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Mandira Bedi

2007-06-20T05:32:00.000-07:00

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Mandira Bedi

2007-06-19T05:19:00.000-07:00

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Mandira Bedi,is an Indian Bollywood actress, who shot to international fame first as television star in the soap Shanti and then as a television presenter during the 2003 Cricket World Cup and also in 2007 Cricket World Cup. Although she doesn't quite contribute to the cricket talk shows in sense of knowledge, she does contribute to the X-factor leading to increased TRPs of the show. Bedi created a stir in Bangladesh over her unwarranted criticism of the Bangladeshi Cricket Team following their win against India in the World Cup 2007 group stages.

She also reportedly loves wearing off-shoulder tops.She recently posed for the magazine Maxim.

She was born (April 15, 1972) and brought up in Bombay and is married to an Indian movie director Raj Kaushal on February 14, 1999, and lives in Bandra, Mumbai. She received national acclaim through her debut television serial Shanti (1995).

She was in the middle of a controversy recently when she was spotted wearing a tatto on her back. This infuriarated the Sikh community. She has reportedly apologised to the SGPC.

Sameera Reddy

2007-06-11T22:49:00.000-07:00

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Sameera Reddy is a Telugu speaking Bollywood actress. She graduated from Sydenham College. She is most famous for her role in Musafir.

She was first noticed in a music video, Aahista by Pankaj Udhas. She modeled for a while before and deciding to act in films. She made her film debut opposite Sohail Khan in Maine Dil Tujhko Diya. Her role was of a shy college girl who falls in love with one of her fellow students. The film was not a success, but she did get other film offers by the time her debut film released.

After two more failures at the box office, she had her first success with Musafir. The film eventually flopped but her role in it transformed her from shy college girl to a sex symbol. The film was quite controversial as it included a kissing scene between her and her co-star Anil Kapoor.

She has also done a notable role in a Bengali film "Kalpurush".

One of her elder sisters, Sushma Reddy made her acting debut with the film Chocolate. Her other sister is Meghna Reddy. She had a short-lived affair with Telugu superstar NTR Jr.

She made a guest appearance on the British show Casualty.

Neha Dhupia

2007-06-11T22:18:00.000-07:00

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Neha Dhupia,born on August 27, 1980 in Cochin, is an Indian model and actress.

Neha was born to Commander Pradip Singh Dhupia, who is in the Indian Navy and mother Manpinder. She has a brother, Hardeep. Born in Cochin, Neha went to Army Public School and completed her Graduation in History (Hons)from Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi. Neha started her career with a TV serial Rajdhani at the age of 19.

Neha was crowned Miss India Universe in 2002 and competed at Miss Universe 2002, finishing in the top ten.

Neha Dhupia debut film was Harry Baweja's Qayamat which is an action-packed thriller starring a number of Bollywood actors including Ajay Devgan, Sunil Shetty, Sanjay Kapoor, Arbaaz Khan, Isha Koppikar. She rose to popularity with her bold role in the movie Julie. Neha Dhupia is often considered a sex symbol in Bollywood movies.

Perizad Zorabian

2007-05-30T07:23:00.001-07:00

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Perizaad Zorabian born October 23, 1973 is an Indian actress who made her debut with Nagesh Kukunoor's movie, Bollywood Calling.

Perizaad studied in New York City and upon acquiring an MBA returned to India to assist her father in his poultry farm business. Once back in India, she was spotted at a wedding by a socialite and a friend, who presented her to the world of modeling and glamour.

She recently married construction tycoon and alleged gangster Boman Rustom Irani (not to be confused with the actor Boman Irani) on December 9, 2006.

She also made international headlines when she declined a role in a lesbian-centered film, citing her "own personal inhibitions about playing a lesbian” as the driving force behind her decision. Purva Bedi has since accepted the role in When Kiran Met Karen.

Perizaad entered into the glamour world by first doing an ad for Clearsil. Later she left for New York where she did her MBA and also theatre with Lee Strasberg. She came back to India and played the part of Maya in a TV Soap called Hum Pardesi Ho Gaye.

She entered Bollywood with Nagesh Kukunoor's movie, Bollywood Calling. She acted in Jogger's Park with Victor Banerjee and other films such as Viral Lakhia's Namaste and Anant Balani's Mumbai Matinee. In the Chinese film, Bandung Sonata, she played Indira Gandhi. However, Jogger's Park has been the most successful project of her career till now.

She also acted in the film Morning Raga with co-star Shabana Azmi. Her most recent and on going film is Ek Ajnabee with co-star Amitabh Bachchan. She also worked with Malcolm McDowell in the film Exitz in which she plays an Indian model. Other upcoming projects are Moonlight, Highway 203, among others.

Ayesha Takia

2007-05-27T23:12:00.000-07:00

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Ayesha Takia born 1986 in Mumbai, India is an Indian actress.Ayesha Takia was raised in Mumbai, Maharashtra.She comes from a mixed family. Her father is Gujarati, and her mother is half British and half Maharashtrian.[citation needed] She has said in interviews that she grew up speaking English at home and had to learn Hindi and Telugu for her film roles.

According to Ayesha, she has been a model since she was four years old. She appeared in the famous I'm a Complan Boy! I'm a Complan Girl! campaign alongside Shahid Kapoor and also in a music video, Falguni Pathak's Meri Chunar Udd Udd Jaye, when she was only fifteen. She then appeared in the video, Shake It Daddy, which brought her to the attention of the movie industry, and a few film offers followed.

She signed a contract for Socha Na Tha, then for Taarzan: The Wonder Car. However, delays in making Socha Na Tha meant that Taarzan released first and was therefore her "debut" film.

She won the Filmfare Best Debut Award in 2004 for her performance in Taarzan.

She has appeared in a number of films that have done poorly at the box office. However, she has been highly praised for her work in the 2006 Dor, a smaller budget film in which she plays the role of a young widowed Rajasthani woman living in a traditional joint family.She went on to win a Zee Cine Critics Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Dor.

Preity Zinta

2007-05-26T03:51:00.000-07:00

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Preity Zinta born 31 January 1975 is an award-winning Indian actress who appears in Bollywood movies. She is among the most successful actresses in the industry,and is regarded as one of the biggest names in India.Zinta has primarily acted in mainstream cinema having the biggest hits of the last years, but has also done some critically acclaimed films.Today, she has the highest number of grossing films than any other actress of her generation.

Zinta met Shekhar Kapur when she accompanied her friend to an audition and was auditioned too. Coincidentally, after Kapur saw her audition he insisted on her to become an actress. Zinta was meant to make her acting debut with Kapur's Tara Rum Pum Pum opposite Hrithik Roshan but the film never took off.Later, Kapur recommended her for Mani Ratnam's Dil Se.

Technically her first film was Kundan Shah's Kya Kehna but it got delayed till 2000 .The delay of another film Soldier meant that she made her acting debut with Dil Se (1998).The film was her breakthrough role and she won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for her performance,which was only twenty minutes long.This was followed by the hit Soldierand Sangharsh, which did not do well at the Box Office, but gained her recognition as an actress. Zinta also starred in two Telugu films.

Kareena Kapoor

2007-05-25T04:59:00.000-07:00

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Kareena Kapoor,born 21 September 1980 nicknamed "Bebo" is a four-time Filmfare Award-winning Indian popular actress who appears in Bollywood movies.Since her debut in the 2000 film, Refugee, she has acted in nearly 30 films, majority of them bringing her critical success rather than commercial success.Despite this fact, she has emerged today as one of the top and most versatile actresses from the industry.

Kareena attended Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai and then went to Welham Girls Boarding School in Dehradun. She then went to Harvard for summer school and took a course in microcomputers and information technology for three months.Set on pursuing an acting career, she then took an admission in Government Law College at Churchgate to become a lawyer. After completing one year there, she went back to her initial plan of joining the film industry,where she attended the Kishore Namit Kapoor acting school.

Kareena had planned to debut in Rakesh Roshan's Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai but left the project a few days into the filming.She made her debut in J.P. Dutta’s Refugee in 2000 with Abhishek Bachchan and won critical acclaim for portraying the role of a Pakistani girl.The role earned her an award for Filmfare Best Debut (Female).

Aishwarya Rai - ASH

2007-05-23T06:41:00.000-07:00

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Aishwarya Rai was born in Mangalore, in the South Indian state of Karnataka, to Krishnaraj Rai, a marine engineer, and Vrinda Rai, a writer. Her ancestors are from the Bunt (community) of Mangalore.Her family later relocated to Mumbai(Bombay). Rai has one brother, Aditya Rai, who is three years older than she is. Aditya is a film producer, and has occasionally produced films in which Rai acted. Aditya got married in early 2004.

Rai attended the Arya Vidya Mandir at Santacruz, Mumbai, then entered Ruparel College, Matunga, Mumbai. She was an A student and was on track to become an architect.Her mother tongue is Tulu. She also speaks Hindi, English, Urdu, Kannada and Tamil.

Rai began modeling on the side while studying architecture. In the 1994 Miss India contest, she was placed second behind Sushmita Sen, and went on to win the Miss World title that same year and the Miss Photogenic award. After the one year reign as Miss World in London, she then worked as a professional model, in advertising and Indian fashion magazines.

She has formerly dated Bollywood actors Salman Khan and Vivek Oberoi. After much speculation concerning their relationship, her engagement to Abhishek Bachchan was announced on January 14, 2007. The run-up as well as the marriage between Rai and Bachchan was heavily covered by the media.They married on April 20, 2007 in a private ceremony held at the Bachchans' bungalow Prateeksha.The newly married couple made their public appearence at Tirupati temple when they visited there for blessing.Aishwarya Rai will face the camera for the first time after marriage in Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar 2.

Udita Goswami

2007-05-23T06:32:00.000-07:00

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Riya Sen

2007-05-23T06:22:00.000-07:00

Katrina Kaif

2007-05-23T06:12:00.000-07:00

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Nickname : Kat
Height : 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Born on July 16, 1984

Katrina Kaif is one of eight siblings, all girls, from a mother who is a Caucasian of British Nationality, and a father who was formerly from Kashmir, India, but who has since acquired British citizenship.Katrina grew up in Hawaii, but was brought up in London, UK. She started modeling accidentally when she was in Hawaii at the tender age of 14, when she was approached for a jewelery campaign. Thereafter she continued modeling in London.Continuing to model was the reason she got her break in a Bollywood movie "Boom" offered by none other than film-maker Kaizad Gustad.She was flooded with modeling assignments the minute she set her foot on Indian soil, especially with her innocent expressive face, hour-glass figure, and drop-dead gorgeous looks.Professionally she started off as a model with photographer Atul Kasbekar, and upon being accepted, she received offers from LG, Cola, Fevicol, Lakme, & Veet. It was the Lakme commercial that got her noticed. She retained Matrix as her Manager to accept work on her behalf and at the price she deserved.Moving to different culture and country was not much of a culture shock for her, as she states that no matter where you come from, the bottom line is that everyone wants to be loved, respected, and cared for.Unlike other artistes from foreign lands, Katrina did not experience any difficulties in getting a visa nor of getting it extended in India.Although linguistically challenged, Katrina puts on a bold face and states that other Bollywood artistes like Sridevi, who did not know Hindi, did get offers from Bollywood film-makers, and she is no different. She is taking Hindi and dancing lessons to fit in with the Bollywood culture. She likes to display a picture of her learning Kathak dancing where she used to dance 7 hours a day non-stop.Despite of her soft gorgeous looks, she is not easily intimidated, but admits that she is very emotional, almost an incurable romantic, wears comfortable non-revealing clothes when at home, hates to do her hair, and above all dislikes make-up. Admitting to being lonely in the beginning, but now has several nice friends who she can hang out with.Although her first movie "Boom" was panned by the critics and shunned by the audiences, two other Telegu movies "Malliswari" and "Pidugu" did get her noticed. She grossed Rs.70 lakhs for Malliswari - making her top the list of the highest paid actresses during a South Indian movie debut.Not done with South Indian movies, she has been signed in a Tamil movie "Bheema" opposite National Award Winner Vikram.She has received decent reviews for her part in "Maine Pyar Kyon Kiya", as well as a brief appearance in "Sarrkar".Katrina has now made Bombay her base, and doesn't mind singing and dancing around trees while she's at it, and is determined to make it big in Bollywood.

Shamita Shetty

2007-05-23T05:25:00.000-07:00

Shilpa Shetty

2007-05-23T05:20:00.001-07:00

Priyanka Chopra

2007-05-23T05:03:00.001-07:00

Tanushree Dutta

2007-05-23T04:09:00.001-07:00

Kareena Kapoor ( BEBO)

2007-05-23T01:31:00.000-07:00

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Udita Goswami

2007-05-23T01:28:00.000-07:00

Riya Sen

2007-05-23T01:17:00.000-07:00

Lisa Ray

2007-05-22T23:22:00.000-07:00

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Lisa Ray (born April 4, 1972) is a Canadian Bollywood actress and former fashion model. She grew up in Toronto, is the daughter of a Bengali father and a Polish mother.

Ray started her modelling career at age 16 and was the "brand ambassador" for Lakme cosmetics in India. She made numerous advertisements for various Indian companies before becoming involved in films.

She began her acting career with the Bollywood film Kasoor in 2001 opposite Aftab Shivdasani. Ray then went to Tollywood in 2002 and appeared in Takkari Donga with Mahesh Babu. She subsequently starred as the female lead of Canadian director Deepa Mehta's romantic Indo-Canadian romp, Bollywood/Hollywood in 2002. In 2005, she worked again with Mehta in the latter's most recent film, Water. The film tells the story of a widow, played by Ray, who lives in a Varanasi ashram. Ray starred opposite John Abraham. Although she learned her lines in Hindi for the shoot, her voice ultimately had to be dubbed over in post-production on account of her strong accent.

Ray has said that she desires to be a novelist with a base in Paris. She is also hosting "Beauty Mantra" a television show on the Indian channel Zee TV.

She recently relocated to Los Angeles to pursue acting roles there.

Amrita Rao ( JANU)

2007-05-22T12:27:00.000-07:00

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Amrita was born to well-to-do Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin family. She speaks English, Hindi, Marathi & Konkani.She stands approximately 5 feet tall. She has a look-alike twin sister, Preeta, who does modelling on a part-time basis. Her dad's name is Deepak.

She entered the world of modeling quite by chance, when she auditioned for an advertising film for Fairever Face Cream. She was selected for the film, and since then appeared in a number of television spots for several products.

She made her cinematic debut in the 2002 film Ab Ke Baras, but gained recognition only after the success of her 2003 film, Ishq Vishk, in which her portrayal as Payal earned her the girl-next door image. Success followed for her in 2004 films like Masti and Main Hoon Na. However her following releases Deewaar (2004), Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi (2005), Shikhar (2005), and Pyare Mohan (2006) did poorly at the box office. Her most recent release, Vivah opposite Shahid Kapoor was a universal success.Her performance was well appreciated from critics.Next, she is doing Athidhi with Telugu movie star Mahesh Babu.