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Born on June 14, 1955, the actress has her roots in theatre. Kiron Kher , the wife of Anupam Kher , actually, began her career as a television host before moving on to Hindi films. Her first film was a Punjabi one, Aasra Pyar Da, made in 1983. Then came her first major role in Shyam Benegal's Sardari Begum, where she played the main role of the singer. EARLY LIFE: Kirron Kher was born in Mumbai to Jatt Sikh parents, and brought up in Chandigarh, Punjab, where she did her schooling and later college from Panjab University, Chandigarh. At school she was an avid Badminton player along with her sister, Arjuna awardee Kanwal Thakar Singh, their mother Diljit Singh was also active in sports and dramatics in in her college days in pre-partition Punjab. Kirron also had a brother, painter Amardeep Singh , who passed away in 2003. In 2000, she appeared in film director, Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali film Bariwali 1999, to critical acclaim. Though when she won the National Film Award for Bes...

Image by Bollywoodzone via Flickr Shabana Azmi (born 18 September, 1950 in New Delhi, India) is one of the leading actresses of Indian cinema . Also a social activist,her performances in different genres of films have garnered her accolades and awards including five wins of National Film Award for Best Actress. Shabana Azmi hails from a renowned Muslim family with film connections. Her parents were, Kaifi Azmi - a renowned Indian poet and writer of Urdu, and Shaukat Azmi - a well known stage actress . Her brother , Baba Azmi, is a cinematographer. Her parents had an active social life, and their home was always throbbing with people and activities . Farah, Naaz and Tabu are her nieces. In the initial stage of her career, she was linked to noted film director Shekhar Kapur, but married Javed Akhtar , a lyricist, poet and Bollywood scriptwriter on 9 December, 1984. It was Akhtar's second marriage, the first being with the Bollywood scriptwriter, Honey Irani. Early in childhood...