Ishaa Koppikar (born 19 September 1976) is a popular actress and a model in India. She has acted in Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood and the Kannada film industry. Ishaa Koppikar was born in Mumbai, India on 19 September 1976. She went to Ramnarain Ruia College in Mumbai and studied Life Sciences. While in college, she did a model shoot for Gautam Rajadhyaksha. She took part in the 1995 Miss India Contest, won the Miss Talent Crown and modelled for L’Oreal, Rexona, Camay, Tips & Toes and Coca-Cola, among others.
Ishaa Koppikar’s career started in Kollywood, where she was paired opposite Prashanth in Kaadhal Kavidai. The film was a box-office hit and won rave reviews. Her second movie was the Tamil highly-anticipated film, En Swasa Katre opposite Arvind Swamy and it was a musical hit, rendered by A. R. Rahman and a good grosser at the box-office. She then played a cameo in Prashanth’s Jodi as a prospective bride. She received positive reviews for her role and decided to pursue a career in Bollywood: Her first movie was Ek Tha Dil Ek Thi Dhadkan (1997), directed by Shah Rukh Sultan, and has yet to be released. In Dil Ka Rishta (2003) she played opposite Aishwarya Rai and Arjun Rampal. Koppikar did some minor roles in Fiza (2000) and Pyaar Ishq aur Mohabbat & Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya (2001) before she got a she got a breakthrough in 2002 in Ram Gopal Varma’s Company as an Item girl in the song Khallas, which earned her a nickname as a Khallas-girl. She will also feature as the female lead in Ram Gopal Varma’s Shabri (2006), a movie about a woman who is set to become Mumbai’s first underworld lord. Koppikar’s make-up is so convincing that security and producers wouldn’t let her enter the set, as they didn’t recognize her.
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