Dia Mirza Sangha (born
Dia Handrich on 9 December 1981) is an Indian model, actress and producer, who won the 2000 Miss Asia Pacific International title. Mirza has primarily worked in Bollywood, and is known in media for her social work. She co-owns a production house Born Free Entertainment along with Sahil Sangha.
Their first film,
Love Breakups Zindagi made under the banner was released on 7 October 2011. Dia Mirza worked when still in college as a Marketing executive for a media firm. At the same time she modelled for print and TV commercials for brands like Lipton, Walls Ice Cream, Emami and many more. She won Miss Asia Pacific in the year 2000.
She debuted through 'Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein' which could not do well at Box Office. Then she appeared in various movies like 'Dum', 'Deewanapan', 'Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge', 'Tumsa Nahin Dekha - A Love Story', 'Parineeta', 'Dus', 'Lage Raho Munnabhai'
etc. She did not see much success as an Actress. But she has garnered a
lot of praise for her social work. She has also got an IIFA
2012 Green Award for her contribution towards green environment. She
has done various awareness campaigns on prevention of female foeticide,
HIV awareness, the Cancer Patients Aid Association, PETA, ADAPT, CRY. She also publicly supported the Naramada Bachao Andolan. She has also written articles for Hindustan Times and other publications.
Dia started working at the age of 16 years while continuing her
college education. She worked as a marketing executive in a multi-media
firm called Dr. Neeraj's Multi media studio. She simultaneously modelled
for the print and television advertisement campaigns of various brands
such as Walls, Lipton, Emami etc.
Mirza wanted to complete her graduation in Arts by correspondence, but
decided to postpone it as it was becoming difficult to juggle between
the Miss Asia Pacific competition, modelling assignments, travelling and
training. She could not complete her graduation due to being busy at
work.Dia married Sahil Sangha on 18 October 2014 at Delhi. (
from Wikipedia)
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