Ananya Panday facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Ananya Panday
Panday in 2022
Born	(1998-10-30) 30 October 1998 (age 25) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2019–present
Parent(s)	Chunky Panday (father)
Relatives	Chikki Panday (uncle) Sharad Panday (grandfather)

Ananya Panday (born 30 October 1998) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. The daughter of actor Chunky Panday, she began her acting career in 2019 with roles in the teen film Student of the Year 2 and the comedy Pati Patni Aur Woh. These performances earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. This was followed by several poorly received films, but her performance in the romantic drama Gehraiyaan (2022) was better received. She has since had a commercial success in the comedy Dream Girl 2 (2023), in which she had a brief role.

Early life and family

Panday was born on 30 October 1998 to actor Chunky Panday and costume designer Bhavana Pandey in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She has a younger sister named Rysa. Her grandfather Sharad Panday, was an Indian heart surgeon. Her uncle Chikki Panday is a businessperson and her aunt Deanne Pandey is a wellness coach.

She studied at Dhirubhai Ambani International School until 2017. She participated in Vanity Fair's Le Bal des débutantes event in Paris in 2017.

Career

Panday made her acting debut in 2019 with the teen film Student of the Year 2, co-starring Tiger Shroff and Tara Sutaria, which was produced by Dharma Productions. Writing for Scroll.in, Nandini Ramnath felt that Panday showed potential in an unremarkable film. The film underperformed at the box office. Panday next starred in Pati Patni Aur Woh (2019), a remake of the 1978 film of the same name, alongside Kartik Aaryan and Bhumi Pednekar. She played a secretary who indulges in an affair with a married man, which was portrayed by Ranjeeta Kaur in the original. India Today mentioned that Pandey is "bland and boring with no spice." With a worldwide gross of ₹1.15 billion (US$20 million), it emerged as a commercial success. Panday won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her performance in both Student of the Year 2 and Pati Patni Aur Woh.

In 2020, Panday appeared in the action film Khaali Peeli, starring Ishaan Khatter. The film was released digitally on Zee Plex. She next appeared alongside Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Dhairya Karwa in the 2022 romantic drama Gehraiyaan, which released on Amazon Prime Video. The film, and her performance, received positive reviews, with Anna M. M. Vetticad from Firstpost writing, "The surprise in this ensemble is Panday who brings a gravitas to Tia's confusion and innocence that makes you wonder why she chose to debut with the hollow gloss of Student of the Year 2". Her final release of the year came with Vijay Deverakonda in Puri Jagannadh's action film Liger, a bilingual production in Hindi and Telugu. The film was a critical and commercial failure, with Panday's performance being panned.

In 2023, Panday briefly played the leading lady in the spiritual sequel Dream Girl 2, starring Ayushmann Khurrana. The Times of India's Dhaval Roy dismissed her role and accent.

She will next appear in the coming-of-age film Kho Gaye Hum Kahan alongside Chaturvedi and Adarsh Gourav. She will also star in Vikramaditya Motwane's as-yet untitled film and in an Amazon Prime Video series named Call Me Bae.

Filmography

Films

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

• All films are in Hindi unless otherwise noted.

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2019	Student of the Year 2	Shreya Randhawa
	Pati Patni Aur Woh	Tapasya Singh
2020	Khaali Peeli	Pooja Sharma
2022	Gehraiyaan	Tia Khanna
	Liger	Tanya Pandey	Telugu-Hindi bilingual
2023	Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani	Unnamed	Special appearance in song "Heart Throb"
	Dream Girl 2	Pari Srivastava
	Kho Gaye Hum Kahan	Ahana	Post-production
2024	Control	TBA	Post-production
	The Untold Story of C Sankaran Nair	TBA	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
TBA	Call Me Bae	Bae	Filming

Music video

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Ananya Panday para niños