Puja Banerjee Age, Wiki, Boyfriend, Family, Instagram, Husband

Puja Banerjee was born on Friday; 06th February, 1987 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Her Age (As on 01/05/2022) is 35 Years 02 months and 25 Days (ie. 422 months 25 Days or; 1838 Weeks 02 Days or; 12868 Days or; 308832 Hours or; 18529920 minutes or; 1111795200 seconds). She has an Indian Nationality.

Puja Banerjee is an Indian Actress, & a Beautiful Model. She is predominantly known for her work in Bengali Film Industry and Hindi Television Industry. Apart from her acting in the Hindi Television Industry and Bengali films, she has acted in a couple of Telugu films as well. She is best known for her role of ‘Vrinda’ in the Hindi television show named “Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna”, which was aired on Star Plus.

She was also seen as a contestant in “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7” in the year 2014; “Comedy Nights Bachao” which was aired from 2015 till 2017; “Bigg Boss Bangla” in the year 2016. Her appearance on the OTT Platform was also appreciated by her fans and audiences, where she made her presence felt in Hoichoi originals web-series “Paap” and off-late she was seen in “Anupama: Namaste America”, which was aired on Disney+ Hotstar.

Early Life & Family

She was born in a Bengali family in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and from her very young age, she always had an ambition of becoming an actress and was always active in modelling from her college days itself. She used the surname ‘Bose’ as her Ex-husband’s surname, her earlier name was Puja Banerjee.

When she was just 15 years old, Puja Bose (aka Puja Banerjee) played the role of Baban in the Hindi film named “Escape from Taliban”. In 2010, in a conversation with one of the media house, Puja stated that she did the movie “Escape from Taliban” when she was 15 years old. She narrated,

“It was my debut Hindi film at the age of 15. It starred Manisha Koirala. The director of the film was my father’s friend. Hence, he approached me with a role. It was an autobiography of Sushmita Banerjee played by Manisha. It was more like a documentary film”.

She completed her initial schooling from “St. Paul Mission School” located at 5, Scott Lane, Baithakkhana, Raj Kumar Chakraborty Sarani, Kolkata – 700009, West Bengal, India and completed her graduation from the “Scottish Church College” located at 1 & 3, Urquhart Square, Manicktala, Azad Hind Bag, Kolkata – 700006, West Bengal, India.

She got married to Arnoy Chakraborty in the year 2007 and they mutually got divorced in the year 2013. She then married her long time boyfriend and her co-star Kunal Verma in the year 2020, where the couple had to do a court marriage due to corona virus pandemic and lockdown in India. Later on November 15th, 2021 they got married as per the Hindu rituals and ceremonies. She narrated,

“We had already done a court marriage, one-and-half month back. We hadn’t spoken about it to the world. Today, we were supposed to do our wedding rituals but had to call them off due to the lockdown. However, we will consider today (April 15) as our wedding. Aaj bataya na duniya ko!”. The couple have a son named “Krishiv”.

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Puja Banerjee: Biography / Wiki

PUJA BANERJEE	BIOGRAPHY
Name	Puja Banerjee
Profession	Indian Actress, & a Beautiful Model
Known For	Known for her role of ‘Vrinda’ in the Hindi television show named “Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna”, which was aired on Star Plus.

Personal Life

Born On	06th February, 1987 (Friday)
Birthplace	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Age (As on 01/05/2022)	35 Years 02 months and 25 Days (ie. 422 months 25 Days or; 1838 Weeks 02 Days or; 12868 Days or; 308832 Hours or; 18529920 minutes or; 1111795200 seconds)
Hometown	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Residence	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Religion	Hinduism
Nationality	Indian
Zodiac Sign	Aquarius

Education

School	St. Paul Mission School, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
College/University	Scottish Church College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Education Qualification	Graduation

Family & More

Father	Not Known
Mother	Not Known
Brother	Not Known
Sister	Not Known

Personal Life & Relationship

Martial Status	Married
Husband	Arnoy Chakraborty (2007-2013) Kunal Verma (2020 – Present)
Children	Krishiv (Born – October 2020)

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Puja Banerjee Height Weight & Body Measurements

Height	In Centimeters – 157.48 cms
	In Meters – 1.575 metres
	In Feet Inches – 5’2″
Weight	In Kilogram – 50 Kg
Weight	In Pounds- 110.231 lbs
Body Measurements	34-26-34
Hair Colour	Black
Eye Colour	Hazel

Career

Films

She started her acting career in the year 2003 with the film “Escape from Taliban” at the age of 15. The movie was directed by Puja’s fathers friend Ujjal Chattopadhyaya and the script of the film was taken from a book written by Sushmita Banerjee – A Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife. The film was produced by Vijay Nopany and Ashok Khemka.

The music of the film was composed by Babul Bose and the film was officially released on February 14th, 2003 in Hindi, Urdu & English languages. In the movie, Puja was seen in the role of ‘Baban’; where Manisha Koirala was seen in a lead role and was casted as Sushmita Banerjee/Sayed Kamal; Nawab Shah was casted as Jaanbaaz; Prithvi Zutshi as Dranai Chacha; Alyy Khan as Abdul Malik; and others.

She made her Telugu film industry debut with the Telugu-language action film named “Veedu Theda”. In the movie, Puja was casted as ‘Meghana’ along side Nikhil Siddharth who was casted as Kaththi Seenu; Ali as Love Kumar; Brahmanandam as Banana Baba; Hema as Seenu’s Sister; veteran Marathi and Hindi film industry actor Sayaji Shinde as Liquor Shankar; and others.

The film was directed by Chinni Krishna and produced by Kalyan Chakravarthy. The music of the film was composed by Chakri and the film was officially released on November 18th, 2011 in India in Telugu language. The Times of India gave the film three stars out of five, calling the screenplay “unimaginative and the music formulaic, composed exclusively for the front rows”.

Her Bengali film industry debut film was “Macho Mustanaa”, where she was casted in a lead role named ‘Diya’. “Macho Mustanaa” was a Bengali language romance-action film directed by Reshmi Mitra and produced by P.P Tewari. The music of the film was composed by Samidh Mukerjee and the film was officially released on March 9th, 2012 under the Remac Filmz banner.

In the movie, Puja was casted along with Hiran who was casted as Nabab; Arun Bannerjee as Bidhan Chattoraj; Rajat Ganguly as Nabab’s father; Bibhu Bhattacharya as Nabab’s grandfather; Shantilal Mukherjee as a goon; Dolon Roy as Bidisha Mukherjee; Debdut Ghosh as Nabab’s elder brother; Arpita Dutta Chowdhury as Nabab’s sister-in-law; and others.

Again in the year 2012, she was next seen in yet another Bengali action-comedy movie named “Challenge 2”, where she was casted in a lead role as ‘Pooja Bakshi’ along side Dev who was casted as IPS Officer Abhiraj “Abhi” Roy; Tapas Paul as MLA Debraj Roy; Ashish Vidyarthi as Mafia King Guru Nayak; Rajatava Dutta as Madhushudhan Bakshi; Kharaj Mukherjee as Swarnakamal; Laboni Sarkar as Pooja’s mother; Subhasish Mukherjee as Premjit; and others.

“Challenge 2” was written by NK Salil and directed by Raja Chanda. Based on Telugu language action-comedy film named “Dookudu”, the movie was produced by Mahendra Soni and Srikant Mohta. The music of the film was composed by Jeet Gannguli and the film was officially released on October 19th, 2012 (Durga panchami) just before the Durga Pujo weekend in 270 theatres across India including West Bengal, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Bihar, Assam, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh in Bengali language.

In the year 2013, she was next seen in an Indian Hindi language action-thriller film named “Rajdhani Express”. The movie also marked the debut in the Hindi Film industry for legendary Indian Tennis sensation “Leander Paes”, who was casted in the lead role as ‘Keshav’. In the film, Puja was casted as ‘Sunita’ along with Jimmy Sheirgill as Deputy Commissioner Yadav; Priyanshu Chatterjee as Banerjee; Sudhanshu Pandey as Muneesh; Sayali Bhagat as Reena; Mukesh Rishi as S.I.; and others.

The movie was directed by Ashok Kohli and produced by Rajesh K Patel, Manoj Kejriwal & Ritika Kohli. The music of the film was composed by Ritesh Nalini, Lahu-Madhav & Bappi Tutul and the movie was officially released on January 4th, 2013. The film had an estimated budget of Rs. 5 crores and the film was a super-flop at the box-office with the collection of only Rs. 35 lakhs approximately.

Her next release of the year 2013 was also an Indian Bengali language action-comedy-romance film named “Loveria”. Loveria was based on Telugu language action-comedy-romance film named “Bumper Offer”, which was released in the year 2009. “Loveria” was directed by Raja Chanda and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. The music of the film was composed by Samidh Mukherjee and was officially released on February 15th, 2013.

In the movie, she was casted as ‘Sweety’ along with Soham Chakraborty who was casted as Aditya; Rajatava Dutta as Sweety’s father, Shantimoy Roy; Tulika Bose as Aditya’s mother; Supriyo Dutta as Aditya’s father; and others. There were four songs in the movie and their lyrics were written by Samidh Mukherjee & Priyo Chattopadhyay.

Her next release was yet another remake of year 2011 Telugu-language film “Oosaravelli”, which was named “Rocky”. The script of the film was written by NK Salil and was directed by Sujit Mondal. The film was produced by Shree Venkatesh Films and the music of the film was composed by Jeet Gannguli. The movie was officially released on April 26th, 2013 under the Shree Venkatesh Films & Surinder Films banner.

In the film, Puja was casted as ‘Nandini/Anindita’ along with Mimoh who was casted as Rocky; Mithun Chakraborty as Fatakeshto Rocky’s father in a cameo role; Bharat Kaul as Mafia Ravi Verma; Surajit Sen as Raj Verma; and others. The film and its music received extremely bad reviews from the critics and the audiences and was declared a flop at the box-office.

She was next seen as ‘Brishti’ along side Locket Chatterjee who was casted as Megh Chatterjee and Dibyendu Mukherjee as Aakash in another Bengali film named “Oh! Henry”. The film was directed by Animesh Roy and produced by Sandip Chatterjee & Niranjan Pansari. The music of the film was composed by Debojyoti Nag and the film was officially released on June 14th, 2013.

Puja was also seen in an item song “Kala Koi Geli” in the film “Proloy”. Proloy was a Bengali crime thriller film, which was written and directed by Raj Chakraborty and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. The music of the film was composed by Indraadip Dasgupta and was released on August 9th, 2013. Parambrata Chatterjee was casted as Barun Biswas; Paran Bandopadhyay as Binod; Mimi Chakraborty as Durga; and others.

In yet another cameo appearance, she was next seen in the Hindi language romantic drama film named “Ramaiya Vastavaiya”, which was again a remake of Prabhudeva’s directorial debut film named “Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana”. The film “Ramaiya Vastavaiya” was directed by Prabhu Deva and produced Kumar S. Taurani.

In the movie, Girish Kumar was casted as Ram Kapoor; Shruti Haasan as Sona Singh; Sonu Sood as Raghuveer Singh; Randhir Kapoor as Siddhanth Kapoor; Poonam Dhillon as Ashwini Kapoor; Vinod Khanna as Station Master Shankar; Paresh Ganatra as Bijlee; Satish Shah as Krishna Kant Bhargav; Govind Namdev as Zamindar Jaiswal; and others. The film was officially released in India on July 19th, 2013.

In the year 2016, she was next seen in a Hindi-language adult comedy film named “Great Grand Masti”, where she played the character of ‘Sapna Amar Saxena’ opposite Riteish Deshmukh who was casted as Amar Saxena; Aftab Shivdasani as Prem Chawla; Vivek Oberoi as Meet Mehta; Urvashi Rautela as Ragini; Shreyas Talpade as Babu Rangeela; Mishti Chakraborty as Rekha Meet Mehta; Shraddha Das as Nisha Prem Chawla; veteran Marathi Actress Usha Nadkarni as Amar’s mother-in-law; and others.

The script of the film was written by Tushar Hiranandani and was directed by Indra Kumar. The movie was produced by Aman Gill, Sameer Nair, Anand Pandit & Ashok Thakeria. The music of the film was composed by Shaarib-Toshi, Shaan & Sanjeev Darshan and the film was officially released on July 15th, 2016 in the theatres across India. The film was declared a flop at the box-office.

In the year 2018, she was casted as ‘Lola’ in the multi-starrer Bengali-language comedy film named “Hoichoi Unlimited”. In the movie, she was casted along with actor Dev who was casted as Kumar; Saswata Chatterjee as Animesh Chakladar; Kharaj Mukherjee as Bijon Chirimar; Arna Mukhopadhyay as Azam Khan; Rajatava Dutta as Sital Roy; Koushani Mukherjee as Anindita; Dulal Lahiri as Kajol Sen; Manasi Sinha as Sumitra; Koneenica Banerjee as Bijoli; and others.

The script of the film was written and directed by Aniket Chattopadhyay and the film was produced by Gurupada Adhikari & Dev Adhikari. The music of the film was composed by Sayan Seth & Savvy and the film was officially released on October 12th, 2018 under the Dev Entertainment Ventures banner. The Times of India commented “It caters to the lowest common denominator, but that’s enough to invite roars of laughter and guffaws from the audience. It will tickle your funny bone, but only if its prone for such predilection”. The film was rated 2.5 out of 5 by the Times of India.

“Ban Dance Mein Kutta” was an item number in which Puja was seen in the Hindi-language comedy film named “3 Dev”. The script of the film was written by Subodh Pandey & Ghalib Asad Bhopali and directed by Ankoosh Bhatt. The film was produced by Rupal Parmar & Chitan Rana and the music of the film was composed by Sajid–Wajid. The film was officially released on April 12th, 2019 in India and abroad.

This multi-starrer film had Karan Singh Grover casted as Vishnu; Kunaal Roy Kapur as Mahesh/Shiva; Ravi Dubey as Brahma; Priya Banerjee as Vani; Poonam Kaur as Radha; Raima Sen as Bhairavi; Kay Kay Menon as Shanu/Satyavan; Tisca Chopra as Savitri; Prosenjit Chatterjee as Professor; & Pooja Banerjee in an item number “Ban Dance Mein Kutta”. The film was released under the Sky Entertainment & R2 Phillum Productions banner.

Television

Puja started her journey in the Indian Television Industry with Balaji Telefilms “Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki”, where she was casted as ‘Radha’. She was casted along with Mrunal Jain who was casted as Krishna; Hiten Tejwani as Karna; Ronit Roy as Bhishma; Anita Hassanandani as Draupadi; Uma Shanker as Yudhishtir; Aryan Vaid as Duryodhan; Chetan Hansraj as Bheem; Ajaz Khan as Dushasan; Sid Makkar as Arjuna; Kiran Karmarkar as Shantanu; Sakshi Tanwar as Ganga; Rakshanda Khan as Amba; Vindhya Tiwari as Ambika and others.

The script of the serial was written by Mahesh Pandey, Dr. Bodhaisaattva & Manish Paliwal and the serial was produced by Shobha Kapoor & Ekta Kapoor. The television serial was directed by Santram Varma, Talat Jani, Mujammil Desai & Garry Bhinder. The serial had 75 episodes in all and was officially aired from July 7th, 2008 till November 6th, 2008 on the 9X channel.

In “Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna”, she was casted in a lead role of ‘Vrinda Shehrawat’ along side Sandeep Baswana who was casted as Rajbeer; Kunal Verma as Yugandhar; Leena Jumani as Radha; Khushboo Singh as Bharti; Aditi Bhatia as Tulsi; Ananya Agarwal as Prerna; Gautam Gulati as Teji; and others. The script of the serial was written by Deepti Rawal, Dheeraj Sarna & Vinod Sharma and produced by Ekta Kapoor & Shobha Kapoor. The serial was aired from November 3rd, 2008 till February 5th, 2010 on the Star Plus channel.

In the year 2010, she was next seen in a lead role of ‘Swara’, where she played the character of a very simple and innocent Maharashtrian girl in the television serial named “Sarvggun Sampanna”. The serial was directed by Fahad kashmiri, Hemant Prabhu & Deepak Chavan and produced by Shobha Kapoor & Ekta Kapoor. In the serial, she was casted along with Sunita Rao who was casted as Manjula; Pramod Pawar as Parshuram; Abhinav Kohli as Ayush; Chaitanya Choudhury as Aditya Raje Deshmukh; & Yash Tonk as Karan Kapadia (K.K.). The serial was aired from May 11th, 2010 till October 29th, 2010 on the NDTV Imagine television network.

Casted as ‘Goddess Parvati’, Puja was next seen in “Devon Ke Dev…Mahadev” on the Life OK Television network. This serial was aired from December 18th, 2011 till December 14th, 2014 and had 820 episodes in total. In the serial, she was casted along with Mohit Raina who was casted as Lord Shiva; Anushka Sen as Young Parvati; Saurabh Raaj Jain as Lord Vishnu; Rushiraj Pawar as Senapati Kartikeya; Darshan Gurjar as young Kartikeya; and many others.

On colors TV, she was next seen as a contestant in “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 7)” and was paired along with Rajit Dev. The show was aired from June 7th, 2014 till September 20th, 2014 where Madhuri Dixit, Remo D’Souza & Karan Johar were the judges and Ashish Sharma was judged the winner of the show and Karan Tacker was judged the runner-up. The show had 31 episodes in all. Puja and Rajit Dev were eliminated on July 27, 2014.

“Razia Sultan” was her next television show, where she was casted as ‘Yasmine’ and where Pankhuri Awasthy Rode played the epic character of “Razia Sultan”; Rohit Purohit as Ikhtiyar ud-din Malik Altunia; Saurabh Pandey as Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut; Khalida Turi as Qutub Begum; and others. The show was telecast on the &TV network from March 2nd, 2015 till October 23rd 2015 and had 170 episodes in its one and only season.

She was seen as a contestant again in “Comedy Nights Bachao” season 1 & 2 which was aired on the Colors TV Network from September 5th, 2015 till January 15th, 2017. Many Bollywood celebrities like Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone; Shahrukh Khan, Suniel Shetty, Udit Narayan, Ranbir Kapoor, Sunny Deol, Akshay Kumar, and many more were invited to the show to promote their respective Bollywood films as well.

“Dev” was an Indian suspense drama television serial, in which Puja was casted in a lead role of ‘Mehek Burman’ along with Aashish Chaudhary who was casted as Detective Dev Anand Burman; Sumona Chakravarti as Meera Banerjee; Sonal Vengurlekar as Pranali Saluja; Surbhi Jyoti as Lawyer Fatima Hydari; and others.

The serial had 2 seasons and 71 episodes in all, where the first season had 27 episodes and was aired from August 5th, 2017 till November 12, 2017 & its second season had 44 episodes which were aired from June 25th, 2018 till September 6th, 2018. Both the seasons were aired on the Colors TV television network.

Casted as ‘Vikramjeet’s wife’ in the television serial “Prithvi Vallabh – Itihaas Bhi, Rahasya Bhi”, Puja gave her next brief appearance on the Sony Entertainment Television channel. The serial was based on “Prithivivallabh” a Gujarati historical novel by Kanaiyalal Munshi. The serial also starred Ashish Sharma as Prithvi Vallabh; Sonarika Bhadoria as Warrior Princess Mrinalvati; Mukesh Rishi as Sena Adhyaksh Kallari in the lead role and was aired from January 20th 2018 till June 17th 2018.

On Colors TV Network, she was next seen in the television serial named “Vish”. The serial had 80 episodes and was aired from June 10th, 2019 till September 27th, 2019. In the serial, she was casted as ‘Makdina’ along with Ankit Gulati who was casted as Mohit Veer Kothari; Krip Suri as Vishera; Divya Bhatnagar as Shabnam Khaala; Nalini Negi as Katrina; and others.

In the year 2019, she was casted as “Goddess Vaishno Devi”, in a lead role in the serial “Jag Janani Maa Vaishno Devi – Kahani Mata Rani Ki”. The serial was aired officially from September 30th, 2019 till October 2nd, 2020 on the Star Bharat television network and had a total number of 207 episodes. The script of the serial was written by Anshumali Jha & Utkarsh Naithani and directed by Bhagwan Yadav.

Web-series

“Paap”, a Bengali language web-series which was aired on the Hoichoi OTT Platform was her debut series, where Puja was casted as ‘Parboni’ in a lead role. In this web-series, she was casted along with Saheb Bhattacharya who was casted as Chhoton Chowdhury; Ishani Das as young Paru; Bhaswar Chattopadhyay as Srimonto Chowdhury; Solanki Roy as Tiya Chowdhury; Roopsha Dasgupta as Bidisha Chowdhury; Priyanka Mondal as Sneha; and others.

The series was directed by Anupam Hari & Joydeep Mukherjee. The first season was officially aired on October 2nd, 2019 and had five episodes and its second season was aired on June 4th, 2021 which also had five episodes in total.

Off-late, she was seen in an Indian Hindi-language drama web-series named “Anupama: Namaste America”. The web-series was officially aired from April 25th, 2022 till May 6th, 2022 on the Disney+ Hotstar OTT Platform and had eleven episodes in total. The script of the series was written by Bhavna Vyas and the series was directed by Romesh Kalra. The producers of the series were Ishika Shahi & Rajan Shahi.

In the web-series, Puja was casted as ‘Ritika’ along with Rupali Ganguly as Anupama; Sudhanshu Pandey as Vanraj; Sarita Joshi as Moti Baa; Vidhvaan Sharma as Young Samar; Dheer Bhanushali as Young Paritosh; Arvind Vaidya as Hasmukh Shah; Alpana Buch as Leela Shah; Ekta Saraiya as Dolly Shah Dhamecha; Madalsa Sharma Chakraborty as Kavya Gandhi; and others.

Music videos

Puja was seen in the music video “Aap Se Mausiiquii”, which was composed by Himesh Reshammiya and the lyrics written by Manoj Muntashir. In the music video, she was featured along with Himesh Reshammiya. The music video was officially released on December 5th, 2016 and was produced by T-Series. Joginder Tuteja of MovieTalkies.com gave the album 4.5 out of 5.

Controversies

In the year 2012, Puja Bose’s (Aka Puja Banerjee) kissing photo with actress Sara Khan was leaked publicly. However, it was later denied by Sara Khan.