Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Shamita shetty


Date of Birth : 2 February 1979
Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m)

Sister of Shilpa Shetty.
Graduated with a degree in Commerce from Sydenham College in Mumbai; also completed a diploma course in Fashion Design from SNDT.

Sameera reddy


Date of Birth : 8 September 1982
Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Sameera's versatility as an actress and a trained Indian classical dancer made her perfect for Bollywood films. She debuted in a music video that got her noticed and kick started her movie career as one of the top actresses in India and has appeared in over fifteen films in just four years. She has shown her ability to carry off multiple characters in films like the controversial blockbuster Musafir, where she played a rape victim who takes revenge to Kaalpurush - Memories in the Mist, an art house film where Sameera plays a double role as a middle-class housewife and a prostitute which won India's highest award, the National Award and has received critical acclaim on the festival circuit.

Sameera was credited with having two independent films at the Toronto Film Festival 2007. Migration,a short film directed by the legendary Mira Nair wherein she plays the role of a housewife affected with the disease and The Voyeurs, her second film with Buddhadeb Das Gupta.

Sameera has become a household name amongst the 1.6 billion people living in India. As a symbol of fashion, sex, and beauty, Sameera has graced the covers of every magazine and is the subject of many documentaries including the BBC's Spice Trade. As a testament to her international appeal Sameera was chosen by the BBC to step in the shoes of Spice Girl Emma Bunton to experience celebrity life in the UK and was asked to be a guest actor on the hit series Casualty.

Sameera is also the first Indian actress to have her own video game, Sameera the Street Fighter. This mobile video game can be downloaded by millions of fans and is available to cell phone users throughout India.

Sameera lives with her parents and two sisters, Sushama (a VJ, model and actress) and Meghana (a supermodel) in Mumbai and spends significant amounts of time with Crayons and Dreamz Homes, her cause for getting homeless children off the streets of India.
Mini BiographySameera was born in the Telugu-speaking Reddy family on December 14, 1978. She has two sisters, Meghna and Sushma. The Reddy ancestors hailed from a small town named Rajamundry in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh.

While still a student in Sydenham College, she sang in Pankaj Udhas' video 'Aashita' with a blond male Caucasian. Then partly influenced by her siblings' success, she bagged some modeling assignments, including Lissome, as well as appeared in a Telugu movie. Plump, hair tied back, and bespectacled, she started working as a Marketing Executive with a multi-national company.
Sameera decided to take her acting career seriously and starting working out, eating the right foods, going to the gym, jogging, Kathak (a dance form in South India), swimming and yoga. She allowed herself 8 hours of sleep everyday and indulged her skin with all kinds of natural ingredients like curd and honey, and generally avoided make-up.

This regular routine paid off resulting in one of India's hottest film actresses' and she made her debut opposite Sohail Khan in 'Maine Dil Tujko Diya'. This movie did not fare well but got her noticed and launched her career in Bollywood.

Quite a shy and moody person, she loves stuffed toy-turtles and enjoys eating in small restaurants rather than five-star hotels.

She first came into notice with the music video 'Aahista' by Pankaj Udhas. She did a few modelling jobs and then decided to act. She made her debut opposite Sohail Khan in Maine Dil Tujhko Diya. Her role was of a shy college girl who falls in love with one of her fellow students. The film went un-noticed but by the time of the release she was getting more film offers.After two more flops she had her breakthrough role with Musafir. The film eventually flopped but it made it clear that Sameera Reddy had arrived. She went from shy college girl to ultimate sex symbol. Her stunning image and sensuality was enough to get her noticed. The film was quite controversial as it included a kissing scene between her and her co-star Anil Kapoor.

Her sister, Sushma Reddy made her acting debut with the film Chocolate. Her elder sister is Meghna Reddy. She made a guest appearance on the British show Casualty.

Riya Sen


Date of Birth : 24 January 1981, Kolkata, India
Height : 5' 1" (1.55 m)

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Daughter of actress Moon Moon Sen and Bharat Dev Varma, a descendant of the royal family of Cooch Behar. Her maternal grandmother is the legendary actress Suchitra Sen.
Sister of actress Raima Sen.

First stepped into the limelight at the age of 15 when she faced the camera for the Tamil film 'Taj Mahal' directed by 'Bharati Raja'.
She studied at the Rani Birla College in Calcutta.
Has starred in a number of music videos in the Indipop circuit.

Riya Sen is the grand daughter of Suchitra Sen, a legend in Bengali cinema, and daughter of Moonmoon Sen, a former actress. Before moving to Mumbai, she lived with her mother and sister Raima Sen, also an actress, in Kolkata. Her father Bharat Dev Varma belongs to the illustrious royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch Behar, whose younger sister Gayatri Devi is the Maharani of Jaipur.


Before entering show business, she studied at Loreto House and Rani Birla College, both in Kolkata, but dropped out of both institutions. She also briefly studied at the National Institute of Fashion Technology. Since her Bollywood debut, she has moved from Kolkata to Juhu in Mumbai.
While in Mumbai she had a relationship with male model and actor John Abraham. After breaking up with him, she started a relationship with actor Ashmit Patel. She also briefly dated actor Akshaye Khanna.
Many have commented on the strong resemblence between her and her mother, Moonmoon Sen, a sex symbol in her time. Both have worked in films in different languages, and both were involved in numerous scandals. Her sister, Raima Sen, has a very different image from them both, however.
In keeping with her image as a sex symbol, Riya has found herself embroiled in a number of scandals.
Though the depiction of kissing on screen was (and still is, to some extent) considered inappropriate in India, Riya has regularly shared on-screen kisses with her co-stars, and has been a strong advocate of changing people's attitudes in this regard.
Shortly before the release her film Silsiilay in which she starred alongside boyfriend Ashmit Patel, a clip was circulated through Multimedia Messaging Services and the Internet, that showed the two having sex. This was one of a number of such scandals that erupted where celebrities were caught in compromising situations through cameraphones

Raveena Tandon

Date of Birth : 26 October 1970, Bombay, India
Nickname : Ravs
Height : 5' 5½" (1.66 m)


Daughter of Bombay film industry (Bollywood) director Ravi Tandon. Raveena dropped out of Bombay's Meethibai College to pursue a career as a model with middling success. She made her movie debut with the flop _Pathar Ke Phool (1991)_. Her next few films were also failures and it was only with Andaz Apna Apna (1994) that she tasted success. Mohra (1994) made her a superstar all set to become Bollywood's reigning actress. However she then began a tangled affair with co-star Akshay Kumar. All her films flopped and her arch-rival Karisma Kapoor had her fired from some top films. By the end of 1995 her career was in tatters and she was reduced to the level of a starlet doing bit roles. Her career revived with a huge hit Ziddi (1997) and she now is again a top rung star.

Rani mukherjee



Date of Birth : 21 March 1978, Bengal, India
Height : 5' 3" (1.60 m)

Mukerji comes from a film-oriented family of Bengali origin. Her father Ram Mukherjee is a retired director and one of the founders of 'Filmalaya Studios'. Her mother Krishna was a playback singer. Her brother Raja Mukherjee is a film producer, now turned director. Her maternal aunt, Debashree Roy, was a Bengali-film actress and her cousin Kajol is a Bollywood actress.

Mukerji is a trained Odissi dancer, and began learning the dance in tenth grade. Mukerji studied at Maneckjee Cooper High School in Juhu, and later enrolled at Mithibai College in Mumbai.
While in school at the age of 14, Mukerji did a cameo role in her father's Bengali film Biyar Phool (1992). In 1994, Salim Akhtar, a family friend, offered her a film called Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1994) but her father was against it as she was too young. Mukerji turned down the offer and Urmila Matondkar was cast instead.

Two years later, Salim Akhtar came up with another offer and insisted on her playing the protagonist of Raja Ki Ayegi Baraat (1997). After a long discussion with her father, she agreed to do the film. When the film was unsuccessful at the box office, Mukerji returned to college to complete her education.

Rakhi sawant



Rakhi Sawant was born in 1978, in Mumbai (India). Her father was a Mumbai Police Employee. She is the sister of Rakesh who is currently making his directorial debut. Her appearance is not only in bollywood movie but has also appeared in a number of music videos, most notably for the remix number Pardesiya. In 2006, She was also in Indian reality show "BIG BOSS".she was a cast member of that reality show, We can say the Indian version of "Big Brother". She was voted off the show by fellow cast members after a month, but has been brought back and was one of the final 4 participants.


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Known as the "Item Girl" of Bollywood, Rakhi has been charged for Obscenity for her gestures and skimpy costume at a stage show in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

Before Rakhi was famous she worked odd jobs. She once worked as a server at Tina Munim's wedding.

Raima sen



Date of Birth : 11 November 1979
Height : 5' 4" (1.63 m)

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Daughter of actress Moon Moon Sen and granddaughter of the legendary Suchitra Sen.
Sister of actress Riya Sen.
Her father, Bharat Dev Varma, is a descendant of the royal family of Cooch Behar.
She is the daughter of actress Moon Moon Sen and the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen. Her younger sister, Riya Sen, is also in the Bollywood industry. Their father is Bharat Dev Varma, scion of the erstwhile royal family of Tripura state.Her paternal grandmother Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch Behar (in Bengal), whose younger sister Gayatri Devi is the Maharani of Jaipur.She made her debut in the film Godmother, which was a critically acclaimed success, but her minor role may have been overlooked in favour of the protagonist, played by Shabana Azmi. She then starred in the film Daman playing Raveena Tandon's daughter, where her small performance was appreciated. Her breakthrough role came when she starred in the Rituparno Ghosh's film Chokher Bali. She won much praise for her role as the simple, submissive Ashalata. After a few more average movies she had a critically acclaimed hit in 2005 with Parineeta. Since then she has had two more hits with the action thriller Dus and the Bengali film Antar Mahal.