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Divya Dutta is an India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n actress from Ludhiana, Punjab
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 who appears in Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

 and Punjabi
Punjabi language
Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...

 films.

Career

She did her schooling from Sacred Heart Convent, Ludhiana. She was first recognized for her work in Shaheed-e-Mohabbat and went on to win more than 25 awards in the film industry, including the Zee Cine Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Veer Zaara and the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Delhi 6. She has been nominated for the Filmfare and Star Screen Award twice. She also won the Star Sabse Favorite Kaun Award for her role in Welcome to Sajjanpur.

Divya Dutta has acted in more than 60 roles in the Indian film industry, including at least two international films. She can be seen in numerous ads and is also popular in Punjabi cinema. In 2001 She has also appeared in the video of "Romeo" by a famous house music duo from London, England, Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx are a British electronic dance music duo from London, England consisting of Felix Buxton born 1971 and Simon Ratcliffe born 1 December 1969. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s...

.

Filmography

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| 1994
| Ishq Mein Jeena Ishq Mein Marna
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|rowspan="2"| 1995
| Surakshaa
Surakshaa
- External links :* on Bollywood Hungama...

 ||Bindiya||
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| Veergati
Veergati
Veergati is an Indian Bollywood film directed by K.K Singh.The cast of the movie includes Salman Khan, Divya Dutta and Atul Agnihotri in pivotal roles. The film released on 29 September 1995-Plot:...

 || Sandhya||
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|rowspan="3"| 1996
| Agni Sakshi|| Urmi||
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| Chhote Sarkar
Chhote Sarkar (1996 film)
Chhote Sarkar is a 1996 Bollywood romantic drama film directed by Vimal Kumar and written by S. Khan. The film starred Govinda and Shilpa Shetty. It premiered on 22 November 1996.-Plot summary:...

|| Meena||
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| Ram Aur Shyam
Ram Aur Shyam
Ram Aur Shyam is a 1967 Indian Hindi feature film, directed by Tapi Chanakya. Its producer B. Nagi Reddy previously produced Ramudu Bheemudu, a Telugu film starring N.T...

|| Sunaina||
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|rowspan="2"| 1997
| Raja Ki Ayegi Baraat|| Sharda's Sister||
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| Daava
Daava
Daava is a 1997 Hindi movie directed by Sunil Agnihotri and starring Akshay Kumar, Raveena Tandon, Naseeruddin Shah and Akshay Anand.- Plot :...

|| Deepa ||
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|rowspan="4"| 1998
| Gharwali Baharwali||||
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| Iski Topi Uske Sarr|| Milli||
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| Bade Miyan Chote Miyan
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan is a 1998 Bollywood film starring Amitabh Bachchan in a double role, Govinda in a double role, Anupam Kher, Ramya Krishnan, and Raveena Tandon. Directed by David Dhawan, it was released in the Diwali of 1998 along with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai...

|| Madhu||
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| Train to Pakistan
Train to Pakistan
Train To Pakistan is a historical novel by Khushwant Singh, published in 1956. It recounts the Partition of India in August 1947.Instead of depicting the Partition in terms of only the political events surrounding it, Singh digs into a deep local focus, providing a human dimension which brings to...

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|rowspan="3"| 1999
| Shaheed-E-Mohabbat||Zainab||
|-
| Samar
Samar
Samar, formerly and also known as Western Samar, is a province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Its capital is Catbalogan City and covers the western portion of Samar as well as several islands in the Samar Sea located to the west of the mainland...

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| Rajaji||Sonia||
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| 2000
| Basanti
Basanti (2000 film)
Basanti is a 2000 Nepali romantic film directed by Neer Shah. The cast includes Karishma Manandhar, Rajesh Hamal, Gauri Malla and Ashok Sharma. This movie is based on a novel of the same name written by one of the prominent Nepalese novelists Diamond Sumsher....


| Malaki
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| 2001
| Kasoor
Kasoor
Kasoor is a 2001 Bollywood suspense thriller film. The film, produced under Mukesh Bhatt's Vishesh Entertainment Ltd. is directed by Vikram Bhatt and features Aftab Shivdasani in his second Bollywood appearance and Lisa Ray in her Bollywood debut. Ray's voice was dubbed by Divya Dutta. The film...


| Priti Saxena
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|rowspan="6"| 2002
| Maya Namara||Special Appearance||
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| Inth Ka Jawab Patthar|| Kanchan||
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| 23rd March 1931: Shaheed
23rd March 1931: Shaheed
23rd March 1931: Shaheed is a 2002 Hindi film directed by Guddu Dhanoa which depicts the events leading up to the hanging of Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and his companions Rajguru and Sukhdev on 23 March 1931...

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| Sur: The Melody of Life|| Rita D'Silva||
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| Shakthi: The Power||Shekhar's sister||
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| Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai|| Kitu||
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|rowspan="4"| 2003
| Pran Jaaye Par Shaan Na Jaaye||Dulari||
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| Joggers' Park||Chatterjee's daughter||
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| Baghban
Baghban
Baghban is a 2003 Bollywood drama film directed by Ravi Chopra, with a star cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Salman Khan, Mahima Chaudhary, Paresh Rawal, Rimi Sen, Lilette Dubey and others...

||Reena Malhotra||
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| LOC: Kargil||Yadav's wife||
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|rowspan="5"| 2004
| Shobhayatra||Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi||
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| Agni Pankh||Nupur (Vishal's wife)||
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| Shaadi Ka Laddoo
Shaadi Ka Laddoo
Shaadi Ka Laddoo is a 2004 Indian Bollywood comedy film directed by Raj Kaushal. The film premiered on 23 April 2004.-Plot summary:India-based artist Shomu and his wife Geetu are happily married with two children. Shomu decides to travel to Britain for business purposes, as well as to meet his...

||Geetu||
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| Veer-Zaara
Veer-Zaara
The soundtrack was released on CD and specially on Audio DVD. The music is based on old and untouched compositions by the late Madan Mohan, as revised by his son Sanjeev Kohli....

||Shabbo||
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| Des Hoyaa Pardes||Guddi||
|-
|rowspan="7"| 2005
| Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is a popular English nursery rhyme. The lyrics are from an early nineteenth-century English poem, "The Star" by Jane Taylor. The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann...

||Police Officer||
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| Dil Ke Pechey Pechey||Vidya||
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| Naam Gum Jaayega||Divya||
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| Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
The music score that accompanies the film was composed by A. R. Rahman. The soundtrack features 19 pieces composed by Rahman, including 13 instrumentals and orchestral themes, in addition to 6 further songs, with lyrics by Javed Akhtar. Performers include the Western Choir Chennai and the Mumbai...

||Ila Bose||
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| Silsiilay||Diya||
|-
| Mr Ya Miss
Mr Ya Miss
Mr Ya Miss is a 2005 Bollywood comedy film which is written, directed by and stars Antara Mali alongside Ritesh Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani and Divya Dutta. The film is inspired by the Hollywood film Switch...

||Loveleen Kapoor||
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| Dubai Return||Vaishali||
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|rowspan="3"| 2006
| Darwaza Bandh Rakho ||Chameli G. Kale||
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| Waris Shah: Ishq Daa Waaris
Waris Shah-Ishq Da Waaris
Waris Shah Ishq Daa Waaris is a 2006 Punjabi movie starring Gurdas Maan, Juhi Chawla and Divya Dutta in lead roles. It is about the life of legendary Punjabi poet Waris Shah. This movie won National Award.-Synopsis:...

||Saboo||
|-
| Umrao Jaan
Umrao Jaan
Umrao Jaan is a 1981 Bollywood film, directed by Muzaffar Ali. It is based on the Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada , written by Mirza Hadi Ruswa based on the famous Lucknow courtesan...

||Bismillah||
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|rowspan="4"| 2007
| Apne
Apne
Apne is a 2007 Bollywood film directed by Anil Sharma. This is the first and one of the two films to feature real life father and sons Dharmendra, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol together. Sunny and Bobby have worked together before in Dillagi. Kiron Kher, Shilpa Shetty and Katrina Kaif play the female...

||Pooja B. Singh Choudhary||
|-
| The Last Lear
The Last Lear
The Last Lear is an Indian film, in the English language, directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film won the National Award of India for Best Feature Film in English in 2007. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta, Shefali Shah and Jisshu Sengupta. Shefali Shah won the...

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| Mummyji||||
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| Aaja Nachle
Aaja Nachle
The film's soundtrack was released on 18 October 2007 composed by Salim-Sulaiman and lyrics by Jaideep Sahni and Piyush Mishra. A few songs from the final sequence of the movie have not been included on the soundtrack including "Yeh Ishq"....

|| Najma||
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|rowspan="4"| 2008
| U Me Aur Hum
U Me Aur Hum
U Me Aur Hum is a 2008 Bollywood film directed and produced by Ajay Devgan under Devgan Entertainment Software Ltd. and Eros Entertainment. The film, which marks Devgan's debut as a director stars him alongside his wife Kajol in their seventh film together. Karan Khanna, Isha Sharvani, Sumeet...

||Reena||
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| Kahaani Gudiya Ki...: True Story of a Woman|| Gudiya||
|-
| Summer 2007
Summer 2007
Summer 2007 is a 2008 Indian drama film directed by the debutant Suhail Tatari. The film deals with five medical students who undergo a rude awakening of sorts after visiting a Maharashtrian village and witnessing the misfortune of villagers. The film stars Sikandar Kher, Gul Panag, Yuvika...

||Dancer/Singer||
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| Welcome to Sajjanpur||Vindhya||
|-
| 2008
| Oh, My God
Oh, My God (2008 film)
Oh, My God !! is a 2008 Indian film.- Cast :*Vinay Pathak as Rajendra Dubey*Saurabh Shukla as God*Divya Dutta as Suman Dubey*Gaurav Gera as Dr. Piddu*Harsh Chhaya as Boss/Shekhar...

||Suman Dubey||
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|rowspan="6"| 2009
| Delhi-6
Delhi-6
Delhi-6 is a 2009 Hindi-language film directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and starring Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Om Puri, Waheeda Rahman, Rishi Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Deepak Dobriyal and Divya Dutta. The film is reportedly based on Mehra's growing up years in Chandni Chowk area of Old...

||Jalebi||
|-
| Mini Punjab||Shabbo||
|-
| Morning Walk||Rita||
|-
| Love Khichdi
Love Khichdi
Love Khichdi is a Hindi film, a romantic comedy directed by Srinivas Bhashyam The film released on August 28, 2009.-Plot:Vir is a bachelor from a small town working as a sous-chef in a five-star hotel in Mumbai. A handsome, charming, macho idiot who flirts with, yearns for and lusts after any...

||Parminder Kaur||
|-
| Chargesheet
Chargesheet
A Chargesheet is a formal document of accusation prepared by a law-enforcement agency in India. It is distinct from the First Information Report , usually refers to one or more FIRs, and charges an individual or organization for the crimes specified in those FIR...

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| Paroksh||Gouri||
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|rowspan="4"| 2010
| Sukhmani
Sukhmani
Sukhmani Sahib is the name given to the set of hymns divided into 24 sections which appear in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh Holy Scriptures on page 262. Each section, which is called an Ashtpadi, consists of 8 hymns per Ashtpadi. The word Sukhmani literally means Peace in your mind...

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| Malik Ek
Malik Ek
Malik Ek is a Hindi spiritual film on Sai Baba of Shirdi featuring Jackie Shroff, Manoj Kumar and Divya Dutta. Shroff will be playing in the title role. The film is directed by Deepak Balraj Vij and the music is scored by Anup Jalota, who also plays the role of Das Ganu...

||Laxmi||
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| Hisss||||
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| Heart Land||Amrita||
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|rowspan="3"| 2011
| The Lion of Punjab
The Lion of Punjab
The Lion of Punjab is a Punjabi film starring Diljit Dosanjh, making his debut as an actor. It is also the debut Punjabi movie of Bollywood director Guddu Dhanoa.The film was released on 11 February 2011...

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|Stanley Ka Dabba || Rosy Miss||
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|Monica||Monica||
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|Heroine (film)

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