Deepika Amin

Deepika Amin was born Deepika Deshpande in Mumbai in a Maharashtrian family. Her paternal grandfather was the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Marathi poet Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande. Her paternal grandmother Kusumavati Deshpande, was a writer of Marathi literature and also a professor of English Literature in Nagpur University. Her father Ulhas Deshpande was an Air Vice Marshal in Indian Air Force. Her mother Kshama Deshpande is a Kathak dancer and disciple of the Kathak maestro Gopi Krishna. She grew up in Delhi, attending school in Loreto Convent and studying economics (Hons) in Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University. She lives with her husband and daughter in Mumbai. ==Filmography==

Films Television & Web series She got her first break with Lekh Tandon's and Gul Anand's serial Farmaan where she played the lead opposite Kanwaljit. Some of her noted serials are Tashan-e-Ishq and 9 Malabar Hill on Zee TV, Junoon on Doordarshan, Siyasat on Epic. Her other co actors were Shah Rukh Khan and Manoj Bajpayee. and Wedding Album (directed by Lillete Dubey), Partap Sharma's Sammy, and in musicals like Annie Get Your Gun and South Pacific. She is trained singer in Indian Classical music and also plays the guitar. == References ==