Word: balan
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...flash back to Gurukant's youth in a Gujurat village, then follow the mogul's progress, with some Bollywood embellishments: his marriage to Sujatha (Rai) - at first for her $25,000 dowry, then for love - and his fraternal devotion to a feisty crippled girl, Meenu (Vidya Balan), who will grow up to marry Shyam (Madhavan), the very muckraking reporter who's determined to bring Gurukant down...
...dashes off to cinch another deal) and hellos (as he returns in triumph or in peril). Their relationship has plenty of affection - "You shine as beautifully as polyester," he tells her fondly - but not much heat. Curiously, the movie's most intense, honest physical emotion is between Madhavan and Balan. Their kiss when he proposes to her carries a sock that's missing in the Ash-Abhishek scenes...
...large state institution. It has a playground, plenty of toys and three staff members on duty at all times to care for the home's residents, whether by helping with homework or giving a reassuring hug. "We try to give them a sense of home and normalcy," says Victoria Balan, the home's deputy director, whom Nina calls simply Mom. "Here kids know that they are not in competition with each other, that each of them has a place in our hearts." Homes like Casa Austria are still a minority in Romania but if all goes as planned, over...
...Judith Batalion, Lauren K. Brozovich, Aaron D. Goldberg, Susannah L. Hollister, Jie Li, Priya H. Patel, Michael H. Tang and Benjamin D. Tolchin of Adams House; Elizabeth D. Chao, Jeremy U. Gaw, Charles C. Lin, Benjamin J. Morgan, Wesley T.W. Shih and Blythe Yee of Cabot House; Andreea S. Balan, Long Cai, Isabel de Sola, Grace Kao, Ciprian Manolescu, Pawel M. Nowak and Shauna L. Shames of Currier House...
...members are Jesse M. Shapiro and Benjamin D. Tolchin of Adams House; Eli L. Diamond, Angie D. Heo, Andrew J. Kin and Michael K. Thomas Tan of Cabot House; Andreea S. Balan, William H. Kitchens and Ciprian Manolescu of Currier House; Andrew J. Heckerling and David M. Shapiro of Eliot House; Peter Ciganik, David E. Landau, Kevin S. Schwartz, Shanyah A. Wang and Dorothy Weiss of Kirkland House; Michael A. Levin of Leverett House; Margaret S. Soper of Lowell House; Paola Y. Tartakoff of Mather House; Nadarajan Chetty of Pforzheimer House; Emma R. Burbank-Schmitt and Davesh Maulik of Quincy...