Simi Garewal (born 17 October 1947) is an Indian actress and a talk show hostess. She is known for her work in the films Do Badan, Saathi, Mera Naam Joker, Siddhartha and Karz. She is also known for her celebrity talk show, Rendezvous with Simi Garewal.
Simi Garewal was
born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, in a Jat Sikh family. Her father, J.
S. Garewal served in the Indian Army rising to the rank of brigadier.
Simi is a cousin of Pamela Chopra, wife of film-maker Yash Chopra.
Simi's mother Darshi and Pamela's father Mohinder Singh were
siblings. Simi grew up in England and studied at Newland House School
with her sister Amrita.
Film and television
career.
After spending much
of her childhood in England, Garewal returned to India while a
teenager. Her felicity with the English language induced the makers
of the English-language film Tarzan Goes to India to offer her a
role. A gangly 15-year-old, Garewal made her debut alongside Feroz
Khan in this film in 1962.[5] Her performance was good enough for her
to fetch many more film offers. During the 1960s and '70s, she was in
several notable Indian films, working with leading directors such as
Mehboob Khan's Son of India, Raj Kapoor in Mera Naam Joker (1970),
Satyajit Ray in Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest),
Mrinal Sen in Padatik (The Guerilla Fighter) and Raj Khosla in Do
Badan. She starred opposite Shashi Kapoor in Columbia Pictures'
Siddhartha, an English-language movie based on the novel by Hermann
Hesse. Garewal did a nude scene in this film which caused some
controversy in India. Later, in the mid-1970s, she made an appearance
in the popular film Kabhi Kabhie (1976), made by her uncle Yash
Chopra, and had a starring role in Chalte Chalte (1976). Another
notable role she played was as a vamp in Karz (1980). She starred in
the BBC docu-drama Maharajas (1987), based on the book by Charles
Allen.
In the early 1980s,
her attention turned to writing and direction. She formed her own
production company, Siga Arts International. She hosted, produced and
directed a TV series for Doordarshan called It's a Woman's World
(1983). She also made a documentary for Channel 4 in the UK called
Living Legend Raj Kapoor (1984). This was followed by a three-part
documentary on Rajiv Gandhi titled India's Rajiv. She wrote and
directed a Hindi feature film Rukhsat and produced television
commercials, for which she won the first prize from the 1988 Paters
Award in Australia.
Garewal anchored the
talk show Rendezvous with Simi Garewal.
She usually wears
her signature white clothes on TV shows and at award ceremonies, and
is popularly known as "The Lady in White". Garewal recently
appeared on Say Shava Shava 2008 as a host and judge. After the
Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008, Simi Garewal created a
wave of love & admiration by publicly calling for the Indian
government to "carpet-bomb" the training camps of terrorist
nation Pakistan.
She returned to
television with her new talk show India's Most Desirable on Star Plus
which would interview Bollywood actors, business and media icons, and
Indian cricketers about their "ideal and desirable beaus".
Simi Garewal has her
own website which she uses to interact with her fans:
www.simigarewal.com. The site has her voice reading the text.
Personal life.
Garewal had her
first serious relationship at the age of 17, with then Maharaja of
Jamnagar, who was also her neighbor in England. In the early 1980s,
Garewal dated Salman Taseer, a Pakistani businessman.
Garewal was married
to Ravi Mohan of Chunnamal family from old Delhi but her marriage was
short and she is now divorced.
Simi Garewal is a
popular TV host and has acted in few Bollywood movies. In 1972, for
her nude scene in Siddhartha with actor Shashi Kapoor, the movie
couldn't be released in India due to censorship and created
controversy.
SIMI GREWAL FILMOGRAPHY WITH SUPER STAR RAJESH KHANNA :
1) Andaz - 1971 : as Mona
2) Namak Haram - 1973 : as Manisha
3) Naseeb - 1981 : Herself - Rajesh Khanna also appearing himself as Guest
Appearance.
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