Elegant actress Sayani Gupta is celebrating her birthday today!

It was in 2015 that she got recognition from her powerful performance as ‘Khanum’

BD Desk 09/10/2020
Sayani Gupta
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Bollywood actress Sayani Gupta is celebrating her birthday today. She set foot in the industry in 2012 and made her debut with a film called ‘Second Marriage Dot Com’. However, it was in 2015 that she got recognition from her powerful performance as ‘Khanum’, a Bangladeshi-Pakistani lesbian activist who is also blind in Sonali Bose’s film ‘Margarita With a Straw’. She starred in the film alongside Kalki Koechlin and was greatly appreciated for her authentic portrayal of such an unconventional role.

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She then starred in another critical hit ‘Parched’, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. Sayani also appeared in commercial hits like ‘Fan’, ‘Jolly LLB 2’, ‘Baar Baar Dekho’ and so on. She is also a prominent face in the digital space as she has starred in projects like ‘Posham Pa’ ‘Axone’, ‘Inside Edge’ and ‘Kaushik’.

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She gained prominence once again through OTT platform from her role of Damini Rizvi Roy in Amazon Prime Video’s ‘Four More Shots Please!’. The women-centric web series is a ‘dramedy’ and revolves around the life of 4 best friends as they go through the up and downs of their life while being there for each other. Her character is of a fierce journalist in the series who likes to live life on her own terms. The web series also earned a nomination for itself under the ‘Best Comedy Series’ category for International Emmys!

Her upcoming film is going to be ‘Pagglait’ that will also be streaming on digital space i.e. Netflix.

Here are some wishes for the actress on her special day: