Nushrratt Bharuccha

Born in a Dawoodi Bohra family in Bombay (now Mumbai), Bharucha's father, Tanvir, is a businessman and her mother, Tasneem, is a housewife. She is the only child of her parents.[2][3] In June 2020, Bharucha changed the spelling of her name to Nushrratt Bharuccha, due to numerological reasons.[4]

Bharucha at the Asia Spa Awards 2019

Bharuccha appeared in a Television series Kittie Party in 2002 and she began her Film career in 2006 with Jai Santoshi Maa and then the 2009 film Kal Kissne Dekha. Her next release was Dibakar Banerjee's suspense film Love Sex Aur Dhokha.[5] In 2011, she appeared in Luv Ranjan's buddy drama Pyaar Ka Punchnama, featuring an ensemble cast in which she was cast opposite Kartik Aaryan.

Bharuccha then starred in Ranjan's 2013 unsuccessful romantic drama Akaash Vani as the titular female lead opposite Aaryan and Sunny Nijar. Her first film of 2014, Darr @ the Mall opposite Jimmy Sheirgill, was a major box-office disaster. Later that year, she appeared in a sequel to Pyaar Ka Punchnama entitled Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2, which paired her opposite Aaryan again, alongside debutante Sunny Singh Nijjar. It became her first major commercial success, and her second success, earning over ₹880 million (US$12 million) worldwide.

In 2018, Bharuccha reunited with Aaryan and Nijjar in Ranjan's Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, a romantic comedy about a man who tries to separate his friend from his fiancée as he thinks her to be a gold digger. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety proved to be a blockbuster at the box-office with domestic earnings of over ₹1.07 billion (US$14 million), and became her first release to enter the 100 Crore Club.

In the next year, Bharuccha played Ayushmann Khurrana's love interest in Raaj Shaandilyaa's comedy film Dream Girl. It received positive reviews from critics. Dream Girl grossed ₹1 billion (US$13 million) at the domestic box office within 10 days of its release becoming her second consecutive film to cross the mark of 100 Crore Club;[6] with a worldwide gross of over ₹1.9 billion (US$25 million), it also emerged as her highest-grossing release at the time. Also in 2019, she performed an item number "Peeyo Datt Ke" in the Milap Zaveri-directed thriller Marjaavaan, which was sung by Yo Yo Honey Singh.[7]

In July 2019, Bharuccha finished work on Hansal Mehta's social film Chhalaang, produced by Luv Ranjan, Ajay Devgn and Ankur Garg, in which she was paired opposite Rajkummar Rao for the second time after Love Sex Aur Dhokha.[8] Chhalaang was released digitally on Amazon Prime Video on 13 November 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions on movie theatres.[9] The film received mixed reviews from critics, but proved to be a success.

Bharuccha has been filming Nikhil Nagesh Tiwari's romantic thriller Hurdang opposite Sunny Kaushal and Vijay Varma produced by Bhushan Kumar for T-Series and Shailesh R Singh for Karma Media and Entertainment.[10] In October 2020 she filmed a music video with Yo Yo Honey Singh for his single "Saiyaan Ji" in Rajasthan.[11]

In 2021, Bharuccha starred in the four-part anthology film Ajeeb Daastaans, in the short directed by Raj Mehta, which premiered on Netflix on 16 April 2021.[12] In addition, she starred in the horror film Chhorii, directed by Vishal Furia, which is a remake of Furia's 2017 Marathi film Lapachhapi and premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 26 November 2021.[13] She is slated to appear in the romantic thriller Hurdang opposite Sunny Kaushal,[14] the historical drama Ram Setu opposite Akshay Kumar and Jacqueline Fernandez,[15] and the comedy film Janhit Mein Jaari in 2022.[16] She will be seen in Chhorri 2 reprising her role, set for a 2023 release,[17] and in Selfiee with Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi.[18]

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