Geeta Basra Singh (born 13 March 1984) is a British actress who has appeared in

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films. She is married to Indian cricketer

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. Cricketer Harbhajan Singh and model/actor Geeta Basra got married at a ceremony in a gurudwara near Jalandhar. Bollywood actress, Geeta Basra revealed how she was written off as a married woman, even when she and Harbhajan Singh were just friends.

Early life

Basra was born to Indian Punjabi

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parents in

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on the south coast of England, but now resides in

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, India. She has one younger brother, Rahul and sister Ruby. She studied acting at the

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Acting Institute.

Career

She was first seen in the Emraan Hashmi-starrer ''

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'' in 2006 in which she played a girl who is sold into prostitution by her lover. Her second release, '' The Train'' (2007), was also opposite Hashmi. She played Roma, a working woman who gets caught up in an extramarital affair. Basra was also seen in the

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for the

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and

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song "Ghum Sum Ghum Sum", playing the love interest of the male protagonist played by

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Personal life

Harbhajan Singh & Geeta Basra at Rakesh Roshan’s birthday bash

Basra married Indian cricketer

on 29 October 2015 in

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. They have a daughter, Hinaya Heer Plaha, born on 27 July 2016 in Portsmouth,

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. and a son, Jovan Veer Singh Plaha, born on 10 July 2021.

Filmography

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* * * * 1984 births Living people Actresses from Portsmouth Punjabi people British film actresses Actresses in Hindi cinema Actresses in Punjabi cinema British people of Punjabi descent British actresses of Indian descent British emigrants to India British expatriate actresses in India European actresses in India European actresses in Bollywood 21st-century British actresses {{UK-film-actor-stub