Sayani Gupta (born 9 October 1985) is an Indian actress who appears in
Hindi films
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
. A graduate from the
Film and Television Institute of India
The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is a film institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India and aided by the Central Government of India. It is situated on the premises of the erstwhile ...
, she made her feature film debut in 2012 in ''
Second Marriage Dot Com''. She has since appeared in supporting roles in films such as ''
Fan'' (2016), ''
Jolly LLB 2
''The State vs. Jolly LL.B 2'', better known as ''Jolly LL.B 2'', is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language black comedy film written and directed by Subhash Kapoor. Akshay Kumar plays the titular character, Jagdishwar Mishra, replacing the 2013 film's ...
'' (2017) and ''
Article 15'' (2019).
She essayed the role of a blind Pakistani-Bangladeshi lesbian activist named Khanum in ''
Margarita with a Straw
''Margarita with a Straw'' is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Shonali Bose. It stars Kalki Koechlin as an Indian teenager with cerebral palsy who relocates to America for her undergraduate education and comes of age follow ...
'' opposite
Kalki Koechlin
Kalki Koechlin (; born 10 January 1984) is a French actress and writer who works in Hindi films. Known for her unconventional body of work, she is the recipient of such accolades as a National Film Award, a Filmfare Award, and two Screen Awar ...
.
Early life and education
Gupta was born on 9 October 1985 in
Calcutta
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(now Kolkata) in
West Bengal
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. She graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India.
Filmography
Films
Web series
Short films
Singer
As a singer, she sang "Kahab To" in ''Article 15''. She also served background vocals on most of the ''Four More Shots Please'' soundtrack.
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External links
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Living people
1985 births
Indian film actresses
Actresses in Hindi cinema
People from Kolkata
Film and Television Institute of India alumni
21st-century Indian actresses