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Bipasha Basu (Bengali:(born January 7, 1979) is an
Indian Bollywood actress and 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. She is often cited by popular magazines
and newspapers as one of Asia's sexiest women. Recently
Bipasha posed for FHM magazine, and Maxim.
Born in New Delhi, India, Bipasha Basu hails from 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 Delhi, her
family later moved to Kolkata.
According to Bipasha Basu , she had come into modelling and
acting quite by accident, because initially she had
planned to study medicine. Basu studied science till
the 12th standard, and later took up commerce and
studied at The Bhawanipur Gujarati Education Society
College in Kolkata where she also did modelling and
rampshows partime. Although, as pointed above, she
intended to become a doctor, her aversion for
dissections made her opt for chartered accountancy.
However, in 1996, she met well-known model Mehr Jessia
in Kolkata; the latter suggested that Basu take part
in the Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest. She
eventually participated, and won the contest.
After winning the Ford Godrej Cinthol contest, Bipasha Basu
was flown to New York by the Ford Company, where she
had a successful modelling career.
Basu made her debut film in Abbas Mustan's Ajnabee,
with Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol and Kareena Kapoor. She
played a married woman who goes all out to woo her
husband’s married friend, and eventually won the
Filmfare Best Female Debut Award for her performance.
After a number film, next year in 2002, Bipasha Basu starred
in Vikram Bhatt's thriller Raaz. The film was a big
commercial success and surfaced as the biggest hit of
that year. For her performance in the film, she
received her first Best Actress nomination at the
Filmfare. Besides acting, Bips, as her friends call
her, did the famous video "Tu" for Sonu Nigam's album,
Kismat and made a guest appearance in Jay Sean's music
video Stolen. In 2006, she won popular acclaim for her
performance in an Item number during the song Beedi in
the film Omkara. The song was a national hit, and
Basu's pictuarization was appreciated.
Bipasha Basu is currently dating actor John Abraham, They have
been dating since late 2002. She previously dated
fellow Bollywood actors Milind Soman and Dino Morea.
Even though Basu is a practicing Hindu and Abraham is
a Christian, both families have accepted the couple.
Basu has stated in an interview that though she was
raised a Hindu, she believes that all religious groups
deserve respect.
In 2006, Bipasha Basu claimed to have been harassed by
organizers of the India Day Parade in Edison, New
Jersey. Basu was initially scheduled to lead the
parade on August 13, 2006. Basu eventually appeared on
stage late, according to her, because of the
harassment. She said, "I wanted to attend the parade,
but I could not." She explained that she was harassed
physically and mentally in the car by two people who
were taking her to the parade. In November 2007, U.K.
magazine Eastern Eye named Bipasha Basu "Sexiest Woman in Asia".