Swara Bhaskar (born 9 April 1988) is an Indian film actress who appears in the Hindi language films. She has received two Filmfare Award nominations, and her prime achievements have made her one of the most noticed contemporary actresses of the Hindi cinema.
Bhaskar, the daughter of Naval officer Chitrapu Uday Bhaskar, was born in Delhi. She received her bachelors degree in English literature from the University of Delhi and masters degree in Sociology from the Jawaharlal Nehru University. She made her film debut with a supporting role in the 2009 drama Madholal Keep Walking, a box-office flop. She rose to fame with the role of naughty bride-to-be in the commercially successful rom-com Tanu Weds Manu (2011). Her performance in the film garnered critical appreciation and several nominations, including the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received wide critical acclaim for portraying an aggressive lover in the critically acclaimed romantic drama Raanjhanaa (2013), for which she earned her second Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, and played the lead female role in the romance Listen... Amaya (2013). She received further praise for her performance in the horror Machhli Jal Ki Rani Hai (2014), the romantic comedy Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015) and the romantic drama Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015), with the latter two ranked among highest-grossing Indian films of all the time. She had a minor role in the successful collaborative bilingual X: Past Is Present (2015).
Bhaskar is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Bhakar Gotra originated from Nagavanshi ruler Prabhakara (प्रभाकर) . They have originated from place called Bhasiana. [7] The district Bhakar Darya Khan city is in Pakistan where many Mahotas families live in. Aswamedha Parva, Mahabharata/Book 14 Chapter 8 mentions about Bhaskar as protectors of gold mines of Kuvera on peak named Munjaban on the summits of the Himalaya mountains. [8]:
Bhāskara I (c. 600 – c. 680), Indian mathematician, apparently the first to write numbers in the Hindu-Arabic decimal system with a circle for the zero
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