Farah Khan Ali
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Early life

Farah Khan is the eldest of the four children of parents Actor-Producer-Director Sanjay Khan
Sanjay Khan
-Career:Khan made his debut in the 1964 Chetan Anand film "Haqeeqat" followed by the Rajshri film Dosti. In the 1960s and 1970s Khan starred in the movies Dus Lakh, Ek Phool Do Mali and Intaqam. He also acted opposite his brother Feroz in three films Upaasna , Mela and Nagin...

 and his wife Interior Designer Zarine Khan. She finished her graduation (BA) at Sophia College, Mumbai
Sophia College, Mumbai
Sophia College For Women is an undergraduate women's college established in 1941 by Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is affiliated to the University of Mumbai. The governing body of The Society for the Higher Education of Women in India runs the college. The Religious Sisters of the Sacred...

. Not knowing what she wanted to do, she tried her hand at everything raging from Ad films to interior design and even television production. Farah’s foray into the jewellery line was purely by chance when she decided to accompany her friend on a whim to do a course in Gemology at the renowned Gemological Institute of America in Santa Monica, California in 1992. Farah Khan graduated at the top of her class in 1993.

Career

She launched her own jewellery brand "FARAH KHAN" in 2004. She designed jewellery for some of the top Bollywood stars and people from India's foremost business families. Internationally Farah Khan has also designed for Swarovski. In June 2009, Farah showcased her designs at the 10th anniversary celebrations of IIFA (The Indian International Film Awards) in Macau where she was the only jewellery designer to singularly have more than 10 Bollywood personalities wear her jewelllery on the Green carpet a feat never achieved before. Farah Khan was awarded the best Jewellery Designer Award by the Lions Gold club in January 2010 and was also received the DNA award for society’s most stylish swan

Personal life

Farah Khan married Aqeel Ali (known professionally as DJ Aqeel) and became Farah Khan Ali. They have two children, a boy Azaan and a girl Fizaa.

Twitter Presence

She is one of the famous twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

 users in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 with username farahkhanali. She was selected as Wills Twitter face to report Wills India Fashion Week 2010 through her tweets. She also started a campaign against rapists through her tweets and planning to start a signature campaign to attract Indian government attention towards such issues
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