Wamiqa Gabbi

Wamiqa Gabbi
Born (1993-09-29) 29 September 1993
Chandigarh, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Actress
Years active 2012-present

Wamiqa Gabbi is an Indian film actress who has starred in Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu films.

Early life

Wamiqa was born and brought up in Chandigarh. Her father, Govardhan Gabbi is a Punjabi writer and her mother, Raj Kumari, an educationist. Her younger brother Haardik Gabbi is also a budding actor and Musician. Always wanting to be an actress, she was just eight years old when she acted in a Punjabi television-serial [1] Wamiqa can write and understand Punjabi, Hindi and English languages.

Career

A trained kathak dancer, she was among the top five participants in a dance show judged by Aamir Khan. It was during the dance show that she was offered a small role in Jab We Met, starting her acting stint in films. She was also seen in films like Bittoo Boss and Love Aaj Kal after that.[1]

Her big break came with the Punjabi film with Yo Yo Honey Singh and Amrinder Gill, Tu Mera 22 Mai Tera 22. She went on to star in two other Punjabi films Ishq Brandy and Ishq Haazir Hai as a co-star to actor Diljit Dosanjh.

She has also done a Hindi film as first female lead as Tanisha. Sixteen.,[2] She starred in Telugu film Bhale Manchi Roju as female lead.

Wamiqa has also starred as the female lead in a Tamil film Maalai Nerathu Mayakkam.[3] She is in female lead role Malayalam film directing by Basil Joseph. The movie titled as Godha released on 19th May 2017 where she acted alongside Tovino Thomas[4]. In March 2017, Wamiqa signed a new Tamil film Iravaakaalam which is to be directed by Ashwin Saravanan to star along with Sshivada and S. J. Suryah.[5]

Filmography

year title Role Language Remarks
2012 Bittoo Boss Friend of heroine Hindi
2013 Sixteen Tanisha Hindi directed by Raj Purohit
2013 Tu Mera 22 Main Tera 22Nikky Punjabi with Yo Yo Honey Singh, Amrinder Gill and Mandy Takhar
2014 Ishq Brandy Kimmi Punjabi with Alfaaz, Roshan Prince and Japji Khaira
2015 Ishq Haazir Hai Simar Punjabi Short film with Diljit Dosanjh
2015 Bhale manchi roju Sitha Telugu
2016 Maalai Nerathu Mayakkam Manoja Tamil
2017 Godha Adithi Singh Malayalam with Tovino Thomas
2017Iravaakaalam TamilFilming
2017 Nikka zaildar 2 Saawan Kaur Punjabi Shooting completed

Awards and Nominations

References

  1. 1 2 "I always wanted to be an actress: Wamiqa Gabbi". Times of India. 28 July 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Wamiqa Gabbi". Clickzeal. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "Wamiqa Gabbi is Geethanjali Selvaraghavan’s heroine". The Indian Express. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Wamiqa Gabbi fondly shares her first picture with Tovino". 2017-07-03.
  5. ↑ "SJ Suryah-Sshivada-Wamiqa join ‘Maya’ director now". Top 10 Cinema. 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
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