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Dia Mirza or Diya Mirza Handrich, nicknamed Dee, (born December 9, 1981) is a former Indian model and actress who appears in Bollywood films.
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Dia Mirza was Miss Asia Pacific for the year 2000 and was also second runner up in the Femina Miss India 2000 beauty pageant.

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Dia Mirza was born in Hyderabad, India. Her father, Frank Handrich, was a German interior designer from Munich and her mother is Deepa, a Bengali Indian.

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Frank and Deepa separated when Dia was six years old. Subsequently Frank died when she was nine and her mother remarried Ahmed Mirza who died in 2004

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She retained a Muslim surname (Mirza) from her stepfather, though she herself is a Hindu. Later she adopted the last name of her birth-father and became Dia Mirza Handrich

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She stated that she suffered from "low self-esteem" as a child. When living in Khairatabad, Hyderabad, she attended Vidyaranya High School For Boys And Girls, a school based on the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti, and later Nasr School, in Kushnuma

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Currently, she lives in Bandra, Mumbai. To brush up on acting before Shootout at Lokhandwala, she took a one week course of Film at New York University

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Dia wanted to complete her graduation in Arts by correspondence, but decided to postpone it as it was becoming difficult to juggle between the Miss Asia Pacific Competition, modeling assignments, traveling and training.

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She was assisted by Sabira Merchant on diction and etiquette; diet with Anjali Mukherjee; gymnasium and physical fitness with Talwalkars; clothes from Ritu Kumar and Hemant Trivedi; skin care with Dr. Jamuna Pai; and make-up and hair-care from Bharat and Doris Godambe

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She is proficient in Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, English.[11] She currently resides on Veronica Road, Bandra (West), Mumbai.

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She made her cinematic debut with Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein opposite R. Madhavan. The film was not a box office success. A series of unsuccessful films followed, among them Tumsa Nahin Dekha and Deewaanapan.

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In 2005, Mirza appeared in Parineeta, a Vidhu Vinod Chopra production. She also played in the music video Kajara Mohabbat Wala alongside Sonu Nigam from the album Kajara Nite. The album contained multiple remixes, but was mainly advertised with the title song, sang by Sonu Nigam and Alisha Chinai.

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Would call this a copied shot: Is it a lady in red?

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Mirza's car was seized in 2006 for alleged evasion of custom duties

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In that same year, she and fellow-actor Aamir Khan publicly expressed support for the Narmada Bachao Andolan, a group protesting the building of a dam. This aroused the ire of political activists from the Bharatiya Janata Party, who led a protest march against the actress

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Besides acting in films, Dia Mirza has a talent for painting too.

Dia was introduced to painting in her early childhood by her late father Frank Handrich, who was a German painter. Although her father passed away when she was very young, Dia never gave up trying to sketch or paint.


Today, when she has made her own little place in Bollywood, Dia continues to paint in her free time. Painting paraphernalia like easel, palette, brushes and paints can be seen in her bedroom, which also serves as a workshop for Dia.

However, Dia doesn’t keep any of her works. She keeps gifting her canvas creations to friends and relatives.

According to a report, Dia’s latest creation is a painting depicting moonlight reflected in the sea. Dia has also tried her hand at some portraits and abstract paintings. But she is humble enough to admit that she is still in learning stages.

Apart from Dia, Bollywood actors Sushmita Sen and Salman Khan also paint in their free time.

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Normally bubbly and ever so smiling Dia Mirza is sad...and she is weeping inconsolably!

In her film 'Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd.', she plays the role of a Gujarati girl named Shilpa who has just got married to Ranvir Shorey. Unhappy with her marriage and now on a package honeymoon trip with 5 other couples, she continues to be sad about the state of affairs and is found weeping for most part of her journey.

Grapevine indicates that her character in the film is shown to be in love with another man. Will she find him at the end of her tour and wipe off her tears? Also would Ranvir allow her to embrace him a la 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam'?

See the mmovie and we should have the answer!

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Bollywood’s baby doll, Diya Mirza is playing judge in Disney’s Little Princess Hunt. Diya says, “I have always had an attachment with children. My shooting schedule is not so hectic at present, so I thought I could well do this.”


2006 has not been a very good year for Diya. Her movies, ‘Parineeta’ and ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ tasted success, but Dia hardly got recognition from them. But Diya holds a positive attitude. She says, “I feel every passing year is a setting stone for the next year. Whatever I did in 2006 adds value to 2007 and the year after”.

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"There is a reason why disgust and humiliation is written on the face of Diya Mirza when we see her kissing scene in the promos of her forthcoming film Tumsa Nahin Dekha.
The movie has Diya playing the role of a stripper. But Diya dismisses the rumor that the movie is...
...a soft-porn. She goes on to say that there is not even a single stripping scene in the film. The only bold scene in the film shows her kissing her co-star Emraan Hashmi .

Diya says even this kiss is not titillating. She shared her thoughts on the much talked-about kiss in an interview.

“The kiss in the movie is an integral part of the story. It shows the first encounter between Emraan and me and if you see the promos carefully you will see disgust and humiliation on my face. It is because my character is kissed by a stranger,” says Diya.

But how would she react if some stranger were to kiss her in real life.

“I will simply beat him black and blue,” she replies.

Well, she doesn’t know that there are many guys who would deem a hot kiss as a reasonable bargain for a black eye."

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On 23 April, Sunday, film star Dia Mirza went to Rajkot to perform at a police function. The actress was excited to be among her fans in Rajkot. However, later that same evening her enthusiasm turned into a nightmare. At a press conference on Sunday evening, Dia made a statement supporting Aamir Khan and his stance on the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA). This is what led to a backlash from a political party in Rajkot. Dia Mirza had to face the party and its supporters’ ire for voicing her personal opinion. This has left Dia extremely upset and fearful.

Says the visibly upset Dia, “It all began when I went to Rajkot to attend a musical night organized by the Rajkot police to raise funds for a community hall. I flew to Rajkot on Sunday morning and was asked to attend a press conference in the evening. So I complied, till then everything was going fine.” Dia further adds, “At the press conference, one reporter asked me if I agreed with what Aamir Khan had said on the Narmada Dam issue. So I replied it is unfair that people are upset with him, as he didn’t mean to hurt anybody. All that he has said is to rehabilitate those surrounding people who are being affected by the dam. Whats wrong if he has expressed his views?” Unfortunately, immediately after the conference Dia was surrounded not by cheering fans, but by angry mobs that shouted and chanted slogans against her.

The Rajkot police, fearing that things could escalate out of control if Dia stayed on in Rajkot, advised her to leave the city immediately. A frightful Dia was escorted amidst tight police security in the middle of the night. Dia was put on an international connecting flight and was relieved to land at the Bombay airport at 5.30 a.m. Earlier the actress was scheduled to catch a flight at 8.30 a.m. from Rajkot. Dia Mirza is quite traumatized by this incident, she says, “I am not an activist, I am simply in concurrence with someone’s views. Don’t political parties have more important things to do than react to someone’s viewpoint? Why are they creating such a commotion over my viewpoint?”

Earlier on when Aamir Khan voiced his support for the displaced inhabitants of the Narmada project, political parties burnt posters and effigies of the actor where his film Rang De Basanti was running in Gujarat. The actor also had to be provided with tight security. Actors and actresses are merely voicing their opinion and they should be supported by one and all in times like these.

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Is Diya Mirza dating the hottest dude in town? "Kunal Kapoor is just my sweetest buddy. You got a problem with that?” counters Dia Mirza when quizzed about showtown buzz that she’s dating the Rang De Basanti actor.

“Many of my friends tell me that we make a terrific pair, but I’m not ‘seeing-seeing’ him,” she laughs, adding, “In fact, I’m not seeing anyone.” Currently Dia Mirza is in Goa on work.

Take 5 - Those psst...psst rumours

1. Kunal Kapoor: The tabloids and magazines talk about him as Dia’s boyfriend, but she doesn’t.

2 Sanjay Gupta: Spotted at film parties, rumours linking them gained credence when she signed a film contract with White Feather Films

3 Apoorva Lakhia: She was supposed to act in his Ek Ajnabee. Perizaad Zorabian did. And the rest isn’t history.

4 Emran Hashmi: Theirs was the classic case of puppy love in their teens. She graduated to murderous lip-locks with him in Tumsa Nahin Dekha.

5 Bunty Sachdev: Forgave him though he was caught cheating with Neha Dhupia. She showed him the door and her career picked up.

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Dia Mirza ’s acting career is not exactly rocking. But the pretty damsel hopes to bounce back soon in a big way.

The pretty lady admits her career hasn’t gone the way the careers of many of her contemporaries have shaped up. But she isn’t regretting. She is happy doing her kind of films.

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