Soha Ali Khan

Soha Ali Khan's Biography

Birth Name : Soha Ali Khan Pataudi

Birth Date : 4 October 1978

Birth Place : New Delhi, India

Zodiac Sign : Libra
Soha Ali Khan's Measurement : 32-23-36

Occupation : Actress

Years active : 2004–present

Religion : Islam

Partner : Kunal Khemu

Parents : Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Sharmila Tagore

Relatives : Saif Ali Khan (Brother)

Soha Ali Khan (born Soha Ali Khan Pataudi on 4 October 1978) is a Bollywood actress best known for her role of Sonia in Rang De Basanti (2006) for which she also received awards. She is daughter of veteran Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore.

Early life

Khan was born into the erstwhile princely family of Pataudi. She is a secularist from Muslim origin, who has ethnic Pashtun ancestry through her Nawabs-of-Pataudi lineage from her father's side and Bengali Hindu ancestry from her mother's side. Both her father, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who died on 22 September 2011 was the Nawab, and paternal grandfather, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, are former captains of the Indian cricket team. Her mother, Sharmila Tagore, is a film actress. Her brother Saif Ali Khan is also a Bollywood actor and her sister Saba Ali Khan is a jewellery designer. She attended The British School in New Delhi and read geography at Balliol, Oxford, where her father had studied Arabic and FrenchBalliol College, Oxford and earned a Masters degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.Khan's mother is Sharmila Tagore, a Bengali Indian film actress and a member of Bengal's Tagore family. She is also the head of the Indian film censorship board and the grand-niece of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore converted to Islam from Hinduism after her marriage to Khan's father, and changed her name to Begum Ayesha Sultana. Khan spent her childhood in a Muslim atmosphere, reading the Quran, with her grandmother Sajida Sultan, Begum of Bhopal being the centre of her religious education. Khan says that "Religion played a major role in my upbringing." Khan also states that her family is "cool or rather massively open–minded about religious matters.

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