Friday, April 25, 2008

Ayesha Takia



























Ayesha Takia
was born on April 10, 1986 and grew up in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Her father, Nishit, is Gujarati, and her mother, Faridah, is half British and half Maharashtrian, an Anglo-Indian Muslim. She is an Indian film actress.

Takia studies at St. Anthony's High School, but never went to college because she started to work when she turned sixteen. She said in interviews that she grew up speaking English at home and had to learn Hindi and Telugu for her film roles. Her father interacts with her producers and handles her dates. She has a younger sister named Natasha born on February 5, 1988.

She appeared in the famous I'm a Complan Boy! I'm a Complan Girl! campaign alongside Shahid Kapoor and also in a music video, Falguni Pathak's Meri Chunar Udd Udd Jaye.
She then appeared in the video, Shake It Daddy, when she was sixteen, which brought her to the attention of the movie industry, and a few film offers followed.

She has been highly praised for her work in the 2006 Dor, a smaller budget film in which she plays the role of a young widowed Rajasthani woman living in a traditional joint family. She went on to win several awards for her performance in the film Dor, including the Zee Cine Critics Award for Best Actress .

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