Career
Tina Ambani was discovered by Dev Anand after she represented India at the International Teen Princess contest in Aruba, and won the Miss Photogenic and Miss Bikini awards.
In 1978 Dev Anand cast her in his film Des Pardes, which launched her film career. He would repeatedly cast her in several other films with him in the lead role, such as Lootmaar and Man Pasand.
Sunil Dutt launched his son Sanjay Dutt in his film debut Rocky. Tina was chosen as Sanjay's heroine.
Tina Munim fell in love with Rajesh Khanna, when they were paired together in Fiffty Fiffty, Souten, Bewafai, Suraag, Insaaf Main Karoonga and Adhikar and films where she was not heroine of Rajesh like Rajput, Akhir Kyun and Paapi Pet Ka Sawaal Hai. Khanna formed popular on-screen and off screen pair with Tina in the eighties but the relation ended when Khanna did not accept Tina's proposal for marriage in 1987. Khanna and his wife had separated in 1984 but never completed the divorce proceedings and Khanna was sure that they would get together soon. Considering the effect, relation with Tina will have on his children, Khanna rejected Tina's proposal. After the breakup, Tina decided to leave film industry itself. Tina decided to go to California to graduate. In 1985 Rajesh Khanna turned into a film producer and cast Tina Munim as his female lead in the film Alag Alag. In 1992, Ram Awatar Agnihotri wrote that it was in the films Alag Alag and Adhikar, both opposite Rajesh Khanna that Tina Munim showed the "first sparks" of the dedicated actress she would become. Tina regards her performance in the film Adhikar as the best performance of her career.
Apart from Dev Anand and Rajesh Khanna, she also made a popular screen team with actor Rishi Kapoor, since they were paired romantically in six films, of which two were hits Subhash Ghai's Karz and Katilon Ke Kaatil. Director Basu Chatterjee repeatedly cast her in his films, such as Baaton Baaton Mein and Man Pasand, as did Rakesh Roshan in films, such as Aap Ke Deewane (1980) and in the hit film Aakhir Kyon? (1985), where she had a nuanced role as Roshan's mistress.
Tina's nephew Karan Shah tried to follow in her footsteps by starring in the teen love story Jawaani (1984) opposite Neelam, but Karan's film career fizzled.
In the year 1987 Munim made the conscious decision to put her Bollywood career on a hiatus, after break up with Khanna. She moved to California and attended college.
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