On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK

Updated: December 01, 2013 10:46 IST

Bollywood star Aamir Khan kick-started the NDTV-Vedanta Our Girls Our Pride Telethon happening today by sponsoring the education of five girls.

On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan featured on the NDTV-Vedanta Our Girls Our Pride Telethon on December 1.

SRK says he has been brought up to believe in 'Ladies First.' He says girls look after their parents better and if there is anyone who thinks twice about having a girl child, it is unfortunate.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
SRK, who sent us this picture from Dubai where he will be performing at his Temptation Reloaded concert, is sponsoring the education of 125 girls. He also stressed on the need for giving women the weapons of mass education since they were the most underutilised resources in the world.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Bollywood star Aamir Khan kick-started the telethon by sponsoring the education of five girls. Aamir, who highlighted issues like female foeticide on his TV show Satyamev Jayate, told NDTV's Vikram Chandra that mindsets are India's biggest problem today and we need to work on changing them.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Actress Priyanka Chopra, the campaign ambassador, is co-hosting the telethon with NDTV's Vikram Chandra.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Campaign ambassador Priyanka tweeted earlier this morning: So great to wake up n have a purpose..Nothing like a day at work that fulfills that.off to host the @ndtv Our girls Our Pride..watch live

This picture was posted on Twitter by @TeamPriyanka
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Actress Anushka Sharma, who hails from an army background, says there is no discrimination against girl in defence families. She says that is what has helped her achieve her current star status.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Student Of The Year actress Alia Bhatt, who donated Rs 2.4 lakhs, said girls need to be allowed to have a mind of their own and that parents are usually wrong!
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Bollywood actor Imran Khan said it was imperative that the mindset of men changed towards women. They needed to understand that society cannot function without women.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Student Of The Year actor Varun Dhawan pledged support to 20 girls.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Filmmaker Kunal Kohli, who brought his adopted daughter Radha with him, said his daughter has really changed his life for the better.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Filmmaker Karan Johar, who pledged to support 83 girls, told Priyanka that a lot of women had influenced his life and work and the level of compassion and patience a woman brings is much more than a man is capable of. He added that if he ever adopted, it would be a baby girl.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Tennis ace Sania Mirza confided that when she started her career people were more concerned about what she was wearing than about her game. Her own family members were more worried about her getting tanned and not finding a good husband than about anything else.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Vicky Donor actor Ayushmann Khurrana says that in his home state of Haryana, things have really changed after 2006 after the Right to Education Act. The number of females has increased in classrooms due to better transport facilities. He also recited a heartrending poem Ek Ladki Jo Bachpan Mein Badi Hogi which he had himself composed.

Entrepreneur Shehnaz Hussain stressed on the need for financial independence of women.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
The show commenced with lyricist and playback singer Swanand Kirkire's rendition of O re chiriya.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Marketing and management guru Suhel Seth pledged support to 100 girl children and spoke on the importance of women's education.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Singer and actress Raageshwari told Priyanka and Vikram that India, a land that worships goddesses, needs to look inwards to understand and respect the true essence of women.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Vocalist Jonita Gandhi, singer of the title track of Shah Rukh Khan's Chennai Express, crooned the inspiring song Yeh Honsla.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Former athlete Ashwini Nachappa said that we see atrocities against women in influential and educated homes too, and that changing mindsets and attitudes is the only solution, not mere classroom learning.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Indian Idol Junior finalist Debanjana Karmakar crooned the title track of the 2007 movie Taare Zameen Par
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Playback singer Shilpa Rao performed Ek Lau Iss Tarah Kyon Bujhi at the Our Girls Our Pride Telethon.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Playback singer Shravani lifted everyone's spirits with her rendition of the song Aashayein from the movie Iqbal.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Palak urges the audience to sing along as she performs Humko Mann ki Shakti Dena. The singer is named in the Limca Book of Records for raising money for social causes, through her singing.
On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
One of the most memorable performances of the Telethon, singer Shaan sings Rabindranath Tagore's composition, Ekla Cholo Re, to inspire people to take up the cause of the girl child.

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