Age, Biography and Wiki
Bhumi Pednekar was born in Mumbai to a family of Marathi and Haryanvi descent. Her journey in the film industry began as a casting assistant at Yash Raj Films before she stepped into acting. Her breakthrough role was in "Dum Laga Ke Haisha" (2015), and she has since become a prominent figure in Bollywood, known for her strong performances and advocacy for social causes.
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| Date of Birth | 18 July 1989 |
| Age | 36 Years |
| Birth Place | Bombay, Maharashtra, India |
| Horoscope | Cancer |
| Country | India |
Height, Weight & Measurements
- Height: 5 feet 4 inches (162.56 cm)
- Weight: Approximately 55 kg (121 lbs)
- Body Measurements: Not publicly detailed
| Height | 5 feet 4 inches |
| Weight | 121 lbs |
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Dating & Relationship Status
Bhumi Pednekar is currently not married and tends to keep her personal relationships private. She focuses on her career and social causes, often using her platform to raise awareness about important issues.
She is of Konkani and Haryanvi descent; her father, Satish Pednekar, was a former MLA and Home and Labour Minister of Maharashtra. Her mother, Sumitra Pednekar, worked as an anti-tobacco activist after the death of her husband from oral cancer. Bhumi has a younger sister named Samiksha, who is a lawyer and a model. She did her schooling from Arya Vidya Mandir in Juhu. At the age of 15, her parents took out a study loan for her to study acting at Whistling Woods International, but she was expelled due to poor attendance. Within a year and a half, she joined Yash Raj Films as an assistant casting director, and paid off the loan. She went on to work with the company for six years under Shanoo Sharma.
Pednekar's acting debut came as the overweight wife of Ayushmann Khurrana's character in the Yash Raj Films-produced and Sharat Katariya-directed romantic comedy Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015). In preparation, she gained almost 12 kg body weight. Rajeev Masand reviewed, "Pednekar steals the film with an assured turn, effortlessly making you care for Sandhya, without ever reducing her to a slobbering, self-pitying caricature." After filming, she began losing weight and shared methods and tips of the process through her social media. A commercial success, Dum Laga Ke Haisha won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi and earned Pednekar the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. That year she was featured in Y-Films's four part mini web series Man's World. Based on the subject of gender inequality, it digitally premiered on YouTube.
Continuing her portrayals of headstrong small-town women, Pednekar starred in Bala and Pati Patni Aur Woh (both 2019). The former marked her third collaboration with Khurrana, in which she played a dark-skinned woman who faces prejudice due to her skin colour. Controversy arose for casting a fair-skinned woman in the role, but Pednekar defended herself by saying that an actor should be allowed to play any part. Pati Patni Aur Woh, a remake of a 1978 film of the same name and co-starring Kartik Aaryan and Ananya Panday, featured her as a housewife with a philandering husband. Anupama Chopra wrote that "it's Bhumi Pednekar's spirited Vedika who lifts the material up a notch. Bhumi has an intelligence that rescues some of the silliest scenes in this film, especially in the climax." Both Bala and Pati Patni Aur Woh were commercially successful, each grossing over inr 1000000000 worldwide.
In 2025, Pednekar played a woman with retrograde amnesia in the romantic comedy Mere Husband Ki Biwi, co-starring Arjun Kapoor and Rakul Preet Singh. Sana Farzeen of India Today felt that her "fiery Punjabi character, though fun initially, becomes overbearing after a point." It emerged as Pednekar's seventh consecutive box-office bomb. She next starred as a headstrong business owner who falls in love with a royal (played by Ishaan Khatter) in the romantic drama series The Royals for Netflix. The series was panned by critics who criticised the chemistry between Pednekar and Khatter. NDTV 's Hardika Gupta felt that Pednekar's performance was particularly disappointing as she has shown "she is capable of far more textured performances". She will next star in the thriller series Daldal for Prime Video.
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Net Worth and Salary
As of 2024, Bhumi Pednekar's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million (approximately ₹15 crore), primarily earned through her acting career and endorsements. Her salary varies based on the project, but she has been vocal about the pay disparity in the industry, revealing instances where she was paid significantly less than her male co-stars.
In 2019, Pednekar began a campaign named Climate Warrior to raise awareness on environmental protection and global warming. She is also vocal about issues such as pay parity and has spoken out about the gender pay gap in Bollywood, calling it "insulting" and "heartbreaking". In 2020, she teamed with MTV India for their Nishedh campaign, which aims to create awareness about health issues, including reproductive health, among the youth. She was appointed as the brand ambassador of Nykaa in 2022. In 2023, she was named by the United Nations Development Programme as India's first National Advocate for Sustainable Development Goals, to raise awareness on climate change on social media.
Career, Business and Investments
Bhumi Pednekar's career highlights include starring in successful films like "Toilet: Ek Prem Katha" and "Shubh Mangal Saavdhan," both of which have contributed to her net worth and recognition in the industry. She has also ventured into brand endorsements and business ventures. Her luxury lifestyle includes owning several high-end cars and living in a sea-facing apartment in Mumbai.
After working as an assistant casting director at Yash Raj Films for six years, she made her film debut as an overweight bride in the company's romantic comedy Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015), which earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She rose to prominence starring in the commercially successful films Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017), Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (2017), Bala (2019) and Pati Patni Aur Woh (2019). For her performances as the septuagenarian sharpshooter Chandro Tomar in Saand Ki Aankh (2019) and a closeted lesbian in Badhaai Do (2022), she twice won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress. She has since starred in the social dramas Bheed (2023), Afwaah (2023) and Bhakshak (2024).
Later that year, her performance opposite Khurrana in Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, a satire on erectile dysfunction, earned Pednekar her first nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. Reviewing the film for The Indian Express, Shubhra Gupta wrote that Pednekar "once again reminds us just how convincing she can be as a real honest-to-goodness young woman in search of love", but bemoaned that she was being typecast in such roles. Shubh Mangal Saavdhan grossed inr 700000000 worldwide. Zoya Akhtar's segment in the Netflix anthology film Lust Stories marked Pednekar's sole screen appearance of 2018; she played a maid who has an affair with her employer. Writing for NDTV, Raja Sen considered Akhtar's segment to be the best in the anthology, and found Pednekar "hauntingly good" in it.
Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare, directed by Alankrita Shrivastava and co-starring Konkona Sen Sharma, was screened at the 24th Busan International Film Festival in 2019 and released on Netflix later in 2020. Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in wrote that despite doing a "fine job", Pednekar had been overshadowed by her co-star Sen Sharma. Nonetheless, both actresses received nominations for the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress. She next had brief roles in the comedy-drama Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan and the horror film Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship. In the same year, Pednekar starred in a remake of the horror film Bhaagamathie, named Durgamati, which was released on Amazon Prime Video. In a scathing review, Rohan Naahar of Hindustan Times disliked the film and Pednekar's performance.
Social Network
Bhumi Pednekar is active on social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter, where she engages with her fans and shares updates about her life and projects.
Two years later, Pednekar was cast in the satire Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017) as a young woman in rural India who insists on the eradication of open defecation, opposite Akshay Kumar. Despite disliking the story, Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV praised her for "flesh[ing] out a refreshingly relatable college topper who becomes the principal catalyst for a mini-revolution". With a worldwide gross of over inr 3000000000, it emerged as one of the highest-grossing Hindi films of the year and Pednekar's biggest grosser.
Pednekar portrayed a journalist in the crime drama Bhakshak, which released on Netflix in 2024. Filmed in 39 days, it is based on the Muzaffarpur shelter case. She described the role as "one of my most mature", causing her to "question my empathy and how I had become so numb towards somebody else’s pain". Shubhra Gupta described her as "earnest" and "believable" in a movie that lacked "basic story-telling".
Education
Bhumi Pednekar completed her schooling in Mumbai and has been involved in the film industry since her early career as a casting assistant at Yash Raj Films. She has not publicly detailed any formal education beyond her career in cinema.
