Actress Preity Zinta heads to Harvard Business School
By JENNIFER HOPFINGER
The 34-year-old actress has been diversifying her career beyond movies and wants to sharpen her business acumen. In 2008, she purchased an ownership stake in the professional Indian cricket team, the Kings XI Punjab. At the time, she was the youngest owner and the only female owner in the league. Zinta is currently hosting and producing a television reality show about her cricket team, called “Behind the Seams.”
Zinta made her acting debut in Dil Se in 1998 and won a Filmfare Best Actress Award for Kal Ho Naa Ho in 2003. Her other commercial hits include Koi...Mil Gaya (2003), Salaam Namaste (2005), and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006). Recently, she has ventured into art film, appearing with Amitabh Bachchan in The Last Lear, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007. She won the Best Actress award at the 2008 Chicago International Film Festival for her role in the Canadian film, Heaven on Earth, which was based on the true story of a battered wife in Canada’s Punjabi community. The release of her next film, Har Pal, a love story about two neighbors, has been held up because her co-star Shiney Ahuja was jailed on charges of raping his maid. Zinta made a cameo appearance in the 2009 Salman Khan-Kareena Kapoor starrer, Main Aurr Mrs. Khanna, which flopped.
Earlier this year, she ended a four-year relationship with Indian businessman Ness Wadia and has since been spending a lot of time with her brother’s family in the U.S.
Zinta, who has a master’s degree in criminal psychology, will reportedly live on campus while attending the Harvard course in January.
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November 12, 2009
