Deepti Naval
Deepti Naval was born in Amritsar, Punjab, India on February 3rd, 1957 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 67, Deepti Naval biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Deepti Naval (born 3 February 1952) is an American actor, director, and writer of Indian origins mainly active in Hindi cinema. Her main contribution has been in the field of art cinema, receiving critical acclaim for her empathetic and "close to life" characters that emphasized the changing roles of women in India.
Early life
Naval was born in Amritsar, East Punjab, India, on February 3rd, 1952, but she and her father took up teaching at City University of New York in New York. At Hunter College, she studied fine arts.
Personal life
Naval was married to actor Prakash Jha, and the two have an adopted daughter, Disha Jha. Naval was later in a friendship with late Vinod Pandit, the nephew of Pandit Jasraj. She is an American citizen as of 2010.
She is also interested in painting and photography.
Acting career
Naval made her debut in 1978 with Shyam Benegal's film Junoon. She was a lead singer in Ek Baar Phir two years ago. She appeared in films such as Kamla (1984) or Ankahee (1985), alongside Smita Patil and Shabana Azmi.
She began working with Chashme Buddoor in 1981, and they became an iconic on-screen couple in the early 1980s, with films including Chashme Buddoor, Saath Saath, Kissi Se Na Kehna, Katha, Rang Birangi, and Faasle. They reunited in Tell Me O Khuda (2011), three decades later. Shaikh died in 2013 after his last film together, Listen... Amaya.
Though she was active in the 1980s, her career slowed in the 1990s as she explored other art mediums. She appeared in Bawandar and Firaaq in the 2000s and received Best Actress awards in several international film festivals for her performances in Leela (2002), Memories (2010), and Listen... Amaya (2013). She was also named as the 2007 Tribute Honoree of the Indian Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Naval participated in Hindi cinema, as with Marhi Da Deeva and Mane, which respectively received the award for Best Feature Film in Punjabi and Best Feature Film in Kannada at the 1990 National Film Awards ceremony. She was set to make her debut in a Bengali film under director Sanjoy Nag, but Memories, which was later shot in English, was finally shot in English.
Naval has been seen on television with a few notable television shows and serials, such as Sauda (1992), Tanaav (1994) or Muqammal (2003). On Colors TV, she appeared on Mukti Bandhan, the daily soap opera. She made her stage debut in 2015 with the poetic stage show Ek Mulaqaat, in which she played the respected Punjabi writer Amrita Pritam.
Naval appeared in a version of Made in Heaven, a web series on Amazon Prime directed by Zoya Akhtar, on Amazon Prime.
Awards
- 1988, Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards, Best Supporting Actress, Mirch Masala
- 2003, Best Supporting Actress Award at the Karachi Film Festival
- 2012, Best Actress Award at the Imagine India Film Festival (Spain)
- 2013, Best Actress Award at the New York Indian Film Festival