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Soni Razdan (born 25 October 1956) is a British actress and film director who works in Hindi films. She is married to film director Mahesh Bhatt and is the mother of Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt.

Soni Razdan
Razdan in 2018
Born	(1956-10-25) 25 October 1956 (age 66) Birmingham, England
Nationality	British
Citizenship	British
Occupation	Actress Film Director
Years active	1981 – present
Spouse	Mahesh Bhatt ​ (m. 1986)​
Children	Shaheen Bhatt Alia Bhatt
Relatives	See Bhatt and Hashmi family Ranbir Kapoor (son-in-law)

Early life

Razdan was born in Small Heath Birmingham, West Midlands, England to a British-German mother, Gertrude Hoelzer and a Indian Kashmiri Pandit father, Narendra Nath Razdan and grew up in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.[1][2][3][4]

Career

Razdan started her career in English theatre with John Fowles' The Collector and her Hindi stage career with Bund Darvaze, Satyadev Dubey's adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit.

Her photos were seen by Franco Zeffirelli who wanted to cast her as Mary in his miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth. The role, however, was given to Olivia Hussey and Razdan was cast as a young grieving mother as well as appearing as an extra in other scenes.^{[citation needed]}

She appeared as Sulochana in the Doordarshan TV series Buniyaad. She also acted in Indian TV serials Saahil, Gaatha and has been a regular on Indian television.[5] In 2002, she turned to direction with Aur Phir Ek Din on Star Plus, a take-off on One Fine Day starring Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney.[5]

She has also acted in Bollywood movies. Razdan directed a film called Love Affair that was expected to be released in 2016, but did not.[6][7]^{[circular reference]}[8] She acted in Meghna Gulzar's Raazi which also starred her daughter Alia in the lead role. This was the first time when she shared the screen with Alia where she played the character of Alia's mother.[9] Soni played the lead role in the film Yours Truly where she portrayed the character of a lonely middle-aged government employee Mithi Kumar.[10] She also appeared as the Imaaduddin Shah's mother in the 2007 movie Dil Dosti Etc.^{[citation needed]} In 2018, in the light of the MeToo movement Razdan said that once she was nearly raped by someone on a film set. Though they didn't succeed, she didn't file a complaint against this attempt to rape.[11]

Personal life

Razdan married Indian film director Mahesh Bhatt on 20 April 1986. Bhatt did not want to divorce his first wife, so he and Razdan converted to Islam prior to marriage and held a very private nikaah ceremony. Upon converting to Islam Soni chose the name Sakina as her Muslim name.[12][13][14]

She is the mother of Shaheen Bhatt (born 28 November 1988) and actress Alia Bhatt (born 15 March 1993), step mother of Pooja Bhatt & Rahul Bhatt and the distant aunt of Emraan Hashmi.[15]

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1981	36 Chowringhee Lane	Rosemary Stoneham
	Ahista Ahista	Deepa
1983	Mandi	Nadira
1984	Saaransh	Sujata Suman	Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress
1985	Trikaal	Aurora
	Khamosh	Herself
1986	On Wings of Fire	Thais
1998	Such a Long Journey	Dilnavaz Noble
1990	Daddy	Priya
1991	Sadak	Special appearance
	Saathi	Tina
1993	Sir	Shobha Verma
	Gumrah	Angela
2001	Monsoon Wedding	Saroj Rai
2004	Dobara	Mrs. Devika Mehta
2005	Page 3	Anjali Thapar
2006	Jaan-E-Mann	Mrs. Goel
2007	Dil Dosti Etc	Apurv's Mother
2011	Patiala House	Dimple Bua
	Love Breakups Zindagi	Guest at wedding
2013	Shootout at Wadala	Manya's mother
2016	Love Affair
2018	Raazi	Teji Khan
	Yours Truly	Mithi Kumar
2019	Noblemen	Shruti Sharma
	No Fathers in Kashmir	Halima
	War	Nafeesa Rahmani
2021	Sardar Ka Grandson	Simi	Netflix film
2022	Pippa	TBA	Filming[16]

Director

Year	Film
2005	Nazar
2009	Adnan Khan
2016	Love Affair

Television

Year	Show	Role	Platform
1986	Buniyaad	Sulochana (Lochan)	DD National
2017	Love Ka Hai Intezaar	Rajmata Rajeshwari Ranawat	Star Plus
2019	The Verdict - State vs Nanavati	Mehra Nanavati	ALTBalaji and ZEE5
	Out of Love	Mrs. Kapoor	Hotstar
	This Way Up	Kavita, Vish's mother	Channel 4
2021	Call My Agent: Bollywood	Treasa	Netflix

1995 Saahil

References

External links

• Soni Razdan at IMDb
• Soni Razdan at Bollywood Hungama

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