BIPASA BASU BIOGRAPHY
Nick Name ; Bunny Bips
Fate intervened when Bipasha recoiled and passed out when dissecting a rat . Thus ended her dream of being a medical proffesional . She was enrolled in the Scince faculty untill 12 th standred , but switched to Commerce thereafter . After acquiring a degree in Commerce she planed to be a Charted Accountant but ended up being the ford Super Model of the World when she was just 17 years old.
Bipasha was born on January 7th 1979 in New Delhi. Subsequently the Basu family re - located to Calcutta . Bipasha is the second of three sisters, born and brought up in a Hindu Bengali family , she is fluent in Hindi , English and Bengali . The names of the sisters are Bidisha and Bijoyeta. Unbelivable as it may sound , sexy Bipasha was considered ' ugly ' in her younger years due to her dark complexion. Her name means Dark Deep Desire and also the name of a river.
She did her schooling at Bhavana's Gangabux Kanoria vidyamandir and her college years were spent at Bhavanipur Gujarati Education College Society . In her spare time she took up some modeling assignments.
FILMOGRAPHY
She participate in the Godrej Cinthol super model contest and walked away as the winner . She moved to New York courtesy the Ford agency where she continued with her modeling untill she desided to pack her bags and head back to India landing in Bollywood.
After her Triumph as the ford supermodel , she went on to be crowned Miss Vivacious sponcered by Tulips.
Bipasha made her foray into Bolly wood with 'Ajnabee' in 2001 and subsequently acquired a place for herself in the tinsel World . She went star in Raaz , Jism , Noentry , Phir heraphen , Corporate & Dhoom 2 .Allof these movies did fairly well at the box office and escalated her position has not only a leading lady , but one who can dare to bare . Dhoom2 also credits her as aplayback singer .
She also appeared in two music videos and was one of the judges in the 2004 Femina Miss India beauty pageant.
PERSONAL QUOTES
- Sexy in India is not considered positive. But todays crop of fresh faces in the modeling arena being sexy is an asset.
- Iam the boss in my life . I desided when to charge more and when not to . I live in my own zone.
- Iam doing pretty well for myself and i am proud to be the person iam.
- Every other girl is taking off her cloths just for the heck of it and i dont want to be in that catagiry . I can never be cheap or valgar.
- If a girl wearsa shirt and a skirt does she become more sensuous . I think a girl in a sari is more sensuous than a girl in a skirt . In my opinion a wet sari is the most sensuous .
- For me chilling out is when I can stay at home order food from out side and watch a film with my friends .
- Listening to music and watchimg films are my idea of perfect relaxation.
BRINGING SEXY BACK
2001 Bipasha broke stereotypes in Ajnabee in which she is a married women making a play for her husbend's married friend . The risk was worth it as she won the Filmfare Best Debut Awared for her role.
2002 It was followed by the sucess of Raaz. She was naminated for the Fim fare Best Actress Awared for her role as Sanjana.
2003 she again made waves in Jism with John Abraham.
2004 The year saw movies like Aetbaar and Rudraaksh that did not make much of an impact.
2005 Her films No Entry and Phir Hera did well at the box office.
2006 It was Bipasha 's year all the way with hits like Corporate , Omkara and Dhoom 2.
2008 Bipasha had another hit in her Kitty with Race while her perfomence in Bachna Hai Haseeno was appereciate.