Bhumi Pednekar wiki : Bhumi Pednekar (born 18 July 1989) is an Indian film actress. After working as an assistant casting director at Yash Raj Films for six years, Pednekar made her acting debut with the starring role of an overweight bride in the company's 2015 romantic comedy Dum Laga Ke Haisha. Her performance was acclaimed and she was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
Pednekar rose to prominence in 2017 by playing headstrong women in two commercially successful comedy-dramas, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha and Shubh Mangal Saavdhan. The latter earned her a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.
Pednekar did her schooling from Arya Vidya Mandir in Juhu Mumbai. She was an assistant casting director for six years with Shanoo Sharma of Yash Raj Films before venturing into acting.
In 2018, Pednekar was featured by Forbes India in their 30 Under 30 list. Her first screen appearance that year was in Zoya Akhtar's segment in the Netflix anthology film Lust Stories (2018), in which she played a maid who has an affair with her employer. Writing for NDTV, Raja Sen considered Akhtar's segment to be the best among the four films in the anthology, and found Pednekar "hauntingly good" in it. Pednekar will next star opposite Sushant Singh Rajput in Abhishek Chaubey's crime film Sonchiriya, in which she plays a dacoit.She has also committed to feature in Takht, a historical drama directed by Karan Johar, which features an ensemble cast including Ranveer Singh, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal, Janhvi Kapoor, and Anil Kapoor.
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