Smriti Irani Biography
Smriti Irani was born, the eldest of three sisters to a Delhi based family. Her father owned a courier business and her mother is a Bengali, related to Tripti Mitra a well known Bengali actress of yesteryears.
Smriti Malhotra is one of the most popular stars of the Indian Television Screen. Her television bonding with the Ekta Kapoor produced soap opera ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ has brought her so much stardom as to give her the opportunity of contesting Chandni Chowk constituency of the Indian capital city New Delhi. Although she lost the election her ability to combine her work with social issues by prominently featuring in talk shows brings her in media limelight once and often.
She married her childhood best friend Zubin Irani. She is the mother of little Zohr Irani and Zoish Irani, and step mother to Shanelle Irani who is Zubin’s daughter from an earlier marriage with model coordinator Mona Irani. In a interview Smriti said she was happy marry to Zubin and had a good friendship with his ex-wife Mona Irani.
Smriti began her career at the age of 16, participating in small plays. She gave up her full-time college education and switched to correspondence education in order to be able to do what was close to her heart: acting.
At 18, she told her father that she wanted to come to Mumbai to work. In 1998, she entered the Miss India contest without the knowledge of anyone in her family and was surprised to be short-listed and came to Mumbai to participate in the finals. Her father was astounded at her decision to enter the contest. No one believed she could make it to the finals. She borrowed Rs 2 lakh from her father on the condition that she would return it. She came to Mumbai and began preparations to enter the final of the contest with earnestness. She had her contest outfit designed and made by Manish Malhotra. She made it to the final round becoming one of the final five contestants.
Desperate to pay her loan back, she appeared for the Jet Airwayshostess interview. Her sister, who also applied, got the job but Smriti was rejected. She then took a counter job at McDonalds, serving burgers and swabbing the floors and cleaning tables. Throughout these months of desperation, she kept visiting various agencies, doing auditions and portfolios and leaving her pictures at every TV production company. She was present in the Famous Studio in Mumbai for auditions every day but no one took her seriously.
Finally, lady luck began to shine on her. She was chosen to do the black and white commercial for Whisper. Next, she anchored a show called Filmi Batein for In Mumbai and Etc. channels. Shrey Guleri of Prime Channel saw these appearances on television and called her. As a result, she did some episodes of the show called Bakeman̢۪s Oh La La. Shobha Kapoor in turn saw these and she asked her to meet Ekta at Balaji Telefilms. Smriti met Ekta and as time passed, thought nothing was coming through. But one day, she was asked to come over toaudition for Tulsi̢۪s role in KSBKBT she was chosen for this role and the rest, as they say, is history.
After KSBKBT became the top soap in India, her career was made. Recently she quit playing Tulsi in in KSBKBT due to reports that her and Ekta Kapoor had fallen out but in a recent interview Ekta Kapoor had said that Smriti is taking three month’s off KSBKBT to rest after a miscarriage and also stated that Smriti will be returing as Tulsi when she feels happy enough. When asked about Gautima Kapoor replacing Smriti as Tulsi, she said she has spoken to Gautima and she will give her a good exit when Smriti returns.
Smriti Irani was born, the eldest of three sisters to a Delhi based family. Her father owned a courier business and her mother is a Bengali, related to Tripti Mitra a well known Bengali actress of yesteryears.
Smriti Malhotra is one of the most popular stars of the Indian Television Screen. Her television bonding with the Ekta Kapoor produced soap opera ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ has brought her so much stardom as to give her the opportunity of contesting Chandni Chowk constituency of the Indian capital city New Delhi. Although she lost the election her ability to combine her work with social issues by prominently featuring in talk shows brings her in media limelight once and often.
She married her childhood best friend Zubin Irani. She is the mother of little Zohr Irani and Zoish Irani, and step mother to Shanelle Irani who is Zubin’s daughter from an earlier marriage with model coordinator Mona Irani. In a interview Smriti said she was happy marry to Zubin and had a good friendship with his ex-wife Mona Irani.
Smriti began her career at the age of 16, participating in small plays. She gave up her full-time college education and switched to correspondence education in order to be able to do what was close to her heart: acting.
At 18, she told her father that she wanted to come to Mumbai to work. In 1998, she entered the Miss India contest without the knowledge of anyone in her family and was surprised to be short-listed and came to Mumbai to participate in the finals. Her father was astounded at her decision to enter the contest. No one believed she could make it to the finals. She borrowed Rs 2 lakh from her father on the condition that she would return it. She came to Mumbai and began preparations to enter the final of the contest with earnestness. She had her contest outfit designed and made by Manish Malhotra. She made it to the final round becoming one of the final five contestants.
Desperate to pay her loan back, she appeared for the Jet Airwayshostess interview. Her sister, who also applied, got the job but Smriti was rejected. She then took a counter job at McDonalds, serving burgers and swabbing the floors and cleaning tables. Throughout these months of desperation, she kept visiting various agencies, doing auditions and portfolios and leaving her pictures at every TV production company. She was present in the Famous Studio in Mumbai for auditions every day but no one took her seriously.
Finally, lady luck began to shine on her. She was chosen to do the black and white commercial for Whisper. Next, she anchored a show called Filmi Batein for In Mumbai and Etc. channels. Shrey Guleri of Prime Channel saw these appearances on television and called her. As a result, she did some episodes of the show called Bakeman̢۪s Oh La La. Shobha Kapoor in turn saw these and she asked her to meet Ekta at Balaji Telefilms. Smriti met Ekta and as time passed, thought nothing was coming through. But one day, she was asked to come over toaudition for Tulsi̢۪s role in KSBKBT she was chosen for this role and the rest, as they say, is history.
After KSBKBT became the top soap in India, her career was made. Recently she quit playing Tulsi in in KSBKBT due to reports that her and Ekta Kapoor had fallen out but in a recent interview Ekta Kapoor had said that Smriti is taking three month’s off KSBKBT to rest after a miscarriage and also stated that Smriti will be returing as Tulsi when she feels happy enough. When asked about Gautima Kapoor replacing Smriti as Tulsi, she said she has spoken to Gautima and she will give her a good exit when Smriti returns.
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