Mithila Palkar
Biography
Mithila Palkar (born 11 January 1993) is an Indian actress known for her characters in the TV series Girl in the City and Netflix's Little Things. She rose to prominence in March 2016 with her Marathi version of the "cup song". She has received several awards including a Filmfare Award Marathi and two Filmfare OTT Awards.
Palkar made her acting debut in 2014 in the Marathi language short film Majha Honeymoon. Her first Bollywood film was Nikkhil Advani's Katti Batti.
Palkar made her acting debut in the 2014 Marathi short film Majha Honeymoon, which was showcased at the 16th Mumbai International Film Festival. Her first success in the Indian film industry was in June 2014, when she successfully auditioned for the role of Imran Khan's sister in Katti Batti. The film did not do well.
Meanwhile, Dhruv Sehgal, who met Palkar at Thespo (QTP's annual theatre festival), asked her to audition for Filter Copy's new satire show on YouTube called News Darshan. She not only succeeded in that audition but also went on to do her first web series called Girl in the City in 2016 for Bindass and a number of YouTube videos for Pocket Aces.
One of these is a web series called Little Things alongside Sehgal since 2017, which has achieved a lot of popularity and was also published as a book by Penguin Random House.
Netflix purchased the franchise of Little Things in 2018 and its second season premiered on Netflix on 5 October 2018. The third season of Little Things premiered on 9 November 2019. The fourth and final season of Little Things premiered on 15 October 2021.
In 2019, she acted in Chopsticks, a Netflix original film, directed by Sachin Yardi. In the film, she plays the role of an under-confident girl named Nirma (after the washing powder brand) whose life changes when she meets a con man, played by Abhay Deol.
She later acted with Dhruv Sehgal in Taco Bell's digital campaign for their new product Quesalupa (a crossover between a chalupa and a quesadilla that is filled with cheese) titled #TheCheesyPull.
Palkar's next project was the Netflix film Tribhanga, directed by Renuka Shahane, featuring Tanvi Azmi and Kajol. The film began shooting in October 2019.
