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The leading ladies of Bollywood that I have selected are certainly among
the most beautiful women in the world as these photographs and
information about their background illustrates. I have also
provided pictorial slide shows that are enjoyable to watch and provide a
lot more pictures of these incredible stars of the Indian Cinema.
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Aishwarya
Slide Show Priyanka versus Aishwarya
Slide Show 2
Aishwarya
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
or Aishwarya Bachchan (Birthname: Aishwarya
Rai;
Tulu: ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯಾ
ರೈ; born
November 1,
1973) is an
internationally known Indian actress. Before starting
her career as an actress, she worked as a model, and
gained fame after winning the
Miss World
contest in 1994. Often touted as the most beautiful woman
in the world, Aishwarya is considered by many including
Julia Roberts and Roger Ebert to indeed be the most
beautiful woman in the world. She certainly gets
my vote. Rai made her movie debut in
Mani Ratnam's
Tamil film,
Iruvar
(1997). She had her first commercial success in the
Tamil movie
Jeans
(1998) She came to the attention of Bollywood in the
Hindi movie,
Hum Dil De Chuke
Sanam (1999), which was directed
by
Sanjay Leela
Bhansali. She successfully performed
again in Bhansali's
Devdas
(2002). Since then, she has acted in nearly forty movies
in
Hindi,
Tamil,
Bengali,
and
English,
including the international movies,
Bride & Prejudice
(2003),
Mistress of Spices
(2006) and
The Last Legion
(2007) in English. Rai was born in
Mangalore, as
the daughter of Krishnaraj Rai, a marine biologist, and
Vrinda Rai, a writer. Her family belongs to the
Bunt community
of Mangalore. She has one elder brother, Aditya Rai, who
is an engineer in the merchant navy and also co-produced
one of Rai's movies,
Dil Ka Rishta
(2003).
After she was born, her
parents moved to
Bombay (now
called Mumbai) where she attended the Arya Vidya Mandir
high school in
Santa Cruz. Rai
then entered
Jai Hind College
at
Churchgate for
one year, and then moved to
Ruparel College
in Matunga to finish her "HSC" studies. She did well in
school and planned to become an architect.
She can communicate in 5 languages :-
Tulu, English, Tamil, Hindi and Marathi. While pursuing
her studies in
architecture,
Rai began modeling on the side. In the 1994
Miss India
contest, she won the second place (behind
Sushmita Sen),
and went on to win the
Miss World title
the same year, where she also won the Miss Photogenic
award. She abandoned her studies after winning the
pageant and spent one year reigning as Miss World in
London. Rai then
started working as a professional model and then moved
on to her current profession as an actress.
Rai has previously dated model Rajeev
Mulchandani and Bollywood actors
Salman Khan and
Vivek Oberoi.
She is now married to Indian actor
Abhishek Bachchan
an extremely popular leading man and mega
movie star in his own right and a frequent co-star with Aishwarya.
The wedding took place on
April 20,
2007.
Rai made her acting debut in
Mani Ratnam's
Tamil film,
Iruvar
(1997) with
Mohanlal,
and was introduced to
Bollywood in the
film,
Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya
opposite
Bobby Deol,
which also released that year; the film didn't do well
at the box office.
However, her third project,
S. Shankar's
Tamil film,
Jeans (1998)
was a critical and commercial success, earning her the
Filmfare Best Actress Award South.
She went on to appear in many
Bollywood films; a few successful films of her career
include
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
(1999), which earned the actress her first
Filmfare Best Actress Award
and
Taal (1999),
which gave her another nomination for Best Actress
at the
Filmfare; her
performances in both the films were lauded.
In 2000, she played a supporting role in the hit films
Mohabbatein
and
Josh. Later
that year, she starred in the Tamil film
Kandukondain Kandukondain,
which won her positive reviews.
In 2002, Rai appeared with superstars
Shah Rukh Khan
and
Madhuri Dixit in
Sanjay Leela Bansali's lavishly produced
Devdas. The
film attracted overseas attention as well, receiving a
special screening at the
Cannes Film Festival.
It was during this time that she garnered the attention
of the West as an Indian actress and went on to appear
in a few
Hollywood
projects. Devdas went on to become the highest
grossing film of the year both in
India
and overseas,
earning the actress her second
Filmfare Best Actress Award.
As her name gained popularity
overseas, she was chosen by
Time
magazine in 2004 as one of the World's "100 Most
Influential People", and appeared on the cover of
Time
magazine, Asia Edition (TIMEasia) in 2003. She was the
subject of a
60 Minutes
profile on
January 2. A
month later she appeared on the
Late Show with David Letterman.
She also featured on
Oprah's
"Women Across the Globe" segment. In 2003, she acted in
the critically acclaimed and commercial success Bengali
film,
Chokher Bali, an
adaptation of one of
Rabindranath Tagore's
novels by the same name.
Rai has been a regular at the
Cannes Film Festival
since 2002, and was a member of the Jury at Cannes in
the year 2003. In October 2004, a wax figure of Rai
became on display in
London's
Madame Tussaud's
wax museum.[11]
The same month, her first foreign film,
Bride and Prejudice
released. The film was an Indian version of
Jane Austen's
classic novel
Pride and Prejudice.
Her next overseas venture was
The Mistress of Spices.
She then appeared at the closing ceremony of the
2006 Commonwealth Games
in
Melbourne, as
part of a performance showcasing Indian art, on behalf
of the
2010 Commonwealth Games,
to be held in
New Delhi. In
between her overseas acting stints, she appeared in the
Indian film
Bunty Aur Babli
in a hugely popular seven minute dance sequence for the
song "Kajra
Re".
In 2005, Rai signed a three-year
contract with
L'Oréal, as a
spokesmodel for the cosmetics company.
At the end of the year 2006, she had
two releases:
Umrao Jaan
and
Dhoom 2. The
former did poorly in India but her role in the latter,
which was a sequel to the 2004 hit movie
Dhoom
brought her great attention. While it was a hit
commercially,[12]
it also sparked a controversy for a scene containing a
kiss between her and
Hrithik Roshan,
which made audiences uncomfortable; a court case is
currently pending in India.[13]
2007 saw the release of
Mani Ratnam's
Guru which
premiered in
Toronto. The
film, based on the life of Indian businessman
Dhirubhai Ambani,
was critically acclaimed and did well at the box office.[14]
Her most recent film,
Provoked,
based on the book "Circle of Light" where she portrays a
real life character, was released on
April 6,
2007 in India
and the UK. At the end of April 2007, her first American
film,
The Last Legion
released in Russia and the Netherlands and later opened
in North American theaters in August 2007
disappointingly.
I personally have seen more
than 20 of her movies and she a remarkable actress and a fabulous
dancer, light years ahead of some great dancers such as Janet Jackson.
The are over 18,000 websites that pay homage to this incredible
female who was voted one of the world's most 100 influential people by
Time Magazine.
Charitable, religious and highly intelligent, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is
a woman that every man would want in their dreams. Ash plays many
types of characters in her movies from many different historical
periods. She simply has it all and deserves all of her accolades.
Ash is scheduled to be the next Bond Girl playing
opposite Daniel Craig. She is also slated to be in The Pink
Panther 2, with Steve Martin and has a movie with Brandon Fraiser on her
agenda. So look out Hollywood because Aishwarya is on her way and
is certain to become a very well known star to American audiences.
Aishwarya Rai movies that I have seen
include:
The Last
Legion ( In English)
Guru
Umrao Jaan
Dhoom 2
Provoked
( In English )
Mistress Of
Spices ( In English)
Mohabbatein
Khakee
Raincoat
Kyon, Ho Gaya
Na
Bride and
Prejudice ( In English )
Chokher Bali
Kuch Naa Kaho
Devdaas
Taal
Josh
Hum Dil De
Chuke Sanam |
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Priyanka Slide Show Priyanka is fantastic in this
Music Video
Priyanka Ultimate
Slide Show
Priyanka Video of
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Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka Chopra
(Hindi:
प्रियांका चोपड़ा; born
July 18,
1982) is an
Indian
film actress and
former
Miss World who
works in
Bollywood films.
After winning the title of
Miss India World
and later becoming
Miss World 2000,
Chopra made her acting debut with
Anil Sharma's
The Hero: Love Story of a Spy
(2003). She had her first commercial success with her
second release,
Andaaz from
the same year and won a
Filmfare Best Female Debut Award
for her performance in the film. Becoming the second
woman to win the
Filmfare Best Villain Award
for her critically acclaimed performance in
Abbas-Mustan's
Aitraaz
(2004), Chopra later went on to deliver commercial
success with films like
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
(2004),
Krrish
(2006), her biggest commercial success so far, and
Don - The Chase Begins Again
(2006), establishing herself as a popular actress.
Chopra studied at
St. Maria Goretti
in
Bareilly, as a
young girl and later went to the
United States,
where she was a student at
Newton North High School
in
Newton, Massachusetts
and
North Delta Senior Secondary
School in
North Delta
before returning to India to complete high school at
Army School (Bareilly). She began college at
Jai Hind College
in
Mumbai but left
after winning the
Miss World
pageant.
Chopra was crowned
Miss India World
and later
Miss World
in 2000. In the same year,
Lara Dutta and
Diya Mirza, both
from
India, won the
Miss Universe
and
Miss Asia Pacific
crowns, in a rare triple.
When she won the
Miss World crown,
she became the fifth Indian woman to win the title, and
the fourth Indian woman to win in a span of seven years.
After winning the Miss World title,
Chopra became an actress. She first acted in a
Tamil film
Thamizhan
(2002), in which she also sung a song, before moving on
to
Bollywood. In
2003, her first
Bollywood film,
The Hero: Love Story of a Spy
released and won her good reviews. Despite being given a
below average status, the film went on to become one of
the highest grossing films of that year. Her next film,
Andaaz
opposite
Akshay Kumar was
a success, earning her a
Filmfare Best Female Debut Award
and a nomination for
Filmfare Best Supporting Actress
Award.
Her next few films failed to do well
at the box office. In
2004, her film,
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
released and became the third highest grossing film of
that year. Her first negative role in her next release,
Aitraaz, a
Hindi remake of the
Demi Moore-starrer
Disclosure
won her critical acclaim and earned a
Filmfare Best Villain Award.
Her role also got her a second nomination for
Filmfare Best Supporting Actress
Award. In the same year, she
participated in a world tour aptly titled Temptations
2004 with Bollywood's leading stars,
Shahrukh Khan,
Preity Zinta,
Saif Ali Khan,
Rani Mukerji and
Arjun Rampal.
In
2005, she had
many releases, though most did not do well at the box
office. In
2006, Chopra
starred in two of the most successful films of the year
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Krrish and
Don - The Chase Begins Again.
Nikhil Advani's
multi-starrer,
Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute To Love
was her first release in
2007. The move
failed to do well at the box office. Her most recent
release,
Big Brother
also failed to do well.
Born in
Jamshedpur,
Jharkhand to
Ashok Chopra and Madhu Akhauri, both of whom are
doctors, Chopra
spent parts of her childhood in
Bareilly,
Uttar Pradesh,
Newton, Massachusetts
and
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Her mother comes from a
Kayastha
Bihari family
settled in
Jamshedpur,
while her father comes from a family of
Punjabi origin,
settled in Bareilly.She also has a brother, Siddharth,
who is eight years younger than her. Since her father
was in the Army, her family frequently moved.
Priyanka Chopra is the brightest rising female star in Bollywood.
Ms. Chopra was Miss World 2000 and is one of the most glamorous movie
stars in the world. Priyanka is an incredible dancer and is also a very
capable singer and a superb actress.
Known often for action roles, Priyanka is diversifying these days and
has recently signed a multi picture contract with one of Bollywood's
leading studios. In fact, Priyanka became the first
Bollywood actress to sign a landmark mega three-film deal with UTV
Motion Pictures, one of the largest production houses in India.
She is spokesperson for Tag Heuer watches and was the Grand Marshall
of the India Parade in New York City on August 19, 2007 where 120,000
fans turned out for the event. A similar parade was held in
Chicago on August 18, 2007.
Highly intelligent, very charitable and possessed with surreal sex
appeal, Priyanka is being approached on a global scale to perform as an
actress, model, dancer and to endorse products. She has been
dancing since she was a child and has an amazing screen presence.
As you can she, photographs with a style, beauty and appeal, rarely
ever seen. Her gentle voice and human qualities add greatly to
remarkable appeal. Priyanka Chopra movies I have seen
include:
Don
Krrish
Bluffmaster
Barsaat
Waqt
Aitraaz
Asambhav
Kismat
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Fashion (Won Best
Actress Award) - Love Story 2050- Drona - Dostana
I feel that she is truly
amazing and I have to admit that Priyanka really takes my breath away.
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Bipasha Slide Show
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Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu (Hindi:
बिपाशा बासु) (born
January 7,
1979)
is a
Bollywood
actress
and
supermodel.
She was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol
Supermodel contest for 1996 and is currently one of the
mainstream
Bollywood actresses.
She is often cited by popular magazines and newspapers
as one of Asia's sexiest women.Born on
January 7,
1979
in
New Delhi,
India,
Basu hails from a
Bengali
family. She is the second of three daughters to her
parents, the elder being Bidisha, and the younger—Vijayeta.
Although she was born in Delhi, her family later moved
to
Kolkata.
According to her, she had come into modeling and
acting quite by accident, because initially she had
planned to study medicine. Basu studied science till the
12th standard, and later took up commerce. Although, as
pointed above, she intended to become a doctor, her
aversion for dissections made her opt for
chartered
accountancy. However, in 1996, she met
well-known model
Mehr Jessia in Kolkata;
the latter suggested that Basu take part in the
Supermodel of the World
contest. She eventually participated, and won the
contest.
After winning the Ford Godrej Cinthol contest to be
India's candidate for
Supermodel of the World
contest, Basu was flown to
New York by the Ford
Company, where she had a successful modeling career.
Basu made her debut film in Abbas Mustan's
Ajnabee,
with
Akshay Kumar,
Bobby Deol
and
Kareena Kapoor.
She played a married woman who goes all out to woo her
husband’s married friend, and eventually won the
Filmfare Best Female
Debut Award for her performance.
After a number film, next year in 2002, Basu starred
in
Vikram Bhatt's
thriller
Raaz.
The film was a big commercial success and surfaced as
one of the biggest hits of that year. For her
performance in the film, she received her first
Best Actress
nomination at the
Filmfare.
In November 2007, U.K. magazine
Eastern Eye
named Basu "Sexiest Asian Woman in the World".
On
January 10,
2007,
Basu danced with sex workers at a charity drive in order
to raise AIDS awareness in India and promote safe-sex.
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Mallika Sherawat
Mallika Sherawat (Hindi:
मल्लिका
शेरावत, born
October 24,
1981
as Reema Lamba in
Karnal,
Haryana,
India) is a popular
Indian
actress and
model. Known for her
public openness, she is frequently
featured in the Indian media as a
sex
symbol. She worked as
an air hostess prior to entering films
and it was around this time that she
married a pilot, Karan Singh Gill. They
are now divorced.
Sherawat's birth
name is Reema Lamba; she says
that adopted the screen name of "Mallika",
meaning "empress" to avoid confusion
with other actresses named Reema. "Sherawat"
is her mother's maiden name. She has
stated that she uses her mother's maiden
name because of all the support her
mother has provided for her. There is
also a controversy regarding her age. A
news channel in India had alleged that
she was already a graduate before
starting to work as an airhostess and
hence she can't be as young as she
claims. She has also a degree in
Indian philosophy from
Miranda House,
Delhi University.
Mallika's onscreen debut was in Lak
Tunoo, a music video by
Surjit Bindrakhia. She
attracted wide notice with her
appearance in the 2003 movie
Khwahish. By
Indian standards the movie was quite
racy, however it was known for its
naturalistic and realistic topic. In
2004, she starred in
Murder, a film
inspired by Hollywood's
Unfaithful that
again challenged Indian film standards.
She received a nomination for Best
Actress at the
Zee
Cine Awards ceremony
for her performance in Murder.
The film went on to become one of the
biggest hits of the year.
Since then,
Sherawat has been known for her courage
to express her opinions in public,
and went on to make headlines through
her outfits and blunt statements.
She also made news when she won a
small role in a
Jackie Chan movie,
The
Myth, where she
again appeared in revealing costumes.
She made a widely publicized appearance
at the
Cannes Film Festival
to promote The Myth. Since her
debut, Mallika was often accused of
simply being a sexy woman without
talent. However, her performance in the
2006 film
Pyaar Ke Side Effects
co-starring
Rahul Bose won her
praise from around the industry, and the
film also garnered decent collections at
the box office becoming a moderate
success. The movie stamped Mallika as an
actress who started off as an item girl
and joined the main stream later on.
She is now beginning to work in the
Kollywood (Tamil)
film industry as well. She plays the
second fiddle in
Dasavatharam starring
Kamal Haasan,
Asin
and
Jayapradha. Her first
2007 release was
Himesh Reshammiya's
Aap
Ka Suroor - The Real Love Story,
where she played a "vampish role".
Mallika herself has protested, saying
that it is a negative role but not a
vamp role.
With
Aap
Ka Suroor she has
become the most expensive "Item Girl",
as she charged
Rs. 1.5 crore for her
Item
number in the movie.
Aap Ka Suroor did well at the box
office becoming one of the year's
biggest hits. Her last release of 2007
was
Welcome which also
did well at the box office receiving
blockbuster status.
Sherawat has been voted as one of
Asia's 100 most beautiful people by the
Hong Kong based fashion and beauty
magazine,
Cover.
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Sushmita Sen
Sushmita Sen
(Shushmita Shen,
Hindi, सुष्मिता
सेन, Suśmitā Sen) was born on
November 19,
1975 in
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
She is a well-known
Bollywood
actress and was
Miss Universe in
1994.
Sushmita was born in a Bengali family
to Shubeer Sen, a former
Indian Air Force
Wing Commander
and Subhra Sen, worked as a fashion artist and jewelery
designer. She has a brother, Rajeev Sen and a sister,
Neelam Sen. She was born in
Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh
and grew up in
New Delhi. She
attended school at Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute
studying English, and had career plans in journalism. In
2000, she adopted a girl, Renee, as a single mother.
In
1994, at the age
of eighteen, Sushmita won the title of
Miss India
narrowly beating out
Aishwarya Rai,
who was the favorite to win the contest. Twenty-two
girls took their application out from the contest once
they learned that model Aishwarya Rai was participating
for Miss India. Sushmita Sen was one of them but her
mother gave her the courage to face the challenge.
Interestingly, Aishwarya Rai won every title in the
preliminary round. Ironically, both Sen and Rai were
actually tied for the title. It was with a tie-breaking
question that got Sen the chance to represent India at
the
Miss Universe
Pageant, held in
Manila,
Philippines.
At Miss Universe, Sushmita ranked
third overall in the preliminaries, right behind
preliminary winner Miss Colombia Carolina Gomez, and
Miss Greece Rea Totounzi, who ranked second but won the
preliminary swimsuit and evening gown competitions.
Sushmita went on to place second, fifth and third
respectively in the swimsuit, interview and evening gown
competitions, placing her in third place behind Miss
Colombia and Miss Venezuela Minorka Mercado. All three
women went on to be the final three contestants. In the
end, the judges placed their votes on Sushmita, making
her the first woman from India to become Miss Universe.
Sushmita's supposed rival at the Miss India pageant,
Aishwarya Rai, went on to win the 1994
Miss World
contest.
Sushmita became an actress. Her first
movie,
Dastak in
1996, where she
played the victim of a stalker, didn't do well at the
box office. Her subsequent movie
Ratchagan in
Tamil, was a huge hit. However, it was two years later
that her appearance as Rupali in
David Dhawan's
movie
Biwi No.1
won her the
Filmfare Best Supporting Actress
Award in
1999. The same
year, she was also nominated for her role in
Sirf Tum in
the same category, making her an obvious choice for
winner.
So far, her biggest hit has been the
2004 movie
Main Hoon Na,
in which she starred as
Shahrukh Khan's
love interest. Later on, she played a lawyer in
Main Aisa Hi Hoon
opposite
Ajay Devgan. In
2005, she also starred in a remake of
Cactus Flower,
called
Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya:
Sen played the lead opposite
Salman Khan and
Katrina Kaif.
Her most recent movies include Karma, Confessions and
Holi (2006) opposite
Naomi Campbell,
Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag
(2007) and the recently announced
Dulha Mil Gaya
(2007) opposite
Shahrukh Khan.
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Sherlyn Chopra
Sherlyn Chopra.
Sherlyn is part Indian and part Persian and is 5 feet 6 inches tall.
This remarkable beauty has black hair
Like many other beautiful Bollywood starlets, Sherlyn
is an model turned actress. She made her film splash in a 2005
movie entitled Time Pass.
Sherlyn is the constantly searched online by those
people that like wallpaper of beautiful and sexy women.

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