Ajay Ratra

• He was born on 13th December, 1981, in Faridabad, is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket keeper. Ratra was selected in 2000 for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru.
• He was the youngest wicket keeper to make a century in Tests and only the second Indian wicket keeper to make an overseas century. Ratra was part of the Indian Under-19 squad, which won the Youth World Cup in 2000 and following training sessions with the National Cricket Academy, he became one of sixth wicket keepers that India would attempt to integrate into the squad in the space of 12 months.

Joginder Sharma

• He was born on 23rd October, 1983, in Rohtak, Haryana, is an cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler and captains his state, Haryana. He had often been compared to follow Kapil Dev, India’s greatest all rounder, due to his similar aggressive batting style and fast bowling
• Sharma performed strongly in the 2007, Indian domestic season to bring himself into contention for national selection. Sharma found a place for himself in the 2007, Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa.

Mahesh Rawat

• He was born on 25th October, 1985, in Faridabad, is an Indian cricketer, who is part of Railways Cricket team and presently part of the Pune Warriors India team in Indian Premier League. He is an alumnus of National Cricket Academy, Bengaluru.

Virender Sehwag

• He was born on 20th October, 1978, in district of Jhajjar, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian Cricket team. He is popularly known as Viru and the Nawab of Najafgarh, Sehwag is a right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler. He played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test Cricket team in 2001. In April, 2009, Sehwag became the only Indian to be honoured as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his performance in 2008.
• He is the only player in world to score a double hundred in One Day International (OSIs) and a triple hundred in Test Cricket. Sehwag also holds the distinction of being one of four batsmen in the world to have ever surpassed 300 twice in Test Cricket and the only one to score two triple. On 8th December, 2011, he hit his maiden double century in One Day International Cricket, against West Indies, becoming the second batsman after Sachin Tendulkar to reach the landmark. He was awarded with the Arjuna Award in 2002, ICC Test Player of the Year 2010, Padma Shree Award in 2010.

Sachin Rana

• He was bom in Gurgaon, Haryana, is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut in 2004-05; he has since played for Haryana, the Kolkata Knight Riders, North Zone and Pune Warriors India as a right-handed middle order batsman. He made his Twenty20 debut against the Punjab team in 2007 and also played for the Pune Warriors India in the IPL 2011 season.

Wrestling

Ramesh Kumar

• He is an Indian wrestler, who won the Bronze medal in the Men’s 74kg Freestyle Wrestling event at the 2009 Wrestling World Championship in Herning, Denmark. He was born in Purkhas in Sonipat. He won Gold medal in 66 kg category at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
• He represented India at the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Men’s Freestyle 66 kg category, though he missed 2008 Olympics, due to back injury. At the 2009 FILA Wrestling World Championships, he defeated Alexander Burca of Moldova to win a Bronze medal, which was India’s first medal winner at the championship, after Vishambhar Singh won a silver in 1967.

Suman Kundu

• She is a woman wrestler from India, who won Bronze medal in women’s wrestling in the 63 kg freestyle category at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She belongs to Kalua in the Jind district of Haryana.

Geeta Phogat

• She is a female wrestler from India, who won India’s first ever Gold medal in women’s wrestling in the 55 kg freestyle category at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She hails from a Hindu Jat family of Bhiwani in Haryana. She had earlier won gold in the 2009 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship.
• Her father Mahavir Singh, a former wrestler himself, is also her coach. She qualified for the 2012 London Olympics, but could not win a medal. She is the first ever Indian woman wrestler to have qualified for the Olympics. Geeta Phogat won a gold medal in the Wrestling FILA Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament that concluded at Almaty, Kazakhstan in April, 2012. She has numerous other international medals to her credit, including three consecutive medals in the Asian Cadet Championships in 2003, 2004 and 2005. She has been conferred 2012 Arjuna Award in August, 2012, for outstanding achievement in national sports.

Chandgi Ram

• He was an Indian wrestler, who won a Gold medal at 1970, Asian Games. He received both an Arjuna Award and a Padma Shri. He participated in 1972, Summer Olympics. He was born in 1937 in the Hisar district of Haryana. He later set up the Akhara to train women wrestlers for international events.
• He was popularly known as Master Chandgi Ram. He died in New Delhi following a cardiac arrest on 29th June, 2010. His daughter Sonika Kaliraman is also a wrestler and was the member of Doha Asian Game’s Indian squad.

Lila Ram Sangwan

• He was an Indian wrestler born on 30th November, 1930, in Bhiwani district of Haryana, who was the first Indian to win a Gold medal in the Commonwealth Games. He won Gold medal in the heavyweight (100 kg) category in the 1958, British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
• Lila Ram competed in the freestyle wrestling in heavyweight and super heavyweight categories at the national as well as international level. In 1998, he was awarded with the Padma Shri in recognition of his contributions to sports.

Yogeshwar Dutt

• He is an Indian wrestler. He won the Bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in the Men’s 60 kg Freestyle Wrestling. Yogeshwar Dutt won the Gold Medal in the 2003 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship. He was awarded with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in August, 2012.

Badminton

Saina Nehwal

• She was born on 17th March, 1990, in Dhindar, Hisar, Haryana. She is an Indian Khel Ratna Badminton player, who attained a career best ranking of Number 2 in December, 2010 by Badminton World Federation. Saina is the first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics. She achieved this feat by winning the bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012, on 4th August, 2012. She is the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships.
• Saina was also the first Indian to win a Super Series Tournament, by clinching the Indonesia Open with a victory over higher-ranked Chinese Wang Lin in Jakarta on 21st June, 2009, Saina won her second career Super Series title by winning the Singapore Open title on 20th June, 2010. She completed a hat-trick in the same year by winning the Indonesian Open on 27th June, 2010. This win resulted in her rise to 3rd ranking and subsequently to Number 2. Later in the same year, she also won Hong Kong Super Series on 12th December, 2010. She is India’s highest-paid non-cricketing sportsperson as on September, 2012. On 26th January, 2014 she defeated World Championship bronze medalist PV Sindhu to win the women’s singles of India Open Grand Prix Gold Tournament. She also won India Open Grand Prix Gold-2015 by defeating Spain’s Carolina Marin.

Boxing

Manoj Kumar

• He is an Indian boxer, who won a gold medal in the light welterweight division at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He was born on 10th December, 1986, in the village of Rajound in the Kaithal district of Haryana. He is currently supported by the Olympic Gold Quest.

Vijender Singh Beniwal

• He was born on 29th October, 1985, is an Indian Olympic boxer from Kaluwas, Bhiwani district in Haryana. He was coached by the Indian Boxing Coach Gurbaksh Singh Sandhu.
• He won the Bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, he won the Bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, which is the first ever Olympic medal for an Indian boxer. After this win, Vijender was given a number of awards, including the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award—India’s highest sporting honour. In 2009, he participated at the World Amateur Boxing Championships, where he won the Bronze medal.
• In the same year, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) announced Vijender as the top-ranked boxer in its annual middle weight category list with 2800 points. The boxer has qualified to represent India at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Jagdish Singh

• He is an Indian boxer and a boxing coach from Bhiwani district of the Indian State of Haryana. He founded the Bhiwani Boxing Club (BBC) in 2001, which produced four members of the five member boxing team in Beijing Olympics 2008, including the Bronze medal winner, Vijender Singh. He was awarded with India’s highest honour for sports coaching, the 2007 Dronacharya Award.

Vikas Krishan Yadav

• He was born on 10th February, 1992 is an Indian male boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, who won a Gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the lightweight category. In the 2010 Asian Youth Boxing Championships at Teheran in March, 2010 Yadav won a Gold medal. He won a Gold medal in the 2010 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships at Baku. He was conferred with Arjuna Award, India’s second highest sporting award in the year 2012.

Hockey

Suman Bala

• She was born on 15th December, 1981, in Shahabad Markanda, Kurukshetra, is a member of the India women’s national field hockey team. She hails from Haryana and played with the team when it won the Gold at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Jasjeet Kaur Handa

• She was born on 20th December, 1987 is a member of the India women’s national field hockey team. She hails from Haryana and played with the team when it won the Gold at the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup. She was given the Arjuna Award in 2010.

Surinder Kaur

She was born on 12th July, 1982 in Shahabad Markanda, Kurukshetra, is a

• member of the India women’s national field hockey team. She played with the team when it won Gold at the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup.

Pritam Rani Siwach

• She was born on 2nd October, 1974, in village Jharsa near Gurgaon, Haryana. She is a former captain of the Indian women’s hockey team. In 2008, she was recalled to join the team for the Olympic qualifiers in order to bring an additional wealth of experience. She last played with the team, when it won the Gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Shotput

Om Prahash Karhana

• He was born on 11th January, 1987, is an Indian shot putter. He trains at the Salwan Throws Academy and is supported by Olympic Gold Quest, a not-for-profit foundation to identify and support Indian athletes. He holds the Indian national record in shot put of 20.69 m, which he achieved in May, 2012, at Szombathely, Hungary and qualified for the 2012 London Olympics.

Volleyball

Dalel Singh Ror

• He is an Indian volleyball player, who was awarded the country’s highest sporting honour, the Arjuna Award in 1990.

Balwant Singh Sagwal

• He is popularly known as Ballu, was an Indian Volleyball player, considered a star of the national volleyball team. Balwant Singh Sagwal was born in the village of Kaul in the Kaithal district of Haryana. He was awarded the country’s top sporting honour, the Arjuna Award in volleyball in 1972, for his excellent sportsmanship and contribution to the national team. Sagwal played for Indiar in Asian Games of 1970,1974 and 1978. Sagwal ran a Volleyball Academy in Kaul and a stadium was named after him. He died in November, 2010.

Santosh Yadav (Mountaineer)

• She is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice in less than a year. She first climbed the peak in May 1992 and then did it again in May 1993. She was born in 1969 in Joniyawas village Rewari district of Haryana State in India. She is an Alumna of Maharani College, Jaipur.
• Living in Kasturba Hostel she joined Uttarakashi’s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. While studying she prepared herself to climb two great peaks namely, mountaineering and that time she also prepared for Indian Civil Services and was successful in both. Currently, she is an officer in Indo-Tibetan Border Police. She was conferred the Padma Shri Award in 2000.

Sandeep Singh

• He is an Indian field hockey player and an ex-captain of the Indian national team. He was born on 27th February, 1986 in Shahabad town in Kurukshetra. He is a penalty corner specialist for the team.
• He currently holds a DSP rank in the Haryana Police. He made his international debut in January 2004 in Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Kualalumpur. He took over as the captain of the Indian national team in January 2009. He was awarded Arjuna Award in 2010.

Famous Personalities

Politics

Dr Sarup Singh

• Dr Sarup Singh was an Indian academic turned politician. He was born on 9th January, 1917, in Sanghi Village in Rohtak. He remained a faculty member at Kirori Mal College, Delhi and later became the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi (1971-74). He was member of the Rajya Sabha from Haryana (1978-1984) from Lok Dal Party. He was later appointed Governor of Gujarat in December, 1990 and held the position till 1995, earlier he was the Governor of Kerala. He died in the year 2003.

Arvind Kejriwal

• He is an Indian politician, social activist and former Indian Revenue Service officer who is the seventh and current Chief Minister of Delhi. This is his second term as the Chief Minister, after his Party won the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections with a majority, winning 67 out of 70 assembly seats. He is national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
• He was born on August 16, 1968 in the Siwani village (Bhiwani district) of Haryana. He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and worked for the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) as a Joint Commissioner in the Income Tax Department.
• In 2006, he was awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership recognising his involvement in a grassroots movement Parivartan using right-to-information legislation in a campaign against corruption. The same year, after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmetal organisation (NGO).
• In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, and defeated Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election. Following the election, he took office as the Chief Minister of Delhi on 20 December 2013. He resigned 49 days later, on 14 February 2014, stating he did so because of his minority government’s inability to pass his proposed anti-corruption legislation due to a lack of support from other political parties. On 14 February 2015, he sworn-in as the Chief Minister for a second term after the victory in the assembly election, revoking the President’s rule in Delhi.

Om Prahash Jindal

• Om Prakash Jindal popularly known as OP Jindal, was born in Hisar on 7th August, 1930. He established a successful business enterprise Jindal Steel and Power under the flagship of the Jindal Organisation.
• In November, 2004, Jindal was awarded with the prestigious ‘Life Time Achievement Award’ for his outstanding contribution to the Indian Steel Industry by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Jindal was appointed Minister of Power in the Government of Haryana.
• He won the Hisar Legislative Assembly seat of Haryana three times consecutively. He was also a Member of the Committee on Food, Civil Supplies and Public Distribution from 1996 to 1997. He died in the year 2005.

Sushma Swaraj

• She is an Indian politician and the current Minister of External Affairs of India. She is second woman to be India’s external affairs minister, first being Indira Gandhi. She has been elected seven times as a Member of parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. She was born at Ambala Cantt in a Brahmin family on February 14, 1952.
• At the age of 25, she became Haryana’s youngest cabinet minister and in 1998, also served as Chief Minister of Delhi for a short term in the year 1998. In Indian genral election, 2014 she won from Vidisha constituency in Madhya Pradesh.

Sir Chhotu Ram

• Sir Chhotu Ram (1881 -1945) was one of the most prominent pre-partition politicians in Punjab and an ideologue of the Jat peasantry and a champion of its interests. He was born on 24th November, 1881 in Ghari Sampla in Rohtak district in Jat Gotra Ohlan family. Sir Chhotu Ram was awarded the title of ‘Rai Bahadur. He is called the real Jat hero as he devoted his entire life for the upliftment and improving the standard of living of Jat community, whose condition was quite miserable in those times.

A brief summary of the work done by Sir Chhotu Ram in his life is as follows:

• Started Jat Anglo Sanskrit School on 26th March, 1913 in Rohtak.
• Joined National Congress in 1916 and worked as President of Rohtak district Congress Committee from 1916 to 1920.
• Formed Unionist Party in 1923, which won elections in 1935 forming Provincial Government in Lahore and he became Revenue Minister.
• He also introduced Punjab Relief Indebtedness Act in 1934 and Punjab Debtor’s Protection Act in, 1936, to save the farmers from the exploitation of money lenders.

1. Sir Chhotu Ram had seen the miserable condition of farmers most of whom were Jats, since his childhood. Moneylenders or rich people used to treat them like slaves. Poverty was rampant among the Jats due to lack of education. They were only nominal owners of their lands as whatever produced by the Jats on their lands used to go to moneylenders as interest for the debts taken by them and they used to get only a fraction of the produce. Since, the farmers were uneducated moneylenders used to charge exorbitant rate of interest for their loans, because of which farmers were unable to repay their loans even generation after generation.
2. Sir Chhotu Ram knew about all these injustices, since he had spent his childhood in the same environment. That’s why when he came to power he introduced farmer friendly enactments like Punjab Relief Indebtedness Act in 1934 and Punjab Debtor’s Protection Act in 1936, to eradicate the injustices done to farmer by the moneylenders.
3. He also created awareness among the Jats about their rights and importance of education. He encouraged the Jats to educate their children as illiteracy was the root cause of all their sufferings. He always encouraged poor bright students and paid their education expenses out of his pocket. The sole aim of his life was to eradicate all the injustices done to Jats and farmers and to ensure a decent standard of living for them.

Bansi Lal

• Bansi Lal was an Indian freedom fighter, senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Haryana and considered by many to be the architect of modern Haryana. He was born in Golagarh village in Bhiwani on 26th August,1927, district of Haryana. He served three separate terms as Chief Minister of Haryana: 1968-75,1985-87 and 1996-99. He served as the Defence Minister from December, 1975 to March, 1977 and had a brief stint as a Minister Without Portfolio in the Union Government in 1975. He also held the Railways and Transport portfolios.
• Lal was elected to the State Assembly seven times, the first time in 1967. He set up Haryana Vikas Party after parting ways with the Indian National Congress in 1996. Bansi Lal was President of the Bar Association, Bhiwani from 1957 to 1958. He was President of District Congress Committee, Hisar, from 1959 to 1962 and later became member of Congress Working Committee and Congress Parliamentary Board. He became Railways Minister on 31st December,1984 and later Minister for Transport.
• He was a Rajya Sabha member from 1960 to 1966 and 1976 to 1980. He was a Lok Sabha member from 1980 to 1984,1985 to 1986 and 1989 to 1991. Bansi Lal was elected to the State Assembly seven times, the first time being in 1967. He was responsible for electrifying all villages in Haryana during his tenure as Chief Minister in the late sixties and seventies.
• He was also the pioneer of highway tourism in the state a model later adopted by a number of states. He is regarded by many as an ‘Iron man’ ,who was always close to reality and took keen interest in the upliftment of the community. After independence, Devi Lal emerged as a leader of farmers. During his two tenures as Chief Minister of Haryana, he made several decisions benefiting farmers and rural people. He always took decisions about the betterment of common people. His popularity among farmers and rural people, earned him the title of ‘Tau’. Devi Lal died on 6th April, 2001 at the age of 86.

Chaudhary Devi Lal

• Chaudhary Devi Lal was an Indian politician and freedom fighter, who served as Chief Minister of Haryana for the first time, from 1977 to 1979 and second time from 1987 to 1989. He also served as sixth Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1991. Devi Lal was born in a Jat family of the Sihag clan, in Teja Khera village of Sirsa district on 16th September, 1914. Devi Lal, original name was Devi Dayal, he received education up to middle-school and also trained as a wrestler at an ’Akhara’ in Badal village (Punjab). On Mahatma Gandhi’s call, both he and his elder brother Sahib Ram, left their studies unfinished to take part in the freedom movement. His son Om Prakash Chautala has also served as Haryana’s Chief Minister.
• He took part in the movement of 1932 and was kept in Sadar Thana Delhi, In 1938, he was selected delegate of All-India Congress Committee. In March, 1938, his elder brother was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in a by-election on the Congress party ticket. In January, 1940, Sahib Ram courted arrest as a satyagrahi in the presence of Devi Lai and over ten thousand people. Devi Lai was arrested on 5th October, 1942 and kept in jail for two years for taking part in the 1942, Quit India Movement. He played an active and decisive role in the formation of Haryana as a separate state. He remained a Member of Parliament from 1980 to 1982 and was a member of State Assembly between 1982 and 1987. He formed Lok Dal and started Nyaya Yuddh (battle for justice), under the banner of Haryana Sangharsh Samiti and became hugely popular among masses. He twice became Deputy Prime Minister of India in two different governments. He was elected to Rajya Sabha in August, 1998.

Bhajan Lal

• Bhajan Lal was a politician and two-time Chief Minister of Haryana. Bhajan Lal was born on 6th October, 1930 in Koranwali, Bahawalpur district, now in Punjab (Pakistan) in a Bishnois sub-caste and has two sons, Chander Mohan Bishnoi and Kuldeep Bishnoi. He started his political career by becoming a ‘Panch’ in the Adampur Gram Panchayat.
• Bhajan Lal was the Chief Minister of the Haryana State twice, his first term from 28th June, 1979 to 5th July, 1985 and his second term from 23rd July, 1991 to 11th May, 1996. He had also served as a Union Cabinet Minister at the centre, holding the Agriculture and Environments and Forest portfolios during Rajiv Gandhi’s administration. Bhajan Lal died on 3rd June, 2011, in Hisar.

Om Prahash Chautala

• Om Prakash Chautala, born on 1st January, 1935, is an Indian politician from the State of Haryana and the leader of the Indian National Lok Dal political party. He is a former Chief Minister of Haryana. Presently, he is the Leader of Opposition in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha. Chautala is the son of Chaudhary Devi Lal.
• He was the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2nd December, 1989 to 2nd May, 1990, from 12th July, 1990 to 17th July, 1990, again from 22nd March, 1991 to 6th April, 1991 and finally from 24th July, 1999 to 4th March, 2005. Politically, he had been part of NDA and United National Progressive Alliance at national level.

Bhupinder Singh Hooda

• Bhupinder Singh Hooda is an Indian politician and leader of the Indian National Congress. Bhupinder Singh Hooda was born at the Sanghi village in Rohtak district of Haryana on 15th September, 1947 . His father Ranbir Singh Hooda was a renowned freedom fighter. He has been Chief Minister of Haryana since March, 2005. He began a second term in October, 2009 after leading the Congress Party to an election victory.
• On 8th April, 2010, Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had constituted the Working Group on Agriculture Production under his chairmanship to recommend strategies and action plan for increasing agricultural production and productivity, including long-term policies to ensure sustained agricultural growth.

Theatre

Manish Joshi Bismil

• Manish Joshi Bismil is a young Indian theatre director trained by the HCRFTA. Leading Drama Institute of India supported by the National School of Drama, under guidance of various famous theatre personalities of India. He started his theatre career in the small city of Hisar, under Rajesh Kapoor and Sushil Chabra. He has directed more than 30 full-length plays and nearly 1000 street performances. He has also worked with eminent theatre personalities like Tom Alter, Zohra Sehgal, Habib Tanveer, Nandita Das, Sushma Seth and many more theatre personalities from abroad. Besides his excellent theatre career, he is a noted puppeteer too.
• Manish has performed more than 400 puppetry shows all over India. Now-a-days, he is involved in his new project named as Theatre on Bikes. He is only director in whole world, who is started this type of unique form of theatre. Through this project, he toured all over India and performed more than 1000 shows in four months. Recently, he has performed his very famous solo theatrical piece Kahani Rangkarmi Ki at world performing arts festival held at Lahore, Pakistan and at Shanghai performing arts festival, China.

Cinema

Parineeti Chopra

• Parineeti Chopra is an Indian actress . She was born on 22nd October, 1988 into a Punjabi family in Ambala. After studying Finance in England, she returned to India during the 2009, economic crisis and joined Yash Raj Films as a publicist. In 2011, she was signed by Aditya Chopra for a three-films contract with Yash Raj Films and made her screen debut in movie Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut and was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2012, she later appeared in Habib Faisal’s directional debut film Ishaqzaade, which was also produced by Yash Raj Films, for which she received critical and commercial success.

Yashpal Sharma

• Yashpal Sharma is an Indian actor. He is best known for his role as Randhir Singh in Sudhir Mishra’s 2003 Hindi movie Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, apart from Lagaan (2001), Gangajal (2003), Ab Tak Chhappan (2004), Apaharan (2005), Singh is King (2008) and Rowdy Rathore (2012). He was born on 1st january, 1967 and brought up in a lower-middle-class family in Hisar, Haryana . His first big break was Govind Nihlani’s film, Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1992), which gave him a chance to act alongside Jaya Bachchan and Nandita Das. He has been regular in films of Shyam Benegal and Prakash Jha and continues to work as a stage actor in Mumbai.