Yami Gautam (born 28 November 1988) is Bollywood actress who predominantly appears in Hindi films. Gautam came to prominence after starring in a series of Fair & Lovely commercials. She later starred in television shows such as Chand Ke Paar Chalo (2008-2009) and Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam (2009-2010). Following this, she appeared in several South Indian films.
Yami Gautam Started Bollywood career in 2012 with the comedy Vicky Donor, which was a critical and commercial success. For her performance, she received praise as well as nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
She went on to star as a young wife in the crime film Badlapur (2015), and a blind woman in the thriller Kaabil (2017). In 2019, she starred as an intelligence officer in the war film Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019), one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films, and gained critical acclaim for playing a TikTok star in the satire Bala (2019) and also won Star screen awards.
Biography of Yami Gautam :
Yami Gautam was born in a Hindu family in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh and was brought up in Chandigarh. Her father Mukesh Gautam is a Punjabi film director. Her mother is Anjali Gautam. Yami has a younger sister Surilie Gautam, who made her big screen debut with the Punjabi film Power Cut. She did her regular schooling, and later entered college to complete a graduate degree in law honours.
She had aspired to join Indian Administrative Services (IAS) as a young girl, but at the age of 20, Yami decided to start her acting career. Although she was pursuing studies in Law Honors (first-year PU Student of law), she left full-time studies for acting. Recently, she has been doing her part-time graduation from Mumbai. Yami Gautam is interested of reading, interior decoration and listening to music.
Bollywood Career :
In 2009 she debuted in Kannada Launguage film Ullasa Utsaha with Ganesh which is average at the Box-office, After making her Kannada debut, Yami Gautam start her Bollywood career with a leading role in Shoojit Sircar’s romantic comedy-drama Vicky Donor (2012). With Ayushmann Khurrana and Annu Kapoor, she portrayed Ashima Roy, a Bengali woman who falls in love with a Punjabi Boy (Ayushman) and gets to know about his past after marriage. This film is John Abraham’s First film as a Producer , received positive reviews from critics and proved to be a major commercial success and one of the highest-grossing films of the year with worldwide grossing of rs.645 million (US$3.9 million). For her first film performance, Yami Gautam received critical acclaim as well as several awards and nominations, including the Best Female Debut (tied with Ileana D’Cruz for Barfi!) trophy at the Zee Cine Awards, and a nomination under the same category at the 58th Filmfare Awards.
After a two-year absence from Bollywood films, Yami Gautam returned in 2014 and appeared in two films, the first of which was Eeshwar Nivas’s romantic comedy film Total Siyappa, with Ali Zafar, Anupam Kher, and Kirron Kher, in which she played the love interest of Ali’s character. Yami Gautam’s second Bollywood release that year was Prabhu Deva’s action thriller Action Jackson, in which Ajay Devgn portrayed a dual role, while she and Sonakshi Sinha featured as the love interests of his characters. Both Total Siyappa and Action Jackson under-performed at the box office.
In 2015, Yami Gautam appeared alongside Varun Dhawan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Sriram Raghavan’s action thriller Badlapur. The film, which focuses on the story of a man (Raghu, played by Dhawan) who over the course of 15 years avenges the murder of his wife Misha(Yami) and son, emerged as a critical and commercial success, collecting rs. 770 million (US$11 million) worldwide despite earning negative reviews. Gautam’s performance was praised.
In 2016, Yami Gautam played Pulkit Samrat’s love interest in two romances–Divya Khosla Kumar’s Sanam Re and Vivek Agnihotri’s Junooniyat. In the former, she played a high-school girl who falls in love with Samrat’s character, and in the latter, she portrayed a Punjabi girl who falls in love with an army officer (Samrat). Both Sanam Re and Junooniyat were commercial failures.
In 2017, Yami Gautam collaborated with Hrithik Roshan on Sanjay Gupta’s revengeful romantic thriller Kaabil , which tells the story of a blind man who avenges the rape of his blind wife. The film, as well as her performance, received mixed reviews and the film emerged as financial success, earning rs. 1.96 billion (US$28 million) worldwide.
Later in 2017, Yami Gautam seen briefly in Ram Gopal Varma’s political thriller Sarkar 3, the third installment of Ram Gopal Varma’s Sarkar franchise, alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Manoj Bajpayee, and Amit Sadh. Sarkar 3 failed to do well at the box office. Yami Gautam’s next film was the Shree Narayan Singh directed-social problem drama Batti Gul Meter Chalu (2018), in which she played a lawyer alongside Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, and Divyendu Sharma. This film was also box-oofice disaster.
Yami Gautam’s greatest success came in 2019 when she appeared in Aditya Dhar’s military action thriller film Uri: The Surgical Strike, with Vicky Kaushal, Paresh Rawal, Mohit Raina, and Kirti Kulhari. Based on the 2016 Uri attack, Yami play Pallavi Sharma, a nurse-turned-an intelligence officer. After release, the film received mixed reviews and emerged as one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time, grossing over rs. 3.36 billion (US$54 million) worldwide. Her performance was critically praised.
She rejoined again with Ayushmann in Amar Kaushik’s comedy-drama Bala, a satire on physical attractiveness, which was released on 7th November 2019. The Movie was released and emerged as a commercial success and the performance of Yami Gautam as Pari was praised by critics. Also won Best supporting actress star screen awards. As of January 2020, Yami Gautam has one upcoming film. She is currently doing a film known as Ginny Weds Sunny opposite Vikrant Massey directer is debutant Puneet Khanna and producer is Vinod Bachchan.
Television career :
Yami Gautam was twenty Year old when she moved to Mumbai to pursue a career in movies. She made her television career with Chand Ke Paar Chalo, which was followed by Raajkumar Aaryyan. Following this, she played her most notable role in Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam, which shown on Colors. Afterthat, she participated in the reality shows Meethi Choori No. 1 and Kitchen Champion Season 1.
List of Bollywood film of Yami Gautam :
Film Name | Year | Role Name | Director | Note Related to the film |
Ullasa Utsaha | 2009 | Mahalakshmi | Devaraja Palan | Kannada Film |
Ek Noor | 2011 | Rabiha | Punjabi Film | |
Nuvvila | Archana | Ravi Babu | Telugu | |
Vicky Donor | 2012 | Ashima Roy | Soojit Sirkar | Hindi |
Hero | Gauri Menon | Diphan | Malayalam | |
Gouravam | 2013 | Yazhini | Radha Mohan | Tamil |
Yuddham | Madhumita | Bharathi Ganesh | Telugu | |
Total Siyapaa | 2014 | Asha | Eeshwar Nivas | Hindi |
Action Jackson | Anusha | Prabhu Deva | Hindi | |
Badlapur | 2015 | Misha Verma | Shree Ram Raghavan | Hindi |
Courier Boy Kalyan | Kavya | Premsai | Telugu | |
Sanam Re | 2016 | Shruti | Divya Khosla Kumar | Hindi |
Junooniyat | Suhani Kapoor | Vivek Agnihotri | Hindi | |
Tamilselvanum Thaniyar Anjalum | Anjalum | Premsai | Tamil | |
Kaabil | 2017 | Supriya Bhatnagar | Sanjay Gupta | Hindi |
Sarkar 3 | Annu Karkare | Ram Gopal Varma | Hindi/Marathi | |
Batti Gul Meter Chalu | 2018 | Advocate Gulnaar Rizvi | Shree Narayan Singh | Hindi |
Uri: The Surgical Strike | 2019 | Pallavi Sharma/Jasmine Almeida | Aditya Dhar | Hindi |
Bala | Pari | Amar Kaushik | Hindi | |
Ginny Weds Sunny | 2020 | Ginny | Puneet Khanna | Film Shooting Continue |
Brand endorsements : Ads of Yami Gautam
Her brand endorsements include Fair & Lovely, Cornetto, Samsung Mobile, Chevrolet, and many other brands.
Television :
Show Name | Year | Channel Name | Role Name |
Chand Ke Paar Chalo | 2008 | NDTV Imagine | Sana |
CID – Episode 642 – Kabarwali Ladki | 2009 | Sony TV | Ananya |
Raajkumar Aaryyan | NDTV Imagine | Rajkumari Bhairvi | |
Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam | Leher Mathur Vajpayee | Colors | |
Meethi Choori No. 1 | 2010 | Reality Show – Contestant | Imagine TV |
Kitchen Champion Season – 1 | Reality Show – Contestant | Colors |
Honours of Yami Gautam :
In 2012 She Choosen iTimes’s No. 12 Most Desirable Woman.
Awards and nominations of Yami :
Year | Award | Category | Film | Result |
2012 | 5th Boroplus Gold Awards | Rising Film Stars From TV | Vicky Donor | Won |
2012 | Bhaskar Bollywood Awards | Fresh Entry of the Year | Vicky Donor | Nomination |
2012 | People’s Choice Awards India | Favorite Debut Actor (Male/Female) | Vicky Donor | Nomination |
2012 | BIG Star Entertainment Awards | Most Entertaining Actor (Film) Debut – Female | Vicky Donor | Won |
2013 | ETC Bollywood Business Awards | Most Profitable Debut (Female) | Vicky Donor | Nomination |
2013 | Filmfare Awards | Best Female Debut | Vicky Donor | Nomination |
2013 | Screen Awards | Most Promising Newcomer – Female | Vicky Donor | Nomination |
2013 | Zee Cine Awards | Best Female Debut | Vicky Donor | Won |
2013 | Stardust Awards | Best Actress / Superstar of Tomorrow : Female | Vicky Donor | Nomination |
2013 | Star Guild Awards | Best Female Debut | Vicky Donor | Nomination |
2013 | Times of India Film Awards | Best Debut– Female | Vicky Donor | Nomination |
2013 | IIFA Awards | Star Debut of the Year – Female | Vicky Donor | Won |
2017 | Lux Golden Rose Awards | Versatile Beauty of the Year Award | —— | Nomination |
Lux Golden Rose Awards | Break Through Performer Of The Year Award | ………… | Nomination | |
2020 | Screen Awards | Best Comedian | Bala Film | Won |
Critics’ Choice Film Awards | Best Actor (Female) | Bala | Nomination |