Amrita Singh is an Indian film and television actress. Amrita started her career in 1983 and became the talk of the town in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Amrita Singh was born into a Punjabi family and married into a Nawab family. She played several roles in real life. Let’s know more about Amrita Singh.
Biography/Wiki
Amrita Singh was born on February 9, 1958, in Hadali, Pakistan, to a Muslim mother and a Sikh father (65 years; age as of 2023). She received her primary education from Modern School, New Delhi.
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appearance
She is 5 feet 1 inch (155 cm) tall and weighs approximately 70 kg (154 lbs). Her eye and hair color are brown. 
family
Amrita Singh was born to Shivinder Singh Virk and Rukhsana Sultana. Her father was an army officer and her mother was a political associate of the late Sanjay Gandhi during the National Emergency of 1975-76.
Amrita Singh and her mother
She is the great-granddaughter of Delhi civil contractor Sobha Singh. Amrita is the grand-niece of novelist Khushwant Singh. Actress Begum Para is her aunt and actor Ayub Khan is her distant cousin.
Amrita Singh and her cousin Ayub Khan
In October 1991, Amrita married Saif Ali Khan (actor). She converted to Islam before marrying Saif Ali Khan.
Amrita Singh when she married Saif Ali Khan
On August 12, 1993, she gave birth to their first child, a daughter, Sara Ali Khan, and in October 2001, she gave birth to their second child, a son, Ibra Shin Ali Khan.
Amrita Singh and her daughter Sara Ali Khan
Amrita Singh and her son Ibrahim
In 2004, she divorced Saif Ali Khan.
Profession
She made her Bollywood debut in 1983 in Betaab with co-star Sunny Deol. The following years were the prime years of her career and she starred in other hit films such as Sunny (1984), Madhu (1985), Saheb (1985), Naam (1986), Chameli Ki Shaadi (1986), Hudghazi (1987), Waaris (1988), etc. She also played some negative roles in films like “Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman” (1992) and “Aaina” (1993). After the film Rang (1993), she retired from acting.
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She returned to acting in 2002 and starred in the March 23, 1931 film Shaheed, in which she played the mother of Bhagat Singh (played by Bobby Deol). She entered the television industry in 2005 with Ekta Kapoor’s family drama Kavyanjali. In 2013, she starred in Aurangzeb, opposite Jackie Shroff after a gap of twenty years. In 2017, she played the role of a principal in the critically acclaimed TV series Hindi Medium.
Awards
In 1994, Amrita won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie “Aaina”. In 2005, she won the Indian Television Award for Best Actress for her negative role in “Kavyanjali”.
Affair/Boyfriend
She became associated with Sonny Deol after working with him in his first film. The couple is very popular in the media.
Amrita Singh and Sunny Deol
A few years later, her relationship with cricketer Ravi Shastri came to public attention. In 1986, she got engaged to Ravi Shastri.
Amrita Singh and Ravi Shastri
In the late 1980s, she had an affair with the late Vinod Khanna.
Amrita Singh and Vinod Khanna
fact
- Before becoming an actress, Amrita Singh was a belly dancer. Her mother helped her a lot in becoming a leading lady.
- Her ex-husband Saif Ali Khan is 12 years younger than her.
- She likes to listen to ghazals.
- Amrita Singh for daughter Sara Ali Khan for Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor’s wedding dress up. Saif Ali Khan wrote a note wishing Amrita good luck in life before marrying Kareena Kapoor.
- When Saif Ali Khan was asked about the divorce in an interview, he replied that Amrita abused his mother and sister, which he could not tolerate.
- Saif revealed that after the divorce, he was ordered to pay a monthly alimony of 100,000 rupees to Amrita until his son Ibrahim, who was in Amrita’s custody, turned 18.
- Amrita is the stepmother of Taimur (son of Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor).
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