Milind Soman


Milind Soman is an Indian supermodel, actor, film producer and fitness promoter.

Personal life

Soman was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His family moved to England where he lived until the age of seven, then his family moved back to Mumbai, India in 1973. He attended Dr. Antonio Da Silva High School and Jr. College of Commerce, Mumbai. Soman was enrolled in a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's shakha by his father, when he was 10 years old. Later, he completed his Diploma in Electrical Engineering.
Milind Soman met Mylene Jampanoi, a French actress, on the sets of their 2006 film, Valley of Flowers. The couple married in July 2006 at a resort in Goa. Milind and Mylene decided to part ways in 2008. The couple divorced in 2009.
He married Ankita Konwar on 22 April 2018 in Alibaug.

Career

An icon of the 90s, Milind Soman is a supermodel and actor, who enjoys a massive fanbase across the globe for his charming looks.
Soman turned to modelling in 1988. Soman featured in Alisha Chinai's music video, Made in India. In the mid-1990s after some time working as a model, he took the lead role in the Indian science fiction TV Series Captain Vyom
and also played part in the TV series Sea Hawks. He then focused on films starting in 2000. Soman's films include 16 December, Pachaikili Muthucharam, Paiyaa, Agni Varsha and '. In 2007 he appeared in Bhram, Say Salaam India and Bheja Fry. In 2009 he acted in Sachin Kundalkar's Marathi film Gandha. He has also acted in a number of English language and other foreign language films and television series, including Valley of Flowers and The Flag. In the Swedish film Arn – The Knight Templar he portrayed Saladin, the revered 12th-century Kurdish leader of the Arabs and Muslims. He was also seen in a character role in the 2016 Hindi film Bajirao Mastani.
Soman was the producer of the Hindi film '. He has also produced a children's television serial called Ghost Bana Dost.
In 2010, he participated as a contestant in the reality TV show , He came in fourth position.

Sports

Milind is an avid sportsman. He started swimming at age of 6 and he has been an international level swimmer. He started representing Maharashtra from the age of 10 at various age groups before going on to represent his state at senior level where he went on to hold the national swimming championship title for four consecutive years before giving up competitive swimming in 1988. Soman represented India in swimming in the inaugural South Asian Games in 1984 held at Kathmandu where he won a Silver medal. In 2015, Milind completed the Ironman challenge in 15 hours and 19 minutes, in his first try. The triathlon includes a 3.8-km swim, a 180.2-km cycle ride and 42.2-km run raced in that order without a break which the participants are required to complete within 17 hours to win the title of 'Ironman'. The title 'Ironman' is given to every person who achieves the feat within the given time.

Controversy

Milind Soman and his then-girlfriend, Madhu Sapre, an ex-Miss India and model, attracted controversy in India, when the pair posed nude in a print ad for Tuffs Shoes. The social service branch of the Mumbai police had registered a case in August 1995 after Sapre and Soman posed in the nude, wearing only shoes and a python wrapped around them. Another case was filed under the Wildlife Protection Act against the advertising agency for illegal use of the python. The accused include the publishers and distributors of two magazines that featured the controversial ad, the advertising agency, the two models and the photographers. The case dragged on for 14 years, after which the courts acquitted the accused.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleLanguageNotes
2000TarkiebCaptain Ajit VermaHindi
2002Pyar Ki DhunRohitHindi
200216 DecemberVikramHindi
2002Agni VarshaArvasuHindi
2003'Vikram VarmaHindiAlso producer
2004SuryaSuryaHindi
2005JurmRohitHindi
2005BhagmatiMuhammad Quli Qutb ShahHindi
2006Valley of FlowersJalanHindi/Japanese
2006KatputtliArjunHindi
2007Pachaikili MuthucharamLawrenceTamil
2007Say Salaam IndiaHarry OberoiHindi
2007Bheja FryAnant GhoshalHindi
2007Arn - TempelriddarenSaladinSwedish
2008BhramDevendraHindi
2009The FlagArjunHindi
2009Satyameva JeyatheTelugu
2009Gandha: SmellSarangMarathi
2009Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki BaarishHindi
2009Shadow Rahul KapoorHindi
2010PaiyaaBaaliTamil
2010NakshatraInspector GupteHindi
2010Arn – The Kingdom at Road's EndSaladinSwedish
2011VithaganBadriTamil
2012'Abdul RahmanEnglish
2012Jodi BreakersMarcHindi
2013DavidThe gangsterHindi
2013Alex PandianAlvin MartinTamil
2013SamhitaThe kingMarathi
2015NagrikVikas PatilMarathi
2015Bajirao MastaniAmbaji PantHindi
2017ChefBijuHindi
2017Mukti - Birth of a NationGeneral J. F. R. JacobEnglishShort film
2018Hamara TirangaArjunHindi

Television