Celina Jaitley

Celina Jaitley (born 24 November 1981) is an Indian actress who appears in mainly Bollywood films. A former beauty queen and model, she was crowned Femina Miss India Universe in 2001.

Celina Jaitley was born in Kabul, Afghanistan to a Punjabi Hindu father and a Afghan Hindu mother. She has one brother who is serving the Indian army.

Her father was posted at various places in India so Jaitley grew up in several cities, including Lucknow, where she attended City Monetessori School, Station Road. She also studied in Berhampur, Orissa. She has spent a major portion of her time in Kolkata, West Bengal where father was posted during her collegian period. She has stated in interviews that when she was young she wanted to join the army, either as a doctor or a pilot. She graduated with a degree in commerce from Indira Gandhi National Open University.

Jaitley came in first place at Femina Miss India 2001 winning the title of Femina Miss India Universe 2001. In addition to her title, she won the Miss Margo Beautiful Skin, Indiatimes Surfer's Choice, and MTV's Most Wanted award. She was subsequently sent to the Miss Universe 2001 contest to represent India where she was a finalist and finished as the 4th Runner Up.

In 2003, she made her film debut in Feroz Khan's Janasheen. In 2007 Jaitley flew to New Zealand and shot her first international movie Love Has No Language, a romantic comedy. Whilst there she was targeted by a stalker who had followed her from India. Jaitley was said to be traumatized by the experience.

Jaitley is slated to play the character of a Persian princess in the film Quest of Scheherzade along with actors Sean Connery and Orlando Bloom. The film is based on Arabian Nights and will be directed by Ken Khan. This will be Celina's first venture into Hollywood. She is also the brand ambassador of Egyptian tourism and Diya Diamond Jewellery, the fastest growing jewellery brand in Indian market from Gitanjali Group. Jaitley is also a supporter of the rights and equality of the LGBT community and supports the gay rights movement in India.

Yana Gupta

Yana Gupta or Yaana (born Jana Synková) is a Czechoslovakian born model-actress working in India.

Yana Gupta was born in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) and began modelling in the mid-1990s. Her career took a turn toward the east when she married Indian artist Satyakam Gupta in Pune. and changed her last name from Synkova to Gupta. She divorced Satyakam Gupta in 2005. In 2008 she altered her given name to Yaana.

Yaana appeared on numerous magazine covers, including Elle, Cosmopolitan, Femina, and now on Maxim. Gupta modeled for the premier Kingfisher's calendar and has performed dance numbers in three films including the remix of babuji zara dheere chalo. Before her career in Bollywood, she modeled for international clients like Calvin Klein & Victoria's Secret.

Yaana made her big screen debut in the Bollywood movie Dum for the song 'Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo' which made her famous for cameo item numbers. She was named the new face for Lakmé Cosmetics in 2001. She has also appeared in a Kannada movie named Jogi (film). She played the role of a TV anchor on the countdown show Mirch Masala on ZoomTV where she danced to famous dance numbers.

Yaana recently signed up with a leading mobile and PC games company Indiagames as brand ambassador and will be featured in several interesting games and applications related to fitness, puzzles etc. Yaana has featured on the Dr Zeus album Back Unda Da Influence, which was released in 2007.

She featured in a cameo role in the video for the song "Chargai", released on Aman Hayer's 2008 release Groundshaker 2. The song features vocals from Jazzy B & Apache Indian. She is also very famous for her song "Kadhal yanai" from the blockbuster Tamil film Anniyan [Aparichit in Hindi (dubbed)] and "Aadatanama" from the Telugu film Gharshana (Remake of blockbuster tamil film Kaaka Kaaka).

Ayesha Takia

Ayesha Takia Azmi (born Ayesha Takia on 10 April 1986) is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Bollywood films.

Ayesha was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra to a Gujarati father, Nishit and a half British - half Maharashtrian mother, Faridah. She attended St. Anthony's High School. She has a younger sister named Natasha.

Ayesha started her career with the "I am a Complan Girl!" advertising campaign and she also appeared in a music video, Falguni Pathak's Meri Chunarii Udd Udd Jaye, when she was fifteen. She then appeared in the video, Shake It Daddy when she was sixteen, which brought her to the attention of the movie industry, and a few film offers followed. She signed a contract for Socha Na Tha.

However, there were delays in making Socha Na Tha so the movie Taarzan released first and was therefore her "debut" film. She won the Filmfare Best Debut Award in 2004 for her performance in Taarzan: The Wonder Car. She earned critical acclaim for her performance in Nagesh Kukunoor's Dor. She appeared in one Telugu film Super with Tollywood star Akkineni Nagarjuna.

Ayesha's latest release was Wanted costarring Salman Khan. It emerged as the one of the biggest blockbusters of 2009.

On 1 March 2009, Ayesha married Farhan Azmi, a restaurateur and the son of politician Abu Azmi, a Samajwadi Party leader. The couple had originally planned to marry in December 2008, but the wedding was delayed due to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.