Mansi Parekh-Gulaal

Mansi Parekh is an Indian television actress and singer. She has played in many Indian TV shows like Laughter Ke Phatke or Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi. She was nominated for many awards, but she never won one. And she has done vocals in the famous movie Devdas. Currently she is making a show on star plus called Gulaal that will start on November 15, 2010.

Mansi was born on 10th July 1984.

The search for Karan Singh Grover’s co-host in Rocks India is over with actor-singer Manasi Parekh (Chandi of India Calling fame) giving the Dill mill gayye star company in this Colors and Encompass Event Pvt. Ltd show.

Confirming the news, producer Roshan Abbas says, “Manasi is hosting our show. As I said before at the press conference, Rocks India is a show about bands not rock music per se, So we are looking for anchors who appreciate music. Manasi is an accomplished actress and singer. Karan and she will rock the screen.”

Manasi is a trained singer and had once performed with a fusion band ‘Akruti’. Shaan and Vasundhara are the show’s judges. Rocks India is an hour-long weekly show that goes on air from 27 September.

Jennifer winget-riddhima

Jennifer Winget (born 30 May 1985, age 26) is an Indian Television actress, an occasional bollywood actress and also a model.She is very famous for her roles in serials like ‘Sangam’, ‘Dill Mill Gayye’ and ‘Kasautii Zindagii Kay’. She is also an occasional movie actress.

Jennifer was born and brought up in Mumbai. Her father is a Marathi Christian and mother a Punjabi. She did her schooling from St. Xavier’s High School. Jennifer Winget landed her first lead role with a show called ‘Koi Dil Main Hai’ when she was just seventeen years old.

Early Career:
Jennifer worked with stars like Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan when she was all of fifteen years in Raja Ko Rani Se Pyaar Ho Gaya (2001) and Kuch Naa Kaho (2003). The other films Jennifer was seen in are Akele Hum Akele Tum, Bhage re, Jane Kyon, Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat.

Television:
As Offers to act in television poured in, she was seen in many popular television serials starting with Kkoi Dil Mein Hain. The others were Kkusum, Kahiin To Hoga, Kyaa Hogaa Nimmo Kaa and Sangam. Her Most popular charcter was Sneha Bajaj in Kasautii Zindagi Kay. Jennifer Winget is recognized for her different avatars on the small screen as Simran, Sneha and Ganga. She was also seen in the children's show Shaka Laka Boom Boom and other minor roles. Jennifer was there as a contestant in many reality shows like Zara Nachke Dikha, Comedy Circus 3, Teen Ka Tarka 3, and Meethi Chhuri No.1. Jennifer was last seen playing the role of Dr.Riddhima Gupta on STAR ONE's Dill Mill Gaye, which went off air in November 2010.
Jennifer have also hosted reality shows, Dekh India Dekh, Laughter Ke Phatke, Comedy Circus (1 and 2), Zara Nach Ke Dikha, Teen Ka Tarka (1 and 2).
Jennifer also bagged many advertisement projects, Kalazone, Johnson Johnson Reynolds, Bridal Sarre Brand, Star CJ Alive, Wadima Brand, Star CJ Alive Sarre Brand, Manforce Condoms, Star CJ Alive Camera, Star CJ Alive Mobile, War Pen, Erase Cream of Face, Power Of Dream, Star CJ Alive Ring, GTM Teleshopping, Gold Safe, Imagine TV Special Break of Dharma Veer, Kirtika Brand, Sates Jewelry, Venus Cream, Ford Ikon, Krack Cream (Most recent).
Jennifer will be seen next in Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout, as a contestant.

Achievements:
1.In 2006, Best Beti award at Star Parivar Red Carpet Awards.
2.Comic Role Female award for Kkusum at Ita Awards.
3.Best Villon Female award at Star Parivar Red Carpet Awards.
4.Actress award at Star Parivar Red Carpet Awards.
5.Best Child Actrees award from Diseny Channel.
6.Face Female awards at Star Parivar Awards.
7.Fresh Face of Year award at Ita Awards.
8.Best Patni award at Star Parivar Awards.
9.Best Jodi award at Star Parivar Awards.
10.Supporting Role Female award at Sauasi Award.
11.Best Actress award at Star Parivar Awards.
12.Best Actress award at Golden Awards.
13.Best Minor award at Sauasi Awards.

Dipika Samson gushes over SRK

Not everyone gets a chance to work with a superstar in the beginning of their career and Dipika Samson can’t believe her luck. She shot a scene with King Khan Shah Rukh for her first lead show Sasural Simar Ka. Dipika gushes about the experience of meeting Shah Rukh and shooting with him.

What was your reaction when you heard you would be shooting with Shah Rukh Khan?
I can’t explain what I felt when I heard that Shah Rukh Khan would be appearing on my show. It was an indescribable feeling. I was speechless for a while and when I found my voice, I screamed with glee. I am a huge huge fan of Shah Rukh and have seen all his films since my childhood.

What do you think of him? Is he your favourite actor?
He is so sweet and so cool. I used to love and respect him as an actor when I hadn’t met him but ever since I met him and shot with him, my love and respect for him has grown 10 times. As he had time constraints, he allowed us to shoot in his house Mannat. He was so gracious about the whole thing. He took care of the little things and ensured everyone in the unit was comfortable. That was very sweet of him. He is totally my favourite actor and now I will look forward to his films with more gusto.

How was the experience of shooting with him?
Incredible. We did some combined shots with him as he played a judge on Chak Dhoom Dhoom where Simar, my character, performs. He comes shakes my hand and encourages my morale. The shot was over too soon much to my chagrin [grins]. But what I remember the most is that in the shot he was supposed to hold my hand and give me courage to follow my dream. While rehearsals, he held my hand and didn’t let go till we completed the shot. I didn’t notice that as I was busy admiring him and staring at him.

What kind of response have you got for the show?
The response for Sasural Simar Ka has been good and positive. People feel the show is nice, interesting and has a different story to tell. People find the content fresh too.

Why did you choose this show?
I loved the story when it was offered to me. Secondly Simar’s character is close to my personality and thirdly I wanted to work with Colors as I had heard it is a great channel to work in. Now that I have I can say Colors is a cool channel.

What is the best thing you like about playing Simar?
Simar loves dancing and so do I and that is what I love about her the most. Though I haven’t learnt dancing in real life, before shooting the show, I did a week’s workshop in freestyle dancing.

What do you find most challenging about Simar?
Her innocence is most challenging to portray on screen. She is a small town girl with pure heart and innocent feelings so at times I get stuck and have to work hard to project the right emotions.

How similar is Dipika to Simar?
We both love our families a lot. Like Simar, I would never put my career before my family. I dress like her in ethnic Indian wear and love keeping my hair untied.

What does acting mean to you?
Acting right now means learning, learning and learning some more. I have done two shows before Simar- Agle Janam Mohe Bitya Hi Kijo and Devi and I learnt a lot from them.

What does television mean to you?
Television is a great place to be in with loads of opportunities. It is a cool platform as it has a wider reach as almost everyone has a tv set at home.

Ref:http://www.indya.com

Dipika Samson-sasural simar ka

Dipika Samson, a talented next door girl from Pune who came to Mumbai 4 years back. After completing her graduation, she began her professional life as an airhostess. She then changed tracks and debuted on the small screen with the show ‘Devi’ and now she is playing a lead role in sasural simar ka.

Dipika Samson - TV Shows

Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo

Sasural Simar Ka

This story with the tentative title 'Sasural Simar Ka' is the journey of an ordinary young small town girl, Puja, who has grown up in her middle class family, under her father's strict discipline and is well prepared to continue living under her husband's shadow in future. She loves her father a lot and vice versa, whose teachings have enriched her with strong values and rooted her deep in culture. But her simple sounding story takes a sharp turn when her dreams and discipline of middle class come face to face. Her passion for dancing and peer pressure induces her to enroll in a dance competition. She starts chasing her dream without letting both her father and her Sasural people know about it, with support from some family members and above all, her husband. This hide and seek creates many challenging and interesting situations which are dealt with a light hearted treatment. Puja's journey is close to the thousands of middle class girl's dreams living in small towns, aspiring for something but deprived due to their situations and circumstances.

Dipika Samson gushes over SRK

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Jiaa Manek- gopi

Jiaa Manek is a very young and highly talented relatively new face in the Indian television industry. Jiaa Manek is playing the lead role in Star Plus’ prime time serial Saath Nibhaana Saathiya.

Personal Life
Jiaa Manek is from Mumbai who is 19 years old. Jiaa Manek graduated in Mass Media but she never attended any acting classes as such. Jiaa Manek was always very keen about media industry, but she also knew it was not easy to get an entry into the television industry but it is her interest which brought her to limelight so early in her life. She gave audition for Rehna Hai Teri Palkon Ki Chaon Mein and then for Saath Nibhaana Saathiya and got selected for Saath Nibhaana Saathiya.
She has a wide variety of interests including horse-riding, dancing, acting, making chocolate, designing pottery, mehendi etc.

Television career
When Jiaa Manek was in college itself she started her acting career. Jiaa Manek acted in commercials like Amul and Vatika hair oil. Before coming to TV she got opportunity in a film called Na Ghar Ke Na Ghaat Ke, her role in this was next to negligible though. In this film she played the role of daughter of Om Puri (Sankata Prasad Tripathi) and Neena Gupta (Devkinandan’s mother). But her career picked pace when she was signed up by Rashmi Sharma for the lead role in Star Plus serial Saath Nibhaana Saathiya (checkout the full star cast).

Ref:
http://indian-television.webyam.com
http://en.wikipedia.org

Pooja Gaur-Pratigya

Pooja Gaur (Hindi: पूजा गोर Gujarati: પૂજા ગોર) is an Indian television actress. She was born in Gujarat in the city of Ahmedabad on 1 June 1991. She plays the title role in the serial Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya on STAR Plus.

Career
Gaur has appeared in NDTV Imagine serial Kitani Mohabbat Hai as Purvi, the sister of the show's main character, before appearing as Pratigya in Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya

Awards
2010: Star Parivaar Awards Favourite Naya Sadasya- Female
2010: Star Parivaar Awards Hottest Jodi with Arhaan Behl as Krishna
2011: Global Indian Film and Television Honours Best Actor in Leading Role (Female)
2011: Kalakar Awards Best Actress in Indian Television

Ref:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooja_Gaur

Pooja's B'dy bash 2013 pic

Shweta Tiwari says Raja tried to kill her daughter

It's said that you don't allow Raja to meet Palak? 
Gosh. You are straight to the point. To tell you the truth, I do let him meet her. If he comes to his senses, I have no problem. But every time, he comes sloshed at 3 am. He abuses, breaks things around. He is not in a proper state of mind. Palak is scared of him and doesn't want to meet him. You tell me, what should I do (shrugs and pauses).

Go on... 
Raja used to cry and give sob stories to the police. They never believed me. Record karke lao, they said. One day, I recorded his violent and abusive behaviour at my house and only after that, they sent the cops.
Rewind. How did your fairytale romance with Raja turn to a nightmare?

We married after just three months of knowing each other. It was a mistake. We hardly knew anything about each other.

My family was against him. But I was 19 and stupid. After a few days, I found him drinking heavily. He blamed it on his social circle.

Soon after, I found myself pregnant. I went to my in-laws in Meerut. His sister Shalu was getting married. While I was away, I heard that he was getting too close to junior artistes and small time models.

He joined me there, and started cuddling up to Shalu's friend at the wedding itself. I took him to the terrace and questioned him about it. He slapped me so hard that I almost fell down.

Back home, he started having affairs Mala, Sona, Mukerji... God knows kitni thi! One of them even called me and threatened to throw acid on me if I didn't leave Raja. Palak started getting sick and I sent her off to my in-laws.

Raja didn't improve. I tried another trick. I called Palak back, thinking, 'kuch toh sharam aayegi is aadmi ko' but to no avail. Roz peeke aata, maarna peetna chalta raha, I still put it up thinking that something will change him. Lekin kuch nahin hua.

And that led to the breaking point? 
Not really. Like a fool, I was still going on with him. But June 2007, I saw him cozying up with an actress who is now married. They were doing a play together and he told me

"Shweta, this is it, you are jealous. I love this girl. If u want to stay, you leave and this is how it will remain." And (sighs) I walked out of the house taking Palak with me. I went to my mom's place.

Please continue... 
Kitna tolerate kiya tha. He burnt my wrists with cigarettes. He picked up and threw me against the walls. He used to physically and verbally abuse me in front of my parents.

He withdrew money from our joint account and gifted expensive jewellery to his girlfriends. No ornaments came to me. Surely, he wasn't wearing them either.

He was admitted to Maseena for drug and alcohol abuse. 
As if I don't know. Nobody knows that I only got him admitted there. Aage aage ambulance chal rahi thi, peeche meri gaadi. Police said iska dimag kharab ho gaya hai, isko drugs chad gayi hai. They were sending him out of the city. I went and met a cop and got the entire hospitalisation done.
When did his drug abuse problem start?

I think it was there since long. He used to smoke some strange stuff and say, 'These are my herbal cigarettes'.

You have filed for divorce. Why is it not coming through? 
He wants one of our flats. This profession is unpredictable. What if I need this property for Palak and myself? Both houses are in joint names. I am the first owner as I am the only payer. How can I give him one house? He will sell it and continue his masti. So there is a property dispute.

More? 
Recently he even threatened Palak saying, 'Ek saal tu aur badi ho jaa. Tujhe jaan se maar dunga.' I have one bodyguard for her. I have another bodyguard who is constantly guarding my house.
You know what, he had reached a stage where he even started hurting himself with cigarettes, he even broke plates on his head.

He chased me to my shoot. Ekta Kapoor and her mom, Shobhaji have waited up to twelve hours for me if I couldn't make it to the shoot due to Raja's unpredictable behaviour. I used to go there with marks on my face and the makeup man used to patch them up.

Trials and tribulations of a single parent? 
None. I was always a single parent.

Now you have Abhinav Kohli in your life? 
(Smiles at last) Yes. I met him during a serial we did together. We were simply friends. Slowly, he and my family became very close to each other. I didn't know that he loved me almost from the beginning. Slowly, main bhi... (smiles again)

What next? 
We want to get married. I am just going with the flow. Maine sochna chhod diya hai.

Ref: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Pratyusha Banerjee- Anandi (Balika Vadhu)

Pratyusha Banerjee was born in Jamshedpur. This 19 year old young lady currently lives in a paying guest accommodation in Mumbai. Balika Vadhu is going to be her first acting assignment. Initially when Pratyusha Banerjee decided to take acting as career her parents got into the state of shock. But slowly they understood that she should be allowed to do whatever she thinks best for her. In fact now Pratyusha Banerjee is getting lot of support from her parents. Pratyusha Banerjee is the only child of her parents.

Though Pratyusha Banerjee is new to acting, she is filled with talents she sings, she is a classical dancer and was associated with many cultural activities. During her school and college days Pratyusha Banerjee took part in many theatre dramas and plays but it was her drama called ‘Kalidas’ which made her think seriously about acting as career. On the education side Pratyusha Banerjee is pursuing graduation through distance education program.

Career
Since 2010, Banerjee is appearing as the protagonist, Anandi, on the television series Balika Vadhu, first aired on the Colors channel. She won the role — to appear as an older Anandi because of a five-year leap in the program's storyline — through an SMS poll.

Ref:
http://indian-television.webyam.com/?p=221
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratyusha_Banerjee

Hina Khan

Hina Khan (Kashmiri: हिना ख़ान (Devanagari), حِنا خان (Perso-Arabic); born in Srinagar, India) is an Indian actress of Kashmiri ethnicity.
She plays a lead role in the Indian TV drama series Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai.

Education / Early Career
She completed her Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 2009 at the CCA School of Management, Gurgaon, Delhi. She had wanted to be a journalist, but instead became an actress. She had interviewed for airhostess and had been selected for the 6 months training in Mumbai, but could not go because she suffered from malaria. One day, with her friends, she went in for auditions to Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. She did not take the audition seriously, but very next day she got a call from the producer that she has been selected for the main lead.

Personal life
Hina Khan was born to a Muslim family in Srinagar, Kashmir, India and later moved to New Delhi for her education. Her mother's origin is Srinagar and her father's origin is Mumbai. She has a younger brother named Aamir Khan. She currently resides in Mumbai with her family. In an episode of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, there was scene in which Akshara made jewelry designs for Naitik; the designs were made by Hina Khan herself for use in shooting.

Awards
Star Parivaar Award for Best Yogya Jodi, 2009
Star Parivaar Award for Best Naya Sadasya (Female), 2009
New Talent Award For Best Actress, 2009
Indian Television Academy Award for Best Popular Actress, 2009
Indian TELLY Award for Best Newcomer (Female), 2009
Star Parivaar Award for Best Beti, 2010
Star Parivaar Award for Best Patni, 2010
Gold Award for Fresh Face of the Year, 2010
Star Parivaar Award for Best Stylish Sadasya, 2011
Star Parivaar Award Best Bhabhi, 2011
Star Parivaar Award For Hottest Jodi Paired With Karan Mehra, 2011