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Sunday, November 7, 2010




Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (née Aishwarya Rai, born 1 November 1973) is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994. During her career, Rai has acted in over 40 movies in Hindi, English, Tamil and Bengali, which include a number of international productions

Often cited by the media as the most beautiful woman in the world,Rai made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar (1997) and had her first commercial success in the Tamil movie Jeans (1998). She came to the attention of Bollywood in the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Her performance in the film won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. In 2002 she appeared in Bhansali's next project, Devdas (2002), for which she won her second Filmfare Best Actress Award.
After a low phase in her career during 2003–2005, she appeared in the blockbuster Dhoom 2 (2006), which turned out to be her biggest Bollywood commercial success. She later appeared in films like Guru (2007), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), and Enthiran (2010) which were commercially and critically successful. Rai has thus established herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses in the Indian film industry.




Amrita Rao born 17 June 1981 is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films.
Beginning her career as a model, Rao made her acting debut with Ab Ke Baras (2002) for which she won her best debut award. She then starred in Ken Ghosh's love-story Ishq Vishk (2003) and earned a Filmfare nomination in the Best Female Debut category
While studying in Sophia College, Rao auditioned for an advertisement for Fairever Face Cream. Her appearance in Cadbury’s Perk Karwa Chaut ad and the Bru Coffee advertisement helped her receive offers from film directors in Bollywood. As she wanted to complete her education, she refused them. After earning a degree in psychology, she began her profession as an actress, working in numerous films.Rao made her acting debut with Ab Ke Baras (2002), and followed that with her 2003 film, Ishq Vishk, in which she portrayed Payal. In 2004 her films Masti and Main Hoon Na, Deewaar (2004) were released. Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi (2005), Shikhar (2005), and Pyare Mohan (2006) followed. She starred in Sooraj R. Barjatya's Vivah (2006) opposite Shahid Kapoor.[4] Her performance earned her a Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award.
In 2006 Rao made her debut in Tollywood, with the Telugu film Athidhi opposite Mahesh Babu.[5] Amrita's releases in 2008 include My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves and Welcome to Sajjanpur. Amrita's releases in 2009 are Victory, and Shortkut.


Ameesha Patel born Amisha Patel on 9 June 1975) is an Indian actress who appears in mainly Bollywood movies. Making her acting debut in the blockbuster Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000), Patel won critical praise for her performance in Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001), which became one of the biggest hits in the history of Hindi cinema, earning her a Filmfare Special Performance Award. She would subsequently star in a number of films, most of which proved unsuccessful at the box office. However, her performance in the 2006 film Ankahee, received critical recognition, and she followed it with a supporting role in the hit Bhool Bhulaiyaa.
Patel is the daughter of Amit Patel and Asha Patel, sister of Ashmit Patel and the granddaughter of the famous lawyer-politician Barrister Rajni Patel who was the Congress Pradesh Committee President of Bombay. She was born in the Breach Candy Hospital in Bombay and is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer since the age of five. Her birth name is a blend of the first three letters of her father's name Amit and the last three letters of her mother's name Asha.She studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay and was head girl for the academic year 1992–1993 before heading overseas to study Economics at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.Patel's career began as an economic analyst at Khandwala Securities Limited after graduation. Later on, she received an offer from Morgan Stanley but turned it down. After returning to India, she joined Satyadev Dubey's theatre group and acted in plays, including an Urdu language play titled Neelam (1999) that was written by Tanveer Khan,[3] upon receiving permission from her conservative parents. At the same time she plunged into modeling appearing in several commercial campaigns. Patel has also modeled for well-known Indian brands like Bajaj Sevashram, Fair & Lovely, Cadburys Jai Lime, Fem, Lux and many more


Arthi Agarwal born January 27, 1987 in New Jersey, U.S. is an Indian actress in Tollywood. She was brought up in New Jersey until the age of 14.Sunil Shetty invited her to dance on stage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA when she was barely 14. Bachchan who was there too encouraged her father to take her to Bollywood. The event where Sunil Shetty invited to the stage was at Nassa Colliseum, in New York City. At the end of the Bollywood award night, Sunil asked for volunteers from the audience and Arti was one among them As a result, she did her first film Paagalpan in Hindi in 2001, but it was not a hit.[2] She did her first Tollywood movie Nuvvu Naaku Nachav with Telugu actor Venkatesh in 2001, which was more successful. Arthi’s younger sister Adithi has joined in films. Adithi acted in Allu Arjun's Gangotri. Aarthi has the distinction of being cast with Tollywood "fabfour" - Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna, Balakrishna and Venkatesh. She has acted with Mahesh, NTR, Ravi Teja,Prabhas,Tarun,Uday kiran,Rajashekar.She is credited as golden leg of tollywood.
She has acted in 5 simultaneous movies directed by director B. Gopal (the last one being an item song). She starred opposite Venkatesh for three films.She was the top heroin in tollywood in early 2000's. She had accident allegedly tripping over steps. She was hospitalised. Agarwal was married to Ujjwal Kumar at Secunderabad on 22 November 2007 and Had subsequently applied for divorce in October 2009 and announced her re-entry into Tollywood.She re-enterd the tollywood and continuing as a lucky actress.


Asin Thottumkal born 26 October 1985 known mononymously as Asin is an Indian film actress, model and a stage performer.Making her acting debut in Sathyan Anthikkad's Malayalam film Narendra Makan Jayakanthan Vaka (2001), Asin had her first commercial success with Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi in 2003, and won a Filmfare Award for the Best Telugu Actress for the film