Tara Sharma is an Indian actress.

The daughter of well-known author and actor, Partap Sharma and an alumnus of the London School of Economics, she made her debut in 2002 with Anupam Kher's Om Jai Jagadish. Despite having a huge star cast which included Waheeda Rehman and Anil Kapoor, the film did not do well. After that she made an appearance in the popular British police series The Bill. Her first hit came with the comedy Masti (2004). This was followed by the critically acclaimed film Page 3 (2005). Her performance was appreciated by the critics.

Tara Sharma appears in a successful television and print advertising campaign for Garnier.

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There has been criticism levelled at Preity Zinta recently for wearing a sequinned denim mini skirt when her character in Karan Johar’s Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna is supposed to be a fashion editor. Some fashionistas have slammed it as inappropriate dressing keeping the character in mind. But before we take sides we can take a look at the long route fashion in movies have taken. Movies are a visual treat. In two dimension, we get to see stories and dramas enacted for us, for our entertainment. Right from the beginning, the discerning filmmaker took care to see that all the elements of his movie pleased the viewing public. Which included a good story, good locales, good looking actors with good clothes. Even as early as 1948 the costume drama Chitralekha wowed the audiences by its grandoise sets and beautiful costumes.

By 1951 the movies were getting slicker and we were treated to the beautiful Madhubala wearing pretty diphanous sarees and trendy boyish clothes in movies like Mr. & Mrs 55 and Chalti ka Naam Gadi. But the lady who really had followers for her style was Sadhana. Sadhana’s famous fringe came to be known as Sadhana cut. She practically invented the churidars. These were supposed to be worn under a frock like top worn by muslim girls. Sadhna wore the tight churidar under a kurta and started a trend that never went away.

Waqt was a movie that set off a trend of sorts. It was a multistarer, Balraj Sahni, Raj Kumar, Sunil Dutt and Shashi Kapoor with the beautiful Achla Sachdev, stylish Sadhna and trendy Sharmila. The look and feel of the movie was lavish and the costumes and hair of of the ladies, very trendy. Women saw the movie time and time over, wishing to copy the various salwar kameezes, sarees, hair clips and do’s. Pale lipstick with heavy eyeliner became the accepted way to make up the face. The bouffant became more and more pronounced with each new movie, with strips of hair pasted down the side of the face. The eyeliner became thicker and blacker, lips pouty and pale pink. Some people even wondered how the women managed to act, being so trussed. Sharmila Tagore propogated this look to the accompaniment of many a nakhra and tosses of the head.

was a movie that set off a trend of sorts. It was a multistarer, Balraj Sahni, Raj Kumar, Sunil Dutt and Shashi Kapoor with the beautiful Achla Sachdev, stylish Sadhna and trendy Sharmila. The look and feel of the movie was lavish and the costumes and hair of of the ladies, very trendy. Women saw the movie time and time over, wishing to copy the various salwar kameezes, sarees, hair clips and do’s. Pale lipstick with heavy eyeliner became the accepted way to make up the face. The bouffant became more and more pronounced with each new movie, with strips of hair pasted down the side of the face. The eyeliner became thicker and blacker, lips pouty and pale pink. Some people even wondered how the women managed to act, being so trussed. Sharmila Tagore propogated this look to the accompaniment of many a nakhra and tosses of the head.

Later the women rid the rigid churidar or sarees routine and slipped into the easy tights with kurta. Bouffant still in place, eyes slanted with the liberal application of the eyeliner, Asha Parekh danced with abandon and sang ‘Aa aa aaja’ in Teesri Manzil, with Shammi Kapoor shaking his head and hands. But even then, the movies followed a kind of a trend. In the courtship scenes, usually with the heroine slapping the hero at least once and yelling ‘You Rascal’, the girl wore salwar or churidar or tights. Later, after the wooing was done, she would slip into a saree. Maybe to let the public know that here was a serious homemaker, not a frivolous college girl.

But the movie that changed that was Bobby. Dimple wears frocks and mini’s throughout the movie, giving it a youthful look. Thankfully, almost for the first time the teenagers in the movie were teenagers, and not middle aged people. Rishi and Dimple set the mood by wearing trendy clothes throughout. Dimple wore hardly any makeup and her hair was let loose naturally. Zeenat Aman brought in the trendy simple looks by wearing pantsuits and short skirts with hair parted in the middle without any frills. Suddenly the nation’s young people breathed easy and wore bell bottoms and the casual look really came into vogue.

By 80s there were really young heroines like Neelam who dressed like any other youngster. Sridevi could wear anything, pants, salwaars and sarees. Some more Yash Chopra films ushered in new fashions, the white salwar kurta in Chandani, the blue saree in Mr. India. The atrocious make up was firmly out of the picture and the look was either very ghaerlu – as favored by Jaya Prada, with a long plait, gajra and saree. Or skirts and dresses and khajuri choti worn by Neelam.

But 90s started the revolution in dress designing. Starting with Rangeela when Manish Malhotra designed the entire look of Urmila Matondkar, seeing that she lost weight and looked great in the trendy clothes he handpicked for her, overseeing the makeup to create the gamin look. From then on, the movie heroine could not afford to look gauche. She has discovered personal trainers. No more thunder thighes or thick biceps. The lady is kept toned, her skin clear and blemish free. Her hair is streaked or coloured and conditioned. Her clothes are designed to suit her personality and the character she plays in the movie.

Karisma Kapoor, sister Kareena, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Aishwarya Rai are some of the beneficiaries of this new trend. Rani Mukherjees long dowdy skirts were in keeping with the character she played as Michelle in Black. The same lady wore lovely sarees in as the bengali woman in Yuva, and burst out in trendy clothes in Hum Tum and Chalte Chalte. These days women routinely look for garish wedding clothes at the saas bahu TV serials and young girls seek to pick up fashion tips from the various movies playing around the town.

Sri Devi –who was popularly known in the industry as Thunder Thighs – is all set to make a comeback. She was the reigning queen in the eighties, with hits like Mr. India, Chaalbaaz, Sadma, Laadla, Lamhe, Khuda Gawah etc.

She made a foray on the TV screen as a come back, when she did the Malini Iyer serial for Sahara channel.

On the 24^th of February she staged a simply superb performance for the 52^nd Filmfare awards function. She danced a medley of the 80’s and was mind blowingly beautiful and graceful.

A sequel to Mr. India is being planned, and Yash Chopra is also planning a movie in which she will star with Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Aishwariya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan. Her husband Boney Kapoor is also planning a big movie for her comeback.

17 years after Chandni and with two beautiful daughters - Jhanvi and Khushi, Sri Devi has still maintained the charm and glamour that surrounds her persona. For an actor with such flair and talent, which is evident – it would be impossible to keep her away, from the call of the spotlights.

So both the yesteryear queens - Madhuri and Sri Devi, will be back to rock Bollywood.

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Sridevi is one of the leading South Indian actresses who had dominated both bollywood films and South Indian films in the 80s. She impressed the viewers with her notable performance in the film Himmatwala, opposite Jeetender and the dancing skills of both of them brought a new dimension to bollywood films.

She got roles in the big banners, like Karma, directed by Subhash Ghai. Her performance was impressive along with brilliant acting of Dilip Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Nasiruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, etc. The film was based on terrorism and the theme was new and fresh in the mid-80s, with Dilip Kumar facing the terrorists with offenders who were facing life sentences.


Sridevi was brilliant in her role in Jaanbaaz, as the wife of Firoz Khan, who was killed by the consumption of drugs. She became the leading star of the 80s, with her blockbuster Mr. India, opposite Anil Kapoor.

Mr. India was directed by Shekhar Kapoor with a topic related to fantasy where a person, by wearing a technological gadget could be invisible. Anil Kapoor became Mr India and destroyed the evil plans of Amrish Puri, by becoming invisible. Sri Devi acted as a journalist who stayed in Anil Kapoor’s house as a tenant and showed her comedy skills along with romantic skills and powerful dancing.


She had acted in the hit films of the leading actors of that time including Akhree Rasta, opposite Big B, Chandni, opposite Rishi Kapoor. She even had done well in double roles, like the one played in the film Chaalbaaz, opposite Sunny Deol and Rajnikant. She had carried on the rich legacy of acting and dancing displayed by other leading actresses of South India, like Vaijayantimala, Hema Malini, and showed that dancing can be displayed as creative arts.

The audience expects her to re-enter bollywood films, by acting in character roles in future.

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9. Shilpa Shetty and Shah Rukh Khan in Baazigar

Neither star was as big -- or were half as attractive -- as they are today, but that Aye Mere Humsafar song set temperatures rising with Shetty draped over Khan, cleavage almost constantly on display.

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8. Akshay Kumar and Mamta Kulkarni in Sabse Bada Khiladi

A forgettable actress who gained notoriety by posing topless for a magazine cover, Kulkarni never shied away from the heat. In this film she was particularly well complimented by the always-amorous Akshay.

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7. Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai in Dhoom:2

It was a liplock that, despite the controversy it kicked up, was pretty tame. Yet Sanjay Gadhvi's rain-framed kiss was memorable for a million reasons -- including scandalous rumours about Ash, then engaged to now husband Abhishek Bachchan.


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6. Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia in Saagar

Arguably a film best known for Dimple briefly showing off her assets, she and longtime on-screen lover Rishi had quite a bit of fun with a few raunchy scenes.

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5. Tanushree Dutta and Emraan Hashmi in Aashiq Banaya Aapne

The film -- and the actress -- might have been completely forgettable, but this duo pushed the limits of censorship with a body-baring song that showed Bollywood was growing up to sex at its most realistic.

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4. Anil Kapoor and Sridevi in Mr India

Sridevi was at her absolute sexiest as Shekhar Kapur sensually shot the Kaante nahin kat te song in the superhero film, a song where Sri virtually makes love to the camera. Incredible stuff.


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3. . Vinod Khanna and Madhuri Dixit in Dayavan

Dixit was barely 20 when this film came out in 1988, and while it was many years before her bosom-heaving dhak-dhak days, the actress was sizzling in intimate scenes with Khanna, 18 years her senior.

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2. . Mallika Sherawat and Emraan Hashmi in Murder

Bollywood's hottest siren and the liplock-addicted lad fogged up the camera lens with their on-screen antics in this film, set to Kunal Ganjawalla's distinctively sung Bheege Hont Tere.
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Sridevi , born on August 13, 1963, is an Indian actress who has starred in hundreds of Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam language films. She started acting at the age of four, and made her debut as an adult in the early 80s. She established herself as one of the leading actresses of her times, and although Sridevi left the industry in 1997, she has been regarded by the industry members, as one of the most talented and prominent actresses of India.

Sridevi was born and brought up in Sivakasi, a district in Tamil Nadu. Her mother tongue is Tamil. Her father's name was Ayyapan (a lawyer) and her mother's name was Rajeswari. Sridevi has a sister, Srilatha. She has two step brothers from her father's previous marriage. Her father died while she was filming Lamhe, her mother while she was making Judaai. Although it is the Hindu custom that the son lights the funeral pyre, Sridevi lit the pyre for her mother's last rites.

Sridevi married film producer Boney Kapoor on June 2, 1996. Boney and his first wife Mona Shourie Kapoor had accommodated Sridevi in their home during Sridevi's stay in Mumbai.At that time Boney and Mona had been married for several years and had two children Arjun and Anshula. Mona Kapoor stayed in Boney Kapoor's parents home for 10 years after the divorce to give her children a sense of family. Boney Kapoor and Sridevi have two daughters: Jhanvi and Khushi. Through her husband she is related to the large Surinder Kapoor film clan (see List of Bollywood film clans). Actor Anil Kapoor, her co-star in a number films, is her brother-in-law.

Sridevi started her career as a child artist in the Tamil movie Kandhan Karunai (1967) and acted in many Tamil and Telugu movies. During her early adult career, she acted in a number of Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies. Many of her Malayalam movies were directed by I. V. Sasi. Some examples of her notable Malayalam movies are: Aadhyapaadam, Aalinganam, Kuttavum Sikshaiyum, Aa Nimisham. In 1976, Sridevi got her first big break as a heroine in K. Balachander's Moondru Mudichu, where she starred opposite Kamal Haasan and Rajnikanth. In many ways, this movie was a landmark in Tamil filmdom. It was also one of Rajnikanth's first major movies.

After Moondru Mudhchu, Sridevi had a succession of huge hits with both these Tamil superstars. With Kamal Haasan, she acted in movies such as Guru, Sankarlal, Sigappu Rojakkal, Thaayillamal Naanillai, Meendum Kokila, Vaazhve Maayam, Varumaiyin Niram Sigappu, Neela Malargal, Moondram Pirai, 16 Vayathinile. With Rajnikanth, she acted in movies such as Dharmayuddham, Priya, Pokkiri Raja, Thanikattu Raja, Adutha Varisu, Nan Adimai Illai, etc. Sridevi was the number one actress in Tamil films during the period 1979-83.

During the same time, Sridevi also made inroads into Telugu language movies. She acted with all major heroes in Telugu. A number of her Telugu movies were made by K. Raghavendra Rao. With N. T. Rama Rao, she acted in movies such as Konda Veeti Simham, Vetagadu, Sardar Paparayudu, Bobbili Puli etc. With A. Nageswara Rao, she acted in movies such as Mudulla Koduku, Premabhishekham, Bangaru Kanku, Premakanuka etc. With Krishna she acted in movies such as Kanchu Kagada, Kalavari Samsaram, Krishnavatharam, Borripellum Bolludu, Khaidi Rudrayya etc. After Kamal Haasan, Sridevi has acted the most number of movies with Krishna. Towards the tail end of her Telugu career, she started acting in Hindi movies. Many of her initial Hindi movies starred Jeetendra and were remakes of her Telugu movies, mostly directed by K. Raghavendra Rao, and K. Bappaiah.

In 1978, Sridevi starred in her first Hindi film, Solva Saawan which failed at the box office. However, her second movie, Himmatwala, went on to be a success and established her status in Bollywood. The film also earned her the famous nickname Thunder Thighs. This was followed by the critically acclaimed drama Sadma, which is often cited by critics as the most definitive child-woman performance of her career. Throughout the 1980s, she starred in a galaxy of box office hits, including Tohfa, Nagina, Mr. India, Chandni and Chaalbaaz, in which her double-role won her the first Hindi Filmfare Best Actress Award. The commercially successful Nagina is remembered for her iconic dance sequence in the film's climax. Her performance in Shekhar Kapur's blockbuster Mr. India won her rave reviews, and her comic-timing was praised. Yash Chopra's poetic fairy-tale mega-hit Chandni earned her another nomination at the Filmfare.

Yash Chopra again directed Sridevi in the path-breaking modern day classic Lamhe (1991), where the sensitive and intense double-role act immortalised her forever in Hindi Cinema. It also won her, her second Filmfare Best Actress Award. She followed it with acclaimed performances in films like Khuda Gawah, Gumrah and Laadla. Kshanam Kshanam released in 1992 won her the fourth Filmfare Best Actress Award. Sridevi is one of the few Bollywood actresses who dictated terms and for whom exclusive roles were written. The failure of the multicrore Roop ki Rani Choron ka Raja proved to be a major setback. After the drama Judaai (1997), she left the industry in order to marry filmmaker Boney Kapoor and raise her two daughters, Jhanvi and Khushi.

After a six-year hiatus, Sridevi returned to the small screen, briefly, in the popular Sahara sitcom Malini Iyer (2004-2005). She also appeared on Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai for Karishma Kapoor (2004) and as a judge in the TV show Kaboom (2005). She is a member of the Board of Directors at the Asian Academy of film and television. Sridevi performed a medley of some of the popular songs previously picturised on herself at the 52nd Filmfare Awards 2007.

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