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Known for
Actor
Gender
Female
Date of Birth
1992-06-17
Location
Assam, India
Edit pagePlabita Borthakur
Biography
Plabita Borthakur is an Indian actress, singer, and artist from Assam.
Her father Probin Borthakur was an engineer by profession with Oil India Limited along with being an Indian classical singer and teacher while her mother is a writer and poet. Her older sisters, Parineeta Borthakur and Priyangi Borthakur, are in the film industry as well.
She grew up in the Oil India township of Duliajan in Assam, before moving to Mumbai's Jai Hind College, for higher studies. Professionally, she got her head start with numerous ad assignments and concerts with her band, Manu and Chow.
Plabita Borthakur made her debut in PK in a blink-and-miss role as Anushka Sharma's sister. She is back with another Bollywood film, where she plays one of the main protagonists in the much-spoken-about, Lipstick Under My Burkha.
On 15 July 2017, she made a special appearance on The Kapil Sharma Show, alongside Prakash Jha and Ekta Kapoor.
Plabita has received rave reviews for her performance as a Muslim girl, Rehana Abidi in Lipstick Under My Burkha.
Her web series, "What's Your Status" was released in July 2018. She was part of an episodic web series on Zee5 called Parchhayee, that released on 24 June 2019.
In June 2019, the trailer of Doosra shows her in a pivotal role.
In 2020, she was in the critically acclaimed web-series Breathe: Into the Shadows on Amazon Prime Video. Plabita also starred in two feature films Reena in Waah Zindagi and Fauziya in Chhote Nawab.
In 2021, she starred as Ayesha in the web series Bombay Begums, directed by Alankrita Shrivastava, starring Pooja Bhatt, Amruta Subhash, Shahana Goswami and Aadhya Anand
Actor
Bombay Begums (Season 1) as Ayesha Agarwal
Breathe: Into the Shadows (Season 1) as Meghna Verma