Preity Zinta Movie Career :

Preity Zinta was meant to make her acting debut with Shekhar Kapur's Tara Rum Pum Pum opposite Hrithik Roshan but the film never took off . Technically her first film was Kundan Shah's Kya Kehna but it got delayed till 2000. The delay of another film Soldier meant that she made her acting debut with Dil Se (1998) . The film was her breakthrough role and she won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for her performance, which was only twenty minutes long. This was followed by the success of Soldier and Kya Kehna. Her role as a teenage single mother for the latter was well acclaimed and she received various nominations in the best actress category. Her following films were average performers at the box office.

In 2003, Zinta was the female lead in three of year's highest grossing films: The Hero: Love Story of a Spy, Koi... Mil Gaya and Kal Ho Naa Ho. She won many awards for her role as Naina in Kal Ho Naa Ho. Her performance in the film got her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. Since then she has appeared in the averagely received Lakshya (2004), the box office hit Veer-Zaara (2004) and the semi-hit Salaam Namaste (2005) which turned out to be one of the biggest hit overseas. She joined a group of top stars (Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Saif Ali Khan, Arjun Rampal, and Priyanka Chopra) in the Temptation 2004 concert, which was a huge international success.

In May 2006, she along with Karan Johar received an invitation to represent Bollywood at the Cannes Film Festival. They took this opportunity to promote Johar's latest film Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna which Preity also stars in. The film which released in August 2006 has done very well at the box office. Her most recent film Jaan-E-Mann performed poorly at the box office.

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