indian celebrities: Soha Ali Khan

Tuesday 3 July 2012

Soha Ali Khan

Soha Ali Khan (born Soha Ali Khan Pataudi on 4 October 1978) is a Bollywood actress best known for her role of Sonia in Rang De Basanti (2006) for which she also received awards. She is daughter of veteran Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore, who is the great-grandniece of noted poet Rabindranath TagoreKhan was born into the erstwhile princely family of Pataudi. She is a Muslim who has ethnic Pashtun ancestry through her Nawabs-of-Pataudi lineage from her father's side andBengali Hindu ancestry from her mother's side.^[1] Both her father, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who died on 22 September 2011^[2] was the Nawab, and paternal grandfather,Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, are former captains of the Indian cricket team. Her mother,Sharmila Tagore, is a film actress. Her brother Saif Ali Khan is also a Bollywood actor and her sister Saba Ali Khan is a jewellery designer. She attended The British School in New Delhi and Balliol College, Oxford and earned a Masters degree in International Relationsfrom the London School of Economics and Political Science