Amrita Singh

Amrita Singh (born 9 February 1958) is an Indian actress who mainly works in Hindi films. Singh made her acting debut with Betaab (1983). Singh established herself as a popular and leading actress of the 1980s and early 1990s. She has received several accloades including a Filmfare Award and an Indian Telly Award. Singh went onto appear as a leading lady in commercially successful films such as - Mard (1985), Chameli Ki Shaadi (1986), Naam (1986), Khudgarz (1987), Thikana (1987), Waaris (1988), Toofan (1989), Dil Aashna Hai (1992), Aaina (1993) and Rang (1993). For Aaina, she won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. Post this success, she took a break from acting. Singh returned to films with 23rd March 1931: Shaheed (2002), and received praises for her performance in Kalyug (2005), Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007), 2 States (2014), Hindi Medium (2017) and Badla (2019). Singh won the Indian Telly Award for Best Actress in a Negative Role (Jury) for her television debut Kkavyanjali (2005-2006). She was married to actor Saif Ali Khan from 1991 to 2004, with whom she had 2 children including actress Sara Ali Khan. Early life Amrita Singh was born on 9 February 1958 to Rukhsana Sultana and an army officer Shivinder Singh Virk. Her mother was a political associate of Sanjay Gandhi during the Indian Emergency in the 1970s, who became known for leading Sanjay Gandhi's sterilisation campaign in Muslim areas of Old Delhi. Through her paternal grandmother Mohinder Kaur, Amrita is the great-granddaughter of Sobha Singh, one of the builders of New Delhi, the grandniece of the late novelist Khushwant Singh, and great-grandniece of politician Ujjal Singh. The actress Begum Para is her great-aunt and her husband was Nasir Khan, who is the brother of Dilip Kumar. Actor Ayub Khan is her uncle (second cousin once removed). Singh was a childhood friend of Shah Rukh Khan. Their mothers often worked together in the Old Delhi area and Singh attended the same school as Khan's sister, Shahnaz.