Dream Girl

Lockdown Exercise

My ranking for this is as follows:

Actor: 1. Dilip Kumar 2. Amitabh Bachchan 3. Nasiruddin Shah 4. Sanjeev kumar /Amir Khan 5. Johny Walker

Actress: 1. Meena Kumari 2. Nargis 3. Shabana Aazmi 4. Rekha 5. Tabu

However, after receiving lists from various people (see the lists below) and taking their rankings in consideration it seems the final ranking is as follows:

Actor: 1. Dilip Kumar 2. Amitabh Bachchan 3. Aamir Khan 4. Nasiruddin Shah 5. Shahrukh Khan

Actress: 1. Meena Kumari 2. Nargis 3. Rekha 4. Waheeda Rahman 5. Madhubala/Madhuri Dixit

Some of the lists received:

Hina Shaista: 1. Dilip Kumar 2. Sanjeev kumar 3. Shahrukh khan 4. Amitabh Bachchan 5. Nasiruddin shah

Taiyaba Haq: Dilip Kumar, Dharmendra, Rajesh khanna, Aamir khaN, Shahrukh khaN

Syed Aijazuddin: Dilip Kumar, Sohrab Modi, Balraj Sahni, Ompuri, Naseeruddin Shah

Mohsin: Dilip Kumar, Amir Khan, Pran, Shahrukh khan, Amitabh Bachchan

Imran: Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachan,Sohrab Modi, Amir Khan , Nawazuddin sidiqui

Khaja Hashmi: Dileep Kumar, Balraj Sahni, Naseeruddin Shah, Irfaan Khan, Nawazuddin sidiqui

Shazi Shah: Amitabh Bachan, Naseeruddin Shah, Amir khan, Akshay kumar and Hrithik Roshan

Samin Chishti: Shahrukh khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachan, Ranbir Kapoor

Munnawar Shah: Amitabh Bachan, Rishi Kapoor, Amir Khan, Shahrukh khan, Ranbir Kapoor

Rushi Shah: Dileep Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Sunil Dutt, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachan

Shireen: Dileep Kumar, Johny walker, Naseeruddin Shah, Amitabh Bachchan, Amir khan

Yasir Barevi: Dileep Kumar, Guru Dutt, Amir khan, Amitabh Bachan, Dev Anand

Afshan Jabeen: Dileep Kumar, Amitabh Bachan, Raj Kumar, Amir Khan , Shahrukh Khan

Qausain Hashmi: Shahrukh Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Manoj Bajpayee, Amir Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui

ACTRESS

Hina Shaista: 1. Nutan 2. Vyajenti mala 3. Madhubala 4. Nargis 5. Madhuri dixit and Meena Kumari

Taiyaba Haq: Madhubala, Meena Kumari, Rekha, Juhi chawla, Divya Bharti

Syed Aijazuddin: Devika Rani, Meena kumari, Nutan, Waheeda Rahman, Rekha/Deepika

Mohsin: Waheeda Rahman, Nargis,Kajol, Kareena, Vijayenti mala

Imran: Waheeda Rahman, Rekha, Madhuri Dixit, Meena Kumari, Madhubala

Khaja Hashmi: Meena Kumari, Nargis, Waheeda Rahman, Madhuri Dixit, Kajol

Shazi Shah: Rekha, Shabana Azmi, Madhuri Dixit, Priyanka Chopra and Kareena kapoor

Samin Chishti: Kajol, Deepika, Jaya bachchcan, SriDevi, Anushka Sharma

Munnawar Shah: Shabana Azmi, Madhuri Dixit, Kajol, Deepika, Alia bhatt

Rushi Shah: Nargis, Nutan, Madhubala, Sharmila tagore, Deepti Naval

Shireen: Nargis, Waheeda Rahman, Nutan, Shabana Azmi, Rekha

Afshan Jabeen: Nargis, Rekha, Meena Kumari, Madhubala, Deepika Padukone

Qausain Hashmi: Dia Mirza, Swara Bhaskar, Kareeena Kapoor, Richa Chadha, Nargis Fakhri

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Lockdown Exercises: My Favourite Poets & Poetry

My Best World XI (since 1980) for Test, ODI and T20

Just to kill time during lockdown, I have selected my all-time (since 1980) World XI for Test, ODI and T20 matches.

Cut-off year is 1980 because probably from this time onwards, I have been following cricket. While selecting the teams, I have considered the peak performances of the players.

Shane Warne, Muttahiah Murlidharan and Saqlain Mushtaq are undoubtedly the best spinners of the last four decades and as per work-load-management, they have been included in Test, ODI and T20 teams respectively.

Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the only three players figuring in all the three teams. Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar are considered as openers for ODI & T20 matches.

Some good performers of the game of their time like Zaheer Abbass, Bret Lee, Ricky Ponting, Virender Shewag, James Anderson, de Villiers, Sangarkara, Rahul Dravid, Jeff Thompson, Ian Botham and Kapil Dev fail to make cut into my teams.

Further, no player from England, New Zealand and Sri Lanka has figured in any of the three teams.

Let’s have a look:

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Your Poet

Arrow of Glance

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