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Divya Dutta is a Actor Indian born on 25 september 1977 at Ludhiana (Inde)
Divya Dutta (born 25 September 1977) is an Indian film actress and model. She has established a successful career in Bollywood and Punjabi cinema, but has also appeared in Malayalam and English films. She is noted for playing a wide variety of roles in various film genres, and has established herself as one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema.
Dutta was born and raised in Ludhiana, Punjab, and debuted in Hindi cinema in 1994 with the film Ishq Mein Jeena Ishq Mein Marna, which she followed up with a lead role in the 1995 drama Veergati and a string of supporting roles. She then garnered attention for playing the lead role of Zainab, a Muslim wife separated from her Sikh husband, in the 1999 Punjabi film Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Boota Singh, set against the backdrop of the 1947 Partition of India. The movie was a surprise hit, and Dutta subsequently continued to act in supporting roles. In 2004, Dutta garnered widespread critical acclaim for her role as Shabbo in the romantic drama Veer-Zaara and earned best supporting actress nominations at several awards ceremonies, including Filmfare. She subsequently received recognition for her role in the 2008 comedy film Welcome to Sajjanpur, and received the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Jalebi in the 2009 drama film Delhi-6.
Dutta continued to establish herself as one of the most sought-after actresses with roles in the 2011 film Stanley Ka Dabba and the 2012 drama Heroine. In 2013, she received attention for her performance in Gippi and more notably, the biographical sports drama film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, in which she played Ishri Kaur, the sister of Milkha Singh. For her role in the latter, she received several awards and nominations, including her second IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress. To date, she has acted in more than sixty feature films, including, two international productions. She has also ventured into television, playing the role of Purnima Banerjee in the serial Samvidhaan.
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Divya Dutta
Divya Dutta (born 25 September 1977) is an Indian film actress and model. She has established a successful career in Bollywood and Punjabi cinema, but has also appeared in Malayalam and English films. She is noted for playing a wide variety of roles in various film genres, and has established herself as one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema.
Dutta was born and raised in Ludhiana, Punjab, and debuted in Hindi cinema in 1994 with the film Ishq Mein Jeena Ishq Mein Marna, which she followed up with a lead role in the 1995 drama Veergati and a string of supporting roles. She then garnered attention for playing the lead role of Zainab, a Muslim wife separated from her Sikh husband, in the 1999 Punjabi film Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Boota Singh, set against the backdrop of the 1947 Partition of India. The movie was a surprise hit, and Dutta subsequently continued to act in supporting roles. In 2004, Dutta garnered widespread critical acclaim for her role as Shabbo in the romantic drama Veer-Zaara and earned best supporting actress nominations at several awards ceremonies, including Filmfare. She subsequently received recognition for her role in the 2008 comedy film Welcome to Sajjanpur, and received the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Jalebi in the 2009 drama film Delhi-6.
Dutta continued to establish herself as one of the most sought-after actresses with roles in the 2011 film Stanley Ka Dabba and the 2012 drama Heroine. In 2013, she received attention for her performance in Gippi and more notably, the biographical sports drama film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, in which she played Ishri Kaur, the sister of Milkha Singh. For her role in the latter, she received several awards and nominations, including her second IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress. To date, she has acted in more than sixty feature films, including, two international productions. She has also ventured into television, playing the role of Purnima Banerjee in the serial Samvidhaan.
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Babumoshai Bandookbaaz (2017)
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Chitrangada Singh, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Bidita Bag, Roopa Ganguly
Roles Jiji
Rating68%
Traffic (2016)
Directed by Rajesh Pillai
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Manoj Bajpayee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Jimmy Shergill, Parambrata Chatterjee, Divya Dutta, Nikita Thukral
Roles Maya Kapoor
Rating66%
Chalk n Duster (2016)
Genres Drama
Actors Juhi Chawla, Shabana Azmi, Zarina Wahab, Aarya Babbar, Divya Dutta, Gavie Chahal
Roles Kamini Gupta
Rating64%
Badlapur (2015)
, 2h25Directed by Sriram Raghavan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Yami Gautam, Radhika Apte, Vinay Pathak
Roles Shoba
Rating73%
Misha (Yami Gautam) and her son Robin become the victims of a bank robbery getaway during a shopping trip. Liak (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and his friend Harman (Vinay Pathak) are on the run after robbing a bank and use Misha's car to flee. Robin falls out of the moving vehicle during the struggle, while Misha is shot by Liak. Both mother and son later died from their injuries in the hospital. Harman jumps out of the car to protect the money while Liak is arrested.
Ragini MMS 2 (2014)
, 1h59Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Sunny Leone, Sandhya Mridul, Parvin Dabas, Anita Hassanandani, Soniya Mehra, Divya Dutta
Roles Dr. Meera Dutta
Rating39%
The film begins where the previous film ended. Ragini's MMS sex tape has gone viral along with rumours of the house's haunted nature, where the MMS was filmed. This catches the attention of a sleazy director, Rocks (Parvin Dabas) who decides to make a movie on the haunting. He signs an ex-porn star, Sunny (Sunny Leone) as the lead actress and decides to shoot the movie in the same house where the MMS was recorded.
Manjunath (2014)
, 2h9Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Seema Biswas, Divya Dutta, Yashpal Sharma, Asif Basra, Kishor Kadam, Anjori Alagh
Roles Anjali
Rating70%
Today’s hinterland of Uttar Pradesh and state-of-the-art campus of the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L), India, 'Manjunath' is the story of a 27-year-old man, Manjunath Shanmugam. After passing out from the IIM, Manjunath joins a petroleum company as a sales officer. He is posted in Lakhimpur Kheri, a remote district in rural Uttar Pradesh. One day Manjunath goes missing. His friends, who know and work with him, panic, because they know that off late he had been very disturbed and was behaving very strangely. He had become very serious and scared. And this was very different from the Manjunath they knew in college, who was always jovial, fun-loving, very friendly and a great entertainer.
Actors Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala, Gulshan Grover, Divya Dutta, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Aarya Babbar
Rating64%
Chehere is a period drama set in the 1950s that revolves around the life of a retired silent era actor played by Manisha Koirala.The actress in the film has a bitter relationship with her sister (played by Divya Dutta), a poetess. It revolves around clash of ideas and perspectives and an ensuing mystery. Directed by filmmaker Rohit Kaushik, 'Chehere: A Modern Day Classic' will surely enthrall the audience.
Lootera (2013)
, 2h15Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha, Barun Chanda, Vikrant Jolly Massey, Arif Zakaria, Adil Hussain
Roles Shyama
Rating73%
Lootera is inspired by O. Henry's The Last Leaf. In the picturesque town of Manikpur, West Bengal in 1953, a landlord goes to watch a Chhau dance with his daughter, Pakhi Roy Chaudhary (Sonakshi Sinha), an aspiring writer. After Pakhi has an asthma attack from the ensuing excitement, she is rushed home and given medication. As she recuperates, her father comforts her and narrates the story of the invincible king whose soul resided inside a parrot, telling her that she is the parrot within whom his life resides.
Special 26 (2013)
, 2h24Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Akshay Kumar, Kajal Agarwal, Jimmy Shergill, Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher, Divya Dutta
Roles Shanti Ji
Rating79%
The story opens on 18 March 1987, where a walk-in CBI interview is taking place, held by the characters of Akshay Kumar and Anupam Kher. The film then goes into flashback.
Zila Ghaziabad (2013)
, 2h23Directed by Anand Kumar
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Vivek Oberoi, Minissha Lamba, Charmi Kaur, Ravi Kishan
Roles Mahenderi
Rating37%
Boyss Toh Boyss Hain (2013)
Genres Romance
Actors Rajkummar Rao, Anshuman Jha, Gulshan Grover, Divya Dutta, Dhruv Ganesh, Manu Rishi
Rating55%
The movie "Boys Toh Boys Hain" is based on the lines of the celebrated comic book but set in Delhi instead of River dale. It's a movie with youthful story of four young guys who face the similar problem in their life. They are looking to fall in love but the right woman does not seem to be coming their way. The crux of the story is how they eventually find their way to their true love. All this is happening in comic way so we can say that there is laughter in the movie.
Gippi (2013)
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Divya Dutta, Riya Vij, Pankaj Dheer, Taaha Shah, Raqesh Vashisth
Roles Booboo
Rating56%
Gippi is a 14-year-old girl who lives in Shimla with her mother Pappi and little brother Booboo. She is overweight and awkward and doesn't know how to handle the physical, emotional and social changes adolescence brings. In school she is a backbencher and is constantly bullied by the popular queen-bee Shamira and at home,she is also teased because of not having periods, she's trying to figure out how to deal with living in a broken home. In the middle of all this chaos, she falls madly in love with an older, brooding heartbreaker named Arjun. When her love story comes to a humiliating end and she is publicly scorned, she decides to take her life in her hands and accepts Shamira's challenge to stand against her in the school elections. She wins the elections.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)
, 3h7Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Athletics films, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Rebecca Breeds, Dalip Tahil, Meesha Shafi, Dev Gill
Roles Ishri Kaur
Rating81%
The film starts in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where a coach says "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!" The story is taken back to the memories of the childhood days of a young boy which haunted him, resulting in him dropping to fourth. Partition of India in 1947 caused chaos which resulted in mass religious violence in Punjab in British India, killing the parents of Milkha Singh (Farhan Akhtar). He reaches Delhi and later meets his sister there. Living in impoverished refugee camps, Milkha soon makes friends and survives by stealing along with his friends. He falls in love with Biro (Sonam Kapoor), but she asks him to live a life of honesty.
Dangerous Ishq (2012)
, 3h25Directed by Vikram Bhatt
Origin Inde
Genres Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Karisma Kapoor, Rajneesh Duggal, Jimmy Shergill, Mugdha Godse, Rajniesh Duggall, Divya Dutta
Roles Neetu / Chanda / Tawaif
Rating41%
The story of the film spans over a period of four centuries and tells four different stories set in different time periods. Supermodel Sanjana (Karisma Kapoor) and Rohan (Rajneesh Duggal), son of one of the nation's foremost business tycoons have been one of the most popular couples in the social circuit. When Sanjana decides against flying to Paris at the last minute for a lucrative modelling assignment, she does so, not just because she cannot bear to stay away from her boyfriend Rohan, but more importantly because her instincts push her against going. But what her instincts cannot do is stop Rohan from getting kidnapped. The high profile kidnapping creates chaos in Sanjana's life. The kidnappers demand 500 million. The police however believe that even paying the ransom will not bring Rohan back. Shortly after Rohan gets kidnapped, Sanjana starts hearing strange noises. She has visions of Rohan calling her Geeta. With all this happening, Sanjana realises that she can read Urdu even though she has never learnt it. She informs her doctor friend Neetu (Divya Dutta) about it, who in turns refers her to a psychiatrist.
Heroine (2012)
, 2h28Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda, Sanjay Suri, Shahana Goswami, Govind Namdev
Roles Pallavi Narayan
Rating50%
The movie begins with Mahi Arora (Kareena Kapoor), a renowned heroine, being thrown out of a car at night. She hails a taxi to a police station with the intention of lodging a complaint. Before she can do so, her secretary Rashid Bhai (Govind Namdeo) takes her from the station. The movie then goes to flashback for a while, showing the circumstances and her relationship with a well-known actor Aryan (Arjun Rampal). Aryan is in the divorce proceedings with his wife, and dating Mahi. Mahi is completely in love with Aryan, and during one of their intimate moments, takes a video of them just for fun. Aryan is split between his current wife and son, his career, and over-jealous Mahi. When Mahi comes to know about an intimate scene Aryan is shooting for a movie, she barges on to the set and creates a ruckus, which upsets Aryan. Later Mahi is teased by Aryan's current wife in a party, and she insults her back. While driven back from the party with Aryan, Mahi raises the topic, which results in her being thrown out of the car. Mahi then goes into depression, putting her career in jeopardy. One of her friends suggests Mahi to stop playing the victim and to get back again with a bang. Heeding her advice, Mahi decides to rejuvenate her career. She employs a PRO, Pallavi (Divya Dutta) who reinvents Mahi's image and puts her back on the front page of every newspapers and magazines. She starts relationship with an upcoming cricketer, Angad Paul (Randeep Hooda). Their love affair begins to blossom and puts her back into the spotlight. Mahi uses Angad to get role in a big budget film. However, lead hero manipulates so that all the spotlight in the film goes to him and an item girl. Mahi is dissatisfied despite the film being a success, and in a desperate attempt to prove her acting skills she works in an art film for next nine months. In between Angad proposes to Mahi, but she feels that presently they should concentrate on their respective careers. This causes Mahi and Angad's relationship to end. Also the art film never completes, again Mahi goes into depression accompanied by heavy drinking and smoking. As no big film coming her way, she decides to work on a low budget film with newcomers. Also she agrees to make an appearance in the marriage of an industrialist daughter. As fate would have it, Mahi meets Aryan at the wedding. Aryan seems to be apologetic to Mahi for what he had done to her. They decide to rekindle their affair. Mahi is happy that Aryan is back in her life. Also, he wants her to do a big budget film with him. However, the director of the film is reluctant to cast Mahi in the role of the lead heroine as she has lost her appeal. Mahi becomes insane about losing the role to another heroine. She asks Pallavi to leak the sex tape of her and Aryan on the news so that she would get back on the spotlight for the release of her low budget film. As a result of this controversy, the film becomes an instant hit. However, when Rashid Bhai quits his job and a veteran actress in the industry, Shagufta Reza (Helen) whom Mahi admires dearly, dies, Mahi decides to quit acting as well. In the concluding scenes, Mahi is shown walking alone in a foreign country and on being asked if she is Mahi Arora, she replies "no". It is implied that Mahi moved on with her life.