Manisha Yadav
Vidhi Sindhwad
Eva Ahuja
Urvashi Upadhyay
Neelam Panchal
Manisha Purohit
Krishna Gokani
Kalyani Thakkar
Bhoomi Shukla
Aarti Malkan
Zankhana Sheth
Shilpa Raizada
Manas Shah
Shrikant Soni
Winy Tripathi
Sameer Rajda
Paresh Bhatt
Lavanya Bhardwaj
Madhav Deochake
Kunal Thakkur
Kaushal Shah
Ajay Parekh
Mihir Rajda
Sanjay Gagnani
1. Manisha Yadav
Manisha Yadav was born and brought up in Bhopal, the state capital of Madhya Pradesh. She completed her graduation from there and then joined the Anupam Kher's Actors Prepares academy in Mumbai. After completing this course, she rushed for the glamour world and got her first break in TV serials in Imtihan, which was made for Doordarshan. She has also worked in Shapath in Life Ok and CID in the Sony channel.
Though Manisha was working in Hindi TV serials for quite some time in the past, unfortunately, her performances did not receive the recognition they deserved. She came into the limelight for her performance in 'Jodha Akbar,' one of the highest TRPs in the recent past. In this serial, she is playing the role of Salima Begum, one of the emperor's wives, apart from the more popular Jodha Begum played ...
2. Vidhi Sindhwad
Vidhi Sindhwad is an Indian actress, who became popular for her character as Aastha Nanavati on Star Plus’ drama serial, Hamari Devrani. In 2013, she made an episodic on Sony TV’s thriller drama-documentary series, Bhoot Aaya. After Hamari Devrani, Vidhi wanted to focus on her studies and decided to stop acting for a while, but since she wanted to do a horror show, when Bhoot Aaya was offered to her, she accepted it.
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Vidhi Sindhwad is an Indian entertainer, who ended up prominent for her character as Aastha Nanavati on Star Plus' dramatization sequential, Hamari Devrani. In 2013, she made a roundabout on Sony TV's spine-chiller show narrative arrangement, Bhoot Aaya. She guara...
3. Eva Ahuja
Eva Ahuja is an Indian actress who works in the Hindi television industry. She also works in Gujarati television serials. She has been in the television industry since 2002. Born and brought up in Mumbai, it was no surprise for the actress to take up the small screen as her starting point of her career. Eva came to fame when she featured in an episodic role for “Instant Khichdi” in 2005, where she played the role of Priya. The show was telecasted on Star One, and since then there is no look back for her. She has been getting many television serials to work.
In 2006, she was seen in the Ekta Kapoor produced “Kasamh Se” where she did a cameo role. Since Hindi television serials were not the only mainstay, the actress was also seen in Gujarati industry wherein 2009, she was seen in “C...
4. Urvashi Upadhyay
5. Neelam Panchal
Neelam Panchal is an Indian Television actress who is respected for superb performances in various roles and taking her performance to higher levels each time she appears in a show.
Neelam was first noticed in the serial ' Hamari Devrani' which was telecast on Star Plus during 2008-12. she performed as Rajeshwari Gautam Nanavati, the wife of Gautam (played by Manas Shah) and one of the daughters in law in Nanavati household. The storyline of the serial revolved round Devikaben, an old widow lady who has six sons and five daughters in law. Her youngest son is yet unmarried and they are looking for a suitable match for the youngest son. All the daughters in law in the family want him to marry one of their choice to avoid any further sharing of the pie in the form of family property. The insider figh...
6. Manisha Purohit
Manisha Purohit is an Indian television actress. With her cunning looks, Manisha is apt for evil roles. So she fits into the box of an antagonist. Owing to these characteristics, Manisha got the opportunity to enter the industry.
She began her television industry in 2008. “Hamari Devrani” is an Indian soap opera which aired on Star Plus. Manisha played the role of Jalpa Ketan Nanavati. The show is about Bhakti who is a poor girl living in a small village of Gujarat. She is considered unlucky because her mother after giving birth to her. She and her maternal grandmother move to Ahmedabad, Gujarat where her father, Hasmukk is. In Ahmedabad, there is a rich family known as the Nanavatis. The family has six sons and five daughter-in-laws. The five daughter-in-laws of the family Manjula, Parul, Alpa, Japla and Raj...
7. Krishna Gokani
Krishna Gokani is an Indian Television actress. She was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She is one of the talented television actresses of Indian television cinema. She got her education from Mumbai only. She is having positive attitude and is down to earth. She acted in few serials in her career.
She made her debut in the serial “Hamari Devrani” in 2008. She played the lead role in this serial as “Bhakti”. This show was telecasted on Star Plus channel. This show was one of the longest running serials in India. It ended after 951 episodes. The story of the serial was about a girl whose mother died after giving birth to her and her father refused to see her face & abandoned her. This show was very popular and received high TRP at the start. Krishna left the show in between because of some issues. After this show she ...
8. Kalyani Thakkar
Kalyani Thakkar is a Gujarati film, theatre artist, and TV actress. She has received huge fame and immense eminence for her role in the Gujarati movie Koi Ne Kehsho Nahi!. She also performs in Gujarati plays. Comedy is her forte for small screen performances. The actress belongs to a pure Gujarati family.
She started her acting career with Unchi Medi Na Uncha Kangda, a Gujarati film. Thereafter, she has been working with many directors and producers. The teetotaller has been immensely successful in carving a niche for herself in the industry. She has done around 25 Gujarati films and several television shows and Gujarati plays. The actress is best remembered by Television lovers for her role as the devious Parul who always found excuses to escape from household chores in the popular television show - Humari D...
9. Bhoomi Shukla
10. Aarti Malkan
Aarti Malkan is popularly known as a Gujarati actress, who has several Gujarati television appearances and theater endeavors to her credit. She is best known for her role as Kastoorba in the famous soap opera, ‘Hamari Devrani’ (2008), a show which was aired on Star Plus, and was among the most popular television dramas during its time on air, till 2012. It successfully completed 951 episodes during its run on Star Plus and was considered as a major crowd puller. Aarti too was immensely benefited by the success of the show as she became a household name and her character ‘Kastoorba’ was adored by the viewers. The show was about the female protagonist ‘Bhakti’, who is considered to be inauspicious due to the death of her mother while giving birth to her. The show gained her a lot of re...
11. Zankhana Sheth
Zankhana Sheth or Zankhana Desai is an Indian television actress who appeared in the Indian drama soap, Hamari Devrani, on Star Plus. She played the role of Devki Purushottam Nanavati. Zankhana had a mild heart attack in the year 2009, the same year she did this serial, so the production had to change the script for her absence.
Zankhana started her career in theater. She has done 40 stage plays and 35 Gujarati movies, including the Man No Manigar, under the production of Mahendra and Pankaj Patel.
Zankhana Sheth is the sister of Shobhana Desai, the producer of Hamari Devrani. She also made an appearance on some of Shobhana’s projects such as Ek Mahal Ho Sapno Ka, where she essayed the role of Panna Sanat Nanvati on Sony TV. This serial is one of the longest running serials in India. She also appe...
12. Shilpa Raizada
Shilpa Raizada is an Indian Hindi TV actress; she has embarked her niche in the Hindi Tv industry. Her first break was of a negative role in "Hamari Devrani" and rose to fame with her debutant role itself. She later came into limelight when she bagged a role in the mythological serial Jodha Akbar.
In Jodha Akbar series, she donned the character of Shehnaaz, a very spiritual girl who believes in both the Muslim and Hindu traditions. Her character was clouded with mystery, and she played it very well gaining the love of the audience. She loves dancing though not yet trained in it. She eagerly wants to dance professionally.
She had participated in all dance competitions in her school and college days but couldn't carry it f...
13. Manas Shah
Manas Shah is a TV actor who belongs to Ahmedabad. He did his schooling and education from Ahmedabad and participated in Zee TVs contest 'Cine Stars Ki Khoj' in 2004 and was selected for participation in Mumbai. Though he was eliminated form the show in early stages but his stint in this contest made him interested in acting and he started looking for suitable openings for his new found interest.
He made his debut in the TV world with Star Plus serial “Hamari Devrani” in 2008. the serial was produced by Shobhana Desai and directed by Pawan Sahu and others. It was a story of the family of a widow Devki Ben who has six sons and five of them are married. Her only worry is to get her sixth son married and settled in life at the earliest possible opportunity. All the five daughters in law of Devki Ben are in...
14. Shrikant Soni
There is no end to the contribution of Shrikant Soni on Indian television and films. Having started at an early age, this veteran actor has come a long way in this field of work. His earliest project dates back to 1972 where he worked in Naag Panchami. His role had received critical acclaim here. His subsequent ventures include Har Har Gange in 1979, Bhagat Gora Kumbhar in 1981 to Bhagwan Shri Krishna, four years later in 1985.
But that is not enough. In between he worked on a number of projects which have given him some great experiences. One such example is his work in Bhadar Tara Vehata Paani in 1976.
On the small screen his talent was exposed to the world with his show “Humari Devrani”. This 2008 premiere on Star Plus went on to become one of the longest running Indian soaps....
15. Winy Tripathi
Winy Tripathi was a TV actor who was born on 2nd March 1985 and is 30 years old. He measures 6 feet and 1 inch in height and weighs 78 kilos. He is based out of Mumbai and he has a casting agency by the name Israni Communication.
Winy Tripathi has acted in various television serials. Few to name are: “Mukti Bandhan”, “Na Aana Is Desh Laado”. Mukti Bandhan is adopted from Harkisan Mehta’s very popular Gujarati novel. The story is about a self-made person and clash of ideologies.
Winy Tripathi has played the role of Raju, who is a guide and for this role, Winy has taken inspiration from Kishorilal Chadda, which is a character played by Rohit Roy. He followed that love story to win the lo...
16. Sameer Rajda
Sameer Rajda is a talented television actor. He is known for his work in Gujarati films. Mulraj Rajda (actor) is his father. He was well known by the name Shatrughna, in the serials Ramayan & Luv Kush, directed by Ramanand Sagar. Ramayan was a television serial based on Hindu epic. This serial was shown during the year 1987-1988. This serial, was completely based on Valmki’s Ramayana and Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas. According to the epic, Shatrughna i.e. Sameer was the youngest brother of Lord Rama. This serial, was telecasted on Doordarshan and ran till 78 episodes.
Luv Kush was a follow up of the successful serial Ramayan. This serial was also directed by Ramanand Sagar with the same cast. This serial, was about the last book of the epic Ramayana named Uttara Kanda. This serial showed the life of Luv, el...
17. Paresh Bhatt
18. Lavanya Bhardwaj
A small town boy with great looks and magnificent body. Maybe, this name Lavanya Bhardwaj doesn’t strike any chord in you, but when I’ll say Sahadeva of Mahabharat, I’m sure you might end up with an image in your mind. Yes, that’s our very own Lavanya. He hails from Meerut and like any other actor, has dreams of becoming a great actor. The Mahabharat has given him due credits and he looks forward to a better future in this serial. Mahabharat is his first show as one of the lead actors and the way he acted has marked his better future beforehand. throughout this show he acted like a calm and composed person, but he finally breaks his silence in the best way possible by killing the greatest evil doer in the show- shakuni and the way he killed him shows his potential.
His character on the show was...
19. Madhav Deochake
Madhav Deochake is an Indian actor. He was born in a Maratha family in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He did his schoolings and graduation from Mumbai only. He is a theatre artist. He joined theatre in his college days. He did many plays, dramas, etc. He started his career by acting in few serials.
He made his debut in TV industry through the serial “Hamari Devrani” in 2008. He played the lead role in this serial as “Mohan Nanavati”. This show was telecasted on Star Plus. This show was one of the longest running serials in India. It ended after 951 episodes. The story of the serial was about a girl whose mother died after giving birth to her and her father refused to see her face & abandoned her. This show was very popular show and received high TRP ratings. It was created by Shobhana Desai Productions. Madhav left the sho...
20. Kunal Thakkur
Kunal Thakkur is an Indian actor and a television model. He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He did his schoolings from Mumbai only. He graduated from “MMK College of Commerce and Economics” in Mumbai only. He joined theatre in his college days. He was passionate about acting from his childhood only. He acted in many plays, dramas and different events including one-act plays. He is a good tennis player and has won many tournaments.
Kunal acted in the serial “Bandini” in 2009. It was created by Balaji Telefilms and was telecasted on NDTV Imagine. The story of the serial is based upon the backdrop of a village of Gujarat “Dharampur”. The story is about a poor girl Santu Waghela who is married to a middle-aged Dharamraj Mahiyavanshi. Even after the death of Subhadra, his dead wife, he still loves her. His new wife is ta...
21. Kaushal Shah
Kaushal Shah is a Gujarati actor, producer and director who played the role of Sannat Nanavati in the television soap, Hamari Devrani on Star Plus channel. He also played as the young Dushasana in the 1988 epic series, Mahabharat on DD National.
Kaushal was also known for acting in many Gujarati plays like Be Lal Na Raja by Arvind Joshi, Sasariyu Sona Ni Khaan by Manasvi Dixit, Jaydeep Shah’s Bahar Aav Tari Bairi Batavu and Bolya Be Bol Khuli Gai Pol. Besides acting, he also produced the comedy Gujarati play, ‘Ne Bachu Bachi Gayo’ in 2008 and Ek Chatur Naar in 2009. He also worked as a director in the Gujarati film, Parmeshwar Aaram Ma Che.
...22. Ajay Parekh
Ajay Parekh is a talented actor in Bollywood who has appeared in one of the most favorite Hindi soap operas, “Hamari Devrani”. The show was aired in the year 2011 on Star Plus and went on to broadcast over nine hundred episodes, over two seasons. The story is based on a poor girl who has been tagged to be extremely unlucky, due to the unfortunate fact that her mother passed away during the time of her birth.
As she grows, she becomes a lonely person. She is soon asked to marry a member of a very prominent family. And she was chosen because of her naïve character, hoping that she would not be greedy enough to go after their wealth and would be subordinating to all the others.
But later on, her innocence wins everyone over as she grows to be everyone favorite. But due to another unfortuna...
23. Mihir Rajda
Mihir Rajda, a popular Marathi actor, scriptwriter, director and theater artist, is also known as Mihir Nishith Rajda. Mihir has written several dramas in Marathi that include Gostha Tashi Gamtichi and Don't Worry Be Happy, which had grabbed the state award too. Besides scripting the drama, Mihir had played an important role in this theater show. The show won the Best Drama Award in Sanskruti Kaladarpan Awards 2016. It also took part in 28th Maharashtra State Marathi Commercial Drama Competition and grabbed a lot of awards, including the Best Drama award. Mihir won the first prize for this drama as a writer. Totally the show bagged 10 awards. Mihir is well known for his portrayal in the Marathi series, Mazhya Navryachi Bayko. Besides playing in Marathi theater plays and TV series, Mihir has also played in the Hindi TV series too. H...
24. Sanjay Gagnani
Sanjay R Gagnani is an Indian television actor. He was known for the role of Thakur Suren Singh Badoria, who was Thakur Digvijay’s nephew in Colors’ Bairi Piya, produced by Balaji telefilms. He also appeared in Tere Liye as Jackky, also produced by Balaji telefilms and Hamari Saas Leela.
He made his big screen debut in Rajdhani Express, under the banner Cine Arts Production. This film, directed by Rahul Pundit and Ashok Kohli, also marking their, debut as director has Leander Paes and Sanjay Gagnani in the lead. He also appeared in Sony television’s Encounter as the cop, Farid Khan who tackled the famous D gang attack on Bollywood. For preparation of his role in this episode Sanjay met real cops to u...