Amrita Puri is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n actress and model who has appeared on stage and in a Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 film.

Personal life

She is the daughter of Aditya Puri, Managing Director of HDFC Bank. She resides in Mumbai

Mumbai

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, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

.

Career

After completing her post-graduation, Puri started her career through writing and doing theatre, with her first play being Quasar Thakore Padamsee

Quasar Padamsee

Quasar Thakore Padamsee is an Indian stage actor turned theatre director. Both his parents Alyque Padamsee and Dolly Thakore are renowned stage actors. His mother was a casting director for the Academy Award winning film Gandhi in 1982. His father played the role of Jinnah in the same movie.He...

's English play View From The Stage and Scherazade Kaiokobad's "Retellings" . For a year she did copywriting for advertising agency Ogilvy along with freelancing for lifestyle magazine. After getting her portfolio done by Dilip Bhatia, she started auditioning for movies and ad films. Soon she did her first ad for Kotex

Kotex

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 and later featured in ads and TV commercials for several brands, including People First

People First

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, Garnier

Garnier

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 and L'Oreal

L'Oréal

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.

After auditioning for few films, she finally landed with the role of Shefali Thakur in Aisha

Aisha (film)

- Tracklist :...

. She gained acclaim through the movie, which was dubbed as "India's first chick flick". It was loosely based on the Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...

 novel Emma

Emma

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and its Hollywood adaptation Clueless. Her performance was described by leading critics as "heartwarming" (The Times of India

The Times of India

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), a "real surprise" (Press Trust of India

Press Trust of India

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) and "steals the film" (Rajeev Masand

Rajeev Masand

Rajeev Masand is an Indian film critic and entertainment reporter for CNN-IBN. Masand started his career as an entertainment correspondent at the young age of 16...

, CNN-IBN).

Post Aisha, she went back to do few plays including the M.E.T.A award winning play by Akvarious Productions The Interview (alongside Karan Pandit and Kashin Shetty), and Famous Last Words(alongside Sahil Jaffrey and Anish Trivedi).

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2010	Aisha Aisha (film) - Tracklist :...	Shefali Thakur	Hindi Hindi Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...	Debut film
2012	Blood Money		Hindi Hindi Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...	Filming

Awards and nominations

Year	Title of work	Award	Category	Result	Notes
2010	Aisha Aisha (film) - Tracklist :...	Stardust Awards Stardust Awards The Stardust Awards is an award ceremony for Hindi movies, which congratulate the superstars of the new generation who are making an impact on the future. It is sponsored by Stardust magazine.- Background :...	Best Breakthrough Performance Award
		Filmfare Awards Filmfare Awards The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest and most prominent film events given for Hindi films in India. The awards were...	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
			Best Debutant
		Zee Cine Awards Zee Cine Awards The Zee Cine Awards or "ZCA" for short is an awards ceremony for the Hindi film industry. It was first held in 1998 in Mumbai. Since then, it has gained substantial popularity as a notable awards ceremony to the Indian population as well as to the viewers of Zee Network.In 2004, the ZCA went...	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
		Star Screen Awards Star Screen Awards The Star Screen Awards is an annual awards ceremony in India honoring professional excellence in film. The nomination and award selection is done by a panel of distinguished professional from the industry itself.- History :...	Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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