Pakhi Tyrewala is an Indian model, writer, and an actress, who made her Bollywood debut in the year 2002 with the movie ‘Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai?’ Her real name is Punarnava Mehta and her character’s name in her first movie was also the same. Pakhi was born on 6th June 1984 in Delhi and did her schooling from Sardar Patel school in Delhi. She is dyslexic and hence she didn’t attend college after her school education.
She began her acting career as a child artist and has acted in many theatre programs, serials, and movies as a kid. Her first serial was ‘
Juhi
’ which was aired in the year 1995 and she went on to act in another serial ‘
Dastoor
’ in 1996. Her Bollywood debut was through the movie ‘Dance of The Wind’ in the year in 1997 and she portrayed a Russian girl named stella in that movie. She later shifted her base to Mumbai to find a better platform for her career and did advertisements for many companies including Sunsilk, Hero Honda, Ponds etc.
She took a brief break from acting to go for studies and she came back to the film industry as an adult through the movie ‘Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai’ in 2002. She left the acting career early and got married to director
Abbas Tyrewala
after falling in love with him on the sets of ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’. He brought her back to Bollywood through the 2010
John Abraham
starrer ‘Jhootha Hi Sahi’, but the film bombed in the box office and she faced criticism for her acting following which she left acting permanently. She is currently a teacher at the ‘Art of Living’ foundation.