Simi Garewal (born 1947) is an Indian Hindi movie actress. Born in India, to a Garewal family, her father was a brigadier in the army. This sophisticate spent much of her earlier life abroad. Born to a brigadier father, Simi was shunted to London when she was barely six years old and stayed in the foggy city till she completed her O levels. But the early exposure to Hindi films had already won a convert. Simi remembers seeing the Raj Kapoor classic Awara when she was just five and says it "blew my mind". Her father wanted her to study drama but a determined Simi, who was still in her teens, was keen on coming to India. Her father capitulated after she threatened to go on a hunger fast. In the early 1960s, Simi came down to India with her mother with little more than a working ...By Neetal» read full biography