She hit a career highpoint when she won the Miss USA pageant earlier this year, and now Rima Fakih is going for the Miss Universe honors.
The beauty queen was spotted at a Miss Universe press photo call over the weekend, looking super hot in a black two-piece bikini.
Bringing an end to a fun-filled holiday, Kelly Brook was the epitome of beauty while vacationing in Barbados.
Flaunting her bikini body, the British beauty and a group of friends hit the crystal clear waters for a little skiing in between boating and beach relaxation.
As a couple that seemed in it for the long run, it comes as quite a shock that Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have called it quits.
People magazine is reporting that the “Dancing With The Stars” professionals have broken up after dating for a year.
Bolywood actress Celina Jaitley speaks out in support of gay against a columnist with a swing vote. Smarting at the comments of columnist Shobhaa De in her recent column as well as in a magazine interview Celina Jaitley, addresses De. In her own words:
”As a military attaché’s grand daughter and the daughter of an army colonel, I have been brought up to not react to the insults made by my elders. I’ve had the sort of upbringing which makes me reserve my comments against jibes made by someone my grandmother’s age.
Models First Photo Shoot
We have put together some tips for models needing to know what they need to do before their first photo shoot. One of the big and main things models can do before the first photo shoot or any photo shoot, is to be prepared. Models should prepare as if they already had a photo shoot scheduled. When models meet the photographer or magazine editor models will be in their best shape.
After models are comfortable with the terms of the shoot, they need to know other details. Is there going to be a make-up artist or hair stylist at the shoot location? Or will you need to do your own make-up for the shoot? There are some models that prefer doing their own make-up and hair for photo shoots. Having a professional make-up artist and hair stylist on location at the shoot is definitely the way to go for fashion models. Models also need to know what type of clothing they are expected to wear at the shoot. Is the clothing going to be provided or do the models need to provide the clothing? These are all things models need to find out and be prepared for before any photo shoot.
A few days before the shoot, models should try avoiding foods high in sodium. Models should stay on a good diet. Models also should keep up the exercising, and any tanning they are doing. If models do their own hair and make-up, they should be prepared with doing this. Some models may be nervous before doing photo shoots, and they should practice some poses. Amateur models should practice doing poses in front of a good sized mirror.
On the day of the photo shoot models should be relaxed, prepared, and ready to go! Make sure you have everything ready you need to take with you. If it’s going to be a long shoot, models might want to consider taking a snack or lunch with them. A good idea would be a salad, fruit, and water.
Born and raised in Gujarat, Namitha is the glamour queen of the South Indian Film industry. She is almost 6 feet tall and weighs around 65 kg. Raised in a business family Namitha always aspired to ever since she was a small kid. She was first introduced into the film industry by Malayalam film director Siddhique. She attained instant stardom following the success of the Tamil version of the movie ‘Engal Anna’ opposite Tamil superstar Vijayakanth. Namitha seemed to be struggling to get roles even after the commercial success of the Engal Anna. She then decided to do some.
This Section contains Biography of TrishaTrisha Krishnan born as Trisha Krishnamurthy on May 4th, 1983 in Palakkad town of Kerala State is a well-known South Indian actress and a celebrated model.
Born of Tamil parents, Krishnan and Uma Krishnan, Trisha had her schooling at Church Park School where former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalitha pursued her school education. A graduate from Ethiraj College in Chennai, Trisha participated in several beauty pageants winning Miss Salem and Miss Chennai in 1999 and Miss India Miss Beautiful Smile in 2001.
With beauty pageant titles to her credit, Trisha bagged number of modeling assignments from established brands like Pepsi, Fair & Lovely, Philips Power Vision, Brooke Bond Red Label Tea, Josco Jewellery, Vimal, Arun Ice Cream, Medimix soap, Butterfly, Junior Horlicks, Britannia cold coffee, Cavincare Meera Gold, Neem Toothpaste, Hercules cycle, and Goya Perfume from Colombo. A trained ballet dancer, Trisha appeared in Phalguni Pathak’s video album, “Meri Chunar Ud Ud Jaya”.
Trisha began her movie career with “Leysa Leysa” {2002} directed by Priyadarshan and appeared that year in two more movies “Manasellam” and “Mounam Pesiyadhe”. Starring opposite Surya in “Mounam Pesiyadhe” Trisha won all-round applause for her brilliant performance in the movie and also won Filmfare Best Female Debut {Tamil}. The beautiful actress further gave an outstanding performance in “Saamy” {2003} opposite leading Tamil hero Vikram and “Ghilli” {2004}, a remake of Telugu super hit movie “Okkadu”.
After a string of successes in Tamil, Trisha moved to Telugu films and made her debut with “Varsham” {2004} starring opposite Prabhas. Her zestful performance in the movie, especially in a rain-dance song sequence ‘Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana…’ was a wild hit with the audience and she became an instant celebrity, while the movie went on to become a blockbuster hit. In the end, she received two Best Actress Awards from Filmfare and Santhosham, a colorful Telugu cine magazine.
Refining her acting talents further, she rendered a sterling performance in “Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana” {2005} directed by actor-turned Prabhu Deva and went on to win two more Best Actress Awards from Filmfare and Government of Andhra Pradesh initiated Nandi Award. Even for “Athadu” {2005}, the beautiful actress earned Filmfare nomination in the category of Best Actress. In a family entertainer “Aadavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule” {2007}, Trisha starring opposite Venkatesh gave an excellent performance endearing herself to the women audience. The versatile actress has even tried comedy in “Kireedam” {2007} and successfully sent the audience home reeling with laughter.
Trisha, the beautiful actress has acted along side the top names in South Indian films like Chiranjeevi, Venkatesh, Surya, Vikram, Vijay, Prabhas, Madhavan, Mahesh Babu, Srikanth, Siddharth, Jayam Ravi, Shaam and Silambarasan.
1 January 1978, Palghat, Kerala, India
Vidya P. Balan
5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
Vidya was born in the Tamil-speaking Balan family on January 1, 1978 in Palghat, Kerala, India. Her family consists of her dad, P.R. Balan, who is the Vice-President of ETC Channel; mom - a home-maker, and an elder sister, Priya, who is married to Kedar. She also has an aunt by the name of Raji Raju. The Balan family re-located to live at Road No. 11, near Ambedkar Garden, Chembur, Bombay, when Vidya was very young. She studied in St. Anthony’s Convent School, and thereafter in St. Xavier’s College from where she obtained a degree in Sociology. She then went on to obtain a Masters degree in Sociology from Bombay University. She also studied and performed in Prithvi Theaters’ workshops. Due to tradition of most Tamil-Iyer families, Vidya and her Priya learned Carnatic dance form during their early childhood days, but Vidya opted out as the dance classes took place early on Sunday mornings and as she is not an early riser.
Considerably overweight during her school-days, she decided to shed those extra pounds when she elected to opt for modeling and movies. Her first break came with a Malyalam movie ‘Chakram’ opposite Mohanlal, however,the project was shelved, and she had to wait until 1998 to debut in a Surf Excel commercial. She then went on to appear in several commercials directed by Pradeep Sarkar. She also appeared in three music videos for Pankaj Udhas, Euphoria, and Shubha Mudgal in supporting roles. She then also appeared in two TV serials Ekta Kapoor’s ‘Hum Paanch’, and Ashok Pandit’s ‘Hanste Khelte’.
During 2003 she was signed-up to play a role in a Bengali movie ‘Bhaalo Theko’ opposite Joy Sengupta. This project was completed during the year 2006, and was a considerable hit.
Then during 2006 Vidya was approached by Vidhu Vinod Chopra during a pop-concert in Mumbai to play a lead role in ‘Parineeta’. She then had to undergo 17 make-up shoots and 40 screen tests before being chosen for this role. All this hard work did result in success as ‘Parineeta’ was very well received so much so that the Tamil producer, who had previously rejected her, invited her to appear in a ‘Dasavatharam’ opposite Kamal Hassan, and now it was Vidya’s turn to reject this offer which eventually went to Asin.
Apart from acting, Vidya occupies herself for supporting education for young Indians by promoting children’s books; is associated with Americans for Aids Research; with Hale House - that provides support and housing for children born with HIV and drug abuse; as well as hosting forums and attending events for Harvard Aids Institute.
An ardent devotee of Bhagwan Shri Sai Baba, she makes it a point to attend Mandirs every Thursday. She is proficient in Tamil, Malyalam, Hindi, English, Bengali, and can also read Urdu.
IMDb Mini Biography By: rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
A Tamilian from Kerala, she hails from the Iyer community in Palghat, on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Did her schooling from St. Antony’s School and later on at St. Xavier’s College where she graduated in Sociology. She soon started work on her MA from Mumbai University when she was offered a role in a Malayalam film starring Mohanlal, but it was later shelved due to issues with the director.
Speaks English, Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil. After filming Parineeta (2005), can also speak Bengali quite well.
Listed as number 8 of ‘Top Bollywood Actresses’ of 2006. (rediff.com, 8-25-2006)
“Neither of my first two Malayalam films got completed, and I walked out of the third, a Tamil film, because I was not comfortable. I was replaced in another Tamil film with the excuse that I could not act. They made me feel ugly to the point where I was scared to look in the mirror. In retrospect I thank God, and by God’s grace today the going is good.”
Pet Name : Tich
Shobhana Samarth’s granddaughter. Tanuja and Shomu Mukherjee’s daughter. Nutan’s and Joy Mukherjee’s niece. Kajol’s sister. Ajay Devgan’s sister-in-law. Mohnish Behl’s and Rani Mukerji’s cousin. And her paternal grandfather the late Sashadhar Mukherjee, owned Filmalaya studios. Phew! With a pedigree like that you cannot be anything but an actress.
And with a pedigree like that you cannot but raise expectations. “Ever since I remember I always wanted to be an actress,” says Tanisha in a recent interview. “The arc lights, the camera and all those things associated with the film world fascinated me. My ambition grew three fold when my sister Kajol began getting wonderful roles written just for her.”
The nubile actress will finally get her wish when her debut film, Cinevistaas’ Sssshhh…’ releases in late October.
It is the most anticipated debut by a Bollywood actress in recent times. It is not only her cinematic pedigree that has raised expectations but the fact that her performance will be compared to that of her illustrious aunt, mother and sister - all award winners. And from initial reports it looks like she will live up to expectations. Her director Pavan S. Kaul has been raving about her performance in Sssshhh…, which also marks his comeback to the big screen.
On Tanisha, Director Pavan S. Kaul says ‘She’s a natural’. ‘Tanisha is a co-operative actress, she will go a long way’, says Dino. Her co-star Karan Nath says, ‘It was a good experience working with Tanisha, she’s talented, she’s confident’.
