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Guess The Heroine: The beautiful beauty of the 80-90 era made her Bollywood debut with the film ‘Ahista-Ahista’. Amidst her brilliant career, she fell in love with a married star and changed her religion and got married. But after marriage, film-makers turned their backs on her. He made a comeback at the age of 62 and fulfilled his wish of working with his daughter.
New Delhi: Although the heroine is away from the screen today, she was famous for her excellent acting in the 80s and 90s. The heroine had given many hit films in her film career, but she stayed away from films after marriage, because the work had reduced. We are talking about Soni Razdan, wife of film director and producer Mahesh Bhatt. (Photo courtesy: Instagram@sonirazdan)
Soni Razdan is celebrating her 69th birthday on Saturday 25 October. He was born in Birmingham (England). His father was a Kashmiri Pandit and mother was British-German. Soni adopted the culture of both, but at the time of her marriage with Mahesh Bhatt, she accepted Islam, because Mahesh Bhatt was already married. (Photo courtesy: Instagram@sonirazdan)
Soni was already interested in acting. He honed his acting skills in English theater and worked in the English film John Fowles’ The Collector. This film, which came in the 70s, did not achieve much success. Soni worked in the Hollywood Bengali film ’36 Chowringhee Lane’ released in 1981. In this film, the sorrows and pain of the Anglo-Indian people have been shown seriously on screen. Liked the film a lot. In the same year, she played the role of Deepa in her first Bollywood film ‘Ahista-Ahista’. (Photo courtesy: Instagram@sonirazdan)
Soni Razdan showed her acting skills in the films Mandi in 1983, Saransh in 1984, Trikaal in 1985 and Khamosh released in 1986. She appeared in the Hindi TV serial ‘Buniyaad’ in 1986. However, after love and then marriage, Soni Razdan’s career started derailing. Sony itself had revealed this. (Photo courtesy: Instagram@sonirazdan)
Soni Razdan had told in an interview that earlier it was very difficult for women to work in films and make their mark, because a format was prepared for the actress as to what she would do. He told that before marriage everything was going very well and after marriage he stopped getting work. After this, it spread in the industry that I am married, then what is the need to work. (Photo courtesy: Instagram@sonirazdan)
Soni Razdan was very shocked by all these things, but she did not give up and continued searching for work, after which she got an offer for a TV serial. (Photo courtesy: Instagram@sonirazdan)
Soni worked in 2001’s ‘Monsoon Wedding’, daughter Alia’s film ‘Raazi’, 2019’s ‘War’ and Amazon’s series ‘Pipa’. At the age of 62, she shared the screen with daughter Alia Bhatt in the film ‘Raazi’ released in 2018. (Photo courtesy: Instagram@sonirazdan)
Soni Razdan also tried his hand in direction and writing and directed the film ‘Girvi’. Renuka Shahane, Kanchan Rawal, Kunal Khemu and Avtar Gill were in lead roles in the film. Now the actress is going to be seen in Amazon’s series ‘Song of Paradise’. (Photo courtesy: Instagram@sonirazdan)