Amrita Puri

Amrita Puri (born 20 August 1983) is an Indian actress. She made her film debut with the ensemble romantic comedy-drama Aisha (2010), which earned her Filmfare nominations for Best Female Debut and Best Supporting Actress. Puri had her first commercial success three years later with the male buddy film Kai Po Che! (2013).

Amrita Puri
Amrita Puri at '8th Annual Gemfields Rio Tinto Retail Jeweller India Awards 2012' meet
Born (1983-08-20) 20 August 1983
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
OccupationActress
Years active2010-present
Spouse(s)Imrun Sethi (m.2017)

Career

After completing her post-graduation, Puri started her career through writing and doing theatre, with her first play being Quasar Thakore Padamsee's English play Retellings View From The Stage.[1] For a year she did copywriting for advertising agency Ogilvy along with freelancing for lifestyle magazine.[2] After getting her portfolio done by Dilip Bhatia, she started auditioning for movies and ad films. Soon she did her first ad for Kotex and later featured in ads and TV commercials for several brands, including People First, Garnier and L'Oreal.[1][3]

Bollywood debut and other roles (2010—13)

After few auditions for many films, Puri made her Bollywood film debut with Rajshree Ojha's Aisha (2010). The ensemble romantic comedy, 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, as well as her performance, received mostly positive reviews, but with worldwide earnings of ₹28.65 crore (US$4.1 million) on a budget of ₹19 crore (US$2.7 million), the film proved to be a semi-hit at the box-office but earned Puri 2 nominations at the 55th 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. The film received mixed response from critics, and had a worldwide gross of ₹120 million (US$1.7 million) on a budget of ₹90 million (US$1.3 million), thus becoming an "below average grosser". 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. The film proved to be a critical and commercial success with earnings of over ₹900 million (US$13 million) in worldwide ticket sales.

Television works (2015–2019)

Puri made her television debut with the series Stories by Rabindranath Tagore (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 Star Plus. The show ended in 2017. In 2019, she was part of two web series – Four More Shots Please! (in which she played a supporting role) and Made In Heaven (in which she had an episodic role).

Personal life

She is the daughter of Aditya Puri, MD of HDFC Bank.[4] She resides in Mumbai, India and is married to Mumbai-based Imrun Sethi.[5]

Filmography
Puri at the success Party of the film The Forest
YearTitleCharacterNotes
2010 Aisha Shefali Thakur
2012 Blood Money Aarzoo Kadam
2013 Kai Po Che! Vidya Bhatt
2019 Judgementall Hai Kya Megha Kumar
202183 Vidya Srikkanth TBA
2022Ek Aur Ghazab Kahani Priya Malhotra 18 Feb 2022
with Arjun Kapoor, Aditya Seal and Alaya Furniturewalla

Television

Awards & Nominations
YearTitle of workAwardCategoryResult
2010AishaStardust AwardsBest Breakthrough Performance AwardWon
Filmfare AwardsBest Supporting ActressNominated
Best Female DebutNominated
Zee Cine AwardsBest Supporting ActressNominated
Screen AwardsBest Supporting ActressNominated

References
  1. "My Character Has Been Fleshed Out Much More Than In Emma". RealBollywood.com. 5 August 2010. Archived from the original on 6 August 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
  2. "Abhay is a fab co-star: Amrita Puri". The Times of India. 7 July 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
  3. "It's raining newcomers in Bollywood". India Tribune. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
  4. "Life is not all about success & money: Aditya". Economic Times. 5 September 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
  5. "Inside Amrita Puri And Imrun Sethi's Bangkok Wedding". NDTV.com.
  6. "Amrita Puri in Made in Heaven web series - TheDigitalHash". 30 November 2017.
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