^ a b "I participated in 'Bigg Boss' to connect with next gen: Poonam Dhillon".^ "Poonam Dhillon to enchant the silver screen once again".Entertainment.in.msn.com (29 December 2011). ^ Birthday Special: Rajesh Khanna – 6 Archived 17 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine."Poonam Dhillon, Bollywood beauty to telly housewife". ^ Trivia – Celebrity Snippets – Femina Miss India – Indiatimes.Indian Telly Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Drama) ĭhillon joined the Bhartiya Janta Party in 2004 and was appointed Vice President of the Mumbai unit of the party in 2019. In 2017, Dhillon was appointed as one of four members to the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal, which is the official body for appeals against decisions of the Central Board of Film Certification in the Indian film industry. Ltd." with industrialist Aneel Murarka and choreographer Samir Tanna. In 2014, she launched an event management and film production company called "Poetic Justice Films and Entertainment Pvt. In 2012, she along with other celebrities participated in a show supporting the "Save and Empower the Girl Child" cause in collaboration with Lilavati Hospital. She was also a speaker at the MINDMINE event. She has been a prominent speaker at the SAARC business summits in Kathmandu and Delhi and was appointed cultural ambassador. She has been very active with social causes like drug awareness, AIDS awareness, family planning and organ donation.
Dhillon was married to producer Ashok Thakeria and has two children, a daughter Paloma and a son Anmol. In 2013, she was pursuing an MBA in International Business. Poonam attended Carmel Convent in for schooling and did her graduation after joining films at age 16. Poonam was quite studious growing up and aspired to become a doctor. Her mother was a school principal and both her siblings are doctors. Her father Amreek Singh was an aeronautical engineer in the Indian Air Force and would often get transferred. She runs a make-up van company called "Vanity." Personal life ĭhillon was born on 18 April 1962, in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. ĭhillon ventured into the make-up van business, pioneering the concept in the Indian film industry.
She was also seen in a play called U Turn which is the Hindi version of a Marathi play.
She then did another play The Perfect Wife co-starring Sooraj Thapar and Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi with Asif Sheikh. She has been in the Hindi theater production The Perfect Husband, which won the best comedy play award in 2005 and which completed a Golden Jubilee run.
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Her big comeback on Indian television in a lead role was with the serial Ekk Nayi Pehchaan on Sony TV in 2013 where she played the uneducated yet ideal wife of a rich businessman. She ended up as the second runner-up on the show. She also appeared in regional films such as Nyay Danda ( Bengali), Yuddha Kaanda ( Kannada), Ishtam ( Telugu) and Yavarum Nalam ( Tamil), 13B: Fear has a new address ( Hindi).ĭhillon was a contestant on Season 3 of Bigg Boss aired on Colors TV in 2009. She made a special appearance in Judaai as a favour to producer Boney Kapoor when Juhi Chawla had to drop out. She was paired with Rajesh Khanna in six films: Dard, Nishaan, Zamana, Awam, Red Rose (1980 film) and Jai Shiv Shankar. Subsequently, she went on to act in around 90 films in Hindi, including Sohni Mahiwal, Red Rose, Teri Kasam, Dard, Nishana, Yeh Vaada Raha, Samunder, Romance, Kasam, and Sitamgar. For this film, Poonam was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. The low budget film Noorie shot in Bhaderwah, Kashmir, became a superhit and was a phenomenal success at the box office, partly also for Khayyam's music. Chopra then gave her the title role in Noorie (1979) opposite Farooq Shaikh, which he produced. ĭirector Yash Chopra noticed her and offered her a role in the film Trishul (1978) where her song "Gapoochi Gapoochi Gum Gum" with Sachin Pilgaonkar became popular. The first time Dhillon gained fame was when she got crowned Miss Young India 1978 at the age of 16.
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