Women in Film

Today I got a very cool video in MySpace which is showing changing faces of women in Hollywood. Check out:

Vidya Balan

Vidya Balan is a beautiful Indian Bollywood actress based in Mumbai, India. In 2006 she appeared opposite Sanjay Dutt in the film Lage Raho Munnabhai. The movie was a major hit within India and was ranked #1 on the box office for eight weeks after its release. She also won International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) in Best Actress category for Lage Raho Munnabhai.

She will soon appear as leading lady in Sajid Khan's forthcoming film Hey Baby where she is performing along with Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Boman Irani, Diya Mirza, Shamita Shetty, Riya Sen, Amrita Arora, Neha Dhupia, Malaika Arora, Koena Mitra, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Tara Sharma, Minissha Lamba and Sophiya Chaudhary.

Check out more details about Vidya in our previous post.

Minase Yashiro

Minase Yashiro was born on 2 March 1985 in Gifu prefecture, Japan. She is 165cm tall 22 year old Japanese gravure idol, singer and actress.

Astha Singhal

Astha Singhal was born in Delhi, India and raised in Los Angeles, USA. She holds a Computer Engineering degree from UCLA. She debuted in Telugu film Pellaina Kothalo as vivacious salsa dance teacher opposite Jagapathi Babu and Raju Sundaram.

Chak De India Special

Chak De India, a Bollywood movie directed by Shimit Amin and starring Shahrukh Khan, Vidya Malvalde in leading roles will hit screen today on 10th Aug. Here is small glimpse of the characters:

Vidya Malvalde is an Indian Bollywood actress who started her career with Vikram Bhatt's Inteha in 2003. She is playing as Vidya Sharma in Chak De India.

Amanda Wilkinson was born on January 17, 1982 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. She is a well known country singer and her first solo album, Amanda Wilkinson, was released in 2005. In 2006, Amanda was nominated for Single of the Year, CMT Video of the Year, Female Artist of the Year and Album of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards.
She is performing as German player in Chak De India.

Shilpa Shukla is performing as Bindia Naik in Chak De India. She also performed in Khamosh Paani with Kirron Kher.

Other performers in Chake De India are Sagarika Ghatge as Preeti Sabarwal, Chitrashi Rawat as Komal Chautala, Tanya Abrol as Babir Kaur, Anaitha Nair as Aliya Bose, Shubhi Mehta as Gunjun Lakhani, Seema Azmi as Rani Dispotta, Nisha Nair as Soimoi Karketa, Sandia Furtado as Nethra Reddy, Arya Menon as Gul Iqbal, Masochon V. Zimik as Molly Zimik, Kimi Laldawla as Mary Ralte, Kimberly Miranda as Rachna Prasad, Nichola Sequeira as Nichola Sequeira, Raynia Mascarenhas as Raynia Fernandes, Sarah O'Connor as Australian Player, Kim Snowden as German Player(22), Lalhmingkimi Khiangte, Joshua Burt as Australian Coach, Lisa Blake as Australian Goalkeeper, Chon Chon Zimik, Janine Pretorius as Argentina Captain, Brodie Whitmore as Argentina Goalkeeper, Padam Bhushan, Lauren Demetriou as Argentina Player, Emily White as Australian Goalkeeper, Kasey Davis as German player, Mary Lofthouse as Australian Team Manager, Danielle Schubach as Australian player, Jill Van Duran as German Player, Aleesha Willett as Australian Player, Liz Duffield as German player, Elizabeth Vardy as Argentina Player, Kate Sandry as Argentina Player, Kimberly Miranda, Vicki Periorellis as German Player, Chantelle Abela as Argentina Player.

Enjoy Chak De India !!!!.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer was born on April 29, 1958 in Santa Ana, California, USA. She is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and internationally known American actress.

In 1978, Pfeiffer entered and won the Miss Orange County beauty pageant, and then entered the statewide competition for Miss California USA.

She got attention in Hollywood with her 1983 gangster classic film Scarface where she co-starred with Al Pacino.

Tulip Joshi

Tulip Joshi was born on September 11, 1979 in Mumbai, India. She is 5'6" tall Indian model and Bollywood actress. She was one of the participant of Femina Miss India Contest in 2000, in which Lara Dutta got selected as Miss India Universe and finally became Miss Universe 2000, Priyanka Chopra got selected as Miss India World and finally became Miss World 2000, Diya Mirza got selected as Miss India Asia-Pacific International and finally became Miss Asia-Pacific 2000, Gayatri Joshi got selected as Miss India International and later semifinalist at Miss International 2000.

Tulip made her Bollywood debut with Aditya Chopra's film Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai where Bipasha Basu was one of the costar and Shamita Shetty had a hit item song Sharara. She also performed in Hindi movie Dil Maange More with Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia and Soha Ali Khan.

Her forthcoming movie is Dhoka where she is playing as suicide bomber.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Special

We already gave details about gorgeous Aishwarya Rai in many of our previous posts. But this is a special post of Aishwarya with which we are starting second year of this cute hot and beautiful blog.

In 2007, She won IIFA Glamorous Star Award, Zee Cine Award Best for Actor-Female for Umrao Jaan, Stardust Star of the Year Award-Female for Dhoom 2 and married to Abhishek Bachchan on 20th April 2007.

A Small Trivia about Aishwarya:

• Aishwarya and Aamir Khan are the only stars to advertise for both Coca Cola and Pepsi.
• Her Pepsi ad with Aamir Khan was shot in one night during the infamous Bombay riots.
• She made her first commercial for Camlin pencils when she was in the 9th grade.
• She won seven title in 1994 Miss India Contest which includes Miss Catwalk, Miss Miraculous, Miss Photogenic, Miss Perfect Ten, Miss Popular and finally Miss India World.
• She is most photographed woman in India.
• She is most Beautiful Miss World of all times and received the highest score of 9.911 in 2000.
• She is first person to make her mark on the Dubai Studio City Wall of Fame during the IIFA Awards in Dubai.
• She is the only Bollywood star to appear in Rolling Stone which is one of the most popular and iconic magazines of USA.
• She became the first Indian actor to be a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003.
• She got Wax at London's prestigious Madame Tussauds Wax museum and New York's prestigious Madame Tussauds Wax museum at Time Square in 2007.
• She is the only Bollywood personality appeared on CBS 60 mins, Oprah Winfrey, Good Morning America and The David Letterman Show.

Her forthcoming movies are:

• Journey Across India(aka Taj Mahal: The Great Indian Experience (India: English title), aka The Heart of India (USA)).
• The Last Legion where she is performing as Mira.
• Jodhaa Akbar where she performing as Jodhaa Bai while Hrithik Roshan is performing as Akbar. Sarkar Raj along with Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Tanisha Mukherjee.
• Singularity where she is performing as Tulaja along with Hollywood actor Brendan Fraser.
• Bhopal Movie where she is performing as Jasmine Singh along with Irfan Khan.

You can check our first post of Aishwarya here, Seond post here, Aishwarya Rai Birthday Special, another post here and finally Aishwarya Rai Wedding Day Sepcial.


Here is a special video of Aishwarya Rai showing pictures from many of her previous films, photo-shoots, commercial advertisements.

Have Fun ;-)

Tata Young

Tata Young (real name Amita Marie Young) was born on December 14, 1980 in Bangkok, Thailand. She is a Thai American singer, model, actress and entrepreneur. A Thai superstar at age 25, she became an international success with the release of her first English-language album I Believe in 2004.

In 2004, She recorded a vey hit song Dhoom Dhoom for Bollywood movie Dhoom in India.

Rimi Sen and Esha Deol were lead actress in this movie.

In 2007, She is listed as one of the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2007 and Sexiest Singer in Thailand.

Janet Khoo

Janet Khoo (Janet Khoo Kheng Hoon) was born in 1972 in Air Itam, Penang. Malaysia. She is a Chinese Malaysian actress.

Sanna Bråding

Sanna Bråding was born on March 5, 1980 in Saltsjö-Boo, Nacka, Stockholm County. She is a Swedish actress. Her first appearance was in the soap opera Tre Kronor during the 90's. In 2004 she starred in the film A Hole in My Heart. In 2006 she became a presenter for the Swedish version of Pop Idol, Idol 2006.

Archie Panjabi

Archie Panjabi (real name Archana Kaur Panjabi) was born on 31st May 1972 in West London,, England, United Kingdom. She is a British actress who got fame with Gurinder Chaddha's Bend It Like Beckham in 2000.

In 2005, she won the Shooting Star Award for her role in Yasmin at the Berlin Film Festival and the Best Actress award in the same year at the Reims Film Festival.

In 2007, Panjabi appeared with Angelina Jolie in the movie A Mighty Heart. She got The Chopard Trophy for a Breakout Performance in this film at the Cannes Film Festival.


Check out her official web presence.

Claudia Schiffer

Claudia Schiffer was born on August 25, 1970 in Rheinberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is 5ft 11in tall with blue eyes and blonde hair German supermodel and actress who reached the height of her popularity during the 1990s. Schiffer is one of the world's most successful supermodels, appearing on over 900 times in magazine covers which is a record. She dubuted in the children's movie Richie Rich in 1994.

Bow Barracks Forever Actresses

Here is the list of some talented actress from the award winning movie Bow Barracks Forever.

Lillete Dubey is an Indian actress. She is currently filming My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves with Amrita Rao and Fauj Mein Mauj with Mallika Sherawat.

Neha Dubey is an Indian actress and daughter of Lillete Dubey.

Sohini Pal was born on December 31, 1986. She debuted with this movie.

Moon Moon Sen was born on 28 March 1948. She is daughter of Bengali actress Suchitra Sen and mother of two actresses Raima Sen and Riya Sen.

Usha Uthup (aka Didi) is a popular Indian pop singer and was was well known for popular hits in the 1970s and 1980s. She has acheived many awards like Rajiv Gandhi Purashkar for national integration for quality music, Mahila Shiromoni Purashkar for international peace, Channel [V] award for outstanding achievement.

Abigail Tucker

Abigail Tucker was born on January, 22 1973. She is an Australian singer, songwriter, actress and best known for her acting roles in Heartbreak High and The Secret Life of Us. She won the 1992 final of the Australian TV talent show "New Faces" with a selection of classic cover versions. Abi released her debut solo album "Dreamworld" on 22nd September 2003 to critical acclaim and went on her first solo tour of Australia.

Sonal Udeshi

Sonal Udeshi is 22yrs old 5' 4" tall curvaceous model from India. She is sister of famous supermodel turned actress Mashumi Udeshi. She has appeared in many advertisings of leading brands in India.