Taapsee Pannu

It was critically acclaimed and proceeded to win six National Film Awards at the 58th National Film Awards.

Speaking about her role, a reviewer from Sify said: "Debutant Taapsee is a promising find and she suits the character of an Anglo-Indian girl to the T."

A remake of the eponymous 1981 film, it met with unanimous negative reviews but remerged a box-office success.

Tapasee Pannu (born 1 August 1987), known as Taapsee Pannu, is an Indian actress who works primarily in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil films.

She has received several awards, including two Filmfare Awards and a Filmfare OTT Award.

Taapsee Pannu was born on 1 August 1987 in New Delhi to a Jat Sikh family.

Her father, Dilmohan Singh Pannu, is a retired real estate agent while her mother, Nirmaljeet Kaur Pannu, is a homemaker.

She also has a younger sister, Shagun.

She did her schooling at the Mata Jai Kaur Public School in Ashok Vihar and studied Computer Science Engineering at the Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology.

After graduating, Pannu worked as a software engineer.

She became a full-time model after she auditioned and was selected for Channel V's 2008 talent show Get Gorgeous, which eventually led her to acting.

Pannu has been appearing in numerous print and television commercials and won several titles during her modelling days, including "Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Face" and "Safi Femina Miss Beautiful Skin" at the 2008 Femina Miss India contest.

As a model, she endorsed brands such as Reliance Trends, Red FM 93.5, UniStyle Image, Coca-Cola, Motorola, Pantaloon, PVR Cinemas, Standard Chartered Bank, Dabur, Airtel, Tata Docomo, World Gold Council, Havells and Vardhman.

After a few years, she lost interest in modelling as she thought that she could never gain proper recognition through modelling, but only through films, and finally decided to act.

After a brief modelling career, Pannu made her acting debut with the 2010 Telugu film Jhummandi Naadam and went on to act in the 2011 Tamil film Aadukalam.

Pannu made her cinematic debut in 2010 with K. Raghavendra Rao's Telugu romantic musical Jhummandi Naadam.

She played the role of the daughter of a USA–based millionaire who comes to India to research traditional Telugu music.

Pannu received three more offers in Telugu prior to the film's release.

Her next film Aadukalam (2011), marked her debut in Tamil cinema.

She played the role of an Anglo-Indian girl falling in love with a rural man played by Dhanush.

The film, set in the backdrop of Madurai, revolves around cockfights.

She returned to the Telugu film industry with Vastadu Naa Raju (2011), opposite Vishnu Manchu.

She made a foray into Malayalam cinema later that year, with Doubles (2011), opposite Mammootty and Nadiya Moidu.

Paresh C Palicha of Rediff commented: "Taapsee Pannu as Saira Banu, whose entry into the scene becomes the bone of contention between the siblings, has nothing noteworthy to do".

Pannu played a short role in her next release Mr. Perfect (2011) alongside Prabhas and Kajal Aggarwal.

She starred in a high-budget film titled Veera (2011), opposite Ravi Teja and Kajal Aggarwal, which received mixed reviews.

She was next seen in her second Tamil film Vandhaan Vendraan, that also received mixed reviews from critics and did not fare well commercially.

Her next film was Krishna Vamsi's Mogudu opposite Gopichand.

She garnered critical acclaim for her performance.

She worked on several Telugu films at this time including Gundello Godari, Daruvu, and Shadow.

In subsequent years, Pannu discussed being labelled an "unlucky charm" due to all of her films failing commercially.

She made her Hindi film debut with David Dhawan's comedy Chashme Baddoor (2013).

In 2013, Pannu made her Hindi film debut with David Dhawan's comedy Chashme Baddoor, co-starring Siddharth, Rishi Kapoor, Divyendu Sharma and Ali Zafar.

After playing the leading lady in several Telugu and Tamil films, Pannu gained notice for her performances in the Hindi spy thriller Baby (2015) and the courtroom drama Pink (2016), both of which were critical and commercial successes.

Pannu gained prominence in Hindi cinema with the war drama The Ghazi Attack (2017), the social drama Mulk (2018), the romantic drama Manmarziyaan (2018), the thriller Badla (2019), and the space drama Mission Mangal (2019).

For portraying the septuagenarian sharpshooter Prakashi Tomar in the biopic Saand Ki Aankh (2019), she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics), and for playing a homemaker going through a divorce in Anubhav Sinha's social drama Thappad (2020), she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

She has since starred in the streaming films Haseen Dillruba (2021), Rashmi Rocket (2021), and Looop Lapeta (2022).

Pannu had her highest-grossing release in the comedy-drama Dunki (2023).

Apart from acting, Pannu runs an event management company called The Wedding Factory.

She is also the owner of the badminton franchise Pune 7 Aces, which plays in the Premier Badminton League.