Bhairavi Goswami

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Bhairavi Goswami

Born Bhairavi Goswami

12 November 1984 (age 26)

Occupation Actress, Model

Years active 2002–present

Bhairavi Goswami, (Hindi: भैरवी गोस्वामी; born 12 November 1984) is an Indian-born actress, fashion model, television host and humanitarian.

Bhairavi was born in South India to parents of mixed heritage. Her father is part Bengali part South Indian and her mother is Creole. Bhairavi left India at the age of 6 to return as a teenager to pursue a career in Modeling/Acting, spending most of her adolescent life in the United Kingdom.

Bhairavi’s career began as a teenager when she participated in the coveted “Gladrags Mega Model” contest. Gladrags was followed by Bhairavi winning the “Pantaloons Model Quest” & runner up at the “AXN Hot & Wild”[1] contest. Times of India even quoted, “She’s the Paris Hilton of India, who loves to socialise”.[2] She is the only Indian model to have been featured in TIME, Telerama, Courier International & Paris Match. She has modelled for top designers such as Ritu Kumar, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Narendra Kumar, Archana Kochar, Shane & Falguni Peacock, Azeem Khan, Satya Paul, Libas, Deepal Mehta, Anshu Modi etc. Graced the covers of several magazines and featured in innumerable fashion features of regional, national and international magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Savvy, Gladrags, Sensationz, Elan, Occasions, Mans World, New Woman, Outlook, Gurlz, Society, Femina, Femina Girl, Woman’s Era, Meri Saheli, Vanitha, La Mode, Upper Crust, Woman, Elle, L’Officiel, GT-Guything, 4D Woman, Movie, Newsweek. She is also known to be a women who has controversially employed breast implants in the course of her modeling career. A result of which she acts against accepted Indian values and morays all the while being a strong voice for sexually liberated women.

Movies and Theatre

After the runaway success of her debut - Sagar Bellary’s superhit movie Bheja Fry,[3][4] she acted in the children's hit composite animation film ‘My Friend Ganesha 2’.[5][6] In her next film she plays a glamorous girl in Mr. Bhatti On Chutti, starring Anupam Kher in lead role and featuring Amitabh Bachchan in a cameo appearance.[7] Bhairavi has shed her glamorous image to play a simple school teacher in ‘Kachcha Limboo’[8] .[9] Apart from this she has also acted in ‘My Daddy Strongest’ with Kumar Gaurav - it is the world's first silent children's film. With 10 successful plays to her credit like “Liar Liar”, “Tea Coffee or Me”,[10] “Mad House”, “See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil”[11] with theatre stalwarts like Alyque Padamsee, Dinyar Contractor & Paritosh Painter, Bhairavi has performed in over 700 stage shows worldwide.

Music Videos

“Samundar Mein Nahake” remix directed by Samir Malkan

Raaghav Sachar’s debut album directed by Indrajit Nattoji for HMV

“Raat Taakli”, marathi superhit music video directed by Deepali Vichare

Television Credits

JBC with Javed Jaffery

Bollywood Live(Indonesia)

Guest VJ on B4U

Featured on Movers & Shakers (Shekhar Suman Show)

Personal life

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Bhairavi is a trained dancer in Flamenco & Bharatnatyam and speaks 7 languages English, Hindi, French, German, Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada. She is passionate about animals and is an Animal Rights Activist. Born in an affluent Business family, Bhairavi wanted to become an entrepreneur. Apart from her career as an Actress in the Indian Film fraternity, Bhairavi has more than 10 super hit plays to her credit. An innovative cook & food connoisseur, Bhairavi Goswami is professionally associated with a large food company in India.

[edit]Filmography

Year Film Role Notes

2007 Bheja Fry Suman Rao

2008 My Friend Ganesha - 2 Anita

2009 Mr.Bhatti On Chutti Katy

Kachha Limboo Lily Fernandes

My Daddy Strongest World’s 1st silent children’s film

Bheja Fry 2 Suman Rao Pre Production

[edit]Theatre

Genre Play Director Notes

English Comedy Liar Liar Dinyar Contractor 150 shows worldwide

English Comedy Madhouse Dinyar Contractor 140 shows worldwide