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Celina Jaitly was a model who eventually changed her course to acting. Born to a Punjabi Army Colonel V. K Jaitly and an Afghan psychologist Meeta in Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh, Jaitly had the opportunity to study in multiple schools, City Montessori School being one of them. Although she wanted to work as a doctor or pilot in Indian Army, modelling happened to her at a very young age. She has a brother who serves as Army personnel in Indian Army.  She married Peter Hogg based in Dubai in the year 2011. They are the parents to two little twin sons Winston and Viraaj, who were born in March 2012.

Subhash Ghai is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer in the Bollywood film industry. He was born on 24th January 1945 to a family of Punjabis in Nagpur, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. He completed his Higher Secondary education in Delhi and also graduated with a commerce degree from Rohtak, in the state of Haryana. In the year 1963, he joined the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) by moving to Pune, Maharashtra. He got married in 1970 to Mukta Ghai. He stays with his wife and two daughters Muskaan Ghai and Meghna Ghai Puri in Mumbai.

Those who follow Bollywood movies are accustomed to the character ‘Iqbal,’ which follows the story of a mute and deaf, rookie Indian bowler’s attempt to achieve recognition, and be one of the prestigious XI, that represent the country in cricket. The character, which goes by the same name of Iqbal, was portrayed by none other than Shreyas Talpade, who is an Indian actor. Shreyas is a Mumbaikar, who pursued his schooling from Shree Ram Welfare Society. The inception of his career began with Marathi television serials, and numerous stage plays across the state. Shreyas was famous for his role in the Marathi soap opera, Aabhal Maaya. In the year 1997, he pocketed a crucial role as a child actor in the Zee TV produced television serial “Woh.” Talpade played the role of a young Ashutosh Gowarikar. He is also ostentatious for his roles in the mini soap operas produced by Adhikari Brothers, and his role as “Tejas,” in the Damini. The character of Tejas, transformed Talpade, into a well-known Marathi household name. Shreyas began his movie venture with cameos in Nidaan, Raghu More, and Aankhen. He pocketed a major role in the Marathi horror-comedy, “Pachadlela.” The movie catapulted Talpade’s career, and he managed to attract the attention of various directors in the Marathi film industry. In 2005, he auditioned for the role of a deaf and mute, young cricket aspirant in Nagesh Kukunoor’s film titled “Iqbal.” Talpade reportedly stated that he honestly didn’t expect to grab the lead role in Kukunoor’s venture. The movie was a huge hit at the box office, and Shreyas was also nominated for a Filmfare Award in the Debut category.

Javed Jaffrey is a talented actor, dancer, comedian, voice actor, impressionist, VJ, an ad filmmaker, emcee and politician, who predominantly work in the Bollywood film and television industry. He was born on December 4, 1963, in Malliwala, Uttar Pradesh in India. Javed is the son of renowned film actor, 'Jagdeep', who is also famous for doing comic roles.

Aashish Chaudhary is a Former Model and an Actor who appeared in Bollywood Movies and TV serials. Though he is in this trade since 1997 and “Humko Ishq Ne Maara” was his first TV serial, it took six long years before he made a mark in the action movie, “Qayamat”. He then appeared in some movies like “Girlfriend”, “Speed”, “Three- Love, Lies, and Betrayal”, “Paying Guests”, “Dhamaal” and “Double Dhamaal”. Recently, he worked in the TV serial “Ek Mutthi Aasmaan” (a comeback serial of Shilpa Shirodkar).

Bollywood actor Chunky Pandey’s career graph provides for interesting reading, with all its ups and downs and twists and turns. For the sake of records, he has an impressive list of over 80 films against his name and in 2015 has achieved a silver jubilee in his filmy career, but these figures can hardly convey the vicissitudes that his career had to go through. It would be best to look at his career in three distinct phases – the initial phase when he entered the industry and within a short time got noticed for his roles, (although not really in lead ones); the second phase when he suffered from the frustration at not being able to break the jinx in Bollywood of being cast in successful lead roles, and deciding to foray into Bangladeshi cinema; and the last and most recent phase when he decided to try his fortune once again in Bollywood, and still continuing his efforts in the rather changed circumstances compared to his initial years there. It may be difficult to pass judgement on which of these phases has been his most successful one, as they were all in different circumstances and at different periods. In an isolated manner, may be his Bangladeshi phase was the most successful, as all his films there were in lead roles, and he had been able to build up a good fan base which was quite overawed by a Bollywood star “condescending” to work in their midst, although all this happening without his being able to speak a word of Bengali. More rationally, his first phase was perhaps the most eventful and successful too, with his bagging the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his “Tezaab”. At the same time from a personal perspective it must have been a disappointment for him as he did not get many lead roles. He did act in several films like “Aag Hi Aag” released in 1987, having Dharmendra & Mousumi in the lead; followed in 1988 by two Dharmendra starrers “Paap Ki Duniya” and “Khatron Ke Khiladi” ; “Ghar Ka Chiraag” in 1989 with Rajesh Khanna and finally “Mitti Aur Sona” in the same year where he at last got a lead role. The irony is that with the advent of new generation actors like the Shahrukh Khans and Amir Khans he could not come into the lime light, and continued to fester as the aide or friend to the main heroes like Rajesh Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Govinda etc. Even in hits like “Aankhen” the limelight was on Govinda although they formed an equally creditable pair. In his return phase in 2003, after the sojourn in Bangladesh, he made a determined effort to claw back into a niche position, but ended up with mixed results. Starting off with minor roles and some good acting, though in bizarre movies of Ram Gopal Varma, he could ultimately make a mark with “Housefull”, appearing both in the original and the sequel, both of which were hits, offering some solace and hope of better times to come.

Vatsal Sheth is a light eyed, 5.8 feet good looking TV and Bollywood actor who needs no introduction. Vatsal Sheth was born in Mumbai on 5th August 1980. His parents are Gujarati and he has two younger siblings. He did his schooling in Utpal Sanghavi school, studied computer science in Gokhilibai High School and completed his graduation in mathematics from Meethibai College. Vatsal always wanted to be a scientist. He has even written a few computer games in GW Basic and Pascal language. But destiny has planned something else for him. He got role in Just Mohabbat, a serial based on the teenagers. This show airs on Sony TV and his character of Jai made him a star. Later in 2003, he got his debut movie Tarzan: The Wonder opposite Ayesha Takia. Taarzan was produced by Abbas Mustaan and Vatsal has played the character of Raj Choudhary, who was the owner of a talking car. In 2007, he was seen in Nanhe Jaisalmer as Vikram Singh.

Johnny Lever is an Indian comedy actor who came to prominence with film actor Govinda’s films. As actors like Kader Khan and Shakti Kapoor had reached a zenith in their career, it was actor Sunil Dutt who had spotted this actor in a stage (show of Amitabh Bachchan and music composer Kalyanji Anandji) and advised him to take up comedy roles seriously. He is one of the comedians who appear truly funny to make us laugh. He is also known for his wits and smarts and appears to make intelligent jokes and poke fun in many films. After Govinda was overshadowed by the prominence of Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan in the film world, Johnny Lever could make audiences laugh by using his physical appearances even in many Khans movies. He dislikes present talk comedy shows on TV and feels comedy is something that does not come in everyday life and hence screen is the mainstream media to help the comedians grow. Lever was born in Hyderabad.