Priyanka Upendra

Priyanka Upendra (née Trivedi) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Kannada and Bengali Language films. Early life Priyanka was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Her mother is from West Bengal and father from Uttar Pradesh. She spent ten years of her schooling life in the US and about three years in Singapore, before graduating with a commerce degree from a college in Kolkata. She described herself as "little introverted, pretty flexible as a person, a good listener and overtly sensitive." She appeared in television commercials for brands such as Britannia, Orient Electric and Pillsbury in the late 1990s. During this time, she was cast by director Basu Chatterjee in his first Bengali film, Hothat Brishti (1998). She went on to make two more films with him, Chupi Chupi (2001) and Tak Jhal Mishti (2002). Career Beginnings Priyanka made her silver screen debut in Prabhat Roy's Bengali film Joddha (1997). She subsequently moved to Mumbai and acted in the Hindi film Mujhe Meri Biwi Se Bachaao (2001). In 2002, she acted in the Bengali film Saathi, which became one of the highest-grossers of Bengali cinema. She then began receiving offers for South Indian films, and went on make Telugu films Soori and Raa, the former of which was remade in Hindi as Durga with Priyanka acting in that too; H2O and Kotigobba in Kannada; and Raajjiyam, Raja, Kadhal Sadugudu and Jananam in Tamil.