Vir being known as a talented comedian, Vir Das has come a long way to establish himself firmly on the big screen today. After performing multiple plays home and abroad, he has slowly but firmly bagged a pivotal role for himself in the film industry. Vir Das was born in India but completed his schooling from different parts of the world. He is an Alumni of the Indian Language School, wherein he studied in Lagos, Simla and Delhi. After completing…
Amrita Arora was born on January 31. Amrita started her career as a model and gradually moved into being a video jockey. She was featured in ads such as Ponds,Elle 18, After Smoke, Sunsilk fruitamins etc. She is now making it big by hosting shows such as MTV House full and Mtv Chillout On Mtv India. Her first debut film was Kitne Door Kitne Paas. The industry noticed her after this film. Now she has couple of offers in her…
Amrita Singh was born on 9th February 1958. She was born in a prominent Punjabi Sikh family which hailed from Pakistan. Her father Shivinder Singh served in the armed forces. Her mother, Rukhsana Sultana, a renowned socialite, is best known for her political activism during the Emergency Era. Amrita Singh’s paternal grand-uncle is the renowned author Khushwant Singh. In 1991, Amrita gave up acting and married with actor Saif Ali Khan, who is twelve years, her junior. The couple had…
Priyanka Kothari , often credited as Nisha Kothari or Amoga, is an Indian actress and model. She has appeared in Bollywood, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. Kothari was born in Majhdia(dist: nadia)Kolkata to a Marwari Jain family and grew up speaking Bengali, Rajasthani, English and Hindi. She moved to New Delhi while in grade 10 and got her degree in Chemistry from Delhi University at Dayal Singh College. Her father is a chemical businessman, her mother a home-maker. After college,…
Ashwini Kalsekar is best known to television audiences for her role as the scheming aunt Jigyaasa in Kasam Se. Ashwini Kalsekar was born in 1970 in Mumbai in Maharashtra. Her father Anil Kalsekar was a Bank employee. Ashwini studied her B.A. from Bombay and graduated in 1991. She pursued theatre from 1991-1994 as an understudy, her most famous period being from 1992-1993 when she was an understudy to famous actress Neena Gupta. She also trained under Muzammeel Vakil, the famous…
A Sagittarian, Govinda was born on 21st December 1963 in Vihar, Thane, Mumbai. He was named Govind Arun Ahuja. His father was a Punjabi Arun Kumar Ahuja, who was an actor in the forties. His mother Nirmala came from Banaras and was a classical singer and dancer. She was also an actress and was cast opposite his father in the movie Savera and they got married in 1941. His father’s attempt at producing a movie failed after which he faced…
Gulshan has acted in more than 300 movies. In 1981 he appeared in the Sanjay Dutt starer Rocky(1981). All the movies in which he has acted were big hits. For instance, Anil Kapoor’s Sadma(1983), Rajesh Kahnna’s Avtaar (1983), Ram Lakhan (1989), Akshay Kumar’s Mohra(1994), Criminal (1995), Gangster(2006) and many more. In Shah Rukh Khan’s Yes Boss, Ram Jaane and Duplicate, Grover played negative roles and got a lot of appreciation for them all. In 2008, he did a Punjabi movie…
As a child, Nawazuddin was quick to mimic an acquaintance he met just a few minutes back. He always had a keen observation and could predict how a person would act and react in a particular situation. He started getting adjudged as an insightful child amidst a huge joint farmer family. He adored a girl in his village who always fancied wedding band players and performers. Nawazuddin was carried away by the girls, interests and followed her to the performances….
Manish Paul, the Indian television and film actor was born in the city of Delhi on the 3rd of August in the year 1981. He pursued his education from the prestigious Apeejay School situated in Sheikh Sarai New Delhi. He hails from a family having sufficient financial expertise. He began his illustrious career as a radio jockey for Radio City’s morning drive time called Kasa Kai Mumbai. Soon after that, Manish enacted the role of a ghost in the television…
Vidya Balan is a Tamilian from Kerala. She is from the Iyer community. She comes from a middleclass family from Palghat, on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Vidya did her schooling from St Antony’s School and later on joined St Xavier’s College from where she graduated in sociology. When she was doing her MA from Mumbai University, she was offered a role in a Malayalam film titled Chakram with Mohanlal, one of Vidya’s favorite actors. However, the project…