Milind Soman
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Milind Soman
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| Born |
4 November 1965 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Actor, producer, model and reality television personality |
| Spouse(s) | Mylene Jampanoi (2006–2009) |
| Website | milindsoman |
Milind Soman(Marathi : मिलिंद सोमण) is an Indian supermodel, actor, film producer and fitness promoter.
Milind Soman was born in an Indian Marathi family in Glasgow, Scotland to Usha and Prabhakar Soman. His family moved to a place near London, England where he lived until the age of seven, then his family moved back to India and settled in Dadar in Mumbai in 1972 . His father Prabhakar Soman was a nuclear scientist with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre while his mother Usha is a biochemist, who taught at Wilson College, Mumbai . Soman has two elder sisters Netra and Medha, and one younger sister, Anupama who is a year younger to him. Soman's all four grandparents were doctors. Soman did his schooling from Dr. Antonio Da Silva High School and Jr. College of Commerce, Dadar, Mumbai. Later, he completed his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from M. H. Saboo Siddik Polytechnic, Byculla. He was a national-level swimmer for India and was then discovered as a model.
In July 2006, Soman married Mylene Jampanoi, his French co-star in the film Valley of Flowers at a tourist resort in Goa. He had previously broken up with his girlfriend Madhu Sapre, taking the advice of a young fan on the phone. Mylene and Milind met on the set of the film. They later divorced in 2009.
Though, Soman faired reasonably well in his engineering course, he did not see himself making money out of it. Hence, he turned to modelling in 1988. Soman featured in Alisha Chinai's music video, Made in India (1995). In the mid-1990s after some time working as a model, he took the lead role in the Indian science fiction TV Series Captain Vyom. He then focused on films starting in 2000. Soman's films include 16 December, Pachaikili Muthucharam, Paiyaa, Agni Varsha and Rules: Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula. In 2007 he appeared in Bhram, Say Salaam India and Bheja Fry. In 2009 he acted in Sachin Kundalkar’s Marathi film Gandha. He has also acted in a number of English language and other foreign language films and television series, including Valley of Flowers and The Flag. In the Swedish film Arn – The Knight Templar he portrayed Saladin, the revered 12th-century Kurdish leader of the Arabs and Muslims. He was also seen in a character role in the 2016 hindi film Bajirao Mastani.
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