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Minissha Lamba
Born	Minissha Lamba January 18, 1985 (1985-01-18) (age 24) Kashmir, India
Other name(s)	Minissha Mini Minissh
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2005-present

Minissha Lamba (born on 8 January 1985 in Kashmir, India) is an Indian actress. She was born in a punjabi speaking hindu jat family.Her mother is of dahiya JAT clan.

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Filmography 3.1 Television show 4 External links

[edit] Personal life

When Lamba was growing up, her father was in the hospitality business and this gave Lamba the opportunity to travel around the country and meet many people. She can converse in Hindi, Punjabi, and English fluently. Lamba did her early schooling in Chettinad Vidyashram, Chennai.

[edit] Career

Lamba's long term ambition was to become a journalist. While studying for a degree in Delhi, Lamba pursued modelling as a hobby and soon became a well-placed model in the Indian modelling industry. Examples of Lamba's early modelling work include several television commercials for companies such as LG, Sony, Cadbury, Hajmola, Airtel, Sunsilk, and also others. She has also done a music video (Tera Suroor) for the hit music album Aap Ka Suroor by Himesh Reshammiya.

In 2004, she majored in English with honours from Miranda House, University of Delhi. Her first movie "Yahaan", which was directed by Shoojit Sircar was released in 2005. Critics praised the movie citing Lamba's performance as one of the highlights. In 2008, she acted in Siddharth Anand's film Bachna Ae Haseeno which stars Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone along with Ranbir Kapoor in the lead roles. This movie is produced by Yashraj Films. She will be soon featuring in a Shyam Benegal film to be released by mid September. It is a film about a father-daughter relationship starring Boman Irani as her father. Kidnap was highly acclaimed at Cannes Film Festival especially Minissha Lamba's Performance. She is doing movie series called “MYSTICISM” Its 8 versions will be directed by 4 different directors including Soham Shah & Sanjay Gadhvi.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
2005	Yahaan	Adaa	Nominated, Filmfare Best Female Debut Award
2006	Corporate	Megha Apte
	Rocky: The Rebel	Priya
	Anthony Kaun Hai	Jia R.Sharma
2007	Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.	Zara
2008	Bachna Ae Haseeno	Mahi/Mahi Ahluwalia
	Kidnap	Sonia Raina
	Shaurya
	Anamika	Jia Rao/Jia Sesodia
2009	Well Done Abba

[edit] Television show

• Chhoona Hai Aasmaan Special Appearance

[edit] External links

• "Minissha Lamba Official Website"
• Minissha Lamba at the Internet Movie Database

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