12 DREAM BEACHES OF INDIA

CHANDIPUR, ODISHA

       A small sea resort located in Boleswar district of Odisha. It is on the Bay of Bengal. This beach is also known as vanishing beach due to its uniqueness. The water subsides from one to four kmsduring the ebb tide. This happens all year long, twice a day. Horseshoe crab is also found here on the beach.

MARINA BEACH, CHENNAI

        It is a natural urban beach situated in the city of Chennai. The distance of the beach is 13 km, which makes it the longest beach in the country and second longest in the world. Due to turbulent current in the waters, bathing and swimming is prohibited. Due to pollution, the beach has lost its jolly ambience and rich eco-system.

THARANGAMBADI, TAMIL NADU

        Tharangambadi formerly known as Tranquebar is a panchayat town in the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu. The meaning of te place name is “place of singing waves”. This place is best known for holding the oldest monument-the shiva temple. The temple was built by few Arabian ship-wrecked sailors a thanksgiving for their lives being saved in 1309.

RADHANAGAR, ANDAMAN & NICOBER

       It is a village located in Havelock island, it is the largest of the islands that comprise Ritchie’s Archipelago, a chain of islands to the east of Great Andaman islands. The island is located 57 km northeast of the capital city, Port Blair. The five villages are Govinda nagar, Bejoy nagar, Shyam nagar, Krishna nagar and Radha nagar.

LAXMANPUR (NEIL ISLAND), ANDAMAN

        Neil island is one of the most beautiful islands of Andaman & Nicober group. Laxmanpur beach is a beautiful, white, sandy beach that is full of shells, dead corals and provides an awesome view. The beach provides stunning sunset view.

AGATTI ISLAND, LAKSHADWEEP

          Agatti is a 5.6 km long island, situated on a coral atoll in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. During the monsoon time, boats are not allowed outside the lagoon because of the violent sea. The presence of the reef maintains calm at the lagoon. The narrow winding roads and a fishing community gives quite a nice feeling. The road that runs through the island gives you the glimpses of blues of the beach, it can be best enjoyed by hiring a bicycle.

MUZHAPPILANGAD BEACH, KERELA

        It is located parallel to national highway 66between Kannur and Thalassery. This beach is the longest drive-in beach in India. The beach festival is celebrated in the month of April and it is one of the important tourist attention in the district of Kannur in Kerela. This place is a paradise for driving along shore, many people try out stunts. There is an unpaved road winding through coconut groves leading to the beach.

ARAMBOL, GOA

        Arambol is a town in the Pernem taluka of north Goa district, the beach is a traditional fisherman village. A short walk north of the main beach is a smaller beach with a “fresh water lake” close to the sea. The jungle valley, enclosed between low hills hide a spectacular Banyan tree. Adjoining the banyan tree there is stone sculpture created by an American conceptual and land art artist, Jacek Tylicki “give if you can – take if you have to” also called the ‘The money stone’. It has become a pilgrimage destination.

KUNKESHWAR (KONKAN COAST), MAHARASHTRA

        Kunkeshwar is located in the Sindhudurg district, and is on the bank of Arabian sea. There is a temple for the Hindu deity Shiva in the town. This temple is holy place in Konkan, and is also known as Konkan kasha. Kunkeshwar produces Alphanso mangoes. The sailor who built the temple, committed suicide from the top of the temple, as he was scared of being punished by his community, for building temple being a Muslim.

OM BEACH, KARNATAKA

        Om beach is a south facing beach of Gokarna town, which is on the western coast of India in the North Karnataka. The beach is named so because it is shaped like the auspicious Om symbol. It is the only natural om shaped beach. It has a few shacks & easteries, and also boat services to other beaches. Karwar’s scenic beauty inspired Rabindranath Tagore to write his first poem.

ST. MARRY’S ISLAND, KARNATAKA

        The island is also known as coconut island and Thonsepar, are a set of four small islands in the Arabian sea off the coast of Malpe in Udupi, Karnataka. They are known for their distinctive geological formation of columnar basaltic lava. According to folk legend, in the year 1498, Vasco da Gama land first on the St. Mary’s island, fixed a cross on the island and name one of these islands ‘O Padrao de Santa Maria’ as a dedication to Mother Mary.

LAND’S END (DHANUSHKODI), TAMIL NADU

         Dhanushkodi is a ghost town situated to the South-East of Pamban island. It is 18 miles west of Talaimannar in Sri Lanka. The area around Rameswaram has been frequently ravaged by several high intensity cyclones and storms in the past.

The Hindu scripture Ramayana says that Lord Rama built a bridge or causeway, called Ram Setu or ‘Rama’s bridge’, between the mainland and Sri Lanka, in order to bring his army across. Hindu pilgrims usually bathe in the sea.

'GHAYAL ONCE AGAIN' HEIGHTEN SUNNY DEOL'S COMEBACK

Directed & Written by - Sunny Deol

Story - Shaktimaan Talwar & Sagar Pandya

Screenplay - Sanjay Masoom & Vishal Vijay kumar

Cast: Sunny Deol, Rishabh Arora, Harsh Chhaya, Shivam Patil, Anchal Munjal, Tisca Chopra, Ruhanika Dhawan, Narendra Jha, Diana Khan, Soha Ali Khan.

Produced by - Dharmendra

Cinematography - Ravi Yadav    

Edited by - Chandan Arora         

Produced by – Dharmendra & Ronak Motla

 Music by - Vipin Mishra

Cinematography by - Ravi Yadav

 

                    Sunny Deol’s action-packed comeback with ‘Ghayal once again’ strikes a tremendous response at the box office. Sunny Deol, single-handed pulled off the film. The collection of the first 3 days is Rs 23.25 crore.

                  

                   ‘Ghayal once again’ is an amazing social drama. The story is beautifully portrayed about a man who owns a news channel. It’s about how a single man fights against the corrupt system. The movie contains almost all the social evils that exists in our society, and it is placed very nicely in sequence one after the other. The social evils, high profile people, corrupt system, all woven together that tells us a convincing story smoothly without making things clumsy.

                     The movie is also appreciable in terms of VFX, SFX and cinematography. The set design is marvellous. Mumbai city is shown from a point of view, which is never shown before. Sunny Deol have really done a wonderful work from writing the story to directing to acting. Despite the financial crisis, he did not give up on it and completed the movie.

TOP 5 ACTORS WHO MADE IT WITHOUT A LEADING LIGHT.

ANUPAM KHER

          

              He was born in Shimla, where his father was a clerk. He completed studying in Himachal. He performed plays in Himachal Pradesh University. There was also a phase in his life, when he used to sleep on the railway platform, during his struggling days as an actor in Mumbai. Finally, his hard work and dedication paid him off.

             He made his debut in ‘Saraansh’ (1984, Mahesh Bhatt).  He received the Filmfare critics award for best performance in ‘Daddy’ (1989, Mahesh Bhatt). He has starred alongside Hindi Cinema’s superstar, Shahrukh Khan in many movies such as ‘DDLJ’, ‘kuch kuch hota hai’, ‘Veer Zara’, etc. He also directed and produced few films. He received best actor award from the Karachi International Film Festival.

            He hosted few TV shows among them ‘The Anupam Kher Show’ was a big hit. He is also the former chairperson of National School of Drama, New Delhi. He also worked in Hollywood a few times, recently he starred in a British film ‘Shongram’, a fictional romantic drama.

NAWAZ UDDIN SIDDIQUI

           

               He was born in an orthodox muslim family in Budhana, a small town of western Uttar Pradesh. He completed B. Sc in chemistry and worked as a chemist in Vadodara for a year. He came to Delhi in search of a job, but was drawn into acting after watching a play. He performed in plays with a group of friends to fulfil one of the criteria of NSD.

             After graduating from NSD, he went to Mumbai. During his struggle, he encountered many problems. In 2004, he was unable to pay his rent, he asked a NSD senior if he could stay with him. The senior agreed to share the apartment only if Nawaz was willing to cook meals for him.

             Nawaz first appeared, with a small role in Aamir Khan starrer, ‘Sarfarosh’ (1999, John Mathew Matthan). After that he hung out at film studios and shootings but only found stereotypical roles. He also tried to get work in television serials but did not accomplish anything.

             His appearance in ‘Black Friday’ (2007, Anurag Kashyap) took the plunge for other powerful roles. He was first spot in the movie ‘New York’ (2009, Kabir Khan). Nevertheless, it was his role as a journalist in ‘Peepli Live’ (2010, Anusha Rizvi & Mahmood Farooqui), that got it him appreciation as an actor. He got fame in 2011, through his back to back hit movies like ‘Kahaani’, ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ (duology), ‘Talaash’. He bagged the filmfare award for best supporting role in Talaash.

              In 2015, his roles in ‘Manjhi’ (2015, Ketan Mehta) and ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ (2015, Kabir Khan) acquired him great applause. For his performance in ‘Haraamkhor’, he was awarded the best actor in New York Indian Film Festival.

AKSHAY KUMAR

            

                 Rajiv Bhatia, known by his screen name ‘Akshay Kumar’ was born in Amritsar. Since childhood, he was least interested in studies. His was an accountant but never forced him to study, he always appreciated Akshay’s interest in sports and supported him. After completing high school, he went to Bangkok to learn martial arts and worked there as a waiter and chef to make his living. Couple of years later, he started import-export business in various things, whichever earned him more wages.

                After obtaining a black belt in taekwondo in India, he started teaching martial arts in Mumbai. One of his student, a pioneering photographer suggested him into modelling which gradually led to a modelling assignment. He earned good amount, so chose the modelling career path. He also worked as a background dancer in various films. The day which changed his life was, one morning when he missed his flight for fashion shoot in Bangalore. Discouraged and depressed, he visited a film studio along with his portfolio, and he was signed for the lead role in Deedar by Pramood Chakravarty. Due to some reasons Deedar got delayed and thus ‘Saugandh’ (1991, Ray N. Sippy) became his debut film.

                 From there on, he accepted every challenge that came his way but never stopped. His action films gave boost to his career, specially his ‘Khiladi’ series. He is a versatile actor. He played many different roles with affluence, be it romantic, comedy or action. He redeems each role very graciously. He did not win many awards though he got number of nominations.

PRIYANKA CHOPRA

                 

                She is the Miss World pageant winner of 2000. She is an actor and singer. In course of time, she has become one of most popular high-profile celebrities in India. She has received several nominations and awards including a National Film Award for best actress, and Filmfare awards in five different categories, only actress to achieve this. She was awarded Padma Shri in 2016. She is also an incredible singer.

                 Priyanka wanted to pursue engineering or psychiatry but during her pageantry, she received offers to join the Indian Film industry. She made her first debut in the Tamil film ‘Thamizhan’ (2002, A. Majid). The subsequent year, she starred in ‘The Hero’ (2003, Anil Sharma), her first hindi film. Her breakout role in ‘Aitraaz’ (2004, Mustaan Burmawalla and Abbas Burmawalla) procured great critical praise. Furthermore, she gave hits like ‘Andaaz’, ‘Mujhse Shaadi Karoge’, ‘Krrish’, ‘Don’, etc.

                   She made her first debut in singing with her first single “In My City” in 2012. She received People’s choice award for the song and nomination at the World Music Awards. Her songs, “Exotic” and “I can’t make you love me” also made great success.

RAJNIKANTH

                  

                  As a child he was studious yet mischievous with interests in sports such as cricket, football and basketball. He was enrolled at Ramakrishna Math at the age of 12, a Hindu monastery setup. He was taught Vedas, traditions, etc. in addition to the spiritual lessons, he also started acting in plays at the math. After completion of school, he worked as a bus conductor in Bangalore Transport Service. He also continued acting in plays.

                   One day, he decided to join the ‘Madras Film Institute’ but his family was not in support. His friend and co-worker Raj Bahdur motivated him to join the institute and also financed him during the phase. During his stay at the institute, he was performing in a stage play and got noticed by a Tamil film director K. Balachander. The director advised him to learn to speak Tamil, he followed his advice immediately. And he made his debut from Tamil film ‘Apoorva Raagangal’ (1975, K. Balachander). Rajnikanth considers him as his school.

                    Consequently, there was no looking back. He went to become one of the rising star of south Indian film industry. He also tried luck in Bollywood but failed to achieve the same success. So, he stuck to the Tamil industry. He is respected as “God” by his fans all over India for his unique acting styles.