Bollywood actress Amy Jackson stuns in silk midnight blue gown slashed to her thighs as she leads the glamour at the Asian Awards in London

Bollywood actress Amy Jackson stuns in silk midnight blue asymmetric gown slashed to her thighs as she leads the glamour at the Asian Awards in London

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PUBLISHED: 20:26, 5 May 2017 | UPDATED: 23:34, 5 May 2017

She starred in her first Bollywood film in 2012.

And Amy Jackson proved how far she had come as she led the glamour at the 6th Annual Asian Awards held at London Hilton Park Lane.

The actress, 25, stunned in a deep blue off-the-shoulder gown, slashed high on her hips.

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Turning heads: Amy Jackson proved how far she had come as she led the glamour at the The Asian Awards held at London Hilton Park Lane

Showcasing her slender pins, the frock featured a thigh-high slit, and the sumptuous material fanned out to the side. 

Showing off a glimpse of her slender midriff, the piece featured two side cut-out panels and the bustier contained her ample assets.

With an elegant strap across one of her shoulders, she showed off her toned upper body. 

Sizzling: The actress, 25, stunned in a deep blue off-the-shoulder gown, slashed high on her hips

Leggy: Showing off a glimpse of her slender midriff, the piece featured two side cut-out panels and the bustier contained her ample assets

The 2009 Miss Teen World- who previously dated Coronation Street's Ryan Thomas, piled her hair high on her head, making the most of her flawless complexion.

Framing her bright blue eyes with statement brows and adding a bold red lip, she completed her ensemble with glistening drop earrings. 

Beaming at cameras, she posed up a storm beside Lion actor Sunny Pawar, 8.

Stars: Beaming at cameras, she posed up a storm beside Lion actor Sunny Pawar, 8

Glamour: With an elegant strap across one of her shoulders, she showed off her toned upper body

Amy from, Walton, Liverpool, is a virtual unknown on UK shores but that's not the case in India, where, thanks to an 11-film Bollywood acting career, she now has three homes, employs a staff of five and is recognised almost everywhere she goes in the Asian country.

Now, the star is hoping to break into mainstream movies, having signed up to a British independent film and having castings in Los Angeles.

Jackson, who earlier last year was linked to Cheryl's ex Jean Bernard Fenandez-Versini, shot to fame shortly after finishing her GCSEs in her native north-west; the then 17-year-old's modelling photos were spotted by a film director, who claimed to be making a film in Bollywood that needed a young actress. 

Mermaid: TOWIE's Abi Clarke also put in an appearance, turning heads in a gold and turquoise two-piece ensemble

Golden girl: The gold embossed crop top showcased her slender midriff, and she teamed it with a matching textured shirt with pretty turquoise overlay

Glammed up: Wearing her hair in golden curls, she went for statement brows and lashes, posing alongside a suited and booted Junaid Ahmed

Now, the striking blue-eyed star (Jackson wears brown contact lenses for roles) is conversational in Hindi and has earned enough money to warrant five staff, including two bodyguards and a stylist.

She's mastered tricky Bollywood dance routines despite having 'two left feet' and says she needs security because Indian film stars are 'treated like gods'.

In more conservative India, her love-life has been the subject of scrutiny and she's said to have dated co-star Prateik Babbar for several months but remains coy about the affair. A long-distance relationship with former Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas came to an end in 2014.

Glam duo: Socialite Lizzie Cundy also joined the party, wearing a show-stopping semi transparent frock

All that glitters! The nude dress featured a transparent top, embellished with delicate gold sequin patterns

Flashing the flesh: Lizzie showed off some serious skin in the figure-hugging attire, putting on a very buxom display

Turning heads: The party-loving brunette highlighted her slender shape in the slinky number, which she accessorised with a silver clutch bag

Glittering display: Lizzie made sure to command attention in the daring gown, while opting for a glamorous make-up look

Special guest: Lizzie posed alongside London mayor Sadiq Khan at the glitzy event

Meanwhile back at the event, TOWIE's  Abi Clarke also put in an appearance, turning heads in a gold and turquoise two-piece ensemble. 

The gold embossed crop top showcased her slender midriff, and she teamed it with a matching textured shirt with pretty turquoise overlay.

Wearing her hair in golden curls, she went for statement brows and lashes, posing alongside a suited and booted Junaid Ahmed.

Resident socialite Lizzie Cundy also joined the party, wearing a show-stopping semi transparent frock.

The nude dress featured a transparent top, embellished with delicate gold sequin patterns.

Loose Women panellist Saira Khan attended the event in a floral crop top and maxi skirt.

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Spring ready: Saira Khan added a floral touch in bright two-piece frock and top get-up

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She's a white Liverpudlian who couldn't speak Hindi: So how did this English rose Amy Jackson blossom into Bollywood's biggest star?

She's a white Liverpudlian who couldn't speak Hindi: So how did this English rose blossom into Bollywood's biggest star?

• She had never acted before her screen debut in 2010 film, Madrasapattinam
• Now Amy Jackson has a chauffeur, make-up team and a personal assistant
• 23-year-old gets thousands of letters from men declaring their undying love
• Newest movie 'I' is even attracting crowds in the UK where she is unknown

By AMY OLIVER FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

PUBLISHED: 22:20, 31 January 2015 | UPDATED: 12:51, 1 February 2015

She is one of the hottest stars in Bollywood, currently seen shaking her sari next to a muscle-bound hunchback in the most expensive and ambitious film ever to come out of India.

She receives thousands of letters, most declaring undying love, many asking for her hand in marriage. She has a chauffeur, a make-up team and stylist, a cleaner, a cook and a personal assistant.

It is all the more surprising, then, that Amy Jackson, who was 23 yesterday, is a white girl from Liverpool with a girly Scouse accent more reminiscent of a cutesy five-year-old than a silver-screen sex siren.

Her extraordinary story has taken her from the quiet suburban streets of Walton in Liverpool to a jet-set life which means she is mobbed if she sets foot outside her limousine in Mumbai, Calcutta or Madras.

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Superstar: Amy Jackson (pictured) now has a chauffeur, a make-up team and stylist, a cleaner, a cook and a personal assistant

Origins: Amy Jackson (pictured at the Miss England final) has gone from humble beginnings in Walton, Liverpool to starring in blockbuster Bollywood films

Her new film, called I, is even pulling in crowds here in Britain where she is largely unknown.

Yet she freely admits that her film career is a matter of pure chance: she had done no acting at all before her 2010 debut and couldn't speak a word of Hindi.

That didn't seem to bother leading Bollywood director A. L. Vijay, who happened upon Amy's modelling picture after she won the Miss Teen World beauty contest at the age of 17 in 2009. They met in London two months later and he offered her the lead role in his 2010 movie Madrasapattinam.

'I'd never acted in my life,' she says. 'A. L. Vijay asked if I could dance and I just said yes. I didn't tell him the only dancing I had done was on nights out in Liverpool. He said he would arrange workshops and help me with the scripts and the language. He liked the fact that I was English but had an Indian look.'

So, just before she turned 18, Amy and her mother, Marguerita, a horse-riding instructor, found themselves in India meeting other actors and trying on costumes. Amy recalls: 'I'd never been to India or anywhere like it.

'There were cows wandering through the city. In the car on the way to the hotel I noticed Mum was grabbing on to the sides as we went in and out of traffic with the horn beeping. At one point a cow crossed the road in front of us and she screamed.'

Then she had to get used to the food. 'At the start I couldn't eat anything. I didn't like the spice. I loved having Indian take-aways on a Friday night in Liverpool but it's so different in the real India.'

While her friends spent their Saturdays getting 'curly blow drys' at the local hairdresser before hitting the town, Amy was working 20-hour days in Madras, trying to learn the language.

Liverpudlian Amy Jackson starred in 'Madrasapattinam'

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Rise to stardom: Amy (left) freely admits her fame is a result of pure chance and she had never acted before her screen debut in 2010

Big hit: Her new film 'I' is even attracted crowds in UK where she is a relative unknown as an actress

The moment Amy Jackson is crowned Miss Teen World

'When my friends phoned before going out, I'd be sat in my caravan on set with Mum learning Tamil,' she says.

'We had a TV but it just played Indian shows so we didn't watch it. I was so jealous and homesick.' That all changed when Madrasapattinam became the biggest movie hit of 2010.

It turned Amy into an overnight star and the offers of more roles flooded in. This year alone she will star in no fewer than four Indian movies – and she has turned down nine other offers.

Amy was so much in demand that she didn't even have to audition for the part of Diya in the much anticipated I.

But it hasn't all been plain sailing for Amy who has experienced racist abuse from a minority unhappy with her being cast as an Indian woman.

On social media and website forums, they demanded to know what this 'foreigner', this 'fake' and 'fluke actress' who 'can't even speak Hindi' was doing in an Indian film.

'Everyone has an opinion,' she says warily. 'For me, as an actress you are playing a character and to play that character you have to get into that mindset. I don't think it's any disrespect to any race. If people enjoy your movies that's the most important thing.'

I is Amy's fifth Indian movie and is directed by Shankar Shanmugham, the country's answer to Steven Spielberg. Loaded with special effects, it took her three years to make – and takes audiences three hours to watch.

It tells the story of a top model (Amy) who enlists the help of a local body builder (Chiyaan Vikram). The pair fall in love before he is deliberately infected with a hideous virus and turns into a gruesome hunchback. He then seeks revenge on the people who ruined his life.

Her south Indian voice was dubbed on to the pictures, but she did learn her lines in Tamil, an official language of India, so that her lips would be in sync.

She says the director wanted to make her look very Indian. 'Even my mannerisms had to change. I was very soft and gentle, and a typical south Indian lady. I wore brown contact lenses, which is crazy because all the big Bollywood stars wear green ones.'

Amy now splits her time between her sister's home in London and her two-bedroom, apartment overlooking the Arabian Sea in Bandra, Mumbai. Because of the crowds she attracts, she is flanked by two burly bodyguards, Adrian and Max, wherever she goes in India.

She has one male assistant ('he wakes me up in the mornings and makes all my juices for me'), two hair and make-up people, one stylist, a driver and a housekeeper ('she helps with the cooking and cleans but Mum doesn't like it. One time I walked in and they were both cleaning the floor together').

She insists she loves her 'gipsy' life but does admit that being able to pop to the shops to buy a pint of milk or walk to the postbox to send a letter when she is in the UK is a novelty.

'I don't really do any of that over there,' Amy says describing how she draws a crowd from the moment she steps off the plane when she returns to Mumbai.

'It's like two different worlds. Everything is calm at home and I'm just Amy.'

When she arrives in India, however, she finds she is mobbed.

'The attention I get is unbelievable. People come up for pictures and autographs. They see that you're out in the crowd and then you can't move.

'You stop and take selfies with them. I love it to some extent, but on your days off it can be a bit much. I've probably had more than 1,000 letters from India since the film opened.

'A lot of the letters are from guys declaring their undying love. I do get marriage proposals – not official ones, obviously. They say, 'We've watched the film six, seven or eight times.' That's dedication!'

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