Kiara Advani is an Indian film actress, who appears in Bollywood films. She made her debut in Grazing Goat Pictures' 2014 comedy drama film, Fugly opposite newcomer Mohit Marwah, Vijender Singh, Arfi Lamba and Jimmy Shergill. The film, which released on 13 June 2014, is directed by Kabir Sadanand and produced by Ashvini Yardi and Alka Bhatia.
Kiara Advani was born (as Alia Advani) on 31 July 19...Kiara Advani is an Indian film actress, who appears in Bollywood films. She made her debut in Grazing Goat Pictures' 2014 comedy drama film, Fugly opposite newcomer Mohit Marwah, Vijender Singh, Arfi Lamba and Jimmy Shergill. The film, which released on 13 June 2014, is directed by Kabir Sadanand and produced by Ashvini Yardi and Alka Bhatia.
Kiara Advani was born (as Alia Advani) on 31 July 1992, the daughter of Jagdeep Advani, a businessman, by his wife Genevi've Jaffrey. She has a younger brother, Mishaal (born September 1995). Kiara's father is a Sindhi Hindu, while her mother, raised a Catholic, is the daughter of Hameed Jaffrey, a Muslim gentleman, by his first wife Valerie Salway, a woman of Scottish, Irish, Portuguese and Spanish ancestry.
Kiara was born with certain connections to the Hindi film industry: her maternal grandfather, Hameed Jaffrey, was the brother of the character actor Saeed Jaffrey. Hameed Jaffrey's second wife (Kiara's step-grandmother), who he married after being divorced from Valerie Salway, was Bharati Patel, eldest daughter of the veteran actor Ashok Kumar. This is Kiara's only connection with Ashok Kumar and the Ganguly family, and she is not his grand-daughter, as is often rumoured. Nor is she related by blood to the actress Anuradha Patel, who is Bharati Patel's daughter by an earlier marriage. Kiara is distantly related to the actress Juhi Chawla also.
Kiara's mother Genevi've had a sister, Shaheen Jaffrey, who once worked as a model and briefly dated the future superstar Salman Khan - indeed, she is said to have been his first girlfriend. Salman Khan took avuncular interest in Kiara's career progression and expended effort in guiding Kiara when she first entered the film industry. It was reportedly at his behest that Advani changed her name from 'Alia' to 'Kiara.'
