She was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kal Ho Naa Ho. Her unconventional screen persona has been credited with changing the concept of a Hindi film heroine. She is known in the Indian media for publicly speaking her mind, and consequently has sparked the occasional controversy.
About Preity Zinta in brief
Preity Zinta is an Indian film actress and entrepreneur. She was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kal Ho Naa Ho. Her unconventional screen persona has been credited with changing the concept of a Hindi film heroine. She is known in the Indian media for publicly speaking her mind, and consequently has sparked the occasional controversy. In addition to acting, she is a social activist, television presenter and stage performer. She also owns the Indian Premier League cricket team Kings XI Punjab since 2008, and the South-African T20 Global League team Stellenbosch Kings since 2017. She has two brothers; Deepankar and Manish, a year older and a year younger, respectively. She describes herself as having been a tomboy as a child, and has emphasised her father’s military background as having given her a lasting impression on how family life was to be conducted. She studied at the Convent of Jesus and Mary boarding school in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. She graduated with an degree in English honours and criminal psychology from St Bede’s College, Shimla. She then took up modelling for television commercialverts. In 1997, she met Liril Kapkur when she accompanied a friend to an audition and was asked if she would audition too. Afterwards, she appeared in other commercials, including one for the soap Liriril Lirim.
In 2004, she became the sole witness not to retract in court her earlier statements against the Indian mafia during the 2003 Bharat Shah case, for which she was awarded a Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Award. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children, and works as a motivational speaker. She currently lives in New York City with her family and has a husband and three children, including a son who lives in the U.S. and a daughter who lives with her mother in New Jersey. Her husband is a former Indian Army officer, and she has two sons who are currently studying at the University of California, San Diego. She lives in a penthouse apartment in Manhattan with her wife and two daughters, who live with her in a two-bedroom flat. She and her husband have a son, Ravi, who was born in 2008. She had a daughter in 2011. She recently had a baby daughter, Shraddha, with whom she is expecting a second child, a daughter-in-law, and a son-to-be, named Ravi Rana. She said: “I want to be a mother one day. I want my daughter to grow up to be the kind of woman I always dreamed of being.” She has a daughter, Raveena, who is also a film star and has appeared in films such as Dil Se.. Mil Gaya, Dil Chahta Hai, Dil Hai Tumhaara and Veer-Zaara. In 2012, she had a role in Ishkq in Paris, which failed to leave a mark.
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