Preity Zinta Biography

Preity Zinta born 31st January 1974 in Shimla, native of Rohru, Himachal Pradesh is an Indian actress who is a most popular herione in Bollywood. She is one of the most successful actress in the Industry. She is from Hindu Rajput family of Rohru and did her schooling "Convent of Jesus and Mary School", Shimla. She completed degree "criminal psychology" at the St. Bedes College. She began her Career as as a model, television anchor, and commercial (ad films) actress (she was seen in Lyril (soap) ad film) before breaking into cinema in 1998 with her role in Dil Se, for which she won the Filmfare Sensational Debut Award.

 

Preity Zinta's father Durganand Zinta was an officer in the Indian Army, mother Nilprabha Zinta both are involved in a car accident when Preity was thirteen. Unfortunately, her died on the spot and her mother broke many bones, including her sine. Zinta has two brothers, Deepankar Zinta and Manish Zinta, a year older and a year younger. Deepankar is a commissioned officer in the Indian Army. She is currently dating with Ness Wadia, the heir to the Bombay Dyeing company. Preity Zinta recently moved into to her own house in Mumbai.


Preity Zinta's trademark is her dimple. She has done her best performance in Kya Kehna. She has acted four times with Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukerji. Zinta's good friends are Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Shahrukh Khan and Gauri Khan. Zinta had bad days in the year 2004, she nearly escaped death twice in Colombo and later in the Indian Ocean Tsunami.

Preity Zinta

Preity Zinta Preity Zinta's debut with Shekar Kapur's Tara Rum Pum Pum opposite to Hrithik Roshan but film never took off. Her first film was Kundan Shah's Kya Kehna but it got delayed till 2000. Soldier film also delayed like this only and made her acting debut with Dil Se in 1998. This film done ver well in Bollywood industry and she got a Filmfare award for the Best Debut Award for her performance. Followed with Soldier and Kya Kehna which made hit in the Bollywood industry. Later, she had successes with the films Mission Kashmir(2000), Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (2001),Dil Chahta Hai (2001). In 2003, Zinta gave a big hits like The Hero: Love Story of a Spy, Koi.. Mil Gaya and kal Ho Naa Ho these films are highest grossing films. She won a Filmfare Best Actress Award for the film Kal Ho Naa Ho. Followed with Lakshya(2004), Veer-Zaara(2004) these film became a big hit in the box office and next average movie Salaam Namaste(2005) it became a biggest hit in overseas. In 2006, She also acted in a Karan Johar's "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" this was a huge hit in box office, and her recent movie was Jaan-E- Mann it performed poorly at the box office.She acted with lot of actors and actress like Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Saif Ali Khan, Arjun Rampal, and Priyanka Chopra and many more...