Amrita was born to a Sikh family.

She is the daughter of Rukhsana Sultana, who was a political

activist and Shavinder Singh, who was an army officer.She is the granddaughter of The Hon
Bahadur Sir Sobha Singh, OBE, of Hadali, Sargodha.
Her maternal grandmother Zarina, was the elder sister of actor Begum Para, mother of
actor Ayub Khan. She was also the daughter of Mian Ehsan Ul Haque, who came from
a landowning family. He was a judge and the Chief Justice of the highest court in theprincely
state of Bikaner, northern Rajasthan. Through her father, she is a relative of novelist Khushwant
Singh and businessman SirSobha Singh of Naya Delhi.
She attended Modern School in New Delhi and is fluent in the
English, Punjabi and Hindi languages.[

19831993[edit]
Amrita made her Bollywood debut in 1983 with Betaab, a vastly successful film in which she was
paired with Sunny Deol. This was quickly followed by a succession of hits, such as: Sunny in
1984, Mard (which was the biggest hit of that year) and Saaheb in 1985, Chameli Ki
Shaadi and Naam in 1986, Khudgarz in 1987, etc. Amrita made a successful pair in several films
not only with Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dutt, but also with Anil Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan, two
leading actors of the 1980s.[5]
As well as playing leading roles, she also played supporting negative roles in films such as Raju
Ban Gaya Gentleman (1992) and Aaina (1993). She also won the Filmfare Best Supporting
Actress Award for the latter. These successes did not dissuade her from her resolve to retire into
family life and Amrita quit acting after 1993.

2002present[edit]
She returned to acting in 2002 with the film 23rd March 1931: Shaheed, in which she played the
mother of Bhagat Singh (played by Bobby Deol). Amrita Singh joined the television industry with
Ekta Kapoors family drama Kkavyanjali aired on Star Plus in 2005. Amrita was seen in a
negative role in the show that soon gained immense popularity.[6]Later that year, she won acclaim
for her performance in yet another negative role for the film Kalyug.
In 2007, Amrita played the role of the gangster Maya Dolas' mother, Ratnaprabha Dolas, in the
Sanjay Gupta film Shootout at Lokhandwala, directed by Apoorva Lakhia. Vivek Oberoi played
the role of Maya. Later on Amrita appeared in the anthology film Dus Kahaniyaan, where she
appeared in the short story Poornmasi.
Continuing her acting journey, Amrita played in the film Kajraare in 2010 and recently appeared
in Aurangzeb under the Yash Raj Films banner where she was paired with Jackie Shroff after
almost two decades.[7] In 2014 she was seen in the movie 2 States produced by Dharma
Productions portraying the role of co-actor Arjun Kapoor's mother. Film released on 18 April
2014.[8]