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2 unusual facts about Meena


2008 Gurjar unrest in Rajasthan

Even in 2007, Gurjars in Rajasthan had fought police and members of the Meena tribe that already qualifies for Scheduled Tribe benefits and is opposed to Gurjars sharing the benefits it has cornered for itself.

Meena

The community remained stigmatised for many years, notably by influential officials of the Raj such as Herbert Hope Risley and Denzil Ibbetson, and were sometimes categorised as animists and as a hill tribe similar to the Bhils.


Awaargi

Then Azad goes and rescues a prostitute named meena (Meenakshi Sheshadri) from Ranubhai (Avtar Gill), who owes allegiance to rival don, Bhau's (Paresh Rawal), group and invites his ire and anger.

Craig Mullaney

Mullaney is married to Dr. Meena Seshamani, M.D., Ph.D., formerly an otolaryngology resident physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a published health economist and currently Deputy Director in the Office of Health Reform in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Guda Endla

Population wise Guda Endla village is dominated by Meenas, Meghwal, Chaudhary and Jain castes.

Iniyavale

Prabhakaran's father (Mouli) and Ramanathan (Raghuvaran), Meena's father, are close friends and they decide to get Prabhakaran and Meena (Suvalakshmi) married.

Kaadhalikka Neramillai

Chellappa who was in quest of a heroine for his film production meets Meena (Sachu), the daughter of the manager of Vishwanathan's estate.

Kanjar

The hakim in return had to bear a girl child for Saqa Kanjar's wife Meena (played by Iman Ali).

Maaman Magal

There was a high anticipation for this movie since the previous combination where Sathyaraj, Meena and Guru Dhanapal were associated with in the movie Thai Maaman went very well and was a super hit at the box office.

Mandholi

#Rao Udaosingh Tanwar, ruler of Patan, founded Gaonri by defeating the Meena rulers and his younger brother continued at Patan, Torawati.

Olympiyan Anthony Adam

Olympiyan Anthony Adam is a 1999 high-budget Malayalam film directed by Bhadran starring Mohanlal, Meena and Nassar in the lead roles.

Pedarayudu

This Movie is a Remake of 1994 Megahit Tamil Movie Nattamai which starred Sarath Kumar, Meena and Kushboo in lead Roles.

Phool Aur Patthar

The film was also instrumental in making Dharmendra-Meena Kumari a popular couple and they went on to act in more movies like Chandan Ka Palna, Manjhli Didi and Baharon Ki Manzil after this.

Premalekhanam

The cast includes Soman (Kesavan Nair), Swapna (Saramma Thomas), Meena (Aliyama), Captain Raju (Babu), Vincent (Joykutty) and Mala Aravindan (Kunchan).

Sher Afghan Quli Khan

As the story progresses, in March 1611, during the New Year day’s (Nauroz) celebrations, Prince Salim happened to see Mehrunissa at Meena Bazar (Agra) and immediately fell in love with her.

Surya Vamsha

The other versions of this film were in Telugu as Suryavamsam (1998) with Venkatesh and Meena as lead actors and in Hindi as Sooryavansham (1999) with Amitabh Bachchan and Soundarya in leading roles.

The Book of Negroes

After several horrific months of voyage across the Atlantic Ocean she arrives in South Carolina where she begins a new life as a slave and her name is anglicized to Meena Dee.

Ullathai Allitha

Most of the scenes of this movie's screenplay are copied from old Tamil movie Sabaash Meena(1958), starring Sivaji Ganesan, Chandrababu, Saroja Devi and also subplots of Manivannan was copied from Andaz Apna Apna.

Vikraman

He made a comeback with Mariyadhai in 2009, another Tamil film starring Vijayakanth, Meena, Meera Jasmine and Ambika playing the lead roles.


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