Ravishing Raveena Tandon

Raveena Tandon (born October 26, 1970 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a National Film Award winning, Indian Bollywood actress and former model. Tandon, who was a popular star in the 90s and had been known for acting in commercial cinema, came to be one of the most critically appreciated actresses, when she ventured into more serious roles and turned to work in Art Cinema films in the early 2000s.Raveena got her name from a combination of her father's name Ravi and mother's name Veena.Her first film Patthar Ke Phool (1991) was a hit [1], she received the Filmfare Lux New Face Award for her debut performance. She then made headlines with her fight with Karisma Kapoor, the other leading lady in the film Andaz Apna Apna (1994).Her next film Mohra (1994) made her a superstar overnight. However following films flopped at the box office, but her career was back on track with her hit film Ziddi (1997).She then began to do films which ganered critical acclaim rather than box office success. Films like Shool (1999), Bulandi (2000) and Aks (2001) won her huge acclaim. She won the Filmfare Special Performance Award for Aks. Her years in the industry paid off when she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence (2001), where she played a wife of an abusive husband.