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Ameesha Patel born 9 June 1975 is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi and Telugu films. Patel has won several awards such as Filmfare Awards and Zee Cine Awards.
Patel made her acting debut in 2000 with the romantic thriller Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai, which was a major commercial success, earning her the Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut. This success continued with the Telugu action film Badri (2000) and the highest-grossing period film Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001), which earned her the Filmfare Special Performance Award. After starring in Humraaz and Kya Yeh Pyar Hai (both 2002), Patel's career declined and she played supporting roles in Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007), Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007) and Race 2 (2013).
After continuous ups and downs, Patel made a career comeback by reprising her role in the sequel Gadar 2 (2023), which became her highest-grossing release. Apart from her acting career, Patel is a humanitarian and works for several causes.
Early life and Background
Patel was born on 9 June 1975 to a Gujarati father Amit Patel and a Sindhi and Punjabi NRI mother Asha She is the sister of Ashmit Patel and granddaughter of lawyer-politician Barrister Rajni Patel, who was the president of the Congress State Committee of Mumbai. She was born at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai and has been a trained Bharatanatyam dancer since the age of five. Her birth-name is a combination of the first three letters of her father's name Amit and the last three letters of her mother's name Asha.
Patel studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai and was the head girl for the 1992–93 academic year. She then enrolled at Tufts University in Boston, United States, to study bio-genetic engineering, where she studied for two years, and eventually changed her major to economics.
Patel's career began as an economic analyst at Khandwala Securities Limited after graduation. Later, she received an offer from Morgan Stanley, but turned it down. After returning to India, she joined Satyadev Dubey's theatre group and acted in plays, including an Urdu language play called Neelam (1999) written by Tanveer Khan upon getting permission from her conservative parents. At the same time she ventured into modelling and appeared in several commercial campaigns. Patel has also modelled for well-known Indian brands such as Bajaj, Fair & Lovely, Cadbury, Fem, Lux and many others.
Her grandfather Rajni Patel was a lawyer and Indian National Congress politician. A street in Mumbai was named 'Barisar Rajni Patel Marg' in his honour in 1986.
Personal life
In 1999, Patel met filmmaker Vikram Bhatt on the sets of her debut film; Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage (2002),and they began dating after the film's release. Later, this caused a rift between the Patel and Bhatt families and Patel was going through a financial crisis as her father used her hard-earned money to restart the family business, leading to misunderstandings between Patel and her parents. In July 2004, Patel sent a legal notice to her father for mismanaging her accounts and assets worth Rs 120 million and demanded her money back Patel's relationship with Bhatt was frequently reported in the media with speculation of a possible marriage. ↑ In January 2008, the media reported that Patel had split from her. Soon afterwards, Patel's parents stated their desire to reconcile with their daughter and that "everyone is happy with the break-up" but their relationship remained strained. On 12 March 2008, Patel was spotted at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week with London-based businessman Kanav Puri. In June 2008, she confirmed her relationship in an interview with Mid-Day: "I didn't acknowledge anav at first because he is very special and I didn't want to make it a bad thing. It was too precious for me to talk about it to people. It's been about six months now and I feel secure and I know that our relationship is so strong that nothing or no one can come between us." The media once reported that she had married Puri but she denied these rumours
In August 2009, Mumbai Mirror reported that Patel and her brother, Ashmit, had reconciled on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan and were spotted together at PVR Cinemas in Juhu. Although the siblings agreed that the matter was resolved, they preferred not to speak about it publicly. In December 2009, Patel's mother Asha revealed during an interview with The Times of India that they had finally ended their five-year estrangement.
In September 2010, Mumbai Mirror reported that Patel had broken up with her long-time boyfriend Kanav Puri to focus on her career. She confirmed this via Twitter.
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