Rhea Pillai
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Rhea Pillai | |
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| Born | Rhea Laila Pillai[1] |
| Other names | Rhea Dutt[1] |
| Occupation | Model |
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| Partner | Leander Paes (2000–2015) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Fatma Begum (great grandmother) Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III (great grandfather) Zubeida (maternal grandmother) Sultana (great aunt) Jamila Razzaq (cousin) |
Rhea Laila Pillai is a British model known for her works in television and advertising.[2][3] In 2003, she was honored as the "Woman of the Year", along with Raveena Tandon, Anoushka Shankar and Ritu Beri, on International Women's Day for social service.[4] In 2006, she had a minor screen role in the Hindi movie Corporate. Pillai is involved in the Art of Living Foundation.[5]
Pillai was born the daughter of Raymond Pillai and his wife Durr-e-shahwar Dhanrajgir.[6] Both of her parents were of mixed communal heritage, and theirs was also a mixed marriage. Raymond Pillai was the son of a Malayali Hindu father and an Anglo-Indian mother, and was raised as a Christian. Durr-e-shahwar Dhanrajgir was the daughter of Maharaja Narsinghraj Dhanrajgir Gyan Bahadur, a Hindu and one of the top noblemen of Hyderabad state, by his consort Zubeida, who hailed from a family of Muslim royals and had acted in the first Indian sound film Alam Ara (1931). She is also the great granddaughter of India's first female film director, Fatma Begum and happens to be the great niece of Sultana, one of the earliest film actresses from India who was the elder sister of her grandmother Zubeida.[7]
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