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Payal Rohatgi

Payal Rohatgi born in Hyderabad is a Bollywood actress and model who has appeared in Bollywood movies too. Payal Rohatgi daughter of Veena Rohatgi and Shashank Rohatgi, has a brother named Gaurav Rohatgi. The actress was brought up in a middle class family and she completed her schooling from Udgam School and did her engineering from L.D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad. Computer engineer by profession, Payal Rohatgi started her career by modeling for popular brands like Amul, Nirma, and Nescafe. The beautiful lass gained lot of attention after appearing in a television ad for Cadbury's Temptations Chocolates ad campaign. By the time she also appeared in music videos by rock band, Silk Route and Indipop artist, Kay Kay. In 2002, Payal took part in the Femina Miss India contest and in the same year, she won the Miss Tourism World in Medellin, South America. As soon as she began her career in Bollywood, Payal was more inclined towards acting. However, she appeared along with cric...

Minissha Lamba

Minissha Lamba was born on 18 January 1985. She is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood movies. Minissha Lamba was born in a Jatt Sikh family of Delhi. Her father was in the hospitality business and this gave her the great chance to travel around the country and meet many people. She can fluently converse in Hindi, Punjabi, English and French languages. Minissha has appeared in films like Yahaan, Bachna Ae Haseeno , Kidnap and Well Done Abba. Minissha did her schooling from Sherwood Hall and later on moved to Chettinad Vidyashram, both located in Chennai. In 2004, the actress majored in English with honours from Miranda House, University of Delhi. Her mother is also very talented and is a painter. Minissha Lamba's in the beginning wanted to become a journalist. While studying for a degree in Delhi, Minissha Lamba pursued modelling as a hobby and soon became a well-placed model in the Indian modelling industry. Minissha's early modelling work includes numerous televisio...

Nimmi

Nimmi was a popular Bollywood actress who achieved fame in the 1950s and early 1960s in Hindi cinema. The actress became popular after she played spirited village belle type roles, but also featured in varied genres such as fantasy and social movies. Nawab Banoo (Nimmi) was born in Agra, India. Her mother was a famous singer and actress by the name of Wahidan who was well connected within the film fraternity. Nimmi had visited Bombay in her childhood, and her mother being on good terms with Mehboob Khan and his family. Through the connection with her mother who had worked with him in the 1930s, in 1948, the famous film director Mehboob Khan, invited the young Nimmi to watch the making of his current production Andaz at Central Studios. The actress had shown keen desire to work in films and this was a bright chance for her to understand the film making process. At the time when Nimmi met Raj Kapoor on the sets of Andaaz, the actor was filming his production of Barsaat in 1949. Having...

Nalini Jaywant

Nalini Jaywant was an Indian movie actress who was seen in films during the 1940s and 1950s. Nalini is first cousin to actress Shobhna Samarth, the mother of Bollywood actresses Nutan and Tanuja. Nalini got married to director Virendra Desai in the 1940s. Later, the actress married her second husband, actor Prabhu Dayal, with whom she acted in several films. In her teens, Nalini Jaywant got some fame through her performance in Mehboob Khan's Bahen that was released in 1941, a movie about a brother's obsessive love for his sister. Nalini, however, performed in a few more flicks before the notable 1948 release ‘Anokha Pyaar’. The movie involved a love triangle among characters played by Dilip Kumar , Nargis, and Nalini. Nalini played the character of the girl who sacrifices her love for the hero played by Dilip Kumar. Nalini's performance in that movie proved to be the movie's saving grace. 1950 came as a breakthrough year for Nalini when she became a top actress with he...

Pooja Gupta

Pooja Gupta was the winner of Miss India Universe in the year 2007. Pooja Gupta later went to Mexico to participate at Miss Universe 2007. Wearing a gunmetal gown with Mongol inspired beadwork designed by Hemant Trivedi, the actress reached the top ten finishing in 9th position. Born in New Delhi on January 30, 1985, Pooja Gupta came to the limelight after winning the Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe which was organized by Pantaloons, a clothing line and Femina, a women's magazine in India. Pooja Gupta was offered to persuade her career in Hindi film fraternity and her interests also included drawing, traveling, writing, doing yoga and horse riding. Pooja Gupta who is really hardworking will be making her film debut in Puja films upcoming movie F.A.L.T.U. She encouraged tourism in Germany as an Indian ambassador. The good looking lass had also respresented India in Donald Trump's Miss Universe Organisation and made it to top Ten in Mexico out of 86 countries and also wor...

Shahana Goswami

Shahana Goswami was born on 6 May 1986. She is a Indian Bengali actress who also works in Bollywood movies. Shahana Goswami studied in Sardar Patel Vidyalaya , New Delhi and Sophia College, Mumbai. The actress was the house captain and sports champion in her school. And she had also secured second position at the National Artificial Wall Climbing Competition. In addition to this, Shahana Goswami also received training in Odissi for 10 years under Guru Padmashri Kiran Segal and has trot and performed expansively with her dance troupe. Shahana Goswami had a single-minded focus on professional acting since she was a kid. The lass moved to Mumbai to complete her graduation and to explore the possibility of taking up acting as a career. In Mumbai, Shahana's first acted with Jaimini Pathak's theatre group. There, she started working as a production assistant and then she acted in their productions titled ‘Seagull’ and ‘Arabian Nights’. She also met the talent consultant Shanoo Sharm...

Sri Devi

Sri Devi born on 13 August 1963, is an Indian actress who has starred in hundreds of movies in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam languages. The actress has been acting at the age of four, she made her debut as an adult in the late 1970s. After then the actress established herself as one of the leading actress of her time. Bollywood Actress Sri Devi started her career with her first Tamil movie in 1967 Kandhan Karunai playing the role of young Lord Muruga and acted in many Tamil and Telugu movies from there on. During her early teens, she acted in a number of Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam movies as a lead actress. In 1976 the actress got her first big break as heroine in K. Balakrishna's film Moondru Mudichu where she shared screen space with Rajnikanth and Kamal Hassan . She then followed with a succession of films with both Haasan and Rajnikanth. Then Sri Devi started with Telugu film, there also the lady ruled for years. She started acting in Hindi movies. Many of these i...

Manisha Koirala

Born on August 16, 1970, Bollywood actress Maisha Koirala is a well known face in Bollywood film industry as well as she is a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social activist too. Manisha Koirala has worked in Hindi cinema, though she has appeared in several Tamil movies as well. The actress is also a talented Bharatnatyam and Manipuri dancer. Making her acting debut in the Nepali flick, “Pheri Bhetaula” in 1989, Manisha made her Bollywood debut in 1991 with Subhash Ghai’s top-grossing drama genre movie, Saudagar. The actress went on to team up with some of the most flawless and famous Indian filmmakers of her times, and throughout the 1990s, she was one of the best-known actresses in India, for her hard work. Manisha Koirala mostly projected into serious and realistic cinema. Although box office collections of her movies have varied every now and then, critics have noted that her mark that she has made for herself has remained unharmed irrespective of box office collections. She starred...