Bhumi Pednekar (born 18 July 1989) is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films. After working as an assistant castingdirector at Yash Raj Films for six years, she made her film debut as an overweight bride in the company’s romantic comedyDum Laga Ke Haisha (2015), which earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
Pednekar rose to prominence by playing headstrong small-town women in the comedy-dramas Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017),Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (2017), Sonchiriya (2019), Bala (2019), and Pati Patni Aur Woh (2019). For her portrayal of theseptuagenarian sharpshooter Chandro Tomar in Saand Ki Aankh (2019), she shared the Filmfare Critics Award for BestActress, along with Taapsee Pannu.
Bhumi Pednekar Biography :
- Full Name :Bhumi Pednekar
- Profession : Actress
- Hight : 5 Foot 3 Inch
- Weight : 60 kg
- Figure Measurements :34-28-36
- Date Of Birth : 18 Jully 1989
- Birth Place :Mumbai Maharashtra,India
- Hometown :Mumbai Maharashtra,India
- School : Arya Vidyamandir School Juhu, Mumbai
- Collage : University Of Mumbai
- Qulification :B.com
- Religion : Hinduism
- Nationalism : Indian
- Hobbies : Reading,Yoga
- Eye Colour : Brown
- Hair Colour : Black
- Marital Status :Unmarried
- Zodiac sign :Cancer
Eealy Life :
Pednekar was born in Bombay (present-day Mumbai) on 18 July 1989. She is of Marathi and Haryanvi descent; her father,Satish, was a former home and labour minister of Maharashtra, and her mother, Sumitra, worked as an anti-tobacco activistafter the death of her husband from oral cancer. She did her schooling from Arya Vidya Mandir in Juhu. At the age of 15, herparents took out a study loan for her to study acting at Whistling Woods International, but she was expelled due to poorattendance. Within a year and a half, she joined Yash Raj Films as an assistant film director, and paid off the loan. She went onto work with the company for six years under Shanoo Sharma.
Bollywood Career :
Pednekar made her acting debut with Sharat Katariya’s romantic comedy Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015). Starring oppositeAyushmann Khurrana, she featured as Sandhya, an overweight woman who marries Khurrana’s character. In preparation for therole, Pednekar gained close to 12 kg, despite being slightly overweight before filming commenced. Rajeev Masand reviewed,”Pednekar steals the film with an assured turn, effortlessly making you care for Sandhya, without ever reducing her to aslobbering, self-pitying caricature.” After filming, she began losing weight and shared methods and tips of the process throughher social media.She lost significant weight before the release of the film. The film proved to be a sleeper hit, and Pednekarwon the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.That same year, Pednekar appeared in Y-Films’s mini web-series Man’s World. The four-part series about gender inequalitywas digitally premiered on YouTube. After a year-long absence from the screen, Pednekar appeared in the social problemfilm Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017), alongside Akshay Kumar, which tells the story of a young woman in rural India who insists onthe eradication of open defecation.
Despite disliking the picture, Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV praised Pednekar for “flesh[ing] out a refreshingly relatable college topper who becomes the principal catalyst for a mini-revolution”. With a worldwide gross ofover ₹3 billion (US$42 million), it emerged as one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time.Pednekar followed the success of Toilet: Ek Prem Katha with Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (2017), a satire on erectile dysfunction,which reunited her with Khurrana. Reviewing the film for The Indian Express, Shubhra Gupta wrote that Pednekar “once again reminds us just how convincing she can be as a real honest-to-goodness young woman in search of love”, but bemoaned thatshe was being typecast in such roles. It earned over ₹790 million (US$11 million) against its ₹250 million (US$3.5 million)budget to emerge as a commercial success, and garnered Pednekar a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. Hersole screen appearance of 2018 was in Zoya Akhtar’s segment in the Netflix anthology film Lust Stories (2018), in which sheplayed a maid who has an affair with her employer. Writing for NDTV, Raja Sen considered Akhtar’s segment to be the best among the four films in the anthology, and found Pednekar “hauntingly good” in it.
Rise to prominence (2019–present)Pednekar at the 2019 Screen Awards Abhishek Chaubey’s crime drama Sonchiriya was Pednekar’s first release of 2019. She played a young housewife on the run inrural Chambal, alongside Sushant Singh Rajput and Manoj Bajpayee. In preparation, she underwent two and a half months ofphysical training to portray her character’s mannerism and gait; she also learned to fire a gun.
Rahul Desai of Film Companionpraised the subtlety in the film and its performances, and credited Pednekar for “lend[ing] an inevitable sense of womanhoodto the silenced”. She next starred as the septuagenarian sharpshooter Chandro Tomar in Tushar Hiranandani’s biographicalfilm Saand Ki Aankh, opposite Taapsee Pannu who played her sister-in-law Prakashi Tomar. In preparation, Pannu andPednekar spent time with the two women and trained in shooting a gun. She suffered from skin allergies from filming in theheat wearing prosthetic make-up. Udita Jhunjunwala of Mint wrote, “Pannu and Pednekar are wonderful and spunky andembrace their parts even though their body language and posture is variable”. Both actresses were jointly awarded the ScreenAward and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.
Continuing her portrayals of headstrong small-town women, Pednekar starred in Bala and Pati Patni Aur Woh (both 2019). Theformer marked her third collaboration with Khurrana, in which she played a dark-skinned woman who faces prejudice due toher skin colour. Controversy arose for casting a fair-skinned woman in the role, but Pednekar defended herself by saying thatan actor should be allowed to play any part. Pati Patni Aur Woh, a remake of a 1978 film of the same name and co-starringKartik Aaryan and Ananya Panday, featured her as a housewife with a philandering husband. Anupama Chopra wrote that “it’sBhumi Pednekar’s spirited Vedika who lifts the material up a notch. Bhumi has an intelligence that rescues some of the silliestscenes in this film, especially in the climax.” Both Bala and Pati Patni Aur Woh were commercially successful, each grossingover ₹1 billion (US$14 million) worldwide.Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare, an Alankrita Shrivastava directorial and co-starring Konkona Sen Sharma, was screenedat the 24th Busan International Film Festival in 2019 and released on Netflix later in September 2020. Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.
in wrote that despite doing a “fine job”, Pednekar had been overshadowed by her co-star Sen Sharma. Also in 2020,Pednekar had brief roles in the comedy-drama Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan and the horror film Bhoot – Part One: TheHaunted Ship. The same year, Amazon Prime Video streamed Durgamati: The Myth online, which was an adaptation of theTelugu horror thriller Bhaagamathie and saw her portray an IAS officer. It was helmed by G. Ashok and produced by AkshayKumar and T-Series.Pednekar has completed shoot with Rajkummar Rao for Badhaai Do, a spiritual sequel to the 2018 comedy Badhaai Ho. Shehas also committed to star in Karan Johar’s historical war period film Takht, alongside an ensemble cast of Ranveer Singh,Vicky Kaushal, Anil Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Janhvi Kapoor. In March 2021, she will start Shashank Khaitan’sspy comedy Mr. Lele produced by Johar, alongside Kaushal and Kiara Advani.
Bhumi Pednekar Films :
Title | Role | Year |
Dum Laga Ke Haisha | Sandhya Varma | 2015 |
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha Shubh Mangal Saavdhan | Jaya Joshi Sugandha Joshi | 2017 |
Lust Stories | Sudha | 2018 |
Sonchiriya Saand Ki Aankh Bala Pati Patni Aur Woh | Indumati Tomar Chandro Tomar Latika Trivedi Vedika Tripathi | 2019 |
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare Durgamati | Devika Sapna Kajal “Kitty” IAS Chanchal Singh Chauhan | 2020 |
Badhaai Do dagger TBA | Sumi Not yet been released | 2021 |
Award And Nomination Bhumi Pednekar :
Year | Film | Award | Category | Result |
2016 | Dum Laga Ke Haisha | Filmfare Awards Producers Guild Film Awards Screen Awards Zee Cine Awards Stardust Awards BIG Star Entertainment Awards International Indian Film Academy Awards | Best Female Debut Best Female Debut Best Female Debut Best Female Debut Superstar of Tomorrow – Female Most Entertaining Actor in a Social Role Best Female Debut | Won Won Won Won Won Won |
2017 | Toilet: Ek Prem Katha Shubh Mangal Saavdhan | Zee Cine Awards Screen Awards Filmfare Awards News18 Reel Movie Awards International Indian Film Academy Awards | Best Actor – Female Best Actor – Female Best Actress Best Actress Best Actress | Nominated Nominated Nominated Nominated Nominated |
2020 | Saand Ki Aankh Sonchiriya | Filmfare Awards Screen Awards Zee Cine Awards Filmfare Awards | Critics Award for Best Actress Critics Award for Best Actress Best Actress Critics Award for Best Actress | Won Won Nominated Nominated |
2021 | Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare | Nominated |