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Early life
Dutta was born in a Punjabi family in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Her father is Wing Commander L.K. Dutta (retired) and her mother is Jennifer Dutta. She also has two older sisters, one of whom serves in the Indian Air Force and a well known younger sister. Famed composer and DJ Nitin Sawhney is Dutta's cousin.[1] The Dutta family moved to Bangalore in 1981 where she completed high school from St.Francis Xavier Girls' High School. Lara graduated in economics with a minor in communications from University of Mumbai. She was crowned Miss Universe in 2000 which led to her appointment as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador in 2001.[2]
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At Miss Universe 2000 in Cyprus, Dutta was the clear favourite ahead of fierce competition from Venezuela, Spain, USA and Canada. She achieved the highest score in the swimsuit competition and her finalist interview score was the highest individual score in any category in the history of the Miss Universe contest, as her perfect interview saw a majority of the judges giving her the maximum 9.99 mark. After her final question, in which Dutta delivered a passionate defense of the Miss Universe contest (and other beauty pageants), she became the second Indian Miss Universe.
Awards
• 2004: Star Screen Award Most Promising Newcomer - Female, Andaaz
• 2004: Filmfare Best Female Debut Award, Andaaz (joint winner with Priyanka Chopra)
• 2008: Rajiv Gandhi awards (female contribution to film cinema)
Nominations
• 2006: IIFA Awards Best supporting actress for No entry
• 2009: Stardust Awards Best Actress for Billu
Bindu Madhavi is a model and Indian film actresMadhavi was born in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh. She studied 10th class in vijayawada and degree in Vellore. She modeled for Tata gold Tanishq, where she was selected by Sekhar Kammula to act in his production film, Avakai Biryani. In 2009, she acted in the film, Bumper Offer, opposite Sairam Shankar. The film was produced by noted director Puri Jagannadh. Currently, she is working in Om Shanti, which is due to release December 2009. Producer Dil Raju signed her for Rama Rama Krishna Krishna, which stars Ram and Arjun released in May 2010.s in the Telugu film industry. She has made her debut in the 2008 Telugu film, Avakai Biryani. She made her debut in the Shekhar Kamula Production Avakai Biryani (2008). She received good amount of appreciation for this movie. Bindu Madhavi the latest sensation of Tollywood. Avakaya’s success brought with it a horde of opportunities for the actress. In an industry that’s obsessed with Bollywood imports, making a mark wasn’t easy. But Bindu Madhavi, the sari-clad Telugu ammayi who played the role of a pickle seller in Shekhar Kammula’s Avakaya Biriyani not only won hearts in Tollywood but also accolades for her great performance.
“The problem with Tollywood is that everyone’s waiting to typecast you. Ever since Avakaya became a hit, I’ve been flooded with offers to play a village belle. I was forced to turned down every one of them.”
It was reported that she hiked her fee to an astronomical sum, causing producers to drop her like hot potato. She clarifies, “I heard those allegations too... Someone said I demanded Rs 1 crore for a film. If only it was true! They are all just baseless rumours.”
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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Actress and model. Halle Maria Berry was born August 14th, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio. The youngest daughter born to Jerome and Judith Berry, an interracial couple. Halle and her older sister Heidi spent the first few years of their childhood living in an inner-city neighborhood. In the early 1970s, Jerome Berry abandoned his wife and children, after which Judith moved her family to the predominantly white Cleveland suburb of Bedford.
A natural performer, Berry earned a handful of beauty pageant titles during the early 1980s, including Miss Teen Ohio and Miss Teen America. She was eventually awarded first runner-up in the 1985 Miss U.S.A. competition. For a short time she attended Cleveland 's Cuyahoga Community College, where she studied broadcast journalism. However, Berry abandoned her idea of a career in news reporting before receiving her degree. Choosing to wholeheartedly devote her time to a career in entertainment, Berry first moved to Chicago and then New York City, where she found work as a catalog model.
In the summer of 2001, she co-starred with John Travolta in the action movie Swordfish. Audiences did not respond positively to the film, and publicity for the movie centered mostly around Berry's topless scene, for which the actress was allegedly paid a $500,000 bonus. But Berry also garnered the most positive critical notice of her film career that same year in the dark drama Monster's Ball. Berry played the wife of a death row prisoner (Sean "Puffy" Combs) who becomes romantically involved with a racist prison guard (Billy Bob Thornton)
In 2005, she took the lead in the TV adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's classic 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, which was produced by Oprah Winfrey's production company, Harpo.
She also lent her voice for the CGI cartoon project, Robots. Then in 2006, she starred in the third X-Men installment, X-Men: The Final Stand, switching gears in 2007 to star in the heart-racing thriller, Perfect Stranger, co-starring Bruce Willis. In April of 2007, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Berry is also one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, earning as much as $14 million a film. She is currently working on the movie Frankie and Alice, which is expected to primere in 2009.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
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Dimple Chunnibhai Kapadia (born 8 June 1957) is an Indian film actress. She is known for her glamorous looks and her serious roles in art films. In her early career, she starred in commercial movies, such as Bobby and Saagar, but later took on more intense roles in parallel films such as Rudaali and Lekin.
Kapadia is the eldest daughter of Gujarati entrepreneur Chunnibhai Kapadia and Betty
She was discovered by Raj Kapoor, who introduced her in his 1973 movie Bobby. She was only sixteen at the time. She married actor Rajesh Khanna at the age of 16, and despite the success of Bobby, she left the film industry to raise her children.[3]
After Kapadia's divorce, she returned to the film industry in 1985, in the film Saagar, where she once again appeared opposite her Bobby co-star, Rishi Kapoor. Saagar featured Kapadia in a brief topless scene, which was very controversial at the time.[4] After Saagar, she continued to take on roles that were deemed bold. Her sex scene with Anil Kapoor in Janbaaz is still considered to be very bold.
Kapadia appeared in many movies throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1993, she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in Rudaali. She was also praised for her performance as an alcoholic in Dil Chahta Hai (2001). In 2005, she once again starred with Rishi Kapoor in Pyaar Mein Twist, twenty years after their last on-screen pairing, and thirty-two years since their first. In 2006, she starred in her first English-language film Being Cyrus. Of late, Kapadia has opted for mature roles, including a memorable comic performance as a pushy stage mother in Luck By Chance.
She married actor Rajesh Khanna six months before the release of her first film, Bobby, in 1973. She then retired from acting for twelve years to raise her two daughters, Twinkle Khanna and Rinke Khanna.
She divorced Khanna in 1984 and returned to acting. Her daughters also became actresses as did her younger sister, the late Simple Kapadia. Her other sister, Reem Kapadia, committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. Her daughter, Twinkle Khanna, is married to actor Akshay Kumar.
Awards
• 1973 - Filmfare Best Actress Award, Bobby
• 1985 - Filmfare Best Actress Award, Saagar
• 1991 - Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards - Best Actress, Dristi[5]
• 1993 - National Film Awards for Best Actress, Rudaali
• 1993 - Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance, Rudaali
• 1994 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, Krantiveer
Sunday, October 10, 2010
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Tanisha Mukherjee is an actress who belongs to the famous Mukherjee family.
TANISHA's BACKGROUND
Tanisha Mukherjee was born on January 1st 1978 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Since the 1940s her family have been working in the Bollywood film industry. It includes her great-grandmother Rattan Bai, paternal grandfather Sashadhar Mukherjee, grandmother Shobhna Samarth, uncles Joy Mukherjee and Deb Mukherjee and aunt Nutan. Somu Mukherjee and Tanuja are her parents. Actress Kajol is her elder sister and her brother-in-law is Ajay Devgan.
Tanisha dated Yash Chopra's son Uday Chopra, who was her co star in Neal N Nikki, but their relationship did not last long and ended in 2007.
TANISHA'S MOVIES
Before trying her luck in movies, Tanisha was a VJ for Channel [V] in 1995 and hosted a show called BPL Oye. Her first film was Sssshhhh with co-star Dino Morea. It was a big flop. It was followed by two more flop movies namely Popcorn Khao! Mast Ho Jao (2004) and Tango Charlie (2005).
Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar, was her first hit. This film had big stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, and Katrina Kaif. Tanisha played Abhishek's childhood friend in this movie.
Her next film Neal N Nikki opposite Uday Chopra, did not work out well at the box office. In 2008, One Two Three and Sarkar Raj were her releases. One Two Three was a comedy flick and she played Chandini in this movie.
In 2007, she appeared in a Tamil movie named Unnale Unnale (2007) and in a Telugu movie Kantri (2008). She has got two releases in 2009, Raas Leela (2009) and Tum Milo Toh Sahi (2009). In Tum Milo Toh Sahi (2009) her co-stars are Nana Patekar, Dimple Kapadia, Rehan Khan, Shefali Chhaya and Sunil Shetty. Tanisha has a cameo role in it.
Tum Milo Toh Sahi (2010) - Special Appearance
Sarkar Raj (2008) - Avantika
Kantri (2008) - Priya
One Two Three (2008) - Chandni
Neal n' Nikki (2006) – Nikki
Sarkar (2005) - Avantika
Tango Charlie (2005) - Lachchi
Popcorn Khao! Mast Ho Jao (2004) - Tanya
Unnale Unnale (1970) - Deepika
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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Destiny Hope Cyrus, her sunny personality soon changed its name to Miley at home. Her father, country star and actor Billy Ray Cyrus, nicknamed her "Miley" because it is "always full of smiles." Now every Disney Channel lover knows her as Miley Cyrus, star of Disney's latest innovative show, Hannah Montana, Miley while playing a regular girl called Miley Stewart who lives a secret double biggest stars singer tv.
It took a lot of this for 13 years to win the Queen Disney TV in November. "All the hard work I've done my whole life to be worthwhile," he says. It's not just relying on the callback interview, which started with 1000 girls, but the dedication she put into singing and acting for years. Daughter counrty star who crossed tv, Miley has taken the extra parts in her father always shows, and recently was cast for the episode of "Doc" Objectives and the role of Ruthie in "Big Fish" at age eight.
Singing and playing the guitar was a big part of her life. It provides the author of over 100 songs already. In fact, one of them will be presented in Hannah Montana. It is now recording a new track on the section so that it will be more than 20 songs in this season, but no soundtrack has been confirmed yet. When asked about the soundtrack, Miley stated goal now is to make the best possible show, plus will be the Hannah Montana soundtrack to the summer "or a Miley Cyrus album" she added. Soundtrack or not, will Miley Cyrus album for sure, sooner or later. Her signing to Hollywood to write a contract for four albums.
Gary Marsh, Disney Channel entertainment president said that Miley elected to the role of Hannah Montana, I saw a girl who has this natural ebullience and loves every minute of life, which shows in his attitude and actions.
Do not exercise, Miley enjoys the company of five brothers, Christopher, Braison Chance, Brandi, Trace and Noah Lindsey, and her dog Loco, who lives with her in Los Angeles. Entire dogs, cats, horses, chickens and cows had to stop them, Nashville, Tennessee home when he moved to Los Angeles in December 2005, the film begins. Miley had to say goodbye to lifelong friends, so its also a new way of life, for hours on the phone, and LA need: shopping. "I'm a big shoe person. It happens that I punky, the next day I'll be preppy every day after work, shopping .. mom and my dad will kill me. Say:" We have a Dad! "
Her hobbies include her job: dancing, cheerleading, singing, playing guitar and writing music. He says: "As soon as I step on this stage there is nothing to think about how it works .. It's just so much fun."
Nationality American Date of birth March 25, 1982 (age 28) Place of birth Beloit, Wisconsin Debut season 2005 Car no. 7 Former teams Rahal Letterman Racing Starts 91 Wins 1 Poles 3 Best finish 5th in 2009 Awards 2005–07, 2009 IndyCar Rookie of the YearIndyCar Most Popular Dri Born in Beloit, Wisconsin, Patrick grew up in Roscoe, Illinois. She began go-karting in 1992 at the age of 10 at the Sugar River Raceway in Brodhead, Wisconsin, and eventually won several World Karting Association championships. Aged 16 she moved to Milton Keynes, England in order to advance her racing career, racing in British national series events against drivers including future Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button. During a three year period she raced in Formula Ford, Formula Vauxhall and earned a second-place in Britain's Formula Ford Festival, the highest finish by a woman in the event. In 2002, Patrick started driving for Rahal Letterman Racing in the United States. After making several starts in the Barber Dodge Pro Series, she moved to the Toyota Atlantic Championship for 2003. Patrick won one pole position and was a consistent podium finisher (top three); however, she never won a race. In 2004, Patrick finished third in the Championship. The 91st Indianapolis 500 ran on Sunday, May 27, 2007 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was the 12th Indy 500 sanctioned by the Indy Racing League, and marked the fifth race of the 2007 IndyCar Series season just after the 2007 Kansas Lottery Indy 300 and just before the 2007 ABC Supply Company A.J. Foyt 225. Hélio Castroneves started the race on the pole position. The race began at 1:11 p.m. EDT, and was televised in the United States on the ABC network, with a one-hour pre-race show at 12 noon EDT. The race was broadcast in high-definition for the first time. The race also was carried live on the IMS Radio Network, XM Satellite Radio, and simulcast on XM Sports Nation. At lap 113, the race underwent a lengthy rain delay, but re-started shortly before 6:15 p.m. EDT. A crash on lap 162 between Dan Wheldon and Marco Andretti brought out the yellow flag and, shortly thereafter, rain began falling hard again and the race was ended, still under a yellow flag, after lap 166. Dario Franchitti was declared the winner after leading 34 laps during the race.
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