Facts
- Preity Zinta studied criminal psychology after completing her undergraduate degree.
- She entered the modelling world after being discovered at a friend's birthday party.
- Her first commercial was for Perk chocolates.
- Bobby Deol jokingly gave her the nickname “Pritam Singh” during Soldier; she later clarified that it was never her real name.
- She narrowly escaped two potentially fatal incidents in 2004: an explosion at a concert in Colombo and the Indian Ocean tsunami.
- Zinta testified in the Bharat Shah case in 2003, becoming one of the Bollywood figures to publicly speak about threats from the underworld.
- She has been a co-owner of the Punjab Kings IPL franchise.
- She became a mother to twins in 2021.
- Her father died in a car accident when she was 13, an experience she has described as a major turning point in her life.
- Her return with Batwara 1947 comes after an extended period away from major acting roles.
