Mumbai: Actress Kriti Kharbanda has seen many ups and downs in her career. She worked in Telugu and Kannada cinema before making her mark in Hindi films. Sometimes she was in the news for her beauty and modeling, and sometimes she won the hearts of the audience with her acting.
Kriti had no intention of coming into films. She was completing her studies and also did modeling. During this time, her picture on an advertisement hoarding caught the attention of a filmmaker and from here the path to the beginning of her film career was opened.
Kriti Kharbanda was born on 29 October 1990 in Delhi. After completing her schooling, she obtained a Diploma in Jewelery Designing. Even before entering the world of acting, she started working in advertisements. In his childhood, he worked in an ice cream advertisement. After this she continued modeling and appeared in advertisements of many brands.
Kriti had told in an interview that her picture was on the hoarding advertising a supermarket chain in Chennai. Filmmaker Raj Pipalla’s eyes fell on that picture. At that time he was looking for a new actress for his Telugu film. After seeing Kriti’s picture, her team contacted her and called her for audition.
Initially, Kriti thought that maybe she was being pranked, but when she reached Hyderabad, she understood that the filmmaker really wanted to cast her in his film. Kriti auditioned and was selected out of around 150 girls. After the advice of his family, he accepted this opportunity. In this way, his acting career started with the Telugu film ‘Boni’ released in 2009. Sumanth was seen with her in the film.
After ‘Boni’, Kriti entered the cinema scene in 2010 with the Kannada film ‘Chiru’. After this he worked continuously in Telugu and Kannada films. The Kannada film ‘Googly’ released in 2013 proved to be important for his career. Yash was with her in this film. After the success of the film, Kriti got many new opportunities in South cinema.
Her debut in Hindi films was in 2016 with the film ‘Raaz Reboot’ with Emraan Hashmi. However, she got special recognition among the Hindi audience from the 2017 film ‘Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana’. In this she played the character of Aarti Shukla. People liked her acting a lot and many people started calling her Aarti instead of her real name.
After this, Kriti was seen in films like ‘Guest in London’, ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se’, ‘Housefull 4’, ‘Pagalpanti’, ‘Taish’ and ’14 Phere’. He made his mark by playing different types of characters.
Kriti received the Best Actress (Critics) Award at the South Indian International Movie Awards for the Kannada film ‘Super Ranga’ in 2015. In 2019, she received the Most Stylish Rising Star award at the Lokmat Stylish Awards. At the same time, in 2020, she was given the Best Actress Award in a Comic Role at the Lions Gold Awards for the film ‘Housefull 4’.
Talking about personal life, Kriti married actor Pulkit Samrat on March 15, 2024. Both of them met while working together in films. Their friendship gradually turned into love and then both of them got married.
