Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Biography - Juhi Chawla



Juhi Chawla Biography :

Juhi Chawla born 13 November 1967 in Ludhiana, Punjab, is a popular Indian actress.Juhi Chawla was the first child born to Mona Chawla and a Dr. S Chawla. She has one brother named Sanjeev. She was the winner of Miss India title in 1984, later she won Best Costume Award for the Miss Universe contest in 1984.

From beauty contests, she moved into film - with her movie debut being Sultanat in 1986. Her first big hit was Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak in 1988, in which she starred with Aamir Khan. This Romeo and Juliet story of persecuted teenage lovers was an enormous success and launched Aamir's and Juhi's careers. Juhi Chawla is married to industrialist Jai Mehta and is the mother of two children. She has one daughter and one son. Her daughter's name is Janhvi and her son's name is Arjun. Her mother was killed in Prague by a driver who ran over her with his car during the shooting of Duplicate.

Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi have been friends ever since their first film "Raju Bangaya Gentleman" went on to owning a film production firm with Aziz Mirza which they have called Dreamz Unlimited. The first film to come out of Dreamz Unlimited starred both Juhi and Shah Rukh and was called Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani. It was not much of a success. The Yash Raj Camp proved lucky. She accepted a small cameo in Chandni (1989), to later be cast in the critically accliamed Aaina (1993) opposite Jackie Shroff, and then in one of her biggest hits Darr (1993) with Sunny Deol and Shahrukh Khan. Her pairing with Aamir Khan has been repeatedly successful with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1989), Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (1993) and later on Ishq (1997) becoming hits.

She has teamed up successfully with Shahrukh Khan too, delivering his first big hit Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman and then later on with Darr, Duplicate and Yes Boss. She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award in 1993 for Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke and a Star Screen Award Best Supporting Actress for 3 Deewarein. Juhi has recently appeared in critically acclaimed films like Teen Deewarein, Bas Ek Pal, 7.5 Phere and My Brother Nikhil and will soon be seen in Nikhil Advani's Salaam E Ishq: A Tribute To Love, Ravi Chopra's Bhoothnath with Amitabh Bachchan and another film called Swami co-starring Manoj Bajpai to be directed by Ganesh Acharya. Today Juhi Chawla is recognized as one of India's most versatile actresses. She's been playing lead roles for more than 20 years, something rarely any Bollywood actress has achieved.