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Avantika Khattri
Avantika Khattri (born 20 November 1989)[1] is an Indian Bollywood actress, producer, and director [2] who debuted with the movie War Chhod Na Yaar in which she played the parallel lead with Soha Ali Khan along with co-stars Sharman Joshi and Javed Jaffrey.[3] CareerAvantika debuted in Bollywood as an actress with the Hindi movie War Chhod Na Yaar.[4] She had already produced a film titled by Beautiful World[5] which was based on the 2016 incident that happened in Bulandshahr, starring Amruta Subhash,[6] Swanand Kirkire and Shweta Tripathi and it was presented by Anurag Kashyap.[7][8][9] Avantika Khatri has done an album named Bottoms Up as a lead actress with Mika Singh.[10][11] Avantika's second short film For All That You Are as a producer and also her debut directorial - won the Best LGBTQ Film award at the Top Shorts International Film Festival. The film, which has Avantika playing the protagonist, is a revenge drama revolving around two female ex-lovers. She was chosen as the Best Actress In An Indie Film in Actors Award at Los Angeles; the Best Woman Filmmaker at The IndieFEST Film Awards (US) and the Best Actress-Leading at Accolade Global Film Competition (US). The film also won the award for the Best Short at the Mediterranean Film Festival and Best Short at Canada Shorts Film Festival.[1] Avantika walked the Red Carpet[12][2] at the 71st Cannes Film Festival where For All That You Are[2] was screened in the Short Film Corner.[13][2] Avantika has been awarded with Iconic Producer, Film-Director & Actress at Mid-Day Powerful Women Award 2022.[14] by the Hon’ble Governor of Maharashtra Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Raj Bhawan, Mumbai.[15] Early lifeAvantika is from Jhansi which is a town in Uttar Pradesh, born to a doctor father and an artist mother. She has an MBA in Human Resource.[16] She began her career by performing arts and also dabbled in modelling and featured in the FHM[17] magazine. and others. She has been featured in TV commercials.[18] She also appeared as a Celebrity on Times Food Channel - Cooking with Celebs[19] FilmographyActor
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