Film director and producer Mahesh Bhatt’s wife Soni Razdan may be away from the screen, but in the 80s and 90s, Soni was known for her excellent acting.

Soni Razdan had given many hit films in her film career, but after marriage, she stayed away from films because the work had reduced. Soni Razdan will celebrate her 69th birthday on Saturday 25th October.

Soni Razdan was born on October 25, 1956 in Birmingham (England). His father was a Kashmiri Pandit and mother was British-German. Soni adopted the culture of both, but at the time of her marriage with Mahesh Bhatt, she accepted Islam, because Mahesh Bhatt was already married.

Early Bollywood career and hit films

Soni was already interested in acting. He honed his acting skills in English theater and worked in the English film John Fowles’ The Collector. This film, which came in the 70s, did not achieve much success. Soni worked in the Hollywood Bengali film ’36 Chowringhee Lane’ released in 1981. In this film, the sorrows and pain of the Anglo-Indian people have been shown seriously on screen. Liked the film a lot. In the same year, she played the role of Deepa in her first Bollywood film ‘Ahista-Ahista’.

Soni Razdan introduced the nuances of her acting in Mandi in 1983, Saransh in 1984, Trikaal in 1985 and the film Khamosh released in 1986. She appeared in the Hindi TV serial ‘Buniyaad’ in 1986. However, after love and then marriage, Soni Razdan’s career started derailing. Sony itself had revealed this.

⁠Career break after marriage

She had told in an interview that earlier it was very difficult for women to work in films and make their mark, because a format was prepared for the actress as to what she would do. He told that before marriage everything was going very well and after marriage he stopped getting work. After this it spread in the industry that I am married, then what is the need to work.

Soni Razdan was very shocked by all these things, but she did not give up and continued searching for work, after which she got an offer for a TV serial.

⁠Screen share with daughter Alia

Not only this, Soni worked in ‘Monsoon Wedding’ in 2001, daughter Alia’s film ‘Raazi’, ‘War’ in 2019, and Amazon’s series ‘Peepa’. At the age of 62, he shared the screen with daughter Alia Bhatt in the film Raazi, released in 2018.

Soni also tried his hand in direction and writing and directed the film ‘Girvi’.

Renuka Shahane, Kanchan Rawal, Kunal Khemu and Avtar Gill were in lead roles in the film. Now the actress is going to be seen in Amazon’s series ‘Song of Paradise’.

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Monsoon Wedding: When it talks about success on the global stage of Indian films, then the name of Shah Rukh Khan or Aamir Khan is first remembered. For the 90s, Shah Rukh Khan had achieved amazing stardom from his films abroad. But a film that came in the year 2001 in which there was neither a big actor nor a big budget film, but still this film left behind in the foreign gross of Shah Rukh Khan’s films at that time.

The film Monsoon Wedding made a blast in foreign theaters

The film, which came out in the year 2001, is named ‘Monsoon Wedding’. Talking about the budget of this film, it was prepared in just 5 crores. The film was directed by famous film maker Meera Nair. It was an Indian film with the help of companies from India as well as America, France, Germany and Italy.

Shahrukh left behind the collection of two superhit films

This year, two big films of Shah Rukh’s career ‘Ashoka’ and ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’ were released. These films received a lot of response in theaters abroad. Nevertheless, films earned just 14 million i.e. 60 crores. At the same time, the film Monsoon Wedding earned 60 crores in America and Canada alone. While the film’s worldwide collection was a bang of 145 crores. It was the highest grossing Indian film until 15 years later, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Dangal did not leave it behind.

There was no big film star in the film

The story of the film Monsoon Wedding is of a middle Punjabi family in Delhi, which shows confusion, love, emotion, quarrels and culture during the wedding preparations. The special thing about this film was that there was no big face in it. In this, only television celebs were cast. There were celebs like Naseeruddin Shah, Lillet Dubey, Vijay Raj, Shefali Shah, Rajat Kapoor, Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Parvin Dabas. Along with this, there were three new faces like Vasundhara Das, Randeep Hooda, and Ram Kapoor.