Bipasha Basu (Bengali: বিপাশা বসু, Hindi: बिपाषा बासु) (born January 7, 1979) is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood films and a former model. She was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest for 1996 and is currently one of the mainstream actresses in Bollywood. In 2007, the newspaper Eastern Eye selected her as Asia's sexiest woman.
Basu was born in New Delhi, India, to a Bengali family. She is the second of three ...
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Bipasha Basu (Bengali: বিপাশা বসু, Hindi: बिपाषा बासु) (born January 7, 1979) is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood films and a former model. She was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest for 1996 and is currently one of the mainstream actresses in Bollywood. In 2007, the newspaper Eastern Eye selected her as Asia's sexiest woman.
Basu was born in New Delhi, India, to a Bengali family. She is the second of three daughters to her parents, the elder being Bidisha, and the younger—Vijayeta. Although she was born in New Delhi, her family later moved to Kolkata.
According to her, she had come into modeling and acting quite by accident, because initially she had planned to study medicine. Basu studied science till the 12th standard at Bhavan's Gangabux Kanoria Vidyamandir and later took up commerce at The Bhawanipur Gujarati Education Society College, an undergraduate college affiliated with the University of Calcutta. In Kolkata, she did modelling and...
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