Kainaz Motivala is an Indian actress who has appeared in

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films. Her acting career started with a small role in ''

Wake Up Sid ''Wake Up Sid'' is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Ayan Mukerji and produced by Hiroo Yash Johar and Karan Johar under Dharma Productions, with UTV Motion Pictures as distributor and visua ...

'' as ''Tanya'' in 2009. She was signed for the role ''Shailey'' in the 2010

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Paathshala ''Paathshaala'' () is a 2010 Indian drama film that stars Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia, Shraddha Arya, Ali Haji, Sushant Singh and Nana Patekar and is directed by Milind Ukey. The story revolves around children on a school campus. It comments ...

''. In 2011, she performed as the lead female character for the horror- thriller film ''

Ragini MMS ''Ragini MMS'' is a 2011 Indian found footage horror film directed by Pawan Kripalani and produced by Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms. It was released on 13 May 2011 (Friday the 13th). The film is inspired by the 2007 American ...

''. She has also appeared in few Indian television commercials like

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, McDonald's, Videocon Mobile Phone and Sony Pix Promo. Motivala has been trained by

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for six years. Her mother tongue is

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Personal life

Kainaz married Urvaksh Doctor in a Parsi ceremony on 28 November 2013. A daughter was born to them in 2016.

Filmography

Television

References

External links

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