This is for sure a time pass list... if any one deserves the number one spot on creativity it should be PRANAV MISTRY, and next should be A R R. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Gomzy™ <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Ohh yeah. Our Vijay plays the Trumpet ;) > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Prabhu Rajagopal <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> ? Out of curiosity, you highlighted jazz artist Vijay Iyer's name... >> That's a different person from our group member/friend of A.R. isn't it??? >> >> On 19 August 2010 00:07, AJ <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> http://www.naachgaana.com/2010/08/16/50-most-creative-indians/#more-50693 >>> >>> Frankly, ARR should be in the top ten. His creative powers remain >>> underestimated. Vishal B was ranked higher than ARR for his films mostly. >>> >>> Hey! Vijay Iyer came in at number 16...higher than ARR! How about >>> that!!!!! >>> >>> 50 Most Creative Indians >>> Some are famous, some are not. You may agree with the list, you may not. >>> But these are in our view the most imaginative men and women in the country. >>> In no particular order. >>> >>> 1. ARUNDHATI ROY >>> Voted third on Forbes' list of `30 Utterly Inspiring Role Models', the >>> author of God of Small Things is a voice you ignore at your own risk, one as >>> audacious as it's eloquent in raising questions. >>> >>> 2. VISHY ANAND >>> The first Indian world chess champion, formidably fast on the board, >>> inventive with tactics and strategy. He has grown better with age, and there >>> remains no perceptible weakness in his game. A master of player psychology, >>> in the past two world championship matches held recently, he spontaneously >>> adapted his game to the man across the board. >>> >>> 3. AMIT HERI >>> Audiences at the Berlin, Montreux, London and Paris jazz festivals have >>> been bowled over by this guitarist-composer. He's jammed with Angelique >>> Kidjo, Robert Miles and Zakir Hussain, but oddly enough this Bangalore >>> artiste's jazzy riffs remain alien to most Indian ears. For a desi listen, >>> try Jhoola, his album voiced by Kota, Mizo and Uttarakhandi chanters. >>> >>> 4. JITEN THUKRAL AND SUMIR TAGRA >>> Pop went the easel, video and installations in the hands of this Punjabi >>> duo, affectionately dubbed T&T. Ever since the 2005 debut of these >>> communication designers, they've artfully trotted out enough material to >>> turn even Elton John into a T&T collector. The duo, who've shown at London, >>> Berlin, Sydney and Shanghai, explore HIV and consumerism with safe-sex >>> chaddis and dinosaurs designed from strawberry-syrup bottles. >>> >>> 5. SACHIN TENDULKAR >>> Sachin was the cherub of the team when Kapil Dev took up a bet with him: >>> "You must play ten years for India." He played 20. He is still playing. >>> Earlier, bold strokes were Tendulkar's unique selling proposition (USP). >>> Now, it is the way he rations his experience, body and skill to climb peaks >>> only he can. >>> >>> 6. SABYASACHI MUKHERJEE >>> When he graduated from the National Institute of Fashion Technology in >>> 1999, he was heralded as the future of Indian design. In subsequent years, >>> he has lived up to expectations by crafting a series of stunning >>> collections. By using indigenous techniques like bandhani, gota work, block >>> printing and hand dyeing, Sabyasachi creates modern silhouettes that carry a >>> rich aroma of India in them. His kalidaar kurtas, lehengas and saris are in >>> heavy demand across the world, and his label thrives in countries like the >>> US, UK, UAE, Greece, Germany and Singapore. >>> >>> 7. SIDDHARTH BASU >>> The original quizmaster of India, he made general knowledge fashionable >>> among youngsters. Starting off with Quiz Time on Doordarshan, he went on to >>> host and produce programmes like Master Mind India and India Child Genius. >>> Basu's biggest success came in the form of Kaun Banega Crorepati , a show >>> that not just marked Amitabh Bachchan's debut on the small screen, but also >>> redefined TV viewing in India. Through his company, Synergy Communications, >>> Basu is now working on various reality TV formats like Dus Ka Dum¸, India's >>> Got Talent and Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. >>> >>> 8. PRASOON JOSHI >>> As a poet, lyricist, award winning adman and Aamir Khan's chief creative >>> officer, Joshi wears many caps. His `Thanda matlab Coca-Cola' campaign, >>> which won a Golden Lion at Cannes, was fizzy enough to guarantee his role as >>> his advertising mentor Piyush Pandey's spiritual successor. >>> >>> 9. JAGGI VASUDEV >>> Some say he's the coolest spiritual guru since Osho. `Sadhguru', who >>> often swaps his trademark beige robes and turban for denims and Orkleys, and >>> enjoys the occasional volleyball game, dubs his brand of spirituality `inner >>> engineering' and `software for the soul', making him the go-to saviour of >>> sanity for millions of stressed out infotech professionals in South India. >>> Now, his Isha Foundation is taking the franchise route to reach a suburb >>> near you. >>> >>> 10. DAKSHA SHETH >>> Over the last 45 years, Daksha Sheth has created an entirely new dance >>> vocabulary by blending Mayurbhanj Chhau, Kalaripayattu, Kathak and the >>> spectacular aerial techniques of Mallakhamb. Not one to shy away from the >>> unknown, Daksha enjoys moving into fresh territory. Some of her famous works >>> include Search for My Tongue, Mahisasur Mardini, Kalia Daman and Sarpagati. >>> >>> 11. SUBODH GUPTA >>> Bihar once had Nalanda. Bihar also housed this artist from Khagaul until >>> he stormed the art world with his cowdung installations, steel katoris >>> (bowls) and kattas (country revolvers). With a sensibility shaped by his >>> home state, Gupta's hands have converted clanging cooking vessels into >>> gargantuan God-faced installations which have hung over Venice. When he >>> exhibited gigantic steel buckets, art collectors filled them with half a >>> million euros. A migrant-aesthete with global acclaim. >>> >>> 12. BIJOY JAIN >>> He shapes local raw material into houses you cannot forget. Take Tara >>> House in Kashid, outside Bombay, with an underground pool in which cylinders >>> of light stream down from lawns above. And he makes resorts to die for, such >>> as Leti 360, an exquisite stone and wood structure in the Himalayas. >>> >>> 13. E SREEDHARAN >>> Delhi is an AM/PM city, thanks to him: ante-Metro and post-Metro. The >>> rest of the city may be strewn with rubble, but his gleaming rapid transit >>> system swishes its way around with élan. >>> >>> 14. VISHAL BHARADWAJ >>> His music is superlative, his dialogues memorable, and his movies >>> cultural events. Pity that he got over his fixation with Shakespeare. Omkara >>> and Maqbool remain as good as anything out of the Hindi film industry. >>> >>> 15. GUITAR PRASANNA >>> No one had coaxed a Carnatic kriti out of a Western guitar. No one could, >>> until this player-composer with an engineering degree shook the raga >>> firmament. In Electric Ganeshaland, he fired off a Carnatic-Rock tribute to >>> Jimi Hendrix. Imagine that. >>> >>> 16. VIJAY IYER >>> Jazz critics all over America are waxing eloquent about this 38-year-old >>> wizard on piano. His creativity, he says, took shape when he watched jazz >>> legend Julius Hemphill's solo presentation in New Haven, Connecticut, in >>> 1990. He says, "He gave you something profound and alive." For a sample of >>> Iyer's music, try Historicity. >>> >>> 17. EKTA KAPOOR >>> Neither saas nor bahu, and yet she changed the face of Indian television >>> singlehandedly. Her Balaji Telefilms has been cloned, but having meandered >>> into Hindi cinema, she has a new obsession to whet. >>> >>> 18. PRABHU DEVA >>> This dance prodigy stormed into Indian consciousness with the song >>> Muqabla from the film Kadhalan. India was spellbound, as his seemingly >>> boneless body moved, as if of its own volition, to this Rahman chartbuster. >>> A trained Bharatanatyam dancer, he came to be known as India's Michael >>> Jackson. He now choreographs, acts and directs films as well. >>> >>> 19. NAMDEO DHASAL >>> When this Dalit poet-politician called himself "a venereal sore in the >>> private parts of language", admirers and critics sat up. Ever since 1972, >>> when his dark poetry of Golpitha burst forth from Bombay's seamy underbelly, >>> Marathi literature hasn't been the same. >>> >>> 20. RAHUL BHATIA >>> His journey from a Janpath travel agent to the owner of India's most >>> innovative no-frill airline, Indigo, has been a swift and heady affair. The >>> aviation industry may be turbulent, but Bhatia's metronomic attention to >>> detail is the stuff of legend. >>> >>> 21. GIRISH KARNAD >>> In college, his dream was to become as famous as Shakespeare and TS >>> Elliot. Today, this prolific author, playwright, actor and film director has >>> achieved this in his own way by penning plays like Yayati and Tughlaq, using >>> India's rich history to tackle contemporary issues. >>> >>> 22. PINAKIN PATEL >>> This design guru has used every material available, including his elbow, >>> to create shelf-space for Indian crafts; his latest offering is Hara Villa, >>> a pop-up, bio-degradable holiday home. >>> >>> 23. RAKESH MARIA >>> This supercop investigated the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts. More recently, he >>> gathered the evidence that convicted Ajmal Kasab. Currently DGP of >>> Maharashtra's Anti Terrorism Squad, he has a good network of informants. >>> >>> 24. FILMMAKERS OF MALEGAON >>> Some 300 km separate Bollywood from the nondescript town of Malegaon, >>> where a bunch of filmmakers with micro budgets make spoofs of blockbusters. >>> Sample Malegaon ke Sholay. Sheikh Nasir Khan, the man behind it all, has now >>> gone global with Malegaon ka Superman. >>> >>> 25. AR RAHMAN >>> Among the world's all time top selling artistes: over 150 million records >>> of film soundtracks. Starting off with the Chennai rock group,Nemesis >>> Avenue, he's won award upon award. His Dil Se soundtrack is a classic. >>> >>> 26. SANDIP TRIVEDI >>> Most of us gulp at the idea of a world that demands dimensions more than >>> the three we are familiar with. This is but the starting point for string >>> theory. And Trivedi is working it out for us. >>> >>> 27. RONNIE SCREWVALA >>> He changed the mediascape with his company, UTV. Starting in 1981 with >>> India's first organised cable TV venture in Bombay, he got audiences >>> addicted to daily soap operas before venturing successfully into cinema. >>> >>> 28. MALAVIKA SARUKKAI >>> She sees dance as an extension of life; it needs to draw inspiration and >>> meaning from its surroundings to evolve. For nearly three decades now, she >>> has stretched the conventions of Bharatanatyam. >>> >>> 29. FARHAN AKHTAR >>> With Dil Chahta Hai, this director threw Hindi cinema a whole generation >>> ahead, and at warp speed. Since then, acclaimed lyricist Javed Akhtar's son >>> has never failed to surprise with his brand of cinema, be it as a producer, >>> actor or director. >>> >>> 30. ABHIJIT AVASTHI >>> Currently O&M's national creative director, he is the adman behind some >>> of India's most talked about campaigns for brands such as Fevicol and >>> Cadbury. >>> >>> 31. CHARLES CORREA >>> This architect-activist and urban planner has given fresh meaning to >>> shelter, shade and beauty. Mahatma Gandhi's Memorial in Sabarmati offers >>> clues. >>> >>> 32. RAJAT SHARMA >>> A snake's marrying a mongoose, the mountain that Hanuman lifted… from the >>> fertile imagination of Rajat Sharma and India TV has come a new definition >>> of news, bridging fantasy and fact, myth and reality. >>> >>> 33. RAJKUMAR HIRANI >>> The test of a director, they say, is the sequel. Rajkumar Hirani passed >>> that test with Lage Raho Munnabhai. And if you thought a dream run is hard >>> to maintain, along came 3 Idiots, a film that shall delight generations to >>> come. >>> >>> 34. SUNIL GANGOPADHYAY >>> Modern Bengali poetry owes its existence, almost, to the founding editor >>> of Krittibas, which in the early 1950s offered a platform to young, >>> experimental poets who explored new forms of poetic themes, rhythms and >>> words. Gangopadhyay's travelogues, prose, essays, features and children's >>> fiction are equally loved. >>> >>> 35. PRANAV MISTRY >>> An Indian graduate student at the MIT laboratory, he has ensured that it >>> is technology that adapts to our needs rather than our adapting to >>> technology. His latest invention integrates our real world with the virtual >>> world. >>> >>> 36. PRINCE DANCE TROUPE >>> Last year, a troupe of 24 faceless dancers became the toast of the nation >>> when it won the popular reality series, India's Got Talent. Instead of the >>> usual Western jazz routine, these untrained dancers from Behrampur, Orissa, >>> showed the richness of Indian classical dance. >>> >>> 37. AAMIR KHAN >>> This actor rarely works with the same director twice, and yet his movies >>> are not just a cut about regular Bollywood fare, but make money too. With a >>> celluloid record any performer anywhere in the world would die for, he's >>> simply a must watch. >>> >>> 38. HARSH MANDER >>> An Indian Administrative Service officer with an imagination, Harsh >>> Mander became an inspiration when he resigned in protest of the 2002 >>> anti-minority pogrom in Gujarat. He has since dedicated himself to an India >>> free from `hate, hunger, and homelessness'. >>> >>> 39. G RAVINDER REDDY >>> Everyone, even the gods, would want this sculptor gilding them for >>> posterity. He has re-fashioned Hindu deific traditions into giant gold-faced >>> female heads who stare at you unblinkingly. Fibreglass, his favoured medium, >>> is worth more than platinum in his hands. >>> >>> 40. VIRENDER SEHWAG >>> This Sachin clone has morphed into one of India's most imaginative shot >>> player in cricket. Boring knocks are anathema to him, with a Test match >>> average of 81.5 runs every 100 balls. >>> >>> 41. RATAN THIYAM >>> This theatre guru is known for his ingenious stage craft and >>> thought-provoking themes. A painter, composer, choreographer, costume >>> designer, playwright and director, he sees theatre as `collective >>> expression' . See Andha Yug and Chakravyuh. >>> >>> 42. A RAJA >>> It requires quite some talent to shut the press up if you figure in a Rs >>> 60,000 crore telecom scam and your tapped tele-conversations with an alleged >>> lobbyist make headlines. It takes even more creative ambition to whistle >>> along as if nothing is wrong with India's telecom policy framework. >>> >>> 43. JAYANT V NARLIKAR >>> A scientific imagination and an ability to present his ideas make >>> Narlikar a champion of astronomy in a country given to much mumbo jumbo. >>> From envisaging the Steady State theory of the universe as an alternative to >>> the Big Bang, to suggesting life having reached earth from outer space, he >>> has also steered clear of conventional science as we know it. >>> >>> 44. ANURAG KASHYAP >>> He's written movies like Satya, an underworld film which impressed >>> several viewers on the lookout for such gritty `realism', and even managed >>> to become a film director himself. Dev D, that phantasmagoric journey of a >>> film, a supposed remake of the classic Devdas, exemplifies his very own take >>> on modern `reality'. >>> >>> 45. LALIT MODI >>> The terminator of Test match tedium, he created a distinctly Indian yet >>> global brand of Twenty20 cricket, Indian Premier League (IPL), that grabbed >>> more attention overnight than anybody dared dream possible in this era of >>> relentlessly declining attention spans. Despite his undoing and ejection >>> from the BCCI, his creation cannot be dismissed. Few have ever drawn Indian >>> eyes as compulsively as he has. >>> >>> 46. RAGHU DIXIT >>> With a mind trained in microbiology and a body in Bharatanatyam, the last >>> ten years have seen him achieve fame as a musician. Touring India and the >>> world, he has played with Israel's Dub LFO, England's Too Late Lucy and >>> renowned French musicians Anaïs, Emily Loizeau and Mademoiselle K, to name a >>> few. >>> >>> 47. VG SIDDHARTHA >>> Founder-owner of the Café Coffee Day chain and son-in-law of External >>> Affairs Minister SM Krishna, he has developed a fine nose for lucrative >>> business opportunities. Apart from coffee shops, his businesses include >>> venture capital, financial services, plantations and real estate. >>> Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Co, set up in 1993, is India's largest green >>> coffee exporter, and he wants to take his cafes global. >>> >>> 48. SAINA NEHWAL >>> Not yet 20 and already the country's top woman athlete. At a young age, >>> Saina's mastered the one thing that matters: winning. You don't see her >>> smash her racquet to score a point beyond the scoreboard, unlike her >>> name-dyslex-sake. Saina has four Super Series wins already, and is the world >>> No 2. She admires Federer, but her own game relies on toil, not grace. But >>> if it works, why complain? >>> >>> 49. ABHAY DEOL >>> Precariously perched between commercial cinema and its indie cousin, he's >>> the guy who took off for New York right after the finest film of his career >>> to study a craft. Not your average film star. >>> >>> 50. PATU KESWAN >>> This Taj Hotels' veteran leads the country's budget hotel boom. His chain >>> of no-frill hotels, Lemontree and Redfox, is what market leader Ginger (a >>> Tata chain) is watching closely. >>> >>> >> > > > -- > www.gomzyphotography.com > > -- Truth is the only God Humanity is the only Religion Love is the only prayer
