Neha Dhupia

Neha Dhupia

Beauty pageant titleholder
Dhupia at the L'Oréal Femina Women Awards 2013
Born	(1980-08-27) 27 August 1980[1][2] Kochi, Kerala, India[3]
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2000–present
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[2]
Title(s)	Femina Miss India Universe 2002
Major competition(s)	Femina Miss India 2002 (winner) Miss Universe 2002 (Top-10 finalist)

Neha Dhupia (born 27 August 1980) is an Indian actress and beauty queen who is predominantly known for her work in Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam language films. She was born in Kochi, Kerala in a Sikh family to an Indian Navy Commander. She made her acting debut in a stage play and later appeared in a music video for Euphoria. Dhupia then ventured into modelling.

Dhupia made her screen debut in 1994 Malyalam film Minnaram. Her Hindi film debut came in 2003 with Qayamat: City Under Threat. She subsequently starred in successful films including Kyaa Kool Hai Hum (2005) and Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007) and also played supporting roles in top grossing Bollywood productions Chup Chup Ke (2006) and Singh is Kinng (2008). In addition to her film career, Dhupia is a winner of the Femina Miss India title (2002).

Early life

Dhupia was born in Kochi, India to a Punjabi Sikh family.^[4][3] Her father, Commander Pradip Singh Dhupia, served in the Indian Navy and mother, Manpinder, (Babli Dhupia) is a homemaker. She went to Naval Public School then transferred to Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi.^[2] She graduated from Jesus and Mary College in New Delhi, affiliated to the University of Delhi, with Honours in History.^[5]

Career

Dhupia made her acting debut in a play in New Delhi called Graffiti. Thereafter she appeared in a music video for Indipop band Euphoria and modeled for advertisement campaigns. She then appeared in the TV serial Rajdhani In 2002 she entered the Femina Miss India pageant finishing in first place, winning the Femina Miss India Universe title, and was subsequently sent to the Miss Universe 2002 pageant in Puerto Rico. She was placed in the top 10.

Dhupia at a press conference at the 13th IIFA Awards

Film career

Dhupia made her film debut in the 2003 Bollywood film Qayamat: City Under Threat, which had an average performance at the box office. She rose to fame with her role Julie and then appeared in Sheesha (2005) in a dual role of twin sisters but it did not do well at the box office. She then starred in films such as Kyaa Kool Hai Hum (2005) and Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007), which did well at the box office, and featured in a segment of the anthology film Dus Kahaniyaan (2007).

In the following years, Dhupia appeared in supporting roles in multiple critically and commercially acclaimed films including Chup Chup Ke (2006), Ek Chalis Ki Last Local (2007), Mithya (2008), Maharathi (2008), Singh Is Kinng (2008) and Dasvidaniya (2008). In 2011, she played Eva Braun in the film Dear Friend Hitler about Mahatma Gandhi.

Her most recent films are Moh Maya Money, Paying Guest, Action Replayy, De Dana Dan and Pappu Can't Dance Saala. She has worked on her first international project with Chris Kattan in IFC's Bollywood Hero.

Personal life and off-screen work

Dhupia has run in the Mumbai Marathon to support the Concern India Foundation and helped to raise over 5 lakhs.^[6] She also helped to raise money for victims of the 2011 Sikkim earthquake.^[7] She performed at the GR8 Women's Award 2012.^[8]

She also participated in the Hiru Golden Film Awards 2014 in Sri Lanka as a special guest along with Bollywood actors such as Sunil Shetty, Vivek Oberoi, Anil Kapoor, and actress Bipasha Basu.^[9]

Filmography

Television

• 2016 - MTV Roadies as Gang leader
• 2011 - Comedy Circus as host

See also

• List of Indian film actresses
• Femina Miss India

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Neha Dhupia.

• Neha Dhupia at the Internet Movie Database