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Sharman Joshi, born on March 17, 1979, is an Indian film and theater actor. He has worked on various stage productions in English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati, though is mostly known for his work in Hindi movies. Coming from a family full of actors, acting is second nature to Sharman Joshi and funny could be his middle name. He is best remembered in his role as Sukhi in Rang De Basanti.

His father is Arvind Joshi, a Gujarati theater actor and writer. His sister is Mansi Joshi, an actress. She is married to actor Rohit Roy. He is married to Prerna Joshi, who is actor Prem Chopra’s daughter. The couple have a baby girl, Khyana, born on 12 October 2005. They were blessed with the birth of twin baby boys, Rehan and Varryan, in July 2009.

Sharman Joshi’s debut movie was in Godmother (1999) as Shabana Azmi’s son. He had a surprise hit with the comedy Style (2001). He was also part of it’s sequel Xcuse Me (2003). He was part of a large star cast in David Dhawan’s Shaadi No.1 (2005). He played Sukhi in the critical and commercial hit Rang De Basanti (2006). His co-stars included Aamir Khan, Siddharth and Kunal Kapoor.He played a comic role in Golmaal (2006) and was seen in the successful Life in a Metro (2007). Hello (2008), which was based on the book One Night at a Call Center, was an average performer.

Sharman played a major role in the multi-starrer 3 Idiots with Aamir Khan and Madhavan, which is loosely inspired by yet another Chetan Bhagat novel, Five Point Someone and also is his most successful movie to date. He is also set to star in the movies Toh Baat Paki and Allah Ke Banday that year.

  

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Sneha Ullal born on 18 December 1987 in Muscat, Oman, is a Bollywood, Tollywood and Kollywood film actress. Sneha has been born and brought up in Muscat in the Persian Gulf, though her parents are of Indian origin. Sneha parents are from the Devadiga community of Mangalore. Her father, Nitin Ullal is the General Manager of a reputed construction company in Oman and lives in Oman, while her mother moved to Mumbai.

She studied at Indian School Muscat & Salalah in Oman, Durelo Convent High School in Mumbai and later studied at MMK College. At college she befriended Arpita Khan, her college mate and the younger stepsister of Bollywood actor Salman Khan. The friendship led to the chance meeting with Salman Khan.

She caught the public’s attention when she was in grade 8 school, when they noticed her uncanny resemblance to Miss World Aishwarya Rai. Then her mom and sister re-located to Bombay, & she started studying in MMK College. She got a phone call from Bollywood actor Salman Khan, which she almost decided to dismiss as a prank by fellow collegians, but decided to check him out. And this changed her life forever. Sneha, then 17, had her first movie released shortly “Lucky: No Time for Love”, with the lead hero no other than Salman Khan. And the other movie is “Aryan” with she co-stars with Sohail Khan.

In her debut movie, Lucky: No Time for Love, Ullal is known for having a striking resemblance to Aishwarya Rai, again she did a movie with Khan brothers i.e. Aryan which did not well in box office

  

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Nirmal Pandey, born in 1961/1962 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India & died on February 18, 2010, was an Indian Bollywood actor, who was known for his role Vikram Mallah in Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen (1994), for portrayal of a transvestite in Daayraa (1996) for which he won a Best Actor Valenti award in France, and Godmother (1999).

He was to have watched his latest film Lahore on 22 February 2010 at a special screening with Legendary Humorist R. K. Laxman and Music Maestro MM Kreem. Lahore, scheduled to be released in 19 March 2010, would prove to be Pandey’s last film.

Nirmal Pandey was educated at Almora and Nainital, Uttarakhand. He graduated from the National School of Drama. Nirmal Pandey was married to Archana Sharma. Also He is survived by his wife and two children.

After leaving the National School of Drama he moved to London, with a theatre group, Tara, performing plays like Heer Ranjha, Anitigone, and has acted in around 125 plays. After doing two small roles, he first got noticed in Shekhar Kapur’s acclaimed Bandit Queen (1996), there after he received rave reviews for films like, Amol Palekar’s Daayra (Square Circle) (1996), Train To Pakistan (1998), Is Raat Ki Subah Nahi and Hum Tum Pe Marte Hain. He also acted in movies like Laila, and acted in several television serials, including Hatim, and Princess Dollie Aur Uska Magic Bag (2005) (Star Plus) .

In addition to being an actor, he was also a singer, who released an album called Jazba. In 2002, he directed, Andhayug, a Hindi play, written by noted playwright Dharamveer Bharati, which follows the 18 days following the Mahabharata war. The play has a cast of 70 actors, all of whom belong to Sanvedna, a theatre group started by him in 1994.He also has an acting institute “Fresh Talent Academy” in Ghazaiabad, and also conducts theatre workshops.

Pandey died at the age of 48 on 18 February 2010 from a heart attack in Mumbai.

  

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Ileana D’Cruz, born on 01 novemeber 1987 in Mumbai, India, is an Indian film actress. Her parents named her name after Ileana Cosânzeana (Helen of Troy) from Greek mythology. She completed her high school studies at St.Mary’s Convent High School, Mapusa , Goa.

D’Cruz noticed in a Fair and Lovely commercial, has made a place for herself in Tollywood. She made her feature film debut through Y.V.S. Chowdhary’s Telugu-language film Devadasu opposite newcomer, Ram, but has also done a Tamil film Kedi. She has emerged one of the most successful actresses in the Telugu film industry, having appeared in several blockbusters like Devadasu, Pokiri, Jalsa and Kick.

  

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Genelia D’Souza, born on 5 August, 1987, in England to a Mangalore Catholic family. Her parents are Jennifer and Neil. She has an older brother. She grew up in Mumbai. She is an Indian film actress, model, and host. She has appeared in Telugu and Hindi language films, as well as Tamil and Kannada language films. D’Souza first hit the limelight in a Parker Pen commercial with Amitabh Bachchan.

She made her acting debut in the Hindi movie Tujhe Meri Kasam in 2003 with Ritesh Deshmukh, which failed to propel her career in Bollywood, but soon achieved recognition in the Tamil film Boys the same year. She subsequently acted in many Telugu movies during 2003–2005, which earned her recognition in the Telugu film industry.

Genelia was appreciated for her performance in Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na. In addition to movie acting, D’Souza hosts the television show Big Switch, and is the brand ambassador of Fanta and Perk in India.

  

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Shamita Shetty, born on February 2, 1980 in Mangalore, is an Indian actress. She is the younger sister of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty.

Shamita is the second and youngest daughter of Surendra and Sunanda Shetty. Her parents are manufacturers of tamper-proof caps for the pharmaceutical industry and her native language is Tulu. Shamita Shetty attended St Anthony’s Girls High School in Chembur, Mumbai. She graduated from Sydenham College.

Shamita made her debut in bollywood in the year 2000 with the Yash Raj banner Films blockbuster Mohabbatein, which was directed by Aditya Chopra. Since Mohabbatein, she mostly found success in item numbers, including “Sharara Sharara” in Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai (2001) and “Chori Pe Chori” in Saathiya (2002). Later Shetty found success as an actress with her first solo-hit Zeher. She worked once with her sister Shilpa Shetty in Fareb in that same year. Currently she isn’t working on any film. She is the guest on Bigg Boss (Season 3)on Colors TV in the year 2009. She opted out of the show for her sister Shilpa’s marriage. She was out of the show on 14th November, 2009.

  

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Imran Khan (Imran Pal), born on 13th January 1983 in Wisconsin, USA, is an Bollywood film actor. He is also the nephew of actor Aamir Khan. His father is Anant Pal, who is of Bengali-American origin, associated with Yahoo in Silicon Valley. His mother is Nuzhat Khan, Bollywood director Mansoor Khan’s sister.

His parents were divorced when Imran was a year and half old, after which his mother moved back to India. Nasir Hussain is his grandfather while Mansoor Khan is his uncle, both of whom are well known in Bollywood in their roles as director and producer.

Imran Khan made appearances as a child artist in his uncle Aamir’s films Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) and Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander (1992). Both times he played the role of a young Aamir Khan. He aspired to be a director, as that was his original plan before he entered Bollywood as an actor. Khan joined Kishore Namit Kapoor’s Acting Institute in Mumbai.

He made his debut as a lead actor in the 2008 film Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, which was produced by his uncles Aamir Khan and Mansoor Khan. The film also starred Genelia D’Souza as the heroine. The film received excellent reviews from the critics and proved to be one of the highest grossing films of the year. Imran was nominated for “The best debutant (male)” at the 54th Filmfare awards and won it along with Farhan Akhtar who won it for Rock On!!. His next movie was Kidnap with Sanjay Dutt and Minissha Lamba where he played his first negative role. The movie took a flying opening, but flopped at the box office due to its poorly executed direction, Although Imran’s performance was appreciated. His forthcoming movie Delhi Belly is an English language caper comedy which is being produced by Aamir Khan. He co-hosted the 54th Filmfare Awards with Ranbir Kapoor.

  

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Resul Pookutty, born in 1971, is an Academy Award and BAFTA Award winning Indian film sound designer and mixer. Pookutty is from Vilakkupara, Kollam in Kerala. He is the first Indian and only Asian to win the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing.

Resul Pookutty was born in a Muslim family in Vilakkupara, Anchal 23 km from Kollam, Kerala. He was the youngest of eight children born to an impoverished family. His father was a private bus conductor, and he had to walk 6 km to the nearest school and studied in the light of the kerosene lamp as their village had no electricity.

He is a 1995 graduate from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Pookutty is married to Shadia. They have a son Rayan and a daughter, Salna.

  

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Freida Pinto, born on October 18, 1984 in Mumbai to Sylvia Pinto, now a (at the time of writing this biography) principal of St. John’s Universal High School (Goregaon), and Frederick Pinto, a senior branch manager at the Bank of Baroda. is an Indian actress and professional model, best known for her performance as Latika in her debut film Slumdog Millionaire. Pinto won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Before starring in Slumdog Millionaire, Freida anchored the international travel show, Full Circle on Zee International Asia Pacific in English between 2006-07. Pinto was also featured in several television and print advertisements for products such as Wrigley’s Chewing Gum, A koda, Hutch, Airtel, and DeBeers. She learned acting from The Barry John’s Acting Studio in Andheri and was trained by her mentor Barry John. After six months of auditions, she received a call to audition for Slumdog Millionaire. Pinto auditioned for Danny Boyle and was short-listed and finally selected to star in Slumdog Millionaire.

In a free wheeling interview to ANI, Freida revealed that she wouldn’t mind doing sex scenes for Hollywood directors.”It all depends on the director, what kind of work he’s done in the past,” she said.

  

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Dev (Devesh) Patel, born on 23rd April 1990, in Brent, Greater London, England, to Hindu Gujarati Indian parents, both of whom were born in Nairobi, Kenya. His mother Anita Patel is a carer and his father Raj Patel an IT consultant. Dev Patel, who grew up in Harrow, attended Longfield Primary School and later went to Whitmore High School, receiving an A* in GCSE Drama, for his “self-penned portrayal of a child in the Beslan school siege”. He eventually completed his AS Levels in 2007, while he was working in Skins.

As a martial artist, he is a black belt in Taekwondo and was a bronze medalist at the 2004 AIMAA World Championships in Dublin. Patel started training at the Rayners Lane Academy of Taekwon-do in 2000.

Patel began his acting career in late 2006, when he auditioned for the E4 TV teen drama series Skins. After two auditions, he was cast in the role of Anwar Kharral, a British Pakistani Muslim teenager. In August 2007, Patel was cast in the role of Jamal Malik, the central character in Danny Boyle’s independent film Slumdog Millionaire. He also stated that it was Boyle’s daughter, a fan of Skins, who initially recommended Patel for the role. The character Jamal Malik, the protagonist, is an Indian Muslim boy born and raised in the poverty of Mumbai, India. Boyle considered hundreds of young male actors, although he found that Bollywood leads were generally “strong, handsome hero-types”, not the personality he was looking for.

After the release of Slumdog Millionaire at the end of 2008, Patel went on to receive a number of awards for his performance, including a British Independent Film Award, National Board of Review (NBR) Award, Chicago Film Critics Association Award, and two Black Reel Awards for Best Actor and Best Breakthrough Performance.

  

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Hansika was born on August 9, 1991 in the Sindhi speaking Motwani family in Bombay, India. Her dad, Pradeep, is a businessman, while her mom, Mona, is a Dermatologist. She has an elder brother, Prashant. She is a student in Podar Internation School. Her parents divorced during 2004, while she continues to live in Andheri, Bombay, India, with her mom.

She has appeared in many TV serials, for example ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thee’, ‘Hum 2 Hai Na’, ‘Desh Me Nikla Hoga Chand’, ‘Shakalaka Boom Boom’, ‘Celebrity Fame Gurukool’, and ‘Tum Bin’ as a child artiste. She also appeared as such in several TV commercials (e.g. Pepsi, Samsung, Hyundai Santro TV, and Bournvita).

Her mom’s client, none other than Juhi Chawla, noticed Hansika and recommended that she act in movies. She was accordingly signed by for ‘Yahoo’ with herself and Govinda. Unfortunately, this movie was shelved.

This did not stop Hansika from acting as she has now appeared in a total of 5 movies in Hindi, as well as several regional language movies (e.g. Desamuduru in Telugu, Sarvam in Tamil).

Hansika made her debut as a leading actress in Bollywood with Himesh Reshammiya in Aap Kaa Suroor – The Real Love Story. She played the role of Himesh Reshammiya’s lover Ria. The film was released on 29th June 2007 and became a hit mostly with the masses across India. This has paved the way for her to be called a promising newcomer.

Hansika made her debut as a lead actress in Kannada film Bindaas with Puneet Rajkumar.The film was released on 15th February 2008.

The movie “Jaago” portrayed role of a 10 year old rape victim played by Hansika and immediately got noticed by the critics for the wonderful portrayal of the role.

She speaks Hindi and Tulu fluently. She is involved in physical fitness and diet with Mickey Mehta. At the age of 16 she has three staff persons, as well as her mom, to manage her career.

  

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Mithun chakraborty was born as Gouranga Chakraborty on 16th June 1947 in Kolkata, West Bengal. He studies at the Scottish Church College and earned a degree in BSc. He also attended the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. Mithunda, as he is fondly known, was a Naxalite. Owing to his brother’s untimely death, he went back to his family.

He married the actress Yogitha Bali and they have three sons and one daughter. His son Mimoh has taken up after his father by entering the film industry. He was rumoured to have married actress Sridevi who left him when she found out he hadn’t divorced his first wife, leading to an annulment.

He owns the Monarch Group in the hospitality sector. He also helped start the Bengal Football Academy and was part owner of the Royal Bengal Tigers of the IPL. He started the Ooty Factory Films that produce low budget B grade movies. He also acted in Bengali and Bhojpuri movies.
His first movie was Mrigaya (1976) that won him the National Film Award for Best Actor. Suraksha (1979) saw him as Gunmaster, followed by Taraana (1979) and Boney Kapoor’s Hum Paanch, which was an adaptation of the epic Mahabharata.

His movie Disco Dancer (1982) made him a dancing sensation as the struggling Anil alias Jimmy. He kept up his dancer avatar with Dance Dance (1987). He won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Agneepath (1990) with Amitabh Bacchan. He was Amavas in Jallad (1995) winning the Filmfare Best Villain Award.

He was widely recognised as an action hero in hit films like Wanted (1983), Boxer (1984), Jagir (1984), Jaal (1986), Watan Ke Rakhwale (1987) Commando (1988), Waqt Ki Awaaz (1988), Guru (1989), Mujrim (1989) and Dushman (1990). During the mid 1980s he was regarded as a rival to Amitabh Bachchan as he did dozens of films in the action and drama genre that showcased him as an angry young man at odds with the ills of society and corruption. This characterization was similar to Bachchan’s one. Likewise, he has worked with some of the biggest actresses of his time and Bollywood in general, like Zeenat Aman, Padmini Kolhapure, Rati Agnihotri, Rekha, Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit and more.

Mithun achieved not only commercial success but also tremendous critical acclaim. His performances in Tahader Katha and Swami Vivekananda, were widely appreciated and won him National Film Awards. He also won two Filmfare awards: The Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance in the 1990 film Agneepath, and the Filmfare Best Villain Award for his performance in Jallad. Apart from it, he was praised for his performances in films like Pyaar Ka Mandir (1988) and Mujrim (1989).

He came back into movies but not as a lead. In Lucky: No Time for Love (2005) he was Colonel Pindi Das Kapoor. In Chingari (2006), he played Bhuvan Panda, a worshipper of Kali. Guru in 2007 was another hit, while My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves (2008) and Heroes (2008) did okay.

His upcoming releases are Chandni Chowk to China with Akshay Kumar, Veer with Salman Khan, a comedy C Kkompany, Luck with Sanjay Dutt and Madhur Bhandharkar’s Jail.

  

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Padmini was born to a middle-class Maharashtrian family on 1 Nov 1965. Her father was a classical singer and her mother had a job working for the airlines. Padmini Kolhapure was a famous Hindi film heroine in the 1980s.Padmini Kolhapure is one of the finest actress India has produced. Beginning her career as a child actress in Dev Anand’s ‘Ishk Ishk Ishk’ and Raj Kapoor’s ‘Satyam Shivam Sundram’ she went on to become a rage in the Eighties.
Padmini first faced the camera for “Ek Khilari Bawan Pattey” ( a humble film made in 1970 during Vinod Khanna’s pre-fame days) in which she doubled up for a child artiste who fell sick. “My neighbour was filmmaker B.S.Thapa and he called me for the role.”

When she recorded ‘Yaadon ki baaraat…’, the title-song of the Nasir Husain blockbuster with Lata Mangeshkar and sister Shivangi, the sisters’ voices went in a joint chorus on three child artistes, one of whom was Aamir Khan.

Asha Bhosle introduced Padmini to Dev Anand at the recording of “Ishq Ishq Ishq” as her bhatiji (niece) who could also act and she ended up playing the sixth sister in the film. This led to other films, such as “Dreamgirl”(1978), “Zindagi”, “Saajan Bina Suhagan” (1978), etc.
She was introduced in the film ‘Thodi Si Bewafai’ with Rajesh Khanna and Shabaza Azmi as a grown up actress. From then on she worked in many more films and became one of the leading ladies of the industry. Some of her other good films include ‘Zamane Ko Dikhana Hain’, ‘Prem Rog’, ‘Vidhata’, ‘Souten’, ‘Who Saat Din’, ‘Pyar Jhukta Nahin’, ‘Pyar Kiya Hain Pyar Karenge’ and ‘Souten Ki Beti’. Her co-stars in these films were Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Rajesh Khanna, Anil Kapoor and Mithun Chakraborty.

She fell in love with producer Pradeep Sharma alias Tutu Sharma after he cast her in Aisa Pyar Kahan. They married and she retired from films at the tender age of 21 (where girls today enter at that age).She has a son named Priyank.. After her son grew up, she returned to acting in 2004, such as for the Marathi film Manthan and Chimnee Pakhra which was a huge hit and earned her a Screen award in the Best actress category (marathi). She has also acted in new films such as Eight (film).

She was back in controversy (after the much controversial peck on the cheek to Prince Charles during his first visit to India in 1979) … to play the role of Tulsi Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi which was much in the news after Smriti Irani left but then the role was offered to Gautami Kapoor. She is currently working on “Mera Bachpan” with Helen “Daughter” with Ayub Khan.(2008) She has also acted on stage her debuted being “Kaash” followed by “Abhi to mein jawan hoon”,and currently working on “Aasman se gire khajoor pe atke” with her Brother in law Shakti Kapoor.

  

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Raju was born in Kanpur in a middle class Kyastha family. Since childhood, Raju always nursed the dream of becoming a comedian because he was a very good mimic. In his school time he use to imitate his teachers. Initially he copied Amitabh Bachchan. However, later cleared himself getting label of Amitabh Bachchan, through varied performances. He agreed that when he was a college student he was influenced by Amitabh, who unknowingly was imitated by him. With dreams in his eyes, Raju landed in the concrete jungle to fulfill his dreams. But he realized that life was not a bed of roses for struggling aspirants. But he had confidence and determination in him and continued to meet people who mattered. One fine day he was thrilled when the Rajshri people signed him to play a small role in Maine Pyar Kiya.

Raju Srivastav, a talented artist, with a flair for comedy, has done stage shows with Kalyanji Anandji, Bappi Lahiri and Nitin Mukesh in India and abroad. He has also worked in many films and serials and gave magnificent performance. His audio jokes cassette “Hasna Mana Hai” is hilarious all the way.

His gags spare no one – from MPs to Laloo Prasad Yadav and film folk to precocious kids, ha – ha! Man Raju Srivastav takes on everyone in his stand – up acts. He creates a riot on live shows and has audiences aching with laughter.

He was also noticed by Jhony Lever when he used to do stage shows before joining the film industry. Raju’s mimicry was liked and applauded by the masses and he was an important person in Jhony Lever’s troupe.

“The Great Indian Laughter Challenge” gave him the coveted title “The King of Comedy”, but he has worked his way up to his present status slowly and steadily. He started his career from the stage where he mastered the art of mimicry. There seems to be nobody in the film industry who Raju cannot mimic to perfection. His popularity on stage first got him roles in films like “Maine Pyar Kiya”, “Baazigar” etc. where he kept his audience in splits. He has done a number of films since then but he has never let his stage performance take a back seat.

Raju is against the loud and vulgar comedy. His ideals in the comedy are Kishore Kumar in films and Jhony Lever on stage and his favourite actor is Amitabh Bachchan.

Currently he is performing in a new comedy show “Raju Hazir ho” on NDTV Imagine.

  

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Revathi, also known as Revathy, is a South Indian actress and film director. She has acted in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi movies, totaling over twenty years of experience in the entertainment industry. She has to her credit five Best Actress Filmfare awards for her performance in the Tamil films Mann Vasanai, Thevar Magan, Anjali, the Telugu film ‘Ankuram’ and the Malayalam film Kakothi Kaavil Appoopan Thadigal.

Revathi was born as Asha Kelunni on 8th July 1966 in Kochi, Kerala. Her father Kelunni was a major in the Indian Army. She married Suresh Menon in 1988, the couple are separated from 2002. She was awarded the National Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Tamil film, Thevar Magan in 1992.

In addition, she has also won the Tamilnadu State Award for Thalaimurai in 1998.Mitr, My Friend (2002) was her first directorial venture. A rare Indian English film at the time, Mitr garnered an award for Best Director (English Film) in the National awards. Her next film as a director, Phir Milenge (2004), created waves as one of the first Hindi movies to deal with the sensitive subject of AIDS. She was also a part of Mani Ratnam’s stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai.

  

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Annu Kapoor was born on 20 February 1956 is an Indian actor and television presenter.

Annu Kapoor is a follower of numerology. With the coming of Antakshari-The Great Challenge on Star One, he has changed the spelling of his last name from Kapoor to Kapur .

In the October 3, 2007 episode of the DD National show Music, Masti aur Dhoom, Anu Kapoor stated that he wanted to become a surgeon, but he could not afford to study as his family was poor. In an episode of the DD National show Wheel Smart Shrimati, he mentioned that he was born in Indore.

Annu Kapoor made his debut in the film Kaala Patthar in 1979 . His career has spanned nearly 34 years including a distinctive presence in Bollywood cinema, television serials, and reality game shows. He is best remembered for hosting the singing show Antakshari produced by silver screen veteran Gajendra Singh. He recently won critical acclaim for his character of a neighbor and debt collector in Raincoat (film) in 2004.

In 2007 the mega hit programme Antakshari came back from the dead on Star One. It was widely publicized in 2006 that it was going to end for ever and a grand grand finale was held for the same. During its initial course of running, Antakshari ran from 1993 to 2006 on Zee TV.

Annu Kapoor is now hosting Antakshari: The Great Challenge, with Juhi Parmar, on Star Plus.

  

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Neetu Singh (born July 8, 1958) as Sonia Singh, is an Indian and retired Bollywood Actress. She worked as a child actor under the name Baby Sonia, she played as ‘Roopa’ (child actress) in 1966 movie ‘Dus Lakh’, she also played dual roles in the hit film Do Kaliyan (1968), a remake of The Parent Trap.

She made her debut as a heroine in 1972 with Rikshawala which flopped. She took a small role in Yaadon Ki Baarat (1973), which became a hit, and her sizzling dance number to the song “Lekar hum” brought her so much attention that she was immediately elevated to heroine roles again. In most of the films, Neetu was cast as the fun-loving daughter or the ‘optimistic’ or ‘lively’ girlfriend. Well endowed and buxom, she danced with and romanced all the top young stars of her day, especially Rishi Kapoor with whom she appeared in half a dozen films.

On film and off Neetu and Rishi(son of Raj Kapoor) romanced each other. This romance led to the nuptials of the couple, when in 1979 after a much publicized engagement that was the talk of Bollywood, they were married. Neetu was 21 at that time. She was at the top of her career, having just been nominated for a Filmfare Award as Best Supporting Actress for Kaala Pathar (1979), but she retired. She dismissed the allegation that she left films, because it was customary for actresses married to the famous Kapoor family to retire after marriage, claiming that it was her “personal choice.”

Neetu Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor have two children. Riddhima their daughter is a fashion designer and recently married to a Delhi based industrialist called Bharat Sahni. Their son Ranbir Kapoor is an upcoming film actor.

  

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Kamal Haasan was born on 7th November 1954. In 1960 he starred as a child artist in ‘Kalathoor Kannammaa’, his first movie. Ever since, he has starred in more than 150 movies, in almost all the major Indian languages – Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi.

His trajectory in the Indian film industry is one prototypical journey, where he started as a child artist, then continued as a romantic hero, and finally evolved into one of the best actors India has ever produced. As most of his movies are in Tamil, he might not have numbers like Amitabh Bachan or the recent stars like Shah Rukh Khan, but very few actors have given such a wide array of versatile performances over the last two decades like Kamal.

He had to occasionally work through the commercial roles and trashy movies to finance the movies he wanted to produce with his heart – but the movies that resulted out of his artistic potential – they were in a class apart. 16 Vayadhinilae, Nayakan, Guna, Mahanadhi, Hey Ram and Alavandaan are some of the must-watch among his movies. Had he been a star in Hollywood, he would now be effortlessly rubbing shoulders with extremely talented actors like Jack Nicholson of yesteryears and Tom Hanks of the present day.

Despite his much praised and applauded film career, his personal life had some setbacks which have been exploited by the media. His marital strifes were more in the limelight in his latter years than the movies he acted or made. He has married actresses: Vani Ganapathi first and later Sarika which bore two children: Akshara Haasan and Shruthi Haasan. He divorced her and currently in co-living with Gauthami another famous Indian film actress of yester years.

Although he was in an extra marital affair with actress Simran Bagga for some time it is unclear who inititated the divorce with his wife Sarika. The media once again had targeted this affair often creating their own fabrications of the events that proceeded.

  

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boman Irani is a photographer by profession. He started his career as theatre artiste with a cameo in Alyque Padamsee’s play “Roshni”. Then Boman Irani portrayed Mahatma Gandhi in the Feroz Abbas Khan play “Mahatma vs. Gandhi”. This play explored Gandhi’s troubled relationship with his eldest son Harilal Gandhi.

Boman made his debut in Bollywood with the film “Josh”, but shot into fame as eccentric Dr. J. C. Asthana with the film “Munnabhai M B B S”. He has also appeared in the film “Lage Raho Munnabhai” as Lucky Singh.

Since then he has done many films playing a variety of character and supporting roles ranging from comic roles in films such as “Main Hoon Na “, “Waqt” and “Khosla Ka Ghosla ” as well as serious roles in “Lakshya”, “Veer-Zaara” and the English language film “Being Cyrus”. His roles have ranged from father, friend, uncle, doctor, corrupt businessman, eccentric murderer and police officer. Boman Irani has also featured in advertisements of Fanta, Krackjack, TATA Indica and many more.

  

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Abhay was born on 15 Mar 1976 is the son of producer and director Ajit Deol. His paternal uncle is famous veteran actor Dharmendra and his cousins are actors Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol and actress Esha Deol.

Abhay Deol said in an interview with Rediff that he didn’t get into acting because of his famous uncle and his cousins but that he was involved in theatre in school. “At 18, I decided to take the plunge. It took me 10 years because I didn’t want to leave my education to get into films.

He made his film debut in the 2005 film Socha Na Tha which was produced by his uncle. The film got him good reviews for his performance but it did not well at the box office. His second film was Ahista Ahista in 2006 which was also a box office flop but also got him good critical reviews. His first 2007 release was Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. which has a multi starcast and has emerged to be his first major box office success. His second 2007 release was Ek Chalis Ki Last Local which did average business at select multiplexes. His third film in 2007 Manorama Six Feet Under released on September 21, 2007 and was a disaster at the box office.

  

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Satish Beri Shah, for that’s his full name, was born on January 15, 1960 in Jabalpur. A comedian par excellence, the actor first shot into prominence with the hit teleserial Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi. Besides him, the serial starred the late Shafi Inamdar, Swaroop Sampat and Rakesh Bedi. While the other three actors did a fantastic job, it was Shah who was the highlight of the show as he played a different character in every episode. Even today, Shah continues to enthral all with his brand of comedy.

Unlike most other comedians, Shah has managed to keep an air of exclusivity about him. He has chosen his roles with care and tried to concentrate more on quality than quantity. Even where the television medium is concerned, he has been very selective about his work and appearances. Some of his prominent television shows have been Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, Ghar Jamai,

All The Best, Philips Top 10 and Filmi Chakkar. Currently, he is one of the judges on the comedy show, Comedy Circus along with Archana Puran Singh. Among the many films that he has starred, the prominent few are, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron, Mr India, Saath Saath, Kabhie Haa Kabhie Naa, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Akele Hum Akele Tum, Kaho Na Pyar Hai, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, Saathiya, Kal Ho Na Ho and Main Hoon Na and Bhootnath. As an actor, Shah has seldom reduced himself to buffoonery. It is to his credit that he has managed to retain his dignity as an actor and comedian par excellance.

  

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Shekhar Suman (born June 14, 1960, Patna Bihar) is an Indian actor and television personality. He started his career as a television actor in a serial Wah Janab. He moved on to films but did not enjoy much success as an actor. He film debut was in Shashi Kapoor’s Utsav. Although his performance was appreciated by the critics, the movie was a commercial failure.

Shekhar has acted in almost 30 films. He was out of the Indian entertainment scenario for quite a while. During this period he was almost entirely supported by his wife, Alka (Kapoor), whom he married on May 4, 1984 after a two year courtship. They have a son, Adhyayan. The couple lost their eldest son, Aayush, in whose memory Shekhar is constructing a hospital in Patna.
He returned to TV in 1993 in Dekh Bhai Dekh, as Sameer, and also affectionately called “Chachu” (Hindi translation: father’s younger brother) by the kids. A very successful comedy show, Dekh Bhai Dekh was aired on Doordarshan TV channel in the early 1990s. Almost simultaneously, he also starred in another TV serial Reporter.

He has been quite successful as a TV actor and host since, hosting a few quiz shows. Currently, he hosts hard hitting satirical TV Talk shows on entertainment and news channels, his particular brand of humor being a heady cocktail of obnoxiousness, irreverence, and simple everyday observations.

He has earned quite a good name because of his shows and witty humor on politics, corruption, famous people etc.
His talk shows were Movers and Shakers on the Sony Entertainment Network and Simply Shekar on Zee Television. They were primarily modeled on and adapted from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He until February 2006 hosted The Great Indian Comedy Show on Star One for sometime plus doing some episodes for Dial One aur Jeeto on Sahara TV. In the past also he has done some quiz shows like Bid Bid Boom on Zee Television and He-Man on Star One. He also hosts a show on Star News, Poll Khol (which ambiguously means ‘uncovering’ in Hindi) in which he speculates humorously over the current political scenario in India.

Apart from this, he is one of the judges of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge along with Navjot Singh Sidhu, a former cricketer. This programme, a stand-up comedy contest is the first of its kind on Indian television.

Recently, he had made his debut in singing, with a music album named ‘Kuch Khwaab Aise’, through which he wishes to prove that he is un-doubtly a Multi-talented artist. His new album is a melodious collection of eight love ballads whose music has been composed by Aadesh Srivastava and lyrics written by Shyam Raj. It features the Brazilian and Kingfisher model – Bruna. The entire choreography, designing and direction of the music video has been done by Rajiv Goswami and the music is on T-Series.

  

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Farhan Akhtar was born on January 9, 1974, to screenwriters, Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, in Mumbai, where he did his schooling from ‘Maneckji Cooper School’, Vile Parle, and later joined H.R. College, for a degree in Commerce, though he left it, in the second year . His stepmother is the actress Shabana Azmi. He is also the grandson of Urdu poet Jan Nisar Akhtar and the cousin of Bollywood film director and dance choreographer Farah Khan. His sister, Zoya Akhtar, is also turning director with a film that is currently under production titled LUCK BY CHANCE. Farhan Akhtar is married to hairstylist Adhuna Akhtar. The couple have two children Shakya and Akira.

Farhan Akhtar started his career by working as an apprentice with cinematographer-director, Manmohan Singh at age 17, for films like Lamhe (1991); before going on to assist director, Pankaj Parashar in film Himalayputra (1997), followed by working in a Television production house for three years, doing various jobs

He made his writing and directorial debut in Hindi cinema with the 2001-hit, Dil Chahta Hai, produced by Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., a production company he co-established along with Ritesh Sidwani in 1999 . The movie told the story of three friends (played by Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Akshaye Khanna), recently graduated from college and dealing with issues of love and friendship. It was a critical and commercial success, especially popular among the younger generation. It earned quite a few nominations at various award shows, including for Best Screenplay, Direction and Film. It won that year’s National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.

Akhtar then moved onto his next project, Lakshya (2004), a movie about an aimless youngster finally setting a goal for himself, starring Hrithik Roshan and Preity Zinta. Though the movie did not do as well at the box-office, it won him much critical acclaim. The script of the movie was authored by his father Javed Akhtar. Meanwhile he also wrote lyrics for Gurinder Chadha’s 2004 Hollywood film, Bride and Prejudice.

He then directed a remake of the 1978 Amitabh Bachchan film, Don titled Don – The Chase Begins Again which starred Shahrukh Khan in the title role. The film released on 20 October 2006. Though the movie was critically hammered, it proved to be a decent success at the box office. In 2007 he produced the film Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. which also did well at the box office

In 2008, Farhan made his acting debut in Rock On!!.This was one groundbreaking cinema. It was critically acclaimed as well as a box office blockbuster.

He has appeared as a judge on a few shows on television, including the first season of the dance-reality show, Nach Baliye (2005), and the beauty pageant, Femina Miss India (in 2002).

According to Bollywood analysts, the song Sindbad the Sailor in Rock On!! showcased the latent powerhouse acting talent of Farhan[citation needed]. Farhan Akhtar was invited by Salim Khan at his residence. Salim Khan was so impressed with Farhan’s acting skills that salim awarded him with one of Filmfare award he had received in his time.

Since 12 December 2008, Farhan is a TV host on NDTV Imagine with his show: Oye! It’s Friday!

  

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Archana Puran Singh (born March 26, 1962) is an Indian television presenter and film actress from India. She is most known for a comedy roles, and as a judge on Comedy shows , like Sony TV India’s Comedy Circus.

she was born in a Punjabi family in Dehradun, where she did her schooling. She left for Mumbai, when she was eighteen, to pursue a career in modeling.

She is married to television actor Parmeet Sethi. They have two sons.
In Mumbai, she started doing ad-films, and was successful after her most famous ad for Band-Aid. T

She made her film debut in the year 1987, in the movie Jalwa opposite Naseeruddin Shah. Although the movie was a big hit, Archana failed to catch the eye of the leading producers and directors, she received offers mainly for B-grade movies most of which were short on content and more of soft porn type. Later, Archana did small roles in big banner Blockbusters like Agneepath (1990), Saudagar (1991), Shola aur Shabnam (1992), and Aashiq Awara (1993); she also did item songs in movies like the Govinda starrer thriller Baaz, and Suniel Shetty starrer, Judge Mujrim.

She has acted in films, mostly supporting roles, mostly funny. Some of her recent movies are Love Story 2050, Mohabbatein, Krrish [4], Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Masti

She became a television anchor, with her popular TV show Wah, Kya Scene Hai on Zee TV in 1993 , which was followed by the highly successful, ‘Uncensored’, in which she introduced High Society (HS) and Low Society (LS) concept, and sitcoms like, Jaane Bhi Do Paaron, Shriman Shrimati (1989) and Archana Talkies on Sony TV India .

Later in her career she received offers from television producers & most of her Serials were big hits like Junoon & Shriman Shrimati and she became a popular television star. She also started hosting chat shows featuring celebrity guests.

In television, she first entered with her tongue and cheek show, Kya Scene Hai, supplying Bollywood gossip in the 1990s, later in 2005 as a contestant in Dance reality show – Nach Baliye (Season 1), in which she participated along with her husband, Parmeet Sethi, they were eliminated in Episode 6 . There after she appeared as a judge on comedies shows, including the Sony TV India’s Comedy Circus, in she appeared as judge in Comedy Circus (season 1) (2007) and Comedy Circus (season 2) (2008) . In January 2008, she hosted ‘Kaho Na Yaar Hai’ on Star Plus, along with her husband, Parmeet Sethi .

With the end of Comedy Circus (season 2) in September 2008, it was followed by another show, Comedy Circus Kaante ki Takkar .

  

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Meghna was born in the Naidu family on September 19, 1980 in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.

She shot into fame with a video titled ‘Kaliyon Ka Chaman’, and instantly became popular as an ‘item girl’ in Bollywood.

After getting stardom, Meghna Naidu acted in couple of south films and finally made her bollywood debut with “Hawas”, a film in which she plays a wife who is tormented by lack of passion in her married life and therefore goes into an extra marital relationship. The film bombed at the box office.

Later, she played a character in “Husn” which was something of a similar kind to her earlier movie “Hawas”. Even this movie failed to generate any high notes for the actress. “Hawas” director Karan Razdan has somehow got a liking for this Andra Pradesh girl, as he has already signed her for his next movie “Eight”.

Since then she has acted in 11 more movies. As of September, 2007, she is also slated to act in Telugu and Malyalam language movies, including one titled ‘Chandrika’, and hopes to shed off her glamorized image in Ashok Nanda’s movie titled ‘Riwaaz’.

  

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Minnisha was born on 18 january 1985 in a New Delhi-based Punjabi speaking Sikh family. She had not really decided to act in films, but she loved modeling and was fortunate enough to be selected to model for Cadbury. Clearly her intent was to complete her education, concentrate on an academic career and do some modeling on the side. She was successful in completing her education from University of Delhi and majored in English with Honors in 2004.

She got her first break unexpectedly, when she was auditioning for a Cadbury commercial in Delhi. Bollywood Director, Shoojit Sircar, approached her and signed her to to act in his yet untitled movie.

She has the beauty and talents that is needed to become an actress. During her effort in modeling, she was offered to represent ad campaigns like LG, Sony, Cadbury, Hajmola, Airtel, Sunsilk etc. But it was the ad shoot for Cadboury that turned out to be lucky for her. She was approached by Bollywood Director, Shoojit Sircar, and signed her to act in his film Yahaan (2005). This was an unexpected offer and she heartedly accepted it and move on to acting. So she debuted in Bollywood with Yahaan.

After that, she never looked back and moved on signing great roles and making successful performance in other films too. Her other movies include Corporate, Rocky: The Rebel, Anthony Kaun Hai and Honeymoon Travels. Her upcoming movies include, Anamika, Shaurya, Dus Kahaniyaan.

Her upcoming movies are Bachna Ae Haseenon (2008), Shaurya (2008).

  

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Jaspal Bhatti, the most popular social satirist in India, graduated from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh in North India, as an electrical engineer. He was famous for his street plays like his My Nonsense Club during his college days. Most of these plays were spoof ridiculing the corruption in the society. Before venturing out in to television, he was a cartoonist for the Tribune newspaper in Chandigarh.

His big break on the TV came when he acted in, and directed the immensely popular TV series like “Ulta Pulta” and “Flop Show” for Doordarshan television network. What attracted audience to his shows was his gift of inducing humour to highlight every day issues of middle class in India. Bhatti’s satire on Punjab police called _Mahaul Teek Hai (1999)_ was his first directorial venture for a full length feature film in his native Punjabi language. The movie created controversy when some demanded a ban on it, saying it maligned the police force by depicting its officers as drunkard, and corrupt. The movie was however well received amongst audience for its simple and honest humour.

The cartoonist, humorist, actor and the filmmaker is now a days focusing on acting as he is getting numerous offers from Bollywood producers as a comedian.

A journey…a musical and rhythmic ride…a feast of expression and precision of choreography. Real life celebrity couple Jaspal Bhatti and Savita Bhatti are Jodi no.9, on the very popular dance show, Nach baliye.

  

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Kirron Kher (Born June 14, 1955) is an Indian theatre, film and television actress and a TV talk show host.

Kirron Kher was born in Mumbai to 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 her college days in pre-partition Punjab .Kirron also had a brother, painter Amandeep Singh, who passed away in 2003.

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 .

Kirron Kher made her film debut in 1983 in the Punjabi feature film Aasra Pyar Da and received rave reviews for her performance. Though she soon took a hiatus from films , following her divorce, and in order to raise her son Sikander Kher, meanwhile she worked for her second husband Anupam Kher as a costume designer and suggested the title for his movie Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) and appeared in only one film in between, Pestonjee in 1988, wherein she acted along side, her husband Anupam Kher.

Kirron Kher in Khamosh Pani (2003), which won her the Best Actress Leopard Award at the 56th Locarno International Film Festival (2003).Her return to acting came about with theatre, with the play Saalgirah from by playwright Feroz Khan , soon she hosted three television shows, starting with Purushkshetra on Zee TV which got her much acclaimed for bringing out the discussion of sexuality to the forum for the first time.

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, a controversy arose as a Bangla film actress, Rita Koiral claimed that she had dubbed for the character of Kirron, making her an equal claimant to the award. Kirron however refuted the charges claiming she spent hours rehearsing for her dialogue delivery, and the award was eventually not shared

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.

In October 2004 she made a guest appearance along with her husband, in the American TV series ER playing Parminder Nagra’s mother, Mrs. Rasgotra, in episode Damaged (Season 11) (2004)

In 2005, she essayed the role of role of Sunanda in the tele-serial Prratima on Sahara One channel, prior to which she had appeared in TV series like, Dil Na Jaane Kyon (Zee TV), Isi Bahane, and Chausath Panne .Despite playing mostly supporting roles, her list of successful movies includes, Main Hoon Na (2004), Hum Tum (2004) and Veer-Zaara (2004), and Mangal Pandey: The Rising (2005), where her performance drew rave reviews .Her work in Rang De Basanti (2006) was a huge hit and her performance got her second nomination for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. Her role in Fanaa (2006) and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) also received appreciation. Adding to her list of comical roles in 2008 she appeared in Singh is Kinng, Saas bahu aur Sensex and Dostana.

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

  

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Shweta Tiwari is one of the most popular Indian Television actress. She played the role of Prerna in Balaji Telefilm’s popular serial ‘Kasauti Zindagi Kay’ on Star Plus for which she won lots of awards. She has also done some commercial advertisements, dance shows, plays in other Indian soaps. Now she will be one of the Judges in Star Plus’s reality show ‘Aajaa Mahi Vay’.

Shweta Tiwari born on 4th October 1980. She got married to Raja Chaudhry a struggling actor on 23 december 1999 and got separated in the year 2007. She has a daughter named Palak.

Shweta got her early education from St.Isabel in Mumbai. At the age of 12, Shweta worked in a travel agency with a salary of Rs. 500/- per month . She did her graduation in commerce from Burhanis College in Mazegaon. She started her acting career from a stage show called ‘ Khoobsoorat Bahu’ and her first TV serial was ‘Aane Waala Pal’ on Doordarshan. The ‘Kalerein’ was the footstep for Shweta from there was no turning back for this actress. ‘Prerna’ was the role in ‘Kasauti Zindagi Kay’ which gave more success and popularity to this great actress. She also participated in ‘Nach Baliye 2′ (with Raja her then husband) but didn’t reach the finals also.

Her was part of the following TV serials, shows and films, ‘Kasauti Zindagi Kay’, ‘Daddy Samjha Karo’, ‘Rishtey’ , ‘Aaja Mahi Vay’, ‘Naaginn‘, ‘Kahin Kissi Roz’, ‘Yeh Hai Jalwa’ etc… She has done few films ‘Madhoshi’, ‘Abrakadabra’, ‘Din-e-intezaar’, ‘Dahek:a restless mind’, ‘Apni Boli Apna Desh’, and ‘Hamar Saiyan Hindustani’ (bhojpuri film).

Shweta won ‘Star Parivaar Awards 2003′ – Favorite Jodi, ‘Star Parivaar Awards 2004′ – Favorite Maa and favorite Bahu, ‘Star Parivaar Awards 2005′ – Favorite Maa, ‘Star Parivaar Awards 2006′ – Favorite Maa, ‘Star Parivaar Awards 2007′ – Favorite Maa, and in ‘ Star Parivaar Awards 2008′ she was honoured for her immense service for Star Plus and the show.

  

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Anushka Sharma, the 5’9 ft tall girl gifted with a pretty face, is the girl who got a golden chance to make her debut in a Yashraj Film. She was born to an army family based in Bangalore. Her father is a high ranked army officer and her mother is a simple housewife.

Right from the beginning, Anushka wanted to make it big in the glamour world. She studied in Army School and then went ahead to do graduation in arts from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.

With moral support from her parents, a confident Anushka got herself enrolled in Elite Modelling Agency. She was groomed by renowned style consultant Prasad Bidapa, who met her when she was just 13. Bidapa admits that Anushka always had the quality to be a star.

Designer Wendell Rodricks selected her for his finale show in 2007 at Fashion week. Later, Anushka did few ad-campaigns for Whisper, Silk & Shine and Fiat Palio.

She bagged her dream debut in Aditya Chopra’s film ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ with Shahrukh Khan through Elite Modelling Agency.

With a set of expressive eyes, this 21-year old Bangalorean has always wanted to be a model. “I can’t see myself doing anything else,” she was once quoted as saying. At the moment she is studying for a degree in economics.

Yash Raj films had created much mystery and speculations about the girl who would be cast opposite SRK in their next mega venture ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’. The suspense now comes to an end with the announcement of Anushka Sharma’s name as the female lead for the film.

  

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Zulfi Syed, is an Indian model turned actor. He was born in Bangalore. He won the Gladrags Manhunt in 1997. This tall, good looking & charming supermodel made his debut in Bollywood with “Pyasa” opposite Yukta Mookhey & Aftab.Zulfi has done a lot of modelling and has been featured in numerous music videos of Anu Maliks “Dhuan Dhuan..”, Pankaj Udhas & commercial ads like Tata Indica, Trivia Jeans etc.

He has done commercial ads for brands like Raymonds, Fiesta condoms, Trevi jeans, Warehouse, Levis etc. He also appeared in few music videos such as ‘Chahat Desh Se Anewale’, ‘Buleyaa’, ‘Dhuwa Dhuwa Ho Raha Hai Sama’ and ‘Tere Khayalon Mein’.

The model turned actor won many accolades for his performance in the movie TAJ MAHAL – An Eternal Love Story.

Zulfi has also acted in other Hindi films such as Chupke Se (2003), Wajahh (2004), Yahan Ke Hum Sikander (2007) and Mr. Hot Mr. Kool (2007).

On 17 Aug, 2008, Zulfi joins the Big Boss-Season 2.

  

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Sambhavana Seth is an item girl and film actress. She born on 21st November 1982. She was seen in the movie 36 China Town with Upen Patel.

She came more into the notice when she appeared in the Famous reality show Big Boss 2 on Colors TV Channel. She also participated in the TV reality show named “Dancing Queen” on colors channel.

  

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Payal Rohatgi is a Bollywood actress and an item girl. Payal was born on November 9, 1980 in Hyderabad, India to Veena Rohatgi and Shashank Rohatgi. She is approximately 5’6″ tall, and her star-sign is Scorpio. She was brought up in a middle class family and grew up in Ahmedabad in Gujarat. A computer engineer by profession, Payal Rohatgi won the title of Miss Tourism World in 2001, against candidates from 65 countries. She was also a finalist at the Femina Miss India contest in 2000. These successes encouraged Payal to enter the entertainment industry and so she moved to Mumbai.

She started her career by modelling for popular brands like Amul, Nirma, and Nescafe. She gained attention after appearing in a television ad for Cadbury’s Temptations Chocolates. Around this time she also appeared in music videos by rock band Silk Route and Indipop artist Kay Kay.

After her career in Bollywood took off, Payal has cut back on the number of products she endorses. However, she appeared along with cricketer Virender Sehwag in an ad film for Dabur’s Lal Dantmanjan. The film was directed by Pradeep Sarkar(Incidentally both are somehow related to Vidhu Vinod Chopra as She acted in Munnabhai I and Pardeep Sarkar made Pareeneeta for him). She was also seen in an ad film for Eveready battery with Amitabh Bachchan which was directed by Pradeep Sarkar in 2006.

Payal’s Bollywood debut was in Harry Baweja’s Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai, a Hindi remake of the Hollywood teen flick American Pie. However, she went unnoticed in the multi-starrer. She shot into the limelight with Tauba Tauba, a titillating movie where she played the object of a teenaged boy’s lust. She followed this up with a string of movies with sexual themes such as Fun, a movie about wife-swapping; and Mr. 100%, where the central character was a gigolo. Payal stated that she consciously chose movies that would get her noticed. However, she seemed to have a change of heart and dissociated herself from the movie Mazaa Mazaa, which she said was too vulgar. In 2006, she appeared in the critically acclaimed Corporate where, ironically, she played the part of an item girl named Payal who sleeps her way to success.

Payal also participated in the famous TV Reality show series named Big Boss 2 in 2008 on newly introduced channel called Colors.

  

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This brilliant actress was born on 12th September 1988 in the Indian state of Gujarat. She completed her schooling from Surat in Gujarat and then moved to finish her studies from Pune. She had barely managed to complete her junior college when she got a call from the Balaji Production house for the audition of the role of Bani in the then to-be-launched soap ‘Kasamh Se’. Acting was her passion since childhood so she could not help herself but made her entry in the glamour world in such a tender age.

Prachi Desai is a very popular name in the world of television in the recent times. She has conquered the heart of millions by her character portrayal of Bani Walia in the very popular Balaji show ‘Kasamh Se’. From Punjabi ‘kuris’ to Americanised Indians Prachi Desai has managed to rule the hearts of one and all. In this particular serial she has inspired many teenage girls by the facing all the adversities of her life single-handedly.

Her strong willed character in the serial ‘Kasamh Se’ has become the role model for many teenage girls who are desperate to carve their identity by themselves.

In her personal life she is a happy-go-lucky person and likes to live her life on her own terms. She puts up at Lokhandwala with her mother Ameeta Desai. Her hobbies include sports, acting, listening to music and sketching. Her elder sister Esha is her best friend with whom she shares a very friendly rapport. In the near future she also plans to try her luck in Bollywood movies and claims that she would like to act in a serious movie. Her mantra in life is ‘Rise even higher’. If she were given to describe her character in five words her choice of words would be bubbly, naughty, ambitious, hardworking and also like her character of Bani in ‘Kasamh Se’. Ekta Kapoor however describes her as “an over grown baby”. She claims “I am happy to get a chance so early in my life”. She claims that she has won the hearts of many by her acting skills and now she aims to win the hearts of many youngsters by her dancing skills. Her fans however wish her all the best for her future endeavors.

In 2007 she also got fame by winning the popular Sony TV’s dance show “Jhalak Dikhla Jaa”.

  

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Feroz Khan sometimes spelled as Firoz Khan or Feroze Khan is one of Bollywood’s famous actors, film editor, producer and director. He is the father of the young and popular actor Fardeen Khan.

Firoz was born in Bangalore, India on September 25, 1939 to a Afghan father, Sadiq Khan (Naib Khel) and an Iranian mother, Fatima. He has three brothers Sanjay Khan, Sameer Khan and Akbar Khan. After his schooling from Bangalore, he arrived in Bombay where he made his debut as second lead in Didi (1960). Both Sanjay and Akbar are actors within their own rights, while Sameer is a film-maker and assists in their Golden Palms Spa located in Bangalore.

His noteworthy movies are Oonche Log, Main Wohi Hoon, Aag, Mela, Upasna, Aprsdh. He became even more popular after the release of Dharmatma, Qurbani, Jaanbaaz, & Dayavan. he got an award for his role in Aadmi Aur Insaan.

He likes sports-car races and has included this sport in Apradh and then again in Janasheen. He prefers his character name to be either Rajesh or Rakesh. He is a worshipper of Bhagwan Shri Sai Baba and always wears a gold ring on his finger and has a picture close to him. Sai Baba is revered and worshiped by Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, and Hindus in India.

He got married to Sundari in 1965 and they became proud parents of Laila and Fardeen. Despite objections raised by an Islamic Moulvi, Feroz and Sanjay got their children married to non-Islamic families. Laila was married to Rajpal, while Fardeen married Natasha Madhwani, the daughter of Mayur and former Bollywood hottie Mumtaz. Sundari and Feroz have been divorced since 1985.

Feroz has kept away from controversies, though he did get himself banned by the conservative Pakistani government.

Feroz Khan on 27th April 2009 lost his battle with cancer and passed away at his farmhouse in Bangalore.

  

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Smriti Irani was born, the eldest of three sisters to a Delhi based family. Her father owned a courier business and her mother is a Bengali, related to Tripti Mitra a well known Bengali actress of yesteryears.

Smriti Malhotra is one of the most popular stars of the Indian Television Screen. Her television bonding with the Ekta Kapoor produced soap opera ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ has brought her so much stardom as to give her the opportunity of contesting Chandni Chowk constituency of the Indian capital city New Delhi. Although she lost the election her ability to combine her work with social issues by prominently featuring in talk shows brings her in media limelight once and often.

She married her childhood best friend Zubin Irani. She is the mother of little Zohr Irani and Zoish Irani, and step mother to Shanelle Irani who is Zubin’s daughter from an earlier marriage with model coordinator Mona Irani. In a interview Smriti said she was happy marry to Zubin and had a good friendship with his ex-wife Mona Irani.

Smriti began her career at the age of 16, participating in small plays. She gave up her full-time college education and switched to correspondence education in order to be able to do what was close to her heart: acting.

At 18, she told her father that she wanted to come to Mumbai to work. In 1998, she entered the Miss India contest without the knowledge of anyone in her family and was surprised to be short-listed and came to Mumbai to participate in the finals. Her father was astounded at her decision to enter the contest. No one believed she could make it to the finals. She borrowed Rs 2 lakh from her father on the condition that she would return it. She came to Mumbai and began preparations to enter the final of the contest with earnestness. She had her contest outfit designed and made by Manish Malhotra. She made it to the final round becoming one of the final five contestants.

Desperate to pay her loan back, she appeared for the Jet Airways hostess interview. Her sister, who also applied, got the job but Smriti was rejected. She then took a counter job at McDonalds, serving burgers and swabbing the floors and cleaning tables. Throughout these months of desperation, she kept visiting various agencies, doing auditions and portfolios and leaving her pictures at every TV production company. She was present in the Famous Studio in Mumbai for auditions every day but no one took her seriously.

Finally, lady luck began to shine on her. She was chosen to do the black and white commercial for Whisper. Next, she anchored a show called Filmi Batein for In Mumbai and Etc. channels. Shrey Guleri of Prime Channel saw these appearances on television and called her. As a result, she did some episodes of the show called Bakeman’s Oh La La. Shobha Kapoor in turn saw these and she asked her to meet Ekta at Balaji Telefilms. Smriti met Ekta and as time passed, thought nothing was coming through. But one day, she was asked to come over to audition for Tulsi’s role in KSBKBT she was chosen for this role and the rest, as they say, is history.

After KSBKBT became the top soap in India, her career was made. Recently she quit playing Tulsi in in KSBKBT due to reports that her and Ekta Kapoor had fallen out but in a recent interview Ekta Kapoor had said that Smriti is taking three month’s off KSBKBT to rest after a miscarriage and also stated that Smriti will be returing as Tulsi when she feels happy enough. When asked about Gautima Kapoor replacing Smriti as Tulsi, she said she has spoken to Gautima and she will give her a good exit when Smriti returns.

  

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Model-turned-actor, 6’0″ tall, Dino Morea was born on 9th December, 1975. Born to an Italian father and Indian mother. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius. His eyes are brown in color. His hairs are black in color. He is a Christian. He finished his schooling from Bangalore Army School, Clarence School, Bangalore and college from St Joseph’s, Bangalore. He was spotted while modelling for a fashion company. Prasad Bidappa introduced him to modeling. His die-hard looks and cute smile are still a hot assets on the ramp. This new generation bollywood actor also featured in music videos including those of ‘Alisha’ and ‘Abhijeet’.

Dino Morea, Gladrags Supermodel of 1999, who turned an actor. An unsuccessful debut as an actor in Pyar Mein Kabhi Kabhi has not noticeably diminished his popularity. Then Raaz in 2002 came opposite Bipasha Basu which was a romantic thriller. The movie was a hit and its songs are still listen. After that Baaz came, it was also thriller one but couldn’t bring audience in theatre. Ishq Hain Tumse again with Bipasha Basu released in 2003, but couldn’t gather audience.

This handsome hunk has cute dimples and a wonderful body. His relationship with Bipasha Basu remained not for long time. Now days it is said that he is been seen alot, with Karishma Kapoor‘s husband’s ex-wife Nandita Mahtani.

  

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Nana Patekar, born on 1st January 1951 as Vishwanath Patekar is a highly acclaimed Indian actor and filmmaker. Born in Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra, to Dankar Patekar (a painter) and his wife Sangana Patekar. He is an alumnus of the Sir J. J. institute of Applied Arts, Mumbai.During his college years he was active in inter collegiate dramatics. After graduating he has starred in a number of Bollywood movies with some of the most prominent film directors of Bollywood. He is married to Neelakanti Patekar, and they have a son Malhar Patekar.

Nana Patekar is said to have a unique acting style. It is widely rumoured that he ad libs all of his lines and is held in high regard for this ability. He is known to give generously to the poor. He is also a sketch artist,a secret not known to the outside world. His sketches have sometimes helped the Mumbai Police to track criminals! Nana Patekar studied engineering in IIT between late 60′s/early 70′s. It was a four year degree course then and he used to take part in many College Drama functions.

While he acted in movies such as Mohre (1987) and Salaam Bombay! (1988), he was noticed by the mainstream Bollywood industry and audience for his portrayal of the villain in the 1989 film, Parinda. He was awarded the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for the role. He also won the Filmfare Best Villain Award in 1992 for Angaar. He is very famous for his acting style.He is very well known for his role in the movie Ab Tak Chappan (2005) in which he plays a police officer whose main task is to rid the streets of underworld dons.

In 1994 he won the National Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in Krantiveer (1994). He also won the Filmfare Award and the Star Screen Awards in the best actor category. Patekar has experimented with his roles when it comes to films. He has done the occasional villain role but has also played a hero in most films. He played a truant, gambling son in Krantiveer (1994), a wife beater in Agnisakshi (1996), a deaf and dumb father in Khamoshi: The Musical (1996) and a schizophrenic in Wajood (1998).He turned director with his movie Prahaar:

The Final Attack co-starring Madhuri Dixit. His other films as an actor include Hu Tu Tu and Bluff Master. He once again gave a good performance in his film Apaharan. He received the Filmfare Best Villain Award as well as the Star Screen Award Best Villain. He is going to be in Sangeeth Sivan next that is remake of Athadu and is going to play Shiva reddy who was played by Sayaji Shinde in Atadu Patekar has also done some playback singing in the films Yeshwant (1997), Wajood (1998) and Aanch (2003).He is the only actor ever to win Filmfare Awards in the Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Villain categories.

  

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Aneek Dhar, born in 1989, is an Indian singer who won the regional spin off singing competition, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Bangla, and won Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 at the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 Grand Finale on 13th October 2007, attaining first place with 3,65,89,134 votes, a result that become controversial immediately after final when one mentor Ismail Darbar claimed that the results were rigged.

Winner of the Telegraph” award for talent in music. – Finalist of “Jatin-Lalit Talent Hunt” by the TV channel TARA-BANGLA – Stood 2nd in the singing competition titled “Star of Kolkata” by TAAZA-TV, Kolkata – Participated in the singing competition “Bhalobashi Tai Gai “by channel “Akaash Bangla” and “Eto Noyshudhagaan” by Tara Music Channel. – Finalist in the singing competition “Golden-Voice” by Zee Bangla and Prime Music Zee Bangla ” Sa-Re-Ga-Ma-Pa Champion 2007″

Though after some statements of controversy no firm proof was given by Ismail Darbar which set the situation down. Aneek was one of the most outstanding performer during the show and praised always by all judges.

Aneek resides in Lake Gardens suburb of south Kolkata and is a student of Nava Nalanda High School in Kolkata. During his free time, he plays Cricket and listens to music.

  

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Tusshar Kapoor or (Tushar Kapoor), born on 20 November 1976 is an Indian actor. He is the son of Bollywood actor Jeetendra and brother of Ekta Kapoor. He studied at the University of Michigan.

He made his debut with Mujhe Kuch Kehna Hai opposite Kareena Kapoor in 2001 which was a box office hit and he received the Filmfare Best Debut Award.

The next two years was followed by a list of flops, apart from “Kucch To Hai” which won over many votes from young or teenage Asian viewers. He mainly starred in films produced or directed by his sister.

After two years hard work he had a critically acclaimed hit with “Khakee” starring with film legend Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan and Aishwarya Rai. This was followed by another critically acclaimed performance in “Gayab”. In 2005, he delivered a hit with “Kyaa Kool Hai Hum”, then another hit in 2006 with “Golmaal”.

In 2007 he starred in “Kya Love Story Hai” and “Good Boy, Bad Boy” which did not do well at the box office. His third release was the huge multi-starrer “Shootout at Lokhandwala” which did well at the box office and won him acclaim for his performane as the real-life gangster Dilip Buwa.

  

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Ritesh Deshmukh was born 17th December 1978 in Latur City of Marathwada (Maharashtra). He is son of Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh, Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Ritesh had completed his schooling from G.D. Somaya High School and then turned to Kamala Raheja School of Architecture in Mumbai. After his graduation he starting working in New York and partly joined acting studies at the Lee Stratberg Theatre Institute. This young Actor apart having a good knowledge in Architect had made his own mark as one of the most dependable supporting actors in the Indian film Industry.

Through out his work in films like ‘Tujhe Meri Kasam’, ‘Masti’, ‘Kya Kool Hai Hum’, ‘Bluffmaster’ and ‘Malamaal Weekly’; he had proved his talent and hardwork, inspite having a better political relationship. Ritesh had made his debut from ‘Tujhe Meri Kasam’ in 2002 that proved out to be an average hit on the Box-office. He received his positive points after the comedy film ‘Masti’ in 2004, which turned his life and established him as a Real Bollywood Actor. He received Star Screen Best Comedian Award and Zee Cine Best Actor Award in a Comic Role for the film ‘Masti’ in 2005.

Ritesh face was then been noticed in a comic role category. Ritesh mainly started taken comic roles and avoided normal and optimistic ones. Ritesh had further super – duper hits from his latest movies like ‘Bluffmaster’, ‘Kya Kool Hai Hum’, ‘Malamaal Weekly’ and ‘Darna Zaroori Hai’ out of which Ritesh first time appeared in Ram Gopal Verma‘s horror film ‘Darna Zaroori Hai’ and rest of the film were performed in the comic role. In 2006, he was awarded Stardust Best Supporting Actor Award for the film ‘Kya Kool Hai Hum’ and Zee Cine Best Actor Award in a Comic Role for the Film ‘Bluffmaster’.

  

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Perizaad was born in a Zorashtrian family on October 23, 1973. Her family runs a poultry farm. Her name means ‘Fairy’s daughter’. Her family roots trace back to Iran.

True to the meaning of her name, Perizaad Zorabian does look like born of a beautiful, ethereal, effervescent fairy. She has the effervescence and energy of a teenager and a million-dollar smile that captivates.

Having studied in Auxilium Convent High School (Mumbai), Perizaad took the B.Com course in Bombay University. After her post-graduation, she secured admission in one of the Top 20 colleges in New York for her MBA studies.

Then there was no looking back for Perizaad who supported herself in the US by taking up a job at Hotel Lexington. At the same time she also enrolled into an acting school. When she came back to India she did not harbor any dreams of stepping under Bollywood’s arc lamps. So she began helping her father in his poultry farm business.

It was during this time, she met a model coordinator Mona Irani who offered her modeling assignments.

Her debut film Bollywood Calling has already won accolades and next in line is Viral Lakhia’s Namaste, though the role she might cherish most is that of Indira Gandhi that Perizaad plays in an international Chinese production called Bandung Sonata made by the Chinese Film Group Corporation.

Prior to her movie appearances, this Mumbai gal ruled the hearts of the television audience through brilliant performances in serials like ‘Hum Pardesi Ho Gaye’ as Maya. Besides, she also starred in exciting music videos with such greats like Asha Bhonsle, Lucky Ali, Aryans and others.

A rare combination of beauty and brains, Perizaad did MBA in marketing and Finance from New York before completing an acting course with the renowned Lee Strasberg School of Acting. To equip herself for the Bollywood Jhatkas, she did a stint with dancer Shiamak Davar too.

A trained ballet dancer for 12 years, she has done theatre too and is ever ready to try out new things in life, which explains her interest in dad’s poultry business before getting bitten by the acting bug.

Her first ad was for Clearsil, shot by Shekhar Kapoor after which she was off to New York to pursue her further studies. On her return, she did a series of ads for well-known brands like Fair & Lovely, Titan, Ponds, Tanishq, BPL, Closeup, etc.

A true homebody by nature, she loves spending time at home with family and close friends. Although she misses her ballet a lot due to her schedule, she does manage to do the annual show at the academy from where she has graduated.

She married Boman Rustom Irani (not to be confused with the actor Boman Irani) on December 7, 2006., who is a Board Director of Rustomjee Builders. She continues to accept offers and appears in movies.

  

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Society’s Face of the year – 1994 most successful super model and 6’0″ tall. Arjun Rampal was born on November 26th. He was discovered in a discotheque by ace designer Rohit Bal. His cute chiseled face makes him a great hit with women. Now Arjun concentrating more on movies.

Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat was Arjun’s forgettable debut vehicle and his presence went noticed. Following up with Deewanapan, Moksh etc movies with opposite popular bollywood actresses Manisha Koirala and Diya Mirza and others.

Married to Miss India super model Mehr Jessia at the right time and marriage has had positive effect on his life.

He describes himself as Cool and casual. He wear clothes that are cool. He is not particular of brands but buy a lot of designer stuff. His suits and shirt are of Armani. He is having 80 pairs of sun glasses. He is very weight conscious and always into fitness. His hair cut changes from film to film according to the character he portray in films. He love his family very much they are always a priority for him. He is having a daughter also.

Arjun Rampal is struggling here to stay. Arjun Rampal will also feature in Subhash Ghai’s next romantic project opposite Kareena Kapoor.

  

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Vishal-Shekhar are a music directing duo (Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani) for Bollywood films. They have had a number of successes including Salaam Namaste and Dus and Bluffmaster.

The duo rose in prominence when they composed the score for the film Jhankaar Beats, which included the hit song tu aashiqui hai. Their efforts paid off when they won the Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent for Jhankaar Beats. The music for the film Musafir became very popular with youths. They combined techno music with Indian sounds. The score of the film included the music hits Saaqi and Door Se Paas. 2005 was a good year for the duo as they composed the scores for three hit films: Salaam Namaste and Dus and Bluffmaster.

They are now judges on the Zee TV show, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007. They also directed the music of Tara Rum Pum, a hit.

Vishal Dadlani is also the vocalist of Mumbai-based electronic band Pentagram, and was a sometime-VJ at Channel V.

Shekhar is Gujarati and Vishal is Sindhi. Vishal is a vegeterian.Vishal-Shekhar were recently seen judging a popular music talent hunt show on Zee TV.

Shekhar is married and has a daughter named Bipasha. Vishal is still very much a part of the Indian rock band Pentagram. Shekhar is a trained classical singer and has a sound base of Indian music. Their music is thus a combination of Indian classical with western rock influence brought by Vishal.

  

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Madhavan was born in Jamshedpur, India, to a private-firm owner Ranganathan and bank worker Saroja. Devika Ranganathan, Madhavan’s sister, is a software engineer settled in the U.S. At the age of 18 his college entrusted him with the responsibility of representing India as a Cultural Ambassador to Canada.

A year later he and three others from his college were sent to Britain as army cadets and received training in the royal army, navy, and air force.

After attending a 10 day course on public speaking, he met Saritha, an Air Hostess and both got married 3 years later. Their first child, a son, Vedaant, was born in 2006.

Unlike other prominent actors in India, Madhavan began to act after marriage, at the age of twenty-nine, and his short career has seen performances in diverse roles. He has received several Filmfare Awards in various categories.

Madhavan’s first major film appearance was in 2000s romantic film, Alaipayuthey, in which he played a husband going through the trauma of marriage. In the 2002 blockbuster Kannathil Muthamittal, he portrayed a father of an orphaned child alongside Simran. He then played the role of an action hero, for the first time in the successful project, Run (2003) and, the year after, won critical acclaim as a henchman in Mani Ratnam’s film, Aayitha Ezhuthu, his role in which earning him a Indian National Film Award nomination. In 2007, Madhavan set up his own production company, Leukos Films, which will distribute several of his forthcoming films.

Madhavan has taken an activist role in supporting various political and social causes. He appeared in PETA advertising, campaigning against cruelty towards animals, and has promoted vegetarianism causes.

A vegetarian and animal lover, he owns two dogs, and a parrot. He is fluent in English, Hindi, and Tamil.

Before making his appearance on the tinsel screen, he was popular on the idiot box on Sony’s ‘Deal Ya No Deal’. He subsequently also appeared as the main character in a mobile game.

He made his debut with ‘Inferno’ in 1998, and since then acted in nearly 40 movies in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Kannad. He is popularly known as the ‘chocolate hero’.

  

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Deepika Padukone was born on 5 January 1986 in Mangalore, Karnataka, is an Indian supermodel. She is also the daughter of former World badminton Champion Prakash Padukone.She has done her schooling in Bangalore. Deepika has a younger sister named Anisha. She is currently in 11th standard.

Deepika previously dated model Upen Patel and is now dating Ranbir Kapoor. In the beginning of the relationship, the couple were talking about their closeness, but Ranbir’s parents were upset as they don’t want any verbal announcements of their son’s relationships at this stage of his career. They are now keeping their relationship private.

She has been modelling appearances in print and television advertising campaigns for Liril soap, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca, receiving many prestigious modelling offers, including brand ambassadorship of the Jewels of India, an annual jewellery exhibition. She hit the international scene when Maybelline made her their new international covergirl face.

Like many successful models before her Deepika is turning to acting in Bollywood. She started by starring in the music video for “Naam Hai Tera,” a song from the pop album Aap Ka Suroor, an independent album by popular Bollywood singer-composer Himesh Reshammiya.

At the fifth annual Kingfisher Fashion Awards, for Indian models and designers, she was awarded the title of Model of the Year. Shortly afterwards, she was chosen as one of the models for the Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar for 2006, thus cementing her reputation as a supermodel. She also bagged two trophies at the Idea Zee F Awards in 2006 – Female Model of the year (Commercial Assignments) and Fresh Face of the year.

Deepika recently made her cinematic debut in a Kannada film, Aishwarya, directed by Indrajit Lankesh. Her co-stars in the movie is top Kannada hero Upendra. The film has already been successful at the box-office, and Deepika has received reviews which praise her for her great screen presence.

Reportedly, she has also signed on three Hindi movies – Priyadarshan’s forthcoming film, Pirate, Farah Khan‘s second directorial venture, Om Shanti Om and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Delhi 6. All three are slated for a 2007 release.

However, Deepika has categorically denied ever having met Priyadarshan, and claims she is not doing his film. Khan’s and Mehra’s films, however, seem very much on the anvil, though she is reluctant to talk about them with the press and won’t confirm or deny developments. Deepika was also signed a Tamil film opposite Surya entitled Vaaranam Aayiram to be directed by Gautham Menon but backed out at the last moment as the dates required for the film were clashing with Om Shanti Om.

  

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Manish Malhotra is a Indian Fashion Designer and pride of India. He is the most famous designer in Indian Fashion Industry as well as Film Industry. Everyone is interested in his collections as he has a quality of providing fresh designs everytime. When we hear of Manish Malhotra he is known to everyone. Everybody knows whats in is fashion,what models wear on the ramp is fashion and what fashion magazines publish is fashion but fashion differs according to every individual. Manish Malhotra – Fashion designer has a vision he has a forcast he knows what people will like after this trend and hence he is the best.

Manish turned as an astounding fashion designer in bollywood when he was 25 years old, when he designed the costumes for the beautiful Juhi Chawla for the film “Swarg”. Since then he has been known as the transformer of looks of as well as characters, as the characters designed by Manish can be understood before they speak up anything, and this uniqueness of Manish took him to this popularity as at present. In his tenure he has designed the costumes for a countless celebrities like Sri Devi, Urmila Matondkar, Karishma Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Kajol, Madhuri Dixit, Shilpa Shetty, Kareena Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Twinkle Khanna to Aishwarya Rai, Rani Mukherjee and Preity Zinta. He has even attired the male actors like Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan but only occasionaly.

But his turning point was when he designed the costumes for Urmila Matondker for the film Rangeela which was a blockbuster and thus the credit of Urmila being popularised as a sex kitten goes to Manish. And right from there his films started to include blockbusters. He again repeated the history with Karishma Kapoor in Raja Hindustani.

Manish is a very down to earth person beside so much fame and success. He can be calle2005manishsummer001d a simple person who saw a dream and work harder and harder to persui them. Manish is from a medium class punjai family. His father wanted him to join his business but Manish was creative and wanted to create some space for himself in some creative field. Manish was not professionaly trained but he was having full confidence on his talent.

After this decision there was 15 years of hard work which made Manish real Manish and the Manish Malhotra we all know. As there was no seriousness for the fashion in the film industry earlier actors were very loud and wore studio-tailor-styled-clothes, which were garish and jarring on the eye for discerning cine-goers. Initially, no filmmakers were interested in paying designers or taking there help. Many times the designers have to face problems like cheque bouncing and this discouraged many of them but Manish created a space for himself and made a mark inspite of all these problems.

He was the first designer who use to ask for the scripts before designing the dresses for the particular scene. This was surprising for some directors in early stages but his work was the best answer for all there confusions as he use to realize the character and then design. We can take a example of dress designed for Kareena Kapoor for the film Ashoka. Kareena, who plays Princess Kaurwaki in the film, is wearing period costumes. Manish Malhotra not only design the outfit but the entire look this is what his speciality is. Though Kareena was a princess in Ashoka he has not Accessorised her too much rather giver her a no makeup powerfull look and she was looking perect for the character but all the credit goes to Manish Malhotra who can create beauty in simplicity.

Though we have talk lot about Manish Malotra but still he have not yet reached his achievements. His store Shlok located at central Mumbai Phoenix Centre area has been a thundering success with society women crowding the shopping area to buy off-the-rack fusion garments and sarees.

  

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Sonam Kapoor (born June 9, 1985) is an Indian film actress. She is the daughter of Anil Kapoor and Sunita Kapoor. Her uncles are producer Boney Kapoor and actor Sanjay Kapoor.

Rishi Kapoor confirmed at the Zee Cine Awards that his son Ranbir Kapoor will make his debut with Sonam Kapoor under Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the film is titled Saawariya. She also assisted Sanjay Leela Bhansali in the making of Black (2005).

  

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Ranbir Kapoor, born on September 28, 1982 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, is an upcoming actor in Bollywood.

Son of Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh; nephew of actors Randhir Kapoor, Rajiv Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor. Grandnephew of actors Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Bali; cousin of actresses Kareena Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor.

Belongs to the fourth generation of highly prestigious and considered to be the first family of Bollywood (Hindi film industry): Kapoor Family.

Ranbir Kapoor made his debut with Anil Kapoor‘s daughter Sonam Kapoor under Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the film is titled "Saawariya".

He and his Saawariya co-star Sonam Kapoor assisted Sanjay Leela Bhansali on highly acclaimed movie Black.

  

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Original Name of Dilip Kumar was Yusuf Khan. His nickname is Sri Dilip Kumar. People commonly call him tragedy king. He was born on December 11, 1922 in Peshawar (Pakistan). His father had relocated to Mumbai. A filmmaker had spotted him and helped him to enter the Hindi film industry. He owned India’s greatest award for his excellence in cinema. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius. He has also been a Member of Parliament.

He has starred in some of the biggest commercially successful films from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1980s. His performances have been regarded as the epitome of emoting in Indian Cinema. He holds the record for most number of Filmfare Awards won for Best Actor. Though he has done all kinds of films – he balanced a wide variety of roles such as the intense Andaz (1949) with the swashbuckling Aan (1952), the dramatic Devdas (1955) with the comical Azaad (1955) and the historical romance Mughal E Azam (1960) with the social Ganga Jamuna (1961).

He was born as Muhammad Yusuf Khan, in Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar, capital of NWFP, British India now in Pakistan , in a Pashtun family of twelve children. His father was based in Devlali in Maharashtra near Mumbai during 1930s. His father later relocated to Bombay (now Mumbai) after the Partition of India. Yusuf Khan moved to Pune and started off with his canteen business and supplying dry fruits. There he was spotted by a leading actress of those years, Devika Rani, who was also the wife of the founder of Bombay Talkies, Himanshu Rai and helped his entry into the Bollywood film industry. He changed his real name, Muhammad Yusuf Khan, to Dilip Kumar on her suggestion.

After a period of box office flops in the mid 1960s, he bounced back when he played a dual role of twin brothers separated at birth in the film “Ram Aur Shyam”(1967) which was one of the biggest box office hits of the year. The success of “Ram Aur Shyam” spawned a number of remakes and imitators.

In the 1970s Kumar acted in fewer films as newer actors such as Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan had began to take the spotlight. Many of Kumar’s films failed at the box office during this period and after the release of his 1976 film Bairaag in which he played triple roles, he took a five year break from acting.

He made a comeback in 1981 with the multi-starrer box office hit “Kranti” which was the biggest hit of the year.He went onto play character roles as an elderly family patriarch or a police officer in a string of box office hits including “Shakti” (1982), “Vidhaata” (1982) and “Karma” (1986). In his last major successful film, “Saudagar” (1991) he appeared alongside another legendary actor Raaj Kumar after three decades since they last appeared together in “Paigham” (1959).

In 1992 he won the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the Hindi film industry for over four decades. After four years hiatus, in 1996 he was back in the limelight after he was attached to make his directorial debut with a film titled “Kalinga” but the film was shelved soon after. He made his last film appearance in the box office flop “Qila”(1998) and has since retired from the film industry although he has continued to receive film offers in recent years but refused them. In 2004 he was attached to star in a film titled “Asar – The Impact” which was eventually shelved due to his indifferent health.

Some of his older films have been shown over and over again on television or cherished on videotape and DVD. A few of them, such as “Devdas” and “Ram Aur Shyam”" have been re-made several times. His 1960 film “Mughal-e-Azam”, which was originally released in black-and-white with some color scenes in the latter half of the film, was fully colorized in 2004 and re-released. Even in 2004, it did well at the box office.Another one of his classic films “Naya Daur” was colourized and released on August 2007.

He has been active in efforts to bring the people of India and Pakistan closer together. He has been a member of the upper house of Parliament since 2000 and is known for his extensive charity work..

He was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994. In 1998 he was awarded the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, the highest civilian award conferred by the government of Pakistan. He is the second Indian to receive the award; the first was former Indian prime minister Morarji Desai. At the time of Kargil War Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray urged Dilip Kumar to return Nishan-e-Pakistan . Mr Thackeray said Dilip Kumar must give back the award as a mark of protest for Pakistan’s intrusion into Indian soil in May. “He must return Nishan-e-Pakistan following that country’s blatant aggression on Indian soil.”, but Mr. Kumar held his ground. He refused, saying:

“We need to look at this a little rationally. This award is not more important to me than our national interest. If it affects national interest, why would I want to hang on to it? But what does the award’s citation say? Does it say that this has been given to Dilip Kumar for his achievements in films? No, films are just a vocation for me. I do the best I can. This award was given to me for the humane activities to which I have dedicated myself. I have worked for the poor, I have worked for many years to bridge the cultural and communal gaps between India and Pakistan. Politics and religion have created these boundaries. I have striven to bring the two people together in whatever way I could. Tell me, what does any of this have to do with the Kargil conflict?”

In 1980, he was appointed Sheriff of Mumbai, an honorary position.

Dilip Kumar’s younger brother Nasir Khan was also an actor and appeared opposite him in “Ganga Jamuna” (1961) and “Bairaag”(1976) as well as some other films in the late 1940s and 1950s. His career was not as successful however. He died in 1974. Nasir Khan’s son Ayub Khan is also currently an actor in the industry. Nasir Khan’s wife was 1950s actress Begum Para who is making a comeback to films after 50 years in the film “Saawariya” in 2007.

Dilip Kumar’s siblings who are still alive include brothers Ehsan Khan and Aslam Khan who live in Mumbai, a sister Farida who lives in Fresno, California.

Dilip Kumar’s first romantic interest was rumored to be the already married Kamini Kaushal. Then Kumar was said to be romantically linked to the actress Madhubala. It is claimed that Madhubala’s family would not allow the couple to marry; some conjecture that this was because Madhubala was the main source of income for her family.

Kumar and Madhubala were to appear together in “Naya Daur”, but Madhubala’s father refused to allow his daughter to act with Kumar. The producer B.R. Chopra took Madhubala to court and Dilip Kumar testified against her. The former sweethearts were now on extremely bad terms. This complicated work on the film “Mughal-E-Azam”, which had started filming before the court case. It is said that Kumar and Madhubala, who were supposed to portray persecuted lovers, resisted filming any more love scenes.

Dilip Kumar married actress and “beauty queen” Saira Banu in 1966 when he was aged 44 and she was 22. At the time, gossip columnists predicted doom for the high-profile couple, but the union has been one of the longest lasting marriages in Bollywood. The marriage was briefly under threat when Kumar married a woman called Asma in 1980 but the marriage was quickly dissolved.

Dilip Kumar has been nominated for 19 Filmfare Best Actor awards in all and he won eight awards for Best Actor.