Lara Dutta

Lara Dutta the Indian Bollywood actress is UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and Miss Universe 2000. Lara Dutta won the annual Gladrags modelling competition in her native India. Later, Lara Dutta was crowned Femina Miss India Universe and Miss Universe in 2000.




In the same year, Priyanka Chopra and Dia Mirza won their respective Miss World and Miss Asia Pacific titles which gave India a rare triple victory in the world of beauty pageants.

First Lara Dutta signed up to do the Tamil film, Arasatchi in 2002, but due to financial problems, it only released in mid-2004. Lara made her Hindi debut in 2003 with the film Andaaz which was a box office success and for which she won a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award.

Lara Dutta then appeared in a number of films, some of which failed at the box office and some of which were mildly successful. Her box office "hits" include Masti (2004), Kaal (2005), No Entry (2005) and Partner (2007). In 2006, she starred in the comedy, Bhagam Bhag which did well at the box office.

Lara's 2007 released Shaad Ali's Jhoom Barabar Jhoom was a box office failure in India but did better overseas, especially in the U.K. Lara Dutta received mixed reviews for her performance in the film. Her later release, Partner opened to a good response and became a hit at the box office.

The other releases of the actress are Do Knot Disturb which is releasing on October 02, 2009, Blue all set for it's release on October 16, 2009. 2010 Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai, Housefull and Aur Devdas.

Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra


Priyanka Chopraborn July 18, 1982is an Indian film actress and former Miss World, who acts in Bollywood films.



After winning the title of Miss India World and later becoming Miss World 2000, Chopra made her acting debut with the Tamil film Thamizhan (2002). The following year, she made her Bollywood debut with Anil Sharma's The Hero: Love Story of a Spy.







Priyanka had her first commercial success with her second release, Andaaz from the same year, for which she won a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award. Becoming the second woman to win the Filmfare Best Villain Award for her critically acclaimed performance in Abbas-Mustan's Aitraaz (2004), Chopra later went on to deliver commercial success with films like Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004), Krrish (2006), her biggest commercial success so far, and Don - The Chase Begins Again (2006), thus establishing herself as a popular actress.





She was born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand to Ashok Chopra and Madhu Akhauri, both doctors by profession. Chopra spent her childhood in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, in Newton, Massachusetts and in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her father was in the army and thus her family moved quite frequently. Her father hailed from a family of Punjabi origin, settled in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh and her mother comes from a Bihari Kayastha family settled in Jamshedpur. She also has a brother, Siddharth , who is seven years younger than her.

Chopra studied at St. Maria Goretti in Bareilly and La Martiniere Girls' School in Lucknow as a young girl. These frequent re-locations took place as Ashok was a doctor in the Indian Army. She subsequently re-located to the U.S. where she studied in Newton's Newton South High School in Newton, Massachusetts and then in Cedar Rapid's John F. Kennedy High School in Massachusetts and Iowa respectively. She returned to India and did her high school at Army School in Bareilly. She began college at Jai Hind College in Mumbai but left after winning the Miss World pageant.

Chopra was crowned Miss India World and later Miss World in 2000. In the same year, Lara Dutta and Dia Mirza, both also from India, won the Miss Universe and Miss Asia Pacific crowns, in a rare triple victory for one country.

When Chopra won the Miss World crown, she became the fifth Indian woman to win the title, and the fourth Indian woman to win in a span of seven years.