Amrita Arora

Date of Birth
31 January 1981, Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Nickname
Ammu

Height
5' 5" (1.65 m)

Mini Biography
5' 4 1/2" tall, Bombay girl, Maliaka Arora's sister, Amrita Arora was born on January 31st, 1981. She started her career as a model and then appeared in music videos. She was featured in ads for Ponds, Elle 18, After Smoke, and Sunsilk fruitiness. She is now most famous for hosting MTV House full and MTV Chillout on MTV India. Her first debut film was Kitne Door Kitne Paas. Her good looks and light skin were popular for casting directors looking for the next new face to promote in the commercial cinema of boy meeting girl. Song and dance. Fight. More song and Dance. Heartbreak. Song and Dance. Boy gets girl again. Song and Dance. The end. Now she has couple of offers in her hand and she says that she is always following her sister Maliaka's footsteps.

Spouse
Shakeel Ladakh (4 March 2009 - present)

Trivia
Sister of Malaika Arora

She is very close friends with actress Kareena Kapoor.

Her wedding gowns were designed by Ashley Rebello.

Some of the top Bollywood celebrities who attended her wedding were Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Malaika Arora, Arbaaz Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Gul Panag, Karisma Kapoor, Kim Sharma and Raveena Tandon.

Married boyfriend Shakeel Ladakh, a divorced businessman from the construction industry. The wedding took place in two ceremonies - a Christian wedding on March 4, 2009 followed by Mehendi on the March 5, and a Muslim Nikaah ceremony on the March 6, 2009.

Was romantically linked with Kevin Otter, Ashmit Patel, Upen Patel, and British-Pakistani cricketer Usman Afzaal.

Known to be a party regular at the Mannat, Shahrukh Khan's residence.

Born to a Christian Malyali mother, Joyce Polycarp, and a Punjabi father, Anil Arora.

Amrita Arora’s striking looks and a chirpy personality made sure that she didn’t stay in her sister Malaika Arora’s shadow for long and she held her own with a bagful of ad offers, movies and the who’s who of the film industry as her best buddies.

Basics on Amrita
Amrita Arora, also known as Ammu, was born on 31st January 1978 in Mumbai, India to Joyce Polycrap, a Malayali and Anil Arora, a Punjabi. Amrita Arora’s sister Malaika Arora is also part of the celebrity circuit and is married to Arbaaz Khan who is actor Salman Khan’s brother.

Before she took her wedding vows with Shakeel Ladak in March 2009, Amrita was going out with Kevin Otter, Ashmit Patel, Upen Patel and Usman Afzal.

Amrita Arora won the MTV VJ Hunt and hosted MTV Chillout and MTV Houseful. She also appeared in ads like Elle 18, Ponds and Sunsilk.

Amrita Arora’s Movies
2002 Amrita Arora’s first movie was Kitne Door Kitne Paas opposite Fardeen Khan. Her second movie, a comedy based on The Whole Nine Yards called Awara Paagal Deewana, was more successful. She played Mona, a nagging wife.

2003 Her only release in 2003 was David Dhawan’s Ek Aur Ek Gyarah, apart from an appearance in a song in the movie Zameen.

2004 The year 2004 saw her in Shart: The Challenge, Girlfriend, a special appearance in Mujhse Shaadi Karoge and Rakht: What If You Can See the Future. Girlfriend caused a stir owing to an onscreen lesbian relationship between her character and the one played by Isha Koppikar.

2006 Her movies Raakh, Deha and Fight Club – Members Only were average.

2007 Her releases in 2007 came and went without any impact like Red: The Dark Side, Speed and Godfather. She also shook a leg in a song in Heyy Baby and then again in Om Shanti Om.

2008 Her biggest hit in 2008 was Golmaal Returns, in which she played Esha, Ajay Devgan’s sister and Arshad Warsi’s fiancée. She was also seen in Hello, which was an adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s One Night at a Call Center, Heroes and Kambakth Ishq.