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 = 1991 Filmfare Best Female Debut Award

Pooja Bhatt (Hindi: पूजा भट), is an Indian film actress, producer and director.

She is the daughter of Indian film director Mahesh Bhatt, and is related to the famous Bhatt family of Bollywood, 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 cousin Vikram 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 father Mahesh Bhatt. In the film she portrayed a soul-searching teenage girl in an estranged relationship with her alcoholic father, played by actor Anupam Kher.

Her biggest hit and her big screen debut came with a musical hit, "Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin (1991)" opposite Aamir Khan which was a remake of the Oscar-winning Hollywood classic "It Happened One Night." Pooja received the Filmfare 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 and Udita 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