Tuesday, June 23, 2026
ADVT 
Bollywood

Sunny Leone Among BBC's 100 Most Influential Women

Darpan News Desk IANS, 22 Nov, 2016 11:42 AM
  • Sunny Leone Among BBC's 100 Most Influential Women
Actress Sunny Leone has made it to the BBC's 100 most influential women.
 
This year's BBC 100 women list marks the fourth year of the season. They are once again a mixture of high-profile and influential women including entrepreneurs, engineers, sportswomen, business women, fashion icons and artistes.
 
Sunny, who is celebrating her fifth year anniversary in Bollywood, started in Indian showbiz by participating in the controversial reality TV show "Bigg Boss" in 2011.
 
She went on to star in Bollywood films like "Jism 2", "Jackpot" and "Ek Paheli Leela".
 
Apart from the actress, the list also includes four Indian names - Gouri Chindarkar (Sangli), Mallika Srinivasan (Chennai), Neha Singh (Mumbai) and Saalumarada Thimmakka (Karnataka), read a statement.
 
Chindarkar is a 20-year-old computer engineering student from Sangli, Maharashtra. She is one of the first children in India to experience a unique learning experience now known as 'School in the Cloud'.
 
Srinivasan, 57, is the CEO of Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd. She is known as the 'Tractor Queen' of India and has grown her family company into the third largest tractor manufacturer in the world.
 
 
Singh is a 34-year-old actor-writer who founded a movement to encourage women to walk the streets in Mumbai to defy harassment.
 
Thimmakka is a 105-year-old environmentalist from Karnataka who has planted more than 8,000 trees in 80 years, a project which first started in response to social ridicule at not being able to have children. She is the oldest woman on the BBC 100 women list.
 
Some of this year's high profile women include singer-songwriter Alicia Keys; US gold medal winning gymnast Simone Biles and French politician Rachida Dati.
 
The BBC's 100 Women season kicked off on Monday.

MORE Bollywood ARTICLES

Krushna Abhishek To Host 'OMG!...' TV Show

Actor Krushna Abhishek will soon take the small screen audience on a voyage through India, showcasing the 'OMG’ facts about its people and places through a new TV show “OMG! Yeh Mera India”.

Krushna Abhishek To Host 'OMG!...' TV Show

Sonakshi Sinha To Participate In Guinness World Records Attempt

And the Bollywood actress is more than excited over the thought of being a part of creating history

Sonakshi Sinha To Participate In Guinness World Records Attempt

Watch: Kapil Sharma To Be Back On TV In April With More Fun

  The first episode of the show will be shot with a live audience as an event in Delhi.

Watch: Kapil Sharma To Be Back On TV In April With More Fun

Arjun Kapoor Wants Sonu Nigam To Be His Voice

Arjun Kapoor Wants Sonu Nigam To Be His Voice
Actor Arjun Kapoor says that Sonu Nigam is his favourite singer and wants him to be his voice soon.

Arjun Kapoor Wants Sonu Nigam To Be His Voice

Preity Zinta Gets Married To Beau Gene Goodenough In Los Angeles In A Hush-Hush Ceremony

Preity Zinta Gets Married To Beau Gene Goodenough In Los Angeles In A Hush-Hush Ceremony
With no confirmation on the union from both the parties, it seems the marriage gossip is not leaving Preity's side

Preity Zinta Gets Married To Beau Gene Goodenough In Los Angeles In A Hush-Hush Ceremony

Priyanka Chopra Takes Selfie With Pharrell Williams

Priyanka Chopra Takes Selfie With Pharrell Williams
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who was amongst the presenters at the 88th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, made time for a selfie moment with rapper Pharrell Williams.

Priyanka Chopra Takes Selfie With Pharrell Williams