Bhumi Pednekar

Bhumi Pednekar worked as a casting assistant at Yash Raj Films before they cast her, and she debuted in Dum Laga Ke Haisha having gained a significant amount of weight for the part, an unusually unvain way to enter an industry obsessed with the opposite. It signalled the kind of actress she wanted to be.

She built a run on socially-pointed mainstream films: sanitation in Toilet Ek Prem Katha, elderly sharpshooters in Saand Ki Aankh, a lavender marriage in Badhaai Do. The pattern is deliberate, an actress choosing subject over spectacle more often than not, even when the films themselves are uneven.

Off screen she is a committed climate campaigner and a steady presence on the Mumbai event circuit. The paparazzi know where to find her, and our cameras count her a regular.

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