Bhumika Chawla - The fragrance of 'Ponds' on Big Screen

The mind blowing fragrance of 'Ponds Power' may not last very long, but the cute face that modeled the product may tickle our dreams for a quiet long period. The actress is none other than Bhumika Chawla, the most elegant and the most beautiful homely girl in the film industry.

She was born in New Delhi on 21st August. She is 5'3" in height and she is well known for her beautiful smile and homely look. Unlike other children, Bhumika always, even in her childhood days, had the ambition that she should be famous. She came from a normal middle class family and her father being an Army Officer, she has traveled to many places around India. She has an elder brother (military officer) and an elder sister (married) and she is the youngest in the family. She did her schooling in Delhi and moved to Mumbai in 1997 in search of her profession.

The seamless striving to be famous made her to step into the modeling world and did so many ads and music videos. She has done more than fifteen ad-films. It was her campaign for Ponds talcum powder that made her shine. She was looked up for her graceful look and warm smile. This smiling star attracted so many people even during her college days. It was then she got an offer from the Telugu film industry where she did her first film.

Bhumika Chawla started her career with the Telugu Film Industry her first film being Yuvakudu which was released in the year 2000. Though it did not make a big hit, she became famous for her calm and attractive look. Then she bagged the second film Kushi which made a super duper hit and she got Best Actress award. She even did a couple of films in Tamil which also made a good hit. Since then she hasn't looked back.

By all these successes, the time was ripen enough for Bhumika to step in the glorious world of Bollywood and she did her debut in Tera Naam in 2003 with the famous star Salman Khan and it blasted the box office. After that one more film released in the year 2004, Run opposite Abhishek Bachchan. Thus Bhumika Chawla came to be known as the luckiest actress and she was flooded with offers from Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. There goes this graceful beauty who is storming the filmdom with all her powerful smile.

Bhumika can afford to have such a laid back outlook because she does not see acting as a profession or a means to an end. For her, it is an interesting medium for communicating. She is into acting because she loves it. Critics saw in her performances, in Kushi and Tamil Badri and Rojakootam, a spark and spontaneity that even seasoned artistes find difficult to achieve. 'She is an absolute natural. Combine this with her beautiful looks, you have an actress who is bound to go places,' says a film critic.

She said her ambition is to win a National Award for Best Actress after winning the hearts of audiences, with the support and appreciation of colleagues of Cinema field. She is simple and enjoys what she is doing. Her only credo in life is, give your best and enjoy your work.