Brinda Parekh

Brinda Parekh, an actress-cum-model, was born on 3 November 1984. As she was born and brought up in Mumbai, the stardom bug bit her quite early in life. She began working towards her goal of becoming a model at the age of 16. Casually sitting in her home one day, reading the newspaper, her eye spotted an ad for a model hunt. Seizing the opportunity, she went ahead with it and ended up as the winner.

This boosted her confidence that was followed by a portfolio shoot by Atul Kasbekar, the star photographer of the Kingfisher Calendar Girls. With passion in the heart and a sizzling portfolio, Brinda took to modeling as a proper profession. Brinda worked as a model in ad-films; Royal Challenge Beer, Vimal Suitings, Polo Mint, Microsoft Windows XP, Amul Macho and Anchor Switches, to name a few. She has performed in some music videos; the prominent ones are ‘Vaada Tera Vaada’ by Nitin Bali and the theme song of Kaun Banega Crorepati- ‘Kar Le Kar Le Koi Dhamaal’.

Moving on to the television industry, Brinda was seen in Zee Tv’s ‘Tumhari Disha,' a story revolving the plight of an adopted girl and Sony Tv’s ‘Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai,' a love story by Ekta Kapoor. Further, she has made several special appearances and danced in some item numbers for Tamil, Telugu, Kannada as well as Hindi films. Some significant roles played by her are- Mona in ‘Pokkiri’, a Tamil remake of the Telugu film with the same title by Prabhu Deva and Ritu in ‘Pinky - Ek Satyakatha’.

As far as Bollywood is concerned, she has bagged roles in movies such as Bipasha Basu starred ‘Corporate’ and has also got the opportunity to work with Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan in ‘London Dreams’. The actress tied the knot in 2014 with businessman Ajay Kamath. In a recent interview, it was reported that she invested in her father’s new textile store and also attends to the costumers like any other shopkeeper. She is a popular Page 3 personality a pet lover on the inside.