The new breed of Bollywood babes are leaving no stone unturned in their quest for stardom. Priyanka Jain brings you some of the hottest and spiciest new age actresses who don't shy away from showing off that luscious body any more.
It is generally bad news for an actress when the weighing scales are tilting on the wrong side and the media has blown up the oversized pictures. Not Neetu Chandra.
On a hot Sunday afternoon in a vanity van, dressed in a very summery yellow number, the dusky actress is looking at news reports about her weight gain, and laugh out loud, "Actually these reports keep me motivated. Meet me in ten days and you will see the change."
When we met again to discuss this story, the Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye chick is a few kilos lighter, showing off her belly button in a short top and low waist jeans that fits her like second skin.
Sporty in her attitude, and downright naughty, sexy and bitchy, she is a natural choice of The Man's cover. The newly toned deliciously hot bod helps, too.
The actress, who started in an itsy bitsy bikini number in Priyadarshan's Garam Masala, turned her luck around when she bagged a de-glam street vendor solo heroine role in Madhur Bhandarkar's Traffic Signal. Although the film failed to impress the box office, Neetu's work was appreciated. Then came her role opposite Abhay Deol in Oye Lucky Lucky Oye. The film did well and offers began to pour in.
Her last release 13B, a horror film, is now being remade into English by a Hollywood production house. With more than six of her films releasing this year, Neetu seems to have hit the formula of success. Rahul Dholakia's Mumbai Cutting, Vipul Shah's untitled film with Rahul Bose, Raj Kanwar's period film Sadiyaan with Rekha and Hema Malini, Gary Grewal's Khusar Prasad Ka Bhooth where she plays a prostitute, Jagmohan Mundra's psycho thriller Apartment and Ram Gopal Varma's Rann are expected to release this year.
This curvaceous lass says she has achieved all this without being a size zero and would like to keep it that way. "I believe one needs to have a good, toned body and have curves in the right places. I like how our older actresses looked. They were voluptuous and I want that trend to come back. Trust me, men love a body that keeps their hands full."
Unapologetic about showing off her body on screen she says, "If I can carry a bikini in the best form why shouldn't I wear one? I have no apprehensions about wearing clothes that flatter my body. I am comfortable doing intimate scenes. If shot aesthetically, I am ready to do a nude shoot too. It should not look cheap or vulgar."
Neetu's new funda is, any publicity is good publicity, "My directors say every second day there is something written about me. They don't care whether it is good or bad, they say it is enough that the media is attracted towards you. Then it is good for his film too. I am a very frank person and I don't think there is anything wrong in accepting that I like being written about. I just want them to use good pictures," she winks with a wicked smile playing on her lips.
Neetu is symbolic of the new breed of actresses who leave no stone unturned to achieve success. There is a right mix of talent, attitude and an oomph factor. That she can kick some ass on and off screen makes her all the more desirable. Few know that Neetu is an avid sports person. A black belt in Taekwondo, she has represented India in the International Taekwondo Championship at Hong Kong and in the World Korfball Championship in New Delhi.
Just as we want to label her in the Charlie's Angels avatar, she drops another bomb about her spiritual life. "I am going to Osho Ashram tomorrow; I am going to swim there, play basket-ball and get some much needed peace and calm. I love the meditation exercises there. It helps me get some equilibrium," says the actress who has been working non-stop for 36 days, completing the first schedule of Ram Gopal Varma Rann and Jagmohan Mundra's Apartment.
Ask her about per perfect date and pat comes the reply, "On the beach, with live music playing out of sight in the background, the guy coming on a white horse and popping out the diamond ring during the dinner.
As a woman if I dig for loyalty it won't be right. It is biologically proven that men want to sleep with more than one woman. On the other hand women look for security. I can't say I am looking for loyalty and that my man should be a virgin when we get married. I am looking for a guy who believes in me, trusts me, till the time we have a good relationship. If I had to choose between a simple, cute guy and a clever one who can handle situations, well, I would prefer the clever one.
If someone very shyly coyly asks me out and says it's the first time he is asking someone out, I would slap him and tell him to sleep with 500 women and then ask me out. He needs to know how to handle women, needs to be polished. I don't want to dumb guy."
So what kind of a guy would Neetu marry? "I will only marry a guy who has a spa, basket ball ground, and a club, a bungalow, three to four cars to match my dresses, is good looking and a sports person. I want him to be intelligent and funny. I want him to make me laugh all the time." Easy to please, isn't she?
Not just Neetu Chandra, there is this whole bunch of new of actresses who are fiery and independent. They flaunt their sexuality and believe in the changing status of the fairer sex in keeping with the times. They are highly opinionated and don't break under pressure. But they must keep an image. For now. So, every time there is talk about an intimate scene involving them they say, "I will do it if the script demands it", or, "If it is shot aesthetically, why not", "I am an actor and I am here to portray my director's characters".
They don't mind mouthing sexy dialogues and performing provocative roles, being the woman who makes you to burn with desire as you watch them get intimate onscreen with their co-actors. In fact they love it and are hungry for more.
Mahie Gill
Cover her from head to toe and she still makes you burn with desire and ache with longing. That kind of encapsulates Mahie Gill's appeal.
The only makeup Mahie is sporting is her dark kohl eyes when she meets us. Bubbly and sporty in her attitude, Mahie has long covered the bruises from her past. Who would imagine that this beautiful actress who has been compared to Tabu, was once married and had to go through a painful divorce, before she came to Mumbai.
Talk to her about Tabu and she blushes, "Tabu is a great actress. People have told me I look like her but I think it is not fair to compare a new comer with an accomplished actress."
It is no coincidence then that she is now cast in Tigmanshu Dhulia's Pan Singh Tomar with Irrfan Khan. She will be seen in a full fledged love making scene with him. Irrfan and Tabu have been a hit jodi and have given many a wonderful performances together. So will Mahie be able to live up the challenge? "I ain't wearing a bikini in that movie too. But just watch out," she says.
Mahie will also be seen in Indrajit Nattoji Aage Se Right with Shreyas Talpade. For now, she is happy being mobbed in her hometown where she started quite humbly doing Punjabi television and movies.
Just when I wonder whether I should believe when she tells me she is a shy person; she says, "Once I know you, I am very bindass. I am a lot like Anurag Kashyap's Paro in Dev D. I feel that character was written keeping me in mind."
For now however, the image of the mistress and mujra dancer singing Ranaji in Anurag Kashyap's Gulaal has been etched in our minds. We are sure Mahie isn't complaining.
Kalki Koechlin
Dev D is the most radical Indian film, ever. Period.
The girls Kalki Koechlin and Mahie Gill couldn't have asked for a better launch. Both upped the sex quotient of female actresses in Hindi cinema and acquired the newest sex-symbol label.
Dressed in a kurta-pyjama and dishevelled, messy hair, the real life Kalki is nothing like her onscreen seductress character, Chanda. She meets us for tea, minutes before she can start her twelve-hour rigorous month-long theatre workshop. Even if you were to have just a five-minute conversation with this woman, you would know she is not just a sex-bomb but has the intelligence, which must have bowled over our reclusive director, Anurag. Yes, the two are dating, and enjoying every bit of the fame that was long over-due to Anurag. It is no wonder that Kalki's next release is her beau's next directorial venture, Happy Ending.
Kalki wowed everybody with her bold portrayal of the modern day Chandramukhi. It was, indeed, a tough task for a debutante, given the fact that the role was earlier essayed by Vyjayantimala and Madhuri Dixit.
Kalki says, "I never had any illusions about my look. I don't have a commercial Bollywood actress look and I look like a foreigner. This meant that I could be cast only in an offbeat film. "
This French theatre actress was born in Pondicherry where her parents settled in Sri Aurbindo's ashram 35 years ago. She studied in Ooty until she was 18 and then did theatre in London. She had already worked for over a year in the London theatre circuit before she started attending workshops in India with theatre personalities like Rajat Kapoor and Anamika Haksar. In India she worked with Atul's Company Theatre before she was selected for Dev D.
"Tamilian with a white skin" is a term Kalki has coined for herself as she speaks good Tamil.
Shruti Haasan
Just her parentage -- Kamal Haasan and Sarika -- generated enough interest in Shruti Haasan even before she has debuted in Bollywood.
Shruti has her mother's royal looks -- fair skin. She too is an interesting mix -- trained in dance, is a professional singer and is already making heads turn with her selvte body and tantalising look.
Any guesses what will happen when her debut film -- Soham Shah's Luck with Imran Khan releases?
As of now Shruti is also composing the music for Kamal Haasan's upcoming Tamil film Unnaipol Oruvan which is a Tamil remake of A Wednesday! Shruti has also lent her voice in her debut film Luck.
For now Shruti has kept away from the press but we hear her publicity campaign is very well laid out and her PR has started sending some really hot images of the actress to the media.
Sonal Chauhan
It must be daunting task to date a girl whose father is a police inspector. Maybe that explains why Sonal is still single.
Born in a Rajput family, Sonal was the first Indian to bag the Miss World Tourism title after which she debuted last year in Mukesh Bhatt's Jannat opposite Emraan Hashmi. Sonal is far more fun and mischevious in her demeanour than her miss goody two shoes character Zoya in Jannat.
The girl must have got some spunk beneath that innocent smile which made MF Hussain's son Owais Hussain sign her for his directorial debut tentatively titled Punjab 69. She has also recently wrapped up a film opposite Shivrajkumar down South.
Ask her what took her so long to sign the second film she says, "After Jannat released the Bhatt's told me that there will be high expectations now. You can only fall from here. That statement made an impact on me and I was just being careful. Though I have a three movie deal with the Bhatt's, they haven't forced me to sign something immediately. They understand an artist's situation and have given me freedom to choose the film I want to do with them."
For now Sonal says she is just waiting for a script where her wild side can be explored.
For those of you who would want to impress her, she doesn't ask for much. "Just take me to an open place where I can see the stars in the sky, feel the breeze in my face," says Sonal.
Shahana Goswami
"She is a girl one must watch out for," says Anurag Basu.
Metro and Kites director isn't even doing a film with Shahana Goswami right now but when you quiz him about the most promising new actresses, Shahana's is the first name that comes to his lips.
Shahana played a docile-nagging wife in Rock On. Though the film was Farhan's launch pad and the buzz was more about Ekta Kapoor's friend Prachi Desai and his debut, Shahana acting prowess made people take notice her. This, in spite of the almost zilch publicity she was given in the film's PR campaign.
But Shahana is not one bit bitter. She says, "In terms of getting noticed, Rock On gave me the visibility that other films didn't."
Shahana started with Naseeruddin's directorial debut Yun Hota To Kya Hota, went on to do Reema Kagti's Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd, Rubaru with Randeep Hooda, though a small film, was her first solo heroine role. The film bombed but it helped her reinvent herself. "I lost weight, trained for it and understood that I could do more glamorous role. It was a big move for me."
This delhite also found a fan in Nandita Das and was signed for Firaaq which has brought her critical acclaim once again.
She will next be seen in a bold role in Sudhir Mishra's Tera Kya Hoga Johnny, where she has a boy friend and a husband, with the by-now-obligatory love-making scene thrown in. Godmother director Vinay Shukla's Mirch, in a glamorous-neurotic avatar in Mahesh Bhatt's Jashn where she plays Adhyayan Suman's pathetic alcoholic sister.
On screen brother and sister Adhyayan Suman and Shahana Goswami are rumoured to be dating each other, after Kangana Ranaut was reported to be in company of Barbara Mori's brother.
Ask her if she is open to go the glam way, she says, "If you want to be a mainstream Bollywood actress you have to do it. I always rely on instinct. There is nothing at this point I am averse to doing but at the same time it doesn't mean that I am open to doing everything. It depends on the context in which it is required, the time in my career graph where the opportunity comes. The role has to be beyond titillation and if it is titillation then there has to reason for the requirement of the titillation."
So does the new Bollywood babe maxim 'any publicity good publicity' work for her?
"I prefer to play safe and would not want to have a controversy. The price you pay to undo bad publicity is too much."
Sakshi Gulati
Sakshi Gulati is an Indian actress, born on 10th March in 1984. She is one of Miss India 2007 Pageant finalists and crowned Miss Delhi in 2006. She graduated in Economics from Delhi University. Ramgopal Varma’s “contract” is her debut film in Bollywood. she has entering tollywood with film "Katha Screenplay Darsakatvam Appalaraju" against Sunil under Ram Gopal Varma direction. Her hobbies include reading, dancing and watching movies.
Films:
2011 - Katha Screenplay Darsakatvam Appalaraju (Telugu)
2010 – The Film Emotional Atayachar (Hindi)
2008 - Contract (Hindi)
Katrina Kaif Hot
Name: Katrina Kaif
Nickname: Kat
Date of birth: 16 July 1984
Birthplace: Hong Kong, China
Height: 5 8 ½ "
Gender: Female
Location: London
Country: Great Britain
Mother: British
Father: Originally from Kashmir
Marital status: single
Katrina Boyfriend: Salman Khan
Katrina Favorite book: All Sidney Sheldon's
Katrina's favorite movies: Namaste London, Jab We Met, Kismat Jaan (1981), Casablanca (1942) and Gone with the Wind (1939).
Katrina Favorite food: Rice and Dahi
Katrina's favorite color: Pink
Katrina Favourite cricketers: Irfan Pathan
Katrina's favorite heroes: Johnny Deep, Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Aamir Khan
Katrina's favorite heroine: Kajol and Madhuri Dixit
Katrina's Favorite Perfume: Gucci Ruch.
Katrina Occupation: Acctress / Model
Katrina Hobbies: Party and Modeling, Traveling
Katrina languages: English, Poor Hindi
Katrina Interested in: Friend
Priyanka Chopra
Birthday: 18 July1982
Birthplace: Jamshedpur, Bihar, India
Nick Name:
Sunshine
Mimi
Yanka
Priyucka Cobra
The queen of bollywod
Priya
Height:5 '8 "(1.73 m)
Kareena Kapoor
Name: Kareena Kapoor
Birth name: Kareena Randhir Kapoor
Gender: Female
Date of birth: 21 September 1980
Place of birth: Mumbai
Nick Name: Bebo
Height: 5’5”
Sign: Virgo
Kareena was born to Sindhi-speaking Babita and Punjabi-speaking Randhir Kapoor on 21st September 1980 in Bombay,India. She has an older sister, Karisma.
Her debut film was in 2000 with "Refugee" with the debut of Amitabh Bachchan's son Abhishek. She went on to appear in 31 other Hindi movies, and so far won four awards for her performance in "Refuges", "Chameli", "Dev" and "Omkara".
Freida Pinto
Name: Freida Pinto
Date of Birth: 18 October 1984
Place of Birth: Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Nickname: FRO
Height: 5 '6 "(1.68 m)
Mini Biography:
Frieda Pinto traversed the modeling circuit in Mumbai [by Elite Model Management India] for two years before big breakthrough came when director Danny Boyle has took her in the audition process to play the female lead, Latika, in Slumdog Millionaire (2008). In a promotional interview Boyle liked spotting her to his discovery of Kelly Macdonald for Cabaret.
Surprisingly, Frieda, who is studied in St. Xaviers College, Mumbai, only began talking acting classes [ she did amateur theatre ago], after finished debut film – she attend three months workshop by Barry John, the veteran theater guru.
Between 2006-07, she anchored "Full Circle", a broadcast Travel Show on Zee International Asia-Pacific. She went on assignments in Afghanistan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Fiji, among other countries.
Namitha Kapoor
Date of birth:05/10/1981
Nickname: Namitha
Birth name: Namitha Kapoor
Origin: Gujarat, India
Assets: Big Boobs and Wide Hips.
Vices: food, apparently
Zodiac sign: Taurus
Height: 5'9
Job: Actress, Model
Hobbies: Swimming, Badminton ...
Ethnicity: Asian
Origin: India
Body:40- 32-40
Mallika Sherawat
Mallika Sherawat (Hindi: मल्लिका शेरावत, born Reema Lamba) is a former Indian model, now working as an actress in mainly Bollywood films. Known for her bold onscreen attitude,[1] Sherawat has been frequently featured in the media as a sex symbol.[2] She is one of the few Bollywood stars trying to crossover to Hollywood,[3][4] with films like Hisss and Politics of Love.[5]
Born Reema Lamba
Rohtak, Haryana, India
Occupation Actress
Years active 2002–present
Website
http://www.mallikasherawatwow.com
Mallika Sherawat (Hindi: मल्लिका शेरावत, born Reema Lamba) is a former Indian model, now working as an actress in mainly Bollywood films. Known for her bold onscreen attitude,[1] Sherawat has been frequently featured in the media as a sex symbol.[2] She is one of the few Bollywood stars trying to crossover to Hollywood,[3][4] with films like Hisss and Politics of Love.[5]
Early life
Sherawat was born Reema Lamba in Rohtak, Haryana to a Jat family.[6] Mallika was born in the family of Seth
of Seth Chhaju Ram, a leading Jat philanthropist.[7] She was born on October 24, though the year is unknown.[8] She adopted the screen name of "Mallika", meaning "empress", to avoid confusion with other actresses named Reema.[9] "Sherawat" is her mother's maiden name[8] She has stated that she uses her mother's maiden name because of the support that her mother has provided her.[9] Although relations with her family were strained when she entered the film industry,[10] now Sherawat's family have accepted her career choice and reconciled their relations.[7]
Sherawat went to school at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road.[11] She has obtained a degree in philosophy from Miranda House, Delhi University.[12] During the initial days of her career, she claimed to have come from a very conservative small town family, and that she faced many hurdles from her family in pursuing her career.[13] However, Mallika's family has refuted this as a story created by her to give her an aura of a small town rustic girl who made it big in Bollywood.[10] It has been reported that she was married for a short while to a Jet Airways pilot Captain Karan Singh Gill.[10]
Career
Before entering films, Sherawat appeared in television commercials with Amitabh Bachchan for BPL and Shahrukh Khan for Santro.[14] She also appeared in Nirmal Pandey's Maar Dala and Surjit Bindrakhia's Lak Tunoo music video.[15] She debuted in films with a small role in Jeena Sirf Merre Liye where she was credited as Reema Lamba.[16]
Sherawat attracted notice with her appearance in the 2003 film, Khwahish. In 2004, she starred in Murder, a film inspired by Hollywood's Unfaithful. She received a nomination for Best Actress at the Zee Cine Awards for her performance in Murder. The film went on to become one of the biggest hits of the year.[17]
Since then, Sherawat has been known for expressing her opinions in public, as well for the reaction to some of her statements.[18]
In 2005, Sherawat acted in The Myth, a Chinese film, co-starring with Jackie Chan. She played the role of an Indian princess who falls in love and is rescued by Jackie. The Myth was her first International film. Her appearance at the Cannes Film Festival[19] to promote the film grabbed a lot of attention with Time Magazine's Richard Corliss calling her "the next big thing".[20]
Her performance in the 2006 film Pyaar Ke Side Effects, co-starring Rahul Bose, won her praise from around the industry,[21] and the film also did moderately well at the box office.[22]
Her first release in 2007 was Mani Ratnam's Guru, in which she appeared in a special song, "Mayya Mayya". She also played a guest role in Himesh Reshammiya's Aap Ka Suroor - The Real Love Story and reportedly charged Rs. 15 million for a 10-minute appearance.[23] Her last release of 2007 was Welcome, which also did well at the box office receiving blockbuster status.[24]
Her 2008 releases were Ugly Aur Pagli and Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam. Both films were unsuccessful at the box office.
HollywoodIn 2009, Sherawat finished shooting a Hollywood film named Hisss co-starring Irrfan Khan and directed by Jennifer Lynch. The film, based on the legend of Nāga, is an independent co-production between the United States and India.[3] Endeavour Independent has bought the distribution rights of Hisss.[25] Sherawat promoted the film with live snakes at the Cannes Film Festival 2010.[26] Hisss was release in all major Indian languages on 22 October 2010.[27]
Sherawat also finished shooting for another Hollywood film. Love, Barack aka "Politics of Love", directed by William Dear.[28] She plays Aretha Gupta, a devoted local Obama volunteer coordinator. The film is a romantic comedy set during Barack Obama's campaign for the US Presidency. First look of Love, Barack was unveiled by Sherawat at Cannes 2010.[29]
The daring actress of Indian cinema, Mallika Sherawat has graciously featured on the cover of prestigious Indian edition magazine of FHM, effectively for April 2011. Mallika Sherawat who is truly known in Bollywood for her avatar that is quite bold is rightfully finding it hard to perfectly balance her marvellous career. She very much tried to woo the magnificent directors of Hollywood but it all went in vein. In true sense, she unfortunately even lost her presence in Bollywood because of this reason.
Mallika Sherawat tried very hard to win back, her crowned position in the tinsel town so far, only time will be able to tell whether she will succeed in her endeavour or not. Anyway, it is impossible to guess what was going on in the mind of the actress when she agreed to do the photo shoot for the FHM magazine. This is not the first time that Mallika Sherawat went topless. For the first time the actress went topless for a magazine.
She has acted in many roles, in the Indian cinema throughout her career. Most of the characters she played were audacious. Let us wait for the reaction of the viewers in India, about the bold photos of her in the magazine. She has once again proven that she is the most dare to bare actress of the Indian movie industry.
Sherawat won the 2008 Renaissance Artist Award at the 16th Annual Diversity Awards held in California.[30] On 14 August 2009, Sherawat received a career recognition Honorary Citizenship of Los Angeles for her career achievements and charitable efforts.[31]
FilmographyYear Film Role Notes
2002 Jeena Sirf Merre Liye Seema (Special appearance) Credited as Reema Lamba
2003 Khwahish Lekha Khorzuvekar
2004 Kis Kis Ki Kismat Meena Madhok
2004 Murder Simran Saigal
2005 Bachke Rehna Re Baba Padmini a.k.a. Paddu/Alka/Meera
2005 The Myth Indian Princess Chinese film
2006 Pyaar Ke Side Effects Trisha
2006 Shaadi Se Pehle Sania
2006 Darna Zaroori Hai Riya
2007 Guru Jhumpa — The Dancer Item number Mayya Mayya
Special Appearance
2007 Aap Ka Suroor - The Real Love Story Ruby Special Appearance
2007 Preeti Yeke Bhoomi melide Item number Kannada
2007 Welcome Ishika
2008 Dasavathaaram Jasmine Tamil film
2008 Ugly Aur Pagli Kuhu
2008 Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam Shabnam
2010 Hisss Naagin English, Hindi crossover film
2011 Politics of Love[32] Aretha Gupta English, in post production
2011 Double Dhamaal Kamini
2011 Thank You[33] Razia Special Appearance in item number
2011 Bin Bulaye Baarati Shalu Special Appearance in item number
List of Indian film actresses
A
• Aamna Shariff
• Aarathi (Kannada)
• Aarti Chhabria(Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
• Aamani (Telugu, Tamil)
• Abhinaya (Tamil, Telugu)
• Adah Sharma
• Aditi Govitrikar
• Additi Gupta (tv serial)
• Aindrita Ray (Kannada)
• Aishwarya (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu)
• Aishwarya Rai (now Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, English)
• Amala (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi)
• Amala Paul (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam)
• Ambika (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
• Ameeta (Hindi)
• Ameesha Patel (Hindi, Telugu)
• Amoolya (Kannada)
• Amrita Arora (Hindi)
• Amrita Prakash (Hindi, Malayalam)
• Amrita Rao (Hindi, Telugu)
• Amrita Singh
• Amy Jackson (Tamil, Hindi)
• Ananya (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
• Andrea Jeremiah (Tamil, Telugu)
• Anita Hassanandani
• Anita Guha
• Anita Raj
• Anjala Zhaveri (Telugu)
• Anjali (Tamil)
• Anjali Devi (Telugu)
• Anjana Bhowmick (Hindi, Bengali)
• Anjana Sukhani
• Anju Mahendru
• Ankita Lokhande (TV serial)
• Antara Mali
• Anu Agarwal (Hindi)
• Anu Prabhakar (Kannada)
• Anu Mehta (Telugu)
• Anupama Verma
• Anuradha Mehta
• Anusha Dandekar (Hindi)
• Anushka Sharma (Hindi)
• Anushka Shetty (Telugu,Tamil)
• Anuya Bhagvath (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Aparajita Mohanty (Oriya)
• Aparnaa Bajpai (Tamil)
• Aparna Sen (Bengali, Hindi)
• Archana Buddha Mil Gaya fame
• Archana Jose Kavi (Malayalam)
• Archana Puran Singh (Hindi)
• Archana (Tamil)
• Archita Sahu (Oriya)
• Arthi Agarwal (Telugu)
• Aruna Irani (Gujarati, Hindi)
• Aruna Shields (Hindi)
• Arundathi Nag (Kannada)
• Asha Parekh (Hindi)
• Ash Rai (Hindi)
• Ashwini Bhave (Marathi, Hindi)
• Asin Thottumkal (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
• Ashvini Bhave-Bopardikar (Marathi, Hindi)
• Ayesha Jhulka (Hindi)
• Ayesha Takia (Hindi, Telugu)
B
• Babita
• Banu (Tamil)
• Bárbara Mori (Hindi, English)
• Barsha Priyadarshini (Oriya)
• Bhagyashree Patwardhan (Hindi, Kannada)
• Bhairavi Goswami (Hindi)
• Bhama (Malayalam, Kannada)
• Bhanumathi (Telugu, Tamil)
• Bhanupriya (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi)
• Bharathi Vishnuvardhan (Kannada)
• Bhavana (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and also in Kannada)
• Bhavya (Kannada)
• Bhoomika Chawla (Telugu, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Malayalam)
• Bindiya Goswami
• Bindu (Hindi)
• Bindu Madhavi (Tamil)
• Bipasha Basu (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu)
C
• Carol Gracias
• Celina Jaitley (Hindi, Telugu)
• Charmme Kaur (Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil)
• Chaya Singh (Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil)
• Chitrangada Singh
• Chitrashi Rawat
• Cukoo
D
• Daisy Bopanna (Kannada, Malayalam,Tamil,Telugu,Hindi)
• Debasree Roy (Bengali, Hindi)
• Deepa Sahi (Hindi)
• Deepal Shaw
• Deepali (Kannada, Tamil)
• Deepika Chikhalia (Gujarati)
• Deepika Padukone (Kannada, Hindi)
• Deepti Naval (Marathi, Hindi)
• Deepti Bhatnagar
• Delnaaz Paul
• Devayani (actress) (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Devika (Telugu)
• Devika Rani Roerich
• Dia Mirza (Hindi)
• Diana Hayden (Hindi)
• Dimple Kapadia (Hindi)
• Divya Bharati (Hindi, Telugu)
E
• Eesha Narang née Koppikar (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
• Esha Deol (Hindi,Tamil)
F
• Farida Jalal
• Farah Naaz
• Freida Pinto
• Farzana[disambiguation needed]
G
• Gajala (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada)
• Gayatri Patel
• Gauhar Khan
• Gayatri Joshi
• Geetha (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada)
• Geeta Bali
• Geeta Basra
• Geeta Dutt (Hindi)
• Geetu Mohandas (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Genelia D'Souza (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi)
• Girija (Telugu)
• Gouthami (Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi)
• Gowri Pandit
• Gracy Singh (Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu)
• Gul Panag
H
• Hansika Motwani (Hindi,Kannada,Telugu,Tamil)
• Haripriya (Kannada, Tamil)
• Heera Rajagopal (Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi)
• Helen (Hindi)
• Hema Malini (Tamil, Hindi)
• Hrishitaa Bhatt (Hindi)
I
• Ileana D'Cruz (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada)
• Ilene Hamann
• Indrani Haldar
• Isha Sharvani (Hindi, Tamil)
• Isha Koppikar (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu)
J
• Jacqueline Fernandez (Hindi, Telugu)
• Jayabharathi (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Jayachitra (Telugu, Tamil)
• J. Jayalalithaa (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, English)
• Jaya Bachchan (Jaya Bhaduri) (Hindi, Bengali)
• Jayanthi (actress) (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam)
• Jayapradha (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali)
• Jayasudha (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi)
• Jayamala (Kannada, Telugu, Tamil)
• Jayamalini
• Jennifer Kotwal (Kannada)
• Jennifer Winget (tv serial)
• Jharana Bajracharya
• Jiah Khan (Hindi)
• Juhi Chawla (Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi)
• Jyothika Saravanan (Tamil, Hindi) ex-actress
• Jyothirmayi (Malayalam, Tamil)
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• Kajal Aggarwal (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi)
• Kajal Kiran (Hindi)
• Kajol (Hindi, Tamil)
• Kalki Koechlin (Hindi)
• Kalpana (Kannada)
• Kalpana (Hindi)
• Kalpana (Malayalam actress) (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Kalpana Iyer (Hindi)
• Kalpana Kartik
• Kamini Kaushal (Tamil)
• Kamalinee Mukherjee (Telugu, Tamil)
• Kanaka (Tamil)
• Kanakam (Telugu)
• Kanchana (Kannada, Telugu, Tamil)
• Kangana Ranaut (Hindi, Tamil)
• Kanika Subramaniam (Tamil, Malayalm, Telugu, Kannada)
• Kareena Kapoor (Hindi)
• Karishma Kapoor (Hindi)
• Karthika (Tamil)
• Katrina Kaif (Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam)
• Kashmira Shah
• Kausalya (Tamil)
• Kavya Madhavan (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Khursheed
• Kimi Katkar
• Kim Sharma (Hindi, English)
• Kiran Rathod (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam)
• Kirron Kher
• Kirat Bhattal (Tamil)
• Kitu Gidwani
• Koel Mullick (Bengali)
• Koel Purie
• Koena Mitra (Hindi, Tamil)
• Krishna Kumari (Telugu)
• Kushboo (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada)
• Konkona Sen Sharma (Bengali, Hindi)
• K. R. Vijaya (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu)
• Kumari (Telugu)
• Kuljeet Randhawa (Punjabi, Hindi)
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• Laila Mehdin (Tamil, Malayalam)
• Lalita Pawar (Hindi)
• Lalitha[disambiguation needed] Travancore Sisters (Hindi)[citation needed]
• Lara Dutta (Tamil, Hindi, Punjabi)
• Lakshmi (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
• Lakshmi Gopalaswamy (Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil)
• Lakshmi Manchu (Telugu)
• Lakshmi Rai (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu)
• Laya (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam)
• Leela Chitnis
• Lekha Washington (Tamil,Kannada)
• Lilette Dubey
• Lisa Ray (Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu)
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• Madhavi (Telugu, Kannada, Malayayalam, Hindi, Tamil)
• Madhoo (Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada)
• Madhubala (Hindi)
• Madhuri Dixit (Hindi)
• Madhumitha (Tamil,Telugu)
• Mahasweta Roy (Oriya)
• Mahi Gill (Hindi, Punjabi)
• Mahima Chaudhry (Hindi)
• Mala Sinha (Nepali, Bengali, Hindi)
• Malashri (Kannada, Telugu)
• Malavika (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu,Malayalam)
• Malaika Arora (now Malaika Arora Khan) (Hindi, Telugu)
• Mallika Kapoor (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
• Mallika Sherawat (Hindi, Tamil, Chinese)
• Mamta Kulkarni (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada)
• Mamta Mohandas (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
• Mandakini (Hindi)
• Mandira Bedi (Hindi, Tamil)
• Manisha Koirala (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Nepali)
• Manju Warrier (Malayalam)
• Manjula (Kannada)
• Manjula Vijayakumar (Telugu, Tamil)
• Manorama (Tamil)
• Mantra (Tamil)
• Manya
• Mayuri Kango
• Meena Kumari (Mahajabeen Bano) (Hindi)
• Meena Durairaj (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam)
• Meenakshi (Tamil)
• Meenakshi (Malayalam)
• Meenakshi Seshadri (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
• Meera (Hindi)
• Meera Chopra (Tamil, Telugu)
• Meera Jasmine (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Meera Nandan (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
• Meera Vasudevan (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Meghna Naidu (Telugu, Tamil)
• Merle Oberon
• Minissha Lamba
• Mita Vashisht
• Monalisa (Hindi)
• Mona Singh
• Monica Bedi (Hindi, Punjabi)
• Monisha Unni (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
• Moon Moon Sen (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Kannada)
• Moushmi Chatterji (Hindi, Bengali)
• Mumaith Khan (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu)
• Mumtaj (Tamil, Telugu)
• Mumtaz (Hindi)
• Mugdha Godse (Hindi)
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• Nadira
• Nadiya Moidu (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Nagma (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi)
• Nalini (Kannada,Tamil,Telugu, Malayalam)
• Nalini Jaywant (Hindi)
• Namrata Shirodkar (Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam)
• Namitha (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
• Nanda (Hindi)
• Nandana Sen
• Nandita Chandra
• Nandita Das (Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, English, Rajastani)
• Nargis (Now Nargis Dutt) (Hindi)
• Natassha (Also called Anitha) (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Nauheed Cyrusi
• Navya Nair (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Nayantara (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
• Neelam (Hindi)
• Neelam Verma (English, Hindi)
• Neelima Azeem (Hindi)
• Neena Gupta (Hindi)
• Neha Dhupia (Japanese, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil)
• Neha Jhulka (Hindi, Telugu)
• Neeru Bajwa (Punjabi,Hindi)
• Neetu Chandra
• Neetu Singh (Hindi)
• Niharika Singh
• Nikita Anand
• Nikita Thukral
• Nila (Tamil)
• Nimmi (Hindi)
• Nirupa Roy
• Nirmalamma (Telugu)
• Nirosha (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada)
• Nisha Kothari
• Nishi (Tamil)
• Nithya Das (Malayalam)
• Nithya Menen (Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil)
• Noor Jehan (Urdu)
• Nutan (Hindi)
O
• Onjolee Nair
• Oviya Helen (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
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• Padmapriya (Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada)
• Padma Khanna
• Padma Lakshmi
• Padmini Kolhapure (Hindi)
• Padmini Travancore Sisters (now Padmini Ramachandran) (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi)
• Panchi Bora
• Pandari Bai (Kannada, Tamil)
• Parminder Nagra
• Parul Chauhan (TV serial)
• Parvathy Jayaram (Malayalam)
• Parvati Melton
• Parvati Menon (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
• Parveen Babi (Hindi)
• Patience Cooper
• Payal Rohatgi (Hindi)
• Payal Ghosh (Telugu)
• Perizaad Zorabian
• Pia Bajpai (Tamil, Telugu)
• Pooja Batra (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam)
• Pooja Bedi (Hindi)
• Pooja Bhatt (Hindi)
• Pooja Gandhi (Kannada)
• Pooja Umashankar (Tamil)
• Pooja Gor (TV serial actress)
• Poonam Dhillon
• Prachi Desai (Hindi, Tamil)
• Preetha Vijayakumar (Tamil, Telugu)
• Preeti Jhangiani (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu)
• Preity Zinta (Telugu, Hindi)
• Prema (Kannada, Telugu)
• Prema Narayan
• Priya Anand (Telugu, Tamil)
• Priya Gill (Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi)
• Priya Lal (Malayalam)
• Priya Rai (English)
• Priya Raman (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
• Priya Rajvansh (Hindi)
• Priya Mani (Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
• Priyanka Chopra (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu)
• Priyanka Bassi
• Priyanka Sharma (Hindi)
• Priyanka Trivedi (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Hindi)
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• Raakhee (Now Raakhi Gulzar) (Bengali, Hindi)
• Raadhika Sarathkumar (South Indian Actress) (Kannada, Tamil)
• Radha (Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil)
• Radhika Pandit (Kannada)
• Ragini Travancore Sisters (Hindi)
• Rajshree (Hindi)
• Raima Sen (Telugu, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil)
• Rakhi Sawant
• Rakshita (Kannada, Telugu)
• Rambha (Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Bhojpuri)
• Rameshwari
• Ranjeeta Kaur (Hindi)
• Ranjitha (Tamil)
• Rani Mukerji (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil)
• Ramya (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu)
• Ramya Krishna (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi)
• Rashmi Desai
• Ratan Rajput (TV Serial)
• Rati Agnihotri (Tamil, HIndi)
• Ratna Pathak Shah
• Raveena Tandon (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Reena Roy (Hindi, Punjabi)
• Reema Sen (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali)
• Rekha (Hindi, Tamil)
• Renuka Shahane (Hindi)
• Revathi Menon (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi)
• Richa Palod (Hindi)
• Rimi Sen (Hindi, Bengali)
• Rituparna Sengupta (Hindi, Bengali)
• Riya Sen (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, English, Malayalam)
• Rohini Hattangadi (Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam)
• Roja (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada)
• Roma (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
• Roopa Ganguly (Bengali, Hindi)
• Roshni Chopra (TV serial)
• Ruby Parihar (Telugu, Kannada)
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• Sagarika Ghatge
• Sadha (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi)
• Sadhana (Hindi, Tamil)
• Sandhya (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada)
• Sandhya Mridul
• Sakshi Shivanand (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Sakshi Talwar (TV serial)
• Sakshi Tanwar (TV serial and film actress)
• Saira Banu (Hindi)
• Salma Agha
• Saloni Aswani (Telugu, Kannada)
• Samantha Ruth Prabhu (Telugu, Kannada)
• Samiksha (Telugu, Tamil)
• Sameera Reddy (Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil)
• Samvrutha Sunil (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Sana Khan (Tami, Telugu, Hindi)
• Sangeeta Bijlani
• Sandali Sinha
• Sanjana Gandhi
• Santoshi (Tamil)
• Sara Khan (TV serial)
• Saranya Mohan (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
• Sarika
• Saritha (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam)
• Saroja Devi (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil)
• Savitri (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada)
• Sayali Bhagat
• Shabana Azmi (Hindi)
• Shalini (Baby Shalini) (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
• Shamili (Baby Shamili) (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil)
• Shahana Goswami
• Sharmila Mandre (Kannada)
• Sharmilee
• Shakeela (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam)
• Shamita Shetty (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
• Sharmila Tagore (Hindi, Bengali)
• Shashikala (Tamil)
• Shazahn Padamsee (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu)
• Sherin (Tamil)
• Sherlyn Chopra (Mona Chopra)
• Shilpa Shetty (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Shilpa Shirodkar (Hindi)
• Shilpa Anand
• Shweta Tiwari (tv serial)
• Shobhana (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Shobhna Samarth
• Shraddha Kapoor
• Shruthi K. Haasan (Tamil, Hindi)
• Shruti (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam)
• Shriya Saran (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, English)
• Shubha Poonja (Kannada)
• Shyama (Khurshid Akhtar) (Hindi)
• Simi Garewal
• Simone Singh
• Simple Kaur
• Simran (Now Simran Bagga) (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam)
• Sindhu
• Sindhu Tolani (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Sindhu Menon (Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam)
• Silk Smitha (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi)
• Smita Patil
• Smriti Irani (Smriti Malhotra)
• Sneha Ullal (Hindi, Telugu)
• Sneha (Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil)
• Soha Ali Khan (Hindi)
• Sonakshi Sinha (Hindi)
• Sonali Bendre (Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada)
• Sonal Chauhan
• Sonam (actress)
• Sonam Kapoor
• Sonali Kulkarni (Marathi, Hindi, Tamil)
• Sonia Agarwal (Tamil, Telugu)
• Sonia Sahni Buddha Mil Gaya fame (Hindi)
• Sonu (Kannada)
• Sophia Chaudhary
• Soundarya (Teluguu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi)
• Sridevi (Now Sridevi Kapoor) (Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil)
• Srividya
• Sripriya
• Subbulakshmi
• Suchitra Krishnamurthy (Hindi, Malayalam)
• Suchitra Sen (Hindi,Bengali)
• Sudha Chandran (Hindi, Telugu)
• Suhasini (Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil)
• Sukirti Kandpal (Dill Mill Gayye, Pyaar kii ye ek kahan, Jersey no. 10)
• Sulakshana Pandit
• Sulochana Devi (Hindi, Marathi)
• Sumalatha (Telugu, Kannada)
• Suman Ranganathan
• Sunaina (Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu)
• Supriya Pathak
• Suraiya
• Sushmita Sen (Hindi, Tamil)
• Sushma Reddy
• Sumalatha
• Swati Reddy (Telugu, Tamil)
• Swapna
• Swastika Mukherjee (Bengali)
• Sandhya[disambiguation needed] (Hindi)
• Swetha Menon (Malayalam)
• Swetha (Telugu)
• Shriya Sharma (Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, advertisements, TV shows etc.)
• Sheena Chohan
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• Tamannaah Bhatia (Tamil, Telugu)
• Tanisha (Hindi, Tamil)
• Tanushree Dutta
• Tanuja
• Tanvi Azmi
• Tanvi Verma
• Tina Munim (now Tina Ambani)
• Tisca Chopra
• Trisha Krishnan (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
• Tulip Joshi
• Tun Tun
• Twinkle Khanna
• Trisha (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
• Tara (Assamese, Manipuri, Punjabi, Hindi)
• Tara (Kannada, Hindi)
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• Udita Goswami (Hindi)
• Ujjwala Raut
• Umashree (Kannada)
• Urmila Matondkar (Hindi, Tamil)
• Urvashi (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu)
• Urvashi Sharma
• Usha Kiran
• Udaya Bhanu (Telugu)
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• Vadivukkarasi (Tamil, Telugu)
• Vaishali Desai
• Vaishali Kasaravalli (Kannada)
• Varalakshmi[disambiguation needed] (Telugu)
• Vaishnavi Mahant
• Vasundhara Das
• Veena (Tajour Sultana) (Hindi)
• Vedhika
• Vidhubala
• Vidya Balan (Hindi, Tamil, Bengali)
• Vidya Sinha
• Vijeta Pandit
• Vijayashanti (Telugu, Hindi, Tamil)
• Vyjayantimala (now Vyjayantimala Bali)
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• Waheeda Rehman
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• Yogeeta Bali
• Yana Gupta
• Yukta Mookhey
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• Zarina Wahab
• Zarine Khan
• Zeenat Aman
• Zeba Bakhtiyar
• Zubeida Begum
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