Amrita Puri (born 20 August 1983) is an Indian film actress. After
auditioning for a few films, Puri made her film debut with the
ensemble romantic comedy-drama Aisha (2010), which earned her Filmfare
nominations for Best Female Debut and Best Supporting Actress. She had
her first commercial success three years later with the male buddy
film Kai Po Che (2013).After completing her post-graduation, Puri
started her career through writing and doing theatre, with her first
play being Quasar Thakore Padamsee's English play Retellings View From
The Stage. For a year she did copywriting for advertising agency
Ogilvy along with freelancing for lifestyle magazine. After getting
her portfolio done by Dilip Bhatia, she started auditioning for movies
and ad films. Soon she did her first ad for Kotex and later featured
in ads and TV commercials for several brands, including People First,
Garnier and L'Oreal.After few auditions for many films, Puri made her
Bollywood film debut with Rajshree Ojha's directed Aisha (2010). The
ensemble romantic comedy, co-starring Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Ira
Dubey, Cyrus Sahukar, Anand Tiwari, Arunoday Singh and Lisa Haydon,
saw Puri portray Shefali Thakur, a friend of Kapoor's eponymous lead.
The film, as well as her performance, received mostly positive
reviews, but with worldwide earnings of ₹28.65 crore (US$4.1
million) on a budget of ₹19 crore (US$2.7 million), the film proved
to be a semi-hit at the box-office but earned Puri two nominations at
the 55th Filmfare Awardsâ€"Best Female Debut and Best Supporting
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