————————————————————————————————————————————————— Bipasha Basu is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood films and a former model. She was the winner of the Ford’s Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest for 1996 and is currently one of the mainstream actresses in Bollywood. According to her, she had come into modeling and acting quite by accident, because initially she had planned to study medicine. In Kolkata, she did modelling and rampshows partime. Although, as pointed above, she intended to become a doctor, her aversion for dissections made her opt for chartered accountancy. However, in 1996, she met well-known model Mehr Jessia in Kolkata; the latter suggested that Basu take part in the Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest. She eventually participated, and won the contest. After winning the Ford Godrej Cinthol contest, Basu was flown to New York by the Ford Company, where she had a successful modelling career at the age of 17. Basu made her film debut 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. In 2002, Basu starred in Telugu movie Takkari Donga opposite Tollywood superstar Mahesh Babu and Vikram Bhatt’s thriller Raaz. Raaz was a big commercial success and surfaced as the biggest hit of that year.[3] For her performance in the film, she received her first Best Actress nomination at the Filmfare. One review in The Tribune noted, “…it is Bipasha Basu who steals the show with her fine performance.”[4] She appeared as Sonia Khanna in the 2003 hit movie Jism alongside John Abraham. The movie earned her a Filmfare Best Villain Award nomination.Besides acting, Bips, as she is fondly called, did the famous video “Tu” for Sonu Nigam’s album, Kismat back in her early days before she became an actress. She also made a guest appearance in Jay Sean’s music video Stolen. In 2006, she won popular acclaim for her performance in an Item number during the song Beedi in the film Omkara. The song was a national hit, and Basu’s picturisation was appreciated. In 2008 Basu starred in Race, her second collaboration with duo Abbas Mustan, with whom she debuted in Bollywood. Co-starring Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Anil Kapoor and Katrina Kaif, the film performed well at the box office, and Basu’s performance was appreciated by critics. Taran Adarsh of indiaFM described her performance as “her best work so far. She's superb”. She also received good reviews for her role in Bachna Ae Haseeno opposite Ranbir Kapoor. She completed the year by appearing in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi in the song Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte. In 2009, Bipasha was rumored to sign onto her first Hollywood venture Chaimera alongside Billy Zane.
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Name: Bipasha Basu (Bengali: বিপাশা বসু, Hindi: बिपाषा बासु) Nickname: Bonny, Bips Date of birth: January 7, 1979 Place of birth: New Delhi, India Height: 1.74 m Weight: 63kg Horoscope: Capricorn Hobbies: dancing, reading, helping her mother with interior designing Professional : model/bollywood actress Languages: hindi, bengali, english
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