Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Deepika Padukone



Deepika Padukone (Kannada, born January 5, 1986) is an Indian model turned actress who appears in Bollywood movies. Padukone was born to Ujjala and Prakash Padukone on January 5, 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her family moved to Bangalore when she was only eleven months old. Her father Prakash Padukone is a badminton player of international repute, while her mother is a travel agent. Her mother tongue is Kannada. She also has a younger sister named Anisha and is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer.

While pursuing her studies in college, she decided to pursue a career in modelling due to her tall slender figure. Over the years, she has modeled for famous Indian brand names like Liril, Dabur Lal powder, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca. She received many prestigious modeling offers, which included her becoming the brand ambassadorship of the Jewels of India. Padukone hit the international scene when Maybelline made her their new international cover-girl face.

At the 5th annual Kingfisher Fashion Awards, she was awarded the title of Model of the Year and Playboy Magazine Cover Winner. Shortly afterwards, she was chosen as one of the models for the Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar for 2006 and won two trophies at the Idea Zee Fashion Awards, Female Model of the Year - (Commercial Assignments) and Fresh Face of the Year, later that year. Padukone was also chosen as the brand ambassador of Kingfisher Airlines and most recently Levi Strauss and Tissot SA.



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Monday, April 28, 2008

Celina Jaitley



Celina is a daughter of Punjabi father who was an Indian Army officer. Her mother is an Afghan and is a child psychologist by profession. Her schooling was done all over the country due to the frequent transfers of her father. She had to change thirteen schools till her Board exams. Presently her family stays in Bangalore. Celina’s past five generations have served the army and there was a point of time in her life, when she was also tinkering with the idea of taking the Combined Defense Services exam.

She graduated in Commerce and fetched her a marketing job for a Cell phone company in Kolkatta. There she participated in a local beauty contest just for the heck of participation and to everybody’s surprise she emerged victorious. This gave her a boost and she sent her pictures for the Miss India contest. Just a day before the preliminary rounds were to begin Celina got the invitation to participate. Soon she walked away with the coveted, Miss India crown bagging almost every title from Best Skin to Best Clothes to MTVs most wanted.

This title win enabled her to participate in the Miss universe title. But Indian girls had won it for three consecutive years. There was an immense pressure on her persona with press flooding her with questions about rigging. She was weighed down by this pre –contest scepticism and it did cast its impact on the final outcome. Celina was adjudged fourth runner up from amongst 83 contestants.

Having joined films she made her debut with Feroze Khan’s thriller Jansheen with Fardeen Khan. Despite her exposure role the film could not do a brisk business. She has also starred in Khel, which had in its cast Sunny Deol and Sunil Shetty besides the former test cricketer Ajay Jadeja. But despite all the euphoria it generated, Khel came a cropper at the box office.



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Friday, April 25, 2008

Rani Mukherjee



Rani Mukherjee (Bengali:) born on March 21, 1978, is an award winning Indian film actress who works in Bollywood movies.

Making her acting debut with Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat (1996), Mukerji had her first commercial success with Karan Johar's romance Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), her biggest hit so far, and won her a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in the film. She later starred in many films, most of which fared below expectations. She re-invented her image with Saathiya (2002), which was commercially and critically successful.

In 2004, her performances in the hit Hum Tum and the critically acclaimed Yuva earned her the Best Actress and the Best Supporting Actress awards at the Filmfare, making her the first actress to win two major awards in the same year. She received unanimous praise for her role as a deaf-blind girl in the film Black (2005), as well as many awards for her memorable performance, establishing herself as a leading actress in Bollywood. more about Rani...



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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Madhuri Dixit



Madhuri Dixit made her first scene in "Abodh" and the Hollywood (Calcutta) Superstar "Tapash Pal" cast as a hero of Madhuri. The film did not hit and Madhuri's seems not lucky. But Filmaker Subhash Ghai wasn't destracted. He said the Madhuri had a potential to be the number one. Ghai pursue and hold the Maharashtrian beauty and re-introduced her in Ram Lakhan.

Now the Film hit, by exposing Madhuri's beauty and people, called her as the reincarnation of Madhubala. Madhuri still reins but marriage has made changes in her list of priorities. She has cut down on her assignments and spends more time with her medico husband based in Los Angeles.



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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Negar Khan (Nigar Khan)



Negar Khan was born in Iran, but grown up in Norway, She graduated a Bachelor's degree in marketing and advertising and mastering an International Business. Negar is a multi-talented girl, she is a Bollywood Actress, Model and a Singer. Negar has been a model on international ramps and has also traveled to Norway in the course of her assignments. In India we have seen her in the 'Chadti Jawani' remix video and eye-popping item numbers in movies Rudraksh and Shaadi Ka Laddoo.

Bollywood's latest item number girl Negar Khan was in the controversy for posing topless for a Norwegian magazine.



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Monday, April 21, 2008

Payal Rohatgi



Payal Rohatgi stands 167cms vital statistics are Bust:34" Waist: 25" Hips: 35" and her Zodiac Sign is Taurus.She is an engineering graduate. Won the title of Supermodel Miss Tourism World in 2001, despite of the tough competition from 65 countries. Also a Finalist of Femina Miss India in 2000.

She always wanted to be a model, and enter the alluring world of modeling and fashion, she left the engineering and pursue the modeling carrer, when she got the opportunity.Payal began her Bollywood innings with Harry Baweja´s Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai. She later consolidated her position as a Bollywood sex bomb with Tauba Tauba.



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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Naina Dhaliwal



Naina Dhaliwal, got her sizzling photo shoot for Dand, after that Naina Won the miss India 2004 and she get notice in "Ghandi Se Pehle Gandhi'. But while she's all set to explode on the silver screen, this hot married woman has another matter to take care of. Naina went to Palm Springs, California to represent India at the Mrs. Globe 2004 contest. Naina went on to play what she describes as 'second lead' in Himanshu Mallik-Meghna Naidu starrer Jackpot. Although she's looking forward to sign a spooky thriller with Ramsay Brothers, her greatest expectations lie with Iqbal Durrani's (of Phool Aur Kaante fame)

Naina Dhaliwal says:
"Even when I was a successful model in Delhi, I wanted to make it big in films. I was cast opposite Himanshu in Jackpot. In the film I am his rich neighbour who gets murdered. I have also done guest appearances in Amavas and Madhoshi. Gandhi Se Pehle Gandhi will be my first big break,"



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Friday, April 18, 2008

Lara Dutta



Lara Dutta was born on April 16th, 1978 in Ghazaibad, India. She has a height of 5'8". She is a Bollywood Actress and a Fashoin Model. Lara participated in several beauty pageants wherein she won Gladrags competition, Miss Intercontinental pageant in 1997 held in Germany. For 2000 Femina Miss India Universe contest there were nearly sixty thousand contestants of which Lara Dutta stood out as the most beautiful person and walked away with the crown.
The beauty queen-turned model has appeared in several commercial campaigns endorsing brands like Ceat, Coke, Synergie, Sprite, and several others.



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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Sherlyn Chopra



Sherlyn Chopra also known as Mona Chopra. She is a model turned actress & is one of the hottest new faces in the Bollywood film industry. She has done many advertising projects & now trying her luck in bollywood movies. Sherlyn made her debut with film Time Pass opposite Arjun Punj & followed by bit roles in Dosti starring Sunny Deol & Jawani Diwani. She majored to full roles in Naughty Boy and Game opposite Rahul Roy. Her next release is the film by Raj Kanwar’s Raqeeb.



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