Preity Zinta moving to Hollywood?
By JENNIFER HOPFINGER
On the heels of ending a four-year relationship with Indian businessman Ness Wadia, Zinta kept a low profile throughout most of 2009 and was visiting the U.S.—where her brother’s family lives—during much of last year. She appeared in only one film in 2009—a musical-number cameo in the box-office flop Main Aur Mrs. Khanna, which starred Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor. The word is that Zinta has not agreed to any new Bollywood projects so she can shift to her recently purchased home in LA and keep her calendar clear.
The 34-year-old actress recently completed a short executive course on negotiating and deal-making at Harvard Business School in order to sharpen her business acumen as she’s been working to diversify her career. In 2008, she purchased an ownership stake in the professional Indian cricket team, the Kings XI Punjab.
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.
Zinta is not the first Bollywood star to put down roots in American soil. Actress Madhuri Dixit lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and two sons. The 42-year-old star of such films as Dil and Devdas has called the U.S. home since her marriage in 1999.
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