Saturday, June 14, 2008

Raveena Tandon

The ravishing Raveena Tondon - Bollywood's Blonde - was born on 26th Oct 1970. She is the daughter of Bombay film industry (Bollywood) director Ravi Tandon. Raveena dropped out of Bombay's Meethibai College to pursue a career as a model with middling success. She made her movie debut with the flop Pathar Ke Phool (1991) for which she bagged "Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut" in 1991. Her next few films were also failures and it was only with Andaz Apna Apna (1994) that she tasted success. Mohra (1994) made her a superstar all set to become Bollywood's reigning actress. However she then began a tangled affair with co-star Akshay Kumar. By the end of 1995 her career was in tatters and she was reduced to the level of a starlet doing bit roles. Her career revived with a huge hit Ziddi (1997) and she now is again a top rung star. She has recently set up her own TV production unit RT Video. She was offered Rani Mukherjee's role in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and was offered Karishma Kapoor's role in Dil To Pagal Hai. Raveena Tandon has a perfume named after her marketed by a Swiss firm: it was first marketed in Dubai, UAE in 1996. Recently in 2004 feb she got married with her film Stumped distributor Anil Thadani.

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