Amrita Puri, Lady Who Makes Even Supporting Characters Memorable
Howdy, film aholics! Today, we are gonna talk about Amrita Puri, an actress, who is best known for making her character memorable even as a supporting cast.
1. Amrita Puri is the daughter of the Managing Director of HDFC Bank, Aditya Puri. She was born on 20 August 1983, in Mumbai.
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2. Amrita has been passionate about acting since her childhood. Whenever she was home alone, she would wrap her mother’s saree and do a show in front of the mirror.
Despite having a powerful father, Amrita did everything in her career on her own.
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3. After finishing her post-graduation in Mass-Communication, Amrita Puri began her career as writer and theatre artist. From it, she got her first paycheck of Rs 2500.
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4. Later on, she took a job as a copywriter under a New York-based Marketing agency, Ogilvy & Mather. She left after a year and started auditioning for movies.
5. Amrita got to know about Aisha by a Facebook post shared by one of her friends and mailed the pictures to the casting director, Amita Sehgal.
Amrita first said no to the role, but changed her mind after getting a lecture from Amita Sehgal and finally, she got her break.
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6. Amrita debuted with Aisha (2010). She always credits Amita Sehgal because she could not have asked for a better break.
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7. After Aisha, Amrita appeared in Blood Money (2012), followed by Kai Po Che! (2013). Both the films helped her in building her image as an actor in Bollywood.
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8. In 2015, Amrita debuted her television appearance with Stories by Rabindranath Tagore (2015) on EPIC, followed by P.O.W. – Bandi Yuddh Ke (2016) on Star Plus.
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9. After TV, she took a step further with Digital Entertainment and appeared in two web shows, Four More Shots Please! and Made In Heaven.
Amrita also stated in an interview that she has been more appreciated for web shows than films.
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10. Amrita also owned a clothing label named Akuri by Puri, along with her mother since 2014 and produces dresses, kurtas, dhoti pants and embroidered and brocade jackets.
“My mother and I just love fabric. We always end up buying a lot of it whenever we travel. It so happened that we bought so much of it that it was way beyond our own personal use.” – Amrita Puri quoted The Sunday Guardian.
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11. Amrita Puri married Amrun Sethi in a lavish ceremony in Bangkok on 15 November 2017.
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12. Amrita was last seen in Judgementall Hai Kya and will soon be seen in Mahesh Bhatt’s untitled web-series and a lot more exciting content.
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