Payal Rohatgi Biography

Payal Rohatgi was born on November 9, 1982 in

Hyderabad, India. She is the daughter of Veena Rohatgi
and Shashank Rohatgi. She has a brother named Gaurav
Rohatgi. She was brought up in a middle class family
and grew up in Ahmadabad in Gujarat. A computer
engineer by profession[1], Payal Rohatgi won the title
of Miss Tourism World in 2001, against candidates from
65 countries. Payal Rohatgi was also a finalist at the
Femina Miss India contest in 2000. These successes
encouraged Payal to enter the entertainment industry
and so she moved to Mumbai. Payal Rohatgi is
approximately 5'6" tall, and her star-sign is Scorpio.
She started her career by modelling for popular brands
like Amul, Nirma, and Nescafe. She gained attention
after appearing in a television ad for Cadbury's
Temptations Chocolates. Around this time she also
appeared in music videos by rock band Silk Route and
Indipop artist Kay Kay.

After her career in Bollywood took off, Payal Rohatgi
has cut back on the number of products she endorses.
However, she appeared along with cricketer Virender
Sehwag in an ad film for Dabur's Lal Dantmanjan. The
film was directed by Pradeep Sarkar(Incidentally both
are somehow related to Vidhu Vinod Chopra as She acted
in Munnabhai I and Pardeep Sarkar made Pareeneeta for
him). Payal Rohatgi was also seen in an ad film for
eveready battery with Amitabh Bachchan which was
directed by Pradeep Sarkar in 2006.
Payal made her Bollywood debut in Harry Baweja's Yeh
Kya Ho Raha Hai?, a Hindi remake of the Hollywood teen
flick American Pie. However, she went unnoticed in the
multi-starrer. Payal Rohatgi shot into the limelight
by doing some small budget films, but she seemed to
have a change of heart as she realised that these
small budget films were not of her sensibility as
these films released badly and were shot badly.

In 2006, Payal Rohatgi signed her first A grade
Bollywood film, 36 China Town, as one of the lead
characters. The movie starred already established
stars like Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, and Paresh
Rawal. Even amongst all these stars she got noticed.

Later in that year, Payal Rohatgi appeared in the
critically acclaimed Corporate where, ironically, she
played the part of an item girl.

In 2007, she will have her first release as
Priyadarshan's film Dhol which is produced by Percept
Picture Company. Payal Rohatgi is playing a positive
second lead character, paired opposite of Arbaaz Khan.