Lara Dutta Bhupathi

Lara Dutta Bhupathi
She was born 16 April 1978 and she is an Indian supermodel and Bollywood actress who was crowned Miss Universe 2000 and Miss Intercontinental 1997. She was the second woman from India to be crowned Miss Universe, and has been the only delegate from India to win the crown since. She made her Hindi debut in 2003 with the film Andaaz which was a box office success and won her a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award & Screen Best Female Debut Award. Dutta subsequently appeared in several commercially successful films, including Masti (2004), No Entry (2005), Kaal (2005), Bhagam Bhag (2006), Partner (2007), Housefull (2010) Chalo Dilli (2011). She has thus established herself as one of the leading actresses in the Hindi cinema and is a household name.

Lara Dutta Bhupathi

Early life

Dutta was born to a Punjabi father and an Anglo-Indian mother.Her father is Wing Commander L.K. Dutta (retired) and her mother is Jennifer Dutta. She also has two elder sisters, Sabrina, who serves in the Indian Air Force and younger sister Cheryl. Composer and DJ Nitin Sawhney is Dutta's cousin. The Dutta family moved to Bangalore in 1981 where she completed high school from St. Francis Xavier Girls' High School and the Frank Anthony Public School. Dutta graduated with a degree in economics and a minor in communications from the University of Mumbai. She is fluent in English and Hindi but can speak Punjabi, Kannada, and French.


Career

Dutta won the annual Gladrags Megamodel competition in her native India in 1995,thus winning the right to enter the 1997 Miss Intercontinental Pageant, in which she took first place.Later, she was crowned Femina Miss India Universe in 2000. At Miss Universe 2000 in Cyprus, she achieved the highest score in the swimsuit competition and her finalist interview score was the highest individual score in any category in the history of the Miss Universe contest, as her interview saw a majority of the judges giving her the maximum 9.99 mark.After her final question, in which she delivered a defense of the Miss Universe contest (and other beauty pageants), she became the second Indian Miss Universe. Dutta's win led to her appointment as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador in 2001.In the same year, Priyanka Chopra and Dia Mirza won their respective Miss World and Miss Asia Pacific titles which gave India a rare triple victory in the world of beauty pageants.

Following her post-pregnancy break from Hindi cinema, Lara Dutta signed a movie titled David. Filming was started by August, 2012 and she will have a very important role in the movie according to its director, Bejoy Nambiar.The film released 1 February 2013 and receive mixed reviews. Dutta has recently signed a No Entry sequel titled No Entry Mein Entry. She is also planning a Chalo Dilli sequel, Chalo China.

Personal life

Lara Dutta had been in a nine-year relationship with Kelly Dorji. In September 2010, Dutta got engaged to Indian tennis player, Mahesh Bhupathi.They married on 16 February 2011 in a civil ceremony in Bandra,and later followed it by a ceremony on 20 February 2011 at Sunset Point in Goa.On 1 August 2011, Dutta confirmed that she was pregnant with their first child.On 20 January 2012 it was confirmed by Bhupathi via a popular networking site that Dutta had given birth to a baby girl, and they have named her Saira.