Prachi Tehlan

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Prachi Tehlan
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Personal information
NationalityIndian
Born Delhi, India
Alma mater Montfort Senior Secondary School
Jesus & Mary College
University of Delhi
IMT Ghaziabad
Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Management Studies
GGSIPU, New Delhi
Occupation(s)Actress, basketball & netball player
Years active2016–present
Parents
  • Narender Kumar (father)
  • Poonam Tehlan (mother)
Website www.prachitehlan.com
Netball career
Playing position(s): GS, GA, WA
YearsClub team(s)Apps
2007–2011 Delhi
YearsNational team(s)Caps
2008–2011Flag of India.svg  India 24
Last updated: 12 December 2015
Medal record
Netball
Representing Flag of India.svg  India
South Asian Beach Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Hambantota

Prachi Tehlan is an Indian former netball and basketball player, and an actress. [1] Prachi is the former captain of the India national netball team which represented India in the 2010 Commonwealth Games and in other major Asian Championships in 2010-11. [2] Under her captaincy, the Indian team won its first medal in 2011 South Asian Beach Games. She has been given the title of “Queen of The Court” by The Times of India & “Lass of The Rings” by The Indian Express. She is the brand ambassador of Netball Development Trust India for 2011-2017.

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She made her acting debut in the TV series Diya Aur Baati Hum on Star Plus in January 2016. [3] [4] She made her film debut as Nimmy in the Punjabi film Arjan opposite Roshan Prince directed by Manduip Singh in 2017.

Early life and education

Tehlan did her schooling from Montfort Senior Secondary School, Delhi. She graduated in B.Com (Hons.) from Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi and completed her PG Diploma in Marketing Management from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. She had enrolled in Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Management Studies, GGSIP University, Delhi where she completed her Masters in Business Administration (HR and Marketing).

She has worked on various projects in Development Bank of Singapore, Deloitte, Accenture and 1800Sports.in. She is contributing to a project named UDAAN - Skills to Succeed for Mobilization, Training and Employment of youth from Jammu and Kashmir under National Skill Development Council, Delhi.

Sports career

She started her sports career with basketball playing at the national level while still in school. She was selected to attend the Indian Camp thrice in 2004, in Cuttack, Odisha.

Basketball

Netball

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Prachi in an event

Acting career

Prachi decided to accept an offer from Shashi Sumeet Productions and make her acting debut with side character role in the highly rated TV drama Diya Aur Baati Hum , on Star Plus channel in January 2016. She lost 15 kg (33 lbs) of weight to prepare for the role. [5] Prachi stated her reasons to put her sporting career on hold due to the lack of opportunities and sponsors for female players of netball and basketball in India. [6] In 2017, she played a leading actress role in the Punjabi movie Bailaras . She was last seen in Malayalam movie Mamangam (2019) [7] [8] [9] Tehlan was considered for one of the lead female roles in Ram opposite Mohanlal. [10]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleLanguageNotes
2017ArjanNimmy Punjabi
Bailaras Sonali
2019 Mamangam Unnimaya Malayalam
TBATrishanku [11] Nakshathra Telugu
TBA Ram TBA Malayalam

Television

YearShowRoleNotes
2016 Diya Aur Baati Hum Arzoo RathiTelevision debut
2017–2018 Ikyawann Susheel Parekhlead role
2019Band Baja Bandh Darwaza

Recognition

See also

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