Sunday, November 30, 2008

Bollywood News

Be it Farah Khan or Shilpa Shetty. And now Sonali Bendre — who’s at present judging a music reality show — too looks set to join them. Having shed her post-pregnancy pounds and a chic haircut have only added to this stunner’s beauty. And not even motherhood has stopped a slim and svelte Sonali from being a head-turner. Little wonder then that the actress is often plagued with questions about her comeback to the big screen. But Sonali is adamant and insists that acting can wait and it’s her child who needs her attention at the moment. “Nothing will make me come back to films.

My three-year-old needs me more. I want to be home for my child. I am definitely not looking at a commitment that will take me away from home,” she says. Not surprisingly, Sonali is the first one to zip out of the studio to her little one as soon as ‘pack-up’ is announced. Well, seems like Sonali’s nothing less than an ‘Indian ideal’ for most working moms. Right Sonali?

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Prianka Chopra

Born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand to Dr.Ashok Chopra and Dr.Madhu Akhauri, both doctors, Chopra spent her childhood in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, Newton, Massachusetts and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her mother comes from a Bihari Kayastha family settled in Jamshedpur, while her father comes from a family of Punjabi origin, settled in Bareilly. She also has a brother, Siddharth, who is eight years younger than her. Since her father was in the Army, her family frequently moved.
Chopra studied at St. Maria Goretti in Bareilly, as a young girl and later went to the United States, where she was a student at Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts and North Surrey Secondary School in Surrey, BC before returning to India to complete high school at Army School . She began college at Jai Hind College in Mumbai but left after winning the Miss World pageant.

Beauty contest winner:-
Chopra was crowned Miss India World and later Miss World in 2000. In the same year, Lara Dutta and Dia Mirza, both from India, won the Miss Universe and Miss Asia Pacific crowns, in a rare triple.
When she 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.