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Vidya Balan is a Tamilian from Kerala. She is from the Iyer community. She comes from a middleclass family from Palghat, on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. She did her schooling from St Antony's School and later on joined St Xavier's College from where she graduated in sociology.

When she was doing her MA from Mumbai University, she was offered a role in a Malayalam film titled Chakram with Mohanlal, one of Vidya’s favorite actors. However, the project was shelved mid-way and Vidya had to wait for few more years to make her movie debut.

She made her debut as a model in a Surf Excel advertisement in 1998. She has acted in scores of ad films, most of which were directed by Pradeep Sarkar.A couple of months later, she featured in three music videos (again directed by Sarkar) for ‘Euphoria’, Shubha Mudgal and Pankaj Udhas. She started work as an actress in the Malayalam movie Chakram, paired against Mohanlal, however the film was abandoned mid-way through production.

After making her debut in television advertising as a model for a Surf Excel advertisement in 1998, she proceeded to do over 25 TV ads, (mostly directed by Pradeep Sarkar), followed with a variety of acting stints in music videos (Euphoria, Shubha Mudgal and Pankaj Udhas), Hindi TV soap operas (Hanste Khelte and Hum Paanch) and a Bengali movie, Bhaalo Theko, for which she won the Best Actress Anand Lok Puraskar award in Kolkata.

Anushka Sharma comes from an army background. Her father is a highly ranked Army Officer and her mother is a housewife. Having graduated from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, Sharma who always knew her calling laid in modeling began to pursue the charms of the glamour world.

She enrolled in the Elite Modeling Agency where she was groomed by renowned style consultant Prasad Bidapa, whom she met when she was just 15 years of age.She was then spotted by designer Wendell Rodricks and the next thing she knew was that she was his show-stopper at Wendell Rodricks Les Vamps Show.

Within a year she became a sensational model in India, and was picked to be Wendell Rodricks's finale model at the Spring Summer '07 Collection.

Since then the demure looking model has done campaigns for Silk & Shine, Whisper, Nathella Jewelry and Fiat Palio.And now Anushka is the charm of Bollywood. She was spotted by Aditya Chopra and signed on to play Taani in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. She has a three film contract with Yash Raj Films.