Editing Lara Dutta (section)

==Early life and background==
Dutta was born 16 April 1978<ref name="NDTV_Lara_Dutta">{{cite web |url=https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/inside-lara-duttas-40th-birthday-party-1838940 |title=Inside Lara Dutta's 40th Birthday Party |publisher=NDTV |access-date=14 December 2018 |date=17 April 2018 |first=Shruti |last=Shiksha |archive-date=15 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215022126/https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/inside-lara-duttas-40th-birthday-party-1838940 |url-status=live}}</ref> to a Hindu Punjabi father and an [[Anglo-Indian]] mother in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.<ref name="Seetharamaiah">{{cite news |last=Seetharamaiah |first=K.V.|title=Lara's culmination of a dream |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/laras-culmination-of-a-dream/articleshow/47846125.cms?referral=PM |work=The Times of India |date=29 May 2003 |access-date=4 April 2014 |archive-date=29 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029171906/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Laras-culmination-of-a-dream/articleshow/47846125.cms?referral=PM |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://wonderwoman.intoday.in/story/what-makes-lara-dutta-the-it-girl/1/88100.html |title=What makes Lara Dutta the 'It' girl |website=wonderwoman.intoday.in |access-date=23 January 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304130923/http://wonderwoman.intoday.in/story/what-makes-lara-dutta-the-it-girl/1/88100.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> Her father is [[Wing commander (rank)|Wing Commander]] L. K. Dutta (retired) and her mother is Jennifer Maureen Dutta (née Storey).<ref>{{cite web |author=Padma Subba Rao |url=https://english.newstracklive.com/ampnews/unknown-facts-and-throwback-pictures-of-lara-dutta-on-occasion-of-her-birthdaypics-inside-sc-nu-1006983-1.html |title=Facts and throwback pictures of Lara Dutta on the occasion of her birthday. |date=16 April 2019 |access-date=16 April 2020 |archive-date=12 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012042626/https://english.newstracklive.com/ampnews/unknown-facts-and-throwback-pictures-of-lara-dutta-on-occasion-of-her-birthdaypics-inside-sc-nu-1006983-1.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mid-day.com/specials/2011/may/080511-jennifer-dutta-lara-dutta-mothers-day.htm |website=mid-day.com |title=We are a simple middle-class family |access-date=23 January 2016 |archive-date=25 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131125203218/http://www.mid-day.com/specials/2011/may/080511-jennifer-dutta-lara-dutta-mothers-day.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Nitin Sawhney]], who is a music composer and DJ is Dutta's cousin.<ref name="ns">{{cite web |url=http://sl2uk.com/content/nitinsawhney.shtml |title=Political Animal, Musical Genius, Healing potion&nbsp;— Nitin Sawhney |website=s12uk.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218222956/http://sl2uk.com/content/nitinsawhney.shtml |archive-date=18 February 2007 |access-date=23 January 2016}}</ref>

Dutta moved to [[Bengaluru]] in 1981 where she completed high school at the St. Francis Xavier Girls' High School and Frank Anthony Public School. She graduated with a degree in economics and a minor in communications from the [[University of Mumbai]].<ref name="IndiaToday">{{cite web |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/beauty-pageant-1026148-2017-07-25 |title=From Sushmita Sen to Diana Hayden, see how educated your favourite Indian beauty pageant winners are |work=India Times |date=25 July 2017 |access-date=19 April 2018 |archive-date=30 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330141206/https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/beauty-pageant-1026148-2017-07-25 |url-status=live}}</ref> She is fluent in English and [[Hindi]] and can also speak [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] and [[Kannada]].<ref name="IndiaToday" />