Bahu Begum

Bahu Begum is a 1967 Hindi film directed by M. Sadiq, and starring Pradeep Kumar, Meena Kumari and Ashok Kumar. The film has music by Roshan and lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi and is known for songs, "Hum Intezaar Karenge Tera Qayamat Tak", sung by Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhonsle and "Duniya Kare Sawal To Hum" by Lata Mangeshkar. The film is a Muslim period drama that depicts the male dominated society and the Haveli culture that existed in India in the past.

Plot

The film is set in Lucknow, where widower, Nawab Mirza Sultan lives with daughter Zeenat Jahan in an old mansion. She falls in love with Nawab Yusuf (Pradeep Kumar), but in a twist of fate, her uncle connivingly fixes her marriage with Nawab Sikandar Mirza (Ashok Kumar), though she assumes it is with Yusuf. When she finds the truth, it is the day of marriage, thus she visits a nearby dargah (Sufi shrine), hoping to meet Yusuf, not knowing that he is out of town. Thus, he never arrives and Zeenat faints. Back home marriage commences without her, while wakes up the following day, at the home of courtesan, Nazeeran Bai (Lalita Pawar), who had rescued her from the dargah.

Bahu

Bahu was a social networking website, launched on April 2007 for Belgian and French students initially. On September 2007, Bahu opened to international by adding English, Spanish, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, Italian, Dutch, German, and Portuguese languages. The site had more than 1,000,000 mostly European users as of July, 2008.

The site was free to users. They created profiles that often contained photos and lists of personal interests, exchanged private or public messages, and joined groups of friends. They shared their lives with friends, communicated around passions and discovered new talents. The owners of the site created a Twitter like site known as Sofamous

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Bahu (Bahuka)

Bahu (बाहु) or Bahuka (बाहुक) was a king of the Ikshvaku dynasty or the Suryavamsha (solar dynasty). According to the Puranas, he was son of Vrika. But the Ramayana mentions him as Asita, son of Bharata. According to this text, he had two queens, one of them was Kalindi. He was vanquished and driven out of his country by the tribes of Haihayas and Talajanghas and took refuge in the forest near the hermitage of Agni, a descendant of Urva. His son, Sagara was born in this hermitage.

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