Hailing from Ludhiana, Punjab, she attended Sacred Heart Convent and was raised by her mother, a doctor and government officer, after her father's early death. Entering Hindi cinema with the 1994 film Ishq Mein Jeena Ishq Mein Marna, she soon took a lead role in Veergati (1995) and appeared in several supporting parts throughout the late 1990s, including a turn in Train to Pakistan. A breakthrough…
