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Pooja Bedi is a Actor Indian born on 11 may 1970 at Mumbai (Inde)
Pooja Bedi (born 11 May 1970) is a former Bollywood actress, television talk show host. She is the daughter of actor Kabir Bedi and the late Protima Bedi.
Bedi married Guetta Ebrahim Furniturewalla whom she met in 1990. She has two children, a daughter Aalia Furniturewalla born in 1997 and son Omar Ebrahim, born in 2000. Bedi and Farhan divorced in 2003. She recently broke up with TV actor Akashdeep Saigal.
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Pooja Bedi
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Pooja Bedi was born in Mumbai to the late Indian classical dancer Protima and film star Kabir Bedi. She was brought up in what she calls a bohemian progressive artistic environment. She received her basic education at Besant Montessori in Mumbai and then at Lawrence School, Sanawar . She was a class topper academically and was in the basketball team, hockey team, swimming team, debating team, and theatre group.Bedi married Guetta Ebrahim Furniturewalla whom she met in 1990. She has two children, a daughter Aalia Furniturewalla born in 1997 and son Omar Ebrahim, born in 2000. Bedi and Farhan divorced in 2003. She recently broke up with TV actor Akashdeep Saigal.
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Shakti (2011)
, 2h41Directed by Meher Ramesh
Genres Fantasy, Action
Actors Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Ileana D'Cruz, Prabhu, Manjari Fadnis, Jackie Shroff, Pooja Bedi
Roles Faqtooni
Rating35%
Aishwarya (Ileana D'Cruz) is the daughter of central union home minister Raya (Prabhu Ganesan). Due to some reason, he doesn't allow his daughter to go on a trip with friends. She nonetheless goes to the trip. She then meets a guide, Shakti (Jr. NTR), who takes the group on a trip to several places. At first, she hates him because he uses every chance to get money from her. But when he saves her, she starts liking him. Afterwards, a few people who are chasing her finally find her in Haridwar and try to kill Shakti as he hurt'd them earlier. Their plan fails as Shakti turns out to be a Secret Agent and defends himself and catches the main person in this plan. When Aishwarya goes back to her father, he forgives her and asks whether she had taken a box in which there is a diamond. When she replies in the negative, he says that it is more important than his own daughter. Later, when Shakti goes to a temple, the diamond box falls off a basket his mother brought with flowers on top of it. They inform Mahadevaya who asks them to immediately come to Humpy with the box and Aishwarya. Their travel is blocked by a strong man who is then defeated by Shakti. He then kills one more person who tries to grab the box. Then Mahadeva Raya and a Swami (Nassar) come to him and then the flashback is revealed.
Ek Ajnabee (2005)
, 2h23Directed by Apoorva Lakhia
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Arjun Rampal, Perizaad Zorabian, Daya Shankar Pandey, Akhilendra Mishra, Rajendranath Zutshi
Roles a News Reporter (scenes deleted)
Rating53%
Suryaveer "Surya" Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is a bitter man and ex-Army officer, hired by his friend Shekhar Verma (Arjun Rampal) to protect a little girl, Anamika R. Rathore (Rucha Vaidya), who resides in Bangkok, Thailand with her Non-resident Indian (NRI) family. He drinks alcohol frequently, and is not interested in befriending the girl. Eventually, she wins his heart and he helps her to prepare for a swim meet. One day Anamika gets kidnapped and Surya receives serious injuries in his attempt to prevent the kidnapping. Her father is not able to pay the sum to release his daughter. So Suryaveer uses all his skills to save the life of the child, only to find out about the conspiracy that is behind the little girl's kidnapping. Surya learns that Chang, Shekhar's lawyer, is behind some of this. The real mastermind behind this is Chang's brother. Surya holds Chang hostage, while Chang's brother holds Anamika hostage. When they come to exchange the people, Chang's brother reveals a great secret to Surya. Surya learns that Shekhar was all behind this. Surya kills Chang's brother's men. A great fight between Shekhar and Surya starts. Shekhar is killed, and Surya spends the rest of his life with Anamika and her mother. In the end, Anamika gets a new bodyguard and the film shows her during her swimming practice, with Surya and her new bodyguard 15 years later.
Aatank Hi Aatank (1995)
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Rajinikanth, Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, Om Puri, Kabir Bedi, Goga Kapoor
Roles Ganga
Rating45%
Shiv Charan Sharma, a farmer, moves to the city to make a life with his son Rohan, daughter Radha Seth and his wife. He meets Munna, an orphan. Shiv and Munna work hard in the underbelly of the city outside the law and go on to lead a syndicate of gangsters. Years pass by and Shiv Charan Sharma is shown to have become an untouchable ganglord. Aslam Pathan and Billa Singh Thakur, rival crime bosses, try to kill Shiv in hopes of overtaking his territory and get rid of the opposition he was proving to be in their plans to increase drug traffic within the city.
Lootere (1993)
Directed by Dharmesh Darshan
Actors Sunny Deol, Juhi Chawla, Naseeruddin Shah, Pooja Bedi, Anupam Kher, Chunky Pandey
Roles Lala's Sister
Rating53%
The movie is a love story of Karan (Sunny Deol) and Anjali (Juhi Chawla). Karan, a decorated police officer is given the duty to protect Anjali who is the only witness against one of the underworld bosses. In order to safeguard Anjali, Karan has to take her far away in wilderness so that no one gets to know where she is. During this escapade Karan and Anjali fall in love and desire to get married against all odds. How the hero fights all the villains and saves his girl forms the crux of the story.
Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee (1993)
Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Pooja Bhatt, Rahul Roy, Pooja Bedi, Avtar Gill, Javed Khan Amrohi, Arun Bakshi
Rating58%
Alcoholic movie director, Rahul (Rahul Roy) ends up in a Rehabilitation Centre. Once there, he finds out that there is an inmate, Pooja (Pooja Bhatt), who is schizophrenic and has deep ranging mental problems. After an initial clash of personalities, the two become fast friends, and find that they are in love with each other. But Pooja's paranoia and instability makes any relationship impossible, and as a result she is hospitalized in a mental institution. Shortly thereafter there is a fire at the institution, and Pooja is killed in it. Rahul is devastated by Pooja's death, and is unable to take her off of his mind. One of his movie actresses, Seema (Pooja Bedi), and his brother Rohit, attempt to divert his mind, without much success. Then Rahul starts getting phone calls from a girl whose voice resembles Pooja's. Near the end it is found out that Pooja is alive, and she was the one who had burned down the mental institution because "she didn't like it there". Rahul and Pooja run away from the cops and Pooja's dad who wants her back in mental hospital is trying to trace her. They roam the jungle and change places but they are caught by the police in a town and at the climax Pooja snatches a gun from a police officer and shoots herself saying she doesn't want to go back to the mental hospital, she wants to be with Rahul. Her grandfather and Rahul helplessly watch her die.
Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992)
, 2h56Directed by Mansoor Khan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Cycling films
Actors Aamir Khan, Ayesha Jhulka, Mamik Singh, Deepak Tijori, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Pooja Bedi
Roles Devika
Rating80%
The movie is set in Dehradun in north India. The movie opens with the description of the various colleges in the city. The Rajput college has students from affluent backgrounds with each student being an heir to a multimillion fortune. In contrast, the Model college has students from poor local households. Other colleges include Xaviers College and Queens College, the latter being an all-girls college with the guys from all three colleges trying to woo the students there.
Chittemma Mogudu (1992)
Directed by A. Kodanda Rami Reddy
Actors Mohan Babu, Pooja Bedi, Divya Bharti
Rating71%
The young village girl Chitti (Divya Bharti) is a bubbly and fun-loving childwoman. She's enjoying life with her young group of friends consisting of three younger boys. One day, while playing one of her pranks, an old man curses her. On top of that, she witnesses a pregnant woman falling at night and suffering immense pain before ultimately dying. This incident causes Chitti's fear of pregnancy. However, the young man Mohan Babu visits the village and befriends Chitti. Soon after that, her parents arrange the marriage between Chitti and Mohan Babu. Both are more than happy with this arrangement. After the wedding, however, Chitti doesn't want to consummate the marriage out of fear of pregnancy. Mohan Babu is unhappy about it and soon gets attracted to a young doctor (Pooja Bedi). Dreaming of spending nights with her, Mohan Babu gets drunk and soon after goes home and rapes Chittui. The next morning, upon getting sober, Mohan Babu tries to comfort the outraged Chitti while the latter tries to leave for her home village to go back to her parents. Mohan Babu tries to win her back but fails time after time. Soon Chitti has to realise that she got pregnant that night while her doctor turns out to be the woman her husband got crazy for.
Vishkanya (1991)
Directed by Jag Mundhra
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Pooja Bedi, Kabir Bedi, Goga Kapoor, Moon Moon Sen, Ardhendu Bose, Satish Kaushik
Roles Nisha
Rating47%