Neelam

Neelam (born March 3, 1968) is a former Indian actress and an established jewellery designer.Neelam was born and spent her early childhood in Hong Kong, before her family shifted to Bangkok. She learnt Ballet for 5 years in Hong Kong. The family has a traditional jewellery making business.

She got married to Rishi Sethia, son of a rich businessman from U.K despite opposition from Rishi's family. They married in Hong Kong, but divorced.

She also dated Bobby Deol for long in late 1980s to until 1993 . It is rumored that Govinda, her co-star in many films had a crush on her, and pursued her for a long time before he finally gave up.

These days she is seen with actor Sameer Soni at parties and events.

She is very close to Sanjay Kapoor's wife - Maheep Kapoor and is regularly seen in the Mumbai Page 3 circle with her other close friends Ekta Kapoor, Sunita Menon, Bhavna Pandey and Farah Khan.
After her early childhood in Hong Kong, her family moved to Bangkok and Neelam was holidaying in Mumbai and was approached by Ramesh Behl. She decided to give it a shot and did Jawaani in 1984 alongside Karan Shah (Tina Munim's nephew), but the film became a flop. She soldiered on ahead and became famous in 1986 in the film Ilzaam opposite another debutante Govinda. She went on to make a regular pairing with Govinda in movies such as Love 86 (1986), Khudgarz (1987), Hatya (1988), Taaqatwar (1989) and Do Qaidi (1989). She also Starred in the 1987 Hit film, Aag Hi Aag opposite Dharmendra and Chunkey Pandey and directed by Shibu Mitra

Since then she made many other movies in the late 1980s met with mixed success. She is also noted for her appearance in the 1998 movie Kuch Kuch Hota Hai where she appeared as herself in the movie playing a VJ. In 1999 she appeared in the multi-starrer family film Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United.

Her most recent release was Kasam in 2001.