Raveena Tandon

About Raveena Tandon

Raveena Tandon is an Indian actress, model and producer. Daughter of director Ravi Tandon, she was born and raised in Mumbai. She started her career in modelling and later made her acting debut in the action film Patthar Ke Phool, which won her the Filmfare Award for New Face of the Year.
In 1994, Tandon starred in five successful films including, the two the top-grossing films, the musical action dramas Dilwale and Mohra. Her performance in the box office hit drama Laadla (1994), earned her a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other notable film of the year was the cult classic comedy Andaz Apna Apna. These accomplishments established Tandon as a leading actress in Hindi cinema. During this period, Tandon got engaged to her frequent co-star Akshay Kumar and stopped signing films in advance before the impending wedding and in process rejected several big films and roles that went on to become popular. Her films released in this period were mostly the ones which were finished before her decision to quit acting, which includes the box-office successes Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1996), Ziddi (1997) and Ghulam-E-Mustafa (1997). The first two of these were among the highest-grossing Indian films of their respective years.
After her engagement was called off, Tandon made a comeback by starring in a series of successful films such as Gharwali Baharwali (1998), Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998), Dulhe Raja (1998) and Anari No.1 (1999), and garnered praise for her performance in the crime drama Shool (1999). In the early 2000s, she took on serious dramatic roles and ventured into arthouse cinema with roles in the 2001 films Daman and Aks, both of which garnered her widespread critical acclaim. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for the former while the latter won her the Filmfare Special Performance Award. Further praise came for her leading roles in the political drama Satta (2003) and the Sahara One television series Sahib Biwi Gulam (2004).
After her marriage to the film distributor Anil Thadani, she took a break from films and some of her delayed films were released during this time. Tandon ventured into television as a talent judge on several reality dance shows and hosted her own talk shows Isi Ka Naam Zindagi (2012) and Simply Baatien With Raveena (2014). After several years of hiatus, she starred in a leading role in the thriller Maatr. Tandon is also an environmentalist and has worked with PETA since 2002.
Tandon was born in Bombay to Ravi Tandon and Veena Tandon. Tandon is a niece of character actor Mac Mohan and thus a cousin of Manjari Makijany, his daughter. She started her career as a model.

Tandon was chairperson of the Children's Film Society of India from 2003, but from 2004 the actress began to get complaints that she did not attend the organisation's meetings and that she was not involved with the activities set up by the society. In September 2005, Tandon resigned from her post citing personal reasons.In November 2005, Tandon sued the websites, Shaadi.com and Shaaditimes.com, claiming that they were using unauthorised images of her to promote the site. She also sued the owner of Satyanet Solutions, as they claimed that Tandon and her husband had met through the website. In November 2002, Tandon sang to support People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. She has posed in many advertisement campaigns joining the likes of John Abraham, Shilpa Shetty and ...

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Raveena Tandon's Exclusive Interview On Her Superhit Movies | Flashback Video

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Raveena Tandon on Aranyak and why she enjoys playing strong female characters | Aur Batao

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