Thursday, January 22, 2009

Celebraties I have seen or met

God Men:
Sai Baba in Puttaparthy

Pandit Ravi Shankar: Music and healing concert in Music Acadamy Chennai.

Sports:

Tennis:
Federer vs Djakovich, watched 1st Semifinal US Open 2008 in New York. Had a spare ticket and no one to go along with me.

Nadal vs Murray watched 2nd Semifinal US Open 2008 in New York

Venus Williams vs Serena Williams. Opening match of US Open 2007 in New York

Cricket:
Indian Cricket Team 2006: I have seen Sachin Tendulkar, Dohni, Harbajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid etc. at Hyderabad Airport

Sunil Gavaskar, Sadanad Vishwanath, Krish Shrikanth in various occassions

Vivian Richards, Curtly Ambrose, Coutney Walsh, Richie Richirdson etc from West Indian Cricket team at Vizag stadium in 1992

Film Personalities

Chirunjeevi at Puttaparthi

Pavan Kalyan (Traveled and interacted with him).

Nagababu at a restaurant

Venkatesh at the airport

Raghuvaran at a hotel

Kota Srinivasa Rao at a function

Brahmanandam: Interacted with him in a restaurant

Rajsekhar: Interacted with him in a restaurant

Tamil Comedian at a disco in Chennai

Sarath Kumar and Radhika at Hyderabad airpot

Naresh during a shooting in Vizag near my school.

Madhavan in Chennai airport

Vinod Kumar during a shooting

Boys Film Heros: Other than Siddharth in Bikes and Barrells in Chennai

Mohanlal: Joel and I were having drinks at Copper Chimney in Chennai. Mohanlal was having drinks in the same restaurant.

Paruchuri Goplakrishna: Often visits a producer in the same apartment block where we lived in Hyderabad

Allu Ramalingayya: At Peddamma Talli temple in Hyderabad

MS Raju: Mega Film Producer lived in the same building.

Captain Prabakar: In Chennai during elections in 2006

Nepolian: Tamil actor and politician is my neighbor in Chennai

K Vishwanath: Film director at a coffee shop in Hyderabad

Hollywood star Steven Segal at Puttaparthi

Political Personalities

Chandra Babu Naidu in Hyderabad Public Gardens during a IT Exhibition inaugaration

TN Seshan: I saw him at Malibu temple in US.

PN Sangma: Interacted with him while he was lobbying in Delhi University

Kapil Sibal: At Shivam in Chennai

Shivraj Patil: At Shivam in Chennai

Music:

A R Rehman: Have interacted with him in Delhi Airport

Janet Jackson: At US Open 2007

M Balamurali Krishna:

Bombay Sisters

Unni Krishnan

Shankar Mahadevan: He was the entertainer on Polaris Day 2006

Yesudas

OS Arun

S P Balasubramanyam: Met him several times.


I missed these world famous peronalities:

Mother Teressa: Mother Teressa visited visakhapatnam and most of my classmates went to see her. I did not go, as I wanted to play. After seeing the pictures of my friends and cousin with her, I regretted for not going to visit Mother Teressa.

MS Subba Lakshmi: I wanted to see her a lot as I am a staunch fan and a devotee of her Divine Voice. She lived in Kotturpuram and I lived in the same colony. But I did not know that she lived in Kotturpuram, untill I saw it in the news paper, after her death.

People I would definitely want to meet:

Vijay Mallya

Lallu Prasad Yadav

2 comments:

Joell said...

What was Raghuvaran like? Could you please tell me a little more about him? What did he look like? Was he with his wife? Thank you!

Joell said...

What was Raghuvaran like? Could you please tell me a little more about him? What did he look like? Was he with his wife? Thank you!