27 Facts About Pooja Gandhi

Pooja Gandhi is an Indian actress and model who mainly works in Kannada-language films.

Pooja Gandhi is most-commonly referred to as Male Hudugi in the media and the Kannada film industry.

Pooja Gandhi has acted in over five languages and 50 films in a decade.

Pooja Gandhi made her acting debut in 2001 with the Hindi film Khatron Ke Khiladi opposite Raj Babbar.

In 2012, Pooja Gandhi joined the political party Janata Dal, before joining the KJP party and later the BSR Congress party.

Pooja Gandhi contested the Karnataka assembly elections in the constituency Raichur but failed to win the seat.

Pooja Gandhi was born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, and was raised in Delhi in a traditional Punjabi family.

Pooja Gandhi's father Pawan Gandhi is a businessman and her mother Jyothi Gandhi is a housewife.

Pooja Gandhi studied at Sophia Convent and Dewan Public School in Meerut.

Pooja Gandhi's younger sisters are Radhika Gandhi, who is an actress in Kannada films, and Suhani Gandhi, a tennis player.

Pooja Gandhi was engaged to the industrialist Anand Gowda in November 2012 and ended the relationship the following month.

In 2023, Pooja Gandhi married her long-time friend the businessman Vijay Ghorpade in accordance with Kuvempu's Mantra Mangalya concept.

Pooja Gandhi started her acting career in television soap operas, starting with Zameen Se Aassman Tak.

Pooja Gandhi later appeared in the Bengali film Tomake Salam and in 2003, she moved to the South Indian film industry with the Tamil film Kokki, which received moderate reviews and was successful at the box office.

Pooja Gandhi received praise for her performance as aNandini in the film; Indicine.

Pooja Gandhi then acted in Milana with Puneeth Rajkumar; it was theatrically released on 14 September 2007, gained commercial success and completed a 500-day run in theatres.

Pooja Gandhi was nominated for a Filmfare Best Actress Award; Sify's critic wrote: "Pooja Gandhi looks pretty and has done a good job".

Pooja Gandhi appeared in more than 12 films in several languages, including, Kannada, most of them failed at the box office.

In 2010, Pooja Gandhi made her Telugu debut opposite Nandamuri Taraka Ratna and Poorna in Mukkanti, which was a financial failure at the box office.

Also in 2010, Pooja Gandhi appeared in her third Hindi film I Am with Juhi Chawla.

In 2012, Pooja Gandhi made a comeback in the female-oriented film Dandupalya, which went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of the Kannada industry, and completed 100-day theatrical runs in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

Pooja Gandhi received Filmfare Award for Best Kannada Actress and Suvarna Fimfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in Dandupalya.

Pooja Gandhi definitely deserves special mention for proving cliches wrong.

In 2013, Pooja Gandhi made her Malayalam film debut in Maad Dad with Lal and Meghana Raj.

Pooja Gandhi received acclaim from critics and audiences for her performance in the film.

On 18 January 2012, Pooja Gandhi joined the political party Janata Dal.

Pooja Gandhi then briefly was a member of the Karnataka Janata Paksha but she contested the 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections in the seat of Raichur as a candidate for Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress but she failed to win the seat.