Kirti Kulhari (born 30 May 1985) is an Indian actress who works in
Hindi
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-language films and series. She made her acting debut with the film ''
Khichdi: The Movie'' in 2010 and then starred in ''
Shaitan
' (; ''devils'' or ''demons''), singular: (شَيْطَان) are evil spirits in Islam, inciting humans (and jinn) to sin by "whispering" (وَسْوَسَة, “waswasah”) to their qalb, hearts (قَلْب ''qalb''). Folklore suggests that t ...
'' in 2011. She then appeared in the films ''
Jal
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Entertainment
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Places
* Jal, ...
'' (2013), ''
Pink
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'' (2016), ''
Indu Sarkar
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'' (2017), ''
Uri: The Surgical Strike'' (2019), and ''
Mission Mangal
''Mission Mangal'' (English: "Mission Mars") is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Jagan Shakti and produced by Cape of Good Films, Hope Productions, Fox Star Studios, Aruna Bhatia and Anil Naidu. Loosely based on the life of s ...
'' (2019).
Kulhari has starred in several web series, which includes ''
Four More Shots Please!
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'' (2019–present) on
Amazon Prime Video
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, ''
Criminal Justice
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'' (2020) and ''
Human
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'' (2022) on
Disney+Hotstar
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.
Personal life
Kulhari was born and brought up in Bombay (now
Mumbai
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),
Maharashtra
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. Her family hails from
Jhunjhunu district
Jhunjhunu district is a district of the Indian state of Rajasthan in northern India. The city of Jhunjhunu is the district headquarters.
District location
The district falls within Shekhawati region, and is bounded on the northeast and east by ...
in
Rajasthan
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. Her father was a Commander in the Indian Navy.
Kulhari married actor Saahil Sehgal in 2016. She announced separation from him on 1 April 2021.
Acting career
Early career
Kulhari started her career with theatre and TV commercials. She did a one-month acting workshop with a Hindi theatre group called Yatri Theatre, under the direction and guidance of
Om Katare
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Katare's theatre group has pres ...
. After that, She worked on three plays - ''Chinta Chhod Chintamani'' with Yatri Theatre, ''Shehenshah of Azeemo'' with AK Various productions and a Hindi adaptation of ''Sakharam Binder'' with Yatri Theatre. Kulhari was the face of many television commercials – Lotus Mutual Funds, Travel Guru, Videocon Air Conditioners, Parachute Gorgeous Hamesha Campaign, ICICI Bank,
Kaya Skin Clinic, Taj Mahal Tea, Everyuth Face Wash, Whirlpool Refrigerators , Spice Mobile, Virgin Mobiles , Close-up, JK White Cement and Tic Tac mouth freshener.
For two years, Kulhari was the face of beauty brand Nivea Visage Sparkling Glow's face. Kulhari was also a part of music videos – "Hik Vich Jaan" in ''Desi Rockstar 2'' album by
Gippy Grewal
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His single "Phulkari" was very successful in the Punjabi music industry. He mad ...
.
Kulhari started her film acting career in
Bollywood
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with ''
Khichdi: The Movie'', which released in October 2010. Kulhari was noticed as an actress for her second film, ''
Shaitan
' (; ''devils'' or ''demons''), singular: (شَيْطَان) are evil spirits in Islam, inciting humans (and jinn) to sin by "whispering" (وَسْوَسَة, “waswasah”) to their qalb, hearts (قَلْب ''qalb''). Folklore suggests that t ...
'', which released in June 2011.
Breakthrough (2016–present)
In 2016, she was seen in ''
Pink
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'' with
Tapsee Pannu
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After a brief modelling career, Pannu ventured into acting with the Telugu film ''Jh ...
and
Amitabh Bacchan
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in which her performance was praised. The film was both commercially and critically successful. In 2017, she appeared in the title role of Indu in
Madhur Bhandarkar
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The drama film ''Chandni Ba ...
's political thriller film ''
Indu Sarkar
''Indu Sarkar'' is a 2017 Indian period political thriller film, co-written, co-produced and directed by Madhur Bhandarkar. The story screenplay of the movie is written by Anil Pandey and Madhur Bhandarkar and the dialogues are penned by Sanjay ...
''. In 2018, she starred in ''
Blackmail
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'' with
Irrfan Khan
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.
In 2019, she appeared in the role of an
Indian Air Force
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officer Seerat Kaur in the commercially and critically successful military action film ''
Uri: The Surgical Strike''. The same year, she also appeared in the web television series ''
Four More Shots Please!
''Four More Shots Please!'' is an Indian comedy-drama streaming television series on Amazon Prime Video directed by Anu Menon and Nupur Asthana. The series follows the story of four unapologetically flawed women (two in their 30s and two in the ...
'' on
Amazon Prime Video
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and ''
Bard of Blood
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'' on
Netflix
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. She acted in ''
Mission Mangal
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'', a film based on India's
Mars Orbiter Mission
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, which was released on 15 August 2019.
In August 2020, Kulhari joined the cast of ''
The Girl On The Train'' directed by
Ribhu Dasgupta
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He was nominated at the Shanghai International Film Festival for Asian New Talent Award of Best Film for the film '' Michael'' ...
. It also features
Parineeti Chopra
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,
Aditi Rao Hydari
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,
Avinash Tiwary
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, Sammy Jonas Heaney.
In January 2022, Kulhari turned producer by launching production house Kintsukuroi Films and will star in its first project, a dark comedy thriller film ''Nayeka'' written and directed by Ajaykiran Nair.
Kirti started shooting for the film on 2 January.
Filmography
Film
Web series
Awards and nominations
See also
*
List of Indian film actresses
This is an alphabetical list of notable Indian film actresses.
A
* Aaditi Pohankar
* Aahana Kumra
* Aakanksha Singh
* Aamna Sharif
* Aanchal Munjal
* Aarathi
* Aarti Agarwal
* Aarti Chhabria
* Aashka Goradia
* Abhirami
* Adah Shar ...
*
List of people from Rajasthan
This is a list of notable people from Rajasthan, India.
Award winners from Rajasthan
* Padma Vibhushan
** Naresh Chandra, 2007
** Ram Narayan, 2005
** Man Mohan Sharma, 2001
** Kalu Lal Shrimali, 1976
** Nagendra Singh, 1973
** Daulat Singh ...
Footnotes
References
External links
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Living people
1985 births
Actresses from Mumbai
People from Jhunjhunu district
Actresses from Rajasthan
Indian film actresses
Indian web series actresses
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Filmfare Awards winners
21st-century Indian actresses