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Bigg Boss 3 Housemate: Poonam Dhillon

Posted by abhi2810 Monday, October 5, 2009

Bigg Boss 3 - Contestant #4 -  Poonam Dhillon

Poonam Dhillon is a noted Indian Hindi film, theatre and TV actress. She is most known for her 1979 hit film, Noorie, and Sohni Mahiwal (1984), Saveray Wali Gaadi (1986) and Naam (1986).
She first gained fame when she was crowned the beauty queen title of being a poonam. Femina "Miss Young India" at 16.
Famous director Yash Chopra noticed her and gave her a romantic role in the star-studded hit film Trishul (1978) where the famous song "Gapoochi Gapoochi gum gum" was picturized on her. Enthralled by her performance, Yash Chopra gave her the title role in film Noorie (1979), which he produced. The film became a major hit and earned Poonam a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress. It also catapulted her to the ranks of upcoming heroines in the late seventies and early eighties.
Subsequently she did about 90 films in Hindi like Sohni Mahiwal, Red Rose, Teri Kasam, Dard, Nishana, Yeh Vada Raha, Samunder, Romance, Kasam, Sitamgar, etc.
She did a cameo in the hit film Judai (1996) as a favor to producer Boney Kapoor after Juhi Chawla dropped out.
She also ventured out to do regional films such as the Bengali film "Nyay Danda," Kannada film "Yudha Kanda" and Telugu film "Ishtam."
She has done Hindi theatre, a super hit comedy play "The Perfect Husband" which won the best comedy play award in 2005 and which recently completed Golden Jublee run. She is currently acting in a play "The Perfect Wife" co-starring Sooraj Thapar.

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