Amrita Singh is a renowned actress who appears in Hindi films and television shows. Amrita Singh was born on 9th February, 1958 to a Sikh father, Shivinder Singh and Muslim mother, Rukhsana Sultan. Amrita Singh is the great granddaughter of Sir Sobha Singh, a distinguished civil contractor, well-known builder of Lutyens' Delhi and real estate owner of Delhi. Amrita is the niece of famed author/ writer Khushwant Singh.
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Amrita Singh married twelve years younger actor Saif Ali Khan in the year 1991 and is the mother of two children, daughter, Sara Ali Khan, and a son, Ibrahim Ali Khan. Amrita Singh and Saif Ali Khan divorced in the year 2004 and Amrita now stays with her two kids.
Saif Ali Khan is the son of well known actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan, Nawab of Pataudi. Saif’s younger sister, Soha is also a bollywood actress. After courting an Italian model, Roza for a couple of years, Saif is now dating bollywood diva Kareena Kapoor.
One of the most attractive actresses of eighties, Amrita has experimented with all kind of roles in different genres of cinema. Moreover she is the only actress to have played the female lead with actor Dharmendra as well as his son Sunny Deol. She has also worked alongside Dharmendra’s other actor son Bobby Deol in ‘23rd March 1931: Shaheed’, wherein she played his mother.
A dedicated Bollywood actress, Amrita has worked in a number of successful films alongside top bollywood stars. It is believed that Amrita’s mother had a great command on Amrita and her bollywood career. In fact, her mother Rukhsana Sultan tried to influence B.R. Chopra to cast Amrita in his film ‘Nikaah’. Chopra was in search of a fresh face for ‘Nikaah’ and had already rejected Zeenat Aman who had previously appeared in ‘Insak ka Tarazu’. Chopra finally chose British raised Salma Agha for the lead role in ‘Nikaah’. Bothered by this decision, Amrita’s mother sent letters to Salma Agha threatening her to refuse the film and go back to London. However it did not work in favor of Amrita and Salma Agha appeared in the mega success ‘Nikaah’.
Amrita made her debut in Rahul Rawail’s ‘Betaab’ opposite new comer Sunny Deol. Released in the year 1983, ‘Betaab’ was a love story that won five nominations at the Filmfare. The film became a huge box office success and Amrita won over the audiences with her varied performance.
Amrita Singh incredibly paired with superstars Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt and Sunny Deol. Some of her landmark films include Manmohan Desai’s ‘Mard’, Anil Ganguly’s ‘Saaheb’, Basu Chatterjee’s ‘Chameli ki Shaadi’, ‘Naam,’ Rakesh Roshan’s ‘Khudgarz’. Amrita Singh won accolades for her performance in negative roles in ‘Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman’ and ‘Aaina’.
After marrying Saif Ali Khan in 19991, Amrita resolved to take a respite from films. However Amrita returned to Bollywood in the year 2002 with ‘23rd March 1931: Shaheed’, where she portrayed the character of Bobby Deol’s mother. She was later seen in Mohit Suri’s ‘Kalyug’ in the negative lead. Amrita Singh also worked in supporting roles in films like ‘Shootout at Lokhandwala’ and ‘Dus Kahaniyan’.
Amrita Singh joined the television industry with Ekta Kapoor’s family drama ‘Kavyanjali’ aired on Star Plus. Amrita was seen in a negative role in the show that soon gained immense popularity.
Amrita is currently working on a Bollywood project, called ‘Kajraare’ produced by T-Series and directed by Pooja Bhatt. Starring Himesh Reshammiya and Mona Liza in the leading roles, the film is supposedly a remake of 1991 release ‘Sadak’.
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