Amrita Singh is an Indian film and television actress. She was born to a Sikh family. She is the daughter of Rukhsana Sultana, who was a political activist and army officer Shivinder Singh Virk from a feudal family. Through her paternal grandmother Mohinder Kaur, Amrita is the great-granddaughter of Sobha Singh, OBE, of Hadali, Sargodha, one of the builders of New Delhi, and the great-niece of the late novelist Khushwant Singh.
Her maternal grandmother Zarina Khan, was the elder sister of actress Begum Para. The latter is the mother of actor Ayub Khan. The two sisters, were daughters of Mian Ehsan Ul Haque, who came from a landowning family, was the Chief Justice in the princely state of Bikaner, northern Rajasthan.
Her mother Rukhsana Sultana's father was a Punjabi Hindu, Group Captain Madan Mohan Bimbet, but Zarina took her daughter with her after the marriage failed and the child was renamed Rukhsana Sultana and became a Muslim. She inherited most of Ehsan Ul Haque's property. Singh attended Modern School in New Delhi and is fluent in English, Punjabi and Hindi languages.
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