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 Payal all opposite her husband Himalaya.After a break of several years, the gorgeous diva made a comeback to television with Aandhi Jasbaton Ki, where she enacted the role of a politician. She was also showcased in Didi Ka Dulha, which was a comedy serial on national broadcaster Doordarshan and a telefilm where she enacts a blind person.

She made her debut in Marathi films starting off with the romantic comedy like Zhak Marli Baiko Keli in June 2009. Bhagyashree is the promoter of a media company Shrishti Entertainment with her husband. Maine Pyar Kiya, Qaid Mein Hai Bulbul, Tyaagi, Paayal, Ghar Aaya Mera Pardesi, Maa Santoshi Maa, Hello Girls, etc. are some of the films that featured Bhagyashree in the lead roles.

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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 kind of characters.In 1993, the diva was part of two more standard successes like Waqt Hamara Hai and Meherbaan.

Rumours of having an affair with Akshay Kumar was also aired at that time. She was ready to get married to Armaan Kohli and decided to leave movies after her bad experience with Dalaal. She completed all her commitments, but her relationship with Armaan came to an end.After a gap, she again joined the race and in 1996, with hit Masoom she revived her mark in the film industry. Her other movies with Mithun called Suraj did quite well in audiences, but it did not help her much. Ayesha also did Vishwavidhata and Ghoonghat.

In both the films, she was having roles with essence, but both flicks bombed at the box office. In Chachi 420, she was seen in a cameo role even though movie did well and also received positive reviews. While continuing her acting career, she got married to construction tycoon Sameer Vashi. She played supporting but significant roles in Run, Socha Na Tha and Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan starrer Umrao Jaan.

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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,

Saajan Chale Sasural and Biwi No.1. Her most remarkable presentations comprised of movies like Maachis, Hu Tu Tu, Virasat, Chandni Bar, Cheeni Kum, Maqbool, Astitva, etc. In Mira Nair’s American flick The Namesake also gathered huge success for the actress.Considered as one of the most gifted Indian female actress of her generation, Tabu is acknowledged to be quite choosy about her characters she plays and she once mentioned that she do movies that move her from inside. Tabu is the recipient of the 2011 Padma Shri India's fourth-highest civilian award. This brilliant actress has also featured on the Vogue India's cover page in 2009 issue.

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Mamta Kulkarni

Mamta Kulkarni is a former Bollywood heroine. During the 1990’s, she was part of several commercial hits like Karan Arjun, Sabse Bada Khiladi, Aashiq Awara and Krantiveer. MamtaKulkarni made her debut through the Tamil movie titled Nanbargal which was released in Hindi as Mera Dil Tere Liye directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar. She made her Bollywood debut in 1992 film Tirangaa. Than in 1993 she featured in Aashiq Awara, which wbagged her a Filmfare Lux New Face Award too. She went to appear in many other famous films like Waqt Hamara Hai, Ghatak: Lethal, Beqabu, Baazi, Gangstar, Chupa Rustam, Qila, Andolan, and many more.
Mamta was approached for many other movies with Ajay Devgan, Bobby Deol, Shahrukh Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, but she kept on rejecting big projects like Agnaary, Mr and Mrs Khiladi, Bandahan, Aunty No 1, Aflatoon and Shikary because of the money matters.Rajkumar Santoshi, later roped her in China Gate. The only song in the film, Chamma Chamma, performed by Urmila Matondkar, rocked the box office. In 1997, the actress was paid a large amount to perform at a private function by a legislator from Bihar, who was later arrested after investigations into the Fodde Scam case. She was interrogated too.

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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 performance in Reshma Aur Shera, some of the flicks bombed at the box office. Since her presence in the film Lamhe she took retirement from the film industry for almost 12 long years. On 21 November 2000, her husband died following a prolonged illness. In recent years the actress made a comeback enacting elderly mother and grandmother roles in Om Jai Jagadish, Water and the most memorable movie Rang De Basanti and Delhi6 which were all critically praised.

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Praveen Babi

Parveen Babi was a famous Bollywood artiste, who is chiefly known to the whole world for her enchanting characters together with top listed male actors of the 1970’s and early 1980’s in smash hits like Deewar, Namak Halaal, Amar Akbar Anthony and Shaan. The actress never married but was involved in relationships with famous personalities like filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, Bollywood star Kabir Bedi, and Danny Denzongpatoo. It was also believed that the beautiful diva had a strong love affair with Amitabh Bachchan.

Mahesh Bhatt penned and directed the 1982 successful hit film Arth , that was considered as a semi-autobiographical venture about his personal relationship with Praveen, and again he wrote as well as produced the 2006 released WohLamhewhich was madeon real facts about his relationship with the actress. Parveen Babi started her line of business in modelling in 1972 and was immediately followed by her debut with the movie Charitra which was released in 1973 opposite cricketer Salim Durrani.

The movie was a ringing flop but Parveen Babiwas admired and was signed up for many more Bollywood projects. Her foremost successful hit was 1974 Majboor opposite Amitabh Bachchan. Praveen was the first Bollywood babe to have been showcased on TIME magazine's cover page, in July 1976, much to the unrest of her colleagues. She had also appeared in Kaalia, Khud-daar, Suhaag, Kaala Patthar, Meri Aawaaz Suno and The Burning Train. She too featured in innovative movies like Vinod Pande's Yeh Nazdeekiyan which got released in 1982. In the film she portrayed the character of the other lady opposite Marc Zuber.

Praveen known for her sublime acting skills was found dead in her Mumbai residence on 22nd January 2005 after the residential society secretary stated the police that she had not collected milk and newspapers from her house for three days. It was assumed that the actress was suffering from gangrene of the foot as she was diabetic. The police ruled out any foul play and it was determined she had died from what appeared to be complications from diabetes.

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Rajshree

Bollywood actress Rajshree was well acknowledged for her classic beauty, acting abilities and dancing qualifications. Rajshree is the daughter of acclaimed Indian filmmaker V. Shantaram and actress Jayshree, second wife of V. Shantaram. Her brother Kiran Kumar was a former Sheriff of Mumbai. While shooting with Raj Kapoor in America for film “Around the World in Eight Dollars”, Rajshree met American student Greg Chapman.z The two got married three years later in a Vedic, Hindu marriage ceremony in India, that lasted five days and was attended by 15 thousand guests.

The actress left with her husband to permanently live in America. They have one daughter. She has been living in America for the past thirty years running a successful custom clothing business while still maintaining her interest in movies. She was an assistant director on three films, “Hack O’Lantern”, “Tainted Love” and “Monsoon” and has done narration on a children’s video titled “Ashok By Any Other Name. Rajshree was launched by her father along with actor Jeetendra in the film Geet Gaya Patharon Ne. She also starred in popular hits films like Brahmachari, Jaanwar and Shehnai. Naina, Brahmachari, Suhag Raat, Dil Ne Pukara, Gunahon Ka Devta, Mohabbat Zindagi Hai , Sagaai, Janwar,,

Do Dil, Ji Chahta Hai, Ghar Basake Dekho, Stree and Subah Ka Tara were some of her noted Bollywood films. Her movie Brahmachari also bagged the Filmfare Best Movie Award in 1968. Shammi Kapoor was awarded the Filmfare Best Actor Award for the same movie. Sehnai released in 1964 was directed by S. D. Narang featured Rajshree, Biswajeet, Nirupa Roy, Leela Chitnis, Johnny Walker Asit Sen and Iftekhar in pivotal roles. Rajshree also made her mark in Bollywood and is still remembered till date for her outstanding performance and her appearance with the renowned Bollywood actors like Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Jeetendra, etc!!

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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 starring Shakti Kapoor, Amjad Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Ranjeeta and Hema Malini, Anjaam (1994), Raja Hindustani alongwith Aamir Khan and Karishma Kapoor (1996) and Hum Saath Saath Hain (1999). Kalpana Iyer was critically acclaimed for her performance as prison warden in Madhuri Dixit, Shahrukh Khan starrer Anjaam. Kalpana Iyer has also acted on television. She became a pop singer and performs in shows as well. Kalpana Iyer also featured in Salman Khan, Sonali Bendre, Neelam, Saif Ali Khan, Karishma Kapoor, Tabu starrer, Hum Saath Saath Hain.

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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 already cast the famous heroine Nargis in the female lead role, he was on the hunt for a young girl to play the second lead. After observing Nimmi's unaffected and shy nature as a guest on the sets of Andaaz, Mehboob Khan at once decided to cast Nimmi in Barsaat opposite Bollywood actor Prem Nath. Barsaatmade a history. It was a phenomenal critical and commercial success.

Despite the presence of most sought out stars like Nargis, Raj Kapoor and Premnath, Nimmi too had a very important and well received role to play and was an instant hit with audiences. Nimmi later on worked with top actors like Raj Kapoor, and Dev Anand. To her great advantage Nimmi formed a very popular screen pair with Dilip Kumar, after the success of movies like Deedar (1951) and Daag (1952). Aside from Nargis with whom she co-starred with in Barsaat and Deedar, Nimmi also appeared alongside many notable leading ladies including Madhubala in Amar, with Suraiyain Shamma, Geeta Bali in Usha Kiran, and Meena Kumari in Char Dil Char Rahen, etc.

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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 her performances opposite Ashok Kumar in Samadhi and Sangram. “Samadhi” was a patriotic drama on Subash Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army.
Nalini and Ashok Kumar performed together in many movies like Kafila (1952), Naubahar (1952), Saloni (1952), Mr. X (1957), and Sheroo (1957). Nalini remained an important leading heroine through the mid-1950s. Though, many famous filmmakers extended Nalini Jaywant’s association with realistic films, while movie makers like Mahesh Kaul with Naujavan (1951) and AR Kardar with Jaadu developed her musical persona.

The 1958 Bollywood film Kaala Pani which was directed by Raj Khosla, was Nalini's last successful flick and that year, she won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in that movie as Kishori, who formed a main witness in framing the hero's father for a murder. Her come-hither dance in S. D. Burman's composition Nazar Laagi Raaja Tore Bangle pe and her tearful looks at evergreen star Dev Anand from across the room in S. D. Burman's Hum Bekhudi Mein were most remarkable

Bombay Race Course (1965) was Nalini's last main movie. Besides, above mentioned movies, Nalini received much critical acclaim for her performances in Rahi (1952), Shikast (1953), Railway Platform (1955), and Awaaz (1956), etc. Nalini Jaywant died on the afternoon of 20th December 2010 in lonely situation at her bungalow of 60 years at Union Park, Chembur, Mumbai.

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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 Sharma who asked her to try for a role in Naseeruddin Shah's directorial debut Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota. However, she got a short role of Boman Irani's daughter in Reema Katgi's Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., when she visited the production house for some other work. The actress was also auditioned for the lead role in Percept Picture Company's Rubaru, directed by Arjun Bali, with Randeep Hooda as her co-star.

With no contacts in the film fraternity Shahana stucked on her motive struggling hard and finally she got the big break playing the character of Debbie in Rock On!!. Her excellent performance helped her to make a mark in Bollywood, and she also bagged many awards, one of them being the Filmfare Best Actress (Critics) award. She appeared in the music video for Dido’s song, "Let's Do the Things We Normally Do" as the taxi driver in Mumbai, shot by Siddharth Sikand.

Shahana Goswami's first international project is Deepa Mehta's "Winds of Change", which is an adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Booker-winning novel Midnight's Children. Have a quick look at the awards and nominations of the actress- She has won Max Stardust Award in 2010 for Breakthrough performance in Firaaq. She was also awarded the Lions Gold Award in the same year for Best Supporting Actress in Firaaq. 54th Filmfare Award in 2009 was bestowed to her for Best Actress (Critics) for the film Rock On!!

The actress in 2009, won the 15th Nokia Star Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress in Rock On!! In 2009, Lions Gold Award for Best Supporting Actress was given to the actress for the film Rock on!! She then bagged the Cineblitz Award in the same year for Best Supporting Actress again for the movie Rock On!! The list of nominations include the 55th Filmfare Award in 2010 for Best Supporting Actress for Firaaq. She was then nominated for the 16th Nokia Star Screen Award for Best
Supporting Actress for the same flick Firaaq.

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Sameera Reddy

Sameera Reddy was born 14 December 1982. The Bollywood actress has two sisters, Sushma Reddy and Meghna Reddy respectively. The actress did her schooling at Bombay Scottish School in Mahim, Mumbai and completed her college from Sydenham College.

Sameera Reddy first appeared in the ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas’s "Are Aahista" music video when she was a graduate. In the year 2002 Sameera got a chance to make her Bollywood debut with the film Maine Dil Tujhko Diya. In 2004, she appeared in Musafir, in which she played a very sensual character. Apart from doing Hindi movies, Sameera Reddy has also appeared in a few Telugu, Tamil and Malyalam films.

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Ratna Pathak

The talented Bollywood actress Ratna Pathak, was born on 18 March, 1963. The actress is married to the most famous Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah. Ratna ahs also appeared in many successful films, including Mirch Masala, The Perfect Murder. She recently appeared in the hit comedy soap Sarabhai vs Sarabhai .

Ratna Pathak has been acting in a number of high quality comedy serials on the Indian television. In July 2008 she appeared in the successful film Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na as the mother of Imran Khan.

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Daisy Bopanna

Daisy Bopanna is an Bollywood actress who has also acted in Kannada films. Daisy has also acted in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. She has worked with actors like Kamal Hassan in Rama Shama Bama, Upendra in Aishwarya, Mammootty in Prajapathi and Akshay Kumar in Garam Masala.Coming from an intellectual and highly educated family,

the actress had a keen interest in pursuing a career in advertising as a copy writer. Daisy Bopanna made her cinematic debut in a de-glamorized role in the Kannada film Bimba, a film directed by Kavitha Lankesh which explored the exploitation of child artistes in the film fraternity.

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Kashmira Shah

Kashmira Shah was born on 2 December 1970 in Mumbai. She is an Indian actress and model too. Kashmira is the Granddaughter of famous Hindustani classical singer, Anjanibai Lolekar. The actress has appeared in a number of Hindi and Marathi movies.


She has also won many beauty contests such as Miss University World and Miss India talent winner.[2] Kashmira Shah studied at Jai Hind college before stepping into her modeling career. She has featured in flicks likeYes Boss, Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha, Jungle and My Bollywood Bride. The actress also made a special appearance in a song in the film, Murder. She was also nominated for 'Best Female in a Negative Role' for the film, Jungle at Screen Videocon Awards in 2000. She was recently ranked among the Top 35 All Time Actresses of India. In 2010 , Kashmira Shah appeared on TV Drama show Baat Hamari Pakki Hai…

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Neetu Chandra

Neetu Chandra is an Indian actress who has appeared in Bollywood movies. Before entering the Bollywood film Industry, Neetu Chandra was an avid sportsperson. The actress is also a black belt holder in Taekwondo. She has represented India in two different games.

Neetu has represented India in International Taekwondo Championship at Hong Kong in 1996 and represented India in World Korfball Championship in 1995 at New Delhi. She entered film in 2005 in Akshay Kumar and John Abraham starrer Garam Masala in which she portrayed Sweety, an airhostess. In 2007 she appeared in Madhur Bhandarkar's Traffic Signal. Neetu Chandra also danced gracefully in a video album Rasiya Saajan for music director Ismail Darbar along with Zubeen Garg. In the year 2008, the actress had four releases by Directors, Dibakar Banerjee, Rahul Dholakia, Ashwini Dheer and Vikram.

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Jennifer Dinshaw Kotwal

Jennifer Dinshaw Kotwal is a Parsi model and Bollywood actress. Jennifer completed her schooling at Villa Teresa High School in Mumbai, and completed her further studies with a degree in Economics at HR College, Mumbai..


Jennifer Dinshaw Kotwal started her acting career with Hindi television serials such as Just Mohabbat and then also enacted smaller roles in Hindi movies such as Subhash Ghai's movie Yaadein starring Hrithik Roshan and sizzling Bollywood diva Kareena Kapoor before landing the blockbuster Kannada movie 'Jogi'... Jennifer was in Abhishek Bachchan starrer Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai where she enacted Abhishek Bachchan’s sister. Soon she is making her Bollywood debut as a lead heroine in Mudh Mudh Ke Na Dekkh Mudh Mudh Ke, opposite Himesh Reshammiya.

Suhasini Mulay

Suhasini Mulay was born in 1953. Suhasini has acted both in films as well as television. She won National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999, in Gulzar's movie Hu Tu Tu.. Suhasini Mulay born in Patna, was brought up by mother, Vijaya Mulay and she lost her dad at the age of three. In 1965 Suhasini was chosen by Pears Soap to be its model.

It was this ad campaign which caught the great Mrinal Sen's attention and he signed her for Bhuvan Shome in 1969. The then 16-year-old Suhasini Mulay went on to win a National Film Award for her power-packed performance. She also finished a degree in mass communication. The actress majored in film, radio, TV, journalism and print from Canada. After coming back to India in 1975, she picked up as assistant to Satyajit Ray in the Bengali film Jana Aranya.

Later she went back to Mrinal Sen as assistant director in Mrigaya. Since then, the actress is actively producing movies and has made over sixty documentaries. She achieved national awards for four of them. She has been playing motherly roles in Bollywood. She will be next seen in Faruk Kabir’s directed film Allah Ke Banday which will release on November 26, 2010.

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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.

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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.

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