I've learnt a lot from Priyanka, Parineeti: Mannara

Mumbai: Newbie actress Mannara, who made her Hindi film debut with the erotic thriller ‘Zid’ last year, says she has gained significant learning from her cousins Priyanka and Parineeti Chopra.

"I've definitely gained a lot of experience from my sisters. I've learnt how to carry myself in the industry and how to behave with Bollywood celebrities. Since my sisters have already established themselves, they've set up a platform for me to learn a lot," Mannara said.

However, according to her, having someone in the industry is not the most important tool to establish oneself in the industry.
"The most important factor is hard work and luck to achieve success," she said.
After starting her career with a Telugu film, Mannara has now again signed up for a South Indian film for which she'll start shooting next month. She has also signed a Hindi film but she's not too keen to reveal the details of either.

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Cricket is the most popular sports in our country and perhaps the most discussed topic these days is the performance of our cricket team. While the on the field news are not much favorable, lets remember few light off the fields stories of sports persons.

Sports and showbiz are two separate fields. Though sports is not directly linked to showbiz, still from time to time many sports personalities are linked to showbiz personalities. Such sports persons are the subject of this article. There are many such instances though not all were true, and here only those instances are mentioned which have some basis. Few of such associations resulted in the permanent association means marriage.

Since the private and personal life of any person must be respected, so all such instances mentioned here are indeed a personal matter of relative sports persons/ showbiz persons and should not be meant to infer anything towards their personality. Being a human nobody is perfect, and all persons mentioned here are human too.

Though sports is our country is not limited to cricket, but mostly it was the cricketers who were noticed with showbiz personalities and that too mostly with showbiz names of our neighbouring country India.

Nazar Muhammad
Nazar Muhammad was the first Pakistani cricketer to face a ball in Test cricket when he opened the first ever test match of Pakistan in 1951-52 versus India. He is also the first Pakistani to carry the bat in a test match during the same series against India in 1951-52. Pakistan’s cricket team’s first cricket tour was against India in India in 1952, the series comprises of five test matches. Nazar Muhammad participated in all five matches, and in the second match in Lucknow he carried the bat , Pakistan also won that match thus recording its first victory in test cricket in only its second test match. Pakistan lost the series 2-1 against India, and the same series also proved the first and last test series of Nazar Muhammad. Soon after the series a domestic accident damaged his arm and thus ended his career.

Nazar Muhammad was also a relative of musician Feroze Nizami. Though then local film industry was in infancy, still Feroze Nizami was a big name in film music of 1950’s as he composed the ever green music of super hit Urdu and Punjabi films like Chann Vey(1951) and later Dupatta (1953). Both films featured legendary artist Madam Noor Jehan in lead roles and Dupatta was also a hit in neighboring India. Through Feroze Nizami, Nazar Muhammad also get acquainted with Madam Noor Jehan which led to some steamy rumors in the press which they neither confirmed nor denied. Then Madam Noor Jehan was married to film producer/director Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, but by mid 1950’s their marriage ended in divorce.Decades later in late 1970’s Mr. Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi in his one book wrote about Nazar Muhammad and Madam Noor Jehan.