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Aarti Chhabria joins the ranks of the numerous models who have tried their luck in cinema. Aarti Chhabria was born on 21st November 1982 in India. She grew up as part of a Sindhi family that was uninvolved in the glamour industry. Aarti worked in several ads like Krack Cream and Amul and appeared in music videos like Sukhwinder Singh’s ‘Nasha Hi Nasha’ and Adnan Sami ’s ‘Tera Chehra’. Aarti Chhabria won the Miss India crown in the year 1999. Aarti Chhabria’s first appearance on the big screen was with Rajkumar Santoshi ’s Lajja (2001) as Sushma, Gajendra’s daughter. This was followed by performances in Awaara Paagal Deewana (2002), Shaadi No.1 (2005) and Teesri Aankh (2006). Actress Filmography Partner (2007) Anamika (2007) Teesri Aankh - The Hidden Camera (2006) Shootout At Lokhandwala (2006) Milenge Milenge (2006) Tum Mere Ho (2006) Team - The Force (2006) Maqsad (2006) Kisse Pyaar Karoon (2006) Shaadi No.1 (2005) Ssukh (2005) Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Sathiyo (2004) Okariki Okaru ...

Meena Kumari or Mahjabeen Bano was born on August 1, 1932. Meena Kumari was an Indian movie actress and poetess. Meena Kumari is regarded as one of the most prominent actresses to have appeared on the screens of Hindi Cinema. During a career spanning 30 years from her childhood to her death, she starred in more than 90 films, many of which have achieved classic and cult status today. Meena Kumari gained a reputation for playing grief-stricken and tragic roles, and her performances have been praised and remembered throughout the years. Like one of her best-known roles, Chhoti Bahu, in Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Kumari became addicted to alcohol. Her life and prosperous career were marred by heavy drinking, troubled relationships, an ensuing deteriorating health, and her death from liver cirrhosis in 1972. Kumari is often cited by media and literary sources as "The Tragedy Queen", both for her frequent portrayal of sorrowful and dramatic roles in her films and her real-lif...

Asha Parekh was born into a middle-class Gujarati household on October 2, 1942 in Mahuva, Bhavnagar district, Gujarat. Since Asha Parekh was an only child, she became the centre of her parents' lives. Her mother enrolled her in Indian classical dance classes at an early age and Asha excelled at dancing to the point where she performed at stage shows and private functions. Asha Parekh started her career as a child artiste under the screen name Baby Asha Parekh in the film Aasmaan (1952). Famed film director Bimal Roy saw her dance at a stage function and cast her at the tender age of twelve in Baap Beti (1954). The film's failure disappointed her and even though she did a couple more child roles, she quit to resume her schooling. Asha Parekh was one of the top stars in Hindi films from 1959 to 1973 and is said to have starred in more hit films than any other actress. At the age of 16 Asha Parekh decided to try acting again and make her debut as a heroine, but Asha was rejecte...

Simi Garewal or Simi Grewal was born 17 October 1947. She is an Indian actress. Simi acted in Bollywood and was known for being bold. Born in India, her father was a brigadier in the army. Simi Garewal grew up in England and developed an impeccable English accent that landed her in a English-language film " Tarzan Goes to India " in 1962 with Feroz Khan. In the 1960s and 70s Simi played in Bollywood movies, working with leading directors such as Raj Khosla in Do Badan , Raj Kapoor in Mera Naam Joker , (1970), Satyajit Ray in Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in a Forest) and Mrinal Sen in Padatik (The Guerilla Fighter). Simi Garewal also starred in Columbia Pictures' " Siddhartha ", based on the novel by Herman Hesse, a role in which Garewal did a nude scene that caused some controversy in India. Simi was once married to O.P. Bahl, which did not last long. By the mid 1970's, Simi had a small peripheral role in a popular film like Kabhie Kabhie (1976) and...

Ayesha Jhulka is a famous Bollywood actress, born on 28 July in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Ayesha Jhulka is the daughter of Wing Commander Jhulka, an Indian Air Force Officer. Ayesha appeared in Hindi or Indian movies in the late 1980's and 1990's with a long interval out of films in the early years of the 21st century before resuming her acting career in supporting roles in films like Socha Na Tha (2005) and Umrao Jaan (2006). Some of Ayesha's most well-known films were Khiladi with Akshay Kumar, and Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar with Aamir Khan which has the famous song "Pehla Nasha". Jhulka was also well known for her high profile boyfriends such as Akshay Kumar and Nana Patekar . Jhulka has a sister named Aparna. Ayesha studied in Loreto Convent, Delhi Cantt, till Class X and graduated in 1986. After her relationship with her childhood boyfriend, Rajat Mathur, ended, Ayesha re-located to Mumbai to join the Bollywood film industry. Ayesha Jhulka is married to Sameer...

Poonam Dhillon is a noted Indian Hindi film, theatre and TV actress. Poonam is most known for her 1979 hit film, Noorie, and Sohni Mahiwal (1984), Saveray Wali Gaadi (1986) and Naam (1986). Poonam Dhillon first gained fame when she was crowned the beauty queen title of Femina Miss Young India at the age of 16. Famous Indian film director Yash Chopra noticed her and gave her a romantic role in the star-studded hit film Trishul (1978) where the famous song "Gapoochi Gapoochi gum gum" was picturized on Poonam. Yash Chopra gave her the title role in film Noorie (1979), which he produced. The film became a major hit and earned Poonam a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress. It also catapulted her to the ranks of upcoming heroines in the late seventies and early eighties. Poonam Dhillon did about 90 films in Hindi like Sohni Mahiwal, Red Rose, Teri Kasam, Dard, Nishana, Yeh Vada Raha, Samunder, Romance, Kasam, Sitamgar, etc. Dhillon did a cameo in the hit film Judai (1996) as a f...

Image via Wikipedia Manisha Koirala was born on August 16, 1970 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Manisha is a Nepali actress who works in Indian films, as well as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social activist. Koirala has primarily worked in Hindi cinema, though she has appeared in a considerable number of Tamil films as well. Manisha Koirala is also a talented Bharatnatyam and Manipuri dancer. Manisha made her acting debut in Nepali movie Pheri Bhetaula (1989), Koirala made her acting debut in Bollywood with Subhash Ghai's top-grossing drama Saudagar (1991). Koirala went on to collaborate with some of the most prominent Indian filmmakers of her times, and throughout the 1990s, was one of the best-known actresses in India, mostly recognised for her critically acclaimed performances. Manisha Koirala has dated several high profile and lesser known men including her earliest boyfriend Sameer (who was a working professional in the US), actors Rahul Roy, Vivek Mushran, Nana Patekar, Aryan Va...

Konkona Sen Sharma was born December 3, 1979. She is an Indian actress. Sharma appears primarily in Indian arthouse and independent films, and her achievements in the genre have established her as one of the leading actresses of contemporary parallel cinema. Making her debut as a child artist in the film Indira (1983), Konkona Sen Sharma debuted as an adult in the Bengali thriller Ek Je Aachhe Kanya (2000). She first gained attention with the English-language film Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002), which was directed by her mother, and received the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film. Konkona acted in Dosar , a highly acclaimed Bengali film by Rituporno Ghosh. Sharma won the best actress award at Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival for this film. konkona's first release of 2007, Traffic Signal (2007) didn't performed well at the box office, but she received good reviews for her performance. Her second released film of 2007, Life...

Image via Wikipedia Juhi Chawla was born on 13 November 1967. The actress is a film producer and television presenter. After being crowned as the winner of the Miss India beauty contest in 1984, Juhi Chawla pursued an acting career. Juhi Chawla is married to industrialist Jai Mehta and the couple have two children. Chawla went on to become one of the leading actresses of Bollywood, and starred in numerous commercially and critically successful films, from the romances Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak and Darr to Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke, which earned her the Filmfare Best Actress Award, to Yes Boss and Ishq. During the 2000s, after having starred in over 70 mainstream Hindi films, Juhi Chawla turned towards art and independent cinema, along with films in her native tongue of Punjabi, and has been mostly working in parallel cinema for which she gained critical recognition for her performances in films like Jhankaar Beats, 3 Deewarein, My Brother Nikhil and Bas Ek Pal. Since 2000, Chawla branched...

Image via Wikipedia This pretty young gal born on 10th April, 1986 made it very early in the tinsel-town. Her father is a Gujrati and her mother is an Anglo Indian. She grew up speaking Gujrati and English but learned Hindi and Telugu for her filmy career. She studied in St Anthony's Girls High School, Mumbai, her birth place. Her younger sister is Natasha. Ayesha entered in glamour world through advertisements and her first advertisement was the famous "I'm a Complan Boy, I'm a Complan Girl" alongside Shahid Kapoor . Her first music video was Falguni Pathak's "Meri Chunar Udd Udd Jaye", when she was just fifteen. Ayisha Takiya drew the attention of the film industry with the video "Shake It Daddy" and film offers followed. Though Ayesha signed " Socha Na Tha " first but her first released movie was " Tarzan- The Wonder Car ". Ayesha Takyia won the Filmfare best debutant award in 2004 for her performance in "Taa...

Nandita Das , born 7 November 1969, is an award-winning Indian independent film actress and filmmaker. This actress revives our memories of the era of a young Smita Patil and Shabana Azmi . Her performances are as realistic as it can get. Nandita Das started her acting career with a theatre group called Jannatya Manch. She taught at the Rishi Valley School. She is best known for her performances in Deepa Mehta Filmsn Fire(1996), Earth (1998) alongside Aamir Khan, Bawander(2000) (directed by Jagmohan Mundhra) and Amaar Bhuvan (directed by Mrinal Sen).As a director, she is known for her directorial debut Firaaq (2008), which has won a number of national and international awards. Das has played storyteller/narrator in the audiobook series for kids “Under the Banyan” by Karadi Tales. She has also been the narrator in the audiobook of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography by Charkha Audiobooks “The Story of My Experiments with Truth”. She has also lent her voice for the children’s series, The...

Celina Jaitely , Miss India 2001, dons a defense background. Born to an Indian father and Afghani mother, she has often had to move around the country, thanks to her father's army job. She was born on 24 November, 1981. She has featured in Bombay Vikings' "Zara Nazron Se Kehdo" video and made several special appearances in films like Hey Babyy and C Kkompany. Celina always wanted to be a pilot, and join the flying school in the US. Instead, she ended up bagging 'Margo Beautiful Skin,' 'Indiatimes Surfer's Choice' and 'MTV's Most Wanted Awards.' A Business Communications graduate, she made her debut in Feroz Khan 's Janasheen (2003) opposite Fardeen Khan . Her second movie was Khel (2003), that also left no impact. She has not yet left a mark on the film arena with mostly insignificant roles in films like Sisilay, No Entry, Jaawani Deewani, Zinda, Tom Dick and Harry , Red,Money Hai To honey Hai and Golmaal Returns. Jaitley is slate...