Perizaad Zorabian - Bollywood Women

Perizaad Zorabian (born 1973) is an Indian actress who made her debut with Nagesh Kukunoor's movie, Bollywood Calling. She had made appearances in many music videos earlier.

Zorabian studied in New York City and upon acquiring an MBA returned to India to assist her father in his poultry farm business.

She is a member of the Irani community, the 'newer' (in comparison to the Parsis) group of Zoroastrians of the Indian subcontinent. However, presumably because the subtle difference between the early and later (18th century onwards) Zoroastrian immigrants is not commonly known, Zorabian has at least once referred to herself as a "Parsi girl".

Zorabian married construction tycoon and alleged gangster Boman Rustom Irani (not to be confused with the actor Boman Irani) on 9th December 2006.

Zorabian made international headlines when she declined a role in a lesbian-centred film, citing her "own personal inhibitions about playing a lesbian” as the driving force behind her decision. Purva Bedi has since accepted the role in When Kiran Met Karen.


She acted in Jogger's Park with Victor Banerjee and other films such as Viral Lakhia's Namaste and Anant Balani's Mumbai Matinee. In the Chinese film, Bandung Sonata, she played Indira Gandhi.

She also acted in the film Morning Raga with co-star Shabana Azmi. Her most recent and on going film is Ek Ajnabee with co-star Amitabh Bachchan. She is also slated to appear with Malcolm McDowell in the film Exitz in which she plays an Indian model. Other upcoming projects are Moonlight, Highway 203, and Nikhil Advani's next film, Salaam E Ishq: A Tribute To Love.

Payal Rohatgi - Bollywood Actress

Payal Rohatgi is a Bollywood actress and item girl.( The classic meaning of "item number" refers to highly sexualized songs with racy imagery and suggestive lyrics. The "item number" would feature an "item girl" who appeared in the film as a dancer, usually in a bar or nightclub, and was only in the film for the length of that song.)

A computer engineer by profession, Payal Rohatgi won the title of Miss Tourism World in 2001, against candidates from 65 countries. She was also a finalist at the Femina Miss India contest in 2000. These successes encouraged Payal to enter the entertainment industry and so she moved to Mumbai.

She started her career by modelling for popular brands like Amul, Nirma, and Nescafe. She gained attention after appearing in a television ad for Cadbury's Temptations Chocholates. Around this time she also appeared in music videos by rock band Silk Route and Indipop artist Kay Kay.

After her career in Bollywood took off, Payal has cut back on the number of products she endorses. However, she has agreed to appear along with cricketer Virender Sehwag in an ad film for Dabur's Lal Dantmanjan. The film will be directed by Pradeep Sarkar.

Payal's Bollywood acting debut was in Harry Baweja's Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai, a Hindi remake of the Hollywood teen flick American Pie. However, she went unnoticed in the multi-starrer. She shot into the limelight with Tauba Tauba, a titillating movie where she played the object of a teenaged boy's lust.

She followed this up with a string of movies with sexual themes such as Fun, a movie about wife-swapping; and Mr. 100%, where the central character was a gigolo. Payal stated that she consciously chose movies that would get her noticed. However, she seemed to have a change of heart and dissociated herself from the movie Mazaa Mazaa, which she said was too vulgar.

In 2006, she appeared in the critically acclaimed Corporate where, ironically, she played the part of an item girl named Payal who sleeps her way to success.

Parveen Babi - Bollywood Women

Parveen Babi was an Indian actress and was one of the most successful Bollywood actresses in the 1970s
She was born on April 4th, 1949 in Junagadh, Gujarat, India.
Parveen started out as a model in 1972 and made her film debut in 1973 in the film Charitra and went on to appear in almost sixty films.

Her last film was Akarshan in 1988 and afterwards she left the film industry to move to New York.
In New York she became associated with the spiritual philosopher U. G. Krishnamurti. She returned to Mumbai in 2002 where she was unrecognizable as her former self after having put on a considerable amount of weight. She accused many foreign dignitaries and her former co-star, Amitabh Bachchan, of conspiring to kill her but her petition in court was dismissed for lack of evidence. She also filed an affidavit in the special court hearing the 1993 serial bomb blasts case, claiming that she had evidence to show, but she did not turn up in court after being summoned saying that she was afraid of being killed.

Parveen Babi may have suffered from schizophrenia and had become a recluse in the last years of her life. She never married but had intimate relationships with married men: director Mahesh Bhatt, actors Kabir Bedi, and Danny Denzongpa. She was also rumoured to have a relationship with her co star Amitabh Bachchan. Mahesh Bhatt made Arth (1982), a semi-autobiographical film about his extra-marital relationship with Babi, and Woh Lamhe (2006) based on actual facts about his relationship with her. These experiences triggered of schizophrenia which was not completely treated or supported and ultimately resulted in her final loneliness without any support system.

She was found dead in her Mumbai apartment on January 22nd, 2005.
The police ruled she had died from what appeared to be complications from diabetes.

Parminder Kaur Nagra - Indian Actress

Parminder Kaur Nagra was born October 5, 1975 in Leicester, UK and is a British actress of Indian descent.

Nagra was born to Sikh parents who immigrated to the UK from the Punjab region of northern India in the late 1960s. Affectionately known as "Mindi". Her middle name, meaning "Princess," is traditionally given to Sikh women (Sikh men traditionally have the middle name "Singh."). Her family background was decidedly working class. Her father, Sucha, a factory worker, is believed to have separated from her mother, Nashuter, a packer in a factory, when Parminder was a child. Parminder, her two younger brothers, and her younger sister were raised in a small terrace house in the Belgrave district of Leicester by her mother and stepfather, who worked as a bookkeeper at a cousin's transport company.

At the age of seven, Nagra suffered a burn that resulted in the scar shown in her 2002 breakout role in the internationally acclaimed film Bend It Like Beckham. While preparing a meal, a gas stove set her trousers alight. She was taken into the bathroom by an uncle and immersed in cold water. However, when the trouser fabric was removed, it took skin with it, resulting in a large scar on her right leg. The story was included into the film to explain the burn of Parminder's character.

Nagra attended Northfield House Primary School in Leicester. And it was at her comprehensive school, Soar Valley College, where she played viola in the youth orchestra and also appeared in her first theatrical productions.

In 1991, at the age of 16, Nagra took a job as an usher at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre, ostensibly to watch and learn from the local talent. Her former boss recalls her as brilliant, polite, and very sweet, but also that she was quiet, giving no hints as to her future rise to stardom.

Padma Lakshmi - Indian American model

Padma Lakshmi (b. 1970) is a New York-based Indian American model, actress and award-winning cookbook author. Starting with season two, she has been the host of the reality television program Top Chef. Lakshmi was born in Delhi, India, to South Indian Tamil Brahmin parents, grew up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and in New York City, and is fluent in five languages - English, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, and Tamil. Her first name literally means "lotus" in Sanskrit.

Her cookbook Easy Exotic was awarded Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles. She was host of the Food Network series, Padma's Passport, which is part of the larger series Melting Pot. She has also been a guest host on parts of the British culinary tourism show Planet Food. She hosted the segments on India and Spain.
Other notable television roles include a guest appearance as an imperious princess in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. She was host of Domenica In, Italy's top-rated television show. She also starred in Glitter with Mariah Carey and in Boom with Amitabh Bachchan. In 2006 she starred in ABC's The Ten Commandments with Dougray Scott, Naveen Andrews, and Omar Sharif. She played Sean Bean's nemesis in the iTV film Sharpe's Challenge. She is a graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she majored in Theater Arts.
She married novelist Salman Rushdie in Manhattan, New York in 2004. She practices Hinduism.

Nimmi - Indian Actress

Nimmi (b. 1932) was a famous actress in the 1950s.

Nimmi was born in the small town of Fatehbad, Uttar Pradesh in 1932. Her mother's name was Wahidan. She came to Bombay with her mother who played small roles in minor films in the 1930s. Nimmi was fortunate to get a break in Barsaat (1949) through Raj Kapoor, where she played the role of a pahaadi girl. Soon she was working with heroes like Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand and Dilip Kumar in the 1950s. After Andaaz (1949), Mehboob Khan cast her in Aan (1952). With this she shot into stardom alongside Dilip Kumar, whom she acted with in Daag in the same year. In the late 1950s, Nimmi worked with renowned directors like Chetan Anand, Vijay Bhatt, and K.A. Abbas. As her career progressed, Nimmi delved into film production and started her own banner. She made the film Danka both as a star and a producer.

By the 1960s, Nimmi's career went under a cloud with all the new actresses coming in. Being a fan of Ashok Kumar, she never really got to pair with him romantically, despite starring alongside him in Deedar and Bhai Bhai. She made her last film, Akashdeep (1965) and left the film industry. She fell in love with screen writer S. Ali Raza, who wrote the dialogues for her films Barsaat, Aan and Andaz, married him and settled down. Her incomplete film Love and God which went through many difficulties during filming after the deaths of leading actor Guru Dutt and director K. Asif was released in 1986 in incomplete form.

Today, Nimmi lives next to her beloved Bombay seafront in Worli with her husband.

Bollywood Actress Neha Dhupia

Neha Dhupia was born on August 27th, 1980 in Cochin, Kerala.
She is an Indian model, actress and former Femina Miss India 2002.
Neha was born to a Sikh family. Her father Commander Pradip Dhupia is in the Indian Navy and mother is Manpinder.
At the age of 5, she started her career with a TV serial Rajdhani.
In 2002 she was crowned Miss India Universe, and at Miss Universe 2002, she finished in the top ten.
Neha's next movie"Kuch Love Kuch Drama" will be released in 2009.

Navya Nair - Malayalam Actress

Navya Nair (born 1984) whose real name is Dhanya Nair, is a Malayalam actress. She is noted for her portrayal of the typical Malayali (Keralite) girl in various movies. She debuted in the Malayalam film Ishtam (2001). She bagged the Kerala State Award for the Best Actress in 2002 for the film Nandanam and again in 2005 for her performance in films Kanne Madanguka and Saira.

Nauheed Cyrusi - Bollywood Actress

Nauheed Cyrusi (Hindi: नौहीद सॆरुसी) is an Indian model,VJ and actress.

Nauheed started her career as a model, featuring in a slew of music videos. Piya Basanti was her most memorable video, which brought her to the attention of Bollywood producers.

She has also appeared in many advertisements on television as well as the print media. She also played a small role in the youth-oriented television series Hip, Hip, Hooray

She made her film debut in Padam Kumar's Supari, starring Uday Chopra and Rahul Dev. While the film flopped, director Vikram Bhatt chose her for Inteha opposite Ashmit Patel.

More recently, Nauheed was seen as the main lead in choreographer turned director Ahmed Khan's Lakeer, starring Sunny Deol, Sohail Khan, John Abraham and Sunil Shetty. Nauheed starts off 2007 with "Anwar" which is directed by Manish Jha, starring Manisha Koirala, Siddharth Koirala, Rajpal Yadav, Vijay Raaz, Hiten Tejwani.

As one of the few Parsi actresses in the industry currently, Cyrusi stands out.

Bollywood stars get seriously fashionable

Bollywood stars get seriously fashionable:

"New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Signature line of clothing that are inspired, crafted and fine-tuned by film stars themselves is the hottest new trend in the world of fashion.

Jennifer Lopez has it and so do Sarah Jessica Parker, Eminem, Britney Spears and loads of other international celebrities, so why should Indian film stars be far behind.

Not content with merely endorsing clothes brands or gracing the opening of clothes stores, hot and happening Bollywood stars are increasingly getting involved with fashion wear at the sketching stage itself.

John Abraham and Hrithik Roshan lead the list when it comes to adding a very personal touch and bringing out signature fashion collections. While John has tied-up with Wrangler, Hrithik is working very closely with ITC in a bid to find a way into your wardrobes.

John's involvement with his own line needs to be seen to believed. Each piece of his collection comes with small notes sticking out from the inside pockets containing personal comments from the actor himself on the design, style and how he came up with the "

Nandana Sen - Bollywood Actress

Nandana Sen (or Nandana Dev Sen) is a Bollywood actress. Her father is Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen.

Namitha - Tamil Actress

Namitha is a Tamil actress and one of the few glamorous and tall heroines. She is 6 ft tall and weighs 70 kg. She has acted in Tamil, Kannada ,Telugu, Hindi films. Although her base was Tollywood she became famous after the Tamil film Engal Anna opposite Vijayakanth.

Born and raised in Gujarat, Namitha is another actress in the long list of imports from the North that entered the Telugu film industry via Tamil movies. Her father is a businessman and her mother is a housemaid. She became popular with the Tamil version of the film Engal Anna.

A Miss India contest brought Namitha to the Telugu film industry. After entering Tollywood, she immediately grabbed the attention of Telugu film lovers with Sontam and Gemini though the films didn’t fare well in the box office.

She is one of the few actresses that have had some success in Tamil cinema.

Namitha appeared in an English film named Maya directed by Eric Manning. She has also another Malayalam film in her credit.

Namrata Shirodkar - Indian Actress

Namrata Shirodkar (born 22 January 1972 in Mumbai) is an Indian actress, sister of actor Shilpa Shirodkar. Namrata has also worked as a model, and was 1993's Miss India. She came close in the top 6 semi-finalists at Miss Universe (1993).

She made her debut with Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai, (1998). The film also starred Salman Khan and Twinkle Khanna. The film was received averagely at the box office. She then went on to star in the hit Vaastav. Her performance was appreciated and she became a known name in Bollywood.

She has played mainly supporting roles in films. Films like Pukar, Hera Pheri and Astitva went on to do well. Since then she has had a combination of average or flop films.

In 2004 she went back into the spotlight when she played the role of Jaya Bakshi in Bride and Prejudice. She played Aishwarya Rai's older sister in the film. It was a huge hit overseas particularly in the UK. She has since left the industry after her marriage.

In February 2005, she married Telugu actor Mahesh Babu. She recently gave birth to a son named Gowtham Gattamaneni on August 31, 2006.

Nadira - Indian Actress

Nadira (December 5, 1932 – February 9, 2006) was an Indian actress in Bollywood films. She is best remembered for her performances in films in the 1950s and 1960s (such as Aan (1952) and Shree 420 (1955)).

Nadira was born as Farhat Ezekiel (some suggest Florence Ezekiel) on December 5, 1932 into a Baghdadi Jewish family in Nagpada, Central Bombay, a predominantly Muslim and Jewish locality. Her parents divorced when she was just four years old and she and her brothers were raised by her grandmother. She was still in her teens when she was spotted by Sardar Akhtar, wife of the great filmmaker Mehboob Khan. After convincing her mother, Sardar Akhtar took Farhat under her wing, groomed her and renamed her Nadira.

She was married twice. She first married a Muslim Urdu poet and filmmaker called Naqshab and converted to Islam.[citation needed] This marriage ended unhappily. She then married a man who turned out to be a fortune hunter. The marriage lasted only a week. For the latter part of her life, she lived alone in Mumbai, as many of her relatives had moved to Israel. For the last three years of her life, she is said to have kept entirely to her Bombay flat, where she lived with her housekeeper, Shobha.

Nadira died in the Bhatia Hospital at Tardeo, Bombay, India on February 9, 2006, aged 73, following a prolonged illness. She had been hospitalized on February 2nd and lay ailing in the hospital after suffering from a paralytic stroke combined with a heart attack. She is survived by two brothers, one of whom lives in the USA and another in Israel.

She rose to cinematic prominence with the 1952 film Aan (Savage Princess). In 1955, she played Maya, a rich socialite, in Shree 420. She played roles in a number of films from the 1950s through to the 70s such as Dil Apna Prit Parayee, Hanste Zakhm, Amar Akbar Anthony and Pakeezah. She was often cast as a temptress or vamp and played opposite the chaste heroines then favored by the Bollywood film industry.

Nadira won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for her role as Julie's mother in Julie. During the 1980s and 1990s, she entered a new phase of her career, playing older women as a supporting actress. She also appeared in a few Merchant Ivory films such as The Guru and Cotton Mary. Her last role was in the film Josh (2000).

She was well paid for her efforts and was one of the first Indian actors to own a Rolls-Royce.
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Mumtaz - Bollywood Actress

Mumtaz (born July 31, 1947 in Bombay, India) is a famous Bollywood actress.

Of Iranian origin, Mumtaz was born in Bombay to Abdul Sameed Askari and Sardar Begum Habib Agha in 1947. She entered Bollywood as a 14-15 year old girl in the 1960s.

She started as an extra in films and due to her looks made it to the heroine slot. She acted in over a hundred films in a career that spanned just 12 years. She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award for Khilona in 1970. Mumtaz starred in many movies with Feroz Khan, her other popular pairing have been with Jeetendra and Rajesh Khanna, she has also acted with Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar and other top heroes of her era. in 1997 she received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award. Mumtaz left the industry after her marriage and moved to London.

She married millionaire Mayur Madhwani on May 29, 1974, they have two daughters: Natasha and Tanya. Her daughter Natasha recently married actor Fardeen Khan, the son of Feroz Khan, in a lavish ceremony.

Mita Vashisht - Indian Actress

Mita Vashisht is an Indian television and film actress. She has worked in off-beat cinema as well as in commercial roles. She graduated from the National School of Drama. She has worked in theatre and has written scripts as well.

Due to her roles that often challenge the superficially-traditional outlook of the Indian society, she is often labelled a "non-conforming artiste" by the media.

Apart from acting, Mita is also actively involved in social work. She has worked with children in remand homes and with sex workers (she started a theater troupe by enlisting 30 sex workers).

She has not had any significant assignments from 2004, after the film Phir Milenge.

Minissha Lamba - Bollywood Actresses

Born in New Delhi, India to a Sikh speaking family. Currently Minissha Lamba is a well-placed model in Indian modelling industry. She had not really decided to act in films, but she loved modeling and was fortunate enough to be selected to model for Cadbury. Clearly her intent was to complete her education, concentrate on an academic career and do some modeling on the side. She was successful in completing her education from University of Delhi and majored in English with Honors in 2004. She got her first break unexpectedly, when she was auditioning for a Cadbury commercial in Delhi. Bollywood Director, Shoojit Sircar, approached her and signed her to to act in his yet untitled movie.

She will be re-locating to Bombay, and hopes to land other offers once there.

Indian Actress Meghna Naidu

Meghna Naidu is an Indian actress originally from the indian state of Andhra Pradesh. She was born in Vijayawada. She had a overnight stardom by her music video "Kaliyon Ka Chaman". Meghana Naidu got a big fan base in South India.

Indian Actress Meera Jasmine

Meera Jasmine (born on 15 February 1984) is an Indian actress from Kerala. She won India's National Film Award for Best Actress in 2004 for her role in 2003 Malayalam film Paadhom Onnu: Oru Vilaapam.

Born as Jasmine Mary Joseph to Joseph Philip and Aleyamma in Kuttappuzha, Tiruvalla, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India, She completed her schooling in Mar Thoma Residential School in Tiruvalla, before her entry into films.
some of her family details are:
Nick name - Jas
Father - Joseph Philip
Mother - Aleyamma
Brother - George

A chance meeting with Malayalam screenwriter Lohithadas gave way to her debut in Malayalam Cinema through the movie Soothradharan in 2001.

Soothradharan did not do well at the box office. However, she continued to receive offers from Malayalam and Tamil film-makers, including the 2002 Tamil films Run and Bala.

The success of Run made her a well-known star in Kollywood. She acted in a number of Tamil movies with popular actors, and then proceeded to work with director Mani Ratnam in the film Aayitha Ezhuthu.

She entered Telugu cinema in 2004 with Ammayi Bagundi and Gudumba Shankar. She also entered Kannada cinema in 2004 with the film Mourya, in which she co-starred with Puneet Rajkumar.


After making her entry into all four South Indian languages, she has acted concurrently in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. Her successful movies include Achuvinte Amma (Malayalam), Bhadra (Telugu) and Rasatantram (Malayalam).

Her 2005 Tamil film Sandakozhi completed 200 days at the box office.

Despite being a Christian by birth, Meera Jasmine is known for visiting Hindu temples. She is a self-confessed fan of Tamil cinema's composer Ilayaraaja [3]. She currently lives in Panampilly Nagar in Kochi. She is often the target of the South's yellow press.

Meenakshi Seshadri - Indian Film Actress

Indian film actress Meenakshi Seshadri was born on November 16th, 1963 in Sindri, Jharkhand, India.
She was born Shashikala Sheshadri and her father was an employee of the Sindri Fertiliser plant in Jhankhand,India.

Meenakshi won the Miss India contest in 1981 and made her film debut in Hero (1983) directed by Subhash Ghai.
Her most notable performances were in Meri Jung (1985), Shahenshah (1988), Ghayal (1990), Damini (1993).

Director Rajkumar Santoshi was said to have been interested in Meenakshi but she apparently rejected his marriage proposal.
She acted in her last film Ghatak in 1997 and has not appeared in any film since.
In her 15-year career in the film industry Meenakshi acted in about 80 films.

She also had a promising career as a Bharatnatyam, Kathak, and Odissi teacher.
Meenakshi learned all four main dance styles of India and performed first her Bharatnatyam Arrangetram at the age of four!
Her teaching career has now been halted due to personal reasons.

Meenakshi is married to investment banker, Harish Mysore, and is settled in Plano, Texas were she taught Bharatanatyam, Kathak and Odissi dance.
Their courtship stretched over 15 months and two continents.
She now has two children, daughter Kendra and son Josh.

Indian Actress Meena

Meena is one of the most successful actress in South Indian cinema. Meena was born on September 16, 1981 in Chennai (formerly Madras), Tamil Nadu.

Meena started her career as a child artist in Telugu films and Tamil films. She acted with Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, and later became a star in her own right. She had hits with Muthu, Ejaman, Veera and Avvai Shanmughi. Following the release of her movies with Rajinikanth in Japan and their commercial success, Meena's popularity also rose in Japan. She has acted in almost all the south Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada etc and opposite almost all the leading actors in these languages. Her first film as a child artist was 'Nenjangal' with Sivaji Ganesan. She was in the film industry as the top heroine in Telugu and Tamil for almost one and a half decades successfully from the early 1990s.She often potrayed characters with unidimensional personality with no negativity and shades of grey.She was also known to be limited as a glamorous actress though she acted in a few glamourous roles like Maaman magal in Tamil opposite Sathyaraj and sneham kosan in Telugu opposite Megastar Chiranjeevi.

Meena has been romantically linked to Kannada actor Sudeep with whom she has acted in two movies Swathi Muthu and My Autograph in the last year and some news reports suggest that the two may be tying the knot soon.

As of 2007,she is no longer considered viable as a movie lead actress in any of the southern languages.She is currently starring as the lead in the Sun TV soap Shanthi.

Parents : Durai Raj and Rajmallika

Meena graduated in MA by distance education.

Manju Warrier - Indian Actress

Manju Warrier (born on 10 September 1978) is an Indian actress specialising in Malayalam cinema. Manju was born in Kannur, Kerala.

She got married to fellow actor Dileep on 20 October 1998 at Alwaye Sri Krishna Temple They now have one child, Meenakshi. Her brother, Madhu Warrier, is also an actor.

She is considered to be one of the finest actresses ever appeared on the Malayalam screen. Her performance in Kannezhuthi Pottum Thottu won a special mention from jury for national film awards.

Manisha Koirala - Bollywood Actress

Manisha Koirala was born on August 16, 1970 in Kathmandu, Nepal.
She is a Bollywood actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social activist.
Koirala is also an accomplished Bharatnatyam and Manipuri dancer.

Koirala was born into a prominent political Koirala family; her grandfather, and two of her great uncles were Prime Ministers of Nepal. She studied at New Delhi's Army Public School and her ambition was to be a doctor, but a modeling stint opened a career pathway into Bollywood.

Her first film was Pheri Dhidora (We shall meet again), a Nepali movie released in early 1989. Her first Hindi movie was Saudagar which was directed by Subhash Ghai. After that she worked with directors like Mani Ratnam, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Shekhar Kapoor, Ram Gopal Verma, Rajkumar Santoshi, Mansoor Khan and many others.

She went on to star in many hits such as 1942: A Love Story and Bombay. Her performance in the latter gave her the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance. The film was directed by Mani Ratnam, and she starred in his next film Dil Se as well in 1998. 1996 was her year with her films Agnisakshi doing well at the box office and her highly acclaimed role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Khamoshi: The Musical. She played an important role in the alongside Kajol and Bobby Deol in the super hit Gupt. She starred with Ajay Devgan in the film Company directed by Ram Gopal Verma She also starred in the leading role in couple of Tamil and Telugu movies.

She produced the small-budget caper-comedy Paisa Vasool (2004) in which she starred along with Sushmita Sen and was directed by Srinivas Bhashyam; this was probably the first ever chick-flick in Indian cinema in that it didn't have a male lead nor a love story, though most of her films have not done well at the box office but her niche as an actor remains harmless irrespective of box office collections. She was nominated for Filmfare awards for her performances in 1942:A Love Story, Bombay, Akele Hum Akele Tum, Agnisakshi, Dil se and Khamoshi; for which she picked up trophies for Bombay, Khamoshi and a surprise award for the film Company. She has won the Screen award once for Khamoshi- The Musical.

Recently she returned from New York after receiving a diploma in film making.

In September 1999, Koirala was appointed as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador. She is actively involved in social work, specifically working with organizations to promote women’s rights, prevention of violence against women, and also to prevent the human trafficking of Nepali girls.

Mandira Bedi - Bollywood Women

Mandira Bedi is an Indian Bollywood actress, who shot to international fame as a television presenter during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. She was particularly ogled for her spaghetti strap bustiers. She also reportedly loves wearing off-shoulder tops.

She was born and brought up in Bombay, and is married to an Indian movie director Raj Kaushal and lives in Bandra, Mumbai. She received national acclaim through her debut television serial Shanti (1995).

She was also one of the presenters in the Indian television show, Fame Gurukul which ended on 20 October 2005. Mandira Bedi replaced R. Madhavan as the Anchor of Deal Ya No Deal.

Among her notable films are Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995) and Manmadhan (2004) Tamil film.