Shilpa Shetty is an Indian actress, entrepreneur, producer, author, dancer, and former model. She has appeared in many Hindi movies and achieved multiple film awards during her career. She is best known for her role in the romantic drama Dhadkan (2000), Indian (2001).
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Shilpa Shetty First Movie: Baazigar
Shilpa Shetty's first movie is the thriller movie Baazigar (1993). Her debut in the movie has gotten her two Filmfare Awards nominations.
Baazigar is an action thriller movie directed by Abbas–Mustan. The movie was loosely based on the 1991 movie A Kiss Before Dying. The film was a huge success due to its great acting, story, screenplay. The movie tells the story of a killer who charms the daughter of a businessman just to kill her after that and make it look like a suicide. He then makes a plan to destroy the whole family.
Shilpa Shetty Biography
Shilpa Shetty was born on June 8, 1975, in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. Her real name is Shilpa Shetty Kundra. She studied in the St Anthony's Girls' High School in Chembur Mumbai. She graduated from Pdar College in Mumbai.
Shilpa Shetty got Honorary Doctorate from the University of Leeds. She also got a Black belt in Karate.
Shilpa Shetty Career
Shilpa Shetty started out as a model when she finished 10th class. Her acting career started with the movie "Gaata Rahe Mera Dil" in 1992 but the movie wasn't released. She then had her debut in Baazigar in 1993, which earned her 2 nominations.
She had a lead role in the action movie Aag in 1994.
Shilpa Shetty started to get a lot of attention during the 1995- 199 period. She first starred in a Tamil movie in 1996 with the action comedy Mr Romeo. in 1997, she starred in 6 different films. In 1998, she starred in Pardesi Babu, which was a huge success and it won her the Bollywood Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Shilpa Shetty got multiple nominations and acclaim for her role in Dhadkan (2000), Rishtey (2002), Phir Milenge (2004).
She first starred in a Kannada movie in 2005 with the action romance Auto Shankar. It was a huge box office success and it got her the name "The Gabbar Singh of the South" because of her performance in the film.
2007 was the most successful box office year of Shilpa Shetty. Life in a... Metro was critically acclaimed and it was the first Bollywood movie to premiere at Leicester Square.
Shilpa Shetty Awards and Nominations
Bollywood Movie Awards
Shilpa Shetty won the Best Supporting Actress in the 1999 movie Pardesi Babu. She got nominated for Best Actress in 2005 for the movie Phir Milenge.
Filmfare Awards
Shilpa Shetty got 4 Filmfare Awards nominations but have never won once.
She first got nominated as Lux New Face of the Year in 1994.
She got nominated twice as the Best Supporting Actress for her role in Baazigar (1994) and Rishtey (2003).
She also got nominated as Best Actress for her role in Phir Milenge.
Filmfare Awards South
Shilpa Shetty got nominated once in the Filmfare Awards South as Best Actress in 1996.
IIFA Awards
Shilpa Shetty got nominated twice as Best Actress in 2001 and 2005. She won the IIFA Special Award for Global Impact Award in 2007.
Indian Television Academy Awards
Shilpa Shetty won The GR8!Achiever Laurel in 2008.
Star Screen Awards
Shilpa Shetty got 2 nominations in the Star Screen Awards, one for the Best Actress category and one for the Best Comedian category.
Zee Cine Awards
Shilpa Shetty got nominated for Best Actor - Female in 2005. She won Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Female in 2008.
Shilpa Shetty Family and Relationships
Shilpa Shetty's father is Surendra Shetty and her mother is Sunanda Shetty. Both of them are the worker of tamper-proof water caps in the pharmaceutical industry.
Her younger sister is the actress Shamita Shetty.
Shilpa Shetty used to date Akshay Kumar but then they broke up because Shilpa found out that he was cheating her with Twinkle Khana, who is his present wife.
There are rumors that she used to date the film director Anubhav Sina.
In 2009, Shilpa Shetty married a British man called Raj Kundra. They had a son named Viaan Raj Kundra.
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