24 Facts About Kriti Sanon

Kriti Sanon's career progressed with starring roles in the commercially successful romantic comedies Bareilly Ki Barfi and Luka Chuppi, and her highest-grossing releases came with the ensemble comedies Dilwale and Housefull 4.

Kriti Sanon won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for playing the titular role of a surrogate mother in Mimi.

Kriti Sanon appeared in Forbes India Celebrity 100 list of 2019.

Kriti Sanon has launched her own line of clothing and a fitness company, and has served as the ambassador of several brands and products.

Kriti Sanon attended Delhi Public School, R K Puram and later secured a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida.

Kriti Sanon briefly worked as a model before becoming an actress.

Kriti Sanon made her acting debut in 2014 with the Telugu psychological action thriller 1: Nenokkadine, playing the love interest of Mahesh Babu's character.

Trade journalist Taran Adarsh opined that Kriti Sanon "has the trappings of a star", but critic Srijana Das of The Times of India criticised her emoting, calling it "more cheesy than sharp".

Kriti Sanon was next cast in Rohit Shetty's action comedy Dilwale with Varun Dhawan, Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, which emerged as one of the highest-grossing Indian films at that time, grossing more than 3.72 billion worldwide.

Kriti Sanon's starring role as a headstrong small-town woman aspiring to a better life in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's romantic comedy Bareilly Ki Barfi was better received.

Kriti Sanon starred in cinematographer Laxman Utekar's Hindi directorial debut, Luka Chuppi, a satire on live-in relationships, which paired her opposite Kartik Aaryan.

Kriti Sanon gained 15kgs of weight for scenes involving her character's pregnancy.

Critics were generally unimpressed with the film, but Kriti Sanon's performance was picked up for praise, with Mashable India deeming it a career-best.

Pallabi Dey Purkayastha of WION wrote that Kriti Sanon had succeeded in her "attempt to establish herself as a standalone actor, not just a pretty heroine" and took particular note of the subtlety in her performance.

Kriti Sanon was awarded the IIFA Award for Best Actress and the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

Kriti Sanon starred with Varun Dhawan in Bhediya, the third installment in Dinesh Vijan's horror-comedy universe.

In 2023, Kriti Sanon played the leading lady opposite Kartik Aaryan in Shehzada, a remake of the Telugu film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo.

In 2019, Kriti Sanon appeared in Forbes India Celebrity 100 list, ranking 38th with an estimated annual income of 80.9 million.

Kriti Sanon was ranked 17th in GQ India's "30 most influential young Indians" list of 2022.

Kriti Sanon has a large social media footprint, with over 52 million followers on Instagram.

Kriti Sanon has performed at the opening ceremony of the 2017 Indian Premier League and the 2023 Women's Premier League.

Kriti Sanon is an endorser for several brands and products including Coca-Cola, Titan's Raga, Parachute and Tissot.

Kriti Sanon has been vocal on various topics including pay disparity in Bollywood and the "patriarchal mindset".

In 2016, Kriti Sanon launched her own clothing line, named Ms.