
Simran has two younger sisters, Monal and Jyothi Anand, and a younger brother Sumeet Naval. Simran was born as Rishibala Naval on 4 April 1976 to Punjabi parents in Mumbai her father is Ashok Naval and mother is Sharda Naval. In 2008, she made a comeback to Tamil cinema with Vaaranam Aayiram, where she played the role of a mother and a wife to the characters played by Suriya and won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.

At the peak of her career, following the success of the 2004 sci fi film New, Simran left the film industry in consequence of her marriage with her childhood family friend Deepak Bagga. For the latter two, she received Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actress nominations. In Telugu, Simran starred in a series of commercially successful films Samarasimha Reddy (1999), Kalisundam Raa (2000) and Narasimha Naidu (2001). In 2002, Simran played the mother of an adopted 9-year-old daughter in Kannathil Muthamittal and received her first Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress the following year The same year she also appeared in two blockbuster comedy films Pammal K. In 1998, Rediff has called her "one of Tamil cinema's top female draws." In 1999, she was featured in Forbes Magazine as the most prolific actress with diverse portfolio from the Indian sub continent. At the peak of her career she agreed to play the role of an antagonist in Parthen Rasithen (2000) and a family girl who falls in premarital agreement in Priyamaanavale (2000), both went on to become commercial and critical successes. In 1999, Simran received critical praise in the Tamil films Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1999) and Vaali (1999), establishing herself as the most successful actress in Tamil cinema at that time.

(1997) and was followed by a string of commercial successes in her early career. In the same year, she debuted in Tamil through V.

Subsequently, she made her debut in South Indian cinema through the Malayalam film Indraprastham (1996) and Kannada film Simhada Mari (1997). Having acted in a few Hindi films, she later achieved her first success with Tere Mere Sapne (1996).

Simran accepted offers to join the Indian film industry, which came as a result of her fame as an anchor in the show Superhit Muqabla. In her long film career, she has won three Filmfare Awards South, one Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress, four Cinema Express Awards, two Kalaimamani Awards, and several other awards and nominations. She is considered to be one of the most versatile actress of her period and well noted for her dancing skills as well. Rishibala Naval Bagga ( née Naval, born 4 April 1976), known mononymously as Simran is an Indian actress who works predominately in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi-language films.
