1. Pooja Bhatt was born on 24 February 1972 and is an Indian actress, director, and filmmaker.
21 Facts About Pooja Bhatt
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Pooja Bhatt established herself as one of the leading actresses of Hindi cinema from the late 1980s through the early 2000s.
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Pooja Bhatt is the recipient of several accolades, including two National Film Awards and one Filmfare Awards.
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Pooja Bhatt played her first leading role in Mahesh Pooja Bhatt's television film Daddy in 1989.
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Pooja Bhatt's breakthrough came with the romance comedy Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin, which emerged as her highest grossing release.
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On her father's side, Pooja Bhatt is of Gujarati descent and on her mother's side, she is of English, Scottish, Armenian, and Burmese ancestry.
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Pooja Bhatt has a brother, Rahul Bhatt and younger half-sisters Shaheen Bhatt and Alia Bhatt.
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Pooja Bhatt's cousins are Hitarth Bhat, film director Mohit Suri, former actress Smiley Suri and actor Emraan Hashmi.
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Pooja Bhatt made her acting debut at age 17, in 1989 with Daddy, a TV film directed by her father Mahesh Pooja Bhatt.
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Pooja Bhatt's biggest solo hit and her big screen debut came with the romantic comedy Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin opposite Aamir Khan, which is a remake of the Oscar-winning Hollywood classic It Happened One Night.
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Pooja Bhatt then starred in Sir opposite debutant Atul Agnihotri.
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Pooja Bhatt next starred as an abandoned girl in the thriller film Tamanna, which marked her first production venture under her Pooja Bhatt Productions.
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Pooja Bhatt began 1997 with a role in Jyoti Prakash Dutta's ensemble drama Border, the film was released worldwide on 13 June 1997 with positive reviews from critics and garnered critical acclaim for its story, execution, scale, showing off the battle, direction, screenplay, performances and soundtrack.
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Pooja Bhatt gained further success in with the film Zakhm, opposite Ajay Devgan, which won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration.
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The performance of Pooja Bhatt was well received, for which she received a Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination.
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Pooja Bhatt made her directorial debut with Paap in 2004, starring John Abraham and Udita Goswami.
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In 2020, Pooja Bhatt returned to acting with Sadak 2, a sequel to the hit 1991 film.
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Pooja Bhatt's father returned to directing with this film after 20 years, while her half-sister Alia Bhatt co-starred alongside her.
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In 2021, Pooja Bhatt made her web series debut in the Netflix series Bombay Begums.
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Pooja Bhatt appeared boldly in many magazine covers including Stardust, Cine Blitz, and Filmfare.
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In 2022, Pooja Bhatt joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra, which resumed in Hyderabad.