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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...

Sarika

Bollywood actress Sarika was born on 3 June 1962 into a Maharashtrian family in New Delhi, India, and became an acclaimed National Award winning actress soon. Sarika started her career in acting as a child artist, Master Sooraj, enacting the character of a boy during the 1960’s in Bollywood industry. The actress appeared in many children's films as well as B grade movies. She moved to good scripts with Rajshri Productions Geet Gaata Chal with actor Sachin, with whom she starred in many Hindi as well as Marathi flicks and is known to have had a short time love affair with Sachin too. In her acting career, she was often cast as the glamorous girl in films from 1980's. She gave up her career after getting married to actor Kamal Hassan and moved to Chennai with him during the top height of her career. Sarika’s daughter Shruti Hassan is also an Bollywood actress and has appeared in films Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji and Luck. Sarika has now made a comeback in Hindi movies after a long ga...

Kalpana Iyer

Kalpana Iyer is a former Miss India, and Bollywood actress. The actress was well known as a famous vamp of the 1980's and 1990's. Having appeared in a number of Bollywood movies featuring dance sequences espcially item numbers, somewhat reduced her in appearance with a short interruption in Indian Television. The actress is currently a restaurateur based in Dubai, UAE. After being first runner-up at Miss India in 1978, Kalpana Iyer started making full-blown appearances playing negative character in a number of Bollywod projects, continuing in the tradition of Bollywood actresses like the most gorgeous Bindu, the most sizzling actress Helen who have performed several item numbers and the fascinating Aruna Irani . Some of Kalpana Iyer’s famous dance sequences were to the songs "Hari om Hari" in Pyaara Dushman in 1980 and "Rambha Ho" in Armaan 1982 . Some of the renowned Bollywood projects of the sizzling actress include 1982 released film Satte Pe Satta ...

Namrata Shirodkar

Namrata Shirodkar was born on 22 January 1972 in Mumbai, India. She is an Indian actress and former model The actress used to live in Khar, in Mumbai initially. Her sister Shilpa Shirodkar also works in Bollywood as an actress. Namrata is the granddaughter of famous Marathi actress Meenakshi Shirodkar, who featured in film Brahmachari, and was the first actress to wear a swimsuit. Namrata Shirodkar began dating Tollywood star Mahesh Babu after the shooting of Vamsee in the year 2000. They got married on 10 February 2005. Now the actress stays in Hyderabad with her husband. Namrata Shirodkar worked as a model, and was crowned Miss India back in 1993. She also represented India in the Miss Universe pageant and earned the sixth position . She made her debut with a small character in superhit flick Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai which was released in 1998, opposite Salman Khan alongwith Twinkle Khanna who played the lead role. Namrata then went on to star in the hit flick Vaastav opposite ...

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...