Pooja Gandhi | |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Sanjana Gandhi Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Political party | Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress |
Other political affiliations |
Janata Dal (Secular) (2012)
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Occupation |
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Pooja Gandhi (born Sanjana Gandhi) is an Indian film actress and producer. She has acted mainly in Kannada language films in addition to few Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali and Hindi films.
Gandhi made her film debut in 2003 with a Bengali film Tomake Salam and Tamil film Kokki in the same year. Since then, she has played lead roles in commercially films such as Mungaru Male (2006), Milana (2007), Krishna (2007), Taj Mahal (2008), Budhivanta (2008), Gokula (2009) , Dandupalya (2012) and Abhinetri (2015). She has acted in more than 50 films and also participated in the reality show Bigg Boss Kannada 3.
She joined the Janata Dal (Secular) party in 2012 by taking the membership of the party. She soon hopped onto KJP party and later to the BSR Congress party and contested the Karnataka assembly elections from Raichur constituency. However, she was defeated in the elections and did not win any seat from the constituency.
Gandhi was born in Meerut into a traditional Punjabi family. Her father, Pawan Gandhi, is a businessman and her mother, Jyothi Gandhi, is a housewife. She studied at Sophia Convent and Dewan Public School in Meerut. She has two younger sisters – Radhika Gandhi, who is also an actress in Kannada films, and Suhani Gandhi, a tennis player.
Gandhi got engaged in November 2012 but ended the relationship the following month.