JUHI CHAWLA...........

Juhi Chawla (Born 13 November 1967 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India) is an award-winning Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. Initially starting with mainstream films, Chawla is now appearing in parallel cinema.

Juhi Chawla was the first child born to Punjabi father Dr. S. Chawla and Gujarati mother, Mona. She has one brother named Sanjeev. She graduated from Sydenham College, Mumbai.

She was the winner of Miss India title in 1984, later she won Best Costume Award for the Miss Universe contest in 1984.

From beauty contests, she moved into film - with her movie debut being "Sultanat" in 1986. She then starred in the Kannada film "Premaloka" which was a super-hit. She also featured in "Goonj" with Kumar Gaurav.

Her first big hit in Bollywood was "Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak" in 1988, in which she starred with Aamir Khan.This Romeo and Juliet story of persecuted teenage lovers was an enormous success and launched Aamir's and Juhi's careers.Following films did not do as well.



Chawla made a special appearance in the film "Chandni" (1989) produced by Yash Raj Films. She was later cast in the critically accliamed "Aaina" (1993) opposite Jackie Shroff, and then in one of her biggest hits "Darr"(1993) with Sunny Deol and Shahrukh Khan.

She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award in 1993 for "Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke". Her pairing with Aamir Khan has been repeatedly successful with "Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak" (1989), "Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke" (1993) and later on "Ishq" (1997) becoming hits.
She has teamed up successfully with Shahrukh Khan too, delivering his first big hit "Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman" (1992) and then later on with "Darr" (1993) and "Yes Boss" (1997).

Juhi later turned producer and became the co-owner of a production company called Dreamz Unlimited with Shahrukh Khan and director Aziz Mirza. Unfortunately the first two films produced by the production company - "Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani" and "Asoka" failed at the box office. Their third film,"Chalte Chalte" was the first success for the company.

Juhi has recently appeared in the critically acclaimed films - "3 Deewarein", "7½ Phere" and "My Brother Nikhil" for which Taran Adarsh went as far as saying that her performance was amongst the finest in her career. She won a Star Screen Award Best Supporting Actress for "3 Deewarein".



She was recently seen in Nikhil Advani's "Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute To Love" for which she got good reviews for her performance. She also starred with fellow superstar Urmila Matondkar in "Bas Ek Pal" (2006) and with Manoj Bajpai in 'Swami'. Juhi's forthcoming releases include Ravi Chopra's "Bhoothnath" with Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan and another film called "Krazy 4" with Irfan Khan and Arshad Warsi.

Juhi Chawla is married to industrialist Jai Mehta and is the mother of two children. She has one daughter and one son. Her daughter's name is Janhvi and her son's name is Arjun.
Her mother was killed in Prague by a driver who ran over her with his car during the shooting of Duplicate

She gave birth to her first child, a girl, on February 21, 2001. Her daughter's name is Jhanvi. Chawla later gave birth to a son called Arjun.

A thoughtful and sensitive individual, Juhi Chawla, was born on 13 Nov 1967 in Ludhiyana - India.

Juhi Chawla, the cutie-pie of the Bollywood has had her share in the field that she's been in for 15 years hitting the limelight every often with her smart performance in all the films she acted. She had a lot of hit films which are mostly musically melodious and films that did pretty well at the box office. Juhi acted opposite all the top heroes in Bollywood and she enjoys a very good rapport with all the industry people that she runs a production company "DREAMZ UNLIMITED" in a parternership with the top class actor Sharukh Khan and Aziz Mirza.



Juhi won "Ms.India" crown and "The Best Costumes" award in the Ms. Universe competition in '84 well before her debut in films and while she enjoyed her place in the BOLLYWOOD, she won the "Best Actress" award from FILMFARE in '94 for "HUM HAIN RAHI PYAR KE" and "Most Sensational Female" award in '99 from NEWYORK's BOLLYWOOD for her performance in "DUPLICATE".

Although Juhi got married to her lover boy Jai Mehta, a business man from LONDON, she still enjoys her profession in Bollywood.

Born on 13th November 1967, Ludhiana, Punjab, Juhi Chawla bagged the femina Miss india title(1984), married to Jay Mehta, a millionaire industrialist in India and have one daughter. Mansoor Khan directorial debut Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak went onto create box-office history and a star was born. Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla were accepted as the hottest romantic pair at the box-office. Together they went on to do films like Tum Mere Ho and Love Love Love. But unfortunately these films couldn't live up to the audience’s expectations. After doing eminently forgettable films like CID, Shaandaar, Sanam Bewaffa, Goonj, Radha Ka Sangam, Juhi Chawla hit the hotspot with Dharmesh Darshan's Lootere.

Her second innings in Bollywood had begun. A series of hits like Bol Radha Bol, Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke, Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman shot her into the big league instantly. Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke got her the popular Filmfare trophy for the Best actress. And her next invitation was to star in Yash Chopra's Darr. Since most stars regard the summons from Yash Chopra as a badge of honours, as valid as an award, Juhi Chawla had finally arrived. The movie's success pitched her as contender to Madhuri Dixit's No.1 title. Suddenly she was being spoken in the same league as Sridevi and Madhuri Dixit.

Movies like Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman and Darr also saw Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla emerge as a new romantic lead. Together they did movies like Yes Boss and Duplicate. She was offered the role of Karishma Kapoor in Dil To Pagal Hai (1997).



The onscreen pairing spilled off screen too. The duo, along with Aziz Mirza, formed a production company, Dreamz Unlimited, to make their kind of films. Though their first production Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani wasn't a rage at the ticket window, it was a much talked about films. Today Juhi Chawla is busy planning for her future productions. In the twilight zone of her acting career, she's now interested in doing only those films that offer her that extra special.

Mini Biography

Juhi was born in the Chawla family on November 13, 1967 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, and is the daughter of Punjabi-speaking dad, Dr. S. Chawla and Gujarati-speaking mom, Mona. She has a brother named Sanjeev. Her mother passed away in an accident during the year 1998 while Juhi was filming 'Duplicate'.

After completing her school in Ludhiana, the Chawla family moved to Bombay, Maharashtra, India, where Juhi attended at Sydenham College. After graduating, she entered in the Miss India competition and was crowned 'Miss India 1984', taking over from Miss India 1983, Rekha Hande.

Her first appearance on the tinsel screen was as Zarina in the 1986 release 'Sultanat'. She shot to fame after the release of 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak' opposite Aamir Khan. As of August 2007, she has been bestowed with three awards for her performance in 'Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke', 'Duplicate', and '3 Deewarein'.

Juhi got married to multi-millionaire industrialist, Jai Mehta during the year 1998. Since then the couple have a daughter, Jhanvi, and son, Arjun.

Juhi continues to act in movies, and also makes appearances in many off-beat movies, rather than the mainstream cinema with which she started her career. She also appears in a number of TV ad commercials.

Mini Biography

A certain class and benevolence has always separated Juhi Chawla from her ilk. Her upbringing in a family where education, etiquette and propriety were given their due importance, Juhi was bound to imbibe all the sophistication to cultivate herself as a true lady.

A mother heading the hospitality of the Taj Group, primary education in Mumbai's Fort Convent, college education in HR and Sydenham and all those growing up years in South Mumbai led to the formation of the refined young actress of Bollywood. Before she became a heartthrob of the nation with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Juhi contested for Femina Miss India and won the crown. In 1984 she went to Miami representing India at the Miss Universe Pageant.

Though she did not win the title, she came back home loaded with experience, which she shared with the viewers on television. Though a beauty queen, Juhi successfully managed to steer clear of a sexy image and carved a niche of the innocent, vivacious girl in pigtails. She refused to star in films that could project her as a sexy and glamorous star. Lootere, for example, is one film which Juhi wasn't keen on doing as she thought it would ruin her 'girl' image. After friends cajoled her into doing it Juhi acquired the glamour tag too.



There has been no looking back since then. Yash Chopra signed Juhi for Darr a film which consolidated the actress's star value. On the personal front, Juhi is a thorough friend. Her commitment and a sense of attachment to her friends is for life. According to filmi journo and Chawla's college mate, Omar Qureshi, Juhi is a person to stick by her friends, newcomers or stars. That is how her firm friendship with Shah Rukh Khan started. SRK has ever been grateful to the star Juhi for agreeing to work opposite him, a newcomer then, in Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman.

Juhi's trustworthiness and her trusting self is a quality that will keep her embedded on people's minds long after the star Juhi fades away into oblivion.