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After the death of his parents, Khan moved to Mumbai in 1991.[15] In that same year, before any of his films were released, he married Gauri Chibber, a Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991.[16] They have two children, son Aryan (b. 1997) and daughter Suhana (b. 2000). According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Allah, he also values his wife's religion. At home, his children follow both religions, with the Qur'an being situated next to the Hindu deities.

NATIONAL FILM AWARD FOR BEST AUDIOGRAPHY (SILVER LOTUS AWARD) Audiography provides a more precise measurement of hearing.Measuring the intensity of sound. H. Sridhar 2003 H. Sridhar, A.S. Laxmi Narayanan Kannathil Muthamittal Tamil Sridhar has been awarded the President's Gold Medal (The National Award for Best Audiography) four times: for the film Mahanadi in 1994, Dil Se in 1999, Lagaan in 2001 & Kannathil Muththamittal in 2003. H.Sridhar WHO IS HE? Occupation(s) Chief Audio Engineer Born Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Years active 1988 - Present Associated acts Media-Artists Chennai. H Sridhar, (Sridhar Hariharan) is a Sound Engineer from India. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: A mathematics graduate, with keen interest in electronics and formal music training, he started a professional sound engineering career in 1988. He has engineered over 200 films so far and has worked closely with directors like Mani Ratnam, K Balachandar, Bharathiraaja, Shankar, Kamal Hassan, P C Sreeram, Priyadarsan, Ra

SOUND ENGINEER: High quality recording of music, speech and sound effects. They use complex electronic equipment to record sound for: • commercial music recordings • radio, TV, film • corporate videos • websites • Computer games and other types of interactive media. What qualifications and experience will employers look for? To become a studio sound engineer, you will need a good knowledge of music and recording technology, and you will also find it useful to understand physics and electronics. What skills and knowledge will I need? You will need: • good hearing, for distinguishing sound quality • a good sense of pitch, timing and rhythm • a knowledge of electronics and acoustics • good practical skills • patience • a keen interest in music and sound • the ability to cope with long hours and tight deadlines • good communication and ‘people’ skills. What opportunities are there? You could work full-time for a recording studio, or you could be self-employed and work on short-term freelan

HUMAN BODY Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day. On average, people can hold their breath for one minute. The world record is seven-and-a-half minutes. The human head contains 22 bones. More on the head and brains Our eyes are always the same size from birth. Babies start dreaming even before they're born On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day. On average, you speak almost 5,000 words a day - although almost 80% of speaking is self-talk (talking to yourself). Einstein's brain was of average size (1375 grams - 49oz). The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15000 times a day. Women blink twice as much as men. COWS Cows don't have upper front teeth Although a cow has no upper front teeth, it grazes up to 8 hours a day, taking in about 45 kg (100 lb) of feed and the equivalent of a bath tub full of water. A healthy cow

Factoids -  Meaning -  an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact ( or) a brief or trivial item of news or information . W ATER - World Water Day is celebrated on March, 22nd every year. Between 6 and 9 million people die annually of thirst. Seventy percent of the water used worldwide is used for agriculture. Australia is the continent with the least rainfall, apart from Antarctica. ANIMALS - African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with. There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India. A house fly lives only 14 days. A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon. The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki. The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world. An ostrich can run up to 70 km/h (43mph). An annoyed camel will spit at a person. 75% of wild birds die before they are 6 mon

Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented. The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980 Lebanon is the top movie-going country - 35,3 movies per person p.a. China is second with 12,3, followed by Georgia (5,6), India (5), Iceland (4,5), Australia is 6th at 3,9 then New Zealand and the US at just under 3,9. The US has the most cinemas (23,662) while India [the country that produces the most movies - about 800 a year, twice as many as Hollywood] has about 9,000 cinemas and China has approximately 5,000 cinemas. - 300,000 people per cinema. Indian comic actress Manorama has played the most leading roles of any performer in movie history. She began her career in 1958 and in 1985 had appeared in her 1,000th movie. The term "disc jockey" was first used in 1937.

1868 - Great Train Robbery seven men made off with $98000 in cash 1933 - World Trade Day 1972 - Ceylon became Republic of Sri Lanka 1922 - Satyajat Ray, Indian film director birthday

No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic. The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main ingredients. Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull. In Florida, Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging.

A movie theater, movie theatre or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ("movies" or "films"). Most movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket. The movie is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium. Some movie theaters are now equipped for digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film print. Spelling and alternative terms Outside of North America, most English-speaking countries use the term cinema but formerly spelt "kinema" In these areas the term "theatre" is usually restricted to live-performance venues. Colloquial expressions, mostly used for cinemas collectively, include the silver screen, the big screen (contrasted with the "small screen" of television) and (in the United Kingdom) the pictures, the flicks, and the flea pit (which derives from the