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Bipasha Basu, born on January 7 1979 is a Bollywood Actress and Model . She was the winner of the Ford's Supermodel Of The World Contest for 1996 and now works in mainstream Bollywood films. She has been listed as one of Asia's sexiest women, along with fellow stars Mallika Sherawat and Aishwarya Rai .1 BIOGRAPHY Early life Bipasha is the second of three daughters in her family. Her siblings are her elder sister Bidisha, and younger sister Bijoyeta. She was born in New Delhi , but her family later moved to Kolkata , where she won a regional beauty contest at a very young age. She has said that she had come into modelling and acting "quite by accident," because initially Bipasha had planned to either study chartered accountancy or medicine. However, she said that she dropped the idea of doing medical studies because she fainted when attempting to dissect rats. Career This Calcutta based commerce graduate model came into the limelight when she won the Ford's Supermodel Of The World Contest and was named Tulips Ms Super Vivacious in the same event at the remarkably young age of 17. Basu was then flown to New York by the Ford Company. She gushed in an interview, "I was spotted by the world famous photographer, Steven Meisel , and featured in Vogue magazine. I was thrilled and soon had plenty of projects coming my way." Bipasha could have had the world at her feet and easily gained acclaim as an international model, but she gave it all up to come back to India, to be with the people she loves. "Yeah, I did a lot of ads, but my heart was not in it. I started missing my family because it was the first time I was away from them. So I happily gave it all up and came down to India", she reminiscesd. This Bengali bombshell was bold enough to accept an unusual role in her debut film, Abbas Mustan's Ajnabee , with Bobby Deol , Akshay Kumar & Kareena Kapoor . She played a married woman who goes all out to woo her husband’s married friend. She was a household name much before she entered films. Besides doing innumerable prestigious ads, Bips, as her friends call her, did the famous video "Tu" for Sonu Nigam 's album, Kismat and she also made a guest appearance in Jay Sean 's music video Stolen .2 On July 7, 2007 Bipasha co-hosted the new Seven Wonders of the World event along with two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank and Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley in Lisbon, Portugal. Personal life Basu is currently dating actor John Abraham , whom she met during the filming of Aetbaar . She previously dated fellow Bollywood actor Dino Morea . There were rumours that the couple had parted ways because of Basu's closeness with supermodel and the man she dated before Morea, Milind Soman . Abraham and Basu are now rumoured to be engaged. Even though Basu is a practicing Hindu and Abraham 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 Basu performed a dance with sex workers in an effort to raise AIDS awareness.http://www.bollywoodmantra.com/1466_bipasha-basu-performs-with-sex-workers.html CONTROVERSIES
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International Indian Film Academy Awards Winner
Global Indian Film Awards Winner
MTV Immies Winner
Bollywood Movie Awards Winner
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