If looks could kill, this Mumbai girl who started out as a model would be lethal. Tall, beautiful, talented, the Khallas girl, Isha Koppikar shot to fame with her song number in Ram Gopal Verma’s movie Company. Born in 1976, Isha had never imagined that she would become an actress. Instead, she had hoped to walk in her father’s footsteps and become a doctor. ‘I did not get enough marks to enroll for MBBS,’ says Isha, who graduated in life sciences from Ruia College.
Modeling assignments trickled in after she did a photo shoot with Gautam Rajyadhyaksha when she was still in junior college. Besides some prominent assignments for Ponds, Camay, Rexona, Synergy, Coke, L’Oreal and Tips & Toes, she did a few ramp shows. ‘I did only five or six ramp shows,’ she says, ‘as I used to be plump in those days.’ Such candid admissions make her the person she is.
In 1995 she won the Miss Talent crown at the Miss India. She debuted in a Tamil film, En Swasa Katre opposite Arvind Swamy, who was at the peak of his fame at that time following the success of Roja and Bombay. The film got rave reviews and she was expected to be a big hit in the south.
However, she softly entered Bollywood. Her first film, Ek Tha Dil Ek Thi Dhadkan, directed by Shah Rukh Khan in 1997, never got released. Then she was back to south to do her second film with Tamil superstar Prashant. She managed to do about ten films in the south. Her performance in Tamil film ‘Kaathal Kavithai‘ fetched her the Filmfare award for the best newcomer in the south in 2000-01.
Though her work was in the South, her heart was set on making a name for herself in Mumbai. She did small roles in Fiza, Aamdani Athani Kharcha Rupaiya and Pyar, Ishq aur Mohabbat. But she got the much wanted and needed break from Ram Gopal Verma. Her item song ‘Khallas‘ in Company became all the rage.
Some of the other movies she worked in were Sanjay Gupta’s multi starrer Kaante, Plan with Dino Morea and Krishna Cottage in which she played a ghost. She was nominated as a villain for film Qayamat. In Pinjar her performance was good but anyhow the film didn’t work. She was recently in news for her controversial film Girlfriend where she played an obsessive lover to her friend Amrita Arora and did some bold scenes portraying a lesbian relationship.
Today Ishaa Khoppikar has grown beyond being just a sizzling item girl. Ishaa is now setting to sink her teeth into some really challenging roles in her forthcoming films Inteqaam, Humraahi and Raakh.
Isha loves to make friends, is Net-savvy and does a lot of chatting. ‘I love dancing but no discos and pubs. I am not a night person. I start my day early,’ says Isha, who paints and makes candles in her free time. She is not much of a bibliophile, but is at home with self-help books.
If there is something else this Konkani girl loves doing, it is gorging on her mother’s cooking. She is a food freak who hankers after butter chicken, biryani, seafood and Chinese! ‘I can’t cook, I just do the eating.’ Her parents had always been supportive of her decisions. ‘My family is my biggest asset and my sensitivity is my strength,’ she maintains.
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