Bhumi Satish Pednekar (Bhumi) Wiki Biography

✅ Bhumi Pednekar worked for six years as an assistant casting director at Yash Raj Films under Shanoo Sharma before becoming an actress.

✅ Her parents took out a study loan for her to attend Whistling Woods International, but she was expelled for poor attendance and later repaid the loan from her Yash Raj Films salary. She made her acting debut as an overweight bride in Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.

✅ Reported weight gain for Dum Laga Ke Haisha varies by source, from about 12 kg to about 25 kg.

✅ She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for Dum Laga Ke Haisha.

✅ She has won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress twice, for Saand Ki Aankh and Badhaai Do.

✅ Her Badhaai Do Filmfare Critics award was shared with Tabu, who was honoured for Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2.

✅ She played the septuagenarian sharpshooter Chandro Tomar in Saand Ki Aankh and trained in shooting a gun for the role.

✅ She underwent about two and a half months of physical training and learned to fire a gun for Sonchiriya.

✅ Her only screen appearance of 2018 was as a maid in Zoya Akhtar's segment of the Netflix anthology Lust Stories.

✅ Her father, Satish Pednekar, was an MLA and Home and Labour Minister of Maharashtra, with ancestral roots in Pernem, Goa.

✅ Her mother, Sumitra Hooda Pednekar, became an anti-tobacco activist after her husband died of oral cancer.

✅ She was featured in the Forbes India 30 Under 30 list of 2018.

✅ She began the Climate Warrior campaign in 2019 to raise awareness on environmental protection and global warming.

✅ In 2023 she was named by the United Nations Development Programme as India's first National Advocate for Sustainable Development Goals.

✅ She became brand ambassador of Nykd by Nykaa in 2022.

✅ Bhakshak, based on the Muzaffarpur shelter case, was filmed in 39 days and released on Netflix on 9 February 2024.

✅ In August 2025 she and her sister Samiksha launched Backbay, a beverage brand whose first product, Backbay Aqua, is Himalayan mineral water sold in paper cartons.

✅ Samiksha manages Backbay's daily operations while Bhumi leads its brand vision.

✅ She led the Prime Video crime series Daldal as DCP Rita Ferreira, which premiered on 30 January 2026.

✅ In July 2026 she was cast as warrior queen Belawadi Mallamma in the two-part historical epic The Pride of Bharat: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, starring Rishab Shetty.