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Meet Priyanka Chopra, Bollywood's next babe

By Stone Martindale Jan 1, 2007, 19:03 GMT

Keeping Western audiences up to date and offering New Year's eye candy, the latest Bollywood actress to make impressions is lovely Priyanka Chopra. Like most Bolly babes, she is a former Miss World and has starred in two popular Bolly movies, ‘Don - The Chase Begins Again’ and "Krrish." Indian women are scary beautiful!! EPA/MONEY SHARMA

Indian women are scary beautiful!! EPA/MONEY SHARMAPriyanka Chopra is a native of Jamshedpur, a city of Jharkhand state of India. Her parents are both doctors. Chopra spent some of her childhood in Uttar Pradesh. She also studied in United States Newton North High School, in Newton, Massachusetts and John F. Kennedy High School (Cedar Rapids) in Iowa. No surprise, like most Bolly babes, she is a brainy beauty and excelled in her studies. Her beauty was so that it lured her away from her college studies into competition for the Miss India 2000 title which she won.Chopra's beauty was the lure for producers to cast her in a Tamil film named ‘Thamizhan’ directed by Ravichandran where she played the role of Priya in 2002. Priyanka won the Filmfare Best Debut Award in 2003. In 2006, Priyanka Chopra got her first biggie hit movie in her career. The movie "Krrish" starred Hrithik Roshan, who played the role of Krrish. The movie was a sequel of ‘Koi… Mil Gya’ both directed by Hrithik’s father Rakesh Roshan.She joins the ranks of Aishwarya Rai, and Bipasha Basu as a potential leading lady for George Clooney, who is eyeing the Bollywood productions seriously.