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Ratan Tata
Indian industrialist (born 1937)
He has also appeared ''Rendevouz with Simi Garewal'' an informal chat show hosted by Indian actress Simi Garewal.
Simi Garewal
Indian actress (born 1947)
During the 1960s and '70s, she was in several notable Indian films, working with leading directors such as Mehboob Khan's ''Son of India'', Raj Kapoor in '' Mera Naam Joker'' (1970), Satyajit Ray in ''Aranyer Din Ratri'' (''Days and Nights in the Forest''), Mrinal Sen in '' Padatik'' (''The Guerilla Fighter'') and Raj Khosla in ''Do Badan.'' She starred opposite Shashi Kapoor in Columbia Pictures' ''Siddhartha'', an English-language movie based on the novel by Hermann Hesse.
Satyajit Ray
Indian filmmaker (1921–1992)
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Wes Anderson
American filmmaker
In addition to the original ''Bottle Rocket'' short, he made the Paris-set ''Hotel Chevalier'' (2007), which was created as a prologue to ''The Darjeeling Limited'' and starred Jason Schwartzman alongside Natalie Portman, and the Italy-set '' Castello Cavalcanti'' (2013), which was produced by Prada and starred Jason Schwartzman as an unsuccessful race-car driver.
Ratan Tata
Indian industrialist (born 1937)
Born in 1937, he is a heir of the Tata family, and son of Naval Tata who was later adopted by Ratanji Tata, son of Jamsetji Tata, the founder of Tata Group.
His biological maternal grandmother had been the sister of Hirabai Tata, wife of group founder Jamsetji Tata.
Jamsetji Tata
Through his cousin, Ratanji Dadabhoy, he was the uncle of entrepreneur J. R. D. Tata and Sylla Tata; the latter was married to Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, the third baronet of Petits. The baronet's sister Rattanbai Petit, was the wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Christopher Lee, who portrayed Jinnah, called his performance the best of his career. The 1954 Hector Bolitho's book ''Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan'' prompted Fatima Jinnah to release a book, titled ''My Brother'' (1987), as she thought that Bolitho's book had failed to express the political aspects of Jinnah.
Christopher Lee
His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film '' The Man with the Golden Gun'' (1974), Count Dooku in several ''Star Wars'' films (2002–2008), and Saruman in both the ''Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy (2001–2003) and the ''Hobbit'' film trilogy (2012–2014).
They featured, too, in separate instalments of the ''Star Wars'' films: Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin in the original film, and Lee decades later as Count Dooku.
Lee's appearance in the final film in the trilogy, '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'', was cut from the theatrical release, but the scene was reinstated in the extended edition. '' The Lord of the Rings'' marked the beginning of a major career revival that continued in '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' (2002) and '' Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith'' (2005), in which he played the villainous Count Dooku.
Count Dooku
Fictional character in Star Wars
Dooku recruits bounty hunter Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison) to assassinate Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman) on Coruscant, but the attempt on her life is foiled.
Ratan Tata
Indian industrialist (born 1937)
His biological maternal grandmother had been the sister of Hirabai Tata, wife of group founder Jamsetji Tata.
Herabai Tata
Around the same time, in 1911, she met Sophia Duleep Singh, a British suffragist with Indian heritage, who influenced her development as a suffragist.
At the 1912 convention in Benaras, she met Annie Besant, who had become president of the Theosophical Society Adyar in 1908. In 1911, while vacationing in Kashmir with her daughter, Tata met the suffragist, Sophia Duleep Singh.
Sophia Duleep Singh
After Singh returned from India in 1909, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) at the behest of Una Dugdale, a friend of the Pankhurst sisters; Emmeline Pankhurst had co-founded the Women's Franchise League in 1889.
Meryl Streep
In 2001, Streep returned to the stage for the first time in more than twenty years, playing Arkadina in The Public Theater's revival of Anton Chekhov's '' The Seagull'', directed by Mike Nichols and co-starring Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Stephen Spinella, Debra Monk, Larry Pine and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Ratan Tata
Indian industrialist (born 1937)
He joined his company in 1961 when he used to work on the shop floor of Tata Steel, and was the apparent successor to J. R. D. Tata upon the latter's retirement in 1991. He got Tata Tea to acquire Tetley, Tata Motors to acquire Jaguar Land Rover, and Tata Steel to acquire Corus, in an attempt to turn Tata from a largely India-centrist group into a global business.
J. R. D. Tata
J. R. D. nourished and nurtured his airline baby through to 1953, when the government of Jawaharlal Nehru nationalised Air India.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Under American advice (by American envoy John Kenneth Galbraith who made and ran American policy on the war as all other top policymakers in the US were absorbed in the coincident Cuban Missile Crisis) Nehru refrained from using the Indian air force to beat back the Chinese advances.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Canadian-American economist and diplomat (1908–2006)
Because of his recommendation, First Lady of the United StatesJacqueline Bouvier Kennedy undertook her 1962 diplomatic missions in India and Pakistan.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
First Lady of the United States
Natalie Portman portrays Jacqueline Kennedy in the 2016 film '' Jackie'', set during the JFK presidency and the immediate aftermath of the assassination.
