Dia Mirza: Before her debut, Dia Mirza was a background dancer in a Tamil film, did her first photoshoot with the same money

Diya Mirza was the second runner-up in the Miss India pageant in the year 2000 and also won the title of Miss Asia Pacific in the same year. However, it was not easy for Dia Mirza, who has made her mark on the international platform, to make a place for herself in Bollywood. Diya’s film ‘Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein’ came in the year 2001 and with this film she made a special place in the hearts of the audience. Let us tell you that Diya had to struggle a lot before signing her first film. Not only this, Diya has even danced in a group of background dancers. Let’s tell which was that film, in which Deepika was involved in the crowd of girls dancing behind.

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The film was in Tamil language, titled ‘En Swasa Kaatre’ and Diya was also seen in a crowd of background dancers in a famous song ‘Jumbalakka’ from the same film. Recalling this song of hers, Diya said in a conversation with ETimes, ‘I have played that role in a song which they call extra. Because of this song, I got a lot of money so that I could get my professional portfolio photoshoot done.

Dia told what she did with the money she got from this song

Sharing her experience of shooting this song (year 1999), Diya said, ‘We shot it at Ramoji Rao Film City. I was there with 4-5 of my friends and we had a good time there. Raju Sundaram was dancing. It was a wonderful experience and we made good money from this shoot, so we went back and did whatever we wanted to do.

Dia Mirza worked as a background dancer.

This song ‘Naatu Naatu’ fame composer M.M. Keeravani had prepared

Dia Mirza said a lot about her first music video. She told that she had shot this video when she was only 15 years old. This song is not by anyone else but ‘RRR’ song ‘Naatu Naatu’ fame composer M.M. It was composed by Keeravani. He said that we had shot this entire song in Hyderabad. Diya told that she used to watch this song on YouTube.

Has worked in films to web series

Apart from singing ‘Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein’, Dia Mirza acted in films like ‘Dus’, ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ and ‘Sanju’. Apart from this, Diya has also appeared in web series, which include ‘Kaafir’, ‘Mind the Malhotras’, ‘Call Me Agent: Bollywood’.

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