Preity Zinta
Preetam Zinta Singh ( Hindi, प्रीति ज़िंटा, Priti Zinta born January 31, 1975 in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh ) is an Indian film actress and a model.
Life
When she was thirteen years old, her father died in a car accident, so she had to support the family alone. She began her career in the spotlight as a promotional model for " Lyril " soap and " Perk " chocolate. Mid-90s, she auditioned for the film director Shekhar Kapur, who was sent off for a starring role in consideration. The planned project was never realized because at the time Kapur was already working on his film Elizabeth, and more turned to the international film industry.
Your first and certainly the most important appearance on the big screen saw Preity Zinta 1998 in Mani Ratnam With all my heart, who brought her directly in the same year the " Best Newcomer Award ". This success was rewarded with some good role offers. Since then she has played, among others, the terrorists movie Mission Kashmir, in the "Pretty Woman" - modification Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, in modern drama Dil Chahta Hai and in India's first science fiction film Star Child - Koi Mil Gaya, all of which were box-office hits.
With Live and do not think about tomorrow ( Kal Ho Naa Ho), she landed a special stroke of luck: Originally scheduled for the role of Naina was her colleague Kareena Kapoor, which was already shown in In good times and in difficult days as a pampered sister " Poo". When producers but did not want to go into Kapoor's pay claim, she withdrew from the project. Preity Zinta took gratefully, and immediately won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her role in Live and do not think about tomorrow.
Preity Zinta has also performed in many countries around the world on Shah Rukh Khan's Temptations world tour in 2004.
For a long time Preity Zinta in the shadow of her colleague Kajol, who occupied a similar role type. Meanwhile, however, has Preity Zinta who is always occupied by their fans with loving descriptions such as " bubbly ", " cutie pie ", " chubby ...", created a unique profile with a large fan base.
2004, she has twice narrowly escaped death. Once at the Temptation tour in Colombo, Sri Lanka, when an explosion occurred. The second time during the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. In 2006, she appeared with Kajol on at the Fashion Show " Freedom" of the Indian designer Manish Malhotra.