 Would
you believe that Ruby debuted in Bollywood at the ripe
old age of six??!! Read on....
• She acted as
the six year old daughter of Sharmila Tagore and Shashi
Kapoor in a Hindi film entitled, "Door Desh" (later
re-released as "Gehri Chot") in 1980. This film was
directed by Amrish Sanghal. She played the role of a
baby Babita, one of Bangladesh's top actresses at the
time
• A year before
that, Ruby had acted as a child artiste in an English
Film entitled, "Utilities" (1979) starring actor Robert
Hayes
• At the age of ten,
she acted as a baby Mazhar Khan (yes, as a boy) in
a film co-starring Navine Nischal entitled "Do Yaaron Ki Yaari".
This was in 1983
• As a young adult, Ruby
played herself in the superhit film "Chori Chori Chupke Chupke" with Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee and Preity Zinta (2001). The film was directed by famous director duo Abbas & Mastan
• She then went
on to star in the National Film Board of Canada's "Bollywood
Bound" directed by Nisha Pahuja (2002). The film was
a documentary about young Canadian artists who come
to India seeking fame and fortune.
• Ruby also performed
in a comedy sequence for Usha Kiran Productions' "Tujhe
Meri Kasam" directed by Vijay Bhaskar and starring Ritesh
Deshmukh (2003).
• The latest film to
be released is Rajshri Productions' "Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon" directed
by record-breaking director Sooraj Barjatya and starring
superstars Hritik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena
Kapoor (June 2003). Once again she has played herself
in a grand Valentine's Day Ball which begins on a fun
note, but ends in a dramatic, pivotal sequence... altering
the chain of events in the film
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