Dia Mirza (born as Dia Handrich on 9 December 1981) is an Indian model, actress and producer, who won the 2000Miss Asia Pacific International title. Mirza has primarily worked in Bollywood, and is known in media for her social work. She co-owns a production house Born Free Entertainment along with Sahil Sangha. Their first film, Love Breakups Zindagi, made under the banner was released on 7 October 2011.Dia Mirza was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Her father, Frank Handrich, was a German graphic and industrial fair designer, architect, artist and interior designer from Munich and her mother, Deepa is a Bengali Hindu who is an interior designer, landscaper and currently does social work as a volunteer to help alcoholics and addicts. They separated when she was four years old. Her father died when she was nine and her mother married Ahmed Mirza, who died in 2003.Whether she is a Muslim or not carries ambiguity. She adopted her mother's surname and has recently adopted the last name of her birth-father, becoming Dia Mirza Handrich.When living in Khairatabad, Hyderabad district, she attended Vidyaranya High School for Boys and Girls, a school partly based on the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti, and later Nasr School, in Khairtabad. She attended Stanley Junior College and completed her graduation in Bachelors of Arts from Andhra Pradesh Open University, Hyderabad.[4] In April 2014, she got engaged to her long time Business Partner Sahil Sangha. Dia and Sahil will get married on 28 October 2014.
