Bhumika Chawla


Bhumika Chawla is an Indian actress and a former model. She made her film debut in the Telugu film Yuvakudu and has since then worked in various Indian film industries and appeared in over thirty films in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bhojpuri, and Punjabi. Her notable performances include appearances in films such as Kushi , Okkadu, Tere Naam, Missamma , Sillunu Oru Kaadhal , Gandhi, My Father , Anasuya and Buddy.

Early life

Chawla was born in a Punjabi family in New Delhi, India and completed her schooling there. Her father was an Army officer. Bhumika has two siblings, an elder brother and sister.
She moved to Mumbai in 1997 and started her career with Ad films and Hindi music video albums. She appeared in the Zee TV series Hip Hip Hurray.

Career

Chawla started off her film career in the Telugu film industry, starring in the feature film Yuvakudu alongside actor Sumanth. Her second release, Kushi, in which she starred opposite Pawan Kalyan was a box office success, winning her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu following which she acted in several films in Telugu, including Okkadu opposite Mahesh Babu and Simhadri opposite Jr. NTR, which became two of the year's highest grossers in Telugu. Meanwhile, she made her debut in the Tamil film industry as well, starring in the film Badri opposite actor Vijay, which was followed by her second Tamil film Roja Kootam. Her performance in Missamma, as a businesswoman with cancer, was applauded. She was nominated for the FilmfareAward for Best Actress – Telugu and won the Nandi Award for Best Actress.
After a number of critically and commercially successful films in the South, Chawla starred in her first Bollywood film, Tere Naam, alongside Salman Khan. The film was one of the year's highest grossers. It was a critical success and her performance in the film won her many positive notices as well as several nominations for Best Debut at different award ceremonies. She was nominated for her first Filmfare Best Actress Award and won the Best Debut trophy at the Zee Cine Awards ceremony.
Subsequently, she got to star in a number of Hindi films as Run, a remake of the same-named Tamil film, Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa, again opposite Salman Khan, Silsilay and Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... alongside Amitabh Bachchan. She returned to Telugu, acting in the films Naa Autograph and Jai Chiranjeeva, alongside Chiranjeevi and Sameera Reddy. While Chawla's performance in the former won her accolades and the CineMAA Jury Award for Best Actress, the latter went to become a super hit film.
In 2006, Chawla appeared in the Tamil film Sillunu Oru Kaadhal, alongside real-life couple Surya and Jyothika which became a big hit worldwide, while playing a vital role in the Hindi film Family - Ties of Blood, in which she shared screen space with Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar, and starring in the Telugu fantasy film, Mayabazar. Following this, she acted in the Hindi film Gandhi, My Father as Gulab Gandhi and played the title roles in the Telugu films Sathyabhama, in which she played a woman who has Short-term memory loss, and Anasuya, a crime thriller, and in the Bhojpuri film, Gangotri, a sequel to the successful 2006 Bhojpuri film Ganga, acting again alongside Amitabh Bachchan. Her performance in Anasuya, as an Investigative journalist who covers the case of a serial killer, received critical acclaim. She was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu and won the Santosham Best Actress Award.
In 2008, she made her debut in the Punjabi film industry, starring in Yaariyan, opposite Gurdas Maan, following which she debuted in Malayalam as well, starring in Bhramaram alongside Mohanlal. Currently, she is working on half-a-dozen films in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, which include Thangar Bachan's Kalavadiya Pozhudugal opposite Prabhu Deva in Tamil, Yagam alongside Navdeep in Telugu and Classmates, a remake of the 2006 Malayalam film, in Hindi. She also appeared in the 2016 movie. She portrayed the character of MS dhoni's sister in the movie.

Personal life

Bhumika Chawla married her long-time boyfriend and Yoga teacher Bharat Thakur on 21 October 2007 at Devlali, Nashik in a Gurdwara. She went regularly to Thakur's courses and is said to have dated him for four years, before eventually marrying him. The couple have a son born in February 2014.

Filmography

Denotes films that have not yet been released

YearFilmRoleLanguageNotes
2000YuvakuduSindhuTelugu
2001BadriJanaki Tamil
2001KushiMadhumitha / KhushiTeluguFilmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu
2001Snehamante IderaYuvrani PadminiTelugu
2002Roja KootamManoTamil
2002VasuDivyaTelugu
2003OkkaduSwapna ReddyTelugu
2003MissammaMeghanaTeluguNandi Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu
2003SimhadriInduTelugu
2003Tere NaamNirjara BharadwajHindiZee Cine Award Best Female Debut
Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut
Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2003Aadanthe Ado TypeTeluguSpecial appearance
2004RunJhanvi ChoudhryHindi
2004SambaNanduTelugu
2004Naa AutographDivyaTeluguCineMAA Award for Best Actress
2004Dil Ne Jise Apna KahaaDhaniHindi
2005SilsiilayZia RaoHindi
2005Dil Jo Bhi Kahey...Dr. Gayarti PandeyHindi
2005Jai ChiranjeevaNeelimaTelugu
2006Sillunu Oru KaadhalIshwaryaTamil
2006FamilyDr. KavitaHindi
2006MayabazaarAnupamaTelugu
2007Gandhi, My FatherGulab GandhiHindi
2007SathyabhamaSathyabhamaTeluguNandi Special Jury Award
2007GangotriGangotriBhojpuri
2007AnasuyaAnasuyaTelugu
2008SwagatamVidhya KKTelugu
2008MallepuvvuMalleshwari "Malli" KannegantiTelugu
2008YaariyanSimranPunjabi
2009BhramaramJayaMalayalam
2009Naa Style VeruParvatiTelugu
2009AmaravathiAmaravathiTelugu
2010YagamNandiniTelugu
2010Thakita ThakitaVishaliTeluguAlso producer; special appearance
2010Collector Gari BharyaIndira GautamTelugu
2011SiruthaiRathnavel Pandian's wifeTamilPhoto appearance
2012GodfatherKannadaSpecial appearance
2013BuddyPadmaMalayalam
2013Chithirayil NilachoruFake beggarTamilSpecial appearance
2014Laddu BabuMadhuriTelugu
2014April FoolSwapnaTeluguCameo appearance
2015Luv U AliaBhoomiKannada
2015Luv U AliaBhoomiTelugu
2016Luv U AliaBhoomiHindi
2016Jayanti GuptaHindi
2017Middle Class AbbayiJyothiTeluguZee Apsara Award for Best Supporting Actress
SIIMA Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu
Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress - Telugu
2017Kalavaadiya PozhuthugalJayanthiTamil
2018U TurnMayaTamil
Telugu		Bilingual
2018SavyasachiSiriTelugu
2019KhamoshiMrs. DesaiHindi
2019Kolaiyuthir KaalamMrs. AnandTamil
2019BhramAnkita PaulHindiWeb series on ZEE5
2019RulerNiranjana PrasadTelugu
2020Kannai Nambathey TamilFilming
2020SeetimaarrTeluguFilming

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