Born as Bakhtavar Khan, Sonam Khan is the granddaughter of veteran actor Murad and the niece of Raza Murad. Yash Chopra gave her the screen name Sonam when she made her Bollywood debut with the director's film Vijay in 1988. In a recent interview, the actress made the revelation that she almost died while she was filming Vijay and Yash Chopra's son Aditya Chopra saved her.
Sonam had to wear a bikini for a scene in Vijay and she had to learn swimming for the same. Talking to News18, the actress said, "I never bothered to learn swimming and we had a shooting in a hotel in Bangalore. It was a one-shot scene where Rishi ji was walking from one point, I walked from another and we both had to jump into the pool. I didn’t both to tell anybody anything so we both jumped into the pool and it was one shot."
"I jumped into the pool and I didn’t know how to swim. I was literally grabbing Rishi ji below with me. The best part is, people thought it was a shot going on and then Aditya Chopra jumped into the pool and he rescued me. I would have been dead… Or I would have harmed Rishi ji unknowingly that day, it was crazy", she added.
Sonam did multiple films in her eight-year-long career in Bollywood. These included Ajooba, Aaj Ke Shahenshah, Kohraam, Baaz, and Insaniyat among others. In 1991, she married director Rajiv Rai, with whom she worked in Tridev and Vishwatma, and quit acting to devote her time to the family. Sonam is now looking to make her comeback in Bollywood.
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