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Vidya Balan is an Indian actress, who appears mainly in Hindi films, in addition to Bengali and Malayalam films. After graduating with a degree in... sociology, she started her career starring in music videos, television shows and commercials, before making her feature film debut with the independent Bengali drama Bhalo Theko . Balan received positive notice for her first Hindi film, Parineeta , and followed it with a leading role in the blockbuster Lage Raho Munna Bhai , and other such hit films as Guru, Heyy Babyy and Bhool Bhulaiyaa . 2009 marked the beginning of the most successful period in Balan's career as she portrayed five back-to-back roles to wide critical acclaim in Paa , Ishqiya , No One Killed Jessica , The Dirty Picture and Kahaani . These roles have further established her as one of the leading contemporary actresses of Hindi cinema and earned her several major awards.
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Malaika Arora Khan , also known as Malaika Arora, is an Indian model, actress, television personality and former MTV VJ. She is one of India's top... item girls. She is most famous for her dance on the song "Chaiyya Chaiyya" , more recently, "Munni Badnaam Hui" . Arora Khan was born as Malaika Arora in Chembur, Mumbai to a Punjabi father, Anil Arora, a native of Indian border town Fazilka and a Malayali Catholic mother, Joyce Polycarp. Her father worked in the Merchant Navy. She completed her secondary education at Swami Vivekanand School in Chembur, Mumbai. Her aunt Grace Polycarp was the principal of the school. She is also an alumnus of the Holy Cross High School Thane where she had studied until ninth grade. She completed her college education from Jai Hind college, Churchgate. She lived in Borla Society, Chembur opposite Basant Talkies before starting her modeling career. Khan was selected as one of the MTV VJs when MTV India started its operations. She rose to an interviewer for MTV India, becoming the most prominent non-movie, non-model female in urban India.
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Rajiv Kapoor is an Indian film actor, producer, director and a member of the famous Kapoor Family. He is the youngest son of famous actor/director... Raj Kapoor. He had a short stint in the Hindi film industry, acting in only 13 films. His first film was Ek jaan hain hum , with Divya Rana, Shammi Kapoor, Pran, and Gulshan Grover. His next film was Ram Teri Ganga Maili , directed by his father Raj Kapoor. This was Raj Kapoor's last film. He was not as successful as his other brothers Randhir and Rishi, but he is noted for his role in Ram Teri Ganga Maili starring opposite Mandakini which was one of the biggest hits of the year. He acted in a string of other unsuccessful films and made his last film appearance in Zimmedaar which released in 1990. He then turned to producing and directing. He produced Henna which was directed by his brother Randhir and then made his directorial debut with PremGranth which starred his brother Rishi and Madhuri Dixit. After that film became a "disaster" at the box office, he didn't direct again. In 1999 he produced Aa Ab Laut Chalen which was directed by his brother Rishi.
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Sonam Kapoor is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood films. Sonam made her acting debut in 2007 with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya... opposite Ranbir Kapoor and subsequently featured in the offbeat drama Delhi-6 . She earned her first commercial success with the romantic comedy I Hate Luv Storys and followed with such films as Aisha and Thank You . She is Known as a fashionista, she has been getting various accolades for her unique sense of style rather than her films. Kapoor was born and raised in Chembur, Mumbai. She is the eldest daughter of Anil Kapoor and Sunita, who is Sindhi and the granddaughter of filmmaker Surinder Kapoor. She is the niece of producer Boney Kapoor, actress Sridevi, actor Sanjay Kapoor and producer Sandeep Marwah. Kapoor is the eldest of three children; the others are sister Rhea Kapoor and brother Harshvardhan. She is also the cousin of upcoming actor Arjun Kapoor. She went at the Arya Vidya Mandir school in Juhu and then enrolled in the United World College of South East Asia to do her International Baccalaureate. She also studied Political Science and Economics from University of East London.
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Anil Kapoor is a prominent Indian film actor and producer. He first won acclaim for his roles in Yash Chopra's drama Mashaal and Shekhar Kapur's... sci-fi Mr. India , and won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance in the former.After a series of successful films, Kapoor earned his first Filmfare Best Actor Award for his performance in N. Chandra's Tezaab in 1988, and later for Indra Kumar's Beta in 1992. Since then, he has starred in a number of critical and commercial successes, including Virasat , for which he won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance; Biwi No.1 ; Taal , for which he won his second Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award; Pukar , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor; and No Entry . Kapoor has thus established himself as one of the most successful and popular actors of Hindi cinema.His first role in an international film was as Prem Kumar in Danny Boyle's Golden Globe and Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire , for which Kapoor won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and received a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008.
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