Shruti Sharma (actress)

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Shruti Sharma
OccupationActress
Years active2018–present
Known for Gathbandhan

Shruti Sharma is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi television. She started her career as a contestant on the reality show India's Next Superstars in 2018 and then made her acting debut on television in 2019 with Gathbandhan where she played IPS Dhanak Parekh. [1] Sharma made her film debut with the Telugu film Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya (2019) and made her Hindi film debut with Pagglait (2021). She also played the dual role of Kahani Verma and Satya Singh Verma in Namak Issk Ka . [2] In 2024, she earned praises for her portrayal in Heeramandi (2024).

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Career

Sharma entered Hindi television as a participant in India's Next Superstars in 2018 and emerged as the "Third Superstar". [3] The same year she made her web debut with the YouTube web series Blockbuster Zindagi alongside Aakarshit Gupta. She appeared in a music video, Main Hua Tera alongside Avitesh Shrivastava in 2018.[ citation needed ]

She made her acting debut in January 2019 with the television show, Gathbandhan where she played the role of IPS Dhanak Parekh, a police officer who marries a don opposite Abrar Qazi. The show went off-air in November 2019. Sharma made her film debut with the 2019 Telugu film Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya opposite Naveen Polishetty in the role of assistant detective. [4] It received positive reviews from the critics, and was successful at the box office. [5]

In 2020, Sharma played the lead role of Daivik Palak Verma Chaudhary in supernatural series Nazar 2 opposite Sheezan Mohammed. It ended early due to the situation of Covid-19. [6] She then played Shayari Choudhary alongside Shehzada Dhami in Yehh Jadu Hai Jinn Ka! the same year. In November 2020, she starred in Namak Issk Ka portraying the double role of Kahani Verma/Chamcham and Satya Verma opposite Aditya Ojha. The show went off-air in August 2021. [7]

Sharma made her Hindi film debut with Sanya Malhotra's Pagglait in 2021. She played the role of Nazia Zaidi. It received mixed to positive reviews. [8]

In 2024, Sharma made her web debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Heeramandi , playing Saima, a maid. Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express termed her performance "spot on". [9] Sukanya Verma noted, "Shruti Sharma's Saima fares a lot better than Alamzeb." [10] In the same year earlier, Sharma made her Arabic-language debut in an Emirati historical drama web-series named Al-Boom (Arabic  : البوم) which is based during the Second World War period. She plays a woman named Tarannum who hails from Calicut and she makes her appearance starting from the seventh episode onward. This was her first international web-series as well. However, all her scenes and dialogues in that web-series are in English.

Filmography

Films

Key
Denotes films that have not yet been released
YearTitleRoleLanguageRef
2019 Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya Sneha Raghuvanshi Telugu [11]
2021 Pagglait Nazia Zaidi Hindi [12]
TBACheersMadhu[ citation needed ]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2018 India's Next Superstars ContestantSecond Winner [13]
2019 Gathbandhan ACP Dhanak Parekh Jadhav [14]
2020 Nazar Daivik Palak Verma ChaudharySeason 2 [15]
Yehh Jadu Hai Jinn Ka! Shayari Choudhary [16]
Bigg Boss 14 Kahani VermaTo promote Namak Issk ka [ citation needed ]
2020–2021 Namak Issk ka Kahani Yug Pratap Rajput / Chamcham Rani[ citation needed ]
2021Satya Singh Verma [17]

Web series

YearTitleRoleRef.
2018Blockbuster ZindagiUnknown[ citation needed ]
2024Al-BoomTarannumArabic-language Emirati web-series
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar Saima

Music videos

YearTitleSinger(s)Ref.
2018Main Hua TeraAvitesh Shrivastava[ citation needed ]
2023Tanha DilSiddharth Saxena[ citation needed ]
2024Kinni Soni Darshan Raval [18]

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References

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