Birthday Special: Shilpa Shetty and her best moments on the celluloid

Shilpa Shetty took a sabbatical from acting after the release of lsquoApnersquo in 2007 She has been fiercely active on social media sharing her fitness posts and videos ever since the platform has experienced a boom She has now signed two films titled lsquoNikammarsquo and lsquoHungama 2rsquoBut in the first 14 years of her career she delivered many memories that still linger on On Shilpa Shetty Kundras 46th birthday today here are some of themBaazigar 1993 The TwistAn impassioned romance ends on a psychotic note with the man throwing the woman off the roof Shetty was the doomed woman in question and Shah Rukh Khan played that coldblooded lover hiding demonic intentions AbbasMustan were at the top of their game back in the 90s and knew how to Indianise a western plot This was Shettyrsquos debut and she killed it by getting killedDhadkan 2000 The HeartbreakDharmesh Darshanrsquos love triangle had Shetty as Anjali whorsquos married off to Ram despite being in love with Dev This lover was played by Suniel Shetty a cocky hotheaded man hailing from a poor family but the attitude of a prince He returns as a millionaire but still pining for the woman he loved and lost And Ram was essayed by Akshay Kumar very similarly to the name he was given And in between was Anjali torn between past and present and perturbed about the future Having enough of Devrsquos creep she breaks the news of her pregnancy that not only breaks his heart once again but forces him to forget the woman forever Throughout the film Dev had a broken heart And so did Anjali Who said money can buy happinessPhir Milenge 2004 The GoodbyeRevathi adapted the plot of the homosexual drama lsquoPhiladelphiarsquo and spun it into a love story between a college couple Tamanna Shetty and Rohit Salman Khan The girl discovers shersquos HIV and soon loses her job A courtroom drama follows Her own advocate Tarun played by Abhishek Bachchan asks her in the court how she contracted the disease She stands numb and the film moves to a flashback when she and Rohit spent a night together That scene is enough to reveal why her world came crashing down a few days later She eventually wins the case but loses Rohit Before he succumbs to his illness he confesses he was unaware of his disease Itrsquos a heartbreaking moment and you canrsquot even celebrate her triumphant victoryLife In Ahellip Metro 2007 The SeparationIn Anurag Basursquos drama about the lives of over nine people Shilpa Shetty played a lonely housewife whorsquos husband is involved in an affair with his secretary There are torrid fights at home and anguish in isolation She meets Akash Shiney Ahuja and something about his demeanour draws her towards him She embarks on a journey of selfdiscovery gets her smile back little knowing this could haunt her for the rest of her life The moment in this story that stands out is the one where she nearly surrenders herself to him and what almost follows is an intimate moment A flash of her family makes her walk out suddenly out of guilt Itrsquos a moment of separation she isnrsquot only leaving the man shersquos fallen in love with shersquos also bidding goodbye to the woman she always yearned to be or could beAlso Read Shilpa Shetty Kundra All of us being indoors helped ecosystem regain some balance