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 Roshanoffered 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.