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Soni was born to a Punjabi Hindu family in London, United Kingdom and attended school at St. Xavier's School, Delhi. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in Economics. Prior to his Bollywood career, Samir was an investment banker with one of the bulge bracket firms on Wall Street in New York, before coming back to India to start modeling. He has attended acting courses in New York and Los Angeles

Janaki Sabesh is an Indian actress appearing predominantly in Tamil and Telugu movies. Throughout her career she has played the "screen mother" to several leading actors.

Janaki Sabesh was born Bangalore in a Palghat Iyer family. She did her schooling from DTEA Senior Secondary School, New Delhi. She graduated in political science from Lady Sriram's and did her masters in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia, Delhi.

In 1991, Janaki Sabesh assisted Simi Garewal with her documentary on Rajiv Gandhi called India's Rajiv. She made her acting debut in the movie Minsara Kanavu starring Kajol and Arvind Swamy in which she played a nun. She later went on to act in Shankar's magnum opus Jeans where she played Aishwarya Rai's mother. Since then, she has acted in over 25 movies.


Janaki Sabesh is married to Mr. Sabesh Subramaniam and has a daughter, Dhwani Sabesh.

Sarika Thakur, better known as Sarika, is an Indian actress.

Sarika was born to a Marathi family in New Delhi, India.

Sarika started her film career as a child actor, Master Sooraj, playing the role of a boy during the 1960s in Bollywood. Her most notable and popular appearance as a child artist was in the 1967 musical superhit Hamraaz where she was seen as the daughter of Vimi named baby/saarika. She appeared in many children's movies as well as B grade movies.

Later She moved to better films with Rajshri Productions Geet Gaata Chal with Sachin, with whom she starred in many Hindi and Marathi films and is known to have had a brief affair as well. After their breakup, she got involved with actor and model Deepak Parashar, before she came into contact with Kamal Hassan, whom she worked with in Karishma.

In her acting career, she was often cast as a "westernized girl" in films from 1980's. She gave up her career after her marriage to Kamal Hassan and moved to Chennai with him during the peak of her career. After separation, she has now made a comeback in Hindi films. She played Ipsita Ray Chakraverti in the film Sacred Evil – A True Story which failed at the box office.

In year 2000, she won the National Film Award for Best Costume Design for the film Hey Ram, her performance in Parzania in which she plays the role of a Zoroastrian woman who loses her child during the 2002 riots of India, fetched her the National Film Award for Best Actress.

She has starred as Sheetal Thadani in the movie Bheja Fry (2006). She also had a small but important role in Manorama Six Feet Under. Her latest movie is Shoebite which has been delayed for production where she stars opposite Amitabh Bachchan.

Neena Gupta is an Indian actress born on July 4, 1959 in Delhi to R. N. Gupta. As a child, she attended the Lawrence School of Sanawar and got her formal training in acting from National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi. She has craved a niche of herself by working in theatre, non-commercial Indian films and in the international platform.

After acquiring a rooted experience in Indian theatres, Neena marked her big screen debut with 'Yeh Nazdeekiyan' in 1982. Same year she got a chance to work in an international Academy Award winning film 'Gandhi', alongside Sir Ben Kingsley. She holds the record of working in critically acclaimed films like 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro', 'Mandi' and 'Utsav' to name a few. While, her international projects includes film 'The Deceivers', 'In Custody' and 'Cotton Mary'. She dazzled the screen with the controversial song "Choli Ke Peeche" matching her steps with Madhuri Dixit in the film 'Khalnayak'.

Neena holds the phenomenal career in Television too, where she debuted with 'Khandaan' and further she enlightened the screen with her extra ordinary character performances in the serials 'Mirza Galib', 'Bhaarat Ek Khoj', 'Dard', 'Gumrah', 'Saans', 'Saat Phere', 'Meri Biwi Ka Jawab Nahi', 'Kitni Mohabbat Hai', 'Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi' and 'Ladies Special'. She always played the role of a strong headed woman which readily suits her real life personality too. She is a successful director of TV serials 'Saans', 'Ans Siski' and 'Kyunn Hota Hai Pyaar'. She also owns a production house named "Sahaj Production" with her NSD mate-actor Rajendra Gupta.

Unlike those typical 1980s ladies, Neena was much ahead of her time. She lived her life on her own terms and never bended in front of the society. This can rightly be concluded by her headline-making relationship with former West Indian cricketer Vivian Richards, with whom she got a daughter Masaba Gupta. Though she was highly criticized for her deed yet she successfully overcame it and raised her daughter being a single mother. Later she was rumored of being in relationships with Alok Nath and Sarang Dev. In 2008, she got married to a Delhi based Chartered Accountant Vivek Mehra.

Arundhati Nag (born c. 1956) is a prominent South Indian polyglot film actress and theatre personality. She has been involved with multilingual Theatre in India, for over 25 years, first in Mumbai where she got involved with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), and did various productions in Gujarati, Marathi, and Hindi theatre, besides getting involved in television, director Jyoti Vyas's Gujarati TV series, Haji Aavti Kaal Che. Later and after her marriage to Kannada actor-director Shankar Nag (1954–1990), her association with theatre continued in Bangalore, culminating in realising the dream project of her late husband, the Ranga Shankara theatre, at J P Nagar, a suburb in Bangalore. She was awarded the 2008 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Theatre Acting by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre. She was also awarded the 57th National Film Awards as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Paa.


Arundhati is the founder and the Managing Trustee of the Sanket Trust, established in 1992, which has Girish Karnad as its chairman, and which runs the Ranga Shankara, a Bangalore theatre which after four years of construction was inaugurated on 28 October 2004. Now the annual Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival has become a regular feature on Bangalore's cultural calendar.


Arundhati Rao was born in New Delhi to a Maharashtrian family and had three siblings. Her family moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) when she was 10. She was passionate about theatre in her school days. She joined an amateur theatre group in Mumbai and in her teen years, she was doing as many as 42 shows a month in Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi and English.
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In 2006, she was awarded the 'Citizen Extraordinaire' Award by The Rotary Club of Bangalore. Arundhati's last major movie was the Kannada blockbuster Jogi, for which she also won the Karnataka Government's Best Supporting Actress award for the year 2005. Her most recent production has been Girish Karnad's Bikhre Bimb. Arundhati has also acted in other language films such as Minsara Kanavu (1997), dubbed into Hindi as Sapnay (1997), Dil Se.. (1998).


She has acted in the Indian National Award winning Marathi film 22 June 1897. In 2009, she acted in the film Paa. Her role earned her the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.

The 70s was a period of transition in the Hindi film industry. Actress Neetu Singh is one of those actresses from that period. However, she started her acting career right from her childhood at the tender age of eight years. Till date she has acted in over 60 films all together. She is married to the famous Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor. She is the mother of popular Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor. Her daughter Riddhima Kapoor is the wife of Bharat Sahni, a Delhi industrialist.

Harneet Kaur a.k.a Neetu Singh was born on 8th July 1958 in a Jatt Sikh family in the Pant Nagar area in Delhi. She spent her childhood in Mumbai in the Peddar Road area and completed her schooling from the Hill Range High School. Her first film role was in the film 'Dus Lakh' in the year 1966 and also one dual role in the same year in 'Do Kaliyan'. Further, her films as a young artist were 'Waris' and the oxymoron titled 'Pavitra Papi'.

However, her first breakthrough as a lead actress in the industry came with 'Rickshawala' in 1972. She was also seen in the 1973 hit 'Yaadon Ki Baarat' in a minor role. The song 'Lekar Hum Deewana Dil' brought her into the scope of attention of filmmakers and she started getting roles. It was a total 11 films, where she acted opposite to Rishi Kapoor. Films like 'Rafoo Chakkar', 'Khel Khel Mein' 'Amar Akbar Anthony', 'Kabhi Kabhi' and 'Doosra Aadmi' were her most successful films. Her performance in these films, earned her the best actress award by the Star Screen Awards. Apart from Rishi Kapoor, she was seen opposite to other big actors of the time such as Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Shashi Kapoor and Jeetendra. She was also seen in other noteworthy films of her time such as 'Deewaar', 'Adalat', 'Jaani Dushman', 'Dharam Veer' and 'Kaala Patthar'. Her performance in the last film earned her the nomination for the best supporting actress by the Filmfare Awards.

Soon she fell in love with her closest co-star Rishi Kapoor and got married to him in January 1980 at the age of 21. Though she gave up acting after her marriage, she was later seen in a couple of movies in the late 2000s and early 2010s. It is speculated that she left the industry as it was considered customary for married actress do to so, a claim that she quashed, citing the decision as her personal choice.

In the year 2011 she was awarded the 'Best Lifetime Jodi' award at the Zee Cine Awards. It was in 2009 when she made a comeback, in the film 'Love Aaj Kal' in a supporting role and in the film 'Do Dooni Chaar' as the protagonist's wife. Her latest film was 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' in 2012.