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Text Box:  Interesting Facts # Her father Frank Handrich was a German interior designer. # Her mother is Deepa Mirza is from Bengal. # Her parents got divorced when she was six years old. # Her father Frank Handrich died when she was nine years old. # After Frank Handrich's death her mother remarried Ahmed Mirza. # Her favourite actors are Aamir Khan, Nana Patekar and Shahrukh Khan. # Diya enjoys reading English classics. # Diya Mirza began her career at the age of 16 working as a market executive at Sriven Mult-tech in Hyderabad. She used to earn monthly salary of Rs 5000. Diya Mirza's car was seized in 2006 by the customs deportment alleging evasion of custom uties. # Diya won the title of Miss Asia Pacific in 2000. # Diya was the second runner up in the Miss India 2000 contest. Text Box: Career   Diya Mirza began her professional career at the tender age of 16 working as a market executive at Sriven Mult-tech in Hyderabad. She earned a monthly salary of Rs 5000, with a 15% commission on every ad revenue she fetched for her company. She however did an advertising campaign which appeared in Femina. After the pictures came out she was encouraged to participate in Miss India competition. That's when her success story began. Diya won 3 titles at the Miss India competition - Miss Beautiful Smile, The Sony Viewer's Choice Award and Femina Miss India Asia Pacific. Life changed after that. Diya shifted to Mumbai for better career prospects. Eventually Diya won the prestigious Miss Asia Pacific Title at the beauty pageant held on 2 Dec 2000 in Manila. She is the second Indian contestant to be crowned Miss Asia Pacific and the first in 29 years. Diya was then signed by Vashu Bhagnani for Rehanna Hai Tere Dil Mein opposite southern superstar Madhavan. Her debut movie (RHTDM) did not make a big splash. But it spelt one thing - Diya Mirza had arrived. A series of minor films followed, among them Tumsa Nahin Dekha and Deewaanapan. In 2005, Mirza appeared in Parineeta, a Vidhu Vinod Chopra production. In 2006 she teamed up once again with Chopra and Sanjay Dutt for the successful film Lage Raho Munna Bhai. She also played in the music video Kajara Mohabbat Wala from Sonu Nigam album Kajara Nite. She has also appeared in Dus and in Fight Club. She will appear later this year in Familywala and Naa Naa Karte. She has many fans of her big eyed beauty, beautiful face and curvy figure. Miss Mirza's comments on her career to date, "I have learned a lot in the film industry. There was a time when I told my mother let's go. It was getting frustrating...But then I realized things were not so bad for me. Filmakers respected me.... And this is what kept me going."

 

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