Pallavi Purohit is an Indian actress from

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who has appeared in several TV shows since 2006, television commercials, Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada movies. Pallavi is best known for her key roles as Padmini in

Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon ''Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon'' () is an Indian television series that premiered on 28 May 2012 and ran through until 9 August 2014, Produced to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema, it aired on Colors TV Monday to Friday (later Saturday) ...

, Damini Verma in

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...

movie

Mr. Fraud ''Mr. Fraud'' is a 2014 Indian action thriller film written and directed by B. Unnikrishnan and starring Mohanlal, Siddique, Dev Gill, Vijay Babu, Miya, Manjari Phadnis and Pallavi Purohit. The film was produced by A. V. Anoop under the banne ...

opposite Mohunlal, Sangeetha in

movie

Silence Silence is the absence of ambient audible sound, the emission of sounds of such low intensity that they do not draw attention to themselves, or the state of having ceased to produce sounds; this latter sense can be extended to apply to the ce ...

opposite

Mammootty Muhammad Kutty Panaparambil Ismail (; born 7 September 1951), known mononymously by the hypocorism Mammootty (), is an Indian actor and film producer who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema, Malayalam films. He has also appeared in Tamil l ...

, Savita Pathare in

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movie

Kaanchi ''Kaanchi: The Unbreakable'' is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language romance film produced and directed by Subhash Ghai, starring newcomer actress Mishti and Kartik Aaryan supported by veteran actors Rishi Kapoor and Mithun Chakraborty. Plot ''Kaan ...

opposite

Mithun Chakraborty Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, producer and politician who predominantly worked in Hindi and Bengali language films. He is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. He is the recipient of three ...

and, recently, as Smita in

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

movie "Manasmita" opposite

Atul Kulkarni Atul Kulkarni (born 10 September 1965) is an Indian actor, producer and screenwriter who works in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, English, Odia and Telugu language films. Kulkarni won the National Award for the Best Supporting Actor ...

Early life

Her father is from

Palakkad Palakkad (), formerly known as Palghat, historically known as Palakkattussery is a city and municipality in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of the Palakkad District. Palakkad is most densely populated municipal ...

but she was brought up in

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. Pallavi completed her Business Management and Hotel Management and began working with

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. She decided to give up the job and become an actress.

Career

She has worked in several shows for

Balaji Telefilms Balaji Telefilms is an Indian company that produces Indian soap operas, reality TV, comedy, game shows, entertainment, and factual programming in several Indian languages. Balaji Telefilms is promoted by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor and is a ...

. She was selected for the role of Gayatri in the show ''

Karam Apnaa Apnaa ''Karam Apnaa Apnaa'' is an Indian soap opera which aired on Star Plus from 29 August 2006 to 27 March 2009. It was produced by Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms. It starred Sumeet Sachdev, Pallavi Subash, Muhammad Iqbal Khan and Yash Tonk in the l ...

''. Thereafter she played the role of Gunn on ''

Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki ''Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii'' ( The story of each house) is a Hindi-language Indian soap opera on Indian television which ran on Star Plus from 16 October 2000 to 9 October 2008. The soap opera was created by Ekta Kapoor and was produced by her pro ...

''. She later replaced

Arunima Sharma Arunima Sharma (born 23 August 1981) is an Indian actress, who is mostly known for playing Rano Bali in the soap opera on Zee TV, '' Kasamh Se''. The character Rano is one of the three female leads and the youngest sister of protagonist Bani W ...

as one of the three female leads in the role of Rano in Zee TV's

Kasamh Se ''Kasamh Se'' (English title: ''The Promise'') was an Indian soap opera produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms. The show aired on Zee TV from 16 January 2006 to 12 March 2009. The story is about three sisters: Bani, Piya and Rano. It w ...

. She played the role of Urvashi Sanghvi in ''Basera'' and has worked on other shows including ''Peehar'' (as Dr. Sara), ''Bajega Band Baaja'' (as Dilpreet), ''Paap Punya Ka Lekha Jokha'', ''Sanskar'', ''Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat'' and the TV series ''Sujata''. She worked on ''

Bairi Piya "Bairi Piya" is a song from the 2002 Bollywood film, ''Devdas''. The song is composed by Ismail Darbar and sung by Shreya Ghoshal along with Udit Narayan. The lyrics were penned by Nusrat Badr. The song features Aishwarya Rai and Shah Rukh Khan ...

'' playing the part of Chiggy Bahu and later appeared in ''Jyoti'' in the role of Asha. Pallavi played Rohini Patwardhan in ''

Sapnon Se Bhare Naina ''Sapno Se Bhare Naina'' (English: ''Eyes Full Of Dreams'') is an Indian soap opera which aired on Star Plus from December 2010 through February 2012. Plot The plot centers around the life of Naina Bhardwaj who was raised by her father and ...

'' and Padmini in ''

Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon Madhubala (born Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi; 14 February 1933 – 23 February 1969) was an Indian actress and producer who worked in Hindi-language films. She ranked as one of the highest-paid entertainers in India in the post-independence era, ...

''. Pallavi quit the show after signing up for a lead role opposite

V. K. Prakash V. K. Prakash (born 12 October 1960) is an Indian film director and actor. He makes films, music videos, and commercials, and works predominantly in Malayalam, but has also directed Telugu, Marathi, Kannada and Hindi films. Prakash's debut featu ...

directed

movie ''Silence''. Simultaneously, she also worked in a

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directed movie ''Kaanchi''. Thereafter, in 2014, she acted as one of the three lead heroines opposite

Mohanlal Mohanlal Viswanathan (born 21 May 1960), known mononymously as Mohanlal, is an Indian actor, film producer, playback singer, film distributor, and director who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema besides also having sporadically appeare ...

in ''

B. Unnikrishnan Unnikrishnan B (born 14 August 1970) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, distributor and exhibitor who works in the Malayalam film industry. Early life Unnikrishnan. B. was born on 14 August 1970 in Pathanamthitta district in Kerala, I ...

'' directed movie ''

''. She played Goddess Lakshmi in the Kannada show ''HaraHara Mahadev'' which was a remake of 'Devon ke dev: Mahadev'. She played the lead actress as "Smita", a classical dancer, in the Kannada movie "Manasmita" opposite ''

''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Purohit, Pallavi Living people Actresses from Palakkad Year of birth missing (living people) Actresses from Bangalore Indian television actresses Actresses in Hindi cinema Actresses in Malayalam cinema Actresses in Kannada cinema