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Bollywood Women 2

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Bollywood Women 2

Since my last Bollywood actress Hub was so well received, I thought I would do another.
After all, there are plenty of beautiful Bollywood actresses to go around....



Rani Mukerji

Rani Mukerji was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on March 21, 1978.
She is the second cousin of Bollywood actress Kajol, so that also makes her part of the Mukherjee-Samarth family.
Even though the two cousins are not close, they are said to share tremendous respect for each other.
Rani's father is retired director Ram Mukherjee, one of the founders of Filmalaya Studios.
Her mother Krishna was a playback singer (a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies).
Rani's first film was 1996's Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat, but her first actual screen appearance was a cameo in her father's Bengali film Biyer Phool back in 1992.
She has gone on to appear in over forty films.
The workrate of Bollywood actresses never ceases to amaze me.
Rani changed the spelling of her last name from Mukherjee to Mukerji several years ago, some say it was because of Numerology, but Rani says it was because her name had been put down as Mukerji on her passport.

Mallika Sherawat

Mallika Sherawat reminds me of Angelina Jolie.
If you dig around the internet much, you'll see that people either love her, or hate her.
Mallika was born Reema Lamba in Karnal, Haryana, India on October 24, 1981.
She says that she took her screen name because there was already another actress named Reema, and Sherawat is her mother's maiden name.
In her first film appearance 2002's Jeena Sirf Merre Liye, she was credited as Reema Lamba.
Mallika doesn't turn out as many films as some Bollywood actresses, having only 17 as of this entry.
One of her more famous appearances was in the 2005 Hong Kong film The Myth, starring Jackie Chan. She played the Indian princess, Samantha in the film.
Mallika is in the US working on the film Hisss (aka Nagin) directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch.
And like Priyanka Chopra, Mallika is a big Twitter user, with over 19,000 followers.
On 14th August,2009, she received a honorary citizenship to the City of Los Angeles.

Tabu

Bollywood actress Tabu was born Tabassum Hashmi on November 4, 1973 in Hyderabad, India.
Besides Bollywood films, she has appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali and one American film (The Namesake in 2006) .
Tabu tends to aim more for films that get critical praise rather than make a huge box office.
And that has paid off for her as she has gotten the National Film Award for Best Actress twice and the Filmfare's Critics Award for Best Female Performer a record four times.
Her film debut was in Hum Naujawan (1985) at the age of fifteen.
Tabu's workrate is amazing, she is approaching seventy films!


Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone was born on January 5, 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark and her moved to Bangalore, India, when she was eleven months old.
Her father Prakash Padukone is the first Indian to have won the All England Open Badminton Championship.
Deepika's mother is a travel agent, and she has a younger sister, Anisha, born in 1991, who is aiming to become a pro golfer.
Deepika started out not as an actress, but as a model and was Maybelline's international spokesperson.
Moving from modeling to acting, she got her first role not in a film, but in a music video by Indian singer, Himesh Reshammiya.
She made her acting debut in the 2006 Kannada film Aishwarya.
Deepika then made her Bollywood debut in the blockbuster Om Shanti Om in 2007.
Her Bollywood debut got her the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award and her first Filmfare Best Actress nomination.
Like Mallika, she doesnt have a huge workrate, appearing in only seven films so far.
But hey, she didn't get started till 2006.

Preity Zinta

Preity Zinta was born on January 31, 1975, in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India.
She has not only acted in Bollywood films, but also Telugu, Punjabi and English language films.
And she has something else that separates her from other actresses I have done entries on, she has a degree in criminal psychology.
Preity started out in modeling, went to commercials, and then the big screen.
Her first role was in 1998's Dil Se, directed by Mani Ratnam.
She has gone on to appear in over thirty films.
Preity is not only famous on screen, but off as well.
She is a co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Kings XI Punjab (along with her ex-boyfriend, Indian entrepreneur and businessman Ness Wadia) .
And she even tangled with the Indian Mafia in real life.
In 2003, she testified against the Indian mafia even after some of her other colleagues (notably Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan) retracted statements they had made.
For standing up against the Mumbai underworld, she received the Godfrey's Mind of Steel Award at the annual Red and White Bravery Awards.

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