Amrita Puri

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Amrita Puri
Amrita Puri at '8th Annual Gemfields RioTinto Retail Jeweller India Awards 2012' meet 14.jpg
Puri in 2012
Born (1983-08-20) 20 August 1983 (age 40)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present
Spouse
Imrun Sethi
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(m. 2017)​
Parent Aditya Puri (father)

Amrita Puri (born 20 August 1983) is an Indian actress who mainly works in Hindi films and web shows. She made her acting debut with the romantic comedy-drama Aisha (2010), which earned her the Stardust Award for Breakthrough Performance – Female and also received Filmfare Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She had her first commercial success with the 2013 buddy sports drama Kai Po Che! .

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Puri received ITA Award for Best Actress Drama nomination, for her portrayal in the television show P.O.W. - Bandi Yuddh Ke (2016-2017). She has since appeared in the web series, Four More Shots Please! (2019), Jeet Ki Zid (2021), Ranjish Hi Sahi (2022) and the film Neeyat (2023).

Early life

Amrita Puri was born on Saturday, August 20, 1983 [1] [2] in Mumbai. Her father Aditya Puri, has been the MD of HDFC Bank. [3] She has a brother named Amit Puri. Puri said in an interview that after her graduation, her father made her work with O&M as a copywriter for a year. [4]

Career

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Puri at an event

Puri started her career through writing and doing theatre. [5]

Puri made her Bollywood film debut with Rajshree Ojha's Aisha in 2010. The ensemble romantic comedy-drama, co-starring Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Ira Dubey, Cyrus Sahukar, Anand Tiwari, Arunoday Singh and Lisa Haydon, saw Puri portray Shefali Thakur, a friend of Kapoor's eponymous lead. The film proved to be a semi-hit at the box-office and earned Puri two nominations at the 56th Filmfare Awards – Best Female Debut and Best Supporting Actress. After the moderate response of Aisha, Puri appeared opposite Kunal Khemu in Vishal Mahadkar's directorial debut—the crime thriller Blood Money (2012)—in which she portrayed the wife of Khemu's character.

Puri next appeared in Abhishek Kapoor's buddy drama Kai Po Che! (2013) alongside Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh and Rajkummar Rao. An adaptation of the novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life , she was cast as Vidya Bhatt, a district level cricketer's younger sister who falls in love with his best friend. Puri made her television debut with the series Stories by Rabindranath Tagore in 2015 in which she had an episodic role. In 2016, she portrayed the lead role of Harleen Kaur opposite Purab Kohli in the series P.O.W. - Bandi Yuddh Ke that aired on StarPlus and ended in 2017.

In 2019, she was a part of two web series – Four More Shots Please! as Kavya Arora and Made In Heaven as Devyani Singh. In 2021, she played the role of Maeher Saluja in the family drama short film Clean which premiered on Amazon Mini and received critical acclaim for her performance. In 2022, she played the lead role of Anju Bhatt in the web series Ranjish Hi Sahi on Voot along with Tahir Raj Bhasin and Amala Paul.

In 2023, she played a businessman's assistant in Anu Menon's mystery thriller Neeyat .

Personal life

Puri got engaged to her long time restaurateur boyfriend Imrun Sethi in November 2016. [6] Puri married Sethi in an intimate Anand Karaj ceremony in Bangkok, on 11 November 2017. [7] [8]

Filmography

Key
†Denotes films that have not yet been released

Films

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2010 Aisha Shefali Thakur [9]
2012 Blood Money Aarzoo Kadam
2013 Kai Po Che! Vidya Bhatt Patel [10]
2019 Judgementall Hai Kya Megha Kumar
SunoWifeShort film
2021CleanMaeher Saluja
2023 Neeyat Kamini Deb Patel (Kay) [11]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2015 Stories by Rabindranath Tagore CharulataEpisode: "Broken Nest" [12]
2016-2017 P.O.W. - Bandi Yuddh Ke Harleen Kaur [13]

Web series

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2019–present Four More Shots Please! Kavya Arora3 seasons [14]
2019 Made in Heaven Devyani SinghEpisode: "A Royal Affair"
2020 Mentalhood Anjali Patel
2021 Jeet Ki Zid Jaya Singh [15]
2022 Ranjish Hi Sahi Anju Bhatt [16]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
2011 56th Filmfare Awards Best Supporting Actress Aisha Nominated [17]
Best Female Debut Nominated
Screen Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated [18]
Stardust Awards Breakthrough Performance – Female Won [19]
Zee Cine Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Female Nominated [20]
2017 Indian Television Academy Awards Best Actress - Drama P.O.W. - Bandi Yuddh Ke Nominated [21]

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