Raveena Tondon, a national award winning bollywood actress, is the daughter of Bollywood director Ravi Tondon. Though primarily she is known for her stint in Hindi movies, she has also worked on some of the Tamil, Telugu and other regional films. Before joining the film industry Raveena was a full-time model and had even endorsed many brands. Raveena Tondon was born on 26th October'1974.
Raveena being close to her parents derived her name from the amalgamation of their names that is, Ravi and Veena. Her early days at Jamnabai Narsee school gave her the initial platform for letting her talent out and face public. She attended the Mithibai college in Mumbai that she left later to pursue her career in modelling.
Raveena made her debut with Patthar ke phool in 1971 that even got her the Filmfare Lux new face award. All through the era of 90's she was seen in a number of successful films like Mohra, Khiladiyo ka Khiladi, Ziddi and many more. Although, these films kept her fame building its pace, she could catch the eye of critics only in early 2000's when she ventured into serious and parallel cinema. Movies like Aks, Daman held her face high in the eyes of Film critics. Satta, a film on realities in the world of politics got her the highly acclaimed and reputed national Award.
On the personal front Raveena has been known as an extremely philanthrophic individual and has been associated with numerous charitable institutions. In 1990's she adopted two girls namely Pooja and Chaaya while she was single herself. Somewhere around 1997, her affair with Akshay Kumar was a much-talked about issue. The relationship however didn't last long and Akshay married Twinkle Khanna. Raveena married film producer Anil thadani in 2004, from whom she has two children.
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