Published 12:48 IST, November 10th 2020
Neelam Kothari Soni's early life, career and other details you must know
Neelam Kothari Soni, who is married to actor Samir Soni, is a professional jewellery designer. Here's everything you need to know about the actor.
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Neelam Kothari Soni, popularly kwn by her st name Neelam Kothari, is a jewellery designer and former Bollywood actor. She has worked in various numerous films in 1990s. Some of her iconic movies are Hatya, Agneepath, Deewangee, Hum Saath Saath Hain, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and many more. Here's everything one needs to kw about Neelam Kothari Soni.
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Neelam Kothari Soni's early life and childhood
actor was born on vember 9, 1969, into a Gujarati family in Hong Kong. Her far was a jewellery designer. During her childhood days, she learnt to play keyboard and danced Jazz Ballet. Neelam did her schooling at Island School. After her childhood in Hong Kong, she along with her family moved to Bangkok.
actor came to Bombay in year 1983 to visit her grandparents. Soon, she became friends with Shrishti Behl, who was daughter of famous Bollywood director Ramesh Behl. After seeing Neelam, he offered her a le role in his film Jawaani. actor decided to make it in Bollywood, but her parents refused. However, y consented and Neelam signed for film.
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Neelam Kothari Soni's movies
Neelam was a very successful actress in mid-1980s. actor me her debut in film Jawaani. film did t perform well at box office but her acting skills got ticed and she started getting various movie offers. Neelam rose to fame after release of film Ilzaam in year 1986. In film, she was cast opposite Govinda who was making his debut in Bollywood, Her career-best movie is still considered as Ghar Ka Chirag in which she was paired opposite Rajesh Khanna, very much elder to him. Besides this, she has also worked in Bengali film named Bnaam. Her last film was Kasam which released back in 2001.
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Neelam Kothari Soni's career in Jewellery
According to short-biography.com, even while pursuing her career in acting, she was interested in jewellery designing. Neelam's family was quite popular for its exclusive handcrafted jewellery in Europe, United States, Middle East, and Asia. Reportedly, actor pursued a formal course in jewellery-designing in Mumbai. Also, after saying goodbye to Bollywood, she started out professionally as a designer under name Neelam Jewels.
Neelam Kothari Soni's family
Neelam Kothari married Rishi Sethia, son of a businessman from U.K. two parted ways in a very short period. On January 24, 2011, she married actor Samir Soni. On September 2, 2013, couple opted a baby girl and named her Ahana. Before her first marri, Neelam reportedly dated Bobby Deol for a short while. However, things didn’t go well between m and y parted ways.
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12:48 IST, November 10th 2020