Coordinates	23°33′″N46°38′″N
Name	Yahoo! Music Radio
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Developer	LAUNCH Media (2001-2002) Yahoo! (2002-2009) CBS Radio (2009-Present)
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Genre	Broadcasting - Internet Radio service
Website	LAUNCHcast }}

Yahoo! Music Radio (formerly known as LAUNCHcast) is an Internet radio service offered by CBS Radio through Yahoo! Music. The service, formerly offered by LAUNCH Media, and originally developed by Todd Beaupré and Jeff Boulter, debuted on November 11, 1999, and was purchased by Yahoo! in October, 2001. LAUNCHcast combined with CBS Radio beginning on February 16, 2009.

2001- 2009: LAUNCHcast powered by Yahoo! Music

LAUNCHcast allowed users to create personal radio stations or playlists of songs tailored to their musical tastes. left|thumb|LAUNCHcast logo used until 2009.To create a personal station, users rated music on a 4-star or 100-point (depending on one's preference) scale. The service used those ratings to create a personal station of songs based on a user's favorite genres, artists, albums, and songs. The generated playlist contained a combination of rated and recommended songs. The ratio of rated/recommended songs could be specified by each user, but by default it was 50/50.

A recommendation engine suggested songs that might have matched a user's particular musical taste according to the following similarity criteria:

Songs from the same artist

Songs from the same album

Songs from the same genre

Songs recommended by users with similar musical tastes

Songs recommended by Yahoo!

Users were not required to participate in the ratings system to listen to music. Pre-programmed stations based on theme, genre, or artist were available throughout the Yahoo! Music website.

Music videos could also be rated, allowing users to create personal music video channels as well. For legal reasons, specific songs could not be played whenever one wished. However, videos could be. The service could generate a personal video channel based on a single selection.

Users also have the option to turn off explicit lyrics while listening to their customized stations.

Free accounts

Users could share their personal stations publicly and listen to other users' stations.

When LAUNCHcast plus was implemented in 2003, music was available for streaming for free at "Low" or "Medium" quality; although in 2007, these were combined into "Standard".

Between tracks, free accounts would hear commercial advertising for the Yahoo! service and its partners and affiliates. The advertisements were generally 30 seconds.

In 2007 Yahoo! added permanent banner ads to the LAUNCHcast player. Because Launchcast was only compatible with Internet Explorer, which charges for its banner ad blocker, users must either tolerate the banner ads or pay to block them. An alternative was to use the Yahoo! Music Engine, which was called Jukebox in version 2 of the same software. The Jukebox was unable to stream music anymore following September 2008, although it remained available for download well into the following year.

Limited skipping was available, at up to 5 skips per hour. Previously, banning a song skipped the song automatically, but this was removed. If the skips were not used in the previous hour, they did not roll over.

Free accounts were limited to playing up to 1000 songs/mo (up to 120,000/yr) without any special restrictions. A song could be skipped to bypass an undesired track, but skipped songs counted against the monthly allowance. If a free account user exceeds the monthly limit, the user would no longer be able to listen to LAUNCHcast radio for the remainder of the month, although they could listen to their personal station with no skips. Like skips, songs did not roll over to the next month. This won't be the case when LAUNCHcast is powered by CBS as it will provide unlimited listening.

Free users had access to only specific stations labeled "free". Such stations had a yellow headphones icon whereas premium stations had a blue plus icon.

Pausing was only possible after 30 seconds into the song, although a song could be skipped before the 30 seconds by pressing "stop" and then starting the station again.

LAUNCHcast Plus

In early 2003, Yahoo! has introduced a premium version of the LAUNCHcast service called LAUNCHcast Plus. Some users subscribed to this service on a monthly ($3.99/mo [$47.88/yr]) or annual basis ($35.88/yr [$2.99/mo]), or it came as bundled software from some ISPs (included in price) such as Verizon Yahoo! online services. In addition to the features offered by the free account, LAUNCHcast Plus users received the following additional benefits:

#"High" quality sound (CD-quality) #No commercials or banner ads #Access to all LAUNCHcast pre-programmed stations #Unlimited skipping #Unlimited monthly listening #Access to all artists, songs, and albums (subject to licensing restrictions by country) #The ability to designate other user's stations as "influencers" of one's own personal radio station #The ability to create "moods" (genre-based subsets of a user's personal radio station) #Pausing whenever you want

LAUNCHcast Plus was only offered in the US and Canada through Yahoo. On November 2, 2008, Verizon Yahoo! announced via e-mail that certain services would be discontinued including LAUNCHcast Plus. In an e-mail delivered in January 2009, Yahoo states "the LAUNCHcast Plus premium service will be closing on February 12, 2009.". LAUNCHcast Plus was available to AT&T; and Verizon subscribers at no charge previously.

2009 - current: LAUNCHcast/Yahoo! Music Radio powered by CBS

200px|thumb|right|''LAUNCHcast powered by CBS Radio'' logo used until September 2009.With the rise of royalty rates, Yahoo! signed a deal with CBS Radio that effectively eliminated LAUNCHcast as it had previously existed, replacing it with 150 pre-programmed stations as well as CBS's local music, news/talk, and sports stations. Yahoo! Q&A; pages attempted to downplay loss of functionality these changes entailed. Personalized stations ceased to exist, though for a short time Yahoo! did save previous users' song, artist and album ratings. Since the new format organizes radio stations via genre, listeners have very limited range in what music they hear unless they regularly switch from station to station. This change also eliminated the feature that suggested songs and artists based on the user's ratings. Listeners have the option to listen to those stations in high quality (broadband) audio as well as using the 6 skips-per-hour (not applicable on local stations). One way around the inability to skip songs is to simply hit the browser's refresh button. While it does take time for the page to reload, it is faster than waiting for a song to finish.

Listeners are allowed to use the out-of-five rating feature that influences the stations. While banning a song entirely is impossible, giving a song a one-star rating will have it played very rarely. The rating tool was discontinued from the Yahoo! Music Radio player as of September 21 for a time until it was restored on November 2. Ratings in the new player are not yet be saved back into Yahoo! users listings, so until Yahoo! Music and CBS Radio associate radio ratings with their profiles, Yahoo! encourages users to rate songs, artists, and albums throughout their site as well as through their recommendations based on their tastes, though there is currently little benefit to the listener in doing so. As previously, play-on-demand is not provided, as with rewind, playback, and fast-forward.

Many ads can be skipped. However, some cannot and many disable all buttons, forcing the listener to hear the ad before any music is played. Ads which can be skipped have no label or video. However, skipping ads accounts toward the hourly skip limit. Ads disabling all buttons are, as of March 2009, advertising hair products. Such ads often play upon the player's launch, and some of them have a video, which can cause problems do to increased memory usage. An occasional Nesquik ad disables the pause and skip buttons, but the channel can be changed. Refreshing the web page will generally work to skip adds.

As with the old service, unused skips do not roll-over.

For the first time, LAUNCHcast powered by CBS Radio will also be available to Firefox and Safari users. It is also available as an app on the iPhone.

The fan radio feature has returned to LAUNCHcast 5 months after CBS' takeover. Listeners can access the fan stations in the artist page by clicking on the "Artist Radio" link that corresponds with the artist/group. They also have the option to type in their favorite artist in the player itself.

Unlike its previous service, Yahoo! Radio by CBS does not have the option for users to turn off explicit lyrics. Although a hard rock or a hip-hop station may have edited content, some explicit songs maybe mixed in there. The user must either tolerate such raw language, skip the song, or change the station.

Since the merger, the LAUNCHcast branding has slowly diminished, although LAUNCHcast was still verbally mentioned during some of their commercial breaks until March 2010.

On February 4, 2010, Yahoo! Music Radio banned users outside the U.S. from streaming online radio. An error message points to Last FM. "We're sorry, this station is unavailable from your current location. Instead, enjoy listening to...."

As of July 2011, many Yahoo users are reporting that the LAUNCHcast plugin for Yahoo! Messenger no longer works. User attempts to contact customer service have been unsuccessful.

Geographic availability

The free version of LAUNCHcast was available in most areas of the world. However, content was varied by country due to music licensing restrictions.

The LAUNCHcast Plus premium service was widely available in the United States and Canada. In the United Kingdom it was restricted to BT Yahoo! Internet customers.

In Canada, LAUNCHcast and LAUNCHcast Plus was dismantled altogether as of April 15, 2009. In Australia, their LAUNCHcast service was rebranded "Yahoo! Music Radio" until they dismantled it on July 7, 2009. Many other countries followed suit prior to the relaunch of Yahoo! Music worldwide sites.

Technological requirements

The LAUNCHcast music player (from development date to February 2009) required Microsoft's Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher to function, although it could not be streamed from the Windows Media Player itself. Before the merger with CBS Radio, LAUNCHcast only worked with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 and up web browser with Flash 6.0 or higher, and in Yahoo!'s Messenger and Music Engine programs on the Microsoft Windows operating system 98, ME, 2000 Professional, XP (Home and Professional). LAUNCHcast did not load properly using a Firefox web browser. According to Yahoo!, the LAUNCHcast music player was not compatible with the Mac OS X or Linux operating systems, however as of February 16, 2009; this may not be the case. Yahoo! stated that following CBS's acquisition, loading the player in Firefox may become possible.

Since the relaunch of LAUNCHcast by CBS, users are only required to download the latest Flash Player plug-in (currently Version 10). See external links (below) for Yahoo's help page on system requirements.

Legal troubles

On April 27, 2007, Yahoo! defeated Sony BMG in a copyright infringement lawsuit involving LAUNCHcast's personalization features. At issue was whether or not LAUNCHcast's "personal radio station" constitutes an "interactive" service, which requires a negotiated license agreement with a record company, or a "non-interactive" service, which requires a cheaper "compulsory license" from SoundExchange. In an "interactive" service, users can play songs on demand, but with LAUNCHcast they can only influence whether or not a particular song appears in their station.

After a six-year litigation, a jury decided that LAUNCHcast was not required to negotiate licenses as an "interactive" service, and that the service's compulsory licenses as a "non-interactive" service were sufficient. The plaintiffs appealed the decision but on August 21, 2009 the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the lower court's decision, finding that users did not have sufficient control over the playlists generated by LAUNCHcast to render it an "interactive service".

See also

Yahoo! Music

AOL Radio

SHOUTcast

Live365

Last.fm

Social.fm

Musicovery

Pandora

play.it

Slacker

References

External links

Yahoo! Music Radio

Yahoo! Music

LAUNCHcast plugin for bloggers

LAUNCHcast System Requirements

Music Radio Category:Internet radio stations in the United States

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Coordinates	23°33′″N46°38′″N
name	Rashid Aali al-Gaylani
office	13th, 21st and 23rd Prime Minister of Iraq
term start	March 20, 1933
term end	November 9, 1933March 31, 1940 - January 31, 1941April 3, 1941 - May 29, 1941
monarch	Faisal IGhaziFaisal II
predecessor	Naji ShawkatNuri as-SaidTaha al-Hashimi
successor	Jamil al-Midfai Taha al-Hashimi Jamil al-Midfai
birth place	Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
death place	Beirut, Lebanon
party	Party of National Brotherhood
religion	Sunni Islam
footnotes	}}

Rashid Aali al-Gaylani (, also spelled Sayyad Rashid Aali al-Gillani , Sayyad Rashid Ali al-Gailani, or sometimes Sayyad Rashid Ali el Keilany) (1892–August 28, 1965) served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Iraq on three occasions. He is chiefly remembered as an Arab nationalist who attempted to remove the British influence from Iraq. During his brief tenures as Prime Minister in 1940 and 1941, he attempted to negotiate settlements with the Axis powers during World War II in order to counter British influence in Iraq.

Early life

Rashid Ali born as the son of Sayyad Abdul Wahhab al-Gaylani into the prominent Baghdad-based Gaylani family. The Sunni Muslim Gaylani were known as ''sadeh'', signifying that they were a family of religion that traced their ancestry back to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was also related to Iraq's first Prime Minister, Abd al-Rahman al-Kayyali, though the two parts of the family were estranged. Rashid Ali enrolled in law school in Baghdad and became a lawyer prior to his political activism.

Political career

In 1924, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani began his career in politics in the first government led by Prime Minister Yasin al-Hashimi. Yasin al-Hashimi appointed Gaylani as the Minister of Justice. The two men were ardent nationalists and were opposed to any British involvement in the internal politics of Iraq. They rejected the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty signed by the government of Prime Minister Nuri as-Said in 1930. They formed the Party of National Brotherhood to promote nationalist aims. Gaylani served as Prime Minister for the first time in 1933 but held office for less than eight months.

On 31 March 1940, when Gaylani was again appointed Prime Minister, World War II had started and Iraq had just experienced the premature death of King Ghazi. Ghazi's reign was followed by a Regency for his four-year-old son who was now the new King Faisal II. Faisal's Regent was Ghazi's uncle, Emir Abdul-Illah. While Abdul-Illah supported Britain in the war, he was unable to control Gaylani, who used the war to further his own nationalist goals by refusing to allow troops to cross through Iraq to the front. He also rejected calls that Iraq break its ties with Fascist Italy and sent his Justice Minister, Naji Shawkat, to meet with the then German ambassador to Turkey, Franz von Papen, to win German support for his government.

1941 Iraqi coup d'état

Britain responded with severe economic sanctions against Iraq. Meanwhile, news of British victories against Italian forces in North Africa dulled support for Gaylani's government, and, on 31 January 1941, under pressure from Regent Abdul-Illah, he resigned his post as Prime Minister. This only exacerbated his mistrust of Britain and its supporters in the government. Together with the members of the Golden Square, Gaylani made plans to assassinate Regent Abdul-Illah and seize power. On 31 March, Abdul Illah discovered the plot to assassinate him and fled the country.

On April 1st, the coup d'état was launched and on April 3rd, Gaylani returned to power as Prime Minister and his "National Defence Government" replaced the government of the Regent. As one of his first acts, Gaylani sent an Iraqi artillery force to confront the RAF base situated in Habbaniya, RAF Habbaniya. By the end of April, the Iraqi armed forces were situated in strong positions on the escarpment above the base and a siege began.

Iraq had been a major supplier of petroleum to the Allied war effort and represented an important landbridge between British forces in Egypt and India. To secure Iraq, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered General Archibald Wavell to protect the air base at Habbaniya. On 18 April, British forces from India landed in Basra, ''Sabine Force''. In the British Mandate of Palestine, another force was created to enter Iraq from the west and relieve RAF Habbaniya, ''Habbaniya Force''.

Anglo-Iraqi War

At Habbaniya, the besieging Iraqis demanded the cessation of all training activities and of all flights in and out of the base. On 2 May, the commander at RAF Habbaniya, Air Vice-Marshal Harry George Smart, responded to the Iraqi demands by launching a pre-emptive strike against the Iraqi forces overlooking the air base. This action initiated the Anglo-Iraqi War. Within a week, the Iraqis abandoned the escarpment. By mid-May, British forces from Habbaniya had moved on to Fallujah and, after overcoming Iraqi resistance there, moved on to Baghdad. On 29 May, fearing a British onslaught, Gaylani fled to Persia. Before he left Baghdad, Gaylani contacted Mulla Effendi and informed him that he had chosen his house as a safe haven for the Royal family to stay until the conflict ended.

On 31 May, an armistice between the British and the Iraqis was signed. On 1 June, the Regent returned to Baghdad and his government was restored. Immediately afterwards, a violent pogrom against Jews took place in Baghdad by the hands of former Gaylani's supporters.

Persia, Germany, and Saudi Arabia

Gaylani was not to stay long in Persia. On 25 August 1941, armed forces of the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invaded Persia and removed the pro-German Shah Reza Shah. Gaylani now fled to Nazi occupied Europe. In Berlin, he was received by German dictator Adolf Hitler and he was recognized as the leader of the Iraqi government in exile. Upon the defeat of Germany, Gaylani again fled and found refuge, this time in Saudi Arabia.

Later life and death

Gaylani only returned from exile after the revolution that overthrew the Iraqi monarchy in 1958. Once again he attempted to seize power, and plotted a revolt against Abdul Karim Kassem's government. The revolt was foiled and Gaylani was sentenced to death. Later pardoned, he returned to exile in Beirut, Lebanon, where he died in 1965.

See also

Anglo-Iraqi War

Fritz Grobba

Mohammad Amin al-Husayni

Nazis relationship with the Arab world

References

Category:1892 births Category:1965 deaths Category:Prime Ministers of Iraq Category:Party of National Brotherhood politicians Category:Arab nationalist heads of state Category:Middle Eastern Nazi collaborators Category:Antisemitism in Iraq Category:Islam and antisemitism Category:Iraqi people of Iranian descent Category:People from Baghdad

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Coordinates	23°33′″N46°38′″N
name	Anmol Malik
occupation	Playback Singer
parents	Anu Malik
imaginary friends	Jimmy Neutron }}

Anmol Malik is a playback singer in Indian movie. She is the daughter of music director Anu Malik.

Early life

Anu Malik never thought he would have children after his wife had 4 still births.

He received a note from the doctor while sitting outside the Operation Theatre for the fifth time. The handwritten note stated this was a 'precious' baby.

And on 5 February 1990, Anmol Malik came into the world.

As a child she was always interested in music and would sit on her father's lap while he worked in the studio. Under the guidance of her father, she learned the harmonium and the piano.

Secretly she started voice training herself using cassettes and CDs of popular singers.

Anmol made her Indian playback singing debut in 2006 with the movie ''Umrao Jaan''

Career

Playback Singer Career

Filmography

''Umrao Jaan'' (2006) (playback singer) ''Ugly aur Pagli'' (2008) (playback singer)

References

Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Indian female singers Category:Indian singers Category:Playback singers

Coordinates	23°33′″N46°38′″N
name	Neha Bhasin
background	solo_singer
born	November 18, 1982Delhi, India
instrument	Vocals
occupation	Singer, songwriter, performer, TV hostess
years active	2002-present
associated acts	Viva!, The Neha Bhasin Experience
website	http://www.sonicbids.com/nehabhasin
notable instruments	}}

Neha Bhasin is an Indian singer-songwriter, performer, and TV hostess and was a member of the Indian pop girl group ''Viva!''.

Biography

Neha Bhasin was born on November 18, 1982 in Delhi in a Punjabi Khatri family, India to Ashok Bhasin and Rekha Bhasin and has an elder sister and a younger brother. She first went to the Frank Anthony Public School in Delhi, where her first dreams of becoming a superstar or performer shaped up. She later joined the Lady Shri Ram College for Women in New Delhi, where she graduated in sociology honors.

Always passionate about music and performing arts, she wanted to pursue it as profession and hence, started to compete in various contests at her very young age, before she decided to get formal training and joined Shiamak Davar's ''SDIPA'' to get trained in dance and performance and Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan to learn classical singing. In 2001, she landed up for the auditions of the Indian television talent show, ''Coca [V] Popstars'', where she emerged as a winner and formed the pop band ''Viva!'' with the other four winners, Seema Ramchandani, Pratichee Mohapatra, Mahua Kamat, and Anushka Manchanda. ''Viva!'' soon launched their first self-titled album ''Viva!'' in 2002, reportedly 5 lakh copies of which were sold in the following months. Viva the band was also featured in the Limca book of record for pulling in over 50,000 people for their debut performance. After the launch of their second album ''Viva! Reloaded'', which was their last album as well, the group spilt and the individual members went on start their solo careers as did Neha Bhasin as well.

Very soon, Neha Bhasin stepped into playback singing, singing for Indian soundtracks, starting with the title track of the 2005 Hindi film ''Bullet - Ek Dhamaka'' for composer Somesh Mathur, which was penned hy herself. Subsequently, she sung several Hindi film songs for Anand Raj Anand, Aadesh Shrivastava and Salim-Sulaiman and also got to sing several Tamil film songs for composer Yuvan Shankar Raja. She won the ''Reliance Mobile Vijay TV Award'' for ''Best Female Playback Singer'' for the song "Pesugiren Pesugiren" from the 2007 Tamil film ''Satham Podathey'', composed by the latter, while she got a nomination for the 2009 Filmfare Best Female Playback Award for the song "Kuch Khaas" from the Hindi film ''Fashion'', composed by Salim-Sulaiman. Neha's debut telegu film song Atu Nuvve from the film current won her a nomination in the best playback cateogory at the first Mirch Music awards south in 2010

Neha Bhasin has also worked as a TV hostess, hosting the ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Hungama'' programme on Zee Music, which turned out to be top-rated programme across all music channels. Neha was also a judge on the musical reality show Sitaron Ko Chhona hai on Real alongside Raghu Ram of roadies fame

On 16 November 2010 , Neha launched her debut solo album Tabaah produced by Gaurav Dayal. Apple Bottoms the first release from the album was nominated at the Indian Music Academy awards 2011 in the category of song of the year Non film.. Reebok India sponsored the video Apple Bottoms.. 2nd song from the album was the title track Tabaah released on 6 April 2011.. Prior to the release Tabaah enjoyed its varying position on the Mirchi pop top 20.. Neha Bhasin is the first Indian female endorsee for the world renowned Brand SENNHEISER..

Discography

Singles

2008 Thaniye ( Kavithai Gundar)

2010 Apple Bottoms (Tabaah)

2011 Tabaah ( Tabaah )

Film songs

{|class="wikitable" !rowspan="1"|Year!! rowspan="1"|Song!! rowspan="1"|Album!! rowspan="1"|Language!! rowspan="1"|Composer!! rowspan="1"|Notes |- | 2005 || "Bullet - Ek Dhamaka" || ''Bullet - Ek Dhamaka'' || Hindi || Somesh Mathur || |- | 2006 || "Ek Look Ek Look" || ''Aryan'' || Hindi || Anand Raj Anand || |- | rowspan="3" | 2007 || "I Wanna Rock Like Mummy Ji""Kudiye Pataka""Jashna Di Raat Ha" || ''Mummy Ji'' || Hindi || Aadesh Shrivastava || |- | "Pesugiren Pesugiren" || ''Satham Podathey'' || Tamil || Yuvan Shankar Raja || Winner, Reliance Mobile Vijay TV Best Playback Singer - Female Award |- | "Sei Yethaavathu" || ''Billa'' || Tamil || Yuvan Shankar Raja || |- | rowspan="2" | 2008 || "Hari Puttar" || ''Hari Puttar'' || Hindi || Aadesh Shrivastava || |- | "Kuchh Khaas""Kuchh Khaas (Remix)" || ''Fashion'' || Hindi || Salim-Sulaiman || Nominated, Filmfare Best Female Playback Award |- | rowspan="6" | 2009 || "Om Shanthi Om" || ''Muthirai'' || Tamil || Yuvan Shankar Raja |- | "Thaniye En pakkam" || ''Kavithai Gundar'' || Tamil || Emcee Jazz |- | "Atu nuvve itu nuvve" || ''Current'' || Telugu || Devi Sree Prasad || |- | "Yogi Yogi Thaan" || ''Yogi'' || Tamil || Yuvan Shankar Raja || |- | ''Nasha'' || ''Daddy Cool'' || Hindi || Gaurav Dayal || |- | || ''Kill Chabbra'' || Hindi || Raghav Sachar || Under production |- | 2010 || "You and me" || ''Pyaar Impossible'' || Hindi || Salim-Sulaiman || |- | rowspan="3" | 2011 || "Are Dhammare" || ''Mahaaraaja'' || Tamil || D Imaan || |- | "Poraney Poraney" || ''Vaagai Sooda Vaa'' || Tamil || M Ghibran || |- | "Dhunki" || Mere Brother Ki Dulhan || Hindi || Sohail Sen || |}

References

External links

Neha Bhasin Electronic Press Kit

Neha Bhasin Fan Club

Neha Bhasin Hindi film database at Raaga

Neha Bhasin Official

Category:1982 births Category:Bollywood playback singers Category:Indian female singers Category:Kollywood playback singers Category:Living people Category:People from Delhi

Coordinates	23°33′″N46°38′″N
name	Suchrita Pillai-Malik
yearsactive	1993–present
occupation	actress, model, anchor, veejay }}

Suchrita Pillai (} (born 15 April 1960) known simply as just Suchitra Pillai, is an Indian actress, model, anchor, and veejay. She was a graduate in electronic engineering, but chose to modelling over engineering. She had small roles in hit movies including ''Dil Chahta Hai'' (2001), ''Page 3'' (2005), ''Laaga Chunari Mein Daag'' (2007), and ''Fashion'' (2008).

Career

While in school in Mumbai, Pillai was very much interested in theatre, but she graduated in electronic engineering. She got married shortly after her studies and went to London. She chose modelling as her career over electronic engineering. In 1993, Pillai was offered her first role for a French film, Le Prix D'Une Femma. Pillai also was offered a role in the English film, Guru in Seven. Pillai then returned to Mumbai and was offered the job as a veejay. In India, she first appeared in arranged marriage video by Apache Indian and then in bally sagoo's dil cheez kya hai video. She accepted and appeared in shows like Simply South, Red Alert, and Cabaret Cabaret. In her Indian film career, Pillai has mostly appeared in minor roles. Suchitra also was a part of the Zee TV drama, Hip Hip Hurray.

Filmography

''Guru in Seven'' ''Everybody Says I'm Fine'' ''Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II'' ''Shiva'' ''Marigold: An Adventure in India'' ''Fashion (film) ''Dulha Mil Gaya''

Year !! Title !! Role !! Other notes
1993	''Le Prix D'Une Femma''
1998	|		English film
rowspan="3"	2001	|	Jessica	first Hindi film
''Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai''
''Dil Chahta Hai''	Priya
rowspan="3"	2003	|	Shalu
''Satta''
''88 Antop Hill''	Mrs. Antara Shelar
2005	Page 3 (film)>Page 3''
rowspan="2"	2006	|	Manasi
''Pyaar Ke Side Effects''	Anjali/Dracula
rowspan="2"	2007	|	Rani
''Laaga Chunari Mein Daag''	Michelle
rowspan="2"	2008	Fashion'' ||	Avantika Sarin
''Dasvidaniya''	Suchi
2010	|	Jasmine

See also

List of Indian film actresses

References

Category:Living people Category:Indian actors Category:Indian female models Category:Year of birth missing (living people)