Alankrita Sahai

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Alankrita Sahai
Alankrita Sahai at the launch of Himesh Reshammiya & Lulia Vantur's album 'Aap Se Mausiiquii' (cropped).jpg
Sahai in 2016
Born (1994-04-14) 14 April 1994 (age 30)
New Delhi, India
Education Gargi College
University of Southern California
OccupationActress
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

Alankrita Sahai (born 14 April 1994) is an Indian model, actress and beauty pageant titleholder as Miss India Earth 2014. [1]

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Early life and career

Alankrita Sahai was born in New Delhi, India. She did her schooling from the American Embassy School in Delhi and from Khaitan Public School, Noida. For her higher studies she was enrolled in Gargi College, University of Delhi and University of Southern California. [2]

Her first project was with Himesh Reshammiya in a music album launched by Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan and T-Series.[ citation needed ] She worked in a psychological thriller 'The Incomplete Man' in 2022. [3]

She is the first Indian to win 7 titles at the Miss Earth pageant held in the Philippines. In 2018, she made her acting debut with the Netflix romantic comedy film called Love per Square Foot . In the same year, she played a role of Alisha in the film Namaste England . Alankrita completed two films a comedy thriller TIPPPSY and A South Film (unnamed). [4]

Filmography

Film

YearFilmRoleDirectorNotes
2018 Love per Square Foot Raashi Khurrana Anand Tiwari Netflix movie
Debut film
Namaste England Alisha Sharma Vipul Shah

Tipppsy 2023

Incomplete man 2023

Music videos

YearAlbumSongCo-Star
2016 Aap Se Mausiiquii "Menu Kehn De"

So much in love Tonight

Himesh Reshammiya

Coka - Sukh E Musical Doctorz

Allah Ve - Jassi Gill

Lalala- Kulwinder Billa

Raaz Apne Dil Ke - Rekha Bhardwaj

Funk Billo - Sukh E ft Musahib

P Paa K - Denny And Nikita Gandhi Attention -Denny And Mandy Gill

Philanthropy

Sahai assisted people during Covid-19 by providing Oxygen cylinders and food supplies. [5] [6]

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References

  1. "Alankrita Sahai to represent India at Miss Earth 2014 - Beauty Pageants - Indiatimes". Femina Miss India.
  2. "Alankrita Sahai - Contestants 2014". The Times of India . Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  3. "Alankrita Sahai to star in psychological thriller 'The Incomplete Man' with Warina Hussain and Sharib Hashmi". Free Press Journal.
  4. Bhatnagar, Rohit (12 February 2018). "Alankrita Sahai on her debut film Love Per Square Foot: I love the camera". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  5. "I plan to take social work to other cities as well: Alankrita Sahai". Hindustan Times. 26 November 2021.
  6. "Alankrita Sahai on #oxygenshortage: It is infuriating to see people charging exorbitant price for oxygen, they should be ashamed". Hindustan Times. 4 May 2021.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Miss Earth India
2014
Succeeded by
Preceded by Miss Diva
1st Runner Up

2014
Succeeded by
Natasha Assadi