Amitabh Bachchan heaps praises on Preity Zinta

MUMBAI, June 20:Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says he admires actress Preity Zinta for the drive and guts with which she has managed her career all alone.The 69-year-old actor recently attended a party thrown by the French embassy in honour of Isabelle Adjani, who is playing a prominent role with Preity in her debut production venture �Ishkq In Paris�.�Preity Zinta produces and acts in a film which also has in its cast the beautiful Isabelle Adjani from France. Isabelle is in town for its shoot and Preity invites us for a party at the Sofitel Hotel, hosted by the French Ambassador, to meet the lovely lady.�It�s a quiet dignified evening, and because I am fond of Preity, I go along for precisely 10 minutes, to wish her and her guest,� he posted on his blog.Bachchan, who has shared screen space with Preity in films like �Veer-Zara� and �Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna�, said he is bowled over by her guts, the way she has managed her career so far without any help and survived in the showbiz business.�I have always admired Preity for her drive and guts in a world that can be most cruel to a single girl. But just look at the way she has managed her career, all alone, without any traditional assistance from the Industry.�She is frank and painfully honest and outspoken to the �o�, and that is an admirable quality, for a girl that had to face some rather tragic and unfortunate events very early in her life,� he added.The 37-year-old actress is the founder of the production company PZNZ Media and the co-owner of IPL team Kings XI Punjab. Bachchan praised her for playing the role of a businesswoman perfectly.�She put her hand into business, knew nothing about it, but was determined to educate herself. So she went across to USA for a short course in business management at a prestigious college and came back wiser, educated and a lot more confident and not for a moment keeping too far away from her profession of choice � films.� (PTI)