The first Indian to win the Miss Asia Pacific Pageant is now all set to hit the silver screen with her maiden movie 'Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein' which is all set to be released in the city on the 19th of this month. Madhavan the southern heart-throb is also making his entry into Bollywood with 'RHTDM'.

She loves poetry and painting. Her eyes would easily catch anybody's attention. The eyes she’s inherited from her mother. And her complexion and the colour of her hair are both a legacy of her German father, whom she lost when she was nine. 

Mamma, her role model ever, has been her best friend through it all, guiding her to value ethics and truth more than superficial beauty. 

The premature Hyderabad baby grew up among the sandpaper and paint of her interior designer father’s workshop. Watched at six as her parents separated. But soon, she had a new father who helped her settle in her new and very different home.

Diya Mirza studied in Vidyaranya and Nasr school. After her first board exams, a bored Diya took up a summer job with a computer firm. When school began again, she was offered a freelance marketing job with the firm, an experience that she says helped her tremendously. Soon after, she bagged modeling assignments like Emami Naturally Fair and Lipton’s Yellow Label Tea. 

Diya Mirza,who stays in Khairatabad is the second girl from Hyderabad to win an International beauty pageant. Diana Hayden from Mettiguda was the first Hyderabad girl to win an International beauty pageant when she was crowned Miss World in 1997.

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-October'2001