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Vaibhavi Merchant (वैभवी मर्चेंट)
Vaibhavi Merchant (वैभवी मर्चेंट), Indian film choreographer in Hindi and Telugu cinema; two-time National Film Award winner for Best Choreography (Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani), IIFA winner for Kajra Re, choreographer of Pathaan, Jawan, Tiger 3.
Vaidehi Nair
Vaidehi Nair (born 2006, Mumbai) is an Indian actress who debuted as Arushi Talwar in Talwars: Behind Closed Doors, played Urmila in Shrimad Ramayan and Meera in Hamara Vinayak, and won her first TV lead in Humari Radha (2026).
Vaidiki Himsa Himsa Na Bhavati
Vaidiki Himsa Himsa Na Bhavati (वैदिकी हिंसा हिंसा न भवति) is an 1873 Hindi farce in four acts by Bharatendu Harishchandra that satirizes religious hypocrisy and scriptural justification of violence.
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (വൈക്കം മുഹമ്മദ് ബഷീർ)
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (വൈക്കം മുഹമ്മദ് ബഷീർ, 1908-1994), the 'Beypore Sultan', was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and freedom fighter; author of Premalekhanam, Balyakalasakhi, Mathilukal, and Pathummayude Aadu, and Padma Shri recipient in 1982.
Vaikom Vijayalakshmi (വൈക്കം വിജയലക്ഷ്മി)
Vaikom Vijayalakshmi (വൈക്കം വിജയലക്ഷ്മി), blind Malayalam playback singer from Vaikom, Kerala; Gayatri Veena exponent; debut 'Kaatte Kaatte' (Celluloid, 2013); National Film Award for 'Angu Vaana Konilu' from A.R.M.
Väinö Linna
Väinö Linna (1920–1992) was a Finnish novelist and former factory worker whose war novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and trilogy Under the North Star became foundations of Finnish literature.
Vairagyashataka
The Vairagyashataka (वैराग्यशतक) is a Sanskrit collection of about one hundred verses on renunciation attributed to Bhartrihari, part of the Śatakatraya with the Nitishataka and Shringarashataka.
Vairamuthu (வைரமுத்து)
Vairamuthu (வைரமுத்து), born 1953 in Theni district, is a Tamil poet and film lyricist with about 7,500 songs, seven National Film Awards, the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, and the 60th Jnanpith Award for 2025.
Vaishali ki Nagarvadhu
Vaishali ki Nagarvadhu (वैशाली की नगरवधू, "Bride of the City of Vaishali") is a Hindi historical novel by Acharya Chatursen Shastri, published in 1948 and 1949, about the courtesan Amrapali.
Vaishnav Jan To
Vaishnav Jan To (વૈષ્ણવ જન તો) is a 15th-century Gujarati Hindu bhajan by poet-saint Narsinh Mehta that defines a true Vaishnava by empathy and ethical conduct.
Vaishnava hagiography
Vaishnava hagiography is the body of sacred biography in Hinduism recounting Vaishnava saints and Krishna Chaitanya, written largely in Bengali and Sanskrit from the sixteenth century onward.
Vaishnava Padavali
Vaishnava Padavali (বৈষ্ণব পদাবলী) is the body of medieval Bengali devotional lyric poetry, composed from the 14th to the 17th century, centering on the love of Radha and Krishna.
Vaishnavi Dhanraj
Vaishnavi Dhanraj (birth name Vaishnavi Bhoyar), born 1988 in Nagpur, is an Indian TV and film actress famous as Sub-Inspector Tasha in C.I.D. and Jhanvi in Na Aana Is Des Laado; later roles include Hidimbi in Mahabharat and Mahi in Bepannah. She married Nitin Sahrawat in 2012, divorced in 2015–2016 citing domestic abuse.
Vaishnavi Ganesh
Vaishnavi Ganesh: unverified name; only full-name match is a Bangalore LIVA Miss Diva 2020 finalist, not a confirmed screen performer. Distinct from mononymous actresses Vaishnavi (Kannada Mithuna Rashi) and Vaishnavi MacDonald (Shaktimaan).
Vaishnavi Saikumar
Vaishnavi Saikumar (വൈഷ്ണവി സായ്കുമാർ), Malayalam TV actress from Kollam, daughter of actor Saikumar; debut as antagonist Kanaka Durga in Kaiyethum Doorath (2020); later Panchagni, Mazha Thorum Munpe, and film KalamKaval (2025).
Vaitiare Bandera
Vaitiare Bandera, born Vaitiaré Eugenie Hirshon in Tahiti in 1964, is a French Polynesian actress and former model, also credited as Vaitiare Hirshon, best known as Sha're in Stargate SG-1.
Vaiyapuri (வையாபுரி)
Vaiyapuri (வையாபுரி), real name Ramakrishnan, born 1968 near Theni, is a Tamil comedy and character actor active since 1995 with over 250 films, known for Thulladha Manamum Thullum, Pokkiri, Raavanan, Leo, and Bigg Boss Tamil.
Vajjalagga
Vajjalagga (वज्जालग्ग) is a medieval anthology of Prakrit love stanzas compiled by the Jain poet Jayavallabha between about 750 and 1340, one of the two most important Prakrit anthologies after Hāla.
Vajra Chandrasekera
Vajra Chandrasekera (born 1979, Colombo) is a Sri Lankan speculative fiction writer; The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) won the Nebula and Locus awards, Rakesfall (2024) won the Le Guin and Otherwise awards.
Vajrakaya (ವಜ್ರಕಾಯ)
Vajrakaya (ವಜ್ರಕಾಯ), also spelled Vajrakaaya, is a 2015 Kannada action-romance film directed by A Harsha, starring Shivarajkumar as Viraj, an adopted man searching for his birth mother; released 2015 with music by Arjun Janya.
Vaka
Vaka (Wake) is a 2026 Swedish dystopian thriller miniseries on Prime Video: six episodes about a deadly insomnia epidemic in Stockholm, created by Brynja Björk, directed by Henrik Georgsson, starring Jonas Karlsson, Aliette Opheim, and Gizem Erdogan.
Vakayiname
Vakayiname, literally "book of events", is the Ottoman Turkish name for official chronicles recording events chronologically, written by court chroniclers called vakanüvis, a post institutionalized in the early 18th century under Mustafa Naima.
Vakeel Saab (వకీల్ సాబ్)
Vakeel Saab (వకీల్ సాబ్) is a 2021 Telugu courtroom drama directed by Venu Sriram, a remake of Pink, starring Pawan Kalyan as lawyer Satyadev with Nivetha Thomas, Anjali, and Ananya Nagalla; released 9 April 2021, grossing about ₹137.50 crore worldwide.
Vakhtang Kikabidze
Vakhtang Kikabidze (Вахтанг Кикабидзе), known as Buba, was a Georgian estrada singer and film actor, famous for the 1977 film Mimino and its song Chito-gvrito.
Vakpati
Vakpati, or Vakpatiraja, was an 8th-century Indian court poet at the court of King Yashovarman of Kanauj, known for the Gaudavaho, a Mahārāṣṭrī Prakrit epic.
Vakrokti school
The Vakrokti school (वक्रोक्ति) is a school of Sanskrit poetics that locates the essence of poetry in vakrokti, oblique or striking expression, established by the Kashmiri rhetorician Kuntaka.
Vakroktijivita
Vakroktijivita is a Sanskrit treatise on poetics by the Kashmiri theorist Kuntaka, who argues that vakrokti, strikingly oblique expression, is the very life of poetry.
Vakula
Vakula (Вакула) is a Ukrainian electronic music producer and DJ, the working name of Mykhailo Vityuk, born 1981 in Konotop, known for deep house and techno.
Val (film)
Val (2021) is an autobiographical documentary about actor Val Kilmer, directed by Ting Poo and Leo Scott from his 40-year personal video archive, narrated by son Jack Kilmer, premiered at Cannes, released by Amazon Studios.
Val Doonican
Val Doonican (Michael Valentine Doonican, 1927–2015) was an Irish easy-listening singer and TV entertainer from Waterford; his BBC Val Doonican Music Show ran 1965–1986 with up to 19 million viewers, five UK top-ten singles, and the 1967 no. 1 album Val Doonican Rocks, But Gently.