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 gap. She played Ipsita Ray Chakraverti in the film Sacred Evil – A True Story which badly failed at the box office. In year 2000, she won the National Film Award for Best Costume Design for the film Hey Ram, her outstanding performance in Parzania in which she played the character of a Zoroastrian woman who loses her child during the 2002 riots of India, bagged her the National Film Award for Best Actress.

The Bollywood most talented actress also starred as Sheetal Thadani in the Bollywood film Bheja Fry which was released in 2006. Sarika on the other hand also had a small but important role to play in Manorama Six Feet Under. See was last seen in “Shoebite” which got released last year where she was paired up opposite the most honourable Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan.

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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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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 superstar Sanjay Dutt. Her performance well acknowledged and she became a known name in Bollywood fraternity.

She has played mainly supporting roles in movies like Pukar, Hera Pheri and Astitva. She was also nominated for the IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in Pukar and the film also featured Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit. In 1999, Namrata featured opposite Megastar Mammootty in the Malayalam project titled “Ezhupunna Tharakan”. In 2004, she starred opposite another South superstar Chiranjeevi in a Telugu Movie "ANJI " In 2004 she went back into the limelight when she played the character of Jaya Bakshi in Bride and Prejudice. In the film she played elder sister to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The film was a hit overseas particularly in the UK but failed to do well in India.

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