Sonali Bendre

Sonali Bendre (born 1 January 1975) is an Indian actress and model. She has mostly starred in Bollywood films but has acted in many hit Telugu films as well as a few number of Marathi,Tamil and Kannada films. She was also one of the four judges in the fourth season of Indian Idol and India's Got Talent.

Sonali was born in Mumbai in korba sarasawat brahmin family. She studied in Bangalore and Mumbai in Kendriya Vidyalaya Antop Hill, Sion and Holy Cross High School Thane. She married film actor/director Goldie Behl on 12 November 2002. On 9 August 2005, she gave birth to a son, Ranveer, at the Breach Candy Hospital.

Bendre started out as a model before being selected for the "Star Dust Talent Search". She was invited to Mumbai and received training from a variety of top actors and performers of the Indian film industry. Her first role was in Aag (1994) opposite Govinda.

Though she initially struggled to be a successful actress, she was eventually given critical acclaim for her performances in films like Bhai (1997),Murari (Telugu film) Sarfarosh, Zakhm, Duplicate, Kadhalar Dhinam (Tamil film), Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United (1999), Tera Mera Saath Rahey and Anaahat (2003) among many others.

She is also known for being one of the few actresses who acted opposite all top four Khans (Aamir, Shahrukh, Salman and Saif). She has also starred opposite some of the other biggest names in bollywood such as Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor.

Next to her well-received performances, she was also recognized as a graceful dancer through films like Gaddar(1995),Sapoot, Bombay, Lajja and Major Saab to name a few. She is frequently listed as one of the top most beautiful Bollywood actress. Bendre is set to star in the theatre in a play called, Aap Ki Soniya.

Sonali Kulkarni

Sonali Kulkarni (born 3 November 1974) is an Indian actress. She was born in Pune.

Kulkarni first made her appearance on the silver screen in a Kannada movie titled 'Cheluvi', and thereafter has appeared in a total of 32 movies, which includes an Italian film titled 'Fuoco Si Di Me' for which she won an award in the 2006 Milan International Film Festival.

She has received a Special Jury Award (non-feature film) in the 49th National Film Awards (2002) for her role in a short film in Marathi Chaitra (film).

Apart from acting, she is also an editor with 'Viva', a supplement of 'Loksatta', and pens a weekly column called 'So Kool'. Now, these colums are being published in book 'So Kool' by Rajahansa Prakashan.

Sonali has shown her dancing skills in a popular dance program (Jhalak dikla jaa) on Sony TV.

She was married to famous Marathi play director Chandrakant Kulkarni for a while, but the couple divorced. She did her schooling from Abhinava Vidyalaya Marathi Medium School, Pune. In May 2010, she married the Managing Director of Fox Television Studio India, Nachiket Pantvaidya, in a low profile wedding ceremony.

Simran Bagga

Rishibala Naval (born 4 April 1976), better known by her stage name Simran , is an award-winning Indian actress who has acted in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam films.

She is one of actress who used the glamour trend of 90's in Tamil/Telugu film industry to rise to fame. She has appeared in several commercially successful movies such as Nerrukku Ner (1997), V.I.P (1997), Natpukkaga (1998), Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1998), Kannedhirey Thondrinal (1998), Samarasimha Reddy (1999), Anari No.1 (1999), Jodi (1999), Narasimha Naidu (2001), Bava Nachadu (2001), Daddy (2001), Thamizh (2002), Panchathantiram (2002), Ramana (2002) and New (2004).

Her noted performance oriented successful films include Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1999), Vaali (1999), Kalisundam Raa (2000), Nuvvu Vastavani (2000), Priyamaanavale (2000), Parthen Rasithen (2000), Pammal K. Sambandam (2002) and Kannathil Muthamittal (2002). She recently appeared in the 2008 blockbuster Tamil film Vaaranam Aayiram directed by Gautham Menon, costarring Surya Sivakumar.

She was born Rishibala Naval, as the first daughter, to Ashok Naval and Sharada Naval on 4 April 1976. She has two sisters, late Monal, an actress who committed suicide, and Jyoti Naval and a brother named Sumit. She did her schooling at St. Anthony's high school, versova, and finished her B. Com., in Mumbai while modeling simultaneously. Then she came to film industry. She speaks Punjabi, Hindi, English, Tamil and Telugu.

She married Deepak Bagga, her long time family friend, on 2 December 2003. They have a son, Adheep, born in June 2005. She made her debut with the 1995 Hindi film Sanam Harjai directed by Saawan Kumar. Jaya Bachchan saw her in "Superhit Muqabla" on Doordarshan’s Metro channel and offered her a leading role in Tere Mere Sapne. She then held supporting roles in Muqaddar, Angaara, Daadagiri, Bal Bramhachari, Agni Morcha and Gunda Gardi. Meanwhile she was acting in Tamil and Telugu films. In 1999, she starred in Anari No.1.

She moved to south Indian movies by acting first in the Malayalam film, Indraprastham. Then she was introduced in Tamil movie industry by Vasanth with Nerukku Ner in 1997 which included a dance number to the song Manam Virumbudhe. Then she starred in several movies such as V.I.P (1997), Natpukkaga (1998), Aval Varuvala (1998) and Kannedhirey Thondrinal (1998) and Thulladha Manamum Thullum in 1999. She won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress for Thulladha Manamum Thullum.

Shilpa Anand

Shilpa Anand (born Shilpa Shivanand on 10 December 1982,), is a television and movie actress. She is the younger sister of Sakshi Shivanand, a popular actress from Karnataka.

Shilpa Anand was born in South Africa, and went to school there. After completing her education, she moved to India along with her family and then she started her acting career in Mumbai.

In terms of education, Shilpa Anand has five years of experience in all phases of the Software development life-cycle. She has expertise in Java J2EE application development and has been working in the E-Learning domain.

She has worked for clients within the healthcare, travel, Learning management, and Performance management field. She studied at the Punjab University, obtaining a Masters in Computer Applications (MCA), from 2000 to 2003.

Before her first movie, Shilpa did many adverts on television with many famous Bollywood actors such as: Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan etc. She started her career with Bollywood film Iqaar By Chance. She rose to stardom when she starred in the television series Dill Mill Gaye, in which she used to play the lead protagonist of Dr. Riddhima Gupta which made her a popular face of the TV world.

She was nominated at several Awards ceremonies in 'Best Actress' category for her role in the show such as New Talent Awards in 2008. She won the award alongside Karan Singh Grover for the best on-screen couple in August 2008. Her contract with the production house ended in June 2008 and this consequenced her leaving the show and her role of Dr. Riddhima Gupta. Her good height,acting skills and pretty looks are really cherished.