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Aqsa Bhatt is an Indian film actress and model from Jammu Kashmir who works in Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam films.

Personal life

Aqsa Bhatt is a simple Kashmiri Girl in her Childhood.  As a child she was always inclined towards cinema but never got a chance to see a film in theatre as there are no theatres in Kashmir. During her college days in Bengaluru she saw her first film in a theatre which inspired her to become an actress. She born to Maharaj Krishen Bhaatt and Jeetha Bhaatt in 1 December 1996 in Kashmir. Her father is heading the Punjab National Bank South Region and mother is housewife. She has an elder brother Aditya Bhaatt and he is a MBA graduate and he is working for Hollywood company Deluxe Entertainment Services Group as a Quality Control Auditor. The Spark in her modelling career is started from the high school level. At an age of 14 she featured in almost 30 advertisements in both print and commercials. She won the title of Miss Teen Jammu Kashmir in 2010 and which inspired her to do modelling. Aqsa is not only an actress or model or writer but also she wishes to put on the director's hat. She learns the basics from the directors in her own films as well and looking forward to direct her own film soon.

Education

Aqsa completed her schooling from Carmel Convent School, Srinagar and Radiance School Bengaluru as well, she holds degree in audiology from Naish College, Bengaluru in 2010–2014. She specialised in Audiology and Speech Language Pathelogy from Naseema speech and hear therapy.

Career

She started as a model and till now is involved more than 150 campaigns. IBM Corporate Films, Tanishque Jewellery, Kerala Tourism are few of them. She got trained under Latin American dancer Nicholas.

Writing is her stress buster. She wrote a novel called AMORE which is in line to publish within few months. She has also written more than 400 poems till date.

She was spotted by director Ratnaja Prakash who came in search of her and from there she started her journey in films. He caster her in Preethiyalli Sahaja. Her second movie is a Kannada-Tamil bilingual titled as Game and directed by A. M. R. Ramesh in 2015. Her third movie was in Malayalam and was titled as Life of Josutty directed by Jeethu Joseph, eventually this movie marked as her debut. She has signed 2 more Malayalam movies.

Lakshmi Menon is an Indian film actress who appears in Malayalam and Tamil films. She made her acting debut in Malayalam with Raghuvinte Swantham Raziya (2011) and debuted in Tamil as female lead with Sundarapandian, which emerged a commercial success.

Lakshmi Menon was born to the daughter of Dubai-based artist Ramakrishanan and dance teacher Usha Menon in Kochi, Kerala.

She started learning dance at her age of 3 and learnt Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi and Kathakali.

In 2011 Malayalam director Vinayan who saw her during Bharatanatyam telecast cast her in his film Raghuvinte Swantham Raziya. Soon after, she played the lead along with Vineeth in another Malayalam film titled Ideal Couple, directed by Ali Akbar.

After she began acting in Malayalam cinema, she was featured on the cover of a magazine and it caught the attention of director Prabu Solomon, who has cast her in Kumki opposite Vikram Prabhu.

Watching her performance, director Prabhakaran offered her the lead role in Sundarapandian opposite M. Sasikumar, which got released before than Kumki and made as her Tamil debut.

Tanya Ravichandran is an Indian actress who has worked in the Tamil film industry. She is notable for her work in films including Balle Vellaiyathevaa, Brindavanam and Karuppan.

The granddaughter of Malaysian Tamil actor Ravichandran, Tanya was interested in a career in films from a young age after seeing her grandfather's work. Her mother, Lavanya Sriram, is a classical dancer and thus trained both Tanya and her sister Apparajitha in Bharathanatyam, with the pair regularly participating in recitals in Chennai during their teenage years.

Before her entry into the film industry, she completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at M.O.P. Vaishnav College for Women in Chennai and pursued a master's degree at Madras School of Social Work. Tanya first successfully auditioned for a film to be directed by Mysskin in early 2016 and was cast opposite fellow debutant actor Maitreya in the lead role. Mysskin requested her to change her stage name from Abbirami to Tanya for her acting career, which she agreed with. The film was later postponed to allow Mysskin to complete the production of Thupparivaalan (2017).

Hearing that Tanya had been selected for a film by Mysskin, director Radha Mohan chose to screen test and then sign on the actress to appear in Brindavanam (2017) during August 2016. Tanya's first release was however Balle Vellaiyathevaa (2016), a rural comedy drama co-starring Sasikumar, which she was offered after the makers saw the promotional stills of Brindavanam. The film opened to mixed reviews in December 2016, with critics noting that Tanya "has nothing to do" and "sleepwalks through the role".

Her next film, the comedy drama Brindavanam was released to positive reviews in May 2017. Set in Ooty, the film narrates the story of a deaf and dumb boy played by Arulnithi and his relationship with the film actor Vivek. Praising her performance, a critic from The Hindu wrote Tanya "walks away with a wonderful performance in the role of Sandhya" and that "the director deserves appreciation for his sketch of the lead female character; someone who is bold, daring and can make individual choices".

Likewise, a reviewer from The Hindustan Times wrote Tanya "is a talent to watch out for and she’s in this for the long haul" and a critic from The New Indian Express labelled her performance as "thoroughly effervescent". Tanya then featured in Karuppan (2017), a rural drama featuring her alongside Vijay Sethupathi and Bobby Simha.

She is an all-in one package. Deepal Shaw is an Indian model, actress and singer. She was born on 21 February, 1986 in Shimla in Himachal Pradesh. Deepal was brought up in Mumbai. Her father was born in Ayodhya, while her mother is from Lucknow. The model is having a younger brother. Deepal was a student of D. P Y. A High School at Dadar.

Deepal was just six years old, when she was given singing lessons from her parents. She is the degree holder in Psychology from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

This Baby Doll commenced her career as a model. Deepal participated in Miss India Beauty Pageant in the year 2004. Then, the dusky beauty decided to venture into singing field. In 2004, the debutant singer Deepal released her first album titled 'Baby Doll'. The album contained several super hit tracks like 'Rangeela Rey' and 'Kabhi Aar Kabhi Paar'.

The music of Deepal's album mainly consists of old Hindi songs' funky remixes. The remixes are usually studded with hip hop elements and powerful bass sound. Her music albums were hugely promoted by MTV India. The channel showcased her largely famous music videos.

She was on the top of her music career, when she thought of rubbing her luck on the big screen of Bollywood. Initially, she signed one of the films by Hriday Shetty named 'Daag - Shades of Love'. Nevertheless, the film could not go on the floor. Deepal began her filmy career with a controversial flick titled 'Kalyug' by Mahesh Bhatt. Emraan Hashmi and newbie Kunal Khemu were the co-stars of Deepal in this movie. She essayed the character of a porn star in 'Kalyug'. The critics praised Deepal for her role.

'Karma Confessions and Holi' (2009) was the next project of Deepal and Manish Gupta was the director of it. This movie starred the other stars like Randeep Hooda, Sushmita Sen and international star Naomi Campbell. Deepal Shaw performed a cameo in the film 'A Wednesday!' (2008). She played the role of a reporter called as 'Naina Roy' in this film.

The other movies of Deepal Shaw include 'Chamku' (2008), 'Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge' (2009), 'Runway' (2009), 'Right Yaaa Wrong' (2010) and 'Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster' (2011).