Chitrangada Singh was born on 30 August 1976 in Jodhpur,
Rajasthan. She was born to an Indian Army officer (Col Niranjan Singh) in a
Jatfamily. Her brother Digvijay Singh is a golfer. After her schooling in
Meerut at Sophia Girl’s School, graduation in Home Science (food and nutrition)
from Lady Irwin College, New Delhi. She has received formal training in Kathak.
Chitrangada Singh has started her career with modelling in Delhi. She has done
few music videos like Gulzar’s ‘Sunset Point’ and many more. Chitrangada worked
in several advertisement campaigns and music videos before plunging into
Bollywood, During her modelling days, she has done ads for brands like Alukkas
Jewellery, ICICI bank, Taj Mahal tea, Garnier and many more. She made her much
acclaimed debut with Sudhir Mishra’s film Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi in 2003.
Often called Sudhir Mishra’s muse, Shekhar Kappor appreciated Chitrangada for
having “outdone Smita Patil”. She worked in 2005’s Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow,
following which she took a short break.
She reappeared with Onir’s Sorry Bhai (2008) starring
alongside Sanjay Suri and Sharman Joshi. The film failed to create any ripples.
But she bounce back with Sudhir Mishra’s movie Yeh Saali Zindagi (2011),
Chitrangada played the role of an aspiring singer from Delhi who goes to Mumbai
to get fame and money. She then starred in Rohit Dhawan’s Desi Boyz, where she
played the role of an economics teacher opposite Akshay Kumar. Desi Boyz also
starred John Abraham and Deepika Padukone. She gained stardom by appearing
along with Akshay Kumar in Desi Boys .
Presently, she has performed on the raunchy item song,
‘Kaafirana’ from Shirish Kunder’s 2012 comedy flick, ‘Joker’ with Akshay Kumar
and Sonakshi Sinha in the lead. An active supporter of animal rights, she
recently did an advertisement for PETA. She is currently working on projects
like ‘I, Me aur Hum’ and Sudhir Mishra’s under production, Inkaar.
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