The online voting ended on December 31, 2010 on www.itimes.com/polls, and 3.1 lakh votes set the 'DQ' (Desirability Quotient) benchmark; catapulting one star ahead of the other, demoting some past winners. Finally, 50 men and 50 women have made it to the vaunted list. In a country of a billion-plus, just to be among the chosen 50 is reason enough to raise the bubbly.
There are also some surprise entrants this year, like the hot, new sensations: Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha, Miss Earth Nicole Faria, filmmaker Karan Johar, Siddharth Mallya from the corporate world, and models like Bruna Abdullah,Neha Hinge and Aruna Shields. They are all undoubtedly desirable, yet, some of them will make it to the top, and the rest will proudly stick another feather on their cap for making it to this list. After all, the Times List is the final word, and the race is only getting hotter and tougher, as our last year's (2009) winners Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif, who topped the list respectively, realised after feeling the heat how much it was worth it. And here are the 50 men and 50 women in alphabetical order ? to watch the suspense unveil, keep watching this space.
50 most desirable men
Abhay Deol
Abhishek Bachchan
Aditya Roy Kapur
Ajay Devgn
Ajith
Ali Zafar
Akshay Kumar
Arjan Bajwa
Arjun Rampal
Ashmit Patel
Atif Aslam
Ayaan Ali Khan
Ayushman Khurana
Bobby Deol
Dino Morea
Emraan Hashmi
Farhan Akhtar
Hrithik Roshan
Imran Khan
Irfan Pathan
John Abraham
Karan Johar
Karan Singh Grover
Kunal Kapoor
MS Dhoni
Mahesh Babu
Muzammil Ibrahim
Neil Nitin Mukesh
Prateik Babbar
Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Sharma
Rajeev Khandelwal
Ranbir Kapoor
Ranveer Singh
Rannvijay Singh
Salman Khan
Saif Ali Khan
Shah Rukh Khan
Shahid Kapoor
Sharman Joshi
Siddharth
Siddharth Mallya
Suriya
Vijender Singh
Vikram Kennedy
Vivek Oberoi
Yuvraj Singh
Zaheer Khan
Zayed Khan
50 most desirable women
Ayesha Thapar
Aishwarya Rai
Ameesha Patel
Amrita Rao
Anjali Lavania
Anushka Sharma
Aruna Shields
Asin
Barbara Mori
Bipasha Basu
Bruna Abdullah
Celina Jaitly
Chitrangda
Singh
Deepika
Padukone
Dia Mirza
Freida Pinto
Genelia D'Souza
Giselle Monteiro
Jacqueline
Fernandez
Kainat Arora
Kangna Ranaut
Kareena Kapoor
Koena Mitra
Lara Dutta
Malaika
Arora Khan
Mallika
Sherawat
Manasvi Mamgai
Nandana Sen
Neha Dhupia
Neha Hinge
Neha Sharma
Paravathy
Omanakuttan
Preity Zinta
Priyanka Chopra
Riya Sen
Sameera Reddy
Sherlyn Chopra
Shilpa Shetty
Shriya Saran
Shruti Haasan
Sonal Chauhan
Sonam Kapoor
Sushmita Sen
Trisha
Vidya Balan
Yaana Gupta
New Entrants in 2010: Men
Ajith
Ali Zafar
Ashmit Patel
Atif Aslam
Ayushman Khurana
Karan Johar
Karan Singh Grover
Mahesh Babu
Rahul Sharma
Ranveer Singh
Rannvijay Singh
Siddharth
Mallya
Suriya
Vikram Kennedy
Zaheer Khan
Zayed Khan
New Entrants in 2010: Women
Aanchal Kumar
Ayesha Thapar
Anjali Lavania
Aruna Shields
Bruna Abdullah
Kainat Arora
Koena Mitra
Manasvi Mamgai
Nandana Sen
Neha Hinge
Neha Sharma
Nicole Faria
Paravathy Omanakuttan
Sonakshi Sinha
Trisha
Yaana Gupta
2009 Qualifiers who Dropped Out in 2010
Dev Patel
Konkana Sen Sharma
Harman Baweja
Rani Mukerji
Irrfan Khan
Shahana Goswami
R Madhavan
Gul Panag
Fardeen Khan
Sophie Choudry
Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/50-Most-Desirable-2010/articleshow/7222829.cms
22 Siddharth
23 Yuvraj Singh
24 Karan Singh Grover
25 Zaheer Khan
26 Muzammil Ibrahim
27 Farhan Akhtar
28 Rannvijay Singh
29 Ayushman Khurana
30 Dino Morea
32 Emraan Hashmi
33 Vikram Kennedy
34 Irfan Pathan
35 Neil Nitin Mukesh
36 Rajeev Khandelwal
37 Abhishek Bachchan
38 Kunal Kapoor
39 Zayed Khan
40 Prateik Babbar
41 Ranveer Singh
42 Vivek Oberoi
43 Rahul Sharma
44 Ayaan Ali Khan
45 Bobby Deol
46 Karan Johar
47 Sharman Joshi
48 Aditya Roy Kapur
49 Ashmit Patel
50 Arjan Bajwa


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