Prajakta Koli
Biography
Prajakta Koli known for her YouTube Channel MostlySane, is an Indian YouTuber and actress who makes comedy videos. Her videos are focused mostly on observational comedy related to daily life situations. She is also known for her lead role in the Netflix romantic drama Mismatched.
Koli was born and brought up in Thane. As a child, she was fond of listening to the radio and wanted to be a radio jockey in Class 6.
She studied at Vasant Vihar High School in Thane, where she regularly participated in debates and elocutions. She graduated with a Bachelor of Mass Media from V. G. Vaze College of Arts, Science and Commerce in Mulund, affiliated with the University of Mumbai.
Her father Manoj Koli is a real-estate businessman turned restaurateur and her mother Archana Koli is a phonetics and language teacher.
Prajakta Koli is in a relationship with Vrishank Khanal, who is a lawyer by profession.
Koli began her media career as an intern at Fever 104 FM radio station in Mumbai. After interning for a year, she was given the opportunity to run her first show, Call Centre.
She quit the radio channel after the show's commercial failure. While working as an intern, Koli met Sudeep Lahiri - future One Digital Entertainment VP of Content and Strategy, who encouraged her to launch a comedy YouTube channel.
Prajakta launched her channel MostlySane in February 2015.
She performed at the YouTube FanFest in Delhi in 2018 and in Mumbai in 2019.
In 2020 she announced the launch of her YouTube Originals show Pretty Fit, The first episode was released on 21 January.
In the show, Koli interviews celebrities including Kareena Kapoor, Neha Kakkar, Sanya Malhotra, RJ Malishka, Mithila Palkar, and Sumukhi Suresh, who are made to perform various tasks demonstrating physical fitness.
In July 2020, Koli released a short film, Khayali Pulao, about female empowerment in rural Haryana. She then acted in the Netflix series Mismatched, released in November 2020.
In 2022, she was seen in Dharma Productions' film Jugjugg Jeeyo as ‘Ginny’ and Mismatched (Season 2).
She also began shooting for a film called Neeyat, alongside Vidya Balan, Ram Kapoor, Rahul Bose, Mita Vasishth, Neeraj Kabi, Shahana Goswami, Amrita Puri, Dipannita Sharma, and Shashank Arora.
In 2023, she is headlining a Zee Theatre teleplay called 'Yeh Shaadi Nahi Ho Sakti' directed by Akarsh Khurana. A horror show called Unseen produced by Excel Entertainment for Prime Video is slated to release in the first half of 2023.
Koli has collaborated with commercial Bollywood actors such as Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal, and Kajol across multiple projects.
