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| Birth Name(s) : Bipasha Basu |
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Full Bipasha Basu Biography
Bipasha Basu (born January 7, 1979) is a Bollywood actress and supermodel. She was the winner of the Ford's Supermodel of the World Contest for 1996 and now works in mainstream Bollywood films.
Basu is the second of three daughters in her family. Her siblings are her elder sister Bidisha, and younger sister Bijoyeta . She was born in New Delhi, but her family later moved to Kolkata, where she won a regional beauty contest at a very young age. She has said that she had come into modelling and acting "quite by accident," because initially Bipasha had planned to either study chartered accountancy or medicine. However, she said that she dropped the idea of doing medical studies because she fainted when attempting to dissect rats.
This Calcutta based commerce graduate model came into the limelight when she won the Ford's Supermodel of the World Contest and was named Tulips Ms Super Vivacious in the same event at the remarkably young age of 17. Basu was then flown to New York by the Ford Company. She gushed in an interview, "I was spotted by the world famous photographer, Steven Meisel, and featured in Vogue magazine. I was thrilled and soon had plenty of projects coming my way." Bipasha could have had the world at her feet and easily gained acclaim as an international model, but she gave it all up to come back to India, to be with the people she loves. "Yeah, I did a lot of ads, but my heart was not in it. I started missing my family because it was the first time I was away from them. So I happily gave it all up and came down to India", she reminiscesd.
This Bengali bombshell was bold enough to accept an unusual role in her debut film, Abbas Mustan's Ajnabee, with Bobby Deol, Akshay Kumar & Kareena Kapoor. She played a married woman who goes all out to woo her husband’s married friend.
She was a household name much before she entered films. Besides doing innumerable prestigious ads, Bips, as her friends call her, did the famous video "Tu" for Sonu Nigam's album, Kismat and she also made a guest appearance in Jay Sean's music video Stolen.
On July 7, 2007 Bipasha co-hosted the new Seven Wonders of the World event along with two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank and Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley in Lisbon, Portugal.
She previously dated fellow Bollywood actor Dino Morea, there were rumours that the couple had parted ways because of Basu's closeness with supermodel and the man she dated before Morea, Milind Soman. After this there were reports claiming Basu was together with Saif Ali Khan and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Even though Basu is a practicing Hindu and Abraham a Christian, both families have accepted the couple. Basu has stated in an interview that though she was raised a Hindu, she believes that all religious groups deserve respect. In 2006 Basu performed a dance with sex workers in an effort to raise AIDS awareness.
Basu claims that she was harassed by organizers of the controversial 2006 India Day Parade in Edison, New Jersey. Organizers are now saying that they will sue Bipasha for breach of contract for not participating in the event and alleging harassment.
Nominated
- 2002: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Raaz
- 2003: Filmfare Best Villain Award for Jism
- 2005, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, for No Entry
- 2006: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Corporate
Nominated
- 2006: Star Screen Award Best Supporting Actress, for Ajnabee
- 2003: Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 along with Dino Morea for Raaz
- 2006: Star Screen Award Best Actress for Coporate
Nominated
- 2002: Zee Cine Award Best Female Debut for Ajnabee
- 2006: Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Female for Coporate
Winner
- 2004: Bollywood Movie Award - Best Villain for Jism
- 2007: Bollywood Movie Award - Best Actress for Coporate |
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