Minissha Lamba

Minissha Lamba (born on 18 January 1985) is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films..
Personal life
Minissha was born to a Hindu-Jat family of Lamba Jat clan hailing from Haryana. Growing up, her father was in the hospitality business and this gave Lamba the opportunity to travel around the country and meet many people. She can converse in Hindi, Punjabi, English and French fluently.
Career
Lamba's long term ambition was to become a journalist. While studying for a degree in Delhi, Lamba pursued modelling as a hobby and soon became a well-placed model in the Indian modelling industry. Examples of Lamba's early modelling work include several television commercials for companies such as LG, Sony, Cadbury, Hajmola, Airtel, Sunsilk, and also others. She has also done a music video (Tera Suroor) for the hit music album Aap Ka Suroor by Himesh Reshammiya.She did her schooling from Sherwood Hall and later on moved to Chettinad Vidyashram, both in Chennai. In 2004, she majored in English with honours from Miranda House, University of Delhi. Her first movie "Yahaan", which was directed by Shoojit Sircar was released in 2005. Critics praised the movie citing Lamba's performance as one of the highlights. In 2008, she acted in Siddharth Anand's film Bachna Ae Haseeno which stars Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone along with Ranbir Kapoor in the lead roles. This movie is produced by Yashraj Films. She will be soon featuring in a Shyam Benegal film to be released by mid September. It is a film about a father-daughter relationship starring Boman Irani as her father.Well Done Abba (2010) was highly acclaimed at Cannes Film Festival especially Minissha Lamba's Performance. She is currently working on a movie series called "Mysticism”; its eight versions will be directed by four different directors including Soham Shah and Sanjay Gadhvi. She has also posed for Maxim India.she went to Bangladesh for opening Shoppers World.
Filmography
Year Film Role Other notes
2005 Yahaan Adaa Nominated, Filmfare Best Female Debut Award
2006 Corporate Megha Apte
Rocky: The Rebel Priya
Anthony Kaun Hai Jia R.Sharma
2007 Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. Zara
2008 Bachna Ae Haseeno Mahi/Mahi Ahluwalia
Kidnap Sonia Raina
Shaurya Kaavya Shastri
Anamika Jia Rao/Jia Sesodia
2010 Well Done Abba Muskaan

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