- Pooja Bhatt
Infobox actor
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name = Pooja Bhatt
birthdate = birth date and age|1972|2|24
location =Mumbai ,Maharashtra ,India
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occupation =Actress & Producer
spouse =Manish Makhija
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parents =Mahesh Bhatt
Kiran
filmfareawards = 1991Filmfare Best Female Debut Award Pooja Bhatt (
Hindi : पूजा भट), is anIndia n film actress, producer and director.She is the daughter of Indian
film director Mahesh Bhatt , and is related to the famous Bhatt family ofBollywood , that owns the film production company Vishesh Films.Biography
Family
Born on
February 24 ,1972 , Pooja Bhatt is of Gujarati Brahmin and Muslim descent on her father's side. She has Scottish, Armenian and Burmese ancestry on her mother's side. She is daughter of Mahesh Bhatt and Kiran Bhatt (aka Loraine Bright) and step daughter of Soni Razdan, an actress. Her cousinVikram Bhatt is a film screenwriter-director. Emraan Hashmi is another famous cousin who is a Bollywood actor.She acted in many films which were produced and directed by her father.
On August 24, 2003, she married her long-time boyfriend and a former popular VJ of Indian music channel,
Channel V , Munish Makhija aka Udham Singh. He now owns a restaurant-bar in Goa.Career
She made her acting debut at age 17, in 1989 with "Daddy", a
TV film directed by her fatherMahesh Bhatt . In the film she portrayed a soul-searching teenage girl in an estranged relationship with her alcoholic father, played by actorAnupam Kher .Her biggest hit and her big screen debut came with a musical hit, "
Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin (1991)" oppositeAamir Khan which was a remake of the Oscar-winningHollywood classic "It Happened One Night ." Pooja received theFilmfare Best Female Debut Award for the film.Her most well-known films in the 1990s included, "
Sadak " (1991), "Junoon" (1992), "Chaahat " (1996), "Tamanna " (1996), a super-hit and multi-starrer "Border "(1997) and "Zakhm " (1998).Her last film appearance was in "
Everybody Says I'm Fine! " in 2001. She has since focused on producing and directing.She made her directorial debut with "
Paap " in 2004, starring John Abraham andUdita Goswami , since then she has made two more directorial ventures, Holiday (2006) and Dhokha (2007).Awards and Nominations
Awards won
* 1991 - Filmfare Award for Lux Face of the Yearshe is nice
Awards nominated
* 2005 - Popular Award for Best debuting Director for Paap (2003)
Filmography
Producer
* "
Tamanna " (1997)
* "Dushman" (1998)
* "Zakhm" (1998)
* "Sur: The Melody of Life" (2002)
* "Jism" (2003)
* "Paap" (2003)
* "Vaada" (2005)
* "Rog" (2005)
* "Holiday" (2006)Director
* "Paap" (2003)
* "Holiday" (2006)
* "Dhokha " (2007)
* "Kajraare " (2009)Production Designer
* "Jism" (2003)
* "Paap" (2003)
* "Rog" (2005)External links
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References
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