflation purposes, the soundtrack has repeats of every song but the title track. Each version perhaps offers something different… or not. Remixes are abundant, including one of “Pairon Mein”, which includes an additional singer—Jayesh Gandhi.

‘Koi Aap Sa’ is another soundtrack of the many Bollywood produces. Like most of the other Ekta Kapoor (and for that matter Himesh Reshammiya) albums there isn’t much to talk about and there isn’t much to like or dislike either way. Strictly speaking the songs may suit the film and serve their purpose but nothing much beyond that.

Mridul singhvi - Playing New Generation Main lead as Vardaan in Kasauti Zindagi Kay

Mridul singhvi

Playing New Generation Main lead as Vardaan in Kasauti Zindagi Kay in the Generation Leap.
he Generation next of Kasautii Zindagi Kay shares tremendous camaraderie, not just on the screen, but off it too. Apparently, there are sparks flying between co-actors Mridul Singhvi (Vardaan) and Praneeta Sahu (Jwala). After wrapping a day's shoot the duo hit coffee shops and clubs in the suburbs. Says a source close to the actors, “Mridul and Praneeta have become extremely close to each other in the last few days.” Recently, Mridul invited Praneeta to his house over dinner. Close friends, who were present at the casual dinner, indicate that they may be seeing each other. “It's not surprising as they often go for long drives together,” adds the source. However, the couple prefer tomtoming the 'just friends' tag. When contacted Praneeta Sahu laughed it off saying,

“He is one of my closest friends off the sets. We do hang out a lot together after shoots but we are just good friends. After running between the shoots for two serials I am hardly left with any time to breathe.” She further adds, “He's familiar with all the places in the city, as he hosts a show about nightspots in the city. So we go out clubbing and hang out together after the shoots.” Mridul says, “We are just great friends and we do hang out together off the sets, but that's about it.”

Naman Shaw - loves going back to his home in Kolkata

Naman Shaw

Naman Shaw loves going back to his home in Kolkata whenever he gets the chance. He tries and visit my parents whenever possible. This time when he went to Kolkata, he was shocked to see how much the place has changed. So many clubs have come up that the nightlife has become much better than before. What also made this visit special was the attention Naman got from people all around him. He plays the role of Pushkar in Kasamh Se (Zee TV).

Neena Kulkarni , Kanika Kulkarni

Neena Kulkarni , Kanika Kulkarni ... will soon be seen matching her histrionics skills with the likes of Rohit Roy, Kiran Kumar and Amarr Upadhay in Ravi Chopra's Viraasat.Her past work includes:Kanica got her first break with Kabhi Aaye Na Judai on Star Plus, Neil in Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, Played Mahan in Piya ka Ghar on Zee Tv, Ek Ladki Anjani Si on Sony TV Lipstick, Kaavyanjali, Reth and Hey Yahi To Hai Woh Telefilm, Saanjh Savera with Faizal Khan and Kitu Gidwani for Sahara TV. is a good actress has been well acknowledged in the world of Marathi stage, cinema and television. Some of her movies are Raqeeb, Humko Deewana Kar Gaye, Idiot, 7 Half Phere, Paheli, Kya Kool Hai Hum, Yehi Hai Zindagi, Hungama, Ishq Hai Tumse, Kyaa Dil Ne Kahaa, Kya Yehi Pyaar Hai, Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai, Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke, Purush, Ab Ke Baras, Guru etc. She was in Saarthi.

Kanika Maheshwari will soon be seen matching her histrionics skills with the likes of Rohit Roy, Kiran Kumar and Amarr Upadhay in Ravi Chopra's Viraasat.Her past work includes:Kanica got her first break with Kabhi Aaye Na Judai on Star Plus, Neil in Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, Played Mahan in Piya ka Ghar on Zee Tv, Ek Ladki Anjani Si on Sony TV Lipstick, Kaavyanjali, Reth and Hey Yahi To Hai Woh Telefilm, Saanjh Savera with Faizal Khan and Kitu Gidwani for Sahara TV.will soon be seen matching her histrionics skills with the likes of Rohit Roy, Kiran Kumar and Amarr Upadhay in Ravi Chopra's Viraasat.Her past work includes:Kanica got her first break with Kabhi Aaye Na Judai on Star Plus, Neil in Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, Played Mahan in Piya ka Ghar on Zee Tv, Ek Ladki Anjani Si on Sony TV Lipstick, Kaavyanjali, Reth and Hey Yahi To Hai Woh Telefilm, Saanjh Savera with Faizal Khan and Kitu Gidwani for Sahara TV.

Suraj Thapar-astrology and tarot card reading

Sooraj Thapar who is still remembered because of Manish Goswami's Daraar is missing in action for quite some time. He was last seen in Jassi Jaisi koi nahi, in a role which was an exact replica of the character previously played by Rajesh Khera (Maddy) on the same show.
The actor is currently doing a play with Poonam Dhillon called, The Perfect Husband and is getting good feedback for his performance.
Our sources tell us that the actor has a keen interest in astrology and tarot card reading. Someone whom he consults regularly told him that his time is not right at the moment and that's why the actor is reportedly taking things easy!
But we wonder why Manish Goswami didn't consider Sooraj for any prominent role in Sarrkkar or any new project? Perhaps, he too is waiting for a great character to offer the actor, we presume!
Till then, Sooraj, watch the stars closely!