Preity's Early Life
:-
Born in Shimla,
native of Rohru, she studied at the Jesus and Mary Simla Convent School after
getting a degree in criminal psychology at the St. Bedes College, Zinta began
her career as a model, and commercial (ad films) actress (she was seen in Lyril
(soap ad film).
Her father, Durganand
Zinta was an officer in the Indian Army. Durganand Zinta died when Preity was
thirteen, in a car accident in which her mother, Nilprabha Zinta was also
involved. Her mother was bedridden because of this incident. Zinta has two
brothers, Deepanker Zinta and Manish Zinta, a year older and a year younger
respectively. One of her brothers is a commissioned officer in the Indian Army.
Preity's Career :-
Her first movie was
supposed to be Soldier but due to delay Dil Se (1998) was released first. The
film was her breakthrough role and she won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for her
performance. Since then her career has been that of a typical Bollywood star:
not many hits but not many flops either.
In 2003, Zinta had
two smash hits, Koi... Mil Gaya and Kal Ho Naa Ho. She is currently among the
most successful actresses in Bollywood. In the year of 2003, she won many awards
for her role in the film, Kal Ho Naa Ho. Her performance got her the Filmfare
Best Actress Award [2]. Since then she has appeared in two other box office
hits, Veer-Zaara (2004) and Salaam Namaste (2005).
She joined a group of
top stars (Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Saif Ali Khan, Arjun Rampal, and
Priyanka Chopra) in the Temptation 2004 concert, which was a huge international
success.
Zinta has received an
invitation to represent Bollywood at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006
alongside Karan Johar. They will promote Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna at the festival.
She narrowly escaped death twice in late 2004, once after an explosion at a
Temptation concert in Colombo, and later in the Indian Ocean Tsunami.
Zinta has written
three columns for BBC South Asia.
Her next releases
will be Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna , Jaaneman.
Preity's Personal
Life :-
She has been linked
with a few of her co-stars such as Salman Khan, Abhishek Bachchan,Sanjay Dutt
and Aamir Khan but has always dismissed them as rumours . She is currently
dating the heir to the Bombay Dyeing company Ness Wadia.
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