BIOGRAPHY
Lakshmi Rai was born on 5 May 1985 in Bangalore and was brought up at Belgaum. She initially worked as a model before entering the film industry. She appeared in several television ads such as Sylcon Footwears, Josco Jewellers and Emmanuel Silks.
She made her acting debut in 2005 in the Tamil film Karka Kasadara. Subsequently she appeared in a number of Tamil films, including the comedy film Kundakka Mandakka (2005) opposite R. Parthiban, Perarasu's action-masala flick Dharmapuri (2006), and the romance film Nenjai Thodu (2007). In 2008, she began working in more serious films such as the drama film Velli Thirai, in which she played herself, and the action thriller Dhaam Dhoom directed by Jeeva. She received positive feedbacks forher portrayal of a lawyer in the latter. A review from Behindwoods wrote: "The latter (Lakshmi Rai) sizzles even as she is supposed to play the curt professional who is caught in the web of smuggling drugs".She won her first Filmfare Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category.
Modern Bra celebrates its 100th anniversary this year!
The modern bra, the lay of the New York Mary Phelps Jacob was invented, turned one hundred this year.
Phelps Jacob was born in New Rochelle in 1891, a descendant of steamboat inventor Robert Fulton. She was just 19 when she created an alternative to the corset during the preparation of the debutante ball in 1910.
The wafer-thin dress she made to wear a corset and the proposed cleavage of whale bones and a heavy cloth, was too complicated.
Phelps Jacob asked bind her maid, two white handkerchiefs with pink ribbon.
The garment does not completely improvised a lot of support, but he worked with loose dresses of the time, and she has done versions of his friends in high society.
Phelps Jacob was granted a patent in 1914, it was sold Warner Brothers Corset Co. for just $ 1,500.
At the time of death Phelps Jacobs in 1970, aged 78, bra has become a multi-billion dollars.
"I can not say that the bra is ever such a large place in history as the ship, but I have not invented," said she wrote.