Dil Chahta Hai changed the way we perceived Bollywood movies and in many ways how we made them. Before Farhan Akhtar introduced us to the emotional undertone of characters, colloquial dialogues, and a youth centric theme that doesn’t flare passion, all Bollywood films had used an outdated sketch of youth, without realistic upgrades. Dil Chahta […]
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Business: Owner, Corner Shop (Fruits and Vegetable shop) Established: In 1920 Citizen: Kenyan Sometime in the 1920s, Sandeep Wadhwa’s grandfather set forth from Rawalpindi and landed in Mombasa with his wife to start his business here. His first investment was a cart that would lug all the vegetables and fruits to be eventually sold to
Business: Owner, Fun N Shop, Ashoka Restaurant Established: 2005 Citizen: Indian Future plans: To start an NGO for helping the girl child in India She came to Nairobi as a homemaker in 1993, with her Banker husband. Little did she know her entrepreneurial skills would
Rashmin’s Profession: Architect, owns Design Bureau ( 1981) Business: Started Ruchira (1983), first garden restaurant in Kenya Positions held: Co-chair and founder Trustee – Ufungamano Joint Forum of Religious Organisation Past Chairman – Hindu Council of Kenya (HCK) Trustee & Past Chairman– Maharashtra Mandal Shama’s Business: Runs Gat Safaris, a travel agency (since 1996) along with husband Rashmin Chitnis Citizen: Kenyans In the year
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Profession: Dentist (practicing for the past four decades) Business: Co- owns Haandi, an Indian restaurant with 3 branches in Kenya. established in 1991 Citizen: Kenyan His maternal grandfather came to work in a sawmill in 1898 upon the invitation of an Englishman and soon set his business here. “This is home,” says Dr Parvin Singh
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Business: The Bhagwanji confectionaries, Nairobi Branch Established: 1895, Mombasa Citizen: Kenyan A trip to Mombasa is deemed incomplete without having eaten Bhagwanji’s kachoris. Bloggers to travellers have extensively shared their delight of trying this Indian savory in an African country. Their story dates back to nearly 100 years, when 17-year-old Bhagwanji left his hometown Jodia,
Somewhere in colonial India, a group of poor villagers challenge the might of the British Empire over a game of cricket. How can a film with such a riveting plot not be a legend? Ashutosh Gowariker took India’s two great passions – Patriotism and Cricket, and mixed it with mesmerising music, impossible odds, and a
It is a fact that we laugh hardest at others’ moments of failure. Hera Pheri is a story of three men who constantly struggle to make things right, but fail everytime, producing moments of ridicule and maddening laughter. The film epitomised situational comedy and set a benchmark for comedy films that still hasn’t been breached
1947: Earth is a part of an elements trilogy by Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta. Each of the three films, Fire, Earth, and Water, have unrelated storylines, but the narration of each film is hard-hitting and intrusive. Earth captures the horrors of India’s most tragic historical event and the permanent imprint it leaves on the personalities
