Happy Birthday : Lara Dutta Bhupathi [ 16 April ]

16 April 2013 :: Lara Dutta Bhupathi  was born on  16^th of  April 1978. She is an Indian Bollywood actress and former Miss Universe (2000).

She made her Hindi debut in 2003 with the film Andaaz which was a box office success and won her a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award. Dutta next appeared in a series of successful films such as Masti (2004), No Entry (2005), Kaal (2005), Bhagam Bhag (2006), Partner (2007), Housefull (2010), Chalo Dilli (2011), thus establishing herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses in the Hindi Cinema.

Dutta was born in to a Punjabi father and an Anglo-Indian mother.  Her father is Wing Commander L.K. Dutta (retired) and her mother is Jennifer Dutta. She also has two elder sisters, Sabrina, who serves in the Indian Air Force and younger sister Cheryl.  Composer and DJ Nitin Sawhney is Dutta’s cousin.  The Dutta family moved to Bangalore in 1981 where she completed high school from St.Francis Xavier Girls’ High School and the Frank Anthony Public School. Dutta graduated in economics with a minor in communications from the University of Mumbai. She is fluent in English and Hindi but can speak Punjabi, Kannada, and French.

 Dutta got married to  Indian tennis player, Mahesh Bhupathi on 16 February 2011 in a civil ceremony in Bandra, and later followed it by a Christian ceremony on 20 February 2011 at Sunset Point in Goa.