Bina Rai

Bina Rai born on 4 June 1936 was a renowned Bollywood actress of the black and white time of Hindi cinema. Bina was mostly known for her characters she played in classic films like Anarkali, Taj Mahal, and won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her outstanding performance in the movie, Ghunghat. Before coming to Mumbai, the actress stayed in Kanpur.

She had to persuade her mother and father to allow her to opt acting as her career. Bina Raiwas a first year student of Arts in the Isabella Theodore College' of Lucknow in the year 1950, when she came to know about an advertisement that organised a talent contest. When she applied for the contest the sponsors of the show approached her. On the other hand Bina went Mumbai to take part in the contest where she bagged whooping amount, that time, of Rs. 25 thousand. Soon after that she made her first Bollywood debut with Kishore Sahu's project titled 'Kali Ghata' in the year 1951 opposite Kishore Sahu.

Somewhere in the 1950’s the actress married Bollywood star Prem Nath, whose sister Krishna tied the knot with Bollywood superstar and filmmaker Raj Kapoor. Bina Rai was paired up with Prem Nath before marriage in films like Aurat and Delilah. The couple within no time made their first film production house known by the name of P.N. Films. The first film made under the banner was Shagufa which got released in 1954 but the movie couldn’t run at the box office.

Neither Bina Rai’s charm nor Prem Nath’s thin-skinned depiction of the character of a doctor could set aside "Shagufa" from being a dud. And the movies that followed Shagufa were Prisoner of Golconda, Samunder and Watan vanished within couple of days. It is assumed that for these reasons the off-screen couple couldn’t impress the audiences with their on-screen thanda performance.

Bina Rai was later paired opposite actor Pradeep Kumar in films like Ghunghat, Anarkali, Taj Mahal respectively. In the 1970s, Bina’s son Prem Krishen became a star and gave a superhit film Dulhan Wohi Jo Piya Man Bhaye which got released in 1977. But he later on became a producer and launched his banner with the name Cinevista, and went on to produce small screen daily soaps like Kathasagar, Gul Gulshan Gulfam and Junoon. Bina Rai left the Hindi cinema many years ago. Her husband Prem Nath died on 3 November 1992. The actress as said died on 6th December, 2009.

Follow Bollywood on twitter

Supriya Pathak

Supriya Pathak Kapur was born on 7 January 1961. This talented actress is quite famous for her role that she played in the Indian soaps Khichdi and Idhar Udhar. Supriya Pathak who's the daughter of Dina Pathak, a well known actress famous for playing mother and grandmother roles during the 1980s and 1990s.

Her sister Ratna Pathak Shah is also an actress, who is married to actor Naseeruddin Shah. Supriya got married to Bollywood actor Pankaj Kapur with whom she has a daughter and son. Her step son is the famous Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor. Coming to her professional life, Supriya Pathak began her career with the critically acclaimed 1981 movie Kalyug which was followed by several characters in critically acclaimed films such as 1982 flick Vijeta, 1983 film Bazaar, followed by Masoom and 1985 film Mirch Masala.

The actress also had a minor role as Mahatma Gandhi's niece in the multi-award-winning biopic Gandhi which was released in 1982 and she was also starred in the 1988 French film The Bengali Night opposite Hugh Grant. In the early 1990s the actress took a long break from acting in films but appeared in several television series. After an 11 years of gap from acting, she starred to act in flicks again with 2005 film Sarkar opposite Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan.

Recently, she appeared in 2009 movie Wake Up Sid with co-star Anupam Kher. In 1982, the actress won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for the character she played in Bazaar. In the year 1980, she again won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for the movie Kalyug. In 2010, Supriya Pathak was nominated for the same award for her role she portrayed in Wake Up Sid.

Follow Bollywood on twitter.

Padmini Kolhapure

Padmini Kolhapure was born on 1 November 1965. She is a famous Bollywood actress who made her mark in the film industry since the 1980s. Padmini Kolhapure, as a child was in the chorus for some of their songs like Yadoon Ki Baraat, Kitab, Dushman Dost along with her sister Shivangi (married to Shakti Kapoor).


Padmini also later sang for her own films like Vidhaata (Saat Saheliyan), Hum intezaar Karenge, Sadak chaap (with late Kishore Kumar). It is said that the actress also released an album with Bappi lahiri called "Music Lovers". She also had the honour of performing for the GLC (Greater London council) at the Royal Albert hall London with Baapi Lahiri and his troupe in 1986.

Padmini was also casted 1975 released flick Ishq Ishq Ishq and this led to other films, such as Dreamgirl (1978), Saajan Bina Suhagan, etc. Padmini’s success list led to her most controversial role in Insaaf Ka Tarazu. Padmini was known for her professionalism and diligence.She even worked in hit films like Vidhataa, Souten , Pyar Jhukta Nahin, Woh Saat Din, Aisa Pyar Kahan, and so on.

Read Bollywood twitter updates.

Rituparna Sengupta

Rituparna Sengupta was born on 7 November 1971. Rituparna is the leading actress in Bengali Cinema for the last decade in India, and is also currently performing in critically acclaimed Bollywood flicks. The actress was active in the arts since a young age.

The actress studied at Mount Carmel school, and later graduated in History from Lady Barbourne College and began studying for a Master's in Arts at Calcutta University. Rituparna Sengupta got married to her childhood friend Sanjay Chakrabarty, founder and CEO of MobiApps on 13 December 1999 in Kolkata. She is actively involved in the cause of children suffering fromThalssaemia.

She is also into outdoor sports and plays badminton whenever found herself free.
The actress has also be honoured with many awards like the Bharat Nirman Award in the year 1995.

Follow Bollywood on twitter.

Deepa Sahi

Deepa Sahi is an Indian Bollywood actress and film producer as well. Deepa Sahi was born in Dehradun, India. Her family later shifted to Canada but she continued to stay in India only. In her early film career Deepa Sahi collaborated with noted auteur Govind Nihalani and made her debut with the 1984 film Party.

This was well-received and Deepa acted in Aghaat that was released in 1985. Her thespian achievement, will always remain her role as the independent-minded and empowered lower-caste Punjabi woman she enacted in the highly acclaimed television film Tamas (1986).

After marrying film director Ketan Mehta, the actress acted in several of his movies including Hero Hiralal (1988), Maya Memsaab (1992) and Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India (1995). Her other notable films include Hum (1991) and Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1991). Deepa Sahi was last seen in the flick Aar ya Paar (1997) and since then she didn’t appeared in any film.

She got filmfare best supporting actress nominee for Hum and National Award (Jury) for Maya Memsaab. In 2005 the actress co-produced her husband's film Mangal Pandey: The Rising - which was a moderate success at the box office.
Deepa also wrote the screenplay for Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India which was written and directed by Ketan Mehta.

Trisha Krishnan

Trisha Krishnan is an Indian film actress and she was born on 4 May 1982. Trisha has been appearing in Tamil and Telugu flicks. After Trisha's first appearance in the 1999 Tamil film Jodi, as a supporting role, she won a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her first lead role in the 2002 film Mounam Pesiyadhe.


Trisha Krishnan later got fame after featuring in the successful movies like Saamy and Ghilli in Tamil cinema and Varsham in Telugu cinema. Trisha Krishnan will make her debut in Bollywood industry with the film Khatta Meeta opposite superstar Akshay Kumar. Read Akshay Kumar Twitter updates.

Jaya Prada

Jaya Prada born on 3 April 1962 is an Indian Bollywood actress and politician. In 1986, Jaya got married to producer Srikanth Nahata, who was already married to Chandra and had 3 children.

With the remake of K. Viswanath's Siri Siri Muvva (1976) into the Hindi version Sargam introduced Jayapradha to Bollywood in 1979. The film became a huge hit and Jaya became an overnight star there as well.

Jaya Prada earned first Filmfare nomination as Best Actress as well. It took almost three more years before director K. Vishwanath relaunched her again in Hindi films, with the hit film Kaamchor (1982) where Jaya Prada spoke Hindi very well for the first time.

Jaya Prada than worked in many hindi movies and earn two more Filmfare nominations as Best Actress for playing Amitabh Bachchan's girlfriend in Prakash Mehra's Sharaabi (1984) and for her challenging double role in K. Vishwanath's Sanjog (1985).

Along with her Bollywood film career, the actress earned fans, not just with the masses, but also with the great Indian director Satyajit Ray, who has said she was one of the prettiest women in the world.

In 2002, Jaya Prada stepped into the Marathi film industry by being a guest in the movie Aadhaar and started acting in seven languages and has completed 300 films during a 30-year film career.

Other than this Jaya Prada has also won Kala Saraswati Award, Kinnera Savitri Award, Rajiv Gandhi Award, Nargis Dutt Gold Medal, Shakuntala Kala Rathnam Award, Uttam Kumar Award, Kalakar Award for Best Author (2005) and in 2008 ANR Achievement Award.