Yami Gautam

Yami Gautam (born 28 November 1988[2]) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Hindi films.[3] Gautam came to prominence after starring in a series of Fair & Lovely commercials. She later starred in television shows such as Chand Ke Paar Chalo (2008–2009) and Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam (2009–2010). Following this, she appeared in several South Indian films.

Yami Gautam
Gautam in 2018
Born (1988-11-28) 28 November 1988
Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, India[1]
OccupationActress
Years active2008–present
Parent(s)Mukesh Gautam
FamilySurilie Gautam (sister)

Gautam made her Hindi film debut in 2012 with the comedy Vicky Donor, which was a critical and commercial success.[4][5][6] For her performance, she received praise as well as nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She went on to star as a young wife in the crime film Badlapur (2015), and a blind woman in the thriller Kaabil (2017). In 2019, she starred as an intelligence officer in the war film Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019), one of the highest-grossing Indian films, and garnered critical acclaim for playing a TikTok star in the satire Bala (2019).

Early life and background

Yami Gautam was born in a Hindu Brahmin[7] family in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh and was brought up in Chandigarh.[1][8] Her father Mukesh Gautam is a Punjabi film director. Her mother is Anjali Gautam.[9] She has a younger sister Surilie Gautam, who made her big screen debut with the Punjabi film Power Cut.[10][11][12] She did her regular schooling, and later entered college to pursue a graduate degree in law honours. She had aspired to join Indian Administrative Services (IAS) as a young girl, but at the age of 20, Gautam decided to start her acting career.[13] Though she was pursuing studies in Law Honors (first-year PU Student of law), she left full-time studies for acting. Recently, she has been doing her part-time graduation from Mumbai.[14] Gautam is fond of reading, interior decoration and listening to music.[14]

Television career

Gautam was twenty when she moved to Mumbai to pursue a career in movies.[15] She made her television debut with Chand Ke Paar Chalo, which was followed by Raajkumar Aaryyan. Following this, she played her most notable role in Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam,[16] which aired on Colors.[17] Furthermore, she participated in the reality shows Meethi Choori No 1 and Kitchen Champion Season 1.

Career

After making her debut in lead with the 2009 Kannada movie Ullasa Utsaha, Gautam made her Bollywood debut in a leading role in Shoojit Sircar's romantic comedy-drama Vicky Donor (2012). Co-starring opposite Ayushmann Khurrana and Annu Kapoor, she portrayed Ashima Roy, a Bengali woman who falls in love with a Punjabi (Khurrana) and gets to know about his past after marriage.[18] The film, which marked Bollywood actor John Abraham's production debut, received positive reviews from critics and proved to be a major commercial success and one of the highest-grossing films of the year with worldwide grossing of ₹645 million (US$3.9 million). For her debut performance, Gautam received critical acclaim as well as several awards and nominations, including the Best Female Debut (tied with Ileana D'Cruz for Barfi!) trophy at the Zee Cine Awards, and a nomination under the same category at the 58th Filmfare Awards.

Gautam and Ajay Devgn at the trailer launch of Action Jackson in 2014

After a two-year absence from Bollywood films, Gautam returned in 2014 and appeared in two films, the first of which was Eeshwar Nivas's romantic comedy film Total Siyappa, co-starring Ali Zafar, Anupam Kher, and Kirron Kher, in which she played the love interest of Zafar's character.[19] Gautam's second Bollywood release that year was Prabhu Deva's action thriller Action Jackson, in which Ajay Devgn portrayed a double role, while she and Sonakshi Sinha featured as the love interests of his characters. Both Total Siyappa and Action Jackson under-performed at the box office.

In 2015, Gautam appeared alongside Varun Dhawan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Sriram Raghavan's action thriller Badlapur. The film, which focuses on the story of a man (Raghu, played by Dhawan) who over the course of 15 years avenges the murder of his wife (Misha, played by her) and son, emerged as a critical and commercial success, collecting ₹770 million (US$11 million) worldwide despite earning negative reviews. Gautam's performance was praised.[20]

In 2016, Gautam played Pulkit Samrat's love interest in two romances–Divya Khosla Kumar's Sanam Re and Vivek Agnihotri's Junooniyat. In the former, she played a high-school girl who falls in love with Samrat's character, and in the latter, she portrayed a Punjabi girl who falls in love with an army officer (Samrat). Both Sanam Re and Junooniyat were commercial failures.[21]

The following year, Gautam collaborated with Hrithik Roshan on Sanjay Gupta's revengeful romantic thriller Kaabil (2017), which tells the story of a blind man who avenges the rape of his blind wife. The film, as well as her performance, received mixed reviews and the film emerged as a financial success, earning ₹1.96 billion (US$28 million) worldwide. Later in 2017, Gautam featured briefly in Ram Gopal Varma's political thriller Sarkar 3, the third installment of Varma's Sarkar franchise, alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Manoj Bajpayee, and Amit Sadh. Sarkar 3 failed to do well at the box office. Gautam's next release was the Shree Narayan Singh directed-social problem dramedy Batti Gul Meter Chalu (2018), in which she played a lawyer alongside Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, and Divyendu Sharma. The film was a commercial failure.

Gautam's greatest success came in 2019 when she appeared in Aditya Dhar's military action thriller film Uri: The Surgical Strike, alongside Vicky Kaushal, Paresh Rawal, Mohit Raina, and Kirti Kulhari. Based on the 2016 Uri attack, Gautam portrayed Pallavi Sharma, a nurse-turned-an intelligence officer. Upon release, the film received mixed reviews and emerged as one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time, grossing over ₹3.36 billion (US$54 million) worldwide. Her performance was critically praised.

She reunited with Ayushmann Khurrana in Amar Kaushik's comedy-drama Bala, a satire on physical attractiveness, which was released on 7 November, 2019. The movie was released and emerged as a commercial success and the performance of Yami Gautam as Pari was praised by critics. As of January 2020, she is doing a film titled Ginny Weds Sunny opposite Vikrant Massey directed by debutant Puneet Khanna and produced by Vinod Bachchan.[22]

Brand endorsements

Her brand endorsements include Glow & Lovely, Cornetto, Samsung Mobile, Chevrolet, among others.[23]

Filmography
Key
Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year Film Role Language Notes
2009Ullasa UtsahaMahalakshmiKannada
2011Ek NoorRabihaPunjabi
NuvvilaArchanaTelugu
2012Vicky DonorAshima RoyHindi
HeroGauri MenonMalayalam
2013GouravamYazhiniTamil
Gouravam Yamini Telugu
YuddhamMadhumita
2014Total SiyapaaAsha Hindi
Action JacksonAnusha
2015BadlapurMisha Verma
Courier Boy KalyanKavyaTelugu
2016Sanam ReShruti Hindi
JunooniyatSuhani Kapoor
Tamilselvanum Thaniyar AnjalumKavyaTamil
2017KaabilSupriya BhatnagarHindi
Sarkar 3Annu Karkare
2018Batti Gul Meter ChaluAdvocate Gulnaar Rizvi
2019Uri: The Surgical StrikePallavi Sharma/Jasmine Almeida
BalaPari
2020Ginny Weds Sunny GinnyFilming[24]

Television
Year Show Role Channel
2008-2009Chand Ke Paar ChaloSanaNDTV Imagine
2008Raajkumar AaryyanRajkumari BhairviNDTV Imagine
2010CID - Episode 642 - Kabarwali LadkiAnanyaSony TV
2009-2010Yeh Pyar Na Hoga KamLeher Mathur VajpayeeColors
2010Meethi Choori No 1 ContestantImagine TV
Kitchen Champion Season 1 Contestant Colors

Awards and nominations
YearAwardCategoryFilmResult
20125th Boroplus Gold AwardsRising Film Stars From TVVicky DonorWon[25]
Bhaskar Bollywood AwardsFresh Entry of the YearNominated[26]
People's Choice Awards IndiaFavorite Debut Actor (Male/Female)Nominated[27]
BIG Star Entertainment AwardsMost Entertaining Actor (Film) Debut – FemaleWon[28]
2013ETC Bollywood Business AwardsMost Profitable Debut (Female)Nominated[29]
Filmfare AwardsBest Female DebutNominated[30]
Screen AwardsMost Promising Newcomer – FemaleNominated[31]
Zee Cine AwardsBest Female DebutWon[32]
Stardust AwardsBest ActressNominated[33]
Superstar of Tomorrow – FemaleNominated[33]
Star Guild AwardsBest Female DebutNominated[34]
Times of India Film AwardsBest Debut – FemaleNominated[35]
IIFA AwardsStar Debut of the Year – FemaleWon[36]
2017 Lux Golden Rose Awards Versatile Beauty of the Year Award N/A Nominated

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Lux Golden Rose Awards Break Through Performer Of The Year Award Kaabil Nominated

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2020 Screen Awards Best Comedian Bala Won[38]
Zee Cine Awards Best Actor in a Comic Role Nominated
Critics' Choice Film Awards Best Actor (Female) Nominated[39]
International Indian Film Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress Pending[40]

Other honours
  • 2013: iTimes's No. 12 Most Desirable Woman of 2012.[41]
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See also

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