Soni Razdan is a British actress and director who works in Hindi films.
14 Facts About Soni Razdan
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Soni Razdan is married to film director Mahesh Bhatt and is the mother of Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt.
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Razdan was born in Small Heath Birmingham, West Midlands, England to a British-German mother, Gertrude Hoelzer and an Indian Kashmiri Pandit father, Narendra Nath Razdan and grew up in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
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Soni Razdan started her career in English theatre with John Fowles' The Collector and her Hindi stage career with Bund Darvaze, Satyadev Dubey's adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit.
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Soni Razdan's photos were seen by Franco Zeffirelli who wanted to cast her as Mary in his miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth.
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The role was given to Olivia Hussey and Soni Razdan was cast as a young grieving mother as well as appearing as an extra in other scenes.
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Soni Razdan appeared as Sulochana in the Doordarshan TV series Buniyaad.
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Soni Razdan acted in Indian TV serials Saahil, Gaatha and has been a regular on Indian television.
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Soni Razdan directed a film called Love Affair that was expected to be released in 2016, but did not.
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Soni Razdan acted in Meghna Gulzar's Raazi which starred her daughter Alia in the lead role.
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Soni Razdan played the lead role in the film Yours Truly where she portrayed the character of a lonely middle-aged government employee Mithi Kumar.
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Soni Razdan appeared as the Imaaduddin Shah's mother in the 2007 movie Dil Dosti Etc.
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Soni Razdan married Indian film director Mahesh Bhatt on 20 April 1986.
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Bhatt did not want to divorce his first wife, so he and Soni Razdan converted to Islam prior to marriage and held a very private nikaah ceremony.