1. Bipasha Basu was born on 7 January 1979 and is an Indian actress.
52 Facts About Bipasha Basu
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Bipasha Basu then began receiving offers for film roles, and made her acting debut with the thriller Ajnabee, which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
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Bipasha Basu's first leading role was in the horror film Raaz, for which she earned a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.
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Bipasha Basu's career progressed with a leading role in the erotic thriller Jism and in two consecutive annual top-grossing films, No Entry and Dhoom 2.
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Bipasha Basu hosted the horror series Darr Sabko Lagta Hai in 2015.
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Bipasha Basu was born on 7 January 1979 to a Bengali family.
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Bipasha Basu's father, Hirak, is a civil engineer, and her mother, Mamta, is a homemaker.
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Bipasha Basu has one elder sister, Bidisha, and one younger sister, Vijayeta.
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In Delhi, Bipasha Basu lived at Pamposh Enclave, Nehru Place until age eight and studied at Apeejay High School.
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In 1996, Bipasha Basu was spotted at a hotel in Kolkata by the model Mehr Jesia Rampal, who suggested she take up modelling.
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Bipasha Basu later appeared in a Calida commercial with her then-boyfriend Dino Morea, which was controversial for picturing them in a sultry context; she had protesters outside her house as a result.
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One of the judges of the Godrej Cinthol Supermodel Contest in which Bipasha Basu participated, Vinod Khanna, wanted to cast her alongside his son Akshaye Khanna in the romance Himalay Putra.
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Bipasha Basu felt she was too young and declined the role, which eventually went to Anjala Zaveri.
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Bipasha Basu was offered a role in Refugee opposite Sunil Shetty, which she declined.
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Bipasha Basu achieved her breakthrough with Vikram Bhatt's supernatural horror thriller Raaz, which was the first instalment of the Raaz film series.
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Bipasha Basu next starred in Sanjay Gadhvi's romantic comedy Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai alongside Uday Chopra, Jimmy Sheirgill and debutante Tulip Joshi.
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In 2003, Bipasha Basu starred in Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism alongside debutant John Abraham, in which she portrayed the seductive, ambitious wife of a millionaire, who indulges in an extramarital affair with an alcoholic lawyer and plots to kill her husband.
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Bipasha Basu had five releases in 2004, all of which received scathing critical reviews and emerged as commercial disasters at the box office.
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Bipasha Basu began the year with the musical romance Ishq Hai Tumse in her third collaboration with Morea.
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Bipasha Basu then collaborated for the second time with Vikram Bhatt in her next release, the psychological romantic thriller Aetbaar.
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Bipasha Basu played the role of a young woman who falls in love with a psychopath.
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Bipasha Basu then starred in the supernatural horror film Rakht as a tarot card reader trying to solve a murder mystery.
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Bipasha Basu next starred in the Tamil romantic comedy Sachein, alongside Vijay and Genelia D'Souza, which proved to be a box office hit.
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Bipasha Basu then appeared in Prakash Jha's crime action film Apaharan, alongside Devgn and Nana Patekar, which was a critical and commercial success.
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Besides acting, Bipasha Basu did the video "Tu" for Sonu Nigam's album, Kismat.
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Bipasha Basu made a guest appearance in Jay Sean's music video "Stolen".
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Bipasha Basu established herself as a leading actress of Hindi cinema in 2005 and 2006 with the progressive success of the comedy No Entry, the drama Corporate and the action thriller Dhoom 2.
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Bipasha Basu portrayed a bargirl who acts as the wife of two men.
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In Vishal Bhardwaj's adaptation of Othello, Omkara, Bipasha Basu played the role of Billo Chamanbahar, alongside an ensemble cast of Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma and Vivek Oberoi.
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Bipasha Basu caught the attention of the public with her dance number "Beedi", which was highly popular in India and overseas.
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Bipasha Basu is brought in to lend oomph and she highly succeeds in doing that.
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Bipasha Basu played the dual role of a cop and an NRI.
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Bipasha Basu became the talk of the town for donning a bikini in the film; to prepare for this scene she reportedly ate only oranges for three days and trained hard.
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Bipasha Basu played the role of Sonia, who is stuck in a love triangle between two brothers and who ends up murdering one of them.
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Bipasha Basu next starred alongside Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone and Minissha Lamba in Siddharth Anand's romantic comedy Bachna Ae Haseeno as a successful supermodel who finds it hard to forgive her ex-lover for betraying her.
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Bipasha Basu completed 2008 with a special appearance in the song "Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte" opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Aditya Chopra's romantic comedy Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.
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Later that year, Bipasha Basu took up an unglamorous and challenging role in Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali film, Shob Charitro Kalponik.
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Bipasha Basu was then featured as a Kashmiri girl alongside Sanjay Dutt, Anupam Kher and Kunal Kapoor in Rahul Dholakia's drama thriller Lamhaa, which explored socio-political problems in Kashmir.
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Lamhaa opened to mixed reviews from critics upon release, but Bipasha Basu's performance received praise.
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Bipasha Basu next performed live alongside Atif Aslam, Shaan and Malaika Arora for the first time in a series of concerts in Birmingham and London in the summer of 2013.
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The film, and Bipasha Basu's performance, received mixed reviews from critics upon release.
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In 2015, Bipasha Basu featured in Bhushan Patel's romance horror film Alone opposite her future husband Karan Singh Grover.
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Bipasha Basu's next role was a cameo appearance as herself in the 2018 comedy Welcome to New York.
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Bipasha Basu appeared in Forbes India 2012 Celebrity 100 list, where she placed 25th with an estimated annual income of 268.5 million.
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Bipasha Basu is a celebrity endorser for brands including Dabur, Pantene, Emami and Alkermes.
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Bipasha Basu was the brand ambassador of Sugar Free, which helped her in promoting the DVD.
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In September 2011, Bipasha Basu launched her second fitness DVD titled Break Free, a 30-minute dance routine, and the follow-up to Bipasha Basu's first workout video, continuing the Love Yourself series.
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In January 2014, Bipasha Basu launched the third instalment of her Love Yourself DVD fitness series, Unleash, an advanced training routine including plyometrics and focusing more on power and speed, while strengthening the bones and improving muscle coordination.
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Bipasha Basu is the face of Delhi Marathon, which has been inspired by her interest in fitness.
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Bipasha Basu was in a relationship with actor Dino Morea from 1996 to 2002.
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Bipasha Basu briefly dated Harman Baweja, but they broke up in 2014.
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Bipasha Basu met co-star Karan Singh Grover on the set of Alone in 2014 and they fell in love.