Wednesday 30 May 2012

Bollywood Hot Actress Bhumika Chawla


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Bhumika Chawla (Hindi: भूमिका चावला; born Rachna Chawla on 22 August 1978) is an Indian actress. She made her film debut in the Telugu film Yuvakudu (2000) and has since then worked in various Indian film industries and appeared in over thirty films in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi and Malayalam. She is probably best known for her critically acclaimed performances in Kushi, Tere Naam, Missamma, Gandhi, My Father and Sathyabhama.


 Early life

Chawla was born in a Punjabi family in New Delhi, India and completed her schooling there. Her father was an Army officer. She moved to Mumbai in 1997 and started her career with Ad films and Hindi music video albums. She appeared in the Zee TV series Hip Hip Hurray.

Career

Chawla started off her film career in the Telugu film industry, starring in the feature film Yuvakudu (2000) alongside actor Sumanth. Her second release, Kushi (2001), in which she starred opposite Pawan Kalyan was a box office success, winning her the Filmfare Best Actress Award (Telugu) following which she acted in several films in Telugu, including Okkadu (2003) opposite Mahesh Babu and Simhadri (2003) opposite Jr. NTR, which became two of the year's highest grossers in Telugu. Meanwhile, she made her debut in the Tamil film industry as well, starring in the film Badri (2001) opposite actor Vijay, which was followed by her second Tamil film Roja Kootam (2002).
After a number of critically and commercially successful films in the South, Chawla starred in her first Bollywood film, Tere Naam (2003), alongside Salman Khan. The film was one of the year's highest grossers. It was a critical success and her performance in the film won her many positive notices as well as several nominations for Best Debut at different award ceremonies. She was nominated for her first Filmfare Best Actress Award and won the Best Debut trophy at the Zee Cine Awards ceremony.
Subsequently, she got to star in a number of Hindi films as Run (2004), a remake of the same-named Tamil film, Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa (2004), again opposite Salman Khan, Silsilay (2005) and Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... (2005) alongside Amitabh Bachchan. She returned to Telugu, acting in the films Naa Autograph (2004) (a remake of the Tamil film Autograph) and Jai Chiranjeeva, alongside Chiranjeevi and Sameera Reddy. Whilst Chawla's performance in the former won her accolades and the CineMAA Jury Award for Best Actress, the latter went to become a super hit film.
In 2006, Chawla appeared in the Tamil film Sillunu Oru Kaadhal, alongside real-life couple Surya and Jyothika which became a big hit worldwide, whilst playing a vital role in the Hindi film Family - Ties of Blood, in which she shared screen space with Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar, and starring in the Telugu fantasy film, Mayabazar. Following which, she acted in the Hindi film Gandhi, My Father as Gulab Gandhi and enacted the title roles in the Telugu films Sathyabhama, in which she played a woman who suffers from short-term memory loss, and Anasuya, a crime thriller, and in the Bhojpuri film, Gangotri, a sequel to the successful 2006 Bhojpuri film Ganga, acting again alongside Amitabh Bachchan.
In 2008, she made her debut in the Punjabi film industry, starring in Yaariyan, opposite Gurdas Maan, following which she debuted in Malayalam as well, starring in Bhramaram alongside Mohanlal. Currently, she is working on half-a-dozen films in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, which include Thangar Bachan's Kalavadiya Pozhudugal opposite Prabhu Deva in Tamil, Yagam alongside Navdeep and Sathyaraj in Telugu and Classmates, a remake of the same-named Malayalam film, in Hindi.

  Personal life

Bhumika Chawla married her long-time boyfriend and Yoga teacher Bharat Thakur on 21 October 2007 at Devlali, Nashik in a Gurdwara. She went regularly to Thakur's courses and is said to have dated him for four years, before eventually marrying him. Bhumika has two siblings; one brother, who is an army officer, and one sister, both elder to her.

Filmography

Year Film Role Language Notes
2000 Yuvakudu Sindhu Telugu
2001 Badri Janaki Tamil
2001 Khushi Madhumitha Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu
2001 Snehamante Idera Yuvrani Padmini Telugu
2002 Roja Koottam Mano Tamil
2002 Vasu Divya Telugu
2003 Okkadu Swapna Reddy Telugu
2003 Missamma Meghana Telugu
2003 Simhadri Indu Telugu
2003 Tere Naam Nirjara Bharadwaj Hindi Nominated–Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2003 Aadanthe Ado Type
Telugu Special appearance
2004 Run Jhanvi Choudhry Hindi
2004 Samba Nandu Telugu
2004 Naa Autograph Divya Telugu
2004 Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa Dhani Hindi
2005 Silsilay Zia Rao Hindi
2005 Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... Dr. Gayarti Pandey Hindi
2005 Jai Chiranjeeva Neelima Telugu
2006 Sillunu Oru Kaadhal Ishwarya Tamil
2006 Family - Ties of Blood Dr. Kavita Hindi
2006 Mayabazaar Anupama Telugu
2007 Gandhi, My Father Gulab Gandhi Hindi
2007 Sathyabhama Sathyabhama Telugu Nandi Special Jury Award
2007 Gangotri Gangotri Bhojpuri
2007 Anasuya Anasuya Telugu
2008 Swagatham Vidhya KK Telugu
2008 Mallepuvvu Malleshwari Kanneganti (Malli) Telugu
2008 Yaariyan Simran Punjabi
2009 Bhramaram Jaya Malayalam
2009 Naa Style Veru Parvati Telugu
2009 Amaravathi Amaravathi Telugu
2010 Yagam Nandini Telugu
2010 Thakita Thakita Professor Telugu also Producer
2010 Collector Gaari Bharya Indira Gautam Telugu
2011 Siruthai Ratnavel Pandians wife(Photo) Tamil
2012 Kalavadiya Pozhudugal Jayanthi Tamil Delayed
2012 Bheeshma
Telugu Filming
2012 Alivelu Manga Alivelu Manga Telugu Filming
2012 Rathrimazha
Malayalam Filming
2012 Classmates
Hindi Delayed

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