Ayesha Takia

Ayesha Takia was born in Mumbai on April 10th 1986. Her father’s name is Nishit, a Gujarati and her mother’s name is Faridah, who is half Maharashtrian and half Caucasian British. Her film career started with Taarzan, for which she won the Filmfare Best Debut Award (2004). She was highly acclaimed for her performance as a young widow in Dor (2006). She received commercial success with Wanted (2009). She appeared in the “I am a Complan Girl!” advertising campaign and she also appeared in a music video, Falguni Pathak’s Meri Chunarii Udd Udd Jaye, when she was 17. On 1 March 2009, Takia married Farhan Azmi, a restaurateur and the son of politician Abu Asim Azmi, a Samajwadi Party leader. The couple had originally planned to marry in December 2008, but the wedding was delayed due to the 2008 Mumbai attacks