Actress Sonam Kapoor at the Cannes Film Festival last year. She currently stars in the hard-hitting biopic "Neerja".
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Actress Sonam Kapoor at the Cannes Film Festival last year. She currently stars in the hard-hitting biopic "Neerja".
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Actress Deepika Padukone has been heralded as one of the new Bollywood superstars.
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Actress Deepika Padukone has been heralded as one of the new Bollywood superstars.
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Padukone starred with Irrfan Khan in Hindi film "Piku" in which a daughter -- not a son -- is charged with taking care of her father.
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Padukone starred with Irrfan Khan in Hindi film "Piku" in which a daughter -- not a son -- is charged with taking care of her father.
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Priyanka Chopra played a successful businesswoman in last year's "Dil Dhadakne Do", by female director Zoya Akhtar.
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Priyanka Chopra played a successful businesswoman in last year's "Dil Dhadakne Do", by female director Zoya Akhtar.
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Kangana Ranaut portrayed a jilted woman who goes on her honeymoon solo in "Queen".
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Kangana Ranaut portrayed a jilted woman who goes on her honeymoon solo in "Queen".
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Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, seen here at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, in France, was the first woman in India to pose in a bikini on a magazine cover.
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Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, seen here at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, in France, was the first woman in India to pose in a bikini on a magazine cover.
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