KIRON KHER

Born on June 14, 1955, the actress has her roots in theatre. Kiron Kher, the wife of Anupam Kher, actually, began her career as a television host before moving on to Hindi films. Her first film was a Punjabi one, Aasra Pyar Da, made in 1983. Then came her first major role in Shyam Benegal's Sardari Begum, where she played the main role of the singer.




EARLY LIFE:

Kirron Kher was born in Mumbai to Jatt Sikh parents, and brought up in Chandigarh, Punjab, where she did her schooling and later college from Panjab University, Chandigarh. At school she was an avid Badminton player along with her sister, Arjuna awardee Kanwal Thakar Singh, their mother Diljit Singh was also active in sports and dramatics in in her college days in pre-partition Punjab. Kirron also had a brother, painter Amardeep Singh, who passed away in 2003.

In 2000, she appeared in film director, Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali film Bariwali 1999, to critical acclaim. Though when she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for the film.

Her first marriage was with actor and businessman, Gautam Berry, with whom she has a son, actor Sikander Kher, before they divorced in 1985. She then married actor Anupam Kher, who she first met at Department of Indian Theatre in Chandigarh in 1974, which had Balwant Gargi has its head, though after which Anupam Kher went to Delhi and joined National School of Drama (NSD), while Kirron went to Bombay and got married to her first husband, subsequently they met while working together in a play called Chanadpuri Ki Champabai, and married in 1985, now they together run a production house.

In 2002, she appeared in Devdas (2002) alongside Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Aishwarya Rai, and was nominated for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.

It was followed by Darmiyaan (1997) also made in the same year. In between the years, 1988 to 1996, she decided to concentrate on bringing up her son, Sikander, and stayed away from films.

But after the sabbatical, she came back with a bang with films like Rituparno Ghosh's Bariwali, which won her a National Award for Best Actress. In 2003, she won an international award at the Locarno Film Festival for her role in the Pakistani film Khamosh Paani. She followed it with a fiery performance in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas for which she won a best supporting actress award from Filmfare.

Kiron has also won accolades for her many successful portrayals of mother and wife in innumberable films like Main Hoon Na (2004), Hum Tum (2004), Veer-Zaara (2004). Rang De Basanti, Fanaa (2006), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), Om Shanti Om (2007), Saas Bahu Aur Sensex and Singh Is Kinng (2008). Besides her flair for histrionics, the actress is also known to have a mindboggling collection of sarees and generally wears her own saris in films.

In 2003, she changed her name from "Kiron" to "Kirron" due to beliefs in numerology.

She has been casted in 24 films, as a costume designer in 1 film and special appearance in 1 film.

Anne Hathaway Love and Other Drugs

in Love and Other Drugs (Filming) as Maggie Murdock.

Love and Other Drugs is an upcoming 2010 drama film directed by Edward Zwick, based on the novel Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman written by Jamie Reidy. Love and Other Drugs Stars are Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.

"Love and Other Drugs" Filming on Baum Blvd, Pittsburgh as below:


Principal photography for the film began in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region in September 2009. The city was chosen for its atmosphere, rich medical history, the state's tax incentive program for film productions, and the area's experienced crews. McCandless, Squirrel Hill, Fox Chapel, Sewickley, Aliquippa, and Brownsville have been used as locations for the film, as well as Mellon Arena, the Omni William Penn Hotel, and Station Square. Pittsburgh doubled as Chicago for some scenes.

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Geeta Bali

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Born in a Mohyal family in 1930, Geeta Bali was a popular film actress from Bollywood industry. In 1955 Geeta Bali married Shammi Kapoor. Geeta Bali became a star in the 1950s. Geeta had also worked earlier with her future brother-in-law Raj Kapoor in Bawre Nain and with her future father-in-law Prithviraj Kapoor in Anand Math.

Geeta Bali's films also include Baazi (1951) with Dev Anand, Ghayal with Sheikh Mukhtar, Baaz with Guru Dutt, Jaal, Albela with Bhagwan Dada. She received a Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress for Vachan (1955) and another nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Kavi (1955). After suffering from smallpox, Geeta Bali died on January 21, 1965.

Anne Hathaway Wished To Be A Nun?

She was convinced that serving God was her destiny, after Anne Hathaway got a calling fr/ the almighty "to be a nun" when Anne Hathaway was an 11th years old.

Anne Hathaway grew up Catholic, and thought Anne Hathaway was born to be a nun until Hathaway realised she couldn't support a religion that isn't working in her brother's favour, who Anne Hathaway found out was a homosxual when she was at the age of fifteen ."I was raised Catholic. When I was 11, I felt like I got a calling from God to be a nun," Contactmusic quoted Anne Hathaway, as saying.

"But when I was about 15, I realised my older brother was gay, and I couldn't support a religion that didn't support my brother. Now I call myself a nondenominational Christian, because I haven't found the religion for me," Anne Hathaway added.

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Sulakshana Pandit

Sulakshana Pandit is an actress and playback singer. In 1975, Sulakshana Pandit won the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award for singing "Tu hi saagar hai tu hi kinara" in Sankalp (1975).

She also received a Filmfare Nomination as Best Female Playback Award for rendering the classical "bandhi re kahe preet" in Sankoch (1976) but lost it to Hemlata.

The actress has also worked with some famous stars like Jeetendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Raj Babbar and Rakesh Roshan.

Sulakshana Pandit had recorded a song "Mujhe pyar mein khat" for the film Hera Pheri in 1975. But the actress was rejected as a singer and got selected as the heroine for the same film which also starred Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna.

Sulakshana Pandit was mostly played glam roles in films and often got a chance to display her acting ability. Sulakshana did play an author backed role in Anil Ganguly's version of Parineeta which was named Sankoch (1976) where she got the opportunity to portray Lolita which was earlier played by Meena Kumari in 1954 and later by Vidya Balan in 2005.

In 1977 Sulakshana played the lead role in Apnapan and Pandit also the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. Although Sulakshana Pandit never got an award for acting. Some of her popular hit films are Hera Pheri, Apnapan, Sankoch, Khandaan, Raaz, Thief of Baghdad, Chehre Pe Chehra and Waqt Ki Deewar.

Lisa Ray

Lisa Ray was born on April 4, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Lisa ray the former fashion diva and Indian actress first appeared in an advertisement for Bombay Dyeing wearing a high-cut black swimsuit opposite Karan Kapoor.




Lisa Ray made her first debut in 1994 in a Tamil movie opposite actor Sarath Kumar in the film Nethaji where she appeared in a brief role. Lisa began her Bollywood acting career with the film Kasoor in 2001 opposite Aftab Shivdasani. Lisa Ray's was also casted in Deepa Mehta's romantic Indian-Canadian romp, Bollywood/Hollywood in 2002.

In 2005, Lisa worked again with Deepa Mehta in the Oscar-nominated film, Water. Other films of the actress includes All Hat, A Stone's Throw and 50's apartheid South Africa in The World Unseen and a Christian-Arab lesbian in I Can't Think Straight that was directed by Shamim Sarif.

In 2007, the beautiful actress was also seen in a contemporary Hollywood film Kill Kill Faster Faster. Featured in the Canadian edition of Hello magazine as one of the '50 Most Beautiful People' of the country the actress is suffering from incurable cancer. But the actress knows how to move on and has given her nod to a film based on Charles Sobhraj Lisa Raybiopic, opposite Sanjay Dutt.

Anne Hathaway Alice in Wonderland

in Alice in Wonderland (Post-production) as White Queen.

Alice in Wonderland is an upcoming 2010 fantasy film directed by Tim Burton. Alice in Wonderland is an adaptation of the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Alice in Wonderland film will use a technique combining live action and motion capture technology. Mia Wasikowska will play the role of Alice, alongside Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as The White Queen.

Alice in Wonderland film is due for release on March 5, 2010 and the film will be released in Disney Digital 3-D and IMAX 3-D, as well as 2-D.

Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. Her character does not require digital manipulation. Hathaway summed up her character with a caption on a magnet of Happy Bunny holding a knife; "Cute but psycho. Things even out." Anne Hathaway's character also doesn't walk, she floats. Anne Hathaway's very eccentric and overly dramatic, just as mad in her way as the Hatter.

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Nargis Dutt

Nargis Dutt was born on June 1, 1929. Nargis who was considered as the greatest actress in the history of Hindi cinema made her screen debut as a child artist in Talash-E-Haq in 1935, but her career in acting began in 1942 with the film Tamanna.




During her career one of her best-known roles was that of Radha in the Academy Award-nominated Mother India (1957), for which the actress won Best Actress trophies at the Filmfare Awards and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. For the film Raat Aur Din that came in 1967, the actress won the National Film Award for Best Actress.

Nargis died in 1981 of pancreatic cancer. Nargis Dutt appeared in numerous movies after her film debut. The actress starred in many popular Hindi-Urdu movies of the late 1940s and 1950s such as Barsaat (1949), Andaz (1949), Awaara (1951), Deedar (1951),Shree 420 (1955), and Chori Chori (1956).

Some of the noted films of the actress were Mela (1948), Anokha Pyar (1948), Anjuman (1948), Aag (1948), Roomal (1949), Lahore (1949), Darogaji (1949) etc.

Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

Harvey Weinstein has optioned Get Happy and will produce a stage show and film based on biography of entertainer Judy Garland. Both are slated to star Anne Hathaway; to date no other creative personnel have been named. Anne Hathaway 'll plays in Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland as Judy Garland.

Anne Hathaway 'll play the iconic performer based on the biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. The novel, written by Gerald Clarke, includes hundreds of interviews and Garland’s own writing from an unpublished autobiography. The productions 'll chronicle the early years as a child actress to her battle with addiction to her accidental drug overdose in 1969.

According to the trades, the Weinstein Company isn’t sure which will come first, the play or the movie. Hathaway will likely be singing in it (since after all it is Judy Garland) and showed she could belt out the notes at this year’s Oscar telecast alongside Hugh Jackman.

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Anju Mahendru

Anju Mahendru the bollywood actress was born on January 11, 1946. The talented star was discovered by poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and was a popular starlet during the 60's and 70's. Although Anju Mahendru didn't made it as a leading lady and moved to character roles. She acted only in few films during the 80's and 90's.




Anju Mahendru also acted in films like Dastak (1970), Bandhan, Intaquam, Sunghursh, Jewel Thief, Mohabbat Ho Gayi Hai Tumse, Satta, Kyon?, Waah! Tera Kya Kehna, A Pocket Full of Dreams (2001), etc.

In the late 1990s, Anju Mahendru made a comeback via television with strong roles in television serials in India. The actress also acted in a supporting role in the critically acclaimed Saathiya alongside Rani Mukherjee and Vivek Oberoi.

She also made a guest appearance in Page 3 and had a part in 2006's Hum Ko Deewana Kar Gaye alongside Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif.

Sonali Kulkarni

Sonali Kulkarni the bollywood actress who was born on November 3, 1974 was married to famous Marathi play director Chandrakant Kulkarni but the couple got divorced.




Sonali Kulkarni started her career on the tinsel screen in a Kannada movie titled Cheluvi, and since than the actress has appeared in a total of 32 movies, which includes an Italian film titled 'Fuoco Si Di Me' for which Sonali Kulkarni has won an award in the 2006 Milan International Film Festival.

Sonali Kulkarni also got a Special Jury Award for a non-feature film in the 49th National Film Awards, 2001 for her guest appearance in a short film in Marathi Chaitra.

Apart from acting, Sonali is also an editor with 'Viva', a supplement of 'Loksatta', and she also writes a weekly column called 'So Kool'. This Bollywood actress has contributed to hindi cinema with films like I See You, Darna Zaroori Hai, Dil Chahta Hai, Taxi Number 9211, Bride and Prejudice,Dil Vil Pyar Vyar, etc. Apart from this she will be seen in a movie Strangers with Kay Kay Menon and Jimmy Shergill.

Diana Hayden

The gorgeous model Diana Hayden was born on May 1, 1973. Diana is an Indian model, bollywood actress and former Miss World. Diana Hayden became popular when she was crowned as Miss World in the year 1997. Diana Hayden became the third Indian woman to win the Miss World pageant and soon after that the actress entered Bollywood industry.





Diana Hayden moved to the UK and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. The actress also studied at Drama Studio London, where she concentrated on the works of Shakespeare and earned a Best Actress nomination from the studio. In 2001, she made her screen debut in the film version of Shakespeare’s Othello in South Africa.

In 2006, Diana was signed by the Avalon Academy as the face of the Academy and currently serves as a celebrity guest lecturer for airline personnel training programs. After failing to make a mark in Bollywood, Hayden moved to Los Angeles and devoted herself to social causes. In 2008, Diana Hayden alos became a part of the most popular reality show Bigg Boss.