Amrita Singh (born 9 February 1958) is an Indian actress. Through her
films like Betaab and Mard, she gained popularity and became a well
known and popular actress in the 1980s. She took a break from acting
in the early 1990s for a decade and returned to acting in 2002,
occasionally playing supporting roles. She also made her debut on
television in 2005. Amrita keeps a low public profile and gives few
interviews.Amrita Singh was born in Hadali, West Pakistan to a Punjabi
Muslim mother Rukhsana Sultana and a Punjabi Sikh father, army officer
Shivinder Singh Virk, from a feudal family. Her mother was a political
associate of Sanjay Gandhi during the Indian Emergency in the 1970s,
who gained notoriety for leading Sanjay Gandhi's sterilisation
campaign in Muslim areas of Old Delhi. Through her paternal
grandmother Mohinder Kaur, Amrita is the great-granddaughter of Sobha
Singh, one of the builders of New Delhi, and the great-niece of the
late novelist Khushwant Singh. The actress Begum Para is her
great-aunt and her husband was Nasir Khan, who is the brother of Dilip
Kumar. Actor Ayub Khan is her second cousin. Virk was a childhood
friend of Shahrukh Khan. Their mothers often worked together in the
Old Delhi area and Singh attended the same school as Khan's sister,
Shahnaz.Singh attended Modern School in New Delhi and is fluent in
English, Punjabi and Hindi. Amrita Singh Top Movies & Young Movies