Amrita Rao is one of the few Actresses in Bollywood who had delivered so many hits in a short span of 5 years!
She had a Hit Practically every year and the hierarchy goes
Rajshree Heroin’s are the Privileged lot and after the Hugh success of “ Hum Aap Ke Hain Kaun ” with Madhuri Dxit,Amrita Rao was the first choice for Dir Sooraj Barjatya for his movie “Vivah ”
Amrita Rao’s “Perfect Indian Beauty Face” and her bubbly, cheerful, yet intense appeal made her the perfect choice to play the role of Poonam in Vivah.
Amrita Rao and Shahid Kapoor carried “ Vivah” 
entirely on their shoulders without the film having a back up of other big Stars.It was a Female Dominated Subject which became a phenomenal success at the Box Office and made a profit of more than 80 crores while the total cost of the movie along with publicity was 12 crores.
Vivah broke the record of Hum Aap ke hain kaun in some sectors in North:
The movie completed its Silver Jubilee with 25 weeks, which marked as Amrita Rao’s 3rd Silver Jubilee Hit after Main Hoon Naa and Masti. With Vivah Amrita Rao became the Nation’s darling and won over the hearts of millions of Indian homes with her Award winning Performance.
Amrita Rao’s Awards for the movie “ Vivah ” :
After 6 years in Bollywood, and having refused several South Movie offers in the past, Amrita Rao finally gave 1the Green Signal to the Padmalaya Productions Telugu Movie “ Athithi ” starring South Super
Craze Mahesh Babu who is the grandson of the founder of Padmalaya Studios at Hyderabad.
The Movie was not a craze like Mahesh Babu’s earlier movie “ Pokri ” but it turned out to be a Hughe Box office Hit !
“ Athithi ” made 6 crores on the first day , which was “ Pokri’s” collection in one week.
With some powerful performance oriented scenes, Amrita Rao made millions of fans all over the world among the Telugu Community.
Post “ Athithi ” Amrita was loaded with offers from South but this Beauty seemed to have given all her dates to Bollywood. Looks like a long wait is in store for Tollywood !
Amrita Rao was voted the most popular Actress among Kids between the age group of 5 and 10 years by “ Pogo TV Awards” in 2006.
Amrita was always known to be a favorite with kids.
Amrita Rao was shooting with a bunch of kids for her movie “ Vah Life Ho Toh Aisi ” and all the kids were extremely fond of her and they nick-named her as“ Barbie Didi ” because they thought she looked like a living Doll.
In Ishq Vishq, Amrita Rao stole a million hearts of the college going crowd with her portrayal as Payal the sensitive college girl with strong values in life.
Her Crimp n Curled Hair-do became very popular among girls who previously did not think that their curly hair was fashionable.
Contrary to her “Girl Next Door Image ” in Ishq Vishq Amrita Portrayed a bellious tomboyish Sanjana with a Grungy look in 2004. The Nift Fashion Institute felicitated Amrita Rao with the “ Fashion Icon of the Year ” Award after “ Main hoon naa ” Amrita had stunned movie goers with her powerful and natural performance with Shahrukh Khan in “ Main Hoon Naa ” for which she was also nominated The “ Best Supporting Actress ” at the Film Fare Awards when she was barely 20 years old.
Now that’s not all, millions of young guys have a crush on Amrita and send her tons of fanmail everyday, After her movie “Vivah” in 2007Amrita has also started receiving Marriage proposals and Bio-datas thru email mostly From NRI guys all over the world.
Glamour and Cinema. Very few reach there! And even 
fewer make it Big in Bollywood! Amrita Rao is one such Actress who made it Big without any God father in the film industry.
Amrita Rao has 8 fansites with thousands of Members.There are 20 Amrita Rao Orkut Communities and some have more than 5000 members on them.Now that does qualify for a perfect Youth Icon!
Amrita Rao is the youngest and the only Bollywood actress of this generation to receive the Prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award.
It came as a Surprise to many when Amrita Rao’s name was nominated, as this Award is Associated with Accomplished Veterans in Cinema.
But the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy chose to award Amrita Rao for her Excellence in the movie Vivah at a young age. She was recognized for her talent as a performer in the field of Cinema.
It was a co-incidence that Amrita Rao was later chosen by another
Dadasaheb Phalke Award winning Director Shyam Bengal for
his forthcoming movie.
In a span of 5 years Amrita Rao has won awards like:
2004 IIFA Awards:
Best Female Debut
2004 Sansui Awards:
Best Debut – Female
2004 Stardust Awards:
Stardust Superstar of Tomorrow - Female
2005 GR8 Women Awards:
Young Achiever
2007 Anandalok Puroshkar Awards:
Most Promising New Talent - Vivah
2007 Sports World Awards:
Jodi of the Year along with Shahid Kapoor
2007 Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards:
Excellence in Performance for Vivah
2008 Sunil Dutt Nargis Dutt Award:
Excellence in Performance as an Actress
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