Amrita Singh (born February 9, 1958) is an Indian film and television actress.
Amrita was born to a Sikh-Muslim family. She is the daughter Rukhsana Sultana, who was a political activist and Shavinder Singh, who was an army officer.
Through her mother, she is a relative of actors Begum Para and Ayub Khan, as well as Mian Ehsan Ul Haque, who came from a landowning family. He was a judge and the Chief Justice of the highest court in the princely st...
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Amrita Singh (born February 9, 1958) is an Indian film and television actress.
Amrita was born to a Sikh-Muslim family. She is the daughter Rukhsana Sultana, who was a political activist and Shavinder Singh, who was an army officer.
Through her mother, she is a relative of actors Begum Para and Ayub Khan, as well as Mian Ehsan Ul Haque, who came from a landowning family. He was a judge and the Chief Justice of the highest court in the princely state of Bikaner, northern Rajasthan. Through her father, she is a relative of novelist Khushwant Singh and businessman Sir Sobha Singh of Lahore.
She attended Modern School in New Delhi and is fluent in the English, Punjabi and Hindi languages.
Amrita made her Bollywood debut in 1983 with Betaab, a vastly successful film in which she was paired with Sunny Deol. This was quickly followed by a succession of hits, such as: Sunny in 1984, Mard (which was the biggest hit of that year) and Saaheb in 1985, Chameli Ki Shaadi and Naam in 1986, Khudgarz...
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