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Zubedia-The real princess

Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir was an Indian movie actress, who was the First Talkie Actress of India, as she enacted in first Indian talkie Alam Ara released in 1931.Her credits involve early hits like Devdas released in 1937, and played the lead role in Sagar Movietone's first talkie, Meri Jaan. Zubeida was one of Indian cinema's earliest super actress and among the few ladies who entered movies at a time when it wasn't aknowledged an appropriate profession for girls from respectable parivaars. Born in Surat, Zubeida was a sizzling beautiful princess, the daughter of the Nawab of Sachin and Fatima Begum. In 1925, Zubeida had nine releases including Kala Chor, Devdasi, Desh Ka Dushman respectively. A year later she featured in her mother's movie, titled Bulbul-e-Parista. In the year 1927, she acted in films like Laila Majnu, Nanand Bhojai, and Naval Gandhi 's Sacrifice which were very successful films at this time. Zubeida starred in a bunch of silent movies too befor...

The Sri Lankan beauty Jacqueline Fernandez

Jacqueline Fernandez is a Sri Lankan actress and model, at the moment she’s been working in Bollywood movies. Jacqueline is a former beauty queen who won the Miss Sri Lanka Universe tag in the year 2006. She has bagged an International Indian Film Academy Award and Stardust Award for Best Female Debut in 2010 for her character in the Indian movie Aladin . Born in Colombo, Western Province Fernandez comes from a Sinhalese parivaar in Sri Lanka. At the age of three her entire family moved to Bahrain.In Bahrain, the actress studied at the Sacred Heart School. After graduating from the Murrey University in Melbourne, Australia with a degree for mass media studies and chose modelling as her profession, and have worked with a number of fashion designers in Australia, Singapore, Dubai and Sri Lanka as reported.In March 2006, Jacqueline was tagged as the Miss Sri Lanka for Miss Universe 2006. Jacqueline Fernandez made her acting debut in the 2009 Bollywood fantasy film Aladin directed by Sujo...

The Marathi Queen Bhagyashree

Bhagyashree belongs to the family of Patwardhans from Sangli town in Maharashtra. Her father is Maharaja of Sangli. Bhagyashree Patwardhan was born on 23 February 1969 and she has acted in Bollywood films as well as for small screen.The actress started her career in acting with Kachhi Dhoop which was a television series directed by veteran actor Amol Palekar. The serial was based on Louisa Mary Alcott’s Little Women. Her appointment with acting happened by chance when Amol Palekar requested her to perform in his serial “Kacchi Dhoop” as the heroine who had been roped on board had deserted the serial unexpectedly. The serial did quite well and later on Bhagyashree had bagged characters in Honi Anhoni and Kisse Miya Biwi Ke.The diva is best acknowledged for her character that she played in the 1989 movie Maine Pyaar Kiya with actor Salman Khan . After getting married, she acted in three movies like Peepat's QaidMain Hai Bulbul, K.C. Bokadia's Tyagi and Mahendra Shah's Paya...

The yesteryears actress Farida Jalal

Farida Jalal , the Bollywood actress who hails from New Delhi, was born on March 14, 1949 started her career in the 1960’s, when she won the United Film Producers Talent Hunt which was organized by Filmfare. Farida usually played the sister or rejected fiancee of the male stars, but she was never offered to play the main lead in of the films. One of her most critically commended character is in Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia starrer Bobby where she enacted the role of the mentally challenged would-be fiancee of Rishi Kapoor. During the time period of 1980’s, her characters improved from sister and girlfriend to aunt, mother, or grandmother. The honourable actress is also remembered for her role she portrayed in Aradhana , where she enacted Rajesh Khanna 's girlfriend.Farida Jalal acted for over fourty years in film industry, only taking a break during 1983 and 1990, when she settled in Bangalore. During the 1990’s, Farida Jalal acted in numerous chief hits in India, like Raja H...

The vivacious Tina Munim

Tina Munim was born on 11 February 1957 and is an Indian movie actress who had a successful Bollywood career during the late 1970’s and early 80’s. The actress is married to big shot Anil Ambani . She is also indulaged in a number of benevolent and charity activities and is presently running an NGO and a hospital. Tina was found by actor Dev Anand. Tina desired to become a Paris-trained couturier and was poised to go there for her studies in design when approached with a cinematic offer. In 1978, Dev Anand cast her in his movie Des Pardes, which launched her movie career. He would again cast her in numerous other movies with him in the lead character, such as Lootmaar and Man Pasand.Late actor Sunil Dutt launched his son Sanjay Dutt in his movie debut Rocky. Tina was chosen as Sanjay's actress. Tina Munim was spotted in Fiffty Fiffty, Souten, Bewafai, Suraag, Insaaf Main Karoonga and Adhikar and movies where she was not heroine of Rajesh like Rajput, Akhir Kyun and Paapi Pet Ka...

Ayesha Jhulka

Ayesha Jhulka was born on 28 July 1975 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. She is a bollywood actress. During her acting career, she has worked with big bollywood actors like Mithun Chakraborty, Govinda, Jackie Shroff, Nana Patekar , Aamir Khan, Salman Khan , Ajay Devgan , Suniel Shetty, Akshay Kumar, Shahrukh Khan and many others.The actress made her debut in Bollywood industry in the year 1991 with Kurbaan opposite Salman Khan, which became a successful hit at the box office. She got two popular hits in 1992, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander with co-star Aamir Khan and Khiladi with the action God Akshay Kumar. In 1993 movies like Dalaal and Rang were hits too. Even though Dalaal was a hit at the box office, Ayesha was having problems with its maker, Ayesha filed complaints with the Cine Artistes Association and the Film Producers Association. Out of the three controversial scenes, two were afterwards deleted from the film. But it made the actress depressed as she always played the gals next door k...

The all-rounder actress Madhavi

The South Indian actress Madhavi has played the female lead character for seventeen years in seven languages like Hindi, Malyalam, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya and Kannada. The actress has acted in more than three hundred movies and was quiet popular among Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi movies. Madhavi learnt classical dance, Bharat Natyam from Uma Maheshwari and folk dances from Mr. Bhatt at an early stage.Now after taking retirement from movies, she has somehow declared that she still feels the urge to act when she watches good films. Filmmaker Dasari Narayana Rao gave her a leading role to play in the Telugu movie titled “Thoorupu Padamara”. The movie became a huge hit too. K. Balachander then cast her in a supporting character in his Telugu movie Maro Charithrawhich was released in 1978.Madhavi also worked in the Hindi remake of Ek Duje Ke Liye released in 1981, which became the top grossing movie of that year and the movie also starred Sridevi and Kamal Hasan in the...

Yesteryears bollywood actress Sadhana

The famous Bollywood actress Sadhana Shivdasani was born in 1941. When she was fifteen years old, she caught a gaze of some producers who had seen her performing in a college play. They cast her in India's first Sindhi movie named Abana which was released in 1958, where she played the heroine's younger sister for which she was paid a token of rupees one. A photograph of her publicizing the movie appeared in a film magazine. Subodh Mukherjee, one of India's yesteryears producers, saw the magazine and roped her in her first 1959 Hindi movie LoveIn Simla , opposite his newcomer son, Joy Mukherjee. The movie was directed by another newcomer, R.K. Nayyar, who created her trademark look called the Sadhana trimming.In 1955, the actress was seen as a chorus girl in Raj Kapoor's Shree420. Her other flicks included Mere Mehboob, a 1963 release and " Woh Kaun Thi? " for which she received a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress. Raj Khosla roped in Sadhana in two more mys...

Tabu

The glamorous Bollywood actress Tabu born in Hyderabad in 1971, is the niece of popular Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi and the younger sister of actress Farah Naaz. The actress studied in St. Anns high school in Hyderabad and later in 1983 moved to Mumbai where she studied at St. Xavier's College for two years. She has mainly acted in Bollywood movies, and has also featured in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali, American flicks too. Tabu to her credit has received the National Film Award for Best Actress twice, and she even has the record of four Filmfare's Critics Award for Best Female Performer. Even with a few exceptions, Tabu is well-known for acting in creative, low-budget movies that go on to gather more critical approval than extensive box office statistics. Her presence in commercially successful movies were not much, and her roles that she played in these particular movies were short, like the list has Border , Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United , ...

Waheeda Rehman

Waheeda Rehman , famous Bollywood actress who still appears in Bollywood pictures, has most remarkable ones like C.I.D. and Guru Dutt classics like Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, etc. to her credit. Waheeda Rehman was found by Guru Dutt in a movie and was asked to come over to Mumbai. Kaagaz Ke Phool is a story of a successful filmmaker's downfall after he falls in love with the main lead. Guru Dutt and Waheeda Rehman were featured together in Chaudhvin Ka Chand. She completed Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam under some pressure.Soon Guru Dutt and Waheeda called off their relationship after the movie’s dull reception at the Berlin Film Festival in 1963. Waheeda Rehman was cast as "Gulabi" in Satyajit Ray's Bengali movie Abhijan in 1962. The actress’s career prolonged throughout the 1960’s, 1970’s, and 1980’s respectively. She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award for her characters she played in Guide and Neel Kamal . She had also won National award for her per...

Farah Naaz

Farah Naaz was a well known face in Bollywood. Her most memorable movies were Hamara Khandaan, Naqab, Yateem and Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri . Farah took retirement from acting in 1990. She worked with almost all of the top listed stars of her times namely Rajesh Khanna , Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt , Sunny Deol, Anil Kapoor , Jackie Shroff, Mithun, Govinda, and Aamir Khan. Farah made her debut in the year 1985 with Yash Chopra's Faasle opposite Rohan Kapoor. She was part of hits movies like Marte Dam Tak, Naseeb Apna Apna, Love 86, Imaandaar, Ghar Ghar Ki Kahaani, Diljala, Rakhwala, Hamara Khandaan, Woh Phir Ayegi, Veeru Dada, Baap Ek Numbari Beta Dus Numbari and Muqabla and so on. In the 1990s, Farah Naaz worked with Aamir Khan in two films, Jawani Jindabad and Isi Ka Naam Zindagi, but both the films badly failed at box office. She was also approached for Khuda Gawah but because of delays in production, she was later on replaced with Shilpa Shirodkar. Farah Naaz then started por...

Smita Patil

Making a mark for herself in Bollywood industry with the release of 1977 flick Bhumika actress Smita Patil acted in number of Bollywood films and also contributed in television and theatre. Smita Patil featured in almost seventy five Hindi and Marathi movies and also bagged National Film Awards and Filmfare Award and she was the receiver of the Padma Shri India's fourth-highest civilian honour in 1985. Smita played most remarkable roles in movies like Manthan, Bhumika, Aakrosh , Chakra and Mirch Masala. Apart from acting, the Bollywood known figure was a member of the Women's Centre situated in Mumbai. Smita Patil was always ready to help women in every possible way. Smita Patil was married to Bollywood famous star Raj Babbar . Unfortunately, the actress died on 13 December 1986 at the age of 31. It has been revealed that the successful actress was more related to small cinema for about five years. She had also truned down all commercial offers. Somewhere in 1977 and 1978, ...

Bina Rai

Bina Rai born on 4 June 1936 was a renowned Bollywood actress of the black and white time of Hindi cinema. Bina was mostly known for her characters she played in classic films like Anarkali, Taj Mahal, and won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her outstanding performance in the movie, Ghunghat. Before coming to Mumbai, the actress stayed in Kanpur. She had to persuade her mother and father to allow her to opt acting as her career. Bina Raiwas a first year student of Arts in the Isabella Theodore College' of Lucknow in the year 1950, when she came to know about an advertisement that organised a talent contest. When she applied for the contest the sponsors of the show approached her. On the other hand Bina went Mumbai to take part in the contest where she bagged whooping amount, that time, of Rs. 25 thousand. Soon after that she made her first Bollywood debut with Kishore Sahu's project titled 'Kali Ghata' in the year 1951 opposite Kishore Sahu. Somewhere in the 19...

Shraddha Das

Shraddha Das was born March 4, 1987. She hails from Mumbai, india. Shraddha is an Bollywood actress, who has mainly appeared in Telugu flicks. She started her career down south, and her first film was Sidhu from Srikakulam, that was a hit. Shraddha thereafter starred in a number of Telugu movies, including Target, 18, 20 Love Story, Diary and Adhineta. But the beginning of her actual career as an actress began with Sai Om Films'. Shraddha Das is also known as a 'sequel queen' in the South. She has also played the female lead in Adhineta, her sixth film in Telugu with hero. Shradhha das played the other female lead in the remake of blockbuster maro Charitra . The actress will be seen in a Bollywood film Dil Toh Bachcha hai Ji . Follow Bollywood on twitter .

Sarah-Jane Dias

Sarah-Jane Dias was born on December 3, 1982. She hails from is a Mumbai and took part in the Indian beauty pageant contest and had won the Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2007 title. She is an actress too. Sarah-Jane Dias did her schooling up to Class X at Indian School Wadi Kabir and the remaining two years at Indian School Muscat and then she studied in Mumbai's Mithibai College as well as St. Andrews College in Bandra. Sarah-Jane Dias made her debut with the Tamil romantic comedy film titled ‘Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai’ opposite Vishal Krishna. The movie also featured Bollywood actresses Neetu Chandra and Tanushree Dutta. Before the release of her first film, she signed on for Game, a Bollywood project opposite Abhishek Bachchan in the lead role. Follow Bollywood on twitter .

Perizaad Zorabian

Perizaad Zorabian was born on 23 October 1973. She is an Indian actress. Perizaad’s film debut was with Nagesh Kukunoor 's film, Bollywood Calling and she gained international recognition for her role as Jenny in Subhash Ghai 's Jogger’s Park that was released in 2003. She also did a minor role in Mumbai Matinee in 2003. In 2004, she played a supporting role in Morning Raga and made a cameo appearance in Bollywood flick Dhoom. In 2005 she appeared in Ek Ajnabee opposite Kelly Dorjee and a year later with Malcolm McDowell in Exitz. More recent films include Highway 203 released in 2006, Moonlight (2006), Just Married (2007) and Kabhi Up Kabhi Down. She has also acted in a Chinese movie , Bandung Sonata, in which she played Indira Gandhi. Follow Bollywood on twitter .

Reema Lagoo

Reema Lagoo is a Marathi actress who has appeared in a number of Marathi as well as Hindi movies. The actress was born as Nayan Bhadbhade in 1958. Her mother was a well-known actress on the Marathi stage. Reema Lagoo had a love affair with late Bollywood star Shafi Inaamdaar. The actor helped Reema Lagoo by his own approach in the initial stage of her carrer. In late 1970s or early 1980s, Reema started acting in Hindi and Marathi flicks. After that she got married to Marathi actor Vivek Lagoo. After marriage, she changed he name from Nayan to Reema. Reema Lagoo has mostly acted in supporting roles with some of the biggest names in the Indian film industry. Reema Lagoo became famous with the film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak that was released in 1988 where she played mother to Juhi Chawla . She then featured in the role of Salman Khan 's mom in Maine Pyar Kiya that was released in 1989. She was also featured in 1994 Hum Aapke Hain Koun , Rangeela (1995), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) an...

Neelam

Bollywood’s former actress Neelam was born on March 3, 1968. She is an established jewellery designer. After her early childhood in Hong Kong, Neelam’s family moved to Bangkok and the actress was holidaying in Mumbai and was approached by Ramesh Behl. After that she decided to give it a shot and did Bollywood film Jawaani in 1984 alongside Karan Shah. But the movie turned out to be a flop. Neelam worked hard and became famous in 1986 in the film Ilzaam opposite another debutante Govinda. She went on to make a regular pairing with Govinda in movies such as Love 86 that was released in1986,followed up with Khudgarz that came in 1987, 1988 flick Hatya, Taaqatwar a 1989 film and Do Qaidi that was released in 1989. She was also seen in films like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Hum Saatha Saath Hain. Follow Bollywood on twitter .

Gouthami Tadimalla

Gouthami Tadimalla , is an Indian actress. She has acted in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and Kannada movies.. Gouthami’s first film was Dayamayudu, a Telugu movie based on the life of Jesus Christ. The actress was studying at GITAM College in Vizag, Andhra Pradesh when she received her first film offer. She was introduced to Tamil film industry through Guru Shishyan, a film that also starred Rajnikanth . She was a competitor to the other heroines of the time, Kushboo and Banupriya. Her filmography includes Thevar Magan, as well as Mani Ratnam's Iruvar which was released in 1997, which co-starred Mohanlal, Prakash Raj, Aishwarya Rai , Tabu , Nasser and Revathi. Gouthami has acted also in Kannada films as well. She appeared in Hindi flicks like Andha Kanoon, Naqaab , Aadmi, Pyar Hua Chroi Chori , Teesra Kaun?, Janata Ki Adalat, Dharmendra and Jayapradha starrer Veer, Trimurti, God and Gun, and Dhaal: The Battle Of Law Against Law…… Follow Bollywood on twitter . Read Aishwarya R...

Jennifer Kotwal

Jennifer Dinshaw Kotwal is a Parsi model and actress who hails from the dream city Mumbai, India. Jennifer Kotwal completed her schooling at Villa Teresa High School in Mumbai, and completed her studies with a degree in Economics at HR College, also in Mumbai.. The actress started her acting career with Hindi television serials such as Just Mohabbat and then also acted in smaller roles in Bollywood films such as Subhash Ghai 's movie Yaadein, before landing the blockbuster Kannada movie Jogi opposite actor Shivarajkumar which set box office records. Jennifer was also seen in Abhishek Bachchan starrer flick Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai playing Abhishek Bachchan’s sister. Once again the actress will be making her Bollywood debut as a lead heroine in Mudh Mudh Ke Na Dekkh Mudh Mudh Ke, opposite singer-turned-actor Himmesh Reshammiya . Follow Bollywood on twitter .