Top 18 Bollywood Divas/Actresses in 2012

The Top 18 Actresses in Bollywood in 2012.

-By Pushpak Pandey

Since everyone does a top ten, top twenty or even a top twenty five list, I thought I would be a little different and do the top 18 actresses in Bollywood so far this year.
Bollywood has exploded since 2000, with films like Ghajini (2008), Dhoom 2 (2006) and Om Shanti Om (2007) being not only Indian hits, but international hits as well. This has led to some Bollywood actresses getting international attention.
So here are the 18 top Bollywood actresses so far this year....

1. Katrina Kaif

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Of course Katrina Kaif is the top actress on this list.
It used to be all about Aishwarya Rai, but the balance of power has shifted.
In 2009 she appeared in New York, Blue, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani and De Dana Dan.
So far in 2010, she has appeared in Raajneeti, Tees Maar Khan and Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara.

2. Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai

She may not be number one anymore, but Aishwarya Rai is a solid number two.
Once hailed as "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" Ash doesn’t seem to have the world by the horns like she once did.
Case in point, in 2009, she only appeared in one film, The Pink Panther 2, which flopped.
But in 2010, she seems to be trying to make up for that with Raavan, Raavanan, Endhiran, Guzaarish and Action Replay.

3. Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor may be number three, but she tried really hard in 2009.
She appeared in Luck by Chance, Billu, Kambakkht Ishq, Main Aurr Mrs Khanna, Kurbaan (which got her nominated for a Filmfare Award for Best Actress) and 3 Idiots (the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time in India).
In 2010 she has Milenge Milenge, We Are Family and Golmaal 3, with Ra.One and Agent Vinod already set for 2011.

4. Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra

Number four out of the top eighteen is the beautiful Priyanka Chopra.
Priyanka had Billu, Kaminey (for which she was nominated for a Filmfare Best Actress Award) and What's Your Raashee?.
In 2010 she has Pyaar Impossible, Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai, Anjaana Anjaani, and in 2011 she already has Saat Khoon Maaf, Alibaba Aur 41 Chor, and Don 2 - The Chase Continues set.

5. Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone

The winner of the 2008 Filmfare Best Female Debut Award (for Om Shanti Om) and the winner of the Star Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Female (again for Om Shanti Om), Deepika Padukone, was also pretty busy in 2009.
She appeared in Chandni Chowk to China, Meow Meow, Billu (I think everyone in Bollywood was in that film), Love Aaj Kal, Main Aurr Mrs Khanna and Love 4 Ever.
2010 was another busy year with Karthik Calling Karthik, Housefull, Lafangey Parindey, Break Ke Baad and Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey.

6. Kajol

Kajol

Kajol Devgan (Mukherjee) has a slow year in 2009, only making a special appearance in Vighnaharta Shree Siddhivinayak.
But so far in 2010, she has made up for that with, My Name Is Khan, We Are Family, Toonpur Ka Superrhero and Koochie Koochie Hota Hain.
Toonpur Ka Superrhero and Koochie Koochie Hota Hain are both animated.

7. Preity Zinta

Preity Zinta

Preity Zinta has not exactly been churning out movies over the last two years.
She has only appeared in Main Aurr Mrs Khanna (and that was just a cameo) in 2009, and Har Pal in 2010.

8. Bipasha Basu

Bipasha Basu

The gorgeous Bipasha Basu has raised her profile quite a bit in the past two years.
In 2009 she appeared in three films, Aa Dekhen Zara, All The Best: Fun Begins and Sob Choritro Kalponik.
In 2010 she has Pankh, Lamhaa, Dum Maro Dum, Aakrosh and No Problem.
Even though her workrate may not be that high, Bipasha released her fitness video "BB Love Yourself" and raised more than a few eyebrows with her New York Lotto commercial (which is awesome BTW).

9. Ayesha Takia

Ayesha Takia

Ayesha Takia Azmi was kinda quiet in 2009 with only two films (8 X 10 Tasveer and Wanted).
Though she is making up for that in 2010 with Paathshala, Ab Dilli Door Nahin, Aap Ke Liye Hum, Naughty @ Forty and Bemisaal.
Plus, she has Delhi Safari set for 2011.

10. Amrita Rao

Amrita Rao

The drop dead gorgeous Amrita Rao appeared in three films in 2009, Victory, Short Kut: The Con is On and Life Partner.
In 2010 she has a cameo in Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai, The Legend of Kunal (Kunal Avadana), Love U... Mr. Kalakaar! and Hook Ya Crook.

11. Lara Dutta

Lara Dutta

In 2009, Lara Dutta had four films, Billu Barber (she won a Stardust Awards Best Actress), Satyameva Jeyathe, Do Knot Disturb and Blue.
2010 has Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai, House Full, Aur Devdas and Don 2 - The Chase Continues.   
She also has a rumored upcoming film called Tom and Jerry.
Could it be...?

12. Riya Sen

Riya Sen

She loves to stir up controversy, but she really hasn’t worked that much recently.
In 2009 she had Tara Sitara, Chargesheet, Love Khichdi, Zor Lagaa Ke Haiya and Paying Guests.
But in 2010, she has only had Tere Mere Phere.
She does have Krrish 2 set for 2011 though.

13. Ameesha Patel

Ameesha Patel

Ameesha Patel (Amisha Patel) is also running kinda slow.
I couldn’t find a single film for her in 2009, two in 2010 (Run Bhola Run and Chatur Singh Two Star), and only one set for 2011, Parama Veera Chakra.

14. Sushmita Sen

Sushmita Sen

2009 was also a slow year for Sushmita Sen, with only Karma, Confessions and Holi, Do Knot Disturb and Marmayogi.
In 2010 she has No Problem, F.A.L.T.U and I Found a Groom (Dulha Mil Gaya). 

15. Anushka Sharma

Anushka Sharma

Her first film, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008), got her nominated for a Star Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Female, a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award and a Filmfare Best Actress Award, so I guess Anushka Sharma took 2009 off.
But Anushka came back in 2010 with Badmaash Company, Patiala House, Shaadi Mubarak and BAND BAAJA BARAAT.

16. Minissha Lamba

Minissha Lamba

The only film that Minissha Lamba has done since 2008 is Well Done Abba!
Well Done Abba! got fairly good reviews and did well at the Cannes Film Festival.
Minissha is rumored to be working on a film series called "Mysticism”.

17. Reemma Sen

Reemma Sen

Reemma Sen (Reema Sen) didn't exactly tear up 2009 with only one film released, Chal Chala Chal.
In 2010 she has Aayirathil Oruvan, Society and Aakrosh.

18. Soha Ali Khan

Soha Ali Khan

And finally we have number 18, Soha Ali Khan.
Soha released five films in 2009, Ride the Wave Johnny, Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge, Airport, 99 and Tum Mile.
In 2010, she appears in Mumbai Cutting and in 2011, she has Darkness Visible and The Accident set.


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Pushpak Pandey

Dennis Ritchie, father of C programming language, dies

Dennis Ritchie, an internationally renowned computer scientist who created the C programming language, has died at age 70.
Ritchie died at his home over the weekend, according to a Google+ post from longtime colleague Rob Pike. His Wikipedia entry was updated to say he had died in Murray Hill, N.J.
His death was confirmed today by Bell Labs, in a message from its president, Jeong Kim, to employees. That message reads, in part:

Dennis was well loved by his colleagues at Bell Labs, and will be greatly missed. He was truly an inspiration to all of us, not just for his many accomplishments, but because of who he was as a friend, an inventor, and a humble and gracious man.

In addition to being the creator of C, Ritchie co-authored "The C Programming Language," commonly referred to as K&R (after the authors, Brian Kernighan and Ritchie) and widely considered the definitive work on C. He also made significant contributions to the development of the Unix operating system, for which he received the Turing Award in 1983 (along with Kenneth Thompson).
President Bill Clinton awarded Ritchie and Thompson the National Medal of Technology in 1999 for their contributions to Unix and C. He won many other national and international awards for his work and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for "development of the C programming language and for co-development of the Unix operating system."
Ritchie went to work at Bell Labs' Computing Sciences Research Center in 1967 and was widely known as "dmr"--his Bell Labs e-mail address. As part of an AT&T restructuring in the mid-1990s, Ritchie was transferred to Lucent Technologies, where he retired in 2007 as head of System Software Research Department.
In a tribute to Ritchie, Rupert Goodwins of CNET sister site ZDNet UK, offers some observations on Ritchie's work habits and his legacy.

Ritchie had the lifestyle and habits to match his position as an early guru of IT. Long-haired and bearded, and famously more owl than lark, he started work at midday in his industry-standard chaotic office, emerging late in the evening to go home and carry on working through to the small hours at the end of a leased line connected to the Bell Labs computers....
His ideas live on, in the rudest of health, at the centre of modern operating system design, in new programming languages, and in every electron and bit of open systems.

NEWS

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the Unix operating system, has died aged 70.

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the Unix operating system, has died aged 70. Photo credit: Wikipedia

While the introduction of Intel's 4004 microprocessor in 1971 is widely regarded as a key moment in modern computing, the contemporaneous birth of the C programming language is less well known. Yet the creation of C has as much claim, if not more, to be the true seminal moment of IT as we know it; it sits at the heart of programming — and in the hearts of programmers — as the quintessential expression of coding elegance, power, simplicity and portability.
Its inventor, Dennis Ritchie, whose death after a long illness was reported on Wednesday and confirmed on Thursday by Bell Labs, similarly embodied a unique yet admirable approach to systems design: a man with a lifelong focus on making software that satisfied the intellect while freeing programmers to create their dreams.
In a statement, Jeong Kim, president of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, said: "Dennis was well loved by his colleagues at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, and will be greatly missed. He was truly an inspiration to all of us, not just for his many accomplishments, but because of who he was as a friend, an inventor, and a humble and gracious man. We would like to express our deepest sympathies to the Ritchie family, and to all who have been touched in some way by Dennis."
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born in Bronxville, New York, on 9 September, 1941, and grew up in New Jersey, where his father, Alistair Ritchie, worked as a switching systems engineer for Bell Laboratories. Ritchie went to Harvard University and received his degree in Physics in 1963.
It was at Harvard that Ritchie first encountered a computer, attending a lecture on Univac 1 that captured his imagination. He moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the first shifts away from the mainframe to smaller, cheaper computers were being ardently investigated, and thence in 1967 to Bell Labs — birthplace of the transistor and, at the time, one of the most important centres of digital innovation in the world.

Multics to Unix

Bell Labs was the home of the Multics project. Multics was an operating system that would replace the idea of batch processing (where programs were run one at a time from a stack of cards by an operator) with interactivity (where the programmer or user themselves had complete control during the writing or use of software). The lab was also home to Kenneth Thompson, who swiftly became one of Ritchie's primary collaborators.
When Bell Labs stopped work on Multics, Thompson and Ritchie were loath to abandon the ideas of interaction and collaboration that had been key to its design. Thompson began work on a successor, called Unix, and Ritchie soon joined in.
Having persuaded Bell Labs to buy one of the most advanced small computers of the time, a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11, on the back of a promise to write a word-processing system for the patent department, the pair instead created the modern operating system. Unix spread within Bell Labs and was announced to the world in 1973.

C programming language

The mid-'70s were a period of great experimentation and variation in computer hardware design, which made life difficult for software writers who had to either limit their programs to running on one particular device or spend a great deal of time and energy recreating their work for each new platform.

In response to this problem, Ritchie designed a computer language, C, that could be quickly and easily moved between different hardware. Programs that were written in C, provided they followed the rules, would then run with little or no modification on any computer that could itself run C.
Thompson and Ritchie then rewrote Unix in C, giving the operating system the same ease of portability. Programmers could then learn one operating system, one set of tools and one language, and find those skills nearly universally applicable. Likewise, once a hardware manufacturer had put C on its new design, the machine could use a vast pool of existing software and talent. One side effect of this was that Unix became the natural home for experimental, then practical, inter-networking between different systems.
Thus were created all the key aspects of the environment within which computing became the economic and cultural force that subsequently reshaped — and continues to reshape — the world.
This revolution was much enhanced by Ritchie's collaboration with Brian Kernighan on The C Programming Language. Otherwise known as K&R, this slim book, published in 1978, acted as both a concise definition of C and a peerless introduction to the style and techniques of programming in that language. It remains a source of inspiration and practical help to programmers to this day.

Spiritual descendants

Unix and C's direct and spiritual descendants cannot be counted, but include Linux, Android, Mac OS, iOS, JavaScript, C++, the genius of the internet and a world full of developers. Likewise, legal restrictions on how Bell Labs and its parent, AT&T, could commercially exploit software — an antitrust ruling prevented standard licensing — meant that the ideas and, often, the actual code underlying Unix and C became a de facto open system.

Ritchie had the lifestyle and habits to match his position as an early guru of IT. Long-haired and bearded, and famously more owl than lark, he started work at midday in his industry-standard chaotic office, emerging late in the evening to go home and carry on working through to the small hours at the end of a leased line connected to the Bell Labs computers.
In later life, having become a manager, he could sometimes be seen in the wild before lunchtime, if meetings demanded it. His life and work were entirely intertwined; a man celebrated for his gentle wit and gentle ways, nothing about him could be considered separate from his lifelong fascination with computing.
He ultimately became head of Lucent Technology Systems's software research department, retiring in 2007. By then, he and Thompson had received many industry awards, including the ACM Turing Prize in 1983 and the 1998 US National Medal of Technology.
His ideas live on, in the rudest of health, at the centre of modern operating system design, in new programming languages, and in every electron and bit of open systems.

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