Juhi Chawla (born 13 November 1967) is an Indian actress, model and film producer, and the winner of the
Miss India beauty contest in 1984. Chawla has worked predominantly in
Hindi language films, in addition to
Punjabi,
Malayalam,
Kannada,
Tamil,
Telugu, and
Bengali language films. A leading actress of Bollywood in the late 1980s, 1990s and early-2000s, Chawla has garnered particular praise for her comic timing and vivacious on-screen persona.