1. Juhi Chawla
Juhi Chawla is a renowned Indian actress and producer of Bollywood films. She was born on November 13, 1967 in Ambala, Haryana in India. She studied at the Fort Convent School in Mumbai and took an HR course at the Sydenham College. In year 1984, she bagged the Miss India title at the Femina Miss India beauty pageant. In the same year, she also got the Best in Costume award at the Miss Universe pageant, which was held at Miami, Florida in USA. Juhi is a trained Kathak dancer and classical singer. She got married to Jay Mehta, an industrialist, and they have two children namely Jhanvi and Arjun.
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2. Hema Malini
Hema Malini is perhaps the only dream girl of the Bollywood. After Vyjanthimala had left Bollywood, she took steps to reach superstardom on her elegant looks and acting prowess. But she was also an actress who tried to act at the age of 15 in a Tamil film but she was rejected by Tamil Director Sridhar as she was very lean.
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75
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Female
3. Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam is a playback singer of Indian cinema who predominantly now sings in South Indian and Bengali films. She debuted in Bollywood as a singer and has done playback singing in many Hindi films. She had initial training under her mother Neela Ghanekar, who was a classical singer too. Born as Sadhana Ghanekar in Mumbai on March 7, 1974, she changed her name to Sadhana Sargam on advice given by Kalyanji Anandji, who had promoted her singing career.
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4. Lara Dutta
Lara Dutta is an Indian actress, model, movie producer and a former beauty pageant, winning Miss Intercontinental in 1997 and the Miss Universe title in 2000. Noted DJ and music composer, Nitin Sawhneyi, is one of her cousins. She was born in Ghaziabad, UP, India, on 16 April 1978. Her father is Punjabi, L K Dutta, a retired Indian Air Force Wing Commander, and her mother is an Anglo Indian, Mrs. Jennifer Dutta, who is Half Scottish. Lara’s elder sister Sabrina is with the Indian Air Force. She has another elder sister by the name Cheryl.
Her recent works include playing a role in ‘Abhi Nahi Toh Kabhi Nahi’, which is a movie produced by Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi, a former Tennis player of India. She has also been signed for the movie, ‘Singh Is Bling’ directed by Prabhu Deva, which is set to release on October 2nd, 2015. She has reportedly signed for the movie, ‘No Entry Mein Entry’, which is actually the sequel to the 2005 movie, ‘No Entry’.
Lara’s high school education was at St. Francis Xavier Girls High School, Frazer Town, Bangalore. At Frank Anthony Public School, in the same Bangalore City, she did her two years of Junior college. Then she moved to Mumbai where she has studied at the University of Mumbai. Her major was economics and minor was communication, and she became an economy graduate from the same university.
Dutta is Multi lingual and can speak Hindi, Punjabi, Kannada, English and French. She is certainly the ‘Beauty with Brain -Women kind’. She had won the Miss Universe title in 2000 with the highest individual score possible, and the best since the inception of the Miss Universe Competition. In 2011, she became the Goodwill Ambassador of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which is a UN organization.
The movie ‘Andaaz’ was Lara’s debut adventure at Bollywood in the year 2003. The movie became a box office success of immense propositions, and gave her a ‘Filmfare Best Female Debut Award’ as well as a ‘Screen Best Female Debut Award’. Dutta is well-known for her comedy roles in Bollywood.
At the box office collections after that, her next films did not fare well. But with ‘Masti’, she had breached that image, which went onto become a successful comedy film with mostly positive reviews from the critics. Lara had her range of highs and lows in her Bollywood movies’ box office successes after ‘Masti’. In 2010, the Akshay Kumar plus Deepika Padukone starrer ‘Housefull’ was released. Riteish Deshmukh and Jiah Khan who has committed suicide later were also in the movie. Lara has acted in the movie as ‘Hetal - the daughter of Batuk’. The movie became the fifth biggest hit in the country at the time and the collections have reached an all-time high of 14 Billion Rupees, which in US Dollars would be approximately, 18 Millions.
In 2011, she has produced the movie ‘Chalo Dilli’. This movie was a moderate success, hailed by the media. Her role and her acting in the movie was one of excellence and were well praised by movie critics. She has appeared in the sequel to the movie, ‘Don’, the ‘Don 2’, and also has done an item number in it, which was a great success.
Kelly Dorji was the person with whom Lara Dutta had a long-term relationship of 9-years. Mahesh Bhupathi, the Ace Tennis player of India, met her later and she got engaged to him in September of 2010. On 16th of February 2011 at Bandra, the couple got married and 4 days later on 20th of that month rituals were arranged to solemnize the marriage formally and this was arranged at Goa. They together have a daughter, who was born in January of that next year, and she is by the name Saira. Lara Dutta is so much into pre natal yoga and she herself presents a series of yoga instruction videos on YouTube....
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5. Urmila Matondkar
Urmila Matondkar is an Indian actress born on 4th February 1974 in Mumbai. Her mother tongue is Marathi and she has appeared in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Tamil movies. Urmila’s parents are Shivinder Singh and Rukshana Sultana. Her father was a lecturer. In 1977, she appeared in her first film “Karam” as a child artist. And she also achieved success with Kalyug (1981) and Masoom of Shekhar Kapoor at the age of nine. She made her adult debut as an actress with “Bade Ghar Ki Beti” and then she starred in a movie named “Chamatkar”. In 1989, she appeared in her first Malayalam film “Chanakyan” and gained success in Telugu movies with film director Ram Gopal Verma. Her first film with him was “Antham”. “Rangeela”, “Judaai” and “Satya” carries the most excellent performances of Urmila Matondkar and she was nominated for Filmfare Awards in 1995, 1997 and 1998. The movies which gained her recognition in Telugu and Tamil cinema are Antham, Gaayam, Indian and Anaganaga Oka Roju. In early 2000 and late 1990s, Urmila appeared in range of intense, psychological characters in movies such as Kaun (1999), Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya (2001), Bhoot (2003) and Ek Hasina Thi (2004).
In 2003, she played the role of a north Indian girl in the movie named “Pinjar”. The movie was based on the separation of India in 1947. Also, she made a remarkable performance in film “Tehzeeb”. However, she was noted for her exceptional performance in film “Bhoot” and she won her first Filmfare Award as best actress in the critic’s choice category. Also, she won Star Screen best actress award, Zee Cine Awards, Bollywood Movie Awards and National Honor Rajiv Gandhi Award for her role in “Bhoot”. Again in 2004, she received critical recognition for her performance in “Ek Hasina Thi”. Her role was a woman who was deceived and jailed by her lover (Saif Ali Khan). Once again, she was nominated for Filmfare awards in 2004 for her performances in “Ek Hasina Thi”. In 2005, again, she played the title role for a horror film named “Naina” and it was a failure. Yet in the same year she could win her second Bollywood Movie Award for Best Actress for the Jahnu Barua's film “Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara”.
Apart from her acting career, she’s an exceptional dancer and a singer. Urmila has performed in several Bollywood item numbers such as “Chamma Chamma” (China Gate-1998) and “Aaiye Aajaye” (Lajja). In 2007, Urmila performed the duet song "Mehbooba Dilruba” with Asha Bhonsle for her album Asha and Friends Vol 1. In the same year, she joined Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa – season two as a judge along with Shiamak Davar and Jeetendra....
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50
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50
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6. Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan is a film celebrity born to actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketer 'Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi'. He has two sisters, Soba, and Soha. Soha is a well-known actress in Hindi cinema. He was born in New Delhi on August 16, 1970. This actor made his debut with director Yash Chopra’s film Parampara, but the film did not do well in box office. He then acted with Akshay and Kajol in Yeh Dillagi, which majored him.
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7. Sulaiman Merchant
Sulaiman Merchant, is the most celebrated Playback singer Salim Merchant’s sib. The duo has been entertaining the industry with their foot tapping music.
They were predominantly composing background scores until, ‘Karan Johar’ gave them a breaking point in their career, during his “Kaal”. Their work on music was critically acclaimed.
They have composed music for a number of movies like, Roadside Romeo, Chak De! India, Neel ‘n’ Nikki, Bhoot, Darna Mana Hai, Fashion and the list wouldn’t end.
They have scored music for films such as, ‘Race 2, Cocktail, I hate luv stories, Fanaa’ to name some. Their combination has always worked well, and creates a huge expectation among the audience.
They have also won laurels, for many movies. The list goes like, FHM (Magazine) Awards for ‘Best Dressed Music Composer’, ‘Syracuse International Film Festival Awards-Best Music Director’ for the movie Fashion.
They have now designed a show, “Beyond Bollywood” which will be premiered in West End London. There is something unique about this show that many of may not be aware of, ‘it is completely produced in India’....
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51
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Male
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51
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Male
8. Salim Merchant
Salim Merchant is a mesmerizing Music director, playback singer, Instrumentalist and also a programmer. He is much illustrious for his works in, ‘Bang bang, Gori Tere Pyaar Mein, Heroine’, to name a few. He kicked off his career in this industry with his brother, ‘Sulaiman Merchant’. They were essentially composing background scores. Then, came a contingency with Karan Johar’s, “Kaal”, which galvanized their song composing potential. Salim got the hang of Piano, from ‘Trinity College of Music-London.’ He was one of the critics of the reality show, ‘Indian Idol.’ This was aired on Sony Entertainment Television. Very eminent playback singers like, Anu Malik and Sunidhi Chauhan were also critiquing the contestants. Now that Salim is blessed with a girl child, he is very keen on doing Kids movies. He has mentioned in an interview that, ‘he is not okay with composing music for adults only lyrics’. He is also the Brand Ambassador for ‘i-genius’. The Merchant siblings have won innumerable prestigious awards like, ‘Star Screen Awards’, ‘Filmfare Awards’, ‘Daytime Emmy Awards’, ‘Mirchi Music Awards’ and the list goes on....
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49
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9. Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.
In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a film administered by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. By the early 1970s, Bachchan had collected fame in crowds as the "Angry Young Man" in an arrangement of successful Hindi gimmick movies. His featuring part in Zanjeer was especially instrumental in propelling him to fame as an action-movie film legend. Amitabh didn’t stopped gaining fame and popularity and soon he delivered another successful movie Anand in 1971. Anand was followed by movies like Reshma Aur Shera and Parwana in the same year.
Being family friend with Rajiv Gandhi, he got an opportunity to choose to run for seat in the Congress from the place where he grew up. He challenged Allahabad's seat of eighth Lok Sabha against H. N. Bahuguna, previous Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and won by one of the highest victory margins in history (68.2% of the vote). His political life, on the other hand, was fleeting in view of debates especially after Rajiv and he were embroiled in the now scandalous "Bofors" case alongside the U.K. based Hinduja Brothers.
In 1997, Bachchan endeavored to make his acting comeback with the film Mrityudata, produced by ABCL. However, the film was a disappointment both fiscally and basically. His vocation was spared with a successful film “Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998)”. In 2000, Bachchan facilitated the first season of “Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC)”. Likewise in that year Amitabh Bachchan showed up in Yash Chopra's film industry hit “Mohabbatein” directed by Aditya Chopra. Different hits emulated, with Bachchan showing up as a more established family patriarch in Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love (2001), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) and Baghban (2003). Bachchan is also well known for his profound, baritone voice. He has been a storyteller, a playback artist, and moderator for various projects.
Despite a couple of film industry disappointments in the 1990s and the 2000s ruined his career yet, Bachchan climbed his way back up to as a topnotch Bollywood actor, gaining Filmfare and International Film Awards for his work on movies like Baghban (2003), Khakee (2004) and Paa (2009). His hard work guaranteed his prosperity and now he is known as the "King of Bollywood".
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81
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Male
10. Kailash Kher
Kailash Kher was born on 7 July, 1973 in New Delhi. He is an Indian pop Singer, Music Director and his music style is influenced by, Indian Sufi and folk music. His family belongs to Kashmiri roots. His father named Pandir Mehar Singh Kher was a famous Folk Musician and Singer. Kailash was very interested in singing and music from his childhood. He left his home at the age of 14, for learning music and took proper lessons from his guru.
After many attempts, he didn’t get the right teacher. He began to learn music, by listening to the classical music of Indian singers like Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Kumar Gaurav, Pandit Gokulotsav Maharajand and also Lata Mangeshkar. After that, he started to teach music for his expenses in Delhi. Because of some problems in the family, he left singing and completed his graduation from Delhi University. When he was staying in Delhi, he met Paresh Kamath and Naresh Kamath in a concert. They together, started his band named “Kailasa”. Thus, he started his journey in his music career.
He has sung more than 5000 songs in 20 different languages of India. He got the opportunity to sing in the movie “Andaaz” (Rabbaa Ishq Na hove). After this, his song “Allah ke Bande” from movie “Waisa Bhi Hota Hai 2” became very popular, and made him a popular singer in Bollywood. The song "Teri Deewani" from the album of the same name by his band Kailasa and the song "Ya Rabba" from the movie Salaam-e-Ishq had record sales. His band albums are Kailasa(2006), Jhooma Re (2007), Chaandan Mein (2009), Rangeele (2012),Naina Chaar (2013) etc.
He won Filmfare award as Best Male Playback singer for the film Fanna (2007) and also won the Filmfare award as Best Male Playback Singer-Telugu for the film Mirchi.
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11. Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scriptwriter from Bellwood. He is best known for teaming up with Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar came to recognition as a scriptwriter duo of Salim-Javed. Salim-Javed was instrumental in making of Amitabh Bachchan the superstar and 'angry young' image in Indian cinema, While Salim had ideated stories, Javed used to write the dialogues. Javed Saab used to write in Urdu, which was written in Hindi by some assistant writers. In his initial days, Javed was an assistant to Urdu writer and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Later, he married Kaifi Azmi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after divorcing his first wife, Honey Irani. Javed had married Honey Iran while he met her during the making of Seeta Aur Geeta.
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79
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Male
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79
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Male
12. Paresh Rawal
The Padma Shri award winner who shot to fame with his role in the 1986 blockbuster film ‘Naam’, which told the story of a poor family that struggled to make ends meet, was born on 30th May 1950 in Mumbai. He completed his graduation from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai. Rawal made his debut in the film industry through the movie ‘Holi’ in the year 1984 but it was his next film, ‘Naam’, which brought him all the fame and attention as an actor. Success followed him, and he acted in over hundred films during 1980s and 1990s. Such was his versatility, that he has done roles from lead actor to Main villain. He did the role of main villain in most of his movies and he was considered as a character actor during those days.
The 1994 hits ‘Woh Chokri’ and ‘Sir’ won him the national award for best supporting actor and ‘Sir’ won him the Filmfare award for best comedian. He received nationwide recognition as villain through his negative roles in Telugu blockbusters like ‘Kshana Kshanam’, ‘Money’ etc. He was considered as a character actor until his role in the 2000 hit ‘Hera Pheri’ which gave a turn in Paresh Rawal’s career. ‘Hera Pheri’ told the story of a witty Marathi landlord who rents his apartment out to bachelors. He started taking either lead or the main protagonist roles in many of the mainstream Bollywood films that followed. Rawal received wide recognition and appreciation for his role in ‘Hera Pheri’, and his acting in the film was considered as the major contributing factor to the movie’s success. Many comedy numbers followed and Paresh Rawal’s roles in all those movies got the best feedback.
He is also a renowned actor in Gujarati drama industry, and his latest play ‘Dear Father’ was a hit. He has also produced several successful TV soaps including ‘Teen Bahuraniyaan’ of ‘Zee TV’. Paresh Rawal is also into politics and won the parliament election from Ahmedabad East constituency to become the Member of Parliament for BJP in 2014. He is married to the 1979 Miss India and actress Swaroop Sampat and has two sons, Aditya and Aniruddh.
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73
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Male
13. Rakesh Roshan
Rakesh Roshan Lal Nagrath is the original name of Rakesh Roshan. Born on September 6, 1949, he tried his luck in production, direction and acting. The 70s to 90s were heydays in his career.
Rakesh is reputed for directing flicks starting with K. He launched his son Hrithik Roshan with the 2000 flick Kaho Na Pyar Hai which was the blockbuster of the year. A promising star was born in Indian cinema that year. His commendable works are Khoon Bhari Maang, Khudgarz, Karan Arjun, Kishen Kanheiya, Kaho Na Pyar Hai, Koi Mil Gaya, Krrish, etc. Kaho Na Pyar Hai and Koi Mil Gaya fetched him Filmfare Awards for Best Director. Kaho Na Pyar Hai is recorded in Limca Book of Record for fetching the most number of awards.
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74
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Male
14. Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik Roshan with his unimaginable dance moves is praised as the Dance God of Bollywood, is the only son of Bollywood Director/Actor/Producer Rakesh Roshan. He is considered the most hard working personality when comes to the profession. As a kid he had stammering problem and it doesn’t stop him from moving ahead to this position. Hrithik who is fondly called as duggu by his family also worked in few bollywood movies as a child artist and the notable one was with Superstar RajiniKanth where he played the role of Our Thalaivar’s Son.
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