News is that Anurag Kashyap and Vikas Bahl have roped in the very attractive Raveena Tandon to play the role of a jazz singer in former’s “Bombay Velvet.”
Despite Raveena’s initial reservations, the makers have obviously managed to convince her.
Daughter of Bollywood film industry’s director Ravi Tandon, Raveena dropped out of Bombay’s Meethibai College to pursue a career as a model with middling success. She made her movie debut with the flop “Pathar Ke Phool (1991).”
Her next few films were also failures and it was only with “Andaz Apna Apna (1994)” that she tasted success. “Mohra (1994”) made her a superstar all set to become Bollywood’s reigning actress. However, she then began a tangled affair with co-star Akshay Kumar. All her films flopped and her arch-rival Karisma Kapoor had her fired from some top films. By the end of 1995 her career was in tatters and she was reduced to the level of a starlet doing bit roles. Her career revived with a huge hit “Ziddi (1997).”
In the early 2000’s she ventured into more serious roles and turned towards arthouse and parallel cinema. She got high critical acclaim for her performances in films like “Aks (2001)” and “Satta (2003),” and had the peak of her career in 2002, when she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kalpana Lajmi’s “Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence (2001).”
She recently turned into TV host with her new chat show, “Isi Ka Naam Zindagi (2012).”