Nusrat Jahan

Nusrat Jahan Ruhi (born 8 January 1990) is an Indian film actress who predominantly works in Bengali cinema.[3][4] She joined active politics in 2019 and contested from Basirhat as a Trinamool Congress candidate.[5] Jahan's screen debut was in Raj Chakraborty's Shotru. She then appeared in the film Khoka 420, under the banner Eskay Movies. Her other notable movies include Khiladi, with Ankush Hazra, Sondhe Namar Agey, with Rahul Bose and Power, with Jeet under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films. She is an elected Member of Parliament for Basirhat.[6]

Nusrat Jahan Ruhi
At a Berger Paints event
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Assumed office
24 May 2019
Preceded byIdris Ali
ConstituencyBasirhat
Majority340,369 (24.44%)[1]
Personal details
Born
Nusrat Jahan Ruhi[2]

(1990-01-08) 8 January 1990
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress
Spouse(s)
Nikhil Jain
(
m. 2019)
Occupation
  • Actress
  • model
  • politician
Known forOne

Personal life

Nusrat Jahan Ruhi was born in a Bengali Muslim family in Kolkata, West Bengal, India to Shah Jahan and Sushma Khatun on 8 January 1990.[7][8][9][10] She completed her schooling from Our Lady Queen of the Missions School, Kolkata and then went to college in Bhawanipur College, Kolkata graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree.[8][7] Nusrat Jahan had been in a relationship with businessman Nikhil Jain since 2018.[11] They got married on 19 June 2019 in Turkey.[7][9]

Acting career

She started her modelling career after winning the beauty contest, Fair One Miss Kolkata in 2010.[12][13] She made her Tollywood debut in film, Shotru alongside Jeet. After a year of hiatus, she starred in her second film, Khoka 420, with Dev. Her next release of that year was Khiladi, opposite Ankush Hazra. After that, she appeared in two item songs, namely "Chicken Tandoori" from Action and "Desi Chhori" from Yoddha - The Warrior, both of which were instant hits and became chartbusters. She was then seen in Sondhe Namar Agey, with co-star Rahul Bose. In 2015, she featured in the comedy film, Jamai 420, opposite Ankush Hazra and an ensemble cast including Payel Sarkar, Mimi Chakraborty, Soham Chakraborty and Hiran. She was also a part of the theme song of BCL (Bengal Celebrity League) for the team "Midnapoor Mighities", with Dev and Sayantika Banerjee. Her next and last film of 2015 was Har Har Byomkesh, released in December 2015. The movie was a huge box office success. In 2016, she appeared in director Rajib Biswas' film Power, with Jeet and Sayantika Banerjee. That same year, she starred in the comedy film Kelor Kirti, with Dev Adhikari, Jishu Sengupta, Ankush Hazra, Mimi Chakraborty, Koushani Mukherjee and Sayantika Banerjee. Later that year, she was seen in Love Express, opposite Deepak Adhikari and after that in Zulfiqar, directed by Srijit Mukherjee. Zulfiqar was among the top earning films of 2016. She ended the year 2016 with the comedy film Haripada Bandwala, with Ankush Hazra under the direction of Pathikrit Basu. In 2017, she was first seen in One, with Prosenjit Chatterjee and Yash Dasgupta, which was directed by Birsa Dasgupta. In May 2017, her next film Ami Je Ke Tomar was released. On 22 September 2017, her next movie Bolo Dugga Maiki was released. 2018, she acted in Uma as a guest, then she took place in Crisscross directed by Birsa Dasgupta & after that Rajiv Kumar Biswas selected her for the film Naqaab with Shakib Khan and Sayantika Banerjee. Next she danced in the song (Joy Joy Durga Maa) composed & featured by Jeet Gannguli, cricketer Sourav Ganguly, actress Subhashree Ganguly, Mimi Chakraborty, Nusrat Jahan & actor Bonny Sengupta were shown in the screen. This was released on the behalf of Captain TMT Bar advertise.[14]

Political career

On 12 March 2019, West Bengal Chief Minister and president of Trinamool Congress party Mamata Banerjee announced that Jahan would contest the upcoming general election of 2019 from Basirhat Lok Sabha Constituency.[15][16] She emerged as the winner by a margin of 350,000 votes against BJP candidate Sayantan Basu.[17]

Filmography
Denotes films that have not yet been released
YearFilmRoleDirector
2011 Shotru Pooja Raj Chakraborty
2013 Khoka 420 MeghaRajiv Kumar Biswas
Khiladi PoojaAshok Pati
2014 Action Herself Sayantan Mukherjee
Yoddha : The Warrior Raj Chakraborty
Sondhey Namar Age Rupsa Ritabrata Bhattacharya
2015 Jamai 420 Priyanka Rabi Kinnagi
Har Har Byomkesh Shakuntala Arindam Sil
2016 Power[18] Shruti Rajiv Kumar Biswas
Kelor Kirti Urvashi Raja Chanda
Love Express Neelasha / Neel Rajiv Kumar Biswas
Zulfiqar Rani Talapatra (Cleopatra) Srijit Mukherji
Haripada Bandwala Sweety Pathikrit Basu
2017 One Megha Birsa Dasgupta
Ami Je Ke Tomar Esha Ravi Kinagi
Bolo Dugga Maiki Uma Raj Chakraborty
2018 Uma Herself Srijit Mukherji
Crisscross Meher Birsa Dasgupta
Naqaab Disha Rajiv Kumar Biswas
2020 Asur Aditi Pavel
Dictionary TBA Bratya Basu
Sos Kolkata[19] TBA Anshuman Pratyush

References
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  19. "anshman ready with his next film to hit the floors on Monday". Times of India.
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