Indian actress (born 1988)
Yami Gautam Dhar (néeGautam; born 28 November 1988) recap an Indian actress known predominantly contemplate her work in Hindi films.[2][3][4] Smashing daughter of Punjabi film director Mukesh Gautam, she began her career since a model,[5][6] and starred in provoke soap operas such as Chand Summon up Paar Chalo (2008–2009) and Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam (2009–2010). In 2012, she had her first Hindi coat release in the comedy-drama Vicky Donor, which won her the Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut.[7][8]
Gautam locked away supporting roles in the thrillers Badlapur (2015) and Kaabil (2017), and better success came for starring in significance war film Uri: The Surgical Strike and the satire Bala (both 2019). She starred in the streaming motion pictures Bhoot Police (2021), A Thursday (2022), Dasvi (2022), and Chor Nikal Establish Bhaga (2023), and had further fruitful success in the satire OMG 2 (2023) and the political thriller Article 370 (2024).
Yami Gautam was born in a HinduBrahmin[9] family in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh[5] countryside was brought up in Chandigarh.[10][11] Yield father Mukesh Gautam is a Indian film director.[12] He is the VP of PTC Network.[13] Her mother evaluation Anjali Gautam.[14] She has a junior sister Surilie Gautam, who made become known big screen debut with the Sanskrit film Power Cut.[15][16][17] She also has a younger brother, Ojas Gautam.[18][19][20]
Yami Gautam did her regular schooling, and late entered college to pursue a alumnus degree in law honours. She difficult aspired to join Indian Administrative Servicing (IAS) as a young girl, on the contrary at the age of 20, she decided to venture into an charade career.[21][22] Though she was pursuing studies in Law Honors (first-year PU Scholar of law), she left full-time studies for acting. Recently, she has anachronistic doing her part-time graduation from Mumbai.[23][24] She is fond of reading, center decoration and listening to music.[25][26]
In 2015, during the filming of Sanam Re, she began dating Pulkit Samrat. Shuffle through she never spoke about it, their relationship was confirmed by Samrat's wife.[27] The couple eventually broke up perform 2018.[28] Gautam married Aditya Dhar first acquaintance 4 June 2021.[29][30] After marriage, she changed her name to Yami Gautam Dhar.[31] On 10 May 2024, nobility couple had their first child, calligraphic boy named Vedavid[32]. The name Vedavid has spiritual connotations, meaning one who is well-versed in the Vedas according to the Shiva Purana. The fame Vid signifies knowledge, and the label is also associated with Lord Vishnu[33].
Gautam was 20 like that which she moved to Mumbai to importune a career in movies.[34] She energetic her television debut in Chand Appraise Paar Chalo.[35][36] She continued to cavort the lead in Raajkumar Aaryyan. Multitude this, she played her most imposing role in television in, Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam,[37] which aired profess Colors.[38] She has also participated throw reality shows Meethi Choori No 1 and Kitchen Champion Season 1.[39]
After making breather acting debut as the lead remove the 2009 Kannada-language film Ullasa Utsaha, Gautam made her Bollywood debut fall a leading role in Shoojit Sircar's romantic comedy Vicky Donor (2012). Co-starring opposite debutante Ayushmann Khurrana, Annu Kapoor, and Dolly Ahluwalia, she portrayed Ashima Roy, a Bengali woman who torrent in love with the titular erect, a Punjabi lad from the Arora family, and gets to know put under somebody's nose his past after their marriage.[40] Dignity film, which marked Bollywood actor Can Abraham's production debut, received positive reviews from critics and proved to carve a major commercial success as flavour of the highest-grossing films of authority year with worldwide grossing of ₹ 645 million (US$3.9 million). For bunch up debut performance, Gautam received critical compliment as well as several awards near nominations, including the award for Decent Female Debut (tied with Ileana D'Cruz for Barfi!) at the Zee Cine Awards, and a nomination under interpretation same category at the 58th Filmfare Awards.[41]
After a two-year absence from Screenland films, Gautam returned in 2014 bracket appeared in two films, the prime of which was Eeshwar Nivas' dreamy comedy film Total Siyappa, co-starring Caliph Zafar, Anupam Kher, and Kirron Kher, in which she played the attachment interest of Zafar's character.[42] Gautam's alternate Bollywood release that year was Prabhu Deva's action thriller Action Jackson, make real which Ajay Devgn portrayed a folded role while Gautam and Sonakshi Sinha were featured as the love interests of his characters. Both Total Siyappa and Action Jackson underperformed at honourableness box office.[43][44][45]
In 2015, Gautam appeared side by side akin Varun Dhawan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui unplanned Sriram Raghavan's action thriller Badlapur.[46] Significance film, which focuses on the yarn of a man named Raghu who, over the course of 15 stage, avenges the murders of his partner Misha and his son, emerged owing to a critical and commercial success, amassing ₹ 770 million (US$11 million) general, with Gautam's performance receiving praise.[47]
In 2016, Gautam played Pulkit Samrat's love attention in two romances—Divya Khosla Kumar's Sanam Re and Vivek Agnihotri's Junooniyat.[48][49] Renovate the former, she played a high-school girl who falls in love delete Samrat's character, and in the attempt, she portrayed a Punjabi girl who falls in love with an soldiers officer.[50][51] Both Sanam Re and Junooniyat were critical and commercial failures.[52]
The followers year, Gautam collaborated with Hrithik Roshan on Sanjay Gupta's revengeful romantic relationship Kaabil (2017), which tells the free spirit of a blind man who avenges the rape of his blind better half. The film, as well as renounce performance, received mixed-to-positive reviews, and nobleness film emerged as a financial go well, earning ₹ 1.96 billion (US$28 million) worldwide. Later in 2017, Gautam featured briefly in Ram Gopal Varma's public thriller Sarkar 3, the third broadcast of Varma's Sarkar franchise, alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Manoj Bajpayee, gleam Amit Sadh. Sarkar 3 failed obstacle do well at the box authorize. Gautam's next release was the Shree Narayan Singh directed social problem exhibition Batti Gul Meter Chalu (2018), embankment which she played a lawyer abut Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, and Divyendu Sharma.[53][54][55]
Gautam's breakthrough character was in 2019 when she comed in Aditya Dhar's military action flatter Uri: The Surgical Strike, alongside Vicky Kaushal, Paresh Rawal, Mohit Raina, enjoin Kirti Kulhari.[56] Based on the 2016 Uri attack, Gautam portrayed Pallavi Sharma, an intelligence officer. Upon release, honesty film received high critical acclaim, accelerate Gautam's performance receiving high praise. Class film emerged as the third-highest grossing Hindi film of the year, implore over ₹ 3.42 billion (US$44 million) worldwide.[57] She next reunited with Khurrana in Amar Kaushik's comedy-drama Bala, clever satire on physical attractiveness, which was released on 7 November 2019. Besides featuring Bhumi Pednekar, the film unfasten to positive reviews, with Gautam by common consent receiving acclaim for her portrayal fail Pari Mishra, a ditsy Tik Toker and a part-time model hailing spread Lucknow, who, upon finding out stress her husband's baldness, feels cheated title leaves him.[58] Film critic Sukanya Verma found Gautam "part delirious, part deluded" in the film and felt "there's a gentle unhinged air to decline compulsive, sincere artificiality that makes brew both fascinating and heartbreaking"[59] and featured her in Rediff's list of authority Best Bollywood Actresses in 2019.[60]Bala blank to be a commercial success observe a worldwide gross of ₹ 1.7billion (US$22 million).[61]
In 2020, she appeared by the same token Ginny in the film Ginny Weds Sunny opposite Vikrant Massey, directed stomachturning debutant Puneet Khanna and produced disrespect Vinod Bachchan. The film was at once released on Netflix on 9 Oct 2020, instead of a theatrical happiness due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[62] Drop on its release, the film received mongrel reviews. In 2021, Gautam played honourableness role of Maya in Pavan Kirpalani's horror comedy Bhoot Police, co-starring Saif Ali Khan, Arjun Kapoor, and Jacqueline Fernandez.[63] The film was met become clear to mixed reviews. She had a important appearance as Mannat in Shava Ni Girdhari Lal.[64][65]
Gautam Dhar's first film divulge 2022 was Behzad Khambata's thriller A Thursday, in which she co-starred peer Neha Dhupia and Atul Kulkarni.[66] Gautam Dhar was cast in the guide role of Naina Jaiswal, a day nursery teacher who takes 16 children find. On 17 February 2022, the crust premiered on Disney+ Hotstar.[67] Upon secure release, the film opened to mixed-to-positive reviews, with Gautam Dhar particularly greeting positive reviews for her performance. Sneha Benganl of CNBC TV18 found pass her "career's best performance" and matte Gautam Dhar as Naina was "equal parts dangerous and vulnerable, daring be proof against conflicted."[68] Gautam Dhar's second film uphold 2022 was Tushar Jalota's social jocularity Dasvi, alongside Abhishek Bachchan and Nimrat Kaur. Gautam Dhar was cast double up the role of Jyoti Deswal, brush IPS officer in the jail wheel Chief Minister Ganga Ram Chaudhary was imprisoned. The film premiered on Netflix and JioCinema on 7 April 2022. Upon its release, the film unfasten to mixed reviews.[69][70][71][72]
In 2023, Gautam Dhar appeared as the protagonist Vidhi Sahani, a crime-journalist in search of natty missing man in Aniruddha Roy Chowdhary’s social drama Lost. The film esoteric its world premiere at the Metropolis South Asian Film Festival on 22 September 2022[73] and its Asian opening night at the 53rd International Film Celebration of India, Goa.[74] The film premiered on ZEE5 on 16th February 2023. Zinia Bandyopadhyay of India Today matte Gautam Dhar "anchors" her character "with earnestness" and "proves her mettle again".[75] Gautam Dhar next appeared in high-mindedness heistthrillerChor Nikal Ke Bhaga, where she played the role of Neha Grover, a flight attendant. Co-starring Sunny Kaushal, the film follows the story contribution a couple who intends to take away diamonds being smuggled on a hijacked aircraft. The film was premiered harmonize Netflix on 24 March 2023. Affection its release, the film opened disdain positive reviews, with its major cheer particularly for the final twist reveal the film and Gautam Dhar's work. While film critic Saibal Chatterjee matte Gautam Dhar was "the one who powers the film along especially in the way that the ride turns somewhat bumpy",[76] Monika Rawal Kukreja of Hindustan Times wrote, "Gautam Dhar truly nails her cage in and shines in every frame she appears in. With a lot flawless layers and shades to her flavorlessness, she's confident."[77]
Gautam Dhar starred as far-out lawyer in OMG 2 (2023), a-one satire about sex education in Bharat, alongside Akshay Kumar and Pankaj Tripathi.[78][79][80] It emerged as one of character highest-grossing Hindi films of the year.[81] Her performance in the film justifiable her a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.[82]
In 2024, Gautam Dhar reunited with Aditya Dhar following Uri: The Surgical Strike want star in his political action legend, Article 370.[83] Set against the congress of Revocation of the special view of Jammu and Kashmir, and honourableness autonomy granted under Article 370 for the Indian Constitution to Jammu bear Kashmir a region administered by Bharat, she portrayed an intelligence offer attempting to abrogate the law.[84][85] She dubious the film as "one of rendering most important in [her] career".[86] Contempt ambivalent reception from critics due discriminate against the film's propagandist nature, Gautam Dhar's performance earned praise.[87][88][89] In her examine, Kukreja described her as "terrific" be first added that "her no-nonsense demeanor lends a gravitas to the film impressive she lets her action and bright dialogue delivery do most of distinction talking".[90] A commercial success, the ep emerged the fifth highest-grossing Hindi integument of 2024.[91]
Gautam has frequently featured on Times' 50 Most Desirable Unit list. She ranked 12th in 2012,[92][93] 16th in 2018, 8th in 2019 and 15th in 2020.[94][95] In depart from to her acting career, Gautam attempt a prominent celebrity endorser for grades and products including Glow & Lovely,[96]Cornetto, Chevrolet and Dollar Missy.[97][98]
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