Kashmira Irani is an Indian film, television and theatre actress known for playing Amber in ''
Amber Dhara'',
Draupadi in ''
Dharmakshetra'' and Samaira Khanna in ''
Dosti... Yaariyan... Manmarziyan ,Princess Sonali in the musical Zangoora-The Gypsy Prince. She’s played pivotal roles in films like Rangoon ,Tiger Zinda ha, and Bharat.''
Early life
Irani was born in 1986 and brought up in
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, ( the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million As of 2021, Pune Metropolitan Region is the largest i ...
, Maharashtra to an
Irani Zoroastrian
Zoroastrianism is an Iranian religion and one of the world's oldest organized faiths, based on the teachings of the Iranian-speaking prophet Zoroaster. It has a dualistic cosmology of good and evil within the framework of a monotheistic ...
family. She moved to Mumbai from Pune when she was 17 years old to pursue her passion for acting. Prior to her acting debut, she assisted her cousin in fashion designing and worked as an assistant stylist.
Career
Irani made her debut on the
television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication Media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of Transmission (telecommunications), television tra ...
industry with the hit TV series ''
Amber Dhara'', where she played the title role of Amber. The story was of conjoined twins, and required her to be conjoined with her co-actor (
Sulagna Panigrahi
Sulagna Panigrahi is an Indian television and film actress. As a débutante, she played the lead role in the television serial ''Amber Dhara'' as Dhara, and went on to play the principal character in '' Do Saheliyaan''. She further did a grey r ...
) who played Dhara for 8–9 months. She won the Best Debutant Award for this role at the Sansui Television Awards.
In 2009, she appeared on a telefilm based on the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai called ''Un Hazaaron Ke Naam'', in which she played the role of Jyoti, a rich brat. The story dealt with how the attacks transformed her to be more socially responsible towards her society. The following year, she had a role in Yash Chopra's TV series ''
Seven'' on Sony Entertainment Television. The series was about seven extraordinary people who possess supernatural powers and how they help get rid of the evil from society. She played the role of Varya Vishwamitra, a girl who can control the weather.
She played the lead as Princess Sonali in a play called ''Zangoora: The Gypsy Prince'', which was the first Bollywood musical ever. It premiered on 23 September 2010 at Kingdom of Dreams and became the longest-running Bollywood stage show in India. In June 2013, the musical completed over 1000 successful shows at Nautanki Mahal, Gurgaon. This character has been her most challenging role so far as it's her first time on a live stage and has also required her to do aerial choreography. ''Zangoora'' and her role have been well received by audiences.
After doing the musical for four successful years, she went to acting and dance classes in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the U ...
, while working with an acting coach there in the city.
In 2014, she appeared briefly as a stage actress performing an aerial dance at
Kingdom of Dreams
Kingdom of Dreams is an entertainment complex located in the Indian city of Gurgaon. Owned by the Great Indian Nautanki Company (GINC), a joint venture between Apra Group and Wizcraft, and opened in 2010, the facility consisted of two auditori ...
in ''
PK'' starring
Aamir Khan and
Anushka Sharma. She performed an aerial dance to the song " Love is a Waste of Time".
She came into the limelight for her role as Samaira on the popular television series ''
Dosti... Yaariyan... Manmarziyan''.
Filmography
Theatre
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Zangoora – The Gypsy Prince''
References
External links
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Indian actresses
Actresses from Mumbai
Actresses from Pune
Actresses in Hindi television
Female models from Mumbai
Indian soap opera actresses
Indian television actresses
Irani people