Sumona Chakravarti
Chakravarti during Durga Pooja
Born (1988-06-24) 24 June 1988[1]
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materJai Hind College, Mumbai[2][3]
Occupation(s)Actress, model
Years active1999–present
Known forThe Kapil Sharma Show
Comedy Nights with Kapil
Comedy Circus
Height1.54 m (5 ft 1 in)

Sumona Chakravarti (born 24 June 1988)[4] is an Indian actress who works in Hindi television productions. She is best known for her roles in Sony TV's daily soap opera, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, with Comedy Nights With Kapil on Colors TV and The Kapil Sharma Show on Sony TV.

Career

She began her acting career at the age of 11 through Aamir Khan and Manisha Koirala starrer Mann in the year 1999. In the next few years she did quite a few television shows but her big breakthrough happened in 2011 when she played the role of Natasha in Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, a television show produced by Balaji Telefilms.

Sumona in 2018

In the following year she participated in the comedy show Kahani Comedy Circus Ki on Sony TV with Kapil Sharma and the duo emerged as the winners of the show. From there on began her professional partnership with Kapil Sharma that is still going on. From June 2013 to January 2016 she was seen as Manju Sharma in Comedy Nights with Kapil where she played the role of Kapil Sharma's wife. In 2016, she came back to the screen with Sony TV's The Kapil Sharma Show which she was seen playing the role of Sarla Gulati, a girl deeply in love with her neighbour Kapil. The show came back with its second season in 2018 where she is playing the role of Bhuri.

In between all this Sumona Chakravarti has also done two travel shows namely Dubai Diaries and Swiss Made Adventures both on NDTV Good Times. While she was the host in Dubai Diaries,[5] she went in as a participant seeking the adventurous side of Switzerland in Swiss Made Adventures.[6]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleRef.
1999 Mann Neha [7]
2010 Aakhari Decision Mansee [8]
2012 Barfi! Shruti's Friend [9]
2014 Kick Vidhi [10]
2015 Phir Se... Pia [11]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2006 Kasamh Se Nivedita Deb; Aparajit's sister
2007 Detective Doll Detective Doll
2007 Sun Yaar Chill Maar
2007–2009 Kasturi Vandy Singhania [12]
2010 Neer Bhare Tere Naina Devi Chiraiya [13]
2010 Sapno Se Bhare Naina [13]
2010 Horror Nights Mia Episode: "Haunted Hospital" [14]
2011 Khotey Sikkey Anjali Episode: "MLA Ashok Rao gets murdered in Williamson Hotel" [15]
2011-14 Bade Achhe Lagte Hain Natasha Amarnath Kapoor – Amarnath and Niharika's daughter; Rishab's sister; Ram, Siddhant and Ishika's half-sister; Kartik's first wife
2012 Kahani Comedy Circus Ki Sumona Chakravarti
2013 Ek Thhi Naayka Laboni [16]
2013-16 Comedy Nights with Kapil Manju Sharma, Bittu's wife
2014 Savdhaan India Shruti (Episode 740) [17]
2014 Yeh Hai Aashiqui Tejaswini [18]
2015 Jamai Raja Misha Grewal [19]
2016-2017 The Kapil Sharma Show Sarla Gulati, Mashoor's daughter; Kappu's childhood friend and Chandu's love interest [20]
2016 Dubai Diaries Sumona Chakravarti Show Host [21]
2016 Swiss Made Adventures Sumona Chakravarti Traveller [22]
2017 Dev Meera Ghosh [23][24]
2018–2021 The Kapil Sharma Show Season 2 Bhoori, Bachcha's sister-in-law; Titli's sister; Chandu's love interest
2021– present The Kapil Sharma Show Season 3 Kapil's wife Bindu [25]
2018–2021 Shonar Bengal Sumona Chakravarti Show Host

Theatre

Title Year Role Director Venue Notes Ref.
Da Dating Truths 2009 Prriya Ary and Ravi Gosain St. Andrews Auditorium, Bandra (W), Mumbai [26]
The Relationship Agreement 2016 The Girl Meherzad Patel National Centre for the Performing Arts (India) [27][28]

Awards and nominations

Indian Telly Awards

Year Nominated Work Category Result Ref.
2014 Comedy Nights with Kapil Best Ensemble Cast Won [29]

Indian Television Academy Awards

Year Nominated Work Category Result Ref.
2015 Comedy Nights with Kapil Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Comedy) Nominated [30]
2023 The Kapil Sharma Show Season 5 Best Actress – Comedy -TV Won [31]

Yash Bharti Award

Sumona Chakravarti was awarded with the Yash Bharti Award [32][33] on 27 October 2016 by the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Boroplus Gold Awards

Year Nominated Work Category Result Ref.
2017 The Kapil Sharma Show Best Actor in a Comic Role (Female) Nominated

See also

References

  1. ↑ "sumonachakravarti#Famjam #ringinginbirthday Since 24.06.1985". Instagram. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Back to my college #JaiHindMumbai n this time to judge an event.. #Nostalgia". Twitter. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "College days were the best phase of my life". Archived from the original on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Sumona Chakravarti's hard hitting post on being an outsider: 'One wonders if dreaming to be part of movies will ever be a reality'". Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Dubai Diaries". Archived from the original on 25 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "Swiss Made Adventures". Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Sumona Chakravarti and Manisha Koirala meet after 18 years on Kapil Sharma's show". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 26 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "Review: Aakhari Decision is so bad, it?s good!". Sify. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "Barfi! with Ranbir was like a workshop: Sumona Chakravarti". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  10. ↑ ""Yup," That Kid In Aamir Khan's Film Mann Was The Kapil Sharma Show Star Sumona Chakravarti". NDTV.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  11. ↑ "Sumona Chakravarti shares video of herself as child star from the 1999 film Mann, says 'I was a kid yaar'. Watch". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  12. ↑ "The 'Comedy Nights with Kapil' Bahu Sumona Chakravarti: A very down-to-earth, bubbly and vivacious actress". Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  13. 1 2 "Woah! Kapil Sharma's on-screen wife Sumona Chakravarti is all set to make her comeback on TV serial". Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  14. ↑ "Comedian Sumona Chakravarti Biography, Movies, TV Shows, Marriage". Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  15. ↑ "18 Mar 2011 - MLA Ashok Rao gets murdered in Williamson Hotel". Sony LIV/. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  16. ↑ "Sumona is a daayan in Ek Thhi Naayka". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  17. ↑ "Savdhaan India - India Fights Back". Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  18. ↑ "Sumona Chakravarti turns rockstar for TV show". Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  19. ↑ "Sumona Chakravarti enters Zee TV's Jamai Raja". Archived from the original on 14 July 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  20. ↑ "The Kapil Sharma Show kick-starts first episode with Shah Rukh Khan in New Delhi". Archived from the original on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  21. ↑ "Dubai Diaries". NDTV Good Times. Archived from the original on 25 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  22. ↑ "Swiss Made Adventures". NDTV Good Times. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  23. ↑ "Dev". Colors TV. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  24. ↑ "A brand new chapter begins as Meera Banerjee in #DevOnColors". Twitter. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  25. ↑ "What an entertainer! The Kapil Sharma Show receives a thunderous response from netizens". Indian Today. 30 December 2018. Archived from the original on 30 December 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  26. ↑ "DA DATING TRUTHS...Feel the magic of Indian Cinema on Stage..." Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  27. ↑ "The Relationship Agreement". Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  28. ↑ "Rules of Engagement". Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  29. ↑ "Winners List of 14th Indian Television Academy Awards 2014". Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  30. ↑ "Nominations for Indian Telly Awards 2015 out; see who all have made the cut". Archived from the original on 28 May 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  31. ↑ "The 23rd ITA Awards 2023 – The Indian Television Academy". Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  32. ↑ "The Kapil Sharma Show's Sumona Chakravarti honoured with Yash Bharti Award". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 8 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  33. ↑ "Today i'am truly honoured and overwhelmed embracing the coveted & prestigious award of U.P, #YashBhartiAward". Twitter. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
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