This romantic thriller earned four times its budget, Canadian actress made hit debut, worked with Shashi Kapoor’s son, her name is…, lead actor was…
GH News May 07, 2025 02:06 AM

It takes one film to make or break career of the actors directors producers. This one romantic thriller was a commercial success. The lead actors rose to quick fame and vanished as quickly too. While the actor still remains a blurr memory the actress has ventured into a different trajectory all together. The movie was a produced when such stories were not so common in that era.
The film was directed by Vikram Bhatt and produced by Mahesh Bhatt. It was released in 2001 and became a blockbuster. The name of the film is Kasoor. It featured Aftab Sivdasani Lisa Ray Irrfan Khan and Ashutosh Rana among others.
Canadian Actress Successful Debut
Kasoor was the maiden Hindi fil of the Canadian born actress Lisa Ray. Aftab Sivdasani has established a name for himself by then and Lisa Ray was rising to fame in the world modelling amd advertisement. She started her career on 1990s and worked with popular brands like Bombay Dyeing Lakme etc.
Ray was born to an Indian Bengali father and Polish mother in Toronto Canada. She spent quite many days of early childhood in Kolkata. She first appeared in the Bombay dyeing ad oppiste to Shashi Kapoors son Karan Kapoor. Subsequently her talent was recognized and she got more and more work catapulting her into nationwide fame.
As a successful model in India she anchored several shows travel shows hosted events. Lisa Ray made her Bollywood debut with Kasoor. Lisa was born in Canada. Before her Bollywood debut she worked in the Tamil film Netaji and the Kannada film Yuvraj. Before this she played a very small role in the 1994 film Hanste Khelte.