Bollywood Actresses News - Preity Zinta, Katrina Kaif and More

Bollywood actress Preity Zinta has enrolled at Harvard Business School, a graduate business school in Boston, Massachusetts, and will be studying negotiating and deal-making.
It sounds like the lovely Preity is planning for her life after acting.
Or maybe she just wants to make more of an impact know in the Bollywood scene.
HBS was ranked number one among American business schools by the U.S. News & World Report, so she is in good hands.

Beautiful Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif was almost involved in a riot when she showed up to promote her film Azab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani in Hyderabad.
She appeared at a shopping mall and a huge crowd of her fans showed up to see her, things got outta hand and Katrina made a run for it, reportedly injuring her leg.
But the fans werent put off that easily, and kept chasing her by car and bicycle.
They should have been ready for this though, because it happened to her last year in Hyderabad.
Maybe more security next time?

If you run across Sameera Reddy's profile on a dating site, it isn't her.
Sameera is just one of many Bollywood actresses that have fallen prey recently to Internet hoaxes.
Like Sammera would need a dating site.
Riiiight.

Recently, Asin's online e-mail ID was hacked, and someone has been impersonating Katrina Kaif online as well.
Sonam Kapoor's Facebook account was also hacked and private pictures were stolen.
Katrina (will her online problems ever end?), Freida Pinto and Asin (again) have also had to deal with people setting up fake Twitter accounts.

On the other hand, the REAL Priyanka Chopra is still doing very well with 81,588 followers.
And the real Mallika Sherawat is still trailing her with a very respectable 24,322 followers.

Isha Koppikar (Eesha Koppikhar) is getting married on November 26th to Timmy Narang,
But before that, she will be filming an item number for Neeraj Pathak film, Right Yaa Wrong.
She'll also be finishing up Hello Darling before the wedding.

Posted to http://bollywoodwomen.blogspot.com/ on Nov. 7th, 2009

The Top Ten Bollywood Actresses Last Month

Amrita Arora, Number One in June.

I haven't done this in awhile, so here is a list of the top ten Bollywood actresses on this blog for June.....

1. Amrita Arora
The beautiful Bollywood actress born in Mumbai, India blew away all the competition and came in at number one.
Amrita has three movies in 2009, Kambakth Ishq (with Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor and Aftab Shivdasani) , Team - The Force and Season's Greetings (with Sohail Khan, Tabu and Shreyas Talpade) .

2. Koena Mitra
Number two on the list is Indian actress and former model Koena Mitra.
The Bengali beauty hasn't had many successes in Bollywood lately, with only Ayan coming out this year.

3. Katrina Kaif
Coming in at number three is the Hong Kong-born British-Indian actress and model, Katrina Kaif.
Katrina not only has 2009 releases (New York, Blue, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, De Dana Dan), but even releases planed into 2010 (Rajneeti and a Padosan Remake) .
And she is one of my personal favorites.

4. Twinkle Khanna
Twinkle was very popular in the 90s in Hindi and Telugu films, and now she is an interior designer (she did the interiors for Rani Mukerji's new house) and co-owner of The White Window store.
Her last film was Love Ke Liye Kuchh Bhi Karega in 2001.

5. Rani Mukherjee
Rani Mukerji (Mukherjee) has two movies this year (Luck by Chance and Dil Bole Hadippa) and one set for 2010 ( the animated Koochie Koochie Hota Hain).

6. Deepika Padukone
Deepika was recently diagnosed with malaria after becoming ill during a shoot in London. But she'll get better and shooting on Sajid Nadiadwala's Housefull will continue.

7. Mallika Sherawat
Mallika Sherawat is getting a lot of press for her upcoming movie "Hisss". And a lot of attention on Twitter.

8. Preity Zinta
This honest and outspoken Bollywood beauty has two movies this year, Main Aur Mrs. Khanna and Har Pall.

9. Shilpa Shetty
The Indian film actress and model has two movies coming out this year, The Man and The Desire.

10. Bipasha Basu
Another Bengali beauty with five movies this year, including her first Hollywood movie co-starring with Billy Zane.


posted by Sabre to http://bollywoodwomen.blogspot.com/ on July 30th, 2009

Deepika Padukone and Bollywood Actresses on Twitter

CNN.com has an article up about the incredible rise of Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone.
I didn't realize her path to stardom was so humble, but in reading this, I think in the future, the life of Deepika might actually make a good film itself.

"After deciding to become a model at the age of 16, she was picked out of a music video by acclaimed director Farah Khan and cast in her next film opposite Shahrukh Khan. "Om Shanti Om" went on to become not only a hit in India, but also gained wider acclaim among western audiences."

You can read the whole article here.




I mentioned awhile back about Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat using her Twitter account, but I really had no idea so many Bollywood beauties used Twitter.
Besides Mallika, Aishwarya Rai, Preity Zinta, Bipasha Basu, Madhuri Dixit and Ayesha Takia all have Twitter accounts, among others.
You should be able to find their accounts with a Twtter Search.

Juhi Chawla News

Bollywood producer, singer, actress and former Miss India 1984, Juhi Chawla, is certainly getting around these days.

She is being profiled on " Superstars Superlives" this week on ZoOM along with other Bollywood beauties Madhuri Dixit, Kajol Devgan and Rani Mukherjee.

Juhi was a judge on the reality dance show Jhalak Dikkhla Jha along with Saroj Khan and Vaibhavi Merchant.

Along with other Bollywood stars Preity Zinta, Shilpa Shetty, Arjun Rampal and Shahrukh Khan she is involved in the IPL (The Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 cricket competition).

And Juhi was in this years Luck By Chance, an Indian drama film written and directed by Zoya Akhtar.
Although critics mainly liked it, it didn't do too well at the box office.

But since 1986, she has been in almost 90 films. So I dont think one performing badly is going to hurt her much.
Besides the almost 90 films, she has produced three films, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000), Asoka (2001) and Chalte Chalte (2003).

Preity Zinta News

Preity Zinta has several films coming out this year, but one, Deepa Mehta's Videsh, is already stirring up some controversy.
The film tackles the issue of domestic violence and has raised some concern with the Censor Board in India.
http://news.sawf.org/Bollywood/57318.aspx

Preity will also be appearing in Har Pall with Isha Koppikar and Main Aur Mrs Khanna with Kareena Kapoor.
In Main Aur Mrs Khanna, Preity will be making a special appearance in a item number.
Although it's been rumored that her role has been beefed up a bit more.

Bollywood Actress Preity Zinta News

And here it is, the 300th post.....

Bollywood actress Preity Zinta has revealed her family background.
She released a press statement that says.....
"Some people think I'm south Indian, while some feel I'm a Muslim. There have also been fans who have asked me whether I hail from Himachal Pradesh.
In the early 18th century, when marital alliances between the Rajput and British became quite common, the Zinta clan was born. I'm the rare combination of British and Rajput blood,"
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200901230921.htm

So there you have it.

Another bit of news about Preity is that she will be taking over the hosting duties of Farhan Akhtar on ‘Oye! It’s Friday’.
Rumor has it that this is pretty much a done deal.

Preity also launched the three-day Gitanjali Luxury Style Fashion Festival this week.

Preity and her boyfriend Ness Wadia spent New Years in Canada, spending quality time with each other.

And as far as new Bollywood films for her, Aamir Khan and Preity are rumored to also be starring together in another upcoming film. They were together in Dil Chahta Hai and this new movie is another romantic tale.
She is already set for a cameo in Main Aur Mrs. Khanna and she wil be playing Runa in Har Pall with Shiney Ahuja, Isha Koppikar and Dharmendra.

Top Ten Actresses in Bollywood

Who is the most beautiful actress in Bollywood?
Well beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so you have to judge that for yourself.
But as far as the most searched for actresses in Bollywood films, that I can answer.
Here they are, starting in order with.......


Aishwarya Rai
Born in Mangalore Karnataka, India on November 1 1973, India, this beauty has 3 movies coming out in 2009, The Pink Panther 2, Raavan and Ashokavanam.

Tabu
Tabassum Hashmi was born on November 4, 1970 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. She has a ton of movies coming out in 2009. Anurag Singh's Next, Season's Greetings, Toh Baat Pakki, The Legend of Kunal, Thalaivan Irukirran, Jailor and Naa Intlo Oka Roju.

Kareena Kapoor
Was born on September 21, 1980 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Like Tabu, she has several movies coming out in 2009. Billu Barbe, Main Aur Mrs. Khanna, Kambakth Ishq, Three Idiots and Milenge Milenge. She is also starring in an untitled Renzil D'Silva Project.

Katrina Kaif
Katrina was actually born in Hong Kong on July 16, 1984, raised in Hawaii and modeled in London. In 2009 she will be appearing in Billu Barber (with Kareena Kapoor), Blue, New York, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, De Dana Dan, Rajniti and a Padosan remake.

Kajol
Was born on born August 5, 1975 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Kajol will be taking it a bit easier with only three movies coming out in 2009. Toonpur Ka Superhero, Koochie Koochie and My Name is Khan.

Deepika Padukone
Another foreign born Bollywood actress, she was born on born January 5, 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2009 she will appear in Billu Barber (who isn't in this movie?), Chandni Chowk To China and Production No.1.

Madhuri Dixit
A bit older than the other actresses on this list,, she was born on May 15, 1967 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She hasn't acted in a movie since Aaja Nachle in 2007, but that didn't stop her from coming in at seven on this list.

Priyanka Chopra
Born July 18, 1982 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. She has three movies coming out in 2009. Billu Barber (Yes, her too), What's Your Raashee? and Kaminay

Rani Mukherjee
Born on March 21, 1978 Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She has only two movies coming out in 2009. Anurag Singh's Next and Koochie Koochie Hota Hain (with Kajol).

Preity Zinta
Born January 31, 1975 in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. Only two movies for Preity in 2009. Main Aur Mrs. Khanna and Har Pall.

Confident Preity says will hold her own on world tour with Bachchans

Confident Preity says will hold her own on world tour with Bachchans

There are few celebrities in Bollywood who can face up to the collective might of the Bachchan family and yet not feel awed -- Preity Zinta is one of them.
The actress is currently on a 40-day tour with the Bachchans -- Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek and Aishwarya -- taking part in a singing and dancing extravaganza staged in 11 cities across North America, Europe and the Caribbean.
Zinta said she knows having the Bachchan tag for the tour helps.

Is Preity Zinta on the verge of a break-up?

Is Preity on verge of a break-up?
22 Jun 2008, 0000 hrs IST, AFSANA AHMED ,TNN

Cracks are apparently showing in the so far hunky-dory relationship between Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia.
Rumour is that the pert Bollywood actress, who has been dating the suave industrialist son of Maureen and Nusli Wadia for the past few years, is reportedly on the verge of another break-up.
And the reason being given by Bollywood insiders is Preity’s popularity and apparent rise on the social circuit as co-owner of Team Mohali during the recent IPL cricket tournament.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Entertainment/Is_Preity_on_verge_of_a_break-up/articleshow/3151718.cms

Preity excited

Preity excited

Preity Zinta recently described herself as the “good luck factor” of her cricket team, Kings XI Punjab.

Zinta, 33, was quoted by The Australian newspaper last Saturday as saying, before the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between her team and the Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings at the Mohali Cricket Ground on the outskirts of Chandigarh (the capital of the northern states Punjab and Haryana): “My involvement with the team is total. I am extremely passionate about our team. I believe I am the team’s good luck factor, so I want to be there for everything.”
http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/27/movies/21022367&sec=movies




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A more business-savvy Preity Zinta turns 33

A more business-savvy Preity Zinta turns 33

Preity Zinta, the vivacious, dimple-cheeked Bollywood star, celebrates her 33rd birthday on Thursday with greater confidence in her abilities and demonstrating a little known business acumen with the recent bagging of the franchise of the Mohali team in cricket's Indian Premier League.

Preity would have had a big do to mark the occasion had her professional commitments not come in the way, according to a source close to her.

However, she has ensured that the 'big day' in her life is not all work and no play. She will celebrate, but it will be a quiet one. Who are included in her private party's guest list is also kept under wraps to avoid media scrutiny.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=2c8ac544-e629-4415-a6d7-3c13795cd63a&&Headline=Preity+Zinta+turns+33+today





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Ganpati Bappa Morya:Preity Zinta

Ganpati Bappa Morya:Preity Zinta

Preity Zinta, following Salman Khan’s lead, seeks blessings of the Lalbaugcha Raja

The Lalbaugcha Raja, voted the most visited Ganpati mandal by The Times of India’s Utsav Moorti Sanman, had yet another distinguished visitor from Bollywood. Actress Preity Zinta, not exactly a Ganesh bakht, but somebody with a definite spiritual side and a strong faith in Lord Shiva and the Vaishnodevi.

Sunday night, when the skies opened up over Mumbai, Preity joined lakhs of indefatigable Lord Ganesh devotees whose enthusiasm to pay homage to the Lalbaugcha Raja refused to be dampened by the rains. The actress admitted that she had been waiting to do this for years. But only after she saw how co-star and Bollywood hunk Salman Khan attended the aarti at this Ganesh mandal recently, was she encouraged to seek the popular Ganpati’s blessings in a darshan.

full story here:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India_Buzz/Ganpati_Bappa_MoryaPreity/articleshow/2397863.cms


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Preity Zinta - Bollywood Women

Preity Zinta ( born 31 January 1975) is an award-winning Indian actress who appears in Bollywood movies. She is among the most successful actresses in the industry, and is regarded as one of the biggest names in India.

Making her acting debut in Mani Ratnam's Dil Se (1998), Zinta had her first commercial success with Soldier from the same year, and was widely recognized with Kundan Shah's Kya Kehna (2000). She went to enact different and diverse roles during her career, keeping versatility as an actress.

Balancing commercial successes with critically acclaimed performances, she has established herself as one of the most prominent leading actresses of Hindi cinema. Zinta is placed on the top in the list of the biggest actresses of this generation.

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Preity Zinta - Bollywood Actress

Preity Zinta was born on January 31st, 1975.
She is an Indian actress who appears in popular Bollywood movies. She is among the most successful actresses in the industry, and regarded as one of the biggest names in Bollywood.

Born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, she studied at the Convent of Jesus and Mary School, Shimla. She comes from a Hindu Rajput family of Rohru in Shimla District. At first she was going to do a English honours but decided to pursue psychology. She also attended Bombay University. After getting a degree in criminal psychology at the St. Bedes College, Zinta began her career as a model and commercial (ad films) actress (she was seen in Lyril's soap ad film).

Her father, Durganand Zinta was an officer in the Indian Army. Durganand Zinta died when Preity was thirteen, in a car accident in which her mother, Nilprabha Zinta was also involved. Her mother broke many bones in the accident, including her spine. Her mother was bedridden for two years because of this incident. Zinta has two brothers, Deepankar Zinta and Manish Zinta, a year older and a year younger, respectively. Deepankar is a commissioned officer in the Indian Army, while Preity's other brother Manish, is settled in Los Angeles.

Zinta was meant to make her acting debut with Shekhar Kapur's Tara Rum Pum Pum opposite Hrithik Roshan but the film never took off.

Technically her first film was Kundan Shah's Kya Kehna but it got delayed till 2000. The delay of another film Soldier meant that she made her acting debut with Dil Se (1998). The film was her breakthrough role and she won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for her performance, which was only twenty minutes long. This was followed by the success of Soldier and Kya Kehn. Her role as a teenage single mother for the latter was well acclaimed and she received various nominations in the best actress category. Later, she had successes with the films Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (2001) and Mission Kashmir (2000) that were average performers at the box office.

In 2003, Zinta was the female lead in three of year's highest grossing films: The Hero: Love Story of a Spy, Koi... Mil Gaya and Kal Ho Naa Ho [13]. She won many awards for her role as Naina in Kal Ho Naa Ho. Her performance in the film got her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. Since then she has appeared in the averagely received Lakshya (2004), the box office hit Veer-Zaara (2004) and the semi-hit Salaam Namaste (2005) which turned out to be one of the biggest hit overseas.

She joined a group of top stars (Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Saif Ali Khan, Arjun Rampal, and Priyanka Chopra) in the Temptation 2004 concert, which was a huge international success.

In May 2006 she, along with Karan Johar, received an invitation to represent Bollywood at the Cannes Film Festival. They took this opportunity to promote Johar's latest film Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna which Preity also stars in. The film which released in August 2006 has done very well at the box office.Her most recent film Jaan-E-Mann performed poorly at the box office.

Zinta is currently dating the Bombay Dyeing heir, Ness Wadia. They are said to be very deeply in love, and there is a lot of speculation whether the two will marry soon. There were many rumours circulating that the pair had split up, but Zinta put an end to these rumours when she appeared hand-in-hand with Ness at an award function.

Gossip has also linked her with many other Bollywood stars, but Zinta has strongly denied all these rumours.

Previously, when she was not shooting she used to return to her native town Shimla. Zinta recently moved into her own home in Mumbai, which she bought in mid-2005. Her home is situated in Bandra. She has two dogs called Junior and Lola.

In 2003, Zinta was a witness in the Bharat Shah case and his links to the Mumbai mafia. She stuck by her statement that she received a threatening phone call from the mafia whilst she was shooting for the film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (2000). She was given police protection and was forced to stay out of the public eye for months. Many other celebrities including Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan were witnesses in the case but they soon retracted their statements. Zinta was the only witness not to have turned hostile.

In 2005, along with other Bollywood stars, Preity performed at the HELP! Telethon Concert to help raise money for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

Zinta donated her winnings, from her 2007 appearance on Kaun Banega Crorepati to the Shimla District Red Cross Society in Himachel Pradesh. She donated Rs 25 lakhs to the society in support of its welfare activities.

Her trademark is her dimple.
Critics began to take notice of her after her performance in Kya Kehna.
She has worked four times with Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukerji.
Her good friends in the industry include Yash Chopra, Rekha, Aishwarya Rai[33], Karan Johar, Abhishek Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and Gauri Khan. Her very close friends are Hrithik Roshan and his wife Suzanne Khan Roshan.
She narrowly escaped death twice in late 2004, once after an explosion at a Temptation concert in Colombo, and later in the Indian Ocean Tsunami.
Zinta has written three columns for BBC South Asia.
She was on the cover of the first issue of Marie Claire magazine to be sold in India.