Anupriya Goenka is an Indian actress who works mainly in Bollywood and South Indian film industry. She is known for her role as ‘Nagmati’ in the film ‘Padmaavat’ (2018).
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Anupriya Goenka was born on Friday, May 29, 1987, in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh (age 32 years 2019). Her zodiac sign is Gemini. She completed her education from Gyan Bharati School, Saket, New Delhi and received her bachelor’s degree from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, New Delhi.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′7″
Eye color: dark brown
Hair color: black
family and caste
Anupriya Goenka belongs to the Marwari family. Her father Ravindra Kumar Goenka is a former clothing entrepreneur and her mother Pushpa Goenka is a housewife. She has two sisters and a brother.
Anupriya Goenka and her family
She is rumored to be dating actor Vaibhav Raj Gupta.
Anupriya Goenka with her rumored boyfriend
Profession
Anupriya Goenka came to Mumbai in 2008. In Mumbai, she started working in the corporate sector, where she found herself drawn to theatre. Later she bought a house in Thane and her family followed her to the city of dreams. At the same time, she also began acting in the theater world. However, she had to juggle her career between acting and the corporate world. She started appearing in advertisements and came into limelight in 2013 when she became the face of the UPA government’s ‘Bharat Nirman’ ad campaign.
Anupriya Goenka in the stills of “Indianaman”
In 2015, she gained further popularity by playing a lesbian character in India’s first lesbian advertisement for Indian fashion e-commerce company Myntra.
She has appeared in advertisements for various popular brands such as Coca-Cola, Garnier, Stayfree, Kotak Mahindra, Pepperfry and Dabur.
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She also served as a host on the home shopping channel ShopCJ for over a year. She made her acting debut in 2013 with the Hindi short film “Worth the Kiss”.
In the same year, she made her Telugu debut as ‘Mary’ in the film Potugadu.
She made her Bollywood debut in 2014 with the role of ‘Afreen’ in the film ‘Bobby Jasoos’.
She made her television debut in the show “The Rabindranath Tagore Story” (2015) on EPIC channel, where she played the role of “Mrignoyonee”.
Anupriya Goenka in a scene from “The Story of Rabindranath Tagore”
She made her acting debut in Punjabi and Haryanvi in the 2017 bilingual film Vekh Baraatan Challiyan, in which she made a special appearance as ‘Saroj’. She has appeared in several Indian films, including Paathshala (2014), Daddy (2017), Tiger Zinda Hai (2017), Padmaavat (2018) and War (2019) . She made her network debut with “Sacred Games (2018-19).”
Anupriya Goenka scenes from Sacred Games
She has acted in several web series and TV series such as Sacred Games (2018-19), Criminal Justice (2019), Panchali (2019) and Asur (2020).
dispute
In 2019, Anupriya had a dispute with the producers of the web series Panchali; the producers of the web series accused Anupriya of being unprofessional and not promoting the show. After the allegations were made by the show’s producers, Anupriya issued a statement about the controversy. In an interview, she shared her story, saying:
The first three intimate scenes will be shot in silhouette and dim lighting, and any scenes of an intimate nature shall not exceed 30 seconds each. During the shooting of the first 3 scenes it was as if there was plenty of light and again I was assured that in post the scene would get darker and that the scene would not go beyond what was being discussed when editing. Again realized I was being manipulated again as each scene was posted with bright lights and lasted 3 to 4 minutes. I was disappointed and admitted that I didn’t want to promote this project at all, but after talking to Mr. Sushant Singh (CINTAA HEAD), I agreed to promote this series. In fact, my PR team is even constantly following up with their PR team on PR strategies, dates. When asked for details of their planned interview with reporters, nothing was shared with us. They just wanted to take a photo of me with the CEO of Ullu and put it on Time Media Network. I would love to promote this series despite all the feuds, but I can’t be forced to promote a specific channel or act as their brand ambassador. “
favorite thing
- Color: white, red, black
- Perfume: Estée Lauder Beauty Perfume
Facts/Trivia
- She was born in Kanpur, but a few years after her birth, her family moved to Delhi as business failed in Kanpur.
- After high school, she worked in call centers and then in the corporate sector. At the same time, she had the opportunity to attend a month-long workshop at the National School of Drama (NSD), which sparked her interest in theatre.
- After completing her studies at the age of 18, she began helping her father in his business. The business failed, which brought her to Jaipur with her family, where she worked in the corporate sector and became the family’s breadwinner.
- In 2008, she stayed with her maternal grandparents in Mumbai for a month and a half on a business trip. She immediately fell in love with the city and decided to work there, and the rest is history.
- Indian actor, theater director and acting coach Neeraj Kabi is her mentor. Anupriya met Kapi at a workshop at NSD and started learning acting from him. Talking about this, she said,
Neeraj sir, was my first acting teacher. You could say he introduced me to acting. I remember how I used to go to his classes from my corporate job and was always afraid of being late..because he wouldn’t be late and me leaving at 530pm was the most confusing thing to my boss..it was just What I was doing was to explore something different…for some soul searching…I never thought of it as a career and Neeraj sir made me fall in love with acting…”
Anupriya Goenka and Neeraj Kabi
- She also auditioned for the lead role in Salman Khan’s film Sultan, but failed. Talking about this, she said,
In 2015, I auditioned for the lead role in Sudan. My audition was very detailed because it was for a female lead. They had about 10-11 auditions over two weeks. It was very hectic and exhausting for me. My base was in sync with the casting team, although it didn’t work out. “
- She will make her debut with the 24-episode unlimited series Yakshi directed by Rohan Sippy. The pilot episode of the show was filmed, but for unknown reasons, the show was shelved.
- She attributes her initial success in the industry to Pradeep Sarkar (writer-director) choosing her for a political ad campaign. Speaking of him, she said,
It was a sanitary napkin ad created by Pradeep Sarkar, and that’s where he chose me for that political ad campaign. It was Pradeep Sarkar who instilled confidence in me and changed my outlook on Bollywood. Initially, I was scared of Bollywood, but after working with Dada (Pradeep Sarkar), I felt there are good people in this industry. Dada was instrumental in my initial success. “
- She is an active philanthropist and associated with Down to Earth. She revealed in an interview that one of her brothers has cerebral palsy, so she wanted to be able to work with these special children. She further stated that she also wanted to work for women.
- In addition to acting, she is also good at painting.
Anupriya Goenka’s Instagram post about painting
- She is an animal lover and owns a dog named “Sugar”.
Anupriya Goenka’s pets
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Source: HIS Education