Pooja Chopra (born 3 May 1986) is an Indian model and film actress. In 2009, she was crowned as the Femina Miss India. She was also a semi-finalist at Miss World 2009 and won the Beauty with a Purpose award at Miss World 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Chopra has won as many as 8 national and international titles in a single year.Pooja Chopra is an Indian model and Bollywood film actress. In 2009, she was crowned as the Femina Miss India.
She was also a semi-finalist at Miss World and won the "Beauty With A Purpose" award at Miss World 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She received this award because of her hard work in the Indian "Nanhi Kali" project which is a charitable project that helps little girls to combat poverty.
She has also walked the ramp for Gitanjali, D'Damas, Manish Malhotra, Vikram Phadnis and many more. She has won as many as 8 national and international titles in a single year. In 2011, she ventured into acting with her debut in the Tamil feature Ponnar Shankar where she played the lead role of Princess Muthaayi.
The following year, she starred as Shaheen Khan in the Hindi film Heroine.Her journey to be the ultimate Beauty Queen started with winning the title of Femina Miss India 2009 in Kolkata. She won a number of awards at various beauty contests including Miss Beautiful Smile, Miss Sparkling Beauty, Miss Catwalk, etc. She even won the title ‘Beauty With A Purpose’ because of her charitable work in an Indian Project ‘Nanhi Kali’.
She made her debut in films through Tamil Cinema with the movie ‘Ponnar Shankar’. She made special appearance in the movies Fashion (2008) and Heroine (2012) before acting as the lead in movie Commando (2013). She will also be seen in the sequel of same movie.
Pooja did several endorsements for popular brands like Bajaj Allianz, Tata Docomo and Body and Soul.Pooja Chopra thinks her mother as her role model because her mother was a very strong women who had the courage to leave her husband with 20 days old Pooja and her elder sister.
Pooja’s elder sister named Shubra worked in the Hotel Blue Diamond. She is married and she has a daughter now. They are now established and they did not depend on anyone to survive.
Pooja Chopra. Pooja Chopra has started her career as a model. She was crowned with the 2009 Femina Miss India East title on February 17, 2009, in Kolkata. She also won Miss Perfect 10, Miss Catwalk, Miss Beautiful Smile, Talwarkars Best Body and Nakshatra Miss Sparkling Beauty, thus gaining direct entry into the top ten finalists of the Femina Miss India 2009.