Bipasha-Basu

After winning the Ford Godrej Cinthol contest, Bhipsha 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. 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.” She appeared as Sonia Khanna in the 2003 hit movie Jism alongside current boyfriend 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.