Amisha Patel- Biography

Cover of Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage

Amisha Patel hails from a true multi-racial family as her father Amit
Patel is a Gujrati Maharashtrian and her mother Asha Patel is a
Sindhi. Her family is that of reputed lawyers and politicians.

Amisha is not just a famous Bollywood actress but also a Biogenetic
Engineer from a university in United States. Amisha is also a gold
medalist in economics. Before getting into films, she worked for a
financial company, but she did not continue for long.

Her inclination was towards art and cinema and hence she soon joined
Satyadev Dubey’s theatre group. With her excellent foreign degree and
superb family background, Amisha could easily don the seat of the CEO
of her family business, but fate had another calling for her.

Crediting her family connections for her first break in films, it so
happened that at a at a dinner at the Roshan’s house, Rakesh Roshan
offered Amisha a role in ‘Kaho Na Pyaar Hai’. The film was a superhit
and marked Hrithik Roshan's debut.

After ‘Kaho Na Pyar Hao’, life was not a bed of roses for Amisha. She
had number of flop films like ‘Suno Sasurji’ with Aftab Shivdasani,
‘Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage’ with Hrithik, ‘Yeh hai Jalwa’ with
Salman, ‘Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar’ with Jimmy Shergil. But then ‘Gadar’
opposite Sunny Deol became one of the biggest hit of Indian cinema.
Amisha’s stunning performance in the film made her to stand in the
front row of actresses in Bollywood.

In real life, Amisha is coy and simple. She had been accused of
link-ups with Vikram Bhatt and Kunal Kohli. She is however, now, happy
seeing a NRI buisnessmam Kanav Puri.

However, her performance in the 2006 film Ankahee, received critical
recognition, and she followed it with a supporting role in the hit
Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007).As of 2009, Patel will be seen in two comic
films, Run Bhola Run and Chatur Singh Two Star, that are scheduled to
release on summer 2009. Patel has also signed a three-film deal with
Yash Raj Films. One of the films will be directed by Shaad Ali.