Ragini Khanna

Ragini Khanna

Ragini Khanna is an Indian actress who works in Indian films and television shows. She started her acting career with Imagine TV's family drama Radhaa Ki Betiyaan Kuch Kar Dikhayengi (2008--2009). She followed it with a lead role in Sony TV's comedy show Bhaskar Bharti (2009) and received appreciation for her comic timing. She went on to play the female lead in Star Plus' lighthearted family drama Sasural Genda Phool (2010--2012), which earned her further appreciation as well as the Indian Telly Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role in 2010.
In addition to acting, Khanna has appeared in several reality shows. She participated in the popular celebrity dance series Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa as a main contestant in its 4th season which started in late 2010. She got eliminated as a resut of getting low public votes in early 2011. She later hosted its 5th season along with Manish Paul in 2012. She briefly returned to its 6th season as a supporting contestant ("Teen Ka Tadka") in 2013. She has also been a contestant in shows like Star Ya Rockstar (2011) and Welcome - Baazi Mehmaan-Nawaazi ki (2013). She has performed several times in Comedy Circus also.
Khanna made her Bollywood debut with the 2011 comedy-drama Teen Thay Bhai, which was a Box office flop. Two years later, she made her debut in Punjabi cinema with the comedy film Bhaji in Problem (2013).
Khanna is also a regular stage performer and has hosted television events, award functions and reality shows including Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5 (2012) and India's Best Dramebaaz (2013). Having done so, Khanna has become one of the most high-profile television celebrities in India.

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Ragini Dwivedi

Ragini Dwivedi

Ragini Dwivedi (born 24 May 1990) is an Indian film actress and model who appears in South Indian cinema, but primarily in Kannada cinema. As a model, she was the runner-up of the 2008 Femina Miss India contest and won the Richfeel Femina Miss Beautiful Hair award at the 2009 Pantaloons Femina Miss India contest.
She made her entry to filmdom with Veera Madakari (2009) which won her the Suvarna Film Award for Best Debut Actress. She rose to fame starring in successful Kannada language films, Kempe Gowda (2011), Shiva (2012), Bangari (2013) and Ragini IPS (2014), thus establishing herself as one of the leading actresses in Kannada cinema.

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Radhika Pandit

Radhika Pandit

Radhika Pandit (Kannada: ರಾಧಿಕಾ ಪಂಡಿತ್ born 7 March) is an Indian film and television actress who appears in Kannada films, mostly performing lead characters. Making her feature film debut in the 2008 film Moggina Manasu, she has been receiving notable critical praise for her performances, receiving three successive Filmfare Awards for Best Actress and went on to appear in several commercially successful films, establishing herself as a leading contemporary actress of Kannada cinema.

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Radhika Kumaraswamy

Radhika Kumaraswamy

Radhika Kumaraswamy (born 11 November 1986), credited as Radhika, is an Indian film actress and producer. She has primarily appeared in Kannada films and was considered a lead actress in the Kannada film industry in the early 2000s.

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Radhika Chaudhari

Radhika Chaudhari

Radhika Chaudhari is an Indian actress, who has worked in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu film industries, predominantly in the early 2000s. In 2010, she made a comeback as a film director in the USA, winning an award at the Las Vegas Film Festival.Radhika attended the University of Pune, India where she did her Masters in Mass Communications. She featured in around 30 Indian films in multiple languages including in two high profile films, Tere Naam and Khushi, winning critical acclaim for her various roles and songs.
In 2010, she made a comeback of sorts as a director based in Los Angeles, and won the Silver Ace Award for Best Short Film at the Las Vegas Film Festival, for her critically acclaimed short film Orange Blossom. The film was shot in Los Angeles in a span of four days and the 17-minute film told the story of a single mother going through the pangs of separation from her husband; while making the folly of passing on too much information about herself and her family to a few strangers. Usha Kokotay played the protagonist, while others in the cast included Jeff Doucette and John Paul Ouvrier.

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Parveen Babi

Parveen Babi

Parveen Babi (4 April 1949 -- 20 January 2005) was an Indian actress, who is most remembered for her glamorous roles alongside top heroes of the 1970s and early 1980s in blockbusters like Deewar, Namak Halaal, Amar Akbar Anthony and Shaan.She is often cited as one of the most beautiful actresses to have ever appeared in Indian cinema.

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Parvati Menon

Parvati Menon

Parvathi Thiruvoth Kottuvata, known mononymously as Parvathi is an Indian film actress from Kozhikode, Kerala, who appears in South Indian cinema. She made her debut in the Malayalam film Out of Syllabus in 2006.

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Parvati Melton

Parvati Melton

Parvathi Melton (born 7 January 1988) is an Indian American actress and former model who mainly works in Telugu Film Industry. She appeared in several Telugu and Malayalam movies. She acted with Raja in the film Vennela, which turned out to be a success. She acted in the super hit Malayalam film Hallo with South Indian star Mohanlal. She again shot to fame with item song in Telugu movie Dookudu opposite Mahesh Babu.

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Parvathy Omanakuttan

Parvathy Omanakuttan

Parvathy Omanakuttan (born March 13, 1987) is an Indian model and actress who was crowned Miss India 2008 and later became first runner-up at Miss World 2008. She was also awarded the titles of Miss World Asia & Oceania at the Miss World 2008 competition.

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Parul Yadav

Parul Yadav

Parul Yadav is an Indian television and film actress and a model, who has appeared in various television shows and in South Indian films, primarily in Kannada. Post her modelling career, she made her acting debut in the Television series Bhagyavidhaata, she rose to fame by acting in the Kannada film Govindaya Namaha (2011). The film brought her nomination for Udaya Awards for Best Female actor.

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Parul Chauhan

Parul Chauhan is an Indian television model and Indian Television actress who played Ragini in the serial Bidaai. She has also participated in the Sony TV dance show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa with choreographer Deepak. She was nominated in the Indian Television Academy awards in 2009.[citation needed] She replaced Shalini Chandran as the lead in the television series Rishton Se Badi Pratha.

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Parminder Nagra

Parminder Kaur Nagra (born 5 October 1975) is a British film and television actress. She played Jess in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham, Dr Neela Rasgotra in the NBC medical drama ER from 2003 to 2009 and Dr. Lucy Banerjee in the short-lived Fox science fiction drama Alcatraz in 2012. In 2013, she began a recurring role as Rachel in the USA Network police comedy-drama Psych, and began starring as Meera Malik in the NBC crime drama The Blacklist.

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Malaika Arora Khan

Malaika Arora Khan

Malaika Arora Khan, known as Malaika Arora before her marriage, is an Indian actress, dancer, model, VJ, and television presenter. She is one of India's top item girls. She is most famous for her dancing in the songs "Chaiyya Chaiyya" (1998) and "Munni Badnaam Hui" (2010). She turned film producer in 2008, with her husband, Arbaaz Khan. Their company Arbaaz Khan Productions released its first film, Dabangg, in 2010.Khan was selected as one of the MTV VJs when MTV India started its operations becoming an interviewer and later co-anchoring with Cyrus Broacha the programs Love Line and Style Check,. Khan then entered the modelling world, appearing in many advertisements, for album songs like "Gori Naal Ishq Mitha"and item numbers in Bollywood films such as "Chaiyya Chaiyya" in the film Dil Se...
In 2010, she featured in the item song "Munni Badnaam Hui" in the film Dabangg, which was produced by her husband Arbaaz Khan. On 12 March 2011, she helped set a world record with 1235 participants performing a choreographed dance to "Munni Badnaam" which she led. She was the Taiwan Excellence celebrity endorser in 2012. She endorsed Dabur's 30-plus. She states that she never wanted to do acting. Khan performed live alongside Atif Aslam, Shaan and Bipasha Basu in series of concerts at LG Arena Birmingham & The O2 Arena London.
In 2014, she confirmed that she would make a cameo appearance in the Farah Khan directed action comedy-drama film Happy New Year. The film is releasing on 23 October 2014.

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Malavika Avinash

Malavika Avinash

Malavika Avinash (born 28 January 1972) is an Indian film actress and television host noted for her wide repertoire of work in Kannada and Tamil. She was a host for Baduku Jataka Bandi, a television show that aired on Zee Kannada.Malavika's canvass in Tamil includes devout Raji in the immensely popular Rajarajeshwari and K. Balachander's Nilavai Pidippom where she portrayed the travails of a middle-class working woman, Pudhuyugam, Pralayam and a hilarious "Comedy Colony" again under the able guidance of her mentor Balachander. She shook the spines of her male and female counterparts as Madurai Thilaka in Arasi and now a sober and emotional Muththazhagi in Chellamey. She has also played key roles in some select films in Tamil.
Another milestone in Malavika's career has been her portrayal of Nanjamma, the protagonist in four-time national award winner Girish Kasaravalli's celluloid version of the eminent S.L. Bhyrappa's celebrated novel, Gruha Banga. In her decade of television acting, Malavika has played several roles in Tamil, Kannada and Hindi with great ease and wide critical acclaim. A cross-over film titled Cyanide, a story of the last 18 days that the late Rajiv Gandhi bombers spent in Bangalore, in which Malavika's well-researched portrayal of Shubha (an LTTE suicide bomber) won her critical acclaim. Apart from Manvantara for T.N.Seetharam, Malavika swayed the Kannada audiences with her cult figure like character of Madhavi Patel, IPS, in his 'Muktha'.
The legal side to Malavika has seen expression through many international moot courts that she has participated and won as a student, the student-editorship of her college journal, her association with Madhyam, a development communications organization, assistant-editorship of the Madhyam journal, a legal column that she co-ordinated for the Times of India and UDAYAVANI for two years, her Malavika Pakkam in Kumudam, a Tamil weekly, her 'Agony aunt' column for Kumudam and more recently, 'Malavika order', a weekly column in Vijaya Karnataka, leading Kannada daily. Malavika has also held the position of head of programming at Zee Kannada.
AGNI, a talk show that Malavika hosted on E-TV Kannada brought out the sensitive side to her which was followed later by Baduku Jataka Bandi and is presently a huge success on Zee Kannada. In Baduku Jataka Bandi, Malavika deals with the most pertinent problems of individuals using her skills as an anchor as well as an Advocate, thereby providing an Alternate Dispute Resolution forum for resolving family issues. She also discusses burning social issues on her show.

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Mamta Mohandas

Mamta Mohandas

Mamta Mohandas is an Indian film actress and playback singer. She has mainly acted in Malayalam films, besides few Telugu and Tamil productions and one Kannada film. She has won two Filmfare Awards, for Best Female Playback Singer in Telugu in 2006 and for Best Actress in Malalayam in 2010.Mamta débuted in the 2005 Malayalam film Mayookham, directed by Hariharan. Although the film did not do well at the box office, Mamta attracted attention for her sensitive portrayal of Indira.
Subsequently, she acted alongside Mammootty in Bus Conductor, with Suresh Gopi in the films Adbutham (2006) and Lanka (2006), and alongside Jayaram in Madhuchandralekha (2006). She also played the female lead in Baba Kalyani with Mohanlal. Later that year, she débuted in the Tamil film industry, starring in the Karu Pazhaniappan-directed film Sivappathigaram opposite Vishal Krishna, which turned out to be an average grosser.In 2007 she acted with Mammootty in the blockbuster film Big B. She eventually stepped into the Telugu film industry as well, when she appeared in a supporting role in the film Yamadonga, directed by SS Rajamouli. The film became one of the biggest hits of the year. She had lent her voice for a couple of songs in this film too. In 2008, she appeared in 7 films, predominantly in Telugu-language films. Her first release was her début Kannada film Gooli. She then starred in the film Krishnarjuna, essaying the lead female role, which did not do well at the box office. Victory was her next assignment as lead actress, but that film also failed at the box office, following which she appeared in a cameo role in her only Tamil release that year, Kuselan, alongside Tamil superstar Rajinikanth. Three more Telugu releases featured Mamta, including Homam, directed by JD Chakravarthy and Srinu Vaitla's King opposite Nagarjuna. In both these films she also performed as a playback singer in several songs.
In 2009, she starred in the comedy film Guru En Aalu alongside Madhavan, and the thriller Passenger, sharing screen space with Dileep and Sreenivasan, respectively. While the former had an average run at the box office, the latter was declared a surprise sleeper hit in Malayalam. The film 'Passenger' in which she played the role of a television reporter 'Anuradha', became a turning point in mamta's career. In 2010, she worked with Jayaram in the critically acclaimed Kadha Thudarunnu directed by Sathyan Anthikkad, for which she won her first Best Actress Award from Filmfare. This film also won her the 'Vanitha award for best actress - Malayalam', the 'Mathrubhumi award for best actress - Malayalam' and the 'Asianet award for the best actress- Malayalam '. Other projects in 2010 included Musafir with Rahman, Anwar with Prithiviraj, and Kedi with Nagarjuna. Mamta's first film in 2011 was the Malayalam film Race, in which she played the role of Niya, wife of a cardio surgeon Abey (Kunchacko Boban). The film failed to do well at the box office. Her next release in Malayalam was Naayika. In 2012, Mamta appeared in her third Tamil film, Thadaiyara Thaakka directed by Magizh Thirumeni. Her most recent film is Paisa Paisa in which she was paired with Indrajith.[citation needed] She has completed filming for To Noora with Love in which she plays a Muslim character.

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Mandira Bedi

Mandira Bedi

Mandira Bedi is an Indian actress, fashion designer, model and television presenter who gained celebrity status playing the title role in the 1994 television serial, Shanti, shown on India's national channel, Doordarshan which was the first ever daily soap on Indian television.
She followed up her career in TV serials with shows like Aurat (DD and Sony), Dushman (DD) and Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (Star Plus) with hosting duties for ICC Cricket World Cups in the years 2003 and 2007 and the Champions Trophies in the years 2004 and 2006 as well as the Indian Premier League season 2 for Sony Max. She fronted the coverage of IPL season 3 for the British Network - ITV. She would debut as a Fashion Designer during Lakme Fashion Week 2014 with her Saree Collection.
Mandira Bedi also promoted faux leather for PETA.After her star-making turn in Shanti, Bedi appeared in a supporting role in the 1995 film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. She played "Mandira", in the popular Indian soap Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. She also appeared in a cameo role in the 2004 Tamil romantic thriller film, 'Manmadhan'. Among her other career highlights was a stint as one of the presenters on the Indian television talent contest/reality show, Fame Gurukul (which ended on 20 October 2005), replacing R. Madhavan as the anchor of Deal Ya No Deal, and performing hosting duties on the musical reality show Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star on STAR One, as well as posing for a photo layout in the men's magazine Maxim India.She was a judge for two comedy shows called Funjabi Chak De and Laughter Knights along with Navjot Sidhu on Star One. She was the first and only female winner in the first season of Fear Factor India, when it appeared on Sony Entertainment Television. She has endorsed brands like Asmi diamonds, South Africa Tourism, Leher namkeen, Dabur Vatika, Sree Ganesh Jewellery house, eBay India and Dettol extra.
She acted in and as Meera in Meerabai Not Out, a cricket-based feature film produced by PNC and Sony pictures which released in September 2008. She also appeared in the movie 42 Kms which was released in January 2010.
Ever since she turned cricket show anchor, she has hosted over 150 corporate events, shows and awards for companies like Asian Paints, HSBC, Cartier, ICICI bank, ING vysya, Anand Bazaar Patrika Group, Samsung, L&T, Deutsche Bank, BMW, Audi, LG, Canon, Citibank, Diageo, Accenture and Puma. With her involvement in cricket she was named the brand ambassador for the women's cricket team of India in 2004 and 2005 and toured a bit with the women's cricket team and was instrumental in getting them a few sponsorship deals in that period. Her tryst with fashion continued when she was made the brand ambassador and face of Satya Paul's cricket signature line of sarees.
She was the brand ambassador for Sony Max from 2004 to 2007. In 2008 she was involved in a summer campaign and music video for Nick. She has been actively involved in theatre and has acted in two plays: Laughing Wild (95 shows) and Anything But Love (150 shows). She has anchored many award ceremonies like the MTV Immies, the Car and Bike Awards 2008 for NDTV profit, the Environment awards for CNN-IBN in 2009, the 2004 edition of the ICC awards and two editions of the Ceat Cricket Ratings Awards (2004 and 2011). She has won two style awards: The MTV Lycra Style Award and the DNA Style Award for the most stylish person on television.
Bedi has appeared on the cover of many magazines like Femina, Maxim India, Prevention, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan. She has done many fashion features for magazines like Verve, Vogue India, Grazia, Elle and L'Officiel.
She presented coverage of the 2010 Indian Premier League (season 3) cricket on ITV which started on ITV4 on March 12, 2010. She presented the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 for English news channel with cricket commentator Charu Sharma. Charu and she were a regular at many cricket clubs in promoting the game Times Now. She is very active on Twitter and often presents the lighter side of cricket in rhymes.
After launching her own line of saris, on 26 October 2013 Mandira launched her signature Sari store.

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Manjari Phadnis

Manjari Phadnis

Manjari Phadnis (born 10 July 1984) is an Indian film actress, who has appeared in Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil language films. She is best known for her performance in the 2008 Hindi film Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na.Manjiri Phadnis started her career with Rok Sako To Rok Lo in 2004, but her big break was Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008) as the lead actor's girlfriend. Earlier she was part of the National Film Award-winning Bengali feature film Faltu and the highly unsuccessful Mumbai Salsa.
In 2008, her Telugu debut film Siddu From Srikakulam released, following which her first Tamil film Muthirai got released. Both performed poorly at the box office. Notably, she had sung a song under the direction of Yuvan Shankar Raja for Muthirai.
In September 2009 she signed to appear in a series of Onida television commercials. Her 2010 releases were the Telugu films Inkosaari and Shubhapradham. She then starred in the Walt Disney-produced superhero film Zokkomon, starring Darsheel Safary in the titular role. In 2011, she also appeared in an ad film for iBall brand of pen drvies. Her upcoming films are Mr. Fraud, which will mark her Malayalam debut and Wah Taj.

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Manju Bhargavi

Manju Bhargavi

Manju Bhargavi (born 1950) is an actress and dancer, best known for her performance in the Telugu blockbuster film Shankarabharanam (1979).She was trained as a classical dancer and performed at many dance shows. At one of these shows, filmmaker Prakash Rao saw her and cast her in a dance sequence for the Telugu film Gaalipataalu (1974). It led to dance numbers in hit films Krishnaveni (1974), Soggadu (1975) and Yamagola (1977). She was also seen as a vamp in Nayakudu-Vinayakudu opposite ANR. She was then cast in the film President Peramma where she performed a dance number, and then the film's director K. Vishwanath asked her to submit some photographs where she wasn't wearing any make-up. She complied and he liked the results and cast her in the lead role as an unglamorous dancer in his next film Shankarabharanam (1979), a film that broke box office records and became a landmark in Telugu cinema. Besides the dubbed version of Sankarabharanam, she has acted in some landmark Malayalam movies too. Although, she was very satisfied with the film as it gave her fame and respect, she didn't act in many films after that her 6 feet height being the reason, choosing to concentrate on her dance shows. Her husband is the son of a retired Chief Secretary.
His family is also originally from Andhra Pradesh but later settled in Bangalore, which is where she currently lives. She had twin sons with her husband, but one of her sons died of cancer in 2007. She runs a dance school in Bangalore, and because of that and her dance shows, she doesn't have much time to act in films, taking an occasional role when it fits into her busy schedule. . In 2008, she made her Kannada film debut in Hodi Maga playing Shivaraj Kumar's mother.
She is currently cast as Subbulakshmi in the popular TV serial Thangam on Sun TV.

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Aruna Irani

Aruna Irani

Aruna Irani is an Indian actress who has acted in over 300 films mostly playing supporting roles. She has danced in the songs "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai" from film Jyoti (1969), "Chadti Jawani Meri Chaal Mastani", "Dilbar Dilse Pyare", "Ab Jo Mile Hai" from film Caravan (1971), "Main Shayar To Nahi" from film Bobby (1973) and "Apni To Jaise Taise" from film "Lawaaris" (1981) amongst others. Her performance in both films won her nomination at Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Role. She holds the record for winning maximum nominations (10) in this category and received the award twice for her roles in Pet Pyaar Aur Paap (1985) and Beta (1993). In January 2012, she was honoured with Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award at the 57th Filmfare Awards function.Aruna Irani made her debut in the movie Gunga Jumna (1961) at nine years old playing Azra's character. After doing several small roles in films like Jahanara (1964), Farz (1967), Upkar (1967) and Aaya Sawan Jhoomke (1969). She later acted with comedian Mehmood Ali in films like Aulad (1968), Humjoli (1970), and Naya Zamana (1971).
In 1971, she starred in Caravan.
She latered starred in Mehmood Ali's Bombay To Goa (1972), Garam Masala (1972), and Do Phool (1973).
Her films have included Farz (1967), Bobby (1973), Fakira (1976), Sargam (1979), Love Story (1981), and Rocky (1981).
She won her first Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Pet Pyaar Aur Paap (1984).
In the late 1980s and 1990s Irani switched to playing motherly roles, notably in Beta (1992) for which she won her second Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. She acted in the Kannada remake of the same film and the same role. Some of her Marathi films are Changu Mangu, Lapwa Chapvi, Ek Gadi Baki Anadi and Bol Baby Bol.
In her later career, Irani also swithced to television performing character roles in various serials. She also took up to direction and production of tele-serials like Mehndi Tere Naam Ki, Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand, Rabba Ishq Na Hove,Vaidehi and more.
On Sunday 19 February 2012, she was awarded the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' at the annual Filmfare awards function in Mumbai.

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Aruna Shields

Aruna Shields

Aruna Shields is a British model. She debuted in Bollywood with the film Prince.Shields', while at a theatrical workshop, was spotted by an acting agent. Her earlier works include working in theater for over a year. She also worked in various other leads in independent and feature films like Mission Improbable (2007), Live Bait (1997) and Private Moments (2005).
She made her Bollywood debut in 2010, in the action thriller, Prince. The same year, It is also commonly said in India that She was in love With Vivek Obroi after shooting of Prince, she appeared in the epic adventure Ao The Last Neanderthal, a love story set 30,000 years ago in a lost savage world. The film was produced by European cinema chain UGC.
Her film Mr Singh Mrs Mehta, was released on 25 June 2010.
Aruna is also a dance choreographer and has experience as a belly dancer.
According to Google zeitgeist, in the year 2010, Aruna was the number one most sought-after actress in internet queries originating from India.

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Arundathi Nag

Arundathi Nag

Arundhati Nag (née Rao) (Kannada: ಅರುಂಧತಿ ನಾಗ್ - ರಾವ್) is a prominent South Indian polyglot film actress and theatre personality. She has been involved with multilingual Theatre in India, for over 25 years, first in Mumbai where she got involved with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), and did various productions in Gujarati, Marathi, and Hindi theatre, besides getting involved in television, director Jyoti Vyas's Gujarati TV series, Haji Aavti Kaal Che. Later and after her marriage to Kannada actor-director Shankar Nag (1954--1990), her association with theatre continued in Bangalore, culminating in realizing the dream project of her late husband, the Ranga Shankara theatre, at J P Nagar, a suburb in Bangalore. She was awarded the 2008 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Theatre Acting by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre. She was also awarded the 57th National Film Awards as best supporting actress for her role in Paa
Arundathi is the founder and the Managing Trustee of the Sanket Trust, established in 1992, which has Girish Karnad as its chairman, and which runs the Ranga Shankara, a Bangalore theatre which after four years of construction was inaugurated on 28 October 2004. Now the annual Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival has become a regular feature on Bangalore's cultural calendar.In 2006, she was awarded the 'Citizen Extraordinaire' Award by The Rotary Club of Bangalore. Arundathi's last major movie was the Kannada blockbuster Jogi, for which she also won the Karnataka Government's Best Supporting Actress award for the year 2005. Her most recent production has been Girish Karnad's Bikhre Bimb. Arundathi has also acted in other language films such as Minsara Kanavu (1997), dubbed into Hindi as Sapnay (1997), Dil Se.. (1998).
She has acted in the Indian National Award winning Marathi film 22 June 1897. In 2009, she acted in the film Paa. Her role earned her a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.

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Asawari Joshi

Asawari Joshi

Asawari Joshi (born 6 May 1965) is a popular Indian actress. She has acted in many Marathi language films and serials. She is famous for her role in Hindi TV series, Office Office. She has acted as Lovely Kapoor in Om Shanti Om, a movie which starred Shahrukh Khan. She is a relative of notable film actress Suhas Joshi. She is also best known for her role in Hindi serial Shake iT Up aired on Disney Channel which is the Indian version of American serial Shake It Up.

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Asha Saini

Asha Saini

Flora Asha Saini is an Indian film actress and model. She predominantly works in Telugu film industry, but has appeared in a number of Kannada, Tamil and Hindi productions as well. Since her debut in Prema Kosam (1999), she has acted in over 50 films and co-starred with noted actors including Rajinikanth, Vijaykanth, Prabhu, Karthik, Balakrishna, Venkatesh, Jagapati Babu and Rajasekhar.Born in Chandigarh, UT to an army officer, Flora began her schooling in Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir and continued her education in The Army Public School,Dhaula Kuan Delhi.She was the favorite student of Accounts teacher Lala. Her family moved to Kolkata then, where she started pursuing a modeling career. She participated at the Miss Kolkata beauty pageant contest. Flora made her acting debut in the 1999 Telugu film Prema Kosam in which she enacted the lead female role. The film producer of her first film rechristened her as Asha Saini, while years later she would adopt a new screen name, Mayuri, as per an astrologer's advice, before eventually reverting to her original name.
Flora subsequently essayed supporting roles in more than a dozen Telugu films in the next three years, with her appearance in the film Narasimha Naidu (2002), which went on to become highly successful,[6] being the most notable, which led to her being referred to as "Lux Papa" thereafter. In 2002, she debuted in Hindi, starring in the T. P. Aggarwal-produced Bharat Bhagya Vidhata.[8] Her second Hindi film Love in Nepal (2004) saw her pairing with popular playback singer Sonu Nigam, which too was produced by T. P. Aggarwal. Flora starred in several Kannada films, too, including Giri starring Srinagar Kitty and Nammannna starring Sudeep.
In March 2008, she was arrested in Chennai for supposedly having forged visa documents, and was subsequently banned from the Tamil film industry. She claimed innocence, and the ban was lifted a couple of weeks later.
Flora had three of her films, Broker (Telugu), Vismaya Pramaya and Vah Re Vah (both Kannada) releasing on 31 December 2010, a rare occurrence that secured her an entry in the Limca Book of Records for the most number of film releases on one day. In 2010, Flora Saini was honoured with the Uttarakhand Ratan Award. She has also received The Great Daughter of Soil Award in Mauritius for her work towards the poor and helpless.

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Ashima Bhalla

Ashima Bhalla

Ashima Bhalla is an Indian actress who has appeared in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Assamese language films. Bhalla made her debut with Pyaar Zindagi Hai film starring Mohnish Bahl and Rajesh Khanna.
She also went on to appear on television, portraying the lead role in the Indian soap Meri Awaz Ko Mil Gayi Roshni on Star Plus. Furthermore, she also participated in the show Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena alongside Irfan Pathan.

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Isha Koppikar

Isha Koppikar

Isha Koppikar (born 19 September 1976), is an Indian actress and model who has appeared in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi and Hindi films.Koppikar was born at Mahim, Mumbai in a Konkani family. She has one younger brother. She graduated in Life Sciences at Ramnarain Ruia College in Mumbai. While at college she appeared in a photoshoot for Indian photographer Gautam Rajadhyaksha. The shoot led to work in advertising as a model, notably for L'Oréal, Rexona, Camay, Tips & Toes and Coca-Cola. Koppikar competed in the 1995 Miss India contest, winning the Miss Talent Crown. Her modelling work gave her an introduction to the film industry and to her first film appearance in the Tamil movie Kaadhal Kavithai in 1998. Since then, Koppikar has made over forty films and has several Hindi films in production or due for release in 2010. She continues to model for fashion designers Anita Dongre and Pria Kataria Puri, and is currently the Indian representative of the Italian fashion company Police Watches and Jewellery. Outside her work in film, music and television, Koppikar is a spokesperson for the animal rights organisation PETA and received the 10th Anniversary Huminatarian Award in December 2009.[4] She has a black-belt in Taekwondo. Koppikar married her boyfriend Timmy Narang on 29 November 2009.

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Esha Deol

Esha Deol

Esha Deol (Born 2 November 1981) is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood films. She made her acting debut in Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe (2002). Deol was praised by film critics and her performance in the movie earned her numerous awards and nominations including the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
Deol earned critical acclaim for her performances and has mainly found success in multi-starrer movies. Deol's breakthrough role was in the critically acclaimed Tamil film Aayutha Ezhuthu (2004) and its Hindi remake Yuva (2004).
Deol's first commercial success was the multi-starrer action film Dhoom (2004) featuring her in a supporting role. It was followed by numerous multi-starrer movies including Dus (2005) and No Entry (2005) that were commercial successes at the box office and earned Deol critical acclaim. The majority of Deol's films earned critical acclaim for her performances in films including Ankahee (2006), Darling (2007) until she took a hiatus from acting. Deol made her comeback to acting with a lead role in Tell Me O Kkhuda (2011).

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Farah Naaz

Farah Naaz

Farah Naaz (born 9 December 1968) is a Bollywood actress of the 1980s and early 90s films. Her landmark films were Imaandaar(1987), Hamara Khandaan (1987), Woh Phir Ayegi(1988), Naqab (1989), Yateem (1989), Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri (1990) and Begunaah (1991) and Sautela Bhai(1996). She retired from acting at the peak of her career in 1990 at the age of 22. She worked with almost all of the top actors of her time, including Rajesh Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Mithun, Govinda, and Aamir Khan.Farah made her debut in 1985 with Yash Chopra's Faasle opposite Mahendra Kapoor's son Rohan Kapoor. Although Faasle was a disaster, Farah got many other big offers like Shakti Samanta's Paley Khan, K.C Bokadia's Naseeb Apna Apna and Pran Lal Mehta's Love 86.
She was part of hits like Marte Dam Tak, Naseeb Apna Apna, Love 86, Imaandaar, Ghar Ghar Ki Kahaani, Diljala, Rakhwala, Hamara Khandaan, Woh Phir Ayegi, Veeru Dada, Baap Ek Numbari Beta Dus Numbari, Begunaah and Muqabla. J.P Dutta's Yateem got her critical acclaim, and it was one of her performance-oriented roles, along with films such as Faasle, Naqaab, Khatarnaak and Pati Patni aur Tawaif, although they were commercial failures. Her performance in hit films - Woh Phir Ayegi and Begunaah were critically acclaimed. In the 1990s, she worked with Aamir Khan in two films, Jawani Jindabad and Isi Ka Naam Zindagi, but both flopped at box office. She was signed for Khuda Gawah and she shot for few scenes, but due to delays in production, she was later replaced with Shilpa Shirodkar. However, till date, her role in Actor-Producer-Director Ranjeet's 'Kaarnama' opposite Vinod Khanna and Woh Phir Ayegi are considered her best roles ever offered to her. By the same time, she got married to Dara Singh's son Vindu Dara Singh.
Farah then started playing supporting roles in films like Muqabla, Dhartiputra and Izzat Ki Roti. Muqabla was very successful but later her other films between 1993-1996 were not successful though Sautela Bhai was critically acclaimed. She later switched to television and did serials such as Amar Prem, Andaz, Ahaa (all three produced by Himesh Reshammiya), Vailayiti Babu and Papa. Farah was also planning a mega serial called Taqdeer, but shelved the project. She returned to films in 2004 with Hulchul.

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Freida Pinto

Freida Pinto

Freida Selena Pinto (born 18 October 1984) is an Indian actress and model. Hailing from a Mangalorean Catholic family, she wanted to become an actress from a young age. Prior to making her cinematic debut, she worked as a model and television presenter, and acted in plays while attending college. Pinto continued modeling for four years and enrolled herself in an acting course at the "Barry John's Acting Studio" in Mumbai, where she was trained by Barry John.
Pinto rose to prominence by playing the leading lady in the 2008 British drama film Slumdog Millionaire, a film that marked her debut. Her performance was well received, and she won the "Breakthrough Performance Award" at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In addition, she was nominated at various award ceremonies such as British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) and MTV Movie Awards. Since then she has starred in a number of British and American productions, notably You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Immortals (2011), and Trishna (2011), where she played the titular character.
Pinto is a part of the "Agassi Foundation", a philanthropic organization started by Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf which looks after providing education for deprived children.

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Feryna Wazheir

Feryna Wazheir

Feryna Wazheir is a British Asian actress. She was voted amongst most popular Bollywood actresses in 2010s. She began her acting career in amateur theatre and made her break in the industry after she was discovered by photographer Farock Chotia.
Since then Feryna has been a part of several Bollywood films including Ketan Mehta's Rang Rasiya/Colours of Passion with Randeep Hooda, Raj Kanwar's Sadiyaan opposite Shatrugan Sinha's son Luv Sinha and veteran actors such as Rekha, Rishi Kapoor and Hema Malini. Wazheir was also the brand ambassador of Kolkata's biggest jewellery brand, P.C. Chandra Jewellers, for two years.Feryna caught the attention of prominent directors in India due to her leading roles in music videos by A.R. Rehman and Hariharan. Soon after in 2010 she made her Bollywood debut in 'Sadiyaan' a Raj Kanwar film about the partition in India, which also boasted a star cast of Bollywood veterans Rekha, Hema Malini and Rishi Kapoor and for which Feryna was nominated for 'Best Debut Performance' for her role at the FilmFare Awards 2011. She was also voted amongst most popular bollywood actresses for this film under 2010s. The late Yash Chopra, India's top filmmaker once said that she is 'beauty, innocence and vulnerability personified'. Feryna then acted in Ketan Mehta's yet to be released 'Rang Rasiya', which won the Audience Award at London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) in 2011. In the movie, which is based on 19th century Indian painter, Raja Ravi Varma's life, Feryna plays a journalist and the third woman in his life. Following her festival accolade, Feryna was appointed official Brand Ambassador for the London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) 2012. She reprised her role as the face of LIFF in 2013. In 2012, Feryna also did a short film 'Khaana' directed by LIFF's creative director Cary Sawhney. The film explores the boundaries between home and the outside world and Feryna plays a young orthodox Muslim woman who loves the British dish of fish and chips and confronts cultural barriers. Feryna's powerful performance earned her rave reviews and challenged the idea of British identity. The film, which has toured the festival circuit in the US, won the 'Future Filmmaker Award 2012' at the Palm Springs Short Film Festival 2012 and 'best short film' at The New York film festival 2013.

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Kamalinee Mukherjee

Kamalinee Mukherjee

Kamalinee Mukherjee (born 4 March) is an Indian actress. She has predominantly appeared in Telugu films as well as in a few Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali and Kannada language films.
After graduating with a degree in English literature, she completed a workshop on theatre in Mumbai because of her strong background in it. She made her acting debut in Phir Milenge (2004), a film that was based on the subject of AIDS. She gained recognition in the multiple-award winner, Anand.After a brief meeting, actor-director Revathi offered her a role in her second directorial venture, Phir Milenge that revolved around the subject of AIDS. Though initially apprehensive about her entering into the acting profession, her parents were very supportive. In the film, she plays a radio jockey and the younger sibling to Shilpa Shetty in the film. Despite the fact that hers was not a lead character, she had ample role to play in the film.
Around the time Phir Milenge happened to Mukherjee in Hindi films, Sekhar Kammula, a relatively new director from the Telugu film industry was in the process of casting for his next Telugu film, Anand. After noticing her in an ad-film, Kammula selected her for the role. She said that the role of an independent and modern woman, which was just like her own personality, appealed to her. When asked about her thoughts on a total change of working environment from Bollywood to Tollywood, she said that the only difference was with the language. With her being a Bengali and not knowing Telugu, well-known singer and television host, Sunitha lent her voice for the film.
Godavari, which was Sekhar Kammula's next film, starred Sumanth and Mukherjee in the lead roles. This drama film, which had the Godavari River in the backdrop, dealt with a romantic love story between the lead characters. Mukherjee portrayed the role of a woman with independent thinking and tremendous inner strength, under the "backdrop of middle/upper middle class sensibilities, new aspirations, identity crisis, independence, yearnings and moreover, parental concerns." The film received predominantly positive reviews, and Mukherjee's role was particularly praised. While one review said that she was "beautiful ... both in looks and in her measured acting style," another review praised her for the "intense yet cool portrayal." She made her Tamil debut in 2006 in Gowtham Menon's Vettiyadu Velliyadu starring Kamal Hassan in which her brief role had an enduring impact. Following this, came Gamyam by Krish, a film widely praised by critics and audiences alike and subsequently remade in Tamil and Kannada, both of which featured Kamalinee in the lead role. Gamyam was the only regional film from the south to be in the running for India's entry to the Academy Awards apart from sweeping both the Nandi and Filmfare Awards.
In 2009, she played the role of Latin Christian woman, Pemenna, in Kutty Srank, directed by award-winning director, Shaji N. Karun and starring Malayalam matinee idol, Mammooty. The film swept the national awards, winning in six categories including Best Film. She garnered tremendous praise for her portrayal of a young Latin Christian girl discovering her own sexuality and passion for forbidden love. 2012 gave Kamalinee the opportunity to debut in her native language Bengali, in National Award winning Director, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhary's Aparajita Tumi starring Bengali superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee. The film met with critical and commercial success and she garnered positive reviews. As per one review "The character of Ushashie, played by Kamalinee, is perhaps the most interesting one in the movie. The actress is stunning in her portrayal of a lonely, frustrated woman who runs through an entire gamut of emotions -- right from resentment and self-pity, to anger, vengeance and finally, an inner sense of guilt". Following Aparajita Tumi, she also appeared in legendary director K Raghavendra Rao's devotional film, Shirdi Sai with Telegu superstar Nagarjuna. Her next project was in new-age Malayalam director, VK Prakash's Natholi Cheriya Meenalla, where she played a quirky character opposite Fahad Faasil.

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Kamna Jethmalani

Kamna Jethmalani

Kamna Jethmalani is an Indian film actress. She debuted in 2005 with the Telugu film Premikulu and had her first commercial success with her third feature film Ranam. Subsequently, she played the lead role in a number of Telugu-language films, while also debuting and appearing in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada films.She appeared in the video of "Chodd Do Aanchal Zamaana Kyaa Kehega" by Bombay Vikings in 2004. The following year, she made her movie debut with the Telugu film Premikulu. Though that film flopped, her second film Ranam was a big hit. Her first Tamil film was Idhaya Thirudan with Jayam Ravi. She did an item number in the film Sainikudu. She has acted in Machakaaran opposite Jeevan. Since then, she has done several south Indian films, in which she performed the lead role.

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Kashmira Shah

Kashmira Shah

Kashmira Shah (born 2 December 1970 in Mumbai) is an Indian actress and model. She is the granddaughter of noted Hindustani classical singer, Anjanibai Lolekar. She has appeared in numerous Hindi and Marathi films. Shah is a half Maharashtrian and half Gujarati. She has also won many beauty contests such as Miss University World and Miss India talent winner.

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Kaviyoor Ponnamma

Kaviyoor Ponnamma

Kaviyoor Ponnnamma is a veteran Indian film actress.As a five-year old, she learned music and used to sing in stage shows. She did not see many movies. She started acting in dramas when she was 14 years old, starting off with Mooladhanam of Thoppil Bhasi. After five years, came her first movie Kudumbini, in which she did the title role of the mother of two kids.She was born to T P Damodharan and Gauri, as eldest of seven children, on September 10, 1945 in Kaviyoor, Travancore . Ponnamma was married to producer Maniswami. The couple has a daughter Bindhu who is settled in the United States. Her husband Maniswami died in 2011.
The roles of Kaviyoor Ponnamma-Mohanlal duo as mother and son are very popular in malayalam movies.

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Kavya Madhavan

Kavya Madhavan

Kavya Madhavan is an Malayalam film actress who works in Malayalam cinema. She made her debut in Pookkalam Varavayi (1991) as a child artist. As a heroine Kavya's debut film was Lal Jose's Chandranudikkunna Dikhil (1999) while she was in the ninth standard. It was a super hit and from then on there was no looking back. She won the Kerala State Film Award for Best actress twice, for her performances in the films Perumazhakkalam (2004) and Gaddama (2010).She first appeared as a child actor in Kamal's film Pookkalam Varavayi (1991), she was just 7 years of age when she acted in the movie. Her talent was soon recognised, and she was offered other projects such as Pavam IA Ivachan (1994) and Azhakiya Ravanan (1996). It was Azhakiya Ravanan directed by Kamal which got her got more public attention. She did a lot of movies after that mostly as a child actor.
She was offered the female lead in Chandranudikkunna Dikhil (1999) which was the second movie by director Lal Jose who also assisted Kamal in Azhakiya Ravanan. She was in ninth standard when she did the movie. The movie was an instant hit due to the versatile cast, music and story narration and brought both Kavya and Dileep into the limelight.
After her leading role, she became popular in the Malayalam film industry. It has been claimed[by whom?] that she was the busiest female actress in Malayalam. She is also a trained dancer and has won many awards and accolades.[citation needed]
After the success of Chandranudikkunna Dikhil, Kavya and Dileep become very popular pairing Malayalam cinema, producing several big hits and the pair went on to do 18 movies together. Some of their popular movies include Thenkasipattanam (2000), Darling Darling (2000), Meesa Madhavan (2002) which was one of biggest grosser of the year and was directed by Lal Jose, Mizhi Randilum (2003) in which she played a double role, Sadanandante Samayam (2003), Thilakkam (2003)directed by Jayaraj, Runway (2004) directed by Joshiy, Kochi Rajavu(2005), Lion (2006) again directed by Joshiy, Chakkara Muthu (2006), Inspector Garud (2007), Paappi Appacha (2010), Vellaripravinte Changathi (2011). Most of their movies were in the romantic comedy genre.
Soon after the divorce with Nishal went on act with her most successful partner onscreen Dileep for Pappy Appacha. Later on she acted in many movies with veteran Superstars of Malayalam cinema such Mammootty and Mohanlal. She also acted in multi-starrer movies like Christian Brothers and China Town.
She got critical acclaim for her performance of the role of Ganga in Perumazhakkalam for which she won 2004 Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress and for the role of Ashwati in Gaddama for the role of house maid working in Saudi Arabia. The movie was based on a feature by K. U. Iqbal, published in Bhashaposhini. The movie was directed by her mentor Kamal and she got her second Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress for 2011. She also won 2011 Kerala Film Critics Awards for Best Actress, Amrita-FEFKA Film Awards for Best Actress, Best Actress-Malayalam cinema in 59th Filmfare Awards South and Best Actress in Thikkurissy Foundation Awards. She was also nominated in National film award for Best Actress but lost out in the final round. She also was cast in Adoor Gopalakrishnan movie Naalu Pennungal in which she played a supporting role.
Though she had many offers from Tamil cinema, she was very reluctant to act due to her busy schedule in Malayalam. Her first was Kasi (2001) which was the remake of Vinayans Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum. She went on to act in En Mana Vaanil and Sadhu Miranda and enjoyed moderate success.
She wrote lyrics for the song "En Khalbillulloru Pennaanu" for the film One Way Ticket.[9] She sang her first movie song for the Malayalam film Matinee (2012).

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Keerthi Reddy

Keerthi Reddy

Keerthi Reddy is an Indian former film actress. She has acted in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies.In 2000, Reddy made her Bollywood debut in Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa opposite Abhishek Bachchan. Her next film Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat featured her as Isha Nair opposite the debutant Arjun Rampal. Her role was of a girl who was loved by three men Gaurav Saxena, Yash Sabarwal and Taj Bharadwaj. The latter two roles were portrayed by Suniel Shetty and Aftab Shivdasani. In 2002, Reddy had a supporting role in Badhaai Ho Badhaai opposite Anil Kapoor and Shilpa Shetty. After a career in Bollywood, she stopped acting in Hindi films.
In 2002, Reddy acted in Super Star, her only Kannada film. In 2004, Reddy acted in the Telugu film Arjun starring telugu heartthrob and superstar Mahesh Babu, for which she received her only award, a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award in Telugu.

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Ileana D'Cruz

Ileana D'Cruz

Ileana D'Cruz (born 1 November 1987) is an Indian film actress, who predominantly appears in Telugu movies. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut -- South for the 2006 Telugu film Devadasu. She has appeared in films like Pokiri (2006), Jalsa (2008), Kick (2009), and Julayi (2012), establishing herself as one of Telugu cinema leading actresses. D'Cruz made her Kollywood debut with Kedi and made a comeback in Shankar's Nanban (2012). In 2012, she made her Bollywood debut with Anurag Basu's critically and commercially successful Barfi!, for which she received critical appreciation and the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.In 2005, D'Cruz was called for an audition by director Teja, but the project was cancelled. She instead made her feature film debut in the Telugu language romance film Devadasu (2006), directed by Y. V. S. Chowdhary. She underwent acting classes with Aruna Bhikshu, before starting to work on the film. She recalls that during filming she felt "pressured almost cried and didn't want to go further", but went ahead after her mother encouraged her, giving her "the lecture of a lifetime at 3 am." A review from Indiaglitz stated that she "has chiseled features and a figure to die-for." Devadasu became the year's first major commercial success, eventually grossing around INR140 million, whilst earning D'Cruz the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debutant. She next appeared in the gangster film Pokiri in which she portrayed an aerobics teacher, who is harassed by a corrupt police officer. The film was a high financial success, emerging as the highest-grossing Telugu film at the time.
She made her Tamil-language film debut in Kedi (2006). Although the film did not do so well at the box-office, D'Cruz remained too busy to accept all the film roles offered to her. Her Telugu film Khatarnak (2006) in which she acted opposite Ravi Teja did not do as well as expected, which has been attributed to her glamorous appearance not going down well with the audience. She subsequently experienced a setback in her career as her following releases Rakhi (2006) and Munna (2007) proved critically and financially successful.
D'Cruz's career took a turn for the better[vague] with the release of her well-received 2007 film Aata. She received favorable reviews for her performance as Satya, a college student who is on the run from the home minister's crooked son by whom she is targeted, when leading a protest and demanding punishment for his crimes. In 2008, she performed the female lead role in the action film Jalsa, directed by Trivikram Srinivas. D'Cruz received largely positive remarks, with critics citing that she looked "pretty", "damn cool", and "every bit chic and stunning throughout the film", while being later awarded the Santosham Award, one of five awards for Jalsa, and the South Scope Style Award, besides garnering a nomination for the Best Actress prize at the 56th Filmfare Awards South. Her first 2009 release, titled Kick, was likewise declared a box office success, becoming one of the highest-grossing films that year.
Later that year she starred in the films Rechipo and Y. V. S. Choudary's Saleem both of which performed poorly at the box office.
D'Cruz made her Hindi debut with Anurag Basu's Barfi! In addition to playing the role of the narrator, she portrayed the character of Shruti Ghosh, a girl who leaves her true love for material comforts. The movie released on 14 September 2012, to highly positive reviews from critics, and was a major commercial success, earning INR1.75 billion (US$29 million) worldwide. D'Cruz's performance was well received, earning her a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award, as well as a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. Rachit Gupta from Filmfare said "This is Ileana's first film but her fantastic performance is just a testament why the Telugu audience consider her a superstar. Of course it also helps that she is the most visually appealing in Barfi! out shining even the scenic hills of Darjeeling". Rajeev Masand stated "Ileana leaves a lasting impression in her Hindi film debut, conveying both love and pain through those beautiful, expressive eyes". The film was screened at the Busan International Film Festival, Marrakech International Film Festival and was chosen as India's official entry to the Oscars for the 85th Academy Awards.
She next appeared in the Rajkumar Santoshi action comedy film Phata Poster Nikhla Hero opposite Shahid Kapoor. The film released on September 20, 2013 to mixed reviews, and the film was eventually declared a flop at the box office. However, D'Cruz received mixed to positive reviews for her performance, with the Times of India saying that she was "good with emotions but not so tuned into comedy yet."
Her other projects includes Main Tera Hero, produced by Balaji Motion Pictures Happy Ending and a project with Nikhil Advani.

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Ilene Hamann

Ilene Hamann

Ilene Hamann (born 9 June 1984) is an actress and model from South Africa.Hamann kicked her career off in 2003 by traveling off to India, Dubai, and Australia for modeling jobs. In South Africa, she was booked for advertisement job in such places as Truworths, Foschini, and American Swiss. In India, her job highlights included editorials for Elle and L'Officiel (including a cover). During her seasons in Cape Town, she was booked for British designer Stewart Parvin's print advertising campaign, the bauknecht catalogue, Stihl power tools, and various others. Hamann is represented by Faith Models in South Africa and managed internationally by Star Born Talent.
Hamann began her film career in Bollywood with Rog, making her the first South African model to be cast in such a leading role.

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Iniya

Iniya

Shruti Sawant (born 22 January 1993), better known by her stage name Iniya, is an Indian film actress, who works in the South Indian film industries.She acted in several Malayalam television series, short films and telefilms as a child artist. While studying in class four, she acted in the telefilm Koottilekku, which was followed by appearances in tele-serials Orma and Sree Guruvayoorappan by Vayalar Madhavan Kutty. Iniya won the Miss Trivum title in 2005, following which she did modeling and appeared in several television advertisements as well as a number of Malayalam award-winning art films, including Saira (2006), directed Dr. Biju, Dalamarmarangal (2009) and Umma (2011), both directed by Vijayakrishnan She also played a pivotal role in Rajesh Touchriver's short feature The Sacred Face, which focusses on child abuse. In 2010, she starred in a Tamil film Padagasalai and signed up four more Tamil films, all of which were cancelled or remain unreleased. She next played a supporting role as the sister to Cheran's character in Mysskin's mystery thriller Yuddham Sei. Director A. Sarkunam signed her for the female lead character in his period piece Vaagai Sooda Vaa (2011), for which she changed her screen name to Iniya. Her portrayal of a tea stall owner was lauded by critics. Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff wrote that she was a "welcome find", describing her as "natural, appealing, and very expressive". She played as a medical student and love interest of the hero in the film Mouna Guru co-starring Arulnidhi. Bharathiraja signed her for his film Annakodiyum Kodiveeranum, being impressed with her performance in Vaagai Sooda Vaa, but after the script was changed, her role was removed from the film.
She was part of a number of offbeat films in Malayalam like Ayaal, Bhoopadathil Illatha Oridam and Radio. In 2014, she was first seen as herself in Vikraman's Ninaithathu Yaaro and later in Pulivaal, the Tamil remake of the Malayalam film Chaappa Kurishu. She has been signed for Madhu Kaithapram's In the Limelight in which she plays a dancer.

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Isha Chawla

Isha Chawla

Iisha Chaawla born on 6 March 1988 in Delhi, is an Indian film actress, appearing primarily in Telugu films. Chawla made her debut in Tollywood with Prema Kavali opposite Debutant Aadi under K. Vijay bhaskars direction. Premakvali received an overwhelming response at the box office and Chaawla made her place in the industry with her first film itself. Chaawla was not only appreciated by her audiences for her histrionics but also received "The Most Promising Face (2012) MAA Award".Chaawla started her career with theatre group what IFF Mumbai,she did a three month training program in acting from Baary John Acting Studio after which she continued doing theatre. Chaawla did a few commercial adds and many corporate shoots.
She made her film debut with K. Vijay Bhaskar's Prema Kavali in 2011 under the RR Movie Makers Banner, which went onto be a big success and ran for over 100 days. Chaawla was appreciated for her performance and also received the most promising face of the year Award.
Even though the success of Prema Kavali fetch her many offers, Chaawla's love towards theatre took her bak to gurgaon to do theatre with disabled children.
Chaawla made her break through with her second release opposite Sunil in Poolarangadu in 2012 which did wonders at the Box Office and left the young actress flooded with praises. Her second release in 2012 was Srimannarayana alongside actor BalaKrishna which happened to be yet another hit, Chaawla got compliments for her comedy timing.
After three consecutive films under RR Movie Makers the actress signed her first outside RR movie maker film Mr. Pellikodku which was a remake of the Hindi film Tanu weds Manu. She said "I feel fortunate to have been offered this role". though the film Mr. Pellikudku released in 2013 received mixed reviews and a lukewarm response at the Box Office, the actress gathered both criticism and praises for choosing to do the bold character of TANU.
Chaawla will next be seen in Ms Raju's RUM in which she plays the character of Meneka an outgoing modern girl. there happen to be some stunts in the film which would be performed under the guidance of vijjayan master. She wrote on a social networking site" did my first rope shot today, have some bruises, but i guess i can live with it". She is currently under shooting for Virat Kannada starring opposite Darshan.

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Isha Sharvani

Isha Sharvani

Isha Sharvani (born 29 September 1984 in Gujarat, India) is an Indian Contemporary dancer and actress. She is known for her stylistic Indian contemporary and aerial dance performances. She has also starred in some Bollywood and other Indian films.Isha never gave acting in Bollywood too much priority, until she was spotted by Subhash Ghai who required someone with talented dancing skills to perform in his movie Kisna (2005). He offered her a main role in the film opposite Vivek Oberoi. The film did not do well but her dance performances were appreciated. She was also the dancer opposite Hritik Roshan in the Parle Hide & Seek commercial, performing a much appreciated dance duet with Hritik.
Since then she has continued her dance performances on stage, as well as signing for several additional movies which were released in 2006 and 2007. She appeared as a female lead in the Hindi comedy Darwaza Bandh Rakho in 2006.
She is currently the lead dancer in the Daksha Sheth Dance Company, and has performed in front of live audiences throughout the world, including Mumbai, London, Perth and Muscat.
Isha joined the dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 5 as a participant which was aired on Colors TV. She was much appreciated for her dance performances in the show.
In 2013, she played the titular role as a housebreaker in the Malayalam short film Esha, a part of the anthology 5 Sundarikal.

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Chaya Singh

Chaya Singh

Chaya Singh (ಕನ್ನಡ: ಛಾಯಾ ಸಿಂಗ್) is an Indian actress, born 16 May 1981 in Bangalore. She started her acting career in Kannada films and has worked in Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Telugu and Oriya films. She has a reputation of being very selective in her roles.Her parents had migrated from Uttar Pradesh to Karnataka before her birth. She belongs to a Rajput family. Chaya grew up in Bangalore. She did her schooling at Lourdes School, Bangalore and studied for her Plus Two there.
Her first film role was in Munnudi. She went to do more films in Kannada including Haseena which was directed by Girish Kasaravalli, Thuntata, which was a success, Dinesh Babu's Chitte and Sai Prakash's Rowdy Aliya.
After having few chances in the Kannada industry she migrated to Tamil movies. Chaya Singh's most famous movie is Thiruda Thirudi in Tamil which has the popular song Manmadharasa. She also acted in its Kannada remake Sakha Sakhi, which unlike the original was not successful. Chaya later acted in little known films Kavithai and Jaisurya  and did item numbers in Arul and Thirupaachi, though she stated that she dislikes doing them. She returned to Tamil with Vallamai Tharayo  and then starred in the supernatural thriller Anandhapurathu Veedu.
She has performed in Akasha Gange in Kannada which released in 2008. About her performance in the film, Rediff wrote, "The highlight of the film is Chaya Singh who has come out with an outstanding performance as a music teacher who comes to her lover's house to win over his family". Sify wrote, "This is Chaya Singh's yet another best performance. She speaks from her lovely eyes". She acted in the Kannada short film Simply kailawesome which won the prestigious Platinum Remi Award at the 44th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. The film made on playwright T. P. Kailasam revolves around conversations between Kailasam and female protagonists from four of his plays. Chaya Singh played all the four characters: Paatu from Tollugatti, Eeke from Gandaskathri, Venkamma from Home Rule and Sule from the play Sule.
She has acted in two Malayalam films, too, Mullavalliyum Thenmavum and Police, both directed by V. K. Prakash. In 2008 she was acting in two Bhojpuri films. Her first Bhojpuri release was Mahamaayi. She has directed a Bengali film, too.
She has done supporting roles in Kannada TV shows such as E-TV's Sarojini and Prema Kathegalu. She has acted in Tamil serial Nagamma, airing on Sun TV. She was a judge in the show Kuniyonu Bara on a Kannada television channel. Since 2012, she acts in Telugu serial "Kanchna Ganga", airing on Maa TV. She is currently acting in the Tamil film Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal.

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Deepika Chikhalia

Deepika Chikhalia

Deepika Chikhalia (born 29 April 1965) is an Indian actress who rose to fame playing Sita in Ramanand Sagar's hit television series Ramayan and was known for acting in other mythological TV serials.She was also known for her successful debut film Sun Meri Laila(1983) opposite Raj Kiran and 3 Hindi films with Rajesh Khanna and one Kannada hit film Hosa Raga(1990), one Tamil hit film Nangal(1992) with Prabhu, one Bengali hit film Asha O Balobasha(1989) opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee.Deepika made her debut as lead actress in Sun Meri Laila(1983) opposite Raj Kiran but though her debut film was successful, she did not get A grade films till 1987. Chikhalia was part of the popular television serial Dada Daadi Ki Kahani in 1985. She meanwhile did supporting roles in flop films like Bhagwan Dada(1986), Kala Dhanda Goray Log(1986), Doorie(1989) and played lead heroine in B grade horror film Cheekh(1986) and Raat Ke Andhere Mein (1987) which were box office duds. Later on in 1987, she played the female lead role of Sita in Ramanand Sagar's hit television series Ramayan which gave her national fame. She continued getting lead roles in hit TV serials like Vikram Aur Betaal(1988), The Sword of Tipu Sultan and Luv Kush (both in 1989). Her only hits in Hindi films were Ghar Ka Chiraag (1989) and Rupaye Dus Karod (1991), both of which had Rajesh Khanna in the lead and she had supporting roles with lesser footage in these films. She got more footage in the film Khudai, but the film was commercial failure in 1994. She played romantic lead of Rajesh Khanna in 2 films Ghar Ka Chirag and Khudai. Her Kannada film as the lead heroine opposite Shankar Nag was a box office hit in 1990 and her Bengali films Asha O Bhalobasha(1989) opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee and Tamil film Naangal (1992) opposite Prabhu were box office hits. She met with limited success in Hindi films in the after 1992, as Sanam Aap Ki Khatir(1992) flopped which had her in as main lead heroine, she only got supporting roles in Hindi films. Chikhalia followed up her television and film career with a move into politics, riding her fame as a religious icon to an election victory as a Member of Parliament in the Indian Lok Sabha from Baroda constituency in 1991 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.

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Deepika Kamaiah

Deepika Kamaiah

Deepika Kamaiah (Kannada: ದೀಪಿಕಾ ಕಾಮಯ್ಯ) is an Indian model turned film actress. She has appeared in South Indian films in addition to Bollywood films. Kamaiah was one of the finalists in the Femina Miss India South beauty pageant in 2009. After modeling for about five years, Kamaiah made her debut in the 2011 released Tamil film, Aanmai Thavarael.Kamaiah was born in Bangalore. She began her modelling career while she was studying her class 11. She went on to become one of the finalists in the Femina Miss India South beauty pageant in the year 2009. She also won the Lycra MTV Style Awards in the year 2010. While she was still juggling between her modeling assignments and studies, a film offer came through a Tamil director, Kulaindai Veerappan for his directorial, Aanmai Thavarael. However her role went unnoticed without any recognition from the critics.
Kamaiah landed her first major role through the Kannada film Chingari (2012), an adaptation of Taken, directed by Harsha. She acted alongside Darshan and Bhavana in the lead role. The film centered around human trafficking went on to be one among the top-grosser for the year. Her portrayal of Geetha, trapped under the human trafficking earned her favorable reviews with Rediff commenting "Deepika comes as a whiff of fresh air and does an adequate job for a newcomer". NDTV Movies reviewer praised for her "hardwork to make her presence felt". Following this success, she was offered many films in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages. However, she accepted a role of a protagonist for the film Neene Bari Neene directed by Deepak Thimmaiah.
She also subsequently signed for the upcoming film Auto Raja which also stars Ganesh and Bhama in the lead roles. She is also making her Bollywood debut in the Rajkumar Santoshi directorial Phata Poster Nikla Hero which stars Shahid Kapoor and Ileana D'Cruz. Kamaiah plays a cameo as a village girl and would be seen in the initial portions of the film .

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Devika

Devika

Devika or Prameela Devi was a Tamil and Telugu actress. She is regarded as a versatile and graceful heroine of her era. She was known for her natural beauty which was the key in her casting in mythological films like Karnan, thiruvilaiyadal. Her notable films are Sumaithangi, Nenjil oru Aalayam and Marakka Mudiyuma. She started acting at the age of 12. Her spectacular performances made a heart throbe of many people in those days as expressed by Tamil writer Sujatha in one of his old essays.

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Bindu Madhavi

Bindu Madhavi

Bindu Madhavi is an Indian model and film actress, who mainly works in Tamil and Telugu films. After starting her acting career in Telugu cinema, she shifted to Tamil cinema where she was part of several successful films.Madhavi was born in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh. Her father was an deputy commissioner in commercial tax department, due to which her family moved to various places including Tirupati, Nellore, Guntur, Vijayawada and Hyderabad, before settling in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, where she did her studies and completed her degree in Biotechnology from Vellore Institute of Technology. She had one brother who died in 2012.
While in college, she started modelling, her first assignment being for Saravana Stores. She had the desire to act in films but her family was strictly against her entering the film industry, with Madhavi citing that her father did not speak to her for eight months and that her mother too was upset. She met celebrity photographer Venket Ram in Chennai who agreed to do a portfolio shoot for her. She stated that Venket Ram was "amazingly helpful", as her gave her advice and that he was "the closest to a godfather I have in tinsel town".
She did more modelling and went to appear in television advertisements. Thanks to her work in a Tata Gold Tanishq advertisement, she was auditioned and selected by noted Telugu director Sekhar Kammula to act in his production, Avakai Biryani, while she also landed a supporting role in Cheran's Tamil film Pokkisham (2009). Her other release of 2009 was Bumper Offer, opposite Sairam Shankar, which was produced by noted director Puri Jagannadh. She later appeared in the film Om Shanti which released in 2010. Producer Dil Raju signed her for Rama Rama Krishna Krishna alongside Ram and Arjun Sarja. The movie released in May 2010. She was later signed by director Gautham Menon for his production Veppam that was directed by his associate Anjana Ali Khan, and featured her in the role of a sex worker.
After Veppam, Bindu Madhavi shifted her focus to the Tamil industry as she received more Tamil film offers. Her next Tamil release Kazhugu was a success at the box office. In 2013 she was seen in Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga, Desingu Raja and Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam all of which were hits. She stated that Kazhugu and Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga were "two films that changed my life". Her first 2014 release was Chimbu Deven's Oru Kanniyum Moonu Kalavaniyum. Her upcoming films are Tamiluku En Ondrai Aluthavum and Kalukkuray Maaplay in which she plays the role of a police sub-inspector.

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