Bipasha Basu: Bengali Apsara

After Madhuri Dixit, Bipasha Basu has probably done the most to push the envelope further. While in a different league than Madhuri, Bipasha has her own place in Bollywood, and was recently voted the hottest Asian woman by a British group (Madhuri was the second).

Given her western style, Bipasha typically acts in remakes of hit western movies like Jism which was the (unofficial) remake of Body Heat. Since bollywood movie makers don't like to mess with a hit movie when they are copying it, most such movies use Goa as a locale since it's easier to bring some of the background elements in that place. Here's a song from the movie. Like her other songs, and for that matter most Bollywood songs, viewer discretion is advised!



With the rise in popularity of item numbers, it is an easy way to pick some cool moolah, and here's Bipasha in a recent hit - Beedi Jalaye Le - from Omkara, which was based on Shakespeare's Othello.



Ajnabee was yet another remake of Alfred Hitchcock. To keep things simpler, this time the locale was Switzerland. The movie 'raised' people's expectations by hints of the taboo subject of wife swapping widely shown in the trailers.



Bipasha played a tarot card reader in an almost frame by frame copy of the movie The Gift where Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth fame) plays that role. Her typical stuff was handled instead by Amrita Arora and of course the item number O What a Babe got the most fame. But here she is a relatively mute performance.


Bipasha recently received critical acclaim for the movie Corporate where she acted as a fixer executive at a soft drinks company. The movie was rather different from her usual fare, and she was nicely paired with K K Menon.