Asmita Sood (born 20 December 1989) is an Indian model and actress. She made her acting debut with the 2011 Telugu film ''Brammigadi Katha''. Sood has endorsed over 40 brands. She has been a part of two television shows:

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''.

Early life

Asmita Sood hails from

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. She is a commerce graduate.

Career

She is The Co-Founder of Off-Grid.Off-Grid is India's brand new techno music festival, a venture of actress Asmita and music enthusiast and lawyer Aman Lakhani. More than 600 revelers from across the country traveled to witness the music festival which was held at Kullu.

Modeling career

Sood started her modelling career towards the end of 2010 after participating in TV reality show

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''. She later participated at the 2011

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beauty pageant, ending up as one of the finalists. She is a professionally trained

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dancer.

Film career

Sood made her acting debut with a

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''Brammigadi Katha'' (2011), which also stars

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in the lead role. It had a 50-day box office run. In 2013, Sood debuted in

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with ''

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'', which also stars Sharan in the lead role. It was followed by her Malayalam debut in the anthology '' 5 Sundarikal'' in which she played Ami, a Muslim girl who gets married at a young age. She was next seen opposite

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in the Telugu film ''

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''. In the film she played Indu, a "bubbly and chirpy college-goer". Sood's following releases were ''Aa Aiduguru'' (2013), in which she was seen as a police officer, and ''Ok ''(2013). In 2015, she was shooting for her second Malayalam film, ''Lukka Chuppi''.

Television career

She also worked in a Hindi show '' Phir Bhi Na Maane...Badtameez Dil'' on Star Plus as Meher Purohit opposite

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. She was about to play the role of Gauri in

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, but later on

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was finalized to play the role. In 2018, She was seen as Setu in

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'' which ended in 2020. Currently, she is playing the negative role in

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show '' Janam Janam Ka Saath'' opposite

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Music videos

She appeared in the music videos ''

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'' (2019) with

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Filmography

Films

Television shows

Web series

Music videos

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sood, Asmita 1989 births Actresses in Kannada cinema Actresses in Malayalam cinema Actresses in Telugu cinema Indian film actresses Living people People from Shimla Actresses from Himachal Pradesh Actresses in Hindi television Indian television actresses