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Cinema Actress Soha ALi Khan Biography And Picture Gallery

Soha Ali Khan was born on October 4, 1978 in New Delhi, India, into the family of the nawabs of Pataudi.

Her father, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, the current nawab, is a former captain of the Indian cricket team. Her mother, Sharmila Tagore, is a noted film actress, and a distant relative (not a direct descendant, as often supposed) of the nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Soha is also related to the late Nafisa Joseph. Her brother is actor Saif Ali Khan.

She was born in Mumbai and at the age of six shifted to delhi. She studied at British School and use to study hard to get good marks. She enjoyed sports and theatre. Then she did her under graduate at Oxford and master's at London School of Economics in International Relations. Studying abroad has given her international outlook and understand and be tolerant towards other cultures.

She has been brought up in liberal way, where ever to travel, think and have friends she wants. She was quite a hyperactive child. Very friendly and outgoing always running from one place to another. But never bothered about appearances. She didn't wear too much jewellery nor was colour coordinated.

While studying she know exactly that she wanted to be in films in terms of career. She know if started acting before accomplishing her academy, then it wouldn't be possible for her to go back to studying. Her parents had the typical normal parental concerns about joining the films. When she was 12, she meant to play the child in Mira Nair's "Mississippi Masala" and taken two months leave from school also. But couldn't do the film because she had to get braces.

Soha made her acting debut with the Bollywood production "Dil Maange More" (2004), where she shared credits with Shahid Kapoor and two other leading ladies which were Tulip Joshi and Ayesha Takia . Starting off weakly, she has since received critical acclaim for her performances in the Bengali film "Antar Mahal" (2005) and "Rang De Basanti" (2006).Her next release is the eagerly awaited "Khoya Khoya Chand".

Before embarking upon her film career, Soha worked for the Ford Foundation and Citibank. She is involved in a range of activities outside the acting world, including serving on the Advisory Board for a new project of the public entrepreneur group, Res Publica. She has also recently modeled for the spring-summer collection of Globus, an Indian chain of boutiques.

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