Samikssha Batnagar is an Indian actress who was seen in various Hindi serials on
Star Plus
StarPlus is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly ''Star India''), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. The network's programming consists of family dramas, comedies, ...
and
Zee TV
Zee TV (stylised as ZEE TV) is a Hindi general entertainment pay television channel in India. It was launched on 2 October 1992, as the first privately owned TV channel in the country. It is owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Zee TV also ...
until 2014 in both supporting as well as lead roles. She did a cameo in
Madhur Bhandarkar's ''
Calendar Girls'', released in the year 2015, marking her
Bollywood debut and in 2017 she acted in the
Shreyas Talpade-directed movie ''
Poster Boys'', opposite
Bobby Deol, which is her first lead role opposite a popular actor.
Career
Career in television
Her biggest break was when she got to play the lead role in ''
Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera'' (
Star Plus
StarPlus is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly ''Star India''), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. The network's programming consists of family dramas, comedies, ...
). Followed by this, she appeared in ''
Uttaran'' (
Star Plus
StarPlus is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly ''Star India''), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. The network's programming consists of family dramas, comedies, ...
), ''
Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev'' (
Life OK
Life OK was an Indian pay television channel owned by Star India. It was launched on 18 December 2011 replacing Star One.
It also started airing in the United States on 1 March 2012, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 28 May of that same ...
), ''
Baal Veer'' (
SAB TV), ''
Kum Kum Bhagya'' (
Zee TV
Zee TV (stylised as ZEE TV) is a Hindi general entertainment pay television channel in India. It was launched on 2 October 1992, as the first privately owned TV channel in the country. It is owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Zee TV also ...
) and a few other well-known serials.
Movie debut
She cameoed in
Madhur Bhandarkar's ''
Calendar Girls'' in 2015. Followed by this, Batnagar finished shooting for the
Shreyas Talpade directed ''
Poster Boys'', which features
Sunny Deol
Ajay Singh Deol (born 19 October 1956), better known by his stage name Sunny Deol, is an Indian actor, film director, producer, politician and current Member of Parliament from Gurdaspur (Lok Sabha constituency) of Punjab, India. As an actor, ...
and
Bobby Deol as well as
Shreyas Talpade himself in the lead role. In the movie, she played the character of Surajmukhi opposite
Bobby Deol. The movie released on 8 September 2017. In the span of 2021 and 2022, Batnagar appeared in ''
Black Rose Black Rose or Black Roses may refer to:
Books
* Black Rose (.hack), a fictional character from the .hack media franchise
* Black Rose (magazine), ''Black Rose'' (magazine), an anarchist magazine published in Boston during the 1970s and 1980s
* Bla ...
'', ''Dhoop Chhaon'' and ''
Anth The End''. She was praised for her brilliant performance in ''Anth The End'', and was said to have one of the best performances in ''Dhoop Chhaon''.
Filmography
Films
Television
Theatre
References
External links
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Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Indian television actresses
Indian soap opera actresses
Actresses from Dehradun
Year of birth missing (living people)
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Actresses in Hindi television
Indian stage actresses
21st-century Indian actresses