Bhairavi Goswami, is an Indian-born actress, fashion model, television host and humanitarian.

Early life

Bhairavi was born in South India to parents of mixed heritage. Her father is part Bengali part South Indian and her mother is Creole. Bhairavi left India at the age of 6 to return as a teenager to pursue a career in Modeling/Acting, spending most of her adolescent life in the United Kingdom.

Modelling

Bhairavi’s career began as a teenager when she participated in the coveted “Gladrags Mega Model” contest. Gladrags was followed by Bhairavi winning the “Pantaloons Model Quest” & runner up at the “AXN Hot & Wild” contest. Times of India even quoted, “She’s the Paris Hilton of India, who loves to socialise”. She is the only Indian model to have been featured in TIME

Time (magazine)

Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...

, Telerama, Courier International & Paris Match

Paris Match

Paris Match is a French weekly magazine. It covers major national and international news along with celebrity lifestyle features. It was founded in 1949 by the industrialist Jean Prouvost....

. She has modelled for top designers such as Ritu Kumar

Ritu Kumar

Ritu Kumar is an Indian fashion designer, based in Delhi.-Early life and education:A native of Amritsar, Ritu attended Lady Irwin College, in New Delhi, graduating in 1964, and Briarcliff College, New York, USA in 1966.-Career:Kumar has been designing the wardrobes comprising swimwear,...

, Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Sabyasachi Mukherjee is an Indian fashion designer. He sells under his label, 'Sabyasachi', since 1999. He has also designed for a few Bollywood films -Early life:...

, Narendra Kumar, Archana Kochar, Shane & Falguni Peacock, Azeem Khan, Satya Paul, Libas, Deepal Mehta, Anshu Modi etc. Graced the covers of several magazines and featured in innumerable fashion features of regional, national and international magazines such as Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...

, Savvy, Gladrags, Sensationz, Elan, Occasions, Mans World, New Woman, Outlook

Outlook (magazine)

Outlook is one of India's four top-selling English weekly newsmagazines. Like many other Indian magazines, it is reluctant to reveal its circulation, but the 2007 National Readership Survey suggested 1.5 million copies...

, Gurlz, Society, Femina, Femina Girl, Woman’s Era, Meri Saheli, Vanitha, La Mode, Upper Crust, Woman, Elle

Elle (magazine)

Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...

, L’Officiel, GT-Guything, 4D Woman, Movie, Newsweek

Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

.

Movies and Theatre

After the runaway success of her debut - Sagar Bellary’s superhit movie Bheja Fry, she acted in the children's hit composite animation film ‘My Friend Ganesha 2’. In her next film she plays a glamorous girl in Mr. Bhatti On Chutti, starring Anupam Kher

Anupam Kher

Anupam Kher is an Indian actor who has appeared in nearly 400 films and 100 plays. Though mainly appearing in Bollywood films, he has had roles in some films from other nations as well...

 in lead role and featuring Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

 in a cameo appearance. Bhairavi has shed her glamorous image to play a simple school teacher in ‘Kachcha Limboo’
. Apart from this she has also acted in ‘My Daddy Strongest’ with Kumar Gaurav - it is the world's first silent children's film. With 10 successful plays to her credit like “Liar Liar”, “Tea Coffee or Me”, “Mad House”, “See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil” with theatre stalwarts like Alyque Padamsee

Alyque Padamsee

Alyque Padamsee is an Indian theater personality and ad film maker. He is probably best known in the English-speaking world for playing Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the film Gandhi...

, Dinyar Contractor & Paritosh Painter, Bhairavi has performed in over 700 stage shows worldwide.

Music Videos

• “Samundar Mein Nahake” remix directed by Samir Malkan
• Raaghav Sachar’s debut album directed by Indrajit Nattoji for HMV
  HMV Group
  HMV is a British global entertainment retail chain and is the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company also operates in Hong Kong and Singapore. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE Fledgling Index...
  
  
• “Raat Taakli”, marathi superhit music video directed by Deepali Vichare

Television Credits

• JBC with Javed Jaffery
• Bollywood Live(Indonesia)
• Guest VJ on B4U
  B4U Music
  B4U Music is a music-themed digital TV channel available on more than 8 different satellites, in more than 100 countries including the USA, UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Mauritius, Canada and India...
  
  
• Featured on Movers & Shakers (Shekhar Suman Show)

Personal life

Bhairavi is a trained dancer in Flamenco & Bharatnatyam and speaks 7 languages English, Hindi, French, German, Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada. She is passionate about animals and is an Animal Rights Activist. Bhairavi wanted to become an entrepreneur. Apart from her career as an Actress in the Indian Film fraternity, Bhairavi has more than 10 plays to her credit. Bhairavi is an innovative cook & food connoisseur. She has recently become a social critic while denouncing the birth of the child of Abhishek Bachan and Aishwaria Rai. She has found herself in the midst of controversy in 2011 because she accused the superstar duo of, and then denied making accusations of, genetic engineering. Many critics have suggested her criticism is only a veiled form of jealousy.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2007	Bheja Fry	Suman Rao
2008	My Friend Ganesha - 2	Anita
2009	Mr.Bhatti On Chutti	Katy
	Kachha Limboo	Lily Fernandes
	My Daddy Strongest		World’s 1st silent children’s film

Theatre

Genre	Play	Director	Notes
English Comedy	Liar Liar	Dinyar Contractor	150 shows worldwide
English Comedy	Madhouse	Dinyar Contractor	140 shows worldwide
English Comedy	P Dialogues	Alyque Padamsee	10 shows in Mumbai
English Comedy	Mad Horses Of Matheran	Gary Richardson	195 shows
English Comedy	Unspoken Dialogues	Alyque Padamsee	8 shows in Mumbai
Hindi Comedy	Tea, Coffee Or Me		85 shows
English Comedy	See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil	Paritossh Painter	50 shows Worldwide
Hindi Comedy	Shree, Adi, Manav	Paritossh Painter	5 shows in Mumbai
English Comedy	Dil Maange More	Paritossh Painter	5 shows

External links

• Bhairavi Goswami on IMDb