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Anita Kanwar is an Indian film and television actress who earned her popularity after she successfully portrayed the role of Lajoji, the wife of Master Haveliram (played by ) in the television series, Buniyaad which was aired on DD National in year 1986.

Anita usually acted in school and she was in college when she saw an adaptation of Ibrahim Alkazi’s Look Back in Anger. It was then when she realized what she wanted to be, an actress. She attended and graduated from the National School of Drama and trained under the popular, Mr. Ibrahim Alkazi himself in 1978. She never thought of doing any television shows or act in the big screen since all she wanted to do was to act in theater. Until she realized that she also need to survive life and theater won’t provide her needs. She moved to Mumbai but initially, she struggled so much and had no work for quite too long, until she was cast in Buniyaad. But after this, there was no work for her again and she was typecast for her character in Buniyaad. That’s when she decided to leave Mumbai and lived in Delhi.

She also acted in 1985 Hindi autobiographical film, Janam by . She played as Rekha in Mira Nair’s ‘Salaam Bombay!’ and bagged the role of Rekha in 1988, where she earned nomination at for Best Supporting Actress at the Filmfare Award. Later, she has done a tomboy character in the Hindi film, Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaayen. Prior to this, the actress started acting in the 1982 Hindi film, Aadharshila, followed with a list of film to her credit including the film, Spandan in 1982, Mandi in 1983, Trikaal in 1985 where she acted as Sylvia, the hysterical mother of Anna (played by ), Mati Manas, Sheela and Amrit in 1986 and Shyam Benegal’s Susman in 1987. She was also seen in the 1987 film, Dacait. In 1988, she was starred as Phoolkumari in the Indian Postmodernist film, Om-Dar-Ba-Dar and later bagged a role in Tumare Share before she donned the film, ‘Salaam Bombay!’ She was also seen in the 1989 art film, which stars Shreeram Lagoo and . She also did the films, Bandook Dahej Ke Seeney Par in 1989, A Woman in 1990 and she was featured in Amol Palekar’s Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaayen in the same year.

After Buniyaad, Anita also acted in the television serial, Pukar. It was her last performance in the screen before she took a six-year hiatus from the industry. When she returned, she was starred on another crime-based serial entitled, Saboot where she bagged the role of Inspector KC, a CBI Officer. Later, she acted in the television serial, Shanti as Indu Singh.