Mahi Gill Biography

Mahi Gill is the new age Paro in the new age Dev D.

Mahi Gill’s Movies:-
2007 Mahi Gill was seen in Mitti Wajaan Mardi, a romantic drama, about a Punjabi family that is separated when the father moves overseas and gets married a second time to get American citizenship.

2008 : She acted in Sameep Kang’s Chakk De Phatte, a Punjabi comedy about four Punjabi lads woo-ing a NRI girl.

2009 : Mahi landed the role of Paro in the modern day adaptation of Devdas called Dev D directed by Anurag Kashyap. Her other release is Kashyap’s Gulaal set in Rajasthan.

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Hema Malini Biography

Hema Malini continues to stand unbeaten as the Dream Girl of Bollywood.

Basics on Hema Malini :-

Hema Malini R Chakravarty was born on 16th October 1948 in Ammankudi, Tamil Nadu, India. She is also known as the Dream Girl. Her parents are V.S.R.Chakravarty and Jaya. She studied in Chennai.

She married actor Dharamendra in 1980. The actor was married with four children, including well known actors Bobby Deol and Sunny Deol. As he could not get a divorce from his wife, the couple converted to Islam and got married. Her name on conversion to Islam is Aisha. They have two daughters, Esha and Ahana. Esha Deol is also a Bollywood actress.

Hema Malini, who is a well known classical dancer, trained her daughters in dance and has performed with them.

Currently, she continues to act in movies and has worked as a Chairperson for the National film Development Corporation. She is also part of politics and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She has been honoured with the Padma Shri.

Dream Girl :-

Hema Malini was first seen on the big screen in a Telugu movie Pandava Vanavasam (1961) as a Bharatnatyam dancer. Though her initial attempts at getting roles failed, she got her break with Sapno Ka Saudagar (1968) with Raj Kapoor. Her movies with Dev Anand like Johnny Mera Naam (1970) and Tere Mere Sapne (1971) helped add to her star appeal.

Her dual role in Seeta Aur Geeta won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. The movie starred Sanjeev Kumar and Dharamendra both of whom proposed to her. Her role in Sholay (1975) as the horse cart driving Basanti won a lot of praise.

She began the 80s with Do Aur Do Paanch with Shashi Kapoor. In Satte Pe Satta (1982), she played a nurse who marries Amitabh Bachchan’s character and brings order in the life of seven brothers. In Vijay (1988), her fans saw her as a wealthy woman who marries a man against her father’s wish.

She began to be seen more frequently on the screen after Hey Ram (2000). In Baghban (2003), she and Amitabh Bachchan played an elderly couple who are ill treated by their children. She was seen in a brief appearance in the hit Veer Zaara (2004) as Shah Rukh Khan’s mother. Baabul (2006) again saw her playing Amitabh Bachchan’s wife.

In 1999, the actress was acknowledged for her work with a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Abhishek Bachchan Biography

Abhishek Bachchan, the anything but angry young man, came out of the shadows as Amitabh Bachchan’s son to build a success story in Bollywood.

His father’s son :-

He was born as Abhishek Amitabh Srivastav on 5 Feb 1976 in Mumbai. What set him apart from other babies born on that day was that he was the son of superstar extraordinaire Amitabh Bachchan and actress Jaya Bachchan of the Guddi fame, who is currently a Samajwadi MP at the Rajya Sabha. He has an older sister Shweta. He’s also the grandson of Harivansh Rai Srivastav (pen-name Harivansh Rai Bachchan) who was an acclaimed poet. Both Abhishek and Amitabh took on the ‘Bachchan’ from this pen-name. Abhishek is partly Punjabi Sikh on his paternal side and a Bengali Kulin Brahmin on his maternal side.

The 6’3” tall Abhishek studied at the Jamnabhai Narsee School and Bombay Scottish School, both located in Mumbai and also Modern School in New Delhi. His college years were spent in Aiglon College, Switzerland amongst the cheese, clocks, and banks. He moved to Boston University in U.S to study business only to return back to India to help his father with ABCL, which was hit by a financial crisis.

He was engaged to the controversially sexy Karishma Kapoor back in 2002. They went public during his father’s sixtieth birthday celebration. It lasted as long as January 2003. He got engaged to ‘the most beautiful woman on earth’ Aishwarya Rai in 2007 and tied the knot with her a few months later at the Bachchan’s residence, Prateeksha.

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Bachchan Junior’s Movies:-
Abhishek’s first film was Refugee opposite Kareena Kapoor in 2000. The film was not a blockbuster but a good debut vehicle nonetheless. He got nominated for the Filmfare Best Debut Award. His acting career dipped from here on as he went on to act in several films that didn’t boost him up to the star status enjoyed by his parents. Some of the films that he starred in between 2000 and 2003 were Dhai Akshar Prem Ke, Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya, Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai, Om Jai Jagdish, and Mein Prem Ki Deewani Hoon.

Come 2004 and our boy showed that persistence pays off as he delivered some brilliant performances. In 2004, he starred in Mani Rathnam’s Yuva as a goon Lallan Singh, winning the Filmfare Best Supporting Award. He then had another major hit with Dhoom in which he played the part of ACP Jai Dixit. Another film worth taking note of in the same year was Phir Milenge, a recycled version of the Hollywood film Philadelphia, revolving around AIDS. Abhishek played the lawyer Tarun Anand.

In 2005, he had a runaway hit in the comedy Bunty Aur Babli with Rani Mukherji, which had shades of the Hollywood hit Bonnie & Clyde. It was the first film where he appeared alongside his father Amitabh Bachchan. The second film with his father, Ram Gopal Verma’s political thriller Sarkar, was also a major hit. Abhishek’s portrayal of Shankar Nagre won him the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. He also did some guest appearances in films like Salaam Namaste and Neal n Nikki. He wrapped up the year with Bluffmaster with Priyanka Chopra, in which he sang the number ‘Right Here, Right Now’ which was one of the top tunes of the year.

The year 2006 saw him in some of the biggest flicks of the year like Kabhie Alvida Naa Kehana that won him his third Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. He also made a brief appearance as Sunny Kurana in the sequel, Lage Raho Munna Bhai. He played Nawab Sultan Khan in Umrao Jaan with his real-life bride Aishwarya Rai. The film didn’t do as well as expected. However, the sequel Dhoom 2 did a great job at the box office.

In 2007, while Jhoom Barabar Jhoom didn’t perform as well in India as overseas, he did justice to Gurukant Desai in Guru, which also starred Aishwarya Rai. The sequel Sarkar Raj, with Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, again pulled in the moolah at the box office. He had only two films lined up in 2008 – Drona, which was a below average performer, and Dostana where he was paired opposite the hunky John Abraham.

In 2009, Abhishek had two releases Delhi 6 and Paa. While Delhi 6 received mixed reviews, Paa received applause. In this movie, his father played the role of his son who is suffering from a rare disease.

Stay tuned
Year 2010 will see Abhishek with Aishwarya in 2 movies Mani Ratnam’s Raavan and Abhinay Deo’s Crooked.

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Raveena Tandon Biography

Personal life :- One of the most good looking actress in the film industry with height of 5’5, Raveena was born on October 26, 1974 in Mumbai Maharashtra, India and started her carrier in 1991 with her film “Patthar ke phool “which was a great success .The name of this actress is generated by her parents Ravi and Veena .Her father was a great film maker, producer and director of some films in 1970s and 1980s. Raveena got a brother called Rajiv Tandon and Cousin Kiran Rathod who is a South Indian actress. In mean while she adopted two children Pooja and Chhaya 1990s.Tandon soon had an affair with Akshay Kumar and also had a plan to get engaged, however as normal love stories had some misunderstandings which turn to break their relation before some thing could happen between two. Later Tandon was interested with film distributor Anil Thadani during the making of her film Stumped (2003) before the news could spread their engagement was announced in November 2003. She married Thadani on February 22, 2004 in Jag Mandir Palace in Udaipur, Rajasthan according to Punjabi style. Very soon had a quite baby girl called Rasha on March 16, 2005and later baby boy named Ranbir on July 12, 2007. She attended Jamnabai Narsee School in Juhu and studied at Mithibai College and completed her two years.

CHARMING RAVEENA
The first movie patthar ke phool of hers got her film fare lux new face award for her debut performance and then moved her carrier into her next film Mohra (1994) and Dilwale (1994) were big hits at the box office whilst Laadla (1994), although an average performer whilst the latter was unsuccessful at the box office. She reportedly got into a fight with her co-star Karisma Kapoor on the sets of the film. In 1995, she starred with Shahrukh Khan for the first time in Zamana Deewana, the film failed to do well. Her following films failed to do well at the box office and her career saw a drop in her success. Her career was back on track with hit films like Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1996). She got to be a bit demanded in the industry and was paid a good amount for her performance when she won the coveted National Film Award for Best Actress in Kalpana Lazmi's Daman : looking at her stunning performance the audience and critics were shocked. every one loved as well as appreciated her performance in the movie. But later there were number of movies she acted for but critically acclaimed big fail, such as Satta (2003) and Dobara(2004). But as times passing she is not seen in the industry with her come back performance now, but hope to see her soon.

ACHIEVEMENTS
•Raveena had achieved a number of awards like
1992: Filmfare Lux New Face Award, Patthar Ke Phool,
2002: Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards,
2002: National Film Award
2002: Filmfare Special Performance Award or Best Actress,
2002: Star Screen Award Best Supporting Actress,
2002: Bollywood Movie Award - Best Supporting Actress,

•Tandon was chairperson of the Children's Film Society of India from 2003 but from 2004 the actress began to get complaints that she did not attend the organization's meetings and that she was not involved with the activities set up by the society. In September 2005, Tandon resigned from her post citing personal reasons 2002: Bollywood Movie Award.

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