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VIJENDER SINGH

India’s Olympic bronze medallist Vijender Singh was entered in the semi final of the Asian Boxing Championships in Zhuhai, China. He defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Karipov Ruslan with the score19-4 in the middleweight quarter-final of this Championship and confirmed a bronze medal in this event. He gained a silver medal in the previous edition of this Championship. He will face China’s Zhang Jian Ting in the semi final of this Championship. Vijender Singh is the first Indian boxer, who won the bronze medal in the middleweight category at 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

BIOGRAPHY

Vijender Singh was born in 1985 in Hariyana as the son of a bus driver Mahipal Singh. He gained his primary school education from Kaluwas, secondary school education from Bhivani and also gained Bachelor Degree from Vanish College. His brother Manoj was a former boxer and is now serving in Indian Army. He was started his boxing career in “Bhiwani Sports Authority of India” center, where coach Jagdish Singh picked his talent. He was contested in various competitions and won silver medal in his first sub-junior nationals and then finished the 2nd sub-junior in the same position. He was also won medals in junior national competitions after that and he was picked to visit several countries like Cuba for further training and competitions. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Vijender was participated in the welterweight division, but lost to Mustafa Karagollu of Turkey by 20-25. In the 2006 Commonwealth games, he was defeated England’s Neil Perkins in the semi finals, but losted to South Africa’s Bongani Mwelase in the final. He gained the Bronze Medal in the middleweight category at 2006 Asian Games. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he defeated southpaw Carlos Gongora of Ecuador with the score 9-4 in the quarterfinals and guaranteed him a medal, the first ever Olympic medal for an Indian boxer. He lost 5-8 to Cuba’s Emilio Correa in the semi-finals and shared a bronze medal. Vijender singh was worked overtime to pay for coaching at the Bhiwani Boxing Club and did modeling part-time , Now he is working for the Haryana Police. Recently, he won a bronze medal at a European Grand Prix event in the Czech Republic. At the 2009 Asian Boxing Games, he has defeated world champion Atoev Abbos of Uzbekistan in the pre-quarterfinal. Vijender has stunned Abbos by 10-7 to won the match and entered into next round of the Asian Boxing Championship. In the quarter final, he defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Karipov Ruslan with the score19-4 and entered in semi final of this Championship and confirmed a bronze medal in this event. In this round, he showed a great performance with some hard-hitting upper-cuts and hooks and gained a lead with 6-1 in the first round and his opponent Ruslan cannot be able to break Vijender’s defence in the next two rounds and Vijender gained victory against Ruslan. Now all Indians are prays for this boxer to get another boxing medal for India.Unfortunately,the biggest shock for the Indians was Vijender’s loss against local lad Zhang Jian ting. The Indian Boxer Vijendar lose by a score of 8:11 Pts and had to be content with a bronze.

LOVE AAJ KAL

Directed by : Imtiaz Ali
Produced by : Saif Ali Khan and Dinesh Vijayan
Starring : Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Rahul Khanna, Rishi Kapoor etc
Music : Pritam
Generation : Romance
Release Date : 31st July 2009

Famous actor Saif Ali Khan was turned into a producer with the new Bollywood film “Love Aaj Kal” directed by Imtiaz Ali. He is an actor for 18 years in the Bollywood and now, through the role of producer, Saif wants to learn the business of ‘Business of Bollywood’. “Love Aaj Kal” is the most awaited romantic film of this year. Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone are main characters of this film and talented actor Rishi Kapoor is also appearing in this film. This film is about love today and love as it used to happen in the past. Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone are acted as lovers in different time periods, and they are paired together for the very first time. The shooting of the movie took place in Red Fort, Purana Qila and on the streets of Delhi. Some parts also have been shot in London, San Francisco and Kolkata. This film is the maiden venture of Illuminati Films in association with Eros International and hope that this film will be hit on the box office on 31st June 2009.

ABOUT MOVIE

The movie “Love Aaj Kal” has two chapters one is a contemporary love story, which is ‘ Love Aaj’ set across London, San Francisco and Delhi and other is ‘Love Kal’ which happened in 1965 set across Delhi and Kolkatta. In ‘Love Aaj’ chapter, Jai (Saif Ali Khan) and Meera (Deepika Padukone) are a modern day couple lived in London. They are very happy together but do not believe in tying each other down. So when life pulls them in different directions, they decide to go with that flow. They believed that old love couples like Heer-Ranjha and Romeo-Juliet only exists in story books. In the second chapter, Veer Singh fell on love with Harleen when he first saw her and he travelled thousand kilometers by train to see her face and not speak any word with her. In both of these chapters, Veer does not understand how Jai can treat matters of the heart without passion and Jai does not understand how Veer Singh could have been silly about Harleen in the days of his youth. Whatever may be from both chapters, we can understand that the process of the relationship might be different in different eras, but the experience of being in love remains the same. So we can understand that certain thing don’t change with the passage of time. Saif and Deepika are paired together for the very first time and the chemistry they share is unbelievable in this film. This film has major similarities with cricket. Like there is Test cricket and T20, the film too has love of two generations- love ‘aaj’ and love ‘kal’. This film was not limited to any one age group and every one can connected to the subject of this film. This film is really the beginning of many things and hope that it will be super hit on the box office in coming days.