Tanushree Datta

Tanushree Datta Height: 5' 8Hair Color: BlackBirth Place: JamshedpurMarital Date of Birth: 1985 Status: Single Sign: Height: 5'8" or 1.73m Weight: City: Jamshedpur Country: India Father: Tappan - officer of Life Insurance Corporation of India Marital status: single Ex-boyfriend: Aaditya Dutt Education: Pune University Occupation: bollywood actress / fashion model Languages: hindi, english "I've always wanted to be Miss India. I would watch beauty pageants as a child, wanting to be part of one. When I came to Mumbai, I decided to give Miss India a shot. Winning the title was an amazing surprise. I don't think I was prepared for it. It seemed so unreal for days after I won. Slowly, I realised my responsibilities, as I had to represent my country abroad. My trip to the Miss Universe pageant was also good. I came in the top ten but didn't win. It was disappointing because I had really worked hard for it", A Model Bollywood Career 20 years old and standing 5'8" tall, Tanushree was crowned Pond's Femina Miss India Universe 2004 in Mumbai, on March 27th. When she was 18, Tanushree tried out for the Femina competition and was brought to the regionalrounds, but in that year and last year, she failed to make it to the final group of contestants. After much effort,she made it this year, and aside from picking up the main crown over 28 others, she won the VLCC Miss Confidence and Pond's Miss Beautiful Smile sub-titles.Originally from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, Tanushree's father Tappan is an officer with LIC, Life Insurance Corporationof India, but she wanted to make it big. She moved to the Mumbai area and enrolled as a B Com student at Brihan MaharashtraCollege of Commerce, where she even won the Miss BMCC crown. Officially, she still resides in Pune today. In the meantime,she has worked with an even management company and pursued modelling, primarily in ad campaigns and a recent music video. It has been a long journey for Tanushree Datta from Jamshedpur to Bollywood. The successful model and Miss India 2004 is one of the latest Bollywood entrant. However, the young beauty, who made her debut in Chocolate in late2005, is upbeat about her career notwithstanding the fact that her subsequent filmAashiq Banaya Aapne did not fare well at the box office either but it's sonds are too good.So what if Chocolate flopped? It did not affect Tanushree's career in the least.That confidence comes from the fact that Bollywood . Being a known name and the winner of a beauty pageant made it easier for her to enter Bollywood. She did not have to go through thehorrors of the casting couch and according to her, they remain stories she has heard from others.TanushreeDatta-1 (29K) As a child, all Tanushree wanted to become was a famous fashion modeland travel the world. Having achieved that, she competed in the Miss India pageant and won the crown. It was then that she started weighing the pros and cons of becoming an actress.Many of her predecessors had entered the world of films and were doing very well for themselves. So, she decided to try her luck in films too. She landed Chocolate and became an actress without any formal training. It was as simple as that.It was a good decision. Tanushree is doing very well for herself as an actress. For starters, sheis doing Subhash Ghai's Good Boy Bad Boy and has also signed Mukta Arts' next film to be directed by Abbas Mastan. However, she brushes off questions about whether she is currently Ghai's favorite. Why would Ghai, a seasoned producer, have favorites, she shoots back. Rather, he respects the potential in her and is therefore giving her the chance to exhibit them on the silver screen. Point noted. She also has another big film under her belt. It is a multi-starrer with Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi and Aftab produced by Ashtavinayak. Thisgirl is going places! Advertisement She reminisces that Sanjay Dutt was one of the judges in the Miss India pageant and that it will be strange to act with him. She has not met him since the pageantso it might even be amusing,she decides. Not one word here about how excited she is to work with a hunk like Sunju.That is typically Tanushree who does not mouth flattering about experienced co-stars just becauseit is the right thing to do. This girl knows her mind and speaks it.Currently, she is concentrating on the films in hand and wants to give them her best. She hasno modeling assignments on hand and is concentrating on her Bollywood career. Future dreams? She wants to do good movies and wants people to like her performances.With such clear-cut dreams, this actress should go places and will be on Top.