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Rani Mukherji-The Biography

Rani Mukerji , famous as the queen of Bollywood hails from a film-oriented family of Bengali origin. Her father Ram Mukherjee is a retired director and one of the founders of ‘ Filmalaya Studios ’. Her mother Krishna was a playback singer. Her brother Raja Mukherjee is a film producer, now turned director. Indeed, Rani Mukherjee has more filmi relations than one can count on fingertips. The Name Mystery “Mukherjee or Mukerji”? Rani changed the English transliteration of her surname from Mukherjee to Mukerji several years ago. At the time, it was reported that she did this for numerological reasons. In 2006, Mukerji stated that numerology was not a concern; her name had been put down as Mukerji on her passport, and she wanted to retain it. With a trademark husky voice, Rani made her debut in a women-oriented film Raja Ki Aayegi Baaraat that did nit help her much in establishing herself. She got her first breakthrough with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai in 1998. Mukerji is a trained O

Nandana Sen - The Biography

Nandana Sen or Nandana Dev Sen was born 19 August, 1967, and is an upcoming bollywood actress.Her father is Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen and mother is Bengali writer Nabanita Dev Sen. She was born in Calcutta. She spent her childhood in India and USA. Sen started her career with the movie The Doll. In 2008, she appeared in the British television series Sharpe, in the episode Sharpe's Peril.She dated Madhu Varma.She married Horst Yorgan Rutstch. She’s somewhat of a maverick – never hesitating to go against the convention. Perhaps, it’s this very quality that makes Nandana Sen hot and sizzling. Filmography Year Feature Film 2009 Rang Rasiya, The Forest, The World Unseen, It's a Mismatch (To be released) 2007 Strangers, Marigold 2005 The War Within, My Wife's Murder, Tango Charlie, Black 2004 The Miracle: A Silent Love Story 2003 Bokshu, The Myth, 2001 Branchie 2000 Seducing Maarya 1998 The Doll/Gudia Year Short Feature 2006 The Si

Biography: Karisma Kapoor

Karisma Kapoor , nicknamed " Lolo " born on June 25, 1974 in Mumbai, Maharashtra,to Randhir Kapoor , an actor popular during the 1970s and 80s, and actress Babita . Her sister is actress Kareena Kapoor . She studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai until grade six. Her grandfather is actor Raj Kapoor . Making her film debut in 1991, Kapoor went on to become one of the most popular actresses of her generation. During her career years, she has been part of many commercially and critically successful films, Raja Hindustani being the most notable of them, as it was her biggest commercial success, and won Kapoor her first Filmfare Best Actress Award . She surprised critics and audiences with her performances in art films such as Fiza (2000) and Zubeidaa (2001), for which she earned a Best Actress and Best Actress (Critics) awards at the Filmfare ceremony . Since then, she has worked in several films though most of them performed poorly at the box office. In

Manish Koirala – Crushed Expectations

There were huge expectations from this actress hailing from an illustrious Nepali family (her grandfather was the first Prime Minister of democratic Nepal). But all of them came crashing down as Manisha Koirala has sadly enough have somewhere lost the spark and her filmi career turned into a checkered pattern with more downs and less ups. The charming beauty was once slated to be Sridevi and Madhuri Dixit's successor. In fact, she has often been accused of modeling herself after the former. And when she bagged the coveted lead role in Vidhu Vinod Chopra's ' 1942: A Love Story ' (1993) that was originally meant for Madhuri , she created quite a stir. It was her inclusion in this film that prevented Manisha's relegation into history as another one-film wonder. For, all the way from her sensational debut in Subhash Ghai's ' Saudagar ' (1991) to her upcomin film Ek Second...Jo Zindagi Badal De? , she has done some odd 67 films in her career spann

Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Randhir Kapoor was born on 21st September 1980 in Mumbai. Her father is the Punjabi Randhir Kapoor , an actor and her mother is the Sindhi Babitha . Her parents divorced when she was quite young. Her older sister is Karishma Kapoor , an actress. Her family tree reads like the who’s who of Bollywood. Her great grandfather is Prithviraj Kapoor and her grandfather is Raj Kapoor . Her uncles are Rishi Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor , while her maternal aunt is Sadhana . Kareena did her schooling partly in Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai and later in Welham’s Girls Boarding School in Dehra Dun. She was in Harvard briefly to study Information Technology and Microcomputers. On returning back to India, she studied law for a year at the Government Law College at Churchgate, after which she enrolled in Kishore Namit Acting School . She was dating Shahid Kapoor since 2004 but they broke up just when they landed their first hit together in Jab We Met . She is now dating actor Saif Ali Khan

Preity Zinta Biography

Preity Zinta , born on the 31st January 1975 in Shimla comes from a non-filmi family. Her father Durganand Zinta was in the Indian Army and her mother is Nilprabha. Her older brother Deepankar is with the Indian Army and a younger brother Manish lives in California. Zinta’s parents were in a car accident that killed her father while her mother made it with severe injuries. Zinta spent her early years at the Jesus and Mary boarding school in Shimla. She is a graduate in English from St.Bede’s College in Shimla after which she did a degree in Criminal Psychology. Her break into show business was a matter of chance, when she was featured in the Cadbury Perk’s commercial. She went on to be the Liril girl and part of other ads. She made a move into movies in 1997 . Her debut Shekhar Kapoor’s Tara Rum Pum Pum with Hrithik Roshan was cancelled after which she landed a role in Mani Rathnam’s Dil Se . Zinta was dating Marc Robinson . She is currently dating Ne

Biography of Waheeda Rahman

Waheeda was born in a Urdu-speaking family in Hyderabad, India, on May 14, 1936. Her father was the District Magistrate which led him to be posted in several places. Tragedy visited her in 1948 when her dad passed away. Her mom passed away in 1955. A year after her dad's death she appeared in a Telegu movie ' Rojulu Marayi '. Her role was as an dancing child artiste. She is proficient in Bharat Natyam . It was here that she was spotted by noted Bollywood actor and film-maker, Guru Dutt , who gave her a lead role in C.I.D .. She went on to appear in ' Pyaasa ', ' Kagaz Ke Phool ', ' Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam ', ' Chaudvi Ka Chand ', ' Bees Saal Baad ', ' Teesri Kasam ' just to name a few, in a career that spanned from 1949 through to 2006. She has acted as a child artiste, a leading lady, then switched to character appearances. She has procured the Best Film Actress Award in 1965 for her role in ' Guide ',

Sushmita Sen

Sushmita Sen was born on November 19, 1975 in Hyderabad, India. Sushmita was born in a Bengali family to Shubeer Sen, a former Indian Air Force Wing Commander and Subhra Sen who worked as a fashion artist and jewelery designer. She has a brother, Rajeev Sen and a sister, Neelam Sen . She was born St.Theresa's hospital, Hyderabad, and grew up in New Delhi. She attended school at Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute studying English, and had career plans in journalism. She has been linked romantically to several people. In 2000, she adopted a daughter, named Renee. In 1994, at the age of eighteen, Sushmita won the title of Femina Miss India beating out Aishwarya Rai who was the runner up. Sen represented India at the Miss Universe Pageant , held in Manila, Philippines. Sushmita won the Miss Universe 1994 contest . At Miss Universe, Sushmita ranked third overall in the preliminaries, right behind preliminary winner Miss Colombia Carolina Gomez , and Miss Greece Rea Totounzi

Biography:Sushmita Sen

Sushmita Sen was born on November 19, 1975 in Hyderabad, India. Sushmita was born in a Bengali family to Shubeer Sen, a former Indian Air Force Wing Commander and Subhra Sen who worked as a fashion artist and jewelery designer. She has a brother, Rajeev Sen and a sister, Neelam Sen. She was born St.Theresa's hospital, Hyderabad, and grew up in New Delhi. She attended school at Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute studying English, and had career plans in journalism. She has been linked romantically to several people. In 2000, she adopted a daughter, named Renee. In 1994, at the age of eighteen, Sushmita won the title of Femina Miss India beating out Aishwarya Rai who was the runner up. Sen represented India at the Miss Universe Pageant, held in Manila, Philippines. Sushmita won the Miss Universe 1994 contest. At Miss Universe, Sushmita ranked third overall in the preliminaries, right behind preliminary winner Miss Colombia Carolina Gomez, and Miss Greece Rea Totounzi, who rank

Riya Sen

Riya Sen was born in Kolkata , India on January 24, 1981 is an Indian film actress and model. Riya , who hails from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen , mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen , began her acting career in 1991 as a child artiste in the film Vishkanya . Her first commercial success in her film career was with Style, a 2001 Hindi low-budget sex comedy directed by N.Chandra . Some of her other films include producer Pritish Nandy's musical film, Jhankaar Beats (2001) in Hinglish, director David Dhawan's comedy film, Shaadi No. 1 (2005) and director-cinematographer Santhosh Sivan's Malayalam horror film Ananthabhadram (2005). Riya was first recognised as a model when she performed in Falguni Pathak's music video Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has appeared in music videos, television commercials, fashion shows, and on magazine covers. Riya has worked as an activist and appeared in an AIDS