Neha Mahajan

Neha Mahajan was born in the Telegaon district in Pune, Maharashtra. She started acting in dramas and local plays since the year 2004 and continued her passion until she reached the coveted film industry of Bollywood, Mollywood and also the Marathi film industry. In 2012, she gained global recognition after appearing as one of the lead roles in the movie- ‘Midnight’s Children’. The movie was released in the same year and it was directed by Deepa Mehta Deepa Mehta makes such pretty movies, when watchin >> Read More... , with the use of original screenplay written by Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and es >> Read More... ; who wrote the book with the same name in 1981. The movie was featured at various film festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival and Vancouver Film Festival.

It is a Canadian- British film- a trait which helped it in bagging two awards at the ‘First Canadian Screen Awards’. Following the release of the movie, Neha was a part of another work which was successful in receiving global recognition- it was an adaptation of the Shakespearean play- ‘Hamlet’ by the playwright Madhav Vaze Madhav Vaze is a veteran Indian film actor, theate >> Read More... . The drama was entirely remade into Marathi, and Neha performed wonderfully in it as Ophelia. In 2013, she also worked in a Marathi movie titled ‘Ajoba’, in which she played one of the lead roles. Breaking her custom of acting in Marathi films and also to break free from the process of being typecasted into specific stereotypical roles, Neha Mahajan takes up her first Malayalam movie- ‘Chaayam Pooshiya Veedu’ or the ‘Painted House’, directed by the duo Santhosh Babu and Satheesh Babu.

Her decision of picking the movie led to many favorable outcomes as the film was selected for screening at the twentieth International Film Festival of Kerala, where it won several critical praises. Neha also appears as the heroine in her latest movie- ‘Ishq-e-Hyderabadi’, which is a Bollywood film rich in the traditions and culture of Hyderabad. Throughout her film career, Neha has taken firm and steady steps through her decisions which always resulted in her favor. She thus wishes to set an example to all aspiring females to step into the process of realizing their dreams.