Anupriya Goenka

Biography

Anupriya Goenka is a versatile actress known for Padmavati, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. She has played a lead role, in Nagesh Kukunoor's yet-to-be-released film Maya. She also played pivotal roles in Daddy (Dir: Ashim Ahluwalia), Dishoom ( Dir: Rohit Dhawan), and Bobby Jasoos(Dir: Samar Sheikh).

 She shot to fame as the face of India's first-of-its-kind government campaign, Bharat Nirman, directed by Pradeep Sarkar, and India's first lesbian ad, Anouk by Myntra, that went viral and won her a lot of appreciation and accolades. 

She has done over 100+ commercials and has been the face of leading brands like Coke, Garnier, Stayfree, Kotak Mahindra, Pepperfry, and Dabur among many others. Next, she will be seen in YRF's Tiger Zinda Hai, directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, set to be released this year.

Anupriya Goenka, Born on 29th May 1987, in Kanpur, was primarily brought up in Delhi. The youngest of four kids, she is the daughter of Mr. Ravindra Kumar Goenka, who owned a garment export house, and her mother Mrs. Pushpa Goenka, who was initially a homemaker but eventually joined the family business.

Hailing from a business family and being the sole entrepreneurial spirit, amongst her siblings, she was naturally directed towards joining the struggling business after completing her schooling.

She strived to propel the business further, while pursuing her graduation and doubled it up with a job at an eminent call center, however quickly realized that it was beyond salvation and finally wrapped it up. 

This experience, taught her the various aspects of business and people management and she dabbled in legal, financial, marketing, and various other roles. To support the family, she then hopped on to corporate bandwagon. During this period, she moved to Bombay and worked with eminent firms such as JP Morgan, Cnbc, Go-airlines, etc. 

She considers these few years to be her biggest training ground, giving her an insight into real-life experiences that were largely responsible for shaping her into the person she is today.

Having discovered theatre, in a one-month Nsd workshop, during her 12th standard, she always remained inquisitive about it and considered it to be the happiest month of her life, so as her corporate career was on an upswing, she finally decided to take a break and learn theatre. 

The three-month break led her to fall in love with the craft and discover her true calling - Acting. She then pursued theatre and learned under eminent teachers like Neeraj Qabi, Satyadev Dubey Sir, and Makrand Deshpande to name a few, and at institutions like Adishakti. 

She was picked up by Pradeep Sarkar, after she did a Stayfree commercial with him, for the famous Bharat Nirman campaign and he introduced her to the world of commercials and the quest began.

As R.M Drake said, 'In the end, she became more than what she expected, she became the journey, and like all journeys, she did not end, she just simply changed directions and kept going.' She likes to believe, it's the journey that matters the most and she is becoming one.