Indian Celebrities (Male & Females)

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Dabboo Ratnani is a leading Indian model photographer, mostly known for his annual calendar which has become a highly notable showbiz event in India since its first publication in 1999. The calendar is compared to the Kingfisher Calendar as a pioneer of the genre of sensational calendars. He was the cover photographer for the first issue of the Indian edition of Better Homes and Gardens magazine. In 2006, he was a jury in the Miss India contest.

Biography

Born in December 24, practiced his skill as youngman in Mumbai training together with Sumeet Chopra. Since 2005 he is into digital photography using an Hasselblad H1 with the Leaf Valeo 22 mega pixel digital back.

Work

Ratnani's best known work is his annual calendar. He has helped create a trand of collectible "girly" calendars in India, after the fashion of the Pirelli Calendar. He is one of a number of photographers with trademark calendars widely covered in the media, including Atul Kasbekar, Sudhir Ramchandran, Jatin Kampani and Vikram Bawa. Over the years top Bollywood stars has appeared on his calendar. Every year the launch of the calendar becomes a major event featuring top celebrities, 24 of them for each year.

* 2004: Perizaad Zorabian, Urmila Matondkar, Priyanka Chopra, Neha Dhupia, Bipasha Basu, Esha Deol, Preity Zinta, Amrita Arora, Aishwarya Rai, Rani Mukherjee, Raveena Tandon, Amrita Rao, Shilpa Shetty, Lara Dutta, Dia Mirza, Katrina Kaif, Sameera Reddy, Soha Ali Khan, Amisha Patel, Tabu, Ishaa Koppikar, Pooja Bhatt, Riya Sen, Mahima Chaudhary
* 2005: Bipasha Basu, Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, John Abraham, Urmila Matondkar, Ajay Devgan, Hrithik Roshan, Riya Sen, Fardeen Khan, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan, Ilene Harman, Sanjay Dutt, Amisha Patel, Abhishek Bachchan, Koena Mitra, Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sameera Reddy, Arjun Rampal, Priety Zinta, Salman Khan
* 2006: Mallika Sherawat, Amir Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Rani Mukherji, Celina Jaitley, Arjun Rampal, Lara Dutta, Bipasha Basu, Shahid Kapoor, Riya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwariya Rai, Esha Deol, Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor
* 2007: Kajol, Hrithik Roshan, Amitabh Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, John Abraham, Aishwarya Rai, Arjun Rampal, Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Kumar, Ayesha Takia, Riya Sen, Shahrukh Khan, Vidya Balan, Esha Deol, Rani Mukherjee, Priyanka Chopra, Ajay Devgan, Preity Zinta, Abhishek Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Bobby Deol, Mallika Sherawat, Riteish Deshmukh, Salman Khan, Vidya Balan

Riya Sen

Bollywood Calendar 2007 Female