Lara Dutta is a famous Indian actress, model. She became the winner of the Miss Universe contest in 2000 and the UN Goodwill Ambassador.
Datta is the winner of the FilmFare Award in the Best Female Debut category.
General information
The biography of Lara Datta says that she was born on 04.16.1978 near Delhi in the town of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh state in India.
The girl’s father is L.K. Dutt, a retired aviation lieutenant colonel, Punjabi, her mother is Jennifer Dutta, a Scottish woman. 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. She studied the future Miss Universe at the University of Bombay at the Department of Economics. Lara has an international MBA qualification, which allows her to work as a senior manager, specializing in communications and marketing.
Like any girl, Lara in her childhood dreamed of being a model and actress. The girl began to turn this dream into reality at the age of sixteen. She moved to Mumbai, where she began working as a top model. External data helped Datta in a short time 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 contests
In 1997, the girl won the Miss Intercontinental contest.
In 2000, Lara Dutta took part in the Miss Universe 2000 beauty pageant as a participant from India. The competition was held in Cyprus. The competition was very tough, but all members of the jury voted unanimously for Lara.
The victory in the world competition allowed Lara to live in New York for two years and begin her modeling and acting career. Datta became the second Indian after Sushmita Sen, who won such a major beauty contest.
Like Miss Universe, the girl actively participated in programs to combat AIDS, drug addiction, sexually transmitted diseases.
Lara has traveled to many countries around the world as the UN Goodwill Ambassador.
Actor career
After receiving the title Miss Universe, Dattu began to be invited to shoot in commercials and in films. Photos of Lara Datta circled all the news and fashion magazines.
For the first time in a feature film, Dutta played in 2003. It was a picture of "Love above the clouds." The aspiring actress portrayed the heroine Kajal Singhaniya, and her partner Akshay Kumar - the hero of Raja Malhotra.
Since 2003, the actress regularly appears in movies. One after another, the films “My Joy”, “Duty Above All”, “Tearing Off to the Full”, “Criminal Lie”, “Pride” and many others in which Lara played are released.
To date, Dutta has performed more than thirty movie roles.
In 2011, Lara acted as one of the producers of Shashant Shah's film “A Trip to Delhi”. In the same film, the actress played the main female role.
The film "In the maelstrom of trouble"
In 2005, director Anis Bazmi directed the comedy film "In the Whirlpool of Trouble." The audience liked the picture so much that it became the hit of the year in India. Actors Salman Khan, Fardin Khan, Anil Kapoor, Bilasha Basu and Lara Datta played roles in the film “In the Whirlpool of Troubles”. Films in which Salman Khan plays instantly become popular not only in India, but also everywhere where they like Indian cinema.
Lara played in this picture the role of a jealous wife named Kanjal. Her husband Kishen (actor Anil Kapoor) and his friend Prem (Salman Khan) are trying to learn how to plausibly lie to Kajal to avoid unnecessary jealousy. Because of this, friends get into awkward and funny situations.
Top movies
In 2009, the actress starred in the film "Bill" directed and screenwriter 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 either electricity or decent hairdressing tools.
Once a star Sahir Khan arrives in the village. Someone makes a rumor that the barber and Sahir have been friends since childhood. Everyone in the village is more likely to rush to Bill, so that he put in a word for them before the celebrity. Bill really knows Sahir, but does not want to meet with him. Sahir, on the other hand, came to the village precisely to Bill, in order to clarify past omissions.
The main role in the film was played by actor Irfan Khan, Lara played the role of Bindia Pardesi.
The film really liked the Indian audience and film critics. In the world box office, a little more than eight million dollars were collected.
In 2010, in the musical comedy of Sajid Khan's “Full House”, Lara played the role of Hital. In the story, Hital and her husband Bob live in London a measured life. Suddenly, a friend of Bob Aarush appears on their doorstep, who is not used to calm and brings chaos to the life of his friends. In order to calm the fidget somehow, Hital and Bob introduce him to Devika. The film earned excellent ratings at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics.
The best works of Lara are also called roles in the films “Eye of the Tiger” in 2005, “Don. The leader of the Mafia-2 "in 2011 and the" Meeting that gave love "in 2007.
Today Lara is married to producer Mahesh Bhupatha. They are raising their daughter Saira, who was born in 2012.