Himanshi Khurana

Biography

Himanshi Khurana (born 27 November 1991) is an Indian model, actress, and singer who works in Punjabi films. She appeared in the Punjabi movie Sadda Haq. In 2019, she participated in the reality show Bigg Boss 13 as a contestant.

Khurana was born on 27 November 1991 and hails from Kiratpur Sahib, Punjab. She considers her mother, Suneet Kaur, as a strong motivation in her life.

Khurana started her modeling career at the age of 16 when she became Miss Ludhiana. She was one of the finalists in Miss PTC Punjabi 2010. In the same year, she won the Miss North Zone contest organized in Chandigarh.

She made her debut in the Punjabi Music industry with the song "Jodi - Big Day Party" (Panjabi MC & Kuldeep Manak) in 2010. Later, in 2012, she starred in music videos for (Fasli Bateray) by (Feroz Khan) and Izhaar (Harjot).

 In 2013, Khurana was seen in Soch (Hardy Sandhu) and the hit movie Sadda Haq. The year 2015 proved to be a very successful year for Khurana as she worked with many singers, including Jassi Gill, Badshah, J Star, Ninja, Mankirt Aulakh, and others. 

In March 2016 she starred alongside Sukh-E (Muzical Doctorz) in Sad Song. In 2018, Khurana made her debut as a singer with the song High Standard.

Khurana made her debut in Punjabi cinema as an actor in the Punjabi movie Sadda Haq which helped her to gain fame. Although her first Bollywood film was Jeet Lengey Jahaan (2012). 

She then appeared in a lead role in the Punjabi movie Leather Life (featuring Aman Dhaliwal as the male lead). 2015 Punjabi language film 2 Bol also features Khurana as a lead actress.

 She also acted in six South Indian Movies - 2 Kannada, 2 Tamil, 1 Telugu, and 1 Malayalam.

In November 2019, Khurana participated as a celebrity contestant in the thirteenth season of the Indian version of the reality TV show Big Brother, Bigg Boss.

In November 2019, Khurana confirmed on Bigg Boss 13 that she is in a committed relationship with her boyfriend of nine years named Chow.

 In January 2020, she confirmed on Twitter that her relationship had ended with her fiancé. She is dating her Bigg Boss co-contestant Asim Riaz since January 2020.

Himanshi Khurana was ranked in the Chandigarh Times Most Desirable Woman at No. 2 in 2016 as well as 2017, No. 14  in 2018, at No. 9 in 2019 as well as 2020.

Khurana was ranked in the Times Most Desirable Women on TV at No. 11 in 2019 and at No. 17 in 2020.

In 2021, Himanshi became the first female Punjabi actor to feature in New York's Times Square.

In May 2023, misleading news was circulated on social media regarding Himanshi. In which users claimed that Himanshi has converted to Islam.