Bipasha Basu earned her first Filmfare Award nomination for Best Actress in film by what director?
Bipasha Basu filmography Bipasha Basu is an Indian actress who has featured in over 50 films, predominantly in Bollywood. After a successful career as a model, she made her film debut with a supporting role in Abbas–Mustan's thriller "Ajnabee" (2001), which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. Basu followed this with a role in her first Telugu cinemathe action film "Takkari Donga" (2002). She had her first major success with the supernatural thriller "Raaz" (2002), which earned Basu her first Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination. The following year, she starred opposite John Abraham in the erotic thriller "Jism", in which she played a seductive wife. She received a Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role nomination for the film. Her roles in these films established her as a sex symbol.
Devdas (2002 Hindi film) Devdas is a 2002 Indian romantic drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and based on the 1917 Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel "Devdas". This is the third Hindi version and the first film version of the story in Hindi done in colour. The film follows Devdas (Shah Rukh Khan), a wealthy law graduate in the early 1900s, who returns from his studies in London to marry his childhood sweetheart, Paro (Aishwarya Rai). However, the rejection of this marriage by his own family sparks his descent into alcohol, ultimately leading to his emotional deterioration and him seeking refuge with a prostitute, Chandramukhi (Madhuri Dixit Nene). The film was screened at 2002 Cannes Film Festival and was also screened retrospective, during the 2014 International Film Festival of India in the "Celebrating Dance in Indian cinema" section. "Devdas" won the Filmfare Award for Best Film. The film also won five National Awards and a further ten Filmfare Awards, tied with "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" with the most Filmfare Awards any film had won at the time (later beaten in 2005 by Bhansali's "Black").