Simran Bagga life and biography

Simran Bagga, born Rishibala Naval is an Indian actress who has acted in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam films. She recently appeared in the 2008 Tamil film Vaaranam Aayiram directed by Gautham Menon, costarring Surya Sivakumar.

She debuted in Bollywood and acted in several Hindi films, before starring in her first Tamil film V.I.P and her first Telugu film Abbai Gari Pelli in 1997. Rediff has called her "one of Tamil cinema's top female draws."

She appeared in several commercially successful films such as Nerrukku Ner (1997), Natpukkaga (1998), Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1998), Kannedhirey Thondrinal (1998), Samarasimha Reddy (1999), Anari No.1 (1999), Jodi (1999), Priyamaanavale (2000), Parthen Rasithen (2000), Narasimha Naidu (2001), Thamizh (2002), Panchathantiram (2002), Ramana (2002) and New (2004),[2] and gained critical praise for her performances in Vaali (1999), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002) and Vaaranam Aayiram (2008).

Simran was born in Mumbai as the first daughter to Ashok Naval and Sharada Naval. She has two sisters, Monal and Jyoti Naval, who both have appeared in films as well, and a brother named Sumit. On April 14, 2002, Monal had committed suicide. She did her schooling from St. Anthony's high school, Versova and finished her B.Com in Mumbai and was doing modelling simultaneously. Then she came to film industry. She speaks Punjabi, Hindi, English, Tamil and Telugu. Simran is a trained dancer and can perform Bharatanatyam and Salsa. She married Deepak Bagga, her longtime family friend, in December 2003. They have a son Adheep, born in June 2005. She gave birth to her second son on March 17, 2011.

Filmography:

1995 : Sanam Harjai
1996 : Muqaddar ; Indraprastham ; Bal Bramhachari ; Angaara ; Tere Mere Sapne

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