Lara Dutta: biography, films, photos

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Lara Datta is a famous Indian actress and model. She became the winner of the Miss Universe pageant in 2000 and a UN Goodwill Ambassador.

Datta wins the FilmFare Award for Best Female Debut.

General information

The biography of Lara Dutta says that she was born on 1978-16-04 near Delhi in the town of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Girl's father - L. K. Dutt, retired Air Lieutenant Colonel, Punjabi, mother - Jennifer Dutta, Scottish. Lara has two sisters.

When the girl was three years old, her parents moved to the city of Bangalore. Here Lara graduated from high school. The future Miss Universe studied at the University of Bombay at the Faculty of Economics. Lara has an international MBA qualification, which allows her to work as a senior executive, majoring in communications and marketing.

Like any girl, Lara dreamed of being a model and actress as a child. The girl began to translate this dream into reality at the age of sixteen. She moved to Mumbai where she started working as a top model. External data helped Dutta a lot in shortterms to become a successful model and get a contract with L'Oreal.

Lara was also invited to star in the music video Tu chaalu hai Re.

Lara's height is 170 centimeters, weight 53 kilograms, which does not prevent her from having amazing volumes.

Beauty pageants

In 1997, the girl won the Miss Intercontinental contest.

In 2000, Lara Datta entered the Miss Universe 2000 beauty pageant as the Indian entry. The competition was held in Cyprus. The competition was very tough, but all the jury members unanimously voted for Lara.

Victory in a world-class competition allowed Lara to go to live in New York for two years and start a modeling and acting career. Dutta became the second Indian woman after Sushmita Sen to win such a major beauty pageant.

As Miss Universe, the girl actively participated in programs to combat AIDS, drug addiction, and sexually transmitted diseases.

Lara has traveled to many countries around the world as a UN Goodwill Ambassador.

Acting career

After receiving the title of Miss Universe, Datta began to be invited to shoot commercials and films. Lara Dutta's photos were all over the news and fashion magazines.

Datta played for the first time in a feature film in 2003. It was the picture "Love above the clouds." The aspiring actress portrayed the character Kajal Singhania, while her partner Akshay Kumar portrayed the character Raj Malhotra.

Since 2003, the actress regularly appears in films. On screensone after another, the tapes “My Joy”, “Duty Above All”, “Coming Off to the Full”, “Criminal Lies”, “Pride” and many others in which Lara played.

To date, Datta has performed over thirty film roles.

In 2011, Lara acted as one of the producers of Shashant Shah's film Trip to Delhi. In the same film, the actress also played the main female role.

Film "In the Whirlpool of Trouble"

In 2005, director Aniz Bazmi directed the comedy film In the Whirlwind of Trouble. The audience liked the picture so much that it became the hit of the year in India. Actors Salman Khan, Fardeen Khan, Anil Kapoor, Bilasha Basu and Lara Datta played the roles in the film In the Whirlwind of Trouble. Movies starring Salman Khan instantly become popular not only in India, but everywhere where Indian cinema is loved.

Lara played the role of a jealous wife named Kanjal in this picture. Her husband Kishen (actor Anil Kapoor) and his friend Prem (Salman Khan) are trying to learn how to believably deceive Kajal in order to avoid unnecessary jealousy. Because of this, friends get into awkward and funny situations.

Best movies

In 2009, the actress starred in the film "Billu" directed and written by Priyadarshan. The plot is based on the story of a simple barber Billas Rao Pardesi. He lives with his wife and children in an Indian village. He has no money for electricity or decent hairdressing tools.

One day the star Sahir Khan comes to the village. Someone starts a rumor that the barber and Sakhir have been friends since childhood. Everyone in the village is in a hurry toBill to put in a good word for them to a celebrity. Billu does know Sahir but doesn't want to meet him. Sakhir, on the other hand, came to the village to see Bill in order to clarify past omissions.

The main role in the film was played by actor Irrfan Khan, Lara played the role of Bindia Pardesi.

The film was very popular with Indian viewers and film critics. Just over $8 million was grossed worldwide.

In 2010, in Sajid Khan's musical comedy Housefull, Lara played the role of Hital. In the story, Hital and her husband Bob live a measured life in London. Suddenly, Bob's friend Aarush appears on their doorstep, who is not used to calmness and brings chaos to the lives of his friends. In order to somehow calm the fidget, Hital and Bob introduce him to Devika. The picture earned excellent ratings at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics.

Lara's best works are also called roles in the films Eye of the Tiger in 2005, Don. Mafia Leader 2" in 2011 and "Meeting That Gave Love" in 2007.

Today Lara is married to producer Mahesh Bhupathi. They are raising their daughter Saira, who was born in 2012.