Sonali Bendre. Why I will forever love her?

As I like many, many actors, there is only one female artist I am sure I will forever worship.
That is Sonali Bendre.

I feel she is rather underrated and many openly wonder if I am stupid to adore her so much. Very funny.
I am often asked - Why do you love her so much?

I hope this post will provide you an answer to this question.


I saw Duplicate bacause of SRK. I so KHNH because of SRK. I saw DAPK because of sheer curiosity.
This movies have just one thing in common - that is the forever gorgeous and talented Sonali Bendre Behl.

She retired from acting during 2004, then she was blessed with a son. She is not really planning to comeback, as far as I know. The best thing about her decision to opt out from movies is not only that she was married - her wedding took place in 2002, her career wasn't really suffering from it, actually in 2003 or 2004 she had hits and critical acclaimed stint of movies. Sonali Bendre expressed in many interviews that movies just started to bore her, that's why she decided to focus on her family instead. How brave is that! Right now is is a judge in India's Got Talent, previously she was a judge in Indian Idol 4 (I hate how so many ppl criticized her for being there as she is no way connected to music. Hell Yeah, but it's a tv show, not a proffesional anything so somebody who sees things differently than Anu Malik is always heplful) and Mr and Mrs Television (the only good thing about this one is that she looked gorgeous ;)).

Sonali debuted during early '90, in Aag with Govinda. Sadly, she never been truly a hit heroine many of her movies, not matter how good or how good she was in them, flopped badly. Then she tried south, as her item number Humma for Mani Ratnam's Bombay has been always popular. So there was hit Kadhal Dhinam, which was latter dubbed and released in Bollywood as Dil Hi Dil Mein, but it wasn't as suceessful as Tamil original. She was adorable paired with Mahesh Babu in Murari, even she managed to match Chiranjeevi's screenpresence two times without being much irritiating, in Indra and Shankar Dada MBBS. I pity that she never had a chance to act with Venkatesh then, I am sure they would make a wonderful jodi. She also acted with Nagarjuna in Manmadhudu, and that wasn't nothing new as they were acting together previously in some hindi movies. She had one kannada movie, remake of Darr titled Preetse with the hairy Upendra. BTW all the movies listed here, mostly all of them, has been reviewed here so just try search box if you are curious :)
I know much more about her late releases, such as Chori Chori, Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega or Palanati Brahmanaidu (her only flop is telugu, rest - super hits), her early performances are yet to watch for me.

Actually one of my favest movies with Sonali is her only marathi movie, Anaahat (read my review here). It is bit unknown flick, but it's truly worth-watching!

I love her smile.

And her dancing.

And her dressing sense, bit awful at time, but as we say in Poland - pretty person looks pretty in everything :)

She was the best Nirma girl. (according to Honey ;))

She is an brand ambassador for OMEGA, but as Abhi is listed as an ambassador at OMEGA's offcial website, Sonali is missing...

The worst thing about liking Sonali is that she used to play bomettes at times and many people judge her by Sarfarosh only, in which she was good, despite being bit irritating for Aamir. Many also see only her beauty, not skills... Let Sonali speak:

My friends feel my body is a manufacturing defect. When people look at me they see only my body, not my acting. My effort isn’t recognized. I want people to snap out this beauty thing and notice my work.

Thank you for reading :)
Ah, I wish she knew that she has such diehard stalkers fans like me...