Preity Zinta - The Most Beautiful Actresses in Bollywood Ever

Preity Zinta (Himachal Pradesh, January 31, 1975) is an Indian film actress. She appears in Bollywood and Telugu, Panjabi and English languages films. After graduating with a degree in Criminal Psychology, she debuted in "Dil Se" in 1998 and in "Soldier". She has won a Filmfare Award for Best Actress and was recognized for her role as a single mother in "Kya Kehna" (2000). She has played many roles and has changed the idea of heroin in Bollywood.

Zinta received her first Filmfare Award nomination (Breakthrough Actress) for her role in the drama "Kal Ho Naa Ho" (2003). She starred in the highest grossing films of the year: "Koi... Mil Gaya" and "Veer-Zaara". She portrayed the modern Indian woman in "Salaam Namaste" and "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna", films that were very successful at the box office outside of India. These achievements have made her a prominent Bollywood actress. Her first international film role was in the Canadian film "Heaven on Earth".

In addition to making movies, Zinta writes columns for BBC News Online South Asia, she is a stage actress and the owner of the Kings XI Punjab cricket team. Her habit of speaking her mind is well known in the media and has created much controversy.

Youth

She was born into a Rajput Hindu family from Rohru in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. Zinta loses her father Durganand Zinta, an Indian Army officer in a car accident when she was only 13 years old, her mother, Nilprabha, also involved in the accident, who was seriously injured and, consequently, remained in bed for two years. Zinta said that the crash was the turning point in her life that made her mature as a person. She has two brothers - Deepankar and Manish. Deepankar is an officer in the Indian Army and Manish lives in California.

Zinta says that as a child she was a girl who preferred children's games. She underscores the importance of her father's experience in the military for the life of her family. She studied at the Convent of Jesus and Mary (a boarding school) in Shimla, where she was interested in literature, especially Shakespearean plays and poetry. 8 December According to Zinta, she went well in school and got good grades. She played basketball in her spare time.

She enrolled at St Bede College in Shimla and graduated with a BA in English. She also graduated with a degree in Criminal Psychology, but decided to be a model. Her first television commercial was for Perk Chocolates in 1996. An ad director convinced her to audition for the Perk Chocolates commercial. It appeared in catalogs and other advertisements, including the ad for Liril soap.

Initial career (1997–99)

However, she participated in a test for the film Shekhar Kapur, "Tara Rum Pum Pum", she managed to shoot Dil Se, a film for which she was awarded an award. Zinta decided to do different roles after her friends teased her saying she always wore saris white and danced in the rain.

Due to the delays of the films "Kya Kehna" and "Soldier", Zinta's first release was "Dil Se" (1998) with Shahrukh Khan and Manisha Koirala. In the film she played Preeti Nair, Khan's fiancee and a girl from Delhi. The role was a very rare debut because she was on screen for 20 minutes, a short time. Her question to Shahrukh Khan "Are you a virgin?" it is very famous. She won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award nomination. She starred in the drama Soldier, a resounding success of 1998. Won the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award for "Dil Se" and "Soldier".

Zinta appeared in two Telugu cinema films, "Premante Idera" (1998) with Venkatesh and "Raja Kumarudu" (1999) with Mahesh Babu. She made "Sangharsh" with the stellar performance of Akshay Kumar, based on "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) and is directed by Tanuja Chandra.

Success

Her first role in 2000 was in the drama "Kya Kehna", an unexpected box office success. The film is about single mothers and teenage pregnancy. She was nominated for a Filmfare Best Actress Award for the portrayal of a teenage single mother who fights against social prejudices. India Today said that Zinta was a new type of actress in Bollywood, different from the stereotypical characters of the past.

Later in the year, Zinta starred in the drama of Vidhu Vinod Chopra, "Mission Kashmir" with Sanjay Dutt and Hrithik Roshan, located in the Kashmir region, deals with the conflict between India and Pakistan, terrorism and crime. The critic at The Hindu said, "The ever angelic Preity Zinta adds a splash of color to the serious plot." Mission Kashmir was an economic success, had the third highest grossing of 2000 in India.

In 2001, there were good reviews for "Dil Chahta Hai" with Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Akshaye Khanna. The film, centered on the lives of three friends, is set in Mumbai and Australia. Zinta starred opposite Aamir Khan in the role of Shalini. According to critics, Dil Chahta Hai represents the youth of India realistically. The film made money in urban areas but in the countryside it was not a great success. Rediff.com wrote, "Zinta is nice and vibrant, a mix of young naive and confused."

Since 2003, she has linked one success to another: "Koi... Mil Gaya", "Kal Ho Naa Ho" and "Veer-Zaara" are blockbusters in the Indian Ocean. "Salaam Namaste", a modern comedy released in 2005, is a hit in many countries.

In 2004 she joined Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Saif Ali Khan, Arjun Rampal and Priyanka Chopra in the Temptation 2004 Concert, a huge international hit show featuring the most popular Bollywood songs.

Very careful when choosing the films in which she participates, she prefers to shoot less and choose scripts that allow her to play roles in different registers. Although she had always refused to shoot several movies at once, in 2005 agreed to participate simultaneously in the shooting of "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" of Karan Johar and in the "Jaan-E-Mann" of Shirish Kunder, two films with a film project long-lasting. Her only tragic role is in "Sangarsh" (Indian remake of The Silence of the Lambs).

In May of 2006, along with Karan Johar visits the Cannes Film Festival to present to distributors and critics the film "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna".

Most recently she had roles in the non-commercial films The Last Lear and Heaven on Earth. She won a Silver Hugo Award for her portrayal of a battered woman in Heaven on Earth.