AMRITA PURI

AMRITA PURI – Film Actress

Amrita Puri (born 20^th  August 1983) is the daughter of Aditya Puri, Managing Director of HDFC Bank. She resides in Mumbai, India.

fter completing her post-graduation, Puri started her career through writing and doing theatre, with her first play being Quasar Thakore Padamsee's English play 'during'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 and later featured in ads and TV commercials for several brands, including People First, Garnier and L'Oreal.

 

After auditioning for few films, she finally landed with the role of Shefali Thakur in Aisha. She gained critical and good commercial acclaim through the movie, which was dubbed as "India's first chick flick". It was loosely based on the Jane Austen novel Emma and its Hollywood adaptation Clueless. Her performance was described by leading critics as "heartwarming" (The Times of India), a "real surprise" (Press Trust of India) and "steals the film" (Rajeev Masand, 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). 

In 2012 she appeared in Blood Money as the female lead Aarzu.Upon release the film as well as her performance received mostly positive reviews form critics as well as good audience response.It was Above Average grosser thus making Puri's second critical and commercial success.

In 2013 she appeared in Kai Po Che! as female lead Vidhya Bhatt. Her character was Ishaan (Sushant Singh Rajput)'s sister and Raj Kumar Yadav's love-interest and then wife. The film was based by Chetan Bhagat's novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life.The film was shot mostly in Ahmedabad.During the film's post screnning it was praised by several actors.In an Interview stated by Puri about the film with The Times of India,"I loved all the attention that I got from the 3 male leads because there was no other girl on the sets most of the time."

Upon release the film as well as her performance received mostly positive reviews from critics as well as good audience response.CNN-IBN described her as "nice" while The Times of India descibed "The Romantic Garba Scene of Yadav-Puri is one of the excellent scenes".The film like her other films was declared above average grosser and thus making Puri's third critical and commercial success.