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Nikesha Patel is a British Indian model and film actress. Born in the United Kingdom, she was part of several BBC TV shows, before moving to India and entering the film industry. She debuted in the 2010 Telugu film Puli and later went on to work in Kannada and Tamil cinema.


Nikesha Patel was born to a Gujarati family in the United Kingdom and raised there. She was a finalist in the 2006 Miss Wales beauty pageant. She called herself "a terrible actor" and said that she was rejected six times by Peter Woolridge’s acting school in three years, but she finally made a diploma in acting.Since she was 15, she has been part of BBC TV shows like Casualty, Tracy Beaker and Doctor Who.


Patel then moved to India planning to work in Bollywood. She got an offer from actor and filmmaker Dev Anand, who was a friend of her father, to act in his film Beauty Queen, but it was shelved. made her film debut in the 2010 Indian Telugu language film, Puli, playing the lead female role. The film was a critical and financial failure  and she moved to the Kannada film industry. Her next three releases were Kannada films: Narasimha, for which she was nominated for SIIMA Award for Best Female Debutant, Dakota Picture and Varadhanayaka, a remake of the Telugu film Lakshyam (2007). Although Narasimha and Varadanayaka were successful at the box office, she said that these films "were unsatisfying for me as an actress".[4] 2013 she was seen in her second Telugu film Om 3D too, which she called "the most satisfying so far". She had stated in 2012 that she would make her Malayalam debut in Newsmaker opposite Mammootty, playing a reporter. She was also reported to have been signed for Rosshan Andrrews' Malayalam film Mumbai Police.[8] While the former did not materialize, the latter film did not feature her.


Patel started working in the Tamil film industry too. Her first Tamil offer was Amali Thumali (initially titled as Nanba) opposite Nakul which she said "did not come through", but she was signed for another Tamil film opposite Nakul titled Narathan. She has been signed for two more Tamil projects besides Narathan, Yennamo Yedho co-starring Gautham Karthik and Rakul Preet Singh and Thalaivan. She has signed her next films in Kannada, Namaste Madam opposite Srinagar Kitty  and in Telugu, RUM, directed and produced by MS Raju.

Gracy Singh is an Indian actress born on July 20th, 1980 in New Delhi. She is a classically trained dancer specializing Bharatanatyam and Odissi dance forms. She started her career with a dance troupe called "The Planets", where Sanjiv Bhattacharya found her and decided to cast her ZEE TV's popular serial 'Amanat'.

Gracy debuted in Bollywood with the film 'Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain' by playing a supporting role of Kajol's younger sister and next she acted in Gulzar's film 'Hu Tu Tu'. Her journey from supporting to lead role in the Oscar nominated film 'Lagaan' was remarkable. She gained famed as a village girl Gauri, while romancing Aamir Khan in this film. Next she was offered Sapna's character in 'Qayamat' (2003), which she rejected because her role demanded her to wear revealing clothes. Her next popular films were 'Gangaajal' and 'Munna Bhai M.B.B.S' opposite Ajay Devgn and Sanjay Dutt respectively. Later she was casted in number of Hindi films like 'Muskaan', 'Deshdrohi' and 'Dekh Bhai Dekh' but they all went flat at the box-office.

Gracy holds the record of working in regional films of Malayalam, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu, Kannada and Marathi. She has won IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year - Female in the year 2002 for her debut in 'Lagaan'.

Gracy Singh is an actress who came into limelight with her role as Dinky, in the television serial Amanat on Zee TV. This serial helped her bag the lead role as Gauri a village belle opposite superstar Aamir Khan in Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India. She was nominated in this role for the Filmfare Best Debut Actress award. Her other hit films are Hindi and Telugu including Munnabhai M.B.B.S. and Santosham. She has also starred in Punjabi films such as Lakh Pardesi Hoye and in Malayalam film Loud Speaker. Singh is a trained classical dancer having studied Bharatanatyam and Odissi.

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.

S. Justin Selvaraj or S. J. Surya is an Indian film director, writer, actor, and producer in Kollywood, the Tamil film industry. His screen name is S. J. Surya. After his schooling in the little village of his birth, Vasudevanallur near Tenkasi, he took a B.Sc. degree in physics at the Loyola College, Chennai. But that one lingering passion—cinema, the movies, the magic on celluloid when the lights go out—persisted.


Justin wanted to be a part of this magical world. A stint of about six years as apprentice under various directors like Vasanth, and he was ready for his first film.Surya's first film was Vaali (1999), with Ajith and Simran playing the lead in Tamil; it was a huge blockbuster and remains his biggest hit to date. The film told the story of a deaf and mute brother setting his eyes on his younger brother's wife. He told the story of vaali at the shooting of aasai, ajith was impressed with the story.


After facing problems he finished the film and it was a great success and mass hit movie.
Surya followed that with the multi-lingual Kushi, which was a huge money-spinner in Tamil and Telugu but did not fare too well in Hindi. After a hiatus for nearly two years, he came up with another blockbuster, New in which Surya played the lead role as well as directing and producing the film. The film's opening is considered to be one of the biggest in Tamil cinema in recent years, with over 1.1 crore collected on its first day at the box office.The film's music by his friend and noted composer A. R. Rahman had created waves in the audio market. However, the movie was banned by the Madras High Court in August 2005, a year after it collected huge revenues in theaters.


His fourth venture in Tamil as a director was Anbe Aaruyire, which was initially titled Best Friend. This movie was not as big a hit as Vaali, Khushi and New had been. He planned two Tamil movies,one titled Anbulla Caroline with A. R. Rahman, Santosh Sivan, Silambharasan and Asin as the crew and another titled "Puli" with Vijay, A.R.Rahman under Swargachithra Appachan Production ; however, the both projects were dropped after some problems. He said he would return to the project soon, after sorting out schedules and cast.


S. J. Surya's biggest budget project in his career to date is Puli, with Pawan Kalyan in the lead; it was released on September 10, 2010 in more than 1200 theaters with 600 prints. The film was made on a budget of 42 crores. Academy Award-winner A. R. Rahman created the music for the movie. The soundtrack received positive reviews and became a hot seller. However, the film received very bad reviews from various critics.