Former Bollywood actor Somy Ali is busy running her NGO, No More Tears, in Florida, USA. However, her Bollywood roots often resurface, with her sharing never-seen-before pictures from her time in Mumbai. She recently shared a picture with Henna-famed actor Zeba Bakhtiar and revealed that they were often drawn to each other.
She took to her Instagram page and wrote, “So for all you Youngins out there who grew up with social media and are able to literally catch celebrities saying things and sharing their lives with you. We 90s teens didn’t have that luxury, and the tabloids worldwide took unbelievable advantage of this fact. This #tbt we go back to a memory of my first time meeting in 1993 with the stunningly gorgeous Henna heroine, Zeba Bakhtiar.”
She continued, “Given we were both Pakistani-born, while I was raised in the US, the magazines decided to do what they did best: pit us against one another, but it didn’t work to their dismay. And to date I have the utmost respect and consider our very first encounter with the utmost fondness. Zeba was and is one of the most beautiful people I have ever met, and I only have fond memories of her. Here’s wishing her all the goodness in the world.”
Somy was a popular face in Bollywood in the 90s. She was featured alongside the who’s who of Bollywood, including Mithun Chakraborty, Saif Ali Khan, Chunky Pandey, and Sanjay Dutt, among others. While her focus is entirely on her NGO now, she often takes a trip down the memory lane to her time in Bollywood and fondly remembers the good times she had and friends she made.