Tiwari was born on July 14, 1965 in the small village of Atarwalia near at Mohania, Kaimur district, Bihar, India. He later moved to Varanasi to pursue a career in music.
Career
Tiwari began his career as a playback singer in 1996, singing more than 2,000 songs over 7 years. In 2003, he decided to become an actor and took a role in the film Sasura Bada Paise Wala. Made on a budget of Rs. 3 million, the film went on to gross over Rs. 200 million and established Tiwari as one of Bhojpuri cinema's most successful actors. Tiwari followed with the financially successful films Daroga Babu I Love You and Bandhan Toote Na. In 2008, Tiwari entered Hindi cinema with a supporting role in Deshdrohi. He also tried his luck in politics by contesting election from GORAKHPUR CONSTITUENCY ON SAMAJWADI PARTY TICKET BUT LOOSED IT.
The same year the Dutch government issued a 44 Euro cent stamp with Tiwari's image. Tiwari's spokesman said that he is popular in the Netherlands because of the large population of Bhojpuri residents that live there. Tiwari co-hosts the television reality programme Chak De Bachche along with model Roshni Chopra. He will make his directorial debut in 2010 with the Hindi language film Hello Darling which stars Ishaa Koppikar and Celina Jaitley. Tiwari continues to record music and release new albums. He performs around the world in concert, singing in a style that mixes traditional Bhojpuri folk songs with a more contemporary sound. Manoj Tiwari also says that he has been promoting Bhojpuri all over the world wherever there is a sizeable Bhojpuri population, like in Mauritius and Suriname which is a former Dutch colony. He has already opened Bhojpuri academies in various cities all over the world including Suriname.
Veena Malik has claimed to be born on 26 February 1980 in Lahore, Pakistan, to a doctor working at an army medical hospital. The family soon settled in Rawalpindi after the child was born. Her grandmother named her Zahida but the parents insisted on keeping Veena as the girl's first name. Her father's busy schedule led her grandmother to become Veena's guardian from the time she was six years old and nurtured her until her teens when she died.
When she grew up, Veena expressed interest in joining films and her grandmother encouraged her. Her father however pondered over his daughter's fate in an industry that was deemed unsuitable for girls in Pakistan and looked down upon by the mostly conservative middle-class, and he initially resisted his daughter's attempts to pursue a career in entertainment. Veena received continuous support from her grandmother however, whose persuasiveness finally enabled her father to allow her to join film and television. People still, some even close to her, scorned her choice of career.
Veena Malik, born Zahida Malik, is a Pakistani actress, comedian and model.
Coming from a conservative Muslim family, Veena has faced great adversity from members of her family, especially her father,on her decision to join show business but has emerged as one of the leading women in the Pakistani television and films with her abilities to mimic others and improvise. Veena has worked as a representative at the World Health Organisation for two years and sponsors a child at the SOS Children's Village, an NGO based in Pakistan working with orphaned children.
Like all people desiring to join the industry in Pakistan, Veena started with the film industry in Lahore, the home of Lollywood, an amalgamation of the city's name with Hollywood. She was to meet the likes of Mukhtar Ahmed and Jarar Rizvi in 1999, who landed her a role in the epic Pakistani film Tere Pyar Mein. By the end of the year, she was already being considered for other such projects when she became a part of a growing scandal.
