Dia Mirza was born on 9 December 1981 in Hyderabad in an interracial, German and Bengali family.Her father Frank Handrich was a German graphic and industrial fair designer, architect, artist and interior designer and mother Deepa excelled in interior and landscape design. She now volunteers as a counsellor at addiction centres.As a student of J Krishnamurti School, Dia learnt early to never conform to the limitations of the conditioned mind. Her education and family values made her world- view naturally inclusive and composite.The hunger to chase every dream was encouraged at her school and at home.That is why at the age of 16, while she was still a student, Dia began working towards financial independence. Modelling offers poured in and after endorsing brands like Lipton and Walls Ice Cream, she decided to dive deeper and participate in a beauty pageant that would transform her fate. The Miss India Contest in 2000 made her a household name and then she won the Miss Asia-Pacific Pageant for India, after a span of nearly 29 long years.Films were the next natural step. And Dia was ready to study the craft rather than take the opportunities coming her way for granted. Dia began her training as an actor in theatre workshops conducted by acclaimed director Feroz Abbas Khan and made her debut with Vashu Bhagnani’s Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, with Madhavan. She then went on to appear in several memorable films, including the blockbuster Lage Raho Munnabhai, Parineeta, Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Kurbaan, Dus Kahaniyan, Tehzeeb, Sanju, Thappad and many more.In 2012, Dia forayed into regional cinema with Bengali Filmmaker Pratim Dasgupta’s festival favourite Paanch Adhyay. In the same year, she also added a new dimension to her cinematic career, by turning producer to form Born Free Entertainment. A production house mirroring her desire to seek the new constantly. ‘Love, Breakup, Zindagi’ and ‘Bobby Jasoos’ were produced under this banner.In 2016, Dia made her debut on Indian television with the much loved show Ganga: The Soul of India where she took viewers on a breath-taking journey to rediscover the holy river and the many stories connected with it. Her debut on a streaming platform as an actor was in Kaafir, a highly acclaimed 2019 web-series about the Indo-Pak cross border dispute. Critics and audiences were moved and stirred by Dia’s award winning portrayal of a young woman’s journey from innocence to devastation and then resilience and courage.The series and Dia’s work in it continue to win accolades. On her 38th birthday in 2019, Dia Mirza launched a new production house, One India Stories LLP, which aims to bring out meaningful content across different formats and mediums.Dia and her hand-picked team plan to collaborate with gifted individuals from different film industries and also have women-led stories as part of the roster.As an actor and individual, Dia has always believed in the power of one and in the thread of oneness and humanity that connects us all. One India Stories is a culmination of this thought and aims to create stories that remind us of our connection to each other and the planet. In her career as a performer, and her subsequent work as a producer and a climate changemaker, Dia has made unconventional choices. Today, she is not just an actor and a producer but a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador and United Nations Secretary-General Advocate for Sustainable Development Goals.The search for the unknown, the less familiar continues.
Dia Mirza
Movies
Dus
ATC Chief Siddhant Dheer receives information that a terrorist attack will take place on 10 May, led by Jamwaal. Neha, his informant in Canada, tells him of the arrest of Jamwaal’s right-hand man Himmat Mehndi. Siddhant sends his brothers Shekar and Aditya to get hold of Himmat. Dan, a Canadian…
Krazzy 4
Employed with ‘We Care Rehabilitation Centre’ for the mentally challenged, wealthy Dr. Sonali Sanyal decides to take four patients, methodical Mukherjee; patriotic Gangadhar; Daboo who does not converse; and Raja, who has anger management issues, for an outing in her vehicle. Shortly thereafter hilarious chaos and panic will result at…
Lage Raho Munna Bhai
A hilarious underworld gangster known as Munna Bhai falls comically in love with a radio host by the name of Jahnvi, who runs an elders’ home, which is taken over by an unscrupulous builder, who gets the residents kicked out ironically with the help of Munna’s sidekick, Circuit, while Munna…
Sanju
Few lives in our times are as dramatic and enigmatic as the saga of Sanjay Dutt. Coming from a family of cinema legends, he himself became a film star, and then saw dizzying heights and darkest depths: adulation of die-hard fans, unending battles with various addictions, brushes with the underworld,…
Heyy Babyy
Arush Mehra lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle in Sydney, Australia along with two room-mates, Tanmay Joglekar, and Ali Hyder. He works for a food chain, while Tanmay entertains children as ‘Eddy Teddy’, and Ali takes care of their apartment. All three are womanizers and usually end up sleeping with around…
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
Honeymoon Travels is an off-beat drama weaving together the stories of 6 couples on their honeymoons on the same tourist bus. There are old-timers Nahid & Oscar on their second marriages, reflective and forgiving of live. Then there’s the Gujrati couple Hitesh and Shilpa who can’t get anywhere near each…
Hum Tum Aur Ghost
Armaan’s (Arshad Warsi) life is picture perfect; a loving girlfriend and a great job as a fashion photographer. Yet things aren’t as perfect as they seem to be. He is a chronic patient of insomnia though his sleeplessness is not a function of a sleeping disorder. The truth is that…
Om Shanti Om
Om Prakash Makhija is a Junior Artist in the 1970s Hindi film industry and in love with actress Shantipriya. Om rescues Shanti from an out-of-control fire scene and they become friends. His hopes seem to be coming true–until he finds out that she’s married to film producer Mukesh Mehra and…
Parineeta
Circa 1962 in Calcutta, India, live three neighboring families in a upper middle-class area. Gurcharan lives in a palatial home (Haveli) with his wife, and two beautiful daughters, Lolita and Koyal. He is retired,unable to find suitable work and must live off of his savings, ends up mortgaging his house…
Fun Facts
she would have had very little chance of survival. I'm eternally grateful to Salman and will stand by him no matter what."""
Quotes
I have learned a lot in the film industry. There was a time when I told my mother let's go. I did not want to continue to act. It was getting frustrating. I realized that the minute your film flops those producers who are keen to sign you make an excuse and back out at the last minute. You are dropped from the film. Sometimes the film is announced in a lavish way but does not take off. I got tired of all this and thought of seriously giving up my career once and for all. But then I realized that things were not so bad for me after all. Filmmakers respected me! Few have shown genuine interest to cast me in their films. And that is what has kept me going.
About actor Salman Khan: "Once my mother fell unconscious. I called Salman since he stays close to my house. It was with his help that I was able to rush my mother to the hospital. The doctor later told us that had we not to got my mother admitted within those 15 minutes