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Zoya Afroz (born 10 January 1994) is an Indian actress and model who appears in Hindi films. She was the winner of Pond's Femina Miss India Indore 2013. She was later crowned as Pond’s Femina Miss India International 2013 at the 50th edition of Pond’s Femina Miss India, held at Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai on 24 March 2013. She has also worked in numerous films, serials and commercials as a child artist.

Afroz was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. She has done her schooling from R N Shah High School, and attended Mithibai College in Vile Parle, Mumbai.

Afroz was one of the top five finalists of Femina Miss India 2013. She was crowned Miss India International 2013 in the contest by previous year winner Rochelle Maria Rao.

Afroz got her break with Rasna Mahasearch Contest at the age of three after which she did a TV commercial for the same brand. She was also seen in other TV commercials like Whirlpool, Shoppers stop, Jet Airways, PSPO fan and New York Life Insurance, as a child artist.

She appeared in the films Hum Saath Saath Hain and Kuch Naa Kaho as a child. At the age of 18 she was crowned the winner of Pond’s Femina Miss India Indore 2013. In addition to acting, Afroz is an active celebrity endorser for several brands and products, including Pond's Face wash.

In 2016, Zoya did a short film for One Plus smartphone opposite Amit Sadh. She is doing a film Sweetie Desai weds NRI opposite Himansh Kohli.

Anaika Soti is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films. After making her debut in Ram Gopal Varma's bilingual film Satya 2 (2013), she went on to feature in Vasanthabalan's Tamil period film Kaaviya Thalaivan.


Anaika Soti was born on 14 January 1991 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and soon after shifted to Hong Kong with her family for four years. She subsequently moved to Mumbai and studied in Panchgani throughout her education, before moving to Malaysia to finish her high school and briefly engaged in a diploma in fashion designing, before returning in Mumbai. After beginning a career as a model, she met director Ram Gopal Varma on an elevator in 2012, who offered her a role in one of his future ventures. She was subsequently signed on to appear in his bilingual crime film, Satya 2 (2013), shot in Hindi and Telugu, based on the Mumbai underworld. The film and Anaika's performance opened to negative reviews, with a reviewer from The Hindu noting "Anaika tries too hard to be erotic and fails miserably in a role that makes her look dumb instead of naïve", while Rediff.com noted she was a "bad actress".


She is currently filming for Vasanthabalan's Tamil period film Kaaviya Thalaivan starring alongside Siddharth, Prithviraj and Vedhicka. She was signed for the film while working on Satya 2, and subsequently shot for the film in rural Tamil Nadu, revealing she worked on acting like a princess to get into character.

Ishita Sharma is an Indian actress. Ishita Sharma stepped into Bollywood with a prime role in Dil Dosti Etc and went on to play the parallel lead in Shahrukh Khan’s Dulha Mil Gaya. She later moved to television as Angie of Sony television’s hit show Kuch Toh Log Kahenge and is currently co-anchoring Dance India Dance (Season 4) with Jay Bhanushali.

Richa Panai is a new acting sensation in South Indian film industry. She is a gorgeous young lady from Lucknow of Uttar Pradesh. Richa was the only daughter of her father and mother along with his loving brother settled in Delhi. Richa was also a popular model all over India who had won so many awards and prizes for modeling all over India. She was also a familiar cute face in Bheema Gold Jewellery advertisement. Richa is going to get yet another feather to her personality as a glittering actress in Indian film industry. The year 2011 is coming with richa’s three good movies in Malayalam too. The movies are Vadamalli, Sandwitch and Bangkok Summer.


Richa was born in a rich family as the only daughter of her father and mother. She also have a big brother whom she used to stay in Delhi. Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh is the native place of Richa Panai but she spent most of her life in Delhi. From childhood itself Richa was very passionate to modeling and fashion. After her education andat the age of 18 she began to develop her career as model. In the age of 18 itself she got a job in Kingfisher airlines which were the real turning point in her life. From there she used to interact with many celebrities and created an identity for herself.


Do anybody noticed a cute young girl in Bheema Gold advertisement ? It is none other than the beautiful Richa Panai. Bheema ad was one of the main reasons why Richa has been recognized by the people. By seeing that single ad itself, there were many fans and well wishers for Richa. So when she gat in to her first movie, it is sure that she will get a bunch of fans.


Richa Panai is on her stepping stone to Indian film industry. She had performed in some good movies in Telugu. Now she has been invited to the home of realistic cinemas, nothing but the Malayalam film industry. Vadamalli, Sandwitch and Bangkok Summer are the three movies she is going to appear as the heroine in Malayalam. Vadamalli is a Albert Antony film starring Ramesh Raveendran as hero and Richa as heroine.
In Malayalam Movie Sandwitch she will perform as the heroine of Kunchakko Boban. This will be a great chance for this young actress to get herself in the movie field. Performing along with Kunchako Boban will be good experience for her as a performing actress. Richa Panai is also doing a role in Malayalam movie Bangkok Summer directed by Pramod Pappan where Jaikrishna play the major male role.


It was a passion for Richa Panai to become a well known model. Satisfying her desire, Richa became a popular model all over India. She was a winner of many femina awards and also got golden crown in Miss North India and Miss South India. She continued with her modeling while she was working with Kingfisher. Her sizzling photos were also published in many popular magazines including Times magazine. It is Richa’s down to earth personality; character and her gorgeous look are the secret behind her success.

Richa Panai is an Indian model and actress who appears in Bollywood, Tollywood and Mollywood and various ads. Richa Panai came to prominence as a model in advertisements for the Indian jewellery company Bhima Jewellery.


She was born and brought up in Lucknow.She belongs to Uttarakhand Right from her school days when she was studying at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited School, Lucknow, she wanted to be an actress. After completing her 12th Standard she won the Miss Lucknow title after which she decided to get into modelling. However, her journey to the modelling world was a struggle because of her conservative background and her family's reservations on the showbiz industry.


After she did a correspondence course and graduated from Delhi University, she became an air hostess with Kingfisher and was simultaneously looking out for modelling assignments. Jabbar Kalarakkal gave her first ad film. She bagged a few Malayalam ads and soon, she made her film debut too.


She made her debut in the 2011 Malayalam film Vaadamalli. Same year, she starred in two more Malayalam films Bangkok Summer and Sandwich opposite Unni Mukundan and Kunchako Boban respectively. Richa Panai won the Asianet Film Awards for Best New Face of the Year '12 (Female).


She was next seen with Allari Naresh in her first Telugu film Yamudiki Mogudu.

Juhi Babbar (born 20 July, 1979) is an Indian film and television actress. She is also contributing to theatres both as actor and director.

Personal life

Juhi is daughter of actor Raj Babbar and theatre personality Nadira Babbar. She has one full brother, Arya Babbar, who is also an actor, and one half-brother, the actor Prateik Babbar, who is the son of Raj Babbar by his second wife Smita Patil. Through her mother Nadira Babbar (born Nadira Zaheer), Juhi is the granddaughter of the communist activist Sajjad Zaheer and first cousin of Pankhuri Zaheer, an activist working at JNU as a close associate of Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested and charged with sedition in February 2016.

Juhi's first husband was Bejoy Nambiar, a screenplay writer, whom she married on 27 June 2007, after a two-year courtship.  The couple divorced in January 2009.  She then fell in love with the TV actor Anup Soni, whom she met while both of them were working in a play produced by Juhi's mother Nadira Babbar. Soni was at that time married to Ritu and was the father of two daughters by her. On 14 March 2011, after his divorce was finalized, Juhi and Anup Soni were married in a quiet ceremony attended by family and close friends only. Juhi and Soni now have a son named Imaan, born in October 2012.

Career

Juhi made her film debut in Kash Aap Hamare Hote opposite Sonu Nigam.  In 2005, she did a Punjabi film with Jimmy Shergill, Yaara Naal Baharan. The film did well in Punjab and with the overseas Punjabi audience. Juhi then did a silent film with Malayalam actor Mohanlal. In 2006, she was seen in the film Uns with actor Sanjay Kapoor and Rituparna Sengupta.  She will appear in the upcoming film It's My Life as Sonia Jaisingh opposite actors Harman Baweja, Genelia D'Souza and Nana Patekar. In 2009, Juhi played the role of a house wife in the TV comedy Ghar Ki Baat Hai produced by Shah Rukh Khan.