Happy Birthday Namrata Shirodkar: Lesser Known Facts About This Beautiful Actress

Namrata Shirodkar is the granddaughter of late veteran Marathi actress Meenakshi Shirodkar who first wore swimsuit in 1938 and awestruck the audience.

Namrata is the former Miss World and bagged this prestigious title in 1993. She also stood fifth in Miss Universe Pageant representing India.

This Mahesh Babu’s heartthrob made her acting debut in Bollywood with the movie ‘Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai’ in 1998. She shared the screen space with Salman Khan as a cameo in this film and further acted in Vaastav, Pukar, Astitva, Kacche Dhaage movies proving her mettle.

Her first break in Bollywood was 'Purab Ki Laila Pachhim Ki Chhaila'… This movie had Suniel Shetty and Akshay Kumar in the lead roles.

Namrata Shirodkar was also a popular child actress… She acted in Shatrughan Sinha’s ‘Shirdi Ke Sai Baba’ movie in 1977.

Mahesh Babu and Namrata Shirodkar got hitched in 2005 after dating each other for 5 years

Namrata and Mahesh Babu first met on the sets of ‘Vamsi’ movie and eventually fell in love by the end of the movie. Surprisingly, Namrata is four years elder than Mahesh Babu

Namrata was last seen in the movie ‘Rok Sako To Rok Lo’ and put an end to her acting career after getting married to Mahesh Babu. This couple has two children Gautam Krishna and Sitara