 First Name: Diya
Last Name: Mirza
Nick Name: Dee
Birthdate: December 9, 1981
Star Sign Sagittarius
Eye Colour: Light Brown
Height: 5' 6"
Profession: Modeling & Acting
Titles Won: Miss Asia Pacific 2000
Career: At the age of 16 she was working as a marketing executive at sriven Mult-tech in Hyderabad. She earned a monthly salary of Rs 5000, with a 15 per cent commision on every ad revenue She fetched for the company. She has done an advertising campaign which appeared in femina. After the pictures came out she was encouraged to participate in the Miss India competition. Thats when Miss India happned.
Her confidence belies her status in the industry. But it is her keen sense of direction and her intrinsic intelligence which makes her so poised and confident. She's all of 20 and yet has accomplished so much. Diya Mirza has a world of opportunities open to her and for the first time she's sure of what she wants to be.
Diya Mirza won the prestigious Miss Asia Pacific title at the beauty pageant held on 2 December, 2000, in Manila. She is the second Indian contestant to be crowned Miss Asia Pacific and the first in 29 years.
Her first film, opposite Madhavan - Rehaana Hai Tere Dil Mein did not make a big splash. But it spelt one thing - Diya Mirza had arrived.
For a 20 year old Diya has accomplished so much but Diya's dream has only just begun.
Movie Carrer : She made her cinematic debut with Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein opposite R. Madhavan. The film was not a box office success. A series of unsuccessful films followed, among them Tumsa Nahin Dekha and Deewaanapan.
In 2005, Mirza appeared in Parineeta, a Vidhu Vinod Chopra production. In 2006 she teamed up once again with Chopra and Sanjay Dutt for the successful film Lage Raho Munna Bhai. She also played in the music video Kajara Mohabbat Wala from Sonu Nigam album Kajara Nite.
She has also appeared in Dus and in Fight Club. She will appear later this year in Familywala and Naa Naa Karte.
At 18, a quiet, introverted girl entered the Femina Miss India Contest to have some fun.
She walked away with 3 titles ? Miss Beautiful Smile, The Sony Viewers? Choice Award and Femina Miss India-Asia Pacific. Not that Diya was complaining.
Life has changed in the 10 months since she won the Femina Miss India-Asia Pacific Crown. She has had to make choices over what most 18-year old girls are taken for granted ? parents, education and paying bills.
As a career move, the Hyderabad girl shifted to Mumbai, away from home and family. Compromises have been difficult, but necessary.
Like with her education, for one. She opted to do her First Year Bachelor of Arts via correspondence, but as the Miss Asia Pacific competition drew closer, juggling work and studies became close to impossible, specially with her modeling assignments, travelling and training.
Diya says, "I am getting first-hand knowledge about the world and about people from my travels. Of course, when I come back I will resume my formal studies. But I don?t have any regrets right now."
She adds, "My carefree days are over. I have become responsible and busy."
Especially with all the training she has had to undergo. Sabira Merchant worked with her on her diction and etiquette, physical training was with Talwalkars, diet with Anjali Mukherjee, skin care with Dr. Jamuna Pai, hair and make-up with Bharat and Doris Godambe, and clothes from Ritu Kumar and Hemant Trivedi.
Diya is all prepared to hitch her wagon to a star. She is a young woman who is caring, sensitive, beautiful and loving.
She is also independent and armed with a mind of her own. And with everyone?s confidence and encouragement egging on her, Diya has a good chance of bagging a crown India hasn?t won in 25 years.
Her confidence belies her status in the industry. But it is her keen sense of direction and her intrinsic intelligence which makes her so poised and confident. She's all of 20 and yet has accomplished so much. Diya Mirza has a world of opportunities open to her and for the first time she's sure of what she wants to be.
Diya Mirza won the prestigious Miss Asia Pacific title at the beauty pageant held on 2 December, 2000, in Manila. She is the second Indian contestant to be crowned Miss Asia Pacific and the first in 29 years.
Her first film, opposite Madhavan - Rehaana Hai Tere Dil Mein did not make a big splash. But it spelt one thing - Diya Mirza had arrived.
Diya Mirza also worked in a film with arjun rampal titled Deewanapan and she is extremly excited about it.
For a 20 year old Diya has accomplished so much but Diya's dream has only just begun.                        
 Name : Neha Dhupia
Birth date : 27th Aug, 1980
Education : Graduation in History (Hons)
Height : 170 cm, 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Measurements : 33
Hair : Brown
Eyes : Dark-Brown
Profession : Modelling/Acting
Claim to fame : Femina Miss India-Universe 2002
Birth Name : Neha Pradip Dhupia
Nickname : Chhotu
Academic Achievements Graduation in History (Hons)
Turn ons : Intellect, Humor, Music & A Warm smile!
Favourite Food/Dish : Sea Food
Favourite Book/Author : Alchemist-Paulho Coelho
Favorite Movie Bridge Over the River Kwai, Sholay & Forest Gump
Favourite Movie Star : Tom Hanks, Aamir Khan & Julia Roberts
Achievements : Featured in a leading role in an Indo-Japanese movie, Margo Miss Beautiful Skin and MTV Most-Wanted..
Ad Campaigns : Reebok, National, Pepsi, LG, Gillet, maruti, Meena Bazar and Mitsubishi Lancer
Ramp/Runaway/Shows : For Rina Dhaka, Monisha Bajaj, Kuene Hair show, NIFT New Delhi, Airtel, Ogaan
T V Advertising : Featured in a TV series Rajdhani for Star Plus. Anchored travel show "Moosafir Hoon Yaaron". Featured in TV series SSHH.Koi Hai for Star Plus
Music Video : Euphoria's Shanana directed by Pradip Sircar, Apocalypso-Sanchaita Ghosal's Jaagi Hoon Main for Universal Polygram
First Movie : Qayamat: City Under Threat (2003)
Early life
Neha was born to Commander Pradip Singh Dhupia, who is in the Indian Navy and mother Manpinder. She has a brother, Hardeep, who is a high flier with Jet Airways. Born in Cochin, Neha went to Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi and completed her Graduation in History (Hons)from Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi. Neha started her career with a TV serial Rajdhani at the age of 19.
Beauty Contest Winner
Neha was crowned Miss India Universe in 2002 and competed at Miss Universe 2002, finishing in the top ten.
Acting career
Neha Dhupia made her debut in Bollywood films with Qayamat: City Under Threat (2003) which was a success at the box office. She rose to popularity with her bold role in the film Julie which gave her the status of a sex symbol. She followed up her success with the dual role of twin sisters in Sheesha (2005) which did not do well at the box office. She has continued to appear in films such as Kyaa Kool Hai Hum (2005) and Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007) which did well at the box office and recently appeared in a segement of the anthology film Dus Kahaniyaan (2007).
Neha Dhupia debut film was Harry Baweja's Qayamat which is an action-packed thriller starring a number of Bollywood actors including Ajay Devgan, Sunil Shetty, Sanjay Kapoor, Arbaaz Khan, Isha Koppikar.                   
 Date of Birth: 21st November, 1982.
Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Debut Film: "Tumse Achcha Kaun Hai" Film
Awards: None
Weight : 107 lbs
She is fluent in English, Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi and Gujarati.
She was voted the Hottest Bollywood Babe.
She is an Indian Bollywood actress and model.
Aarti Chhabria was born in a Sindhi speaking Chabria family. She is fluent in English, Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi and Gujarati languages. Arti Chabria shot into fame when she won Miss India Worldwide in 1999. But Aarti became famous in the glamour world through "Liril" advertisement and "Nasha Hi Nasha" video and thereafter there has been no looking back for her. She appeared in many advertisements before pursuing her childhood dream of acting Amul, Freshna and Krack cream were some of her popular ads. Chabria made her debut in Bollywood with "Tumse Achcha Kaun Hai". Though the film was not successful but her performance was noticed. Since then Arti has acted in many films such as "Shadi No.1", "Ssukh", "Aham Premasmi", "Lajja " etc. but she is still struggling to set her feet firm in Bollywood. Aarti won critical acclaim for her performance in the film "Lajja" but it failed at box office. She has also acted in a few Telugu and Kannada movies. The talented actress has stolen the hearts of cinegoers with her charming beauty.
She started her career as a fashion model, and appeared in arguably hundreds of advertisements for brands including Amul, Crack Cream, Farex, Freshna, Liril etc. She started off her career as advertisement model for Farex at the age of three. Besides these, she worked in Music the albums, Nasha Hi Nasha with Sukhwinder Singh and Tera Chehra with famous pop singer and keyboard player, Adnan Sami, in the song, Ruthe Huae Ho Kyun. Aarti speaks Sindhi, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarathi and English with fluency. She also has a brother named Gurinder singh sandhu. who presently lives in United states of America.
She started her film career with the film Lajja in the year 2001, but didn?t get noticed much. But she was cast as the lead female in the film, Tumse achcha kaun hai (meaning, ?who is better than you?), and so, it is still believed to be her first film. Though the film was not a hit, Vikram Bhatt signed her up for his new project, Awaara Pagal Deewana, which was released in 2002. She worked alongside a number of top actors in Bollywood, including Govinda, Fardeen Khan, Sohail Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Tushar Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor and Akshay Kumar, over a period of nearly eight years. But so far, she has not been blessed with a commercial success, that could give her a much coveted break. But many moviegoers and film reviewers believe that she is a very gifted artist, and has potential and versatility to play good character roles. Aarti had the childhood dream to be an actor, though she does not hail from a family with any ties to film industry. Singing, playing tennis and swimming are her hobbies.
                        
 Nickname : Kat
Height : 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Date of Birth : 16 July 1984
Born on July 16, 1984 Katrina Kaif is one of eight siblings, all girls, from a mother who is a Caucasian of British Nationality, and a father who was formerly from Kashmir, India, but who has since acquired British citizenship.
Katrina grew up in Hawaii, but was brought up in London, UK. She started modeling accidentally when she was in Hawaii at the tender age of 14, when she was approached for a jewelery campaign. Thereafter she continued modeling in London.
Continuing to model was the reason she got her break in a Bollywood movie "Boom" offered by none other than film-maker Kaizad Gustad.
She was flooded with modeling assignments the minute she set her foot on Indian soil, especially with her innocent expressive face, hour-glass figure, and drop-dead gorgeous looks.
Katrina Kaif, one of the most sought after actress in Bollywood, debuted with a bang through ?Boom?, a movie about models getting caught up with the underworld. Though the movie bombed, people couldn?t easily forget her angelic face and voluptuous figure. Not many have gained the fans and popularity as a new entrant as Katrina has done.
Katrina is half Indian and half British. Her father is and NRI and her mother is English, which makes her poor at Hindi. Initially critics were very harsh on her for her poor Hindi. But she has worked hard on her Hindi and started taking dancing lessons?both very essential to survive in the industry. Now she has started dubbing on her own. She has done few movies down south and is a popular face there already.
She has done two Telugu movies - Malliswari(2004) and Allari Pidugu(2005) and a Malayalam film (Balram vs. Taradas). In 2005 she starred in ?Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya? opposite Salman Khan and Ram Gopal Varma?s ?Sarkar?. ?Hum Ko Deewana Kar Gaye? with Akshay Kumar followed.
Katrina was born on July 16, 1984, in Hong Kong, grew up in Hawaii and then moved to London. Even at the young age of 14, she got modeling offers and started out by modeling for a jewelry campaign. She was attracted to her father?s native land and the moment she landed in India she was flooded with modeling assignments.
She started off with photographer Atul Kasbekar. Later she got offers from Lakme, LG, Cola, Fevicol, Pantene, Veet, Kodak, and L?Oreal. She was chosen as the face of the year for the Lakme India Fashion Week (2005). The Lakme commercial made her very popular. Soon Kaizad Gustad, the director of ?Boom? noticed her and offered her a role in the film. Since it was the role of a model, she promptly agreed.
Although she wears bold outfits on films and ads, she is very particular about her clothes and she feels more comfortable in not-so-revealing clothes in personal life. And unlike others in her field she absolutely hates wearing make up.
Although she has been seeing Salman Khan for sometime now, she still refuses to talk about him in the media. She has made it clear that her personal life is not meant to be known to all and that no one has a right to pass any kind of judgment on it.
She has lot of exciting projects lined up. One of them is ?Partner? with boyfriend Salman Khan and Govinda. She is also doing ?Apne? in which real life father and sons Dharmendra, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol all stars together in the movie, for the first time. Then there is Anees Bazmee?s ?Welcome? with Akshay Kumar. Another film with Akshay Kumar ?Namaste, London? is all set..                          
 Deepika Padukone, born 1986, is an Indian supermodel. She is also the daughter of former World badminton Champion Prakash Padukone. Deepika has had modelling appearances in print and television advertising campaigns for Liril soap, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca, receiving many prestigious modelling offers, including brand ambassadorship of the Jewels of India, an annual jewellery exhibition. She hit the international scene when Maybelline made her their new international cover face. At the fifth annual Kingfisher Fashion Awards, for Indian models and designers, she was awarded the title of Model of the Year. Shortly afterwards, she was chosen as one of the models for the Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar for 2006, thus cementing her reputation as a supermodel. She also bagged two trophies at the Idea Zee F Awards in 2006 - Female Model of the year (Commercial Assignments) and Fresh Face of the year. Like many successful models before her Deepika is turning to acting in Bollywood. She started by starring in the music video for "Naam Hai Tera," a song from the pop album Aap Ka Suroor, an independent album by popular Bollywood singer-composer Himesh Reshammiya. Deepika recently made her cinematic debut in a Kannada film, Aishwarya, directed by Indrajit Lankesh. Her co-stars in the movie is top Kannada hero Upendra. The film has already been successful at the box-office, and Deepika has received reviews which praise her for her great screen presence. Reportedly, she has also signed on three Hindi movies - Priyadarshan's forthcoming film, Pirate, Farah Khan's second directorial venture, Om Shanti Om and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi 6. All three are slated for a 2007 release. However, Deepika has categorically denied ever having met Priyadarshan, and claims she is not doing his film. Khan's and Mehra's films, however, seem very much on the anvil, though she is reluctant to talk about them with the press and won't confirm or deny developments. Deepika was also signed a Tamil film opposite Surya entitled Vaaranam Aayiram to be directed by Gautham Menon but backed out at the last moment as the dates required for the film were clashing with Om Shanti Om.
She was chosen as the 'Model of the Year' by Kingfisher at its Fashion Awards; and further was awarded the 'Female Model of the Year' award in commercial assignments category and 'Fresh Face of the Year' at Idea Zee Fashion F Awards.
This pretty girl has a long way to go in Bollywood and many predict that she will be the next big thing in Bollywood.
Deepika's schooling was done in Sophia's High School, Bangalore and she did her undergraduate studies from Mount Carmel College. Her father is the legendary Badminton player Prakash Padukone who was one of India's greatest sportsmen. Her mother is a travel agent.
Deepika Padukone looks a natural athlete with a height of 5 ft 9 inches. She was born on January 5th 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark and spent her childhood in Bangalore. She did her schooling from Sophia?s High School, Bangalore and completed her undergraduate program from Mount Carmel College. Deepika Padukone entered the international Scenario with her first campaign with Maybelline, one of the most renowned cosmetic brands. Deepika Padukone was associated with the glamour world from the very childhood and has appeared in various advertisement campaigns including that of Close-up, Liril and so on. Deepika Padukone has received formal training in Bharatnatyam dancing and has also played badminton at the state level like her father. But unlike her father she could not continue the game because of her board exams and to add to this was acting which was her passion as she could associate herself with it but she was not very comfortable with playing badminton. Deepika?s mother, Ujjala Padukone is a travel agent. This beautiful actress has a younger sister named Anisha. Her graceful appearance and dimpled smile made her feature in Kingfisher?s Swimsuit calendar 2006. The title for the female model of the year for commercial assignments and Fresh Face of the year at Idea Zee F Awards has also been awarded to her. This actress has maintained her stardom with grace as she is very calm and composed. Aishwariya Rai is her idol and to be like her she has a long way to go in her acting career.
                      
 Name : Bipasha Basu
Birth Date : January 7, 1979
Birth Place : Delhi, India
Height : 5' 8.5
Nickname : Bonny, Bips
Hair Color : Black
Eye Color : Dark Brown
Nationality : Indian
Sister Name : Bijoyeta, Bidisha.
Occupation : Actress, Model
Debut Film : Ajnabee (2001)
Bipasha Basu (born January 7, 1979) is a Bollywood actress and supermodel. She was the winner of the Ford's Supermodel of the World Contest for 1996 and is currently one of the mainstream Bollywood actress.
Early life
Basu is the second of three daughters in her family. Her siblings are her elder sister Bidisha, and younger sister Bijoyeta . She was born in New Delhi, but her family later moved to Kolkata, where she won a regional beauty contest at a very young age. She has said that she had come into modelling and acting "quite by accident," because initially Bipasha had planned to either study chartered accountancy or medicine. However, she said that she dropped the idea of doing medical studies because she fainted when attempting to dissect rats.
Career
Basu, a Calcutta based commerce graduate model won the Ford's Supermodel of the World Contest and was named Tulips Ms Super Vivacious in the same event at the remarkably young age of 17. Basu was then flown to New York by the Ford Company. She commented in an interview, "I was spotted by the world famous photographer, Steven Meisel, and featured in Vogue magazine. I was thrilled and soon had plenty of projects coming my way." Bipasha gave it all up and came back to India. She said, "Yeah, I did a lot of ads, but my heart was not in it. I started missing my family because it was the first time I was away from them. So I happily gave it all up and came down to India".
Basu made her debut film in Abbas Mustan's Ajnabee, with Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol and Kareena Kapoor. She played a married woman who goes all out to woo her husband?s married friend, and eventually won the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award for her performance.
Besides acting, Bips, as her friends call her, did the famous video "Tu" for Sonu Nigam's album, Kismat and made a guest appearance in Jay Sean's music video Stolen.[1] In 2006, she won popular acclaim for her Item number Beedi in the song Omkara.
Personal life
Basu is currently dating actor John Abraham, They have been dating since late 2002. She previously dated fellow Bollywood actors Milind Soman and Dino Morea.
Even though Basu is a practicing Hindu and Abraham is a Christian, both families have accepted the couple. Basu has stated in an interview that though she was raised a Hindu, she believes that all religious groups deserve respect.
Basu claims that she was harassed by organizers of the controversial 2006 India Day Parade in Edison, New Jersey. [2] Organizers are now saying that they will sue Bipasha for breach of contract for not participating in the event and alleging harassment.               
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