Mumbai: Preity Zinta, the vivacious, dimple-cheeked Bollywood star, celebrates her 33rd birthday on Thursday with greater confidence in her abilities and demonstrating a little known business acumen with the recent bagging of the franchisee of the Mohali team in cricket's Indian Premier League.
Preity would have had a big do to mark the occasion had her professional commitments not come in the way, according to a source close to her.
However, she has ensured that the 'big day' in her life is not all work and no play. She will celebrate, but it will be a quiet one. Who are included in her private party's guest list is also kept under wraps to avoid media scrutiny.
But fans can be rest assured that Preity’s beau, Ness Wadia, the scion of the Wadia family who runs Bombay Dyeing, will be with her on her special day.
Professionally, after a decade in the industry, Preity is now bold enough to tread on uncharted territories with a rare confidence to ensure that she carves her own niche in Bollywood – of course, with an eye on Hollywood.
Preity will be seen in movies like Deepa Mehta's forthcoming venture, Heaven On Earth, and Jahnu Barua's Har Pal, movies that are a tad different from the usual Bollywood potboilers.
In both the movies – due for release in the first half of 2008 – Preity will surprise her fans and audiences alike, portraying far less glamorous roles than she has ever played in the past.
The two movies will present her in an image that is absolutely different from the bubbly image the mainstream Bollywood movies have given her.
So, glamour of cricket and de-glamorised roles in movies – is this the beginning of metamorphoses 2008 that Preity is experimenting with?
More important, will it lead her to new heights?
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