And now the hunt for the leading lady is over, ramp model Anushka Sharma, 21, standing tall with a height of 5.9” from Bangalore will make her silver screen debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Yashraj movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. She has also promoted hair products in television commercials, and not to forget the Fiat Palio Stile ‘Meri Sapno Ki Rani’ ad. Making an announcement in Mumbai today, Yash Chopra, Chairman of Yashraj Films said the 19-year-old has been recognized to play the female lead.
“Hopefully, the announcement will end all the speculation and conjecture that had started about the identity of the female lead ever since the film was announced,” he alleged.
With Rab Ne.., Aditya Chopra takes the directorial baton after eight years. Anushka has no acting experience except ramp modelling in Bangalore, Chopra said.
Earlier, it was reported that Sonam Kapoor, daughter of Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor would be cast opposite SRK. Yash Chopra said, “We were looking first and foremost for someone who could truly embody the spirit of small town Punjab and we know we have found her in Anushka. And while she has no previous acting experience, we have seen that unique spark in her that makes us confident that she will be a standout even opposite Shah Rukh.”
Rab ne Bana di Jodi will go on the floors on May 16 and will hit theatres worldwide in December 2008.
PS: Whenever King Khan acts opposite a tall leading lady, the film is a super duper hit. Preceding examples are Mein Hoo Na (Sushmita Sen), OSO(Deepika) and now Anushka. So all the best King Khan agin!
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The inclination of going for a make-over is easily spreading fast in Bollywood like their counterparts in Hollywood. Some of our leading ladies who have gone under the carving knife are as follows:
SHILPA SHETTY
By now everyone knows that Shilpa has had her nose done. Off late, she has also undergone liposuction too.
PREITY ZINTA
Preity had an highly structured face work done just before shooting for Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. Regrettably, the surgery left marks on her face gripping her to put on intense make-up.
KAREENA KAPOOR
This Saif’s new girl friend had cellulite removal surgery. She also underwent surgery to get a sharper jaw line and had her teeth aligned as well.
ESHA DEOL
Garam Dharam’s beti Esha got her square jawline and slumped lips rectified earlier. In recent times, she also had her upper lip improved as she felt her thin lips skint her looks. This was done when she enrolled for a dance course in the US where she got her lips corrected by a cosmetologist.
BIPASHA BASU
Many would not believe that this Bengali dusky beauty has had silicon implants as well as liposuction on her belly and thighs. Bipasha wanted to keep her body sculpting a secret, but the plastic surgeon determined to tell all when the star refused to pay her bills.
RAKHI SAWANT
Rakhi had silicon implants done by the same doctor as Bipasha’s. But unlike Bips, she cleared her bills with the surgeon.
SUSHMITA SEN
Sushmita who has had silicon implants justifies her work saying, “Enhancing one’s natural beauty isn’t a crime!”
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Parvathy Omanakuttan (centre, with Miss India Earth 2008 Harshita Saxena and Miss India Universe 2008 winner Simran Kaur Mundi)
Surrounded by transcription of her being crowned Miss India World 2008, websites catering to Keralites were operating ultimately and for good raison d’être.
Parvathy is the first Malayali to become Miss India World. This 20-year-old classical beauty hails from Changanacherry in Kottayam district, but is presently based in Mumbai.
Parvathy Omanakuttan, who won the Pantaloon Femina Miss India World 2008, has set Keralites talking. And they are still talking and talking and talking…
“It is a great feeling and is something that is beyond expression. I would say there is no better high than seeing your dreams become reality,” said a joyful Parvathy, an English Literature graduate from Mithibhai College in Mumbai.
“I was just seven when I saw Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai winning the pageant. I decided then that one day I would also be like them.’”
Her main substance on winning the pageant was her answer on marital relations. Asked whether the rise in the divorce rate in India was a result of Western influence, she said: “Divorces are not the result of Western influence.
At the end of the day it is we who decide one’s worth. Marriage is not when one completes the other, but when both share their completeness.”
‘Sweet girl’
It was her serene answer that set her spaced out from the respite, and her teachers and former classmates conspicuously remember her for that excellence.
“She was very sweet and above average,” her former teacher stated.
“Parvathy was quietly confident, you know, the determined type,” she said, adding that the “sweet girl” was popular among friends.
Her Andheri neighbours recalled how, early in the morning, they used to come across Parvathy, drenched in sweat, jogging around their neighborhood with her mother in tow.
Now all that solid exertion has paid off and Malayalis in her neighbourhood are swollen with satisfaction . They reeled off their pains in dispensing the SMS vote round in the contest.
After the crowning, when the winners were approached backstage and asked how they intended to chill out, they answered in unanimity.
After weeks of being on a harsh diet, they wanted to party tough and push the boat out by overwhelming chocolate pastries, brownies, ice-cream and pizzas with cheese toppings!
And how will the Malayalis have a good time?
Zimbly by rolling to chatter and utter and talk!!
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