Ayesha Takia Azmi

Ayesha Takia Azmi

Ayesha Takia Azmi born as Ayesha Takia (Hindi: आयेशा टाकिया; born 10 April 1986) is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films.

Early life

Ayesha Takia was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra to a Gujarati father, Nishit, and an Anglo-Indian (half British and half Marathi) mother, Faridah. She attended St. Anthony's High School. Her mother is a Muslim and she was raised as one. She has a younger sister named Natasha. She is also the cousin of Abdul Zafar
[edit] Career

Ayesha started her career with the "I am a Complan Girl!" advertising campaign and she also appeared in a music video, Falguni Pathak's Meri Chunarii Udd Udd Jaye, when she was fifteen. The complan ad campaign also had Shahid Kapoor as a child actor. She then appeared in the video, Shake It Daddy, when she was sixteen, which brought her to the attention of the movie industry, and a few film offers followed. She signed a contract for Socha Na Tha. However, there were delays in making Socha Na Tha so Taarzan released first and was therefore her "debut" film. She won the Filmfare Best Debut Award in 2004 for her performance in Taarzan: The Wonder Car. She earned critical acclaim for her performance in Nagesh Kukunoor's Dor with Taran Adarsh of Indiafm.com writing,". She accepted non-glamorous roles, which most actors don't do at the start of their career." [1]

Her latest release Wanted costarring Salman Khan has emerged as the one of the biggest blockbusters of 2009.

Antara Mali

Antara Mali

Antara Mali (Hindi: अंतरा माली) is an Indian actress who stars in Bollywood films. On 12 June 2009, she got secretly wedded to Che Kurien, the editor of GQ magazine.

Career

Mali made her acting debut in the 1999 film Prema Katha which was directed by Ram Gopal Varma. Varma became Mali's frequent collaborator. Although Mali was critically acclaimed for her performances in each of her films, she discontinued her acting career after production of her last film (Mr Ya Miss which she had also written and directed) was received poorly and critically panned. Mali paid her tribute to Madhuri Dixit by playing an aspiring actress inspired by Madhuri in the movie Main Madhuri Diixit Banna Chahti Hoon.

Aarti Chhabria

Aarti Chhabria

Aarti Chhabria (Hindi: आरती छाबरिया) (born 21 November 1982) is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood, Telugu, Kannada movies and former model.















In 1999 she won the prestigious title of Miss India Worldwide [1]. She debuted in a Hindi movie Lajja. She comes from a Sindhi family.

== Filmography ==

* Milenge Milenge (2010) to be released in 15 January 2010 (opposite Shahid Kapoor)

* Rajini (2009) Kannada film (opp Upendra)

* Daddy Cool (2009) character name "Nancy"(opp Sunil Shetty)

* Toss (2009) character name "Sasha"

* Kisse Pyaar Karoon (2009)

* Chinatakayala Ravi (2008) Telugu film Special song with Venkatesh

* Gopi Goda meedha Pilli (2008) Telugu film Allari Naresh, Jagapathi babu

* Shootout At Lokhandwala (2007) (character name "tannu" opp Tushar Kapoor)

* Santha (2007) Kannada film (opp shiv raj kumar)

* Partner (2007)..Special appearance

* Anamika (2007)..Special appearance

* Teesri Aankh - The Hidden Camera (2006)

* Gopi-Goda meeda pilli (2006) Telugu film

* Aham Premasmi (2005) Kannada film

* Shaadi No. 1 (2005)(opposite Fardeen)

* Ssukh (2005) (opposite Govinda)

* Into Sreemathi Veedhilo Kumari (2004) Telugu(opposite shrikanth & prabhudeva)

* Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo (2004)(Guest appearance)

* Raja Bhaiya (2003) (opposite Govinda)

* Okariki Okaru (2003) Telugu (character name:Subbalakshmi)

* Awara Paagal Deewana(2002) (Opp Akshay Kumar as character name :Tina)

* Tumse accha Kaun hai(2002) (main lead debut film as character name:naina)

* Lajja (2001) (cameo role with Rekha,Danny and Sharman Joshi)

Diana Hayden

Diana Hayden

Diana Hayden was born in Hyderabad, India in a Anglo-Indian family.[2] She went to St.Anns High School, Secunderabad but dropped out in the 8th standard, due to circumstances. She continued her studies through open schooling and correspondence and graduated from Osmania University in English.[3]

Before modeling, she used to work for an Event management company called Encore. She then worked as a Public relations officer at BMG Crescendo where she managed careers for models Anaida and Mehnaz. After Anaida's recommendation, she filled in for the Miss India contest. After winning Miss India she proceeded to win the coveted Miss World title.[4]

Anusha

Anusha

Anusha Dandekar was born on 1 January 1982 in Sudan. She grew up in Kingsgrove, Sydney, Australia. She made her acting debut in Bollywood with Mumbai Matinee and went on to do Viruddh where she was paired opposite John Abraham, and also acted along with superstar actor Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, and Sharmila Tagore who was her mother-in-law in the movie Viruddh. She is currently a VJ on MTV India, based in Mumbai. She also acted as Rosa, in Anthony Kaun Hai? starring Arshad Warsi and Sanjay Dutt.

Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (born Aishwarya Rai, and sometimes known simply as Ash or Aish, Tulu: ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯಾ ರೈ; 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.

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 Best Actress Award at the Filmfare. 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) and Jodhaa Akbar (2008), which were commercially successful and got her critical acclaim. Rai has thus established herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses in the Indian film industry.

During her career, Rai has acted in over forty movies in Hindi, English, Tamil and Bengali including the international productions Bride & Prejudice (2003), The Mistress of Spices (2005), The Last Legion (2007) and The Pink Panther 2 (2009) in English.

Hrishita Bhatt

Hrishita Bhatt

Hrishitaa Bhatt (also spelled as Hrishita Bhat), born on May10, 1981 in Mumbai, India is a Bollywood actress and model. She debuted in the film Asoka opposite Shah Rukh Khan. It was Haasil that brought major turn into her career. Hrishitaa Bhatt was Acclaimed Actress by this Feature Film and continued to work in films like Ab Tak Chappan and Jigyaasa. In 2008 she appeared in IshQ Bector's music video Daaku Daddy with Shakti Kapoor.

Amrita Rao

Amrita Rao

Amrita Rao (Konkani: ಅಮೃತಾ ರಾವ್. IPA: [əmrita raʊ], born June 7, 1981) is an Indian model and Bollywood actress.

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 starred in Ken Ghosh's love-story, Ishq Vishk (2003) and earned her first Filmfare nomination in the Best Female Debut category. She has also acted in films like Main Hoon Na (2004) and Vivah (2006), her biggest commercial success so far.

She 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. [5] 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.[6] Amrita's releases in 2008 include My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves and Welcome to Sajjanpur. Amrita's releases in 2009 are Victory, and Shortkut.

Mallika Sherawat

Mallika Sherawat

Mallika Sherawat (Hindi: मल्लिका शेरावत, born October 24, 1981[1] as Reema Lamba in Karnal, Haryana, India) is an Indian actress and model. Known for her public openness, she is frequently featured in the Indian media as a sex symbol.[1][2]

Sherawat's birth name is Reema Lamba; she says that she adopted the screen name of "Mallika", meaning "empress" to avoid confusion with other actresses named Reema. "Sherawat" is her mother's maiden name. She has stated that she uses her mother's maiden name because of all the support her mother has provided for her. She went to school at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road. She has obtained a degree in Indian philosophy from Miranda House, Delhi University.