All about Kiara Advani: A Bollywood actress who ruled the hearts of fans

 

Kiara Advani is an Indian Bollywood actress and famous model who works in Hindi and Telugu film industry.  Today Kiara is shining star of Hindi cinema. Within a very short time she has won the hearts of millions fans. Currently, she is one of younger top Bollywood actresses.

She started her career with the film Fugly. After that she would not looks back. She works in many super hit films as including M.S. Dhoni: Untold Story, Kabir Singh, Machine, Bharat Ane Nenu. She almost completed 16^th movies in her career.

However, Kiara has received her acting identity in Bollywood from the film Kabir Singh. Recently, Kiara Advani's film ‘Shershaah’ has released in OTT platform Amazon Prime Video. After released it became #1 rated Hindi films in 2021 on Amazon Prime.

The story mainly based on a biopic of army officer Captain Vikram Batra which role played by actor Sidharth Malhotra and Kiara played by his fiancée role who vowed to stay in love with him even after his death.

Kiara have garnered lots of appreciations for her work in the movie. Several films actors and critics of Bollywood praised Kiara on her social media platforms. Audiences loved her beautiful and touching performance.   

She is very active in her social media platforms and her fan following instantly increased. Fans mostly likes her simple fresh looks and creative fashion sense. She has millions of fans across the country.   

In this article, we will share about Kiara’s biography for which fans can know more about their favorite actresses.

Early life:

Kiara was born on 31 July 1992 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her zodiac sign is Leo. She belongs to a Sindhi Hindu family. Her father Jagdeep Advani is a businessman and mother Genevieve Jaffrey is a teacher who has Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, and Spanish origins. She has a younger brother, Mishaal and has a younger sister Ishita.

From her maternal side she included with several celebrities. Veteran actor late Ashok Kumar was her step-great-grandfather and British-Indian actor late Saeed Jaffrey was her great-uncle. Even actress model Shaheen Jaffrey and Juhi Chawla are her aunts.

As well as, superstar Salman Khan is her mother’s childhood friend and Kiara’s family are very close to Shalman that’s why she got the film 'Fugly' in 2014 which was her début launching film produced by Salman Khan.

Born as Alia Advani, she changed her name to Kiara. When she had singed the film in 2014, actor Salman khan suggested her to changed her name. Because top actresses Alia Bhatt was her contemporary.

In an interview to Filmfare in 2019, “she stated that the name inspired from Priyanka Chopra's character Kiara in the film "Anjaana Anjaani.”      

Kiara did her schooling from John Connon School and pursued her graduation at Jai Hind College in mass communication. She had very good at studies and scored 92% in class 12.

Since her childhood she want’s be an actresses and also very passionate about it. For that she developed a good dressing sense even at a very early age. When she just two years old baby Kiara appeared in Wipro BabyShop TV commercial advertisement along with her mother.

Career:

Kiara got her acting debut in Bollywood with Kabir Sadanand's 2014 comedy film Fugly. In the movie she also featured with Mohit Marwah, Arfi Lamba, Vijender Singh, and Jimmy Sheirgill. This film couldn’t perform well in the Box office in India. But, Kiara have positive response for her fresh appearances. 

Then, in 2016 she appeared in Neeraj Pandey's sports film M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story who was a biopic of popular former captain of Indian cricket team played by Sushant Singh Rajput. In the movie she played the character of Dhoni’s wife Sakshi Rawat, a Hotal manager. This film was the top grossing film of the year with a total gross collection of 216 crores worldwide. Mainly, after this movie she was recognized as actresses by audiences.  

Next year, she was featured Abbas-Mustan direction action thriller film ‘Machine’ which couldn’t do well at the box office.

In 2018, she did her OTT debut with Netflix in an anthological movie ‘Lust Stories’. Where she played a character of newly married wife who won’t satisfied with her husband. Actor Vicky Kaushal played the husband role.  

About her performance, NDTV, Raja Sen found her to be "positively lovely" in it.

Kiara made her debut in Telugu film industry starred opposite the Mahesh Babu with ‘Bharat Ane Nenu’ which is a political thriller film. This film earned 225 corers rupees worldwide and became one of the highest grossing Telugu film. At the end of the year 2018, she appeared in a music video ‘Urboshi’ sung by the Yo Yo Honey Singh. In this video she was performing dance along with super actor and dancer Shahid Kapoor.    

In 2019, Kiara’s first appeared with Boyapati Srinu's Telugu action film ‘Vinaya Vidheya Rama’. This film was a box office disappointment.

After that she came back to Bollywood film with a special appearance in Abhishek Varman's film ‘Kalank’.

Her next project was Sandeep Vanga's romantic film ‘Kabir Singh’ which was a remake of Vanga's 2017 Telugu movie ‘Arjun Reddy’. In this film she paired with Shahid Kapoor. This film proved to be a turning point of her career. As well as her performance was widely appreciated by both film’s critics and audiences.

Her last appearance in 2019 was Raj Mehta's comedy film Good Newwz. Both the films Kabir Singh and Good Newwz became the highest grossing films of the year.

In 2020, Kiara appeared in another OTT film ‘Guilty’ which was released in Netflix.

Talking about Kiara’s performance, Rohan Naahar of Hindustan Times wrote, "Kiara delivers an absolutely electric performance as the unreliable Nanki, a fiery college student with a fondness for Faiz."

‘Laxmii’ was a horror comedy film which has Kiara’s 2nd film in 2020. In this film she played the role of Akshay Kumar wife. Basically, this film was a remake of the Tamil film ‘Kanchana’. Due to COVID-19 pandemic situation, this film was released on theater as well as OTT platform. After released this film received mixed review.

Kiara also appeared Abir Sengupta's directorial debut film ‘Indoo Ki Jawani’. This was one of the first Bollywood films which released after reopening film theater’s duo to the Covid-19 pandemic. in the film Kiara played the role of a girl who lives in Ghaziabad and finds love in a dating app.

On 2th August 2021, Kiara’s super hit film ‘Shershaah’ was released on OTT platform Amazon Prime Video. This action war film is based on the life of army officer Vikram Batra which role was played by Kiara’s rumored boyfriend Sidharth Malhotra and she played the role of his fiancée, Dimple Cheema. After released this film received a lot greatreview. Several Bollywood celebrities praised both Kiara and Sidharth on social media for their marvels performance. Recently a new was published that ‘Shershaah’ become the most watched film on Amazon Prime Video in India. 

Apart from films, Kiara has appeared in a number of magazines and ads. She has also promoting many brands and performing several modeling assailments.    

Upcoming Projects:

Kiara’s is busy with the shooting the film ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’ opposite Kartik Aaryan which was a sequel of Akshay Kumar’s ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’.

She also assigned with Dharma Productions romantic comedy film ‘Jug Jugg Jeeyo’ with Anil Kapoor, Neetu Singh.

She has also signed to play Dharma Productions action comedy film Mr. Lele directed by Shashank Khaitan and stare opposite Vicky Kaushal and Bhumi Pednekar.

In July, 2021, she was announced to play the leading role in an untitled film directed by S. Shankar co-starring with Tamil superstar Ram Charan. This film will get released in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages.

Kiara has also commited to act in Sajid Nadiawala’s epic musical saga, directed by Sameer Vidhwans stared with actor Kartik Aaryan. She has another next up project which is Ashutosh Gowariker’s next Karram Kurram. The story has based on the success of the Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad.

So, we seem that she has assigned with some great projects which will be a great opportunity for her acting career. Hopefully, with her beauty and acting talent so soon she will grab the top place in Bollywood.   

Awards & achievements:   

In 2014, Kiara was voted one of the most desirable women of the year.

Kiara has nominated for several awards and won 2019 Zee Cine Awards Telugu and AsiaVision Awards as the Best Female Debut of Telugu film for ‘Bharat Ane Nenu’.

Kiara was also awarded the Zee Cine Award in 2020 after playing a tremendous role in the 'Kabir Singh' movie. 

In 2021,Kiara Advani won 5th Annual Talentrack Awards in the Best Female Actress category for 'Guilty'. 

Recently, she has been honored with Life Membership of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy Of Film & Television by Sandeep Marwah.