Mrunal Thakur

While attending college, Thakur signed a lead role as Gauri Bhosle opposite Mohit Sehgal in the Star Plus series Mujhse Kuchh Kehti...Yeh Khamoshiyaan. The show aired from 2012 to 2013. Later in 2013, Thakur appeared in an episodic appearance on the mystery thriller Har Yug Mein Aayega Ek – Arjun, in which she played a journalist named Sakshi Anand.[9]

In February 2014, Thakur signed Zee TV's soap opera Kumkum Bhagya, for which she began shooting the following month.[10] The show, co-starring Sriti Jha, Shabir Ahluwalia, Arjit Taneja, and Supriya Shukla, started airing on 15 April, and saw Thakur portray Bulbul Arora Khanna, a woman who along with her elder sister (played by Jha) helps their mother (played by Shukla) run a marriage hall. The show received mostly positive to mixed reviews from critics in critical reception. Thakur quit the show in January 2016.[11]

Thakur appeared as a Contestant on Box Cricket League 1 in 2014 and Nach Baliye 7 in 2015. In 2016, she performed dance in a special episode of &TV's SauBhagyalaxmi and had a Guest appearance in Tuyul & Mbak Yul Reborn. Her final appearance on TV was with the Indonesian serial Nadin, where she was seen as Tara, after which she took a retirement from television.

Thakur made her film debut with the Marathi film, Vitti Dandu, which was released in 2014. She was seen as Sandhya. Her next Marathi film was Surajya, where she was seen as Dr. Swapna.

In 2012, Thakur began work on her first Hindi project, the international film Love Sonia, for which she stayed at Kolkata. The film was released in September 2018 after various delays and featured her in the titular role of a village girl who brings to light issue of global human trafficking. For preparation, Thakur stayed at a brothel to study the body language of prostitutes. Although the film was generally well reviewed, it was a failure at the domestic box office.[12]

Thakur's Bollywood debut came in 2019 with Vikas Bahl's biographical drama Super 30, narrating the story of mathematician Anand Kumar (played by Hrithik Roshan in the film) and his educational program of the same name, in which she portrayed Supriya, a classical dancer and Kumar's love interest. It emerged as a commercial success and one of the top-grossing Hindi films of 2019.[13] In the same year, she played John Abraham's wife Nandita Kumar in Nikkhil Advani's Batla House, based on the 2008 Batla House encounter case. It grossed over ₹1.11 billion (US$14 million) worldwide becoming a commercially successful venture.[14]

In 2020, Thakur appeared in a Netflix venture, the four-part anthology horror film Ghost Stories as Ira in the Segment: Karan Johar's segment.[15] The same year she appeared in a music video "Gallan Goriya", alongside John Abraham.

In 2021, Thakur has starred in the sports drama, Toofaan,[16] directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and co-starring Farhan Akhtar, which premiered on 16 July 2021 on Amazon Prime Video in which her performance was praised.[17] In addition, she co-starred in the action thriller Dhamaka, directed by Ram Madhvani and co-starring Kartik Aaryan and Amruta Subhash, which released on Netflix on 19 November 2021.[18] She also appeared in two music videos in the year 2021, "Bad Boy x Bad Girl" with Badshah and "Aise Na Chhoro" with Guru Randhawa.

Thakur's first film of 2022, Jersey, a remake of the 2019 Telugu film of the same name, co-starring Shahid Kapoor, released on 22 April 2022.[19] The film received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, praising the performances, direction and soundtrack; however, the film emerged as a commercial failure at the box office.[20][21] Thakur made her Telugu film debut opposite Dulquer Salmaan in Hanu Raghavapudi's period romantic drama Sita Ramam.[22] The film received positive reviews upon release from critics and audiences alike and emerged as a major blockbuster at the box-office, thus proving to be a breakthrough for her.[23][24] In 2023, she starred opposite Aditya Roy Kapur in the Hindi film Gumraah, which was a remake of the 2019 Tamil film Thadam. The film underperformed commercially, becoming a box-office bomb.[25]

Thakur will appear opposite Abhimanyu Dassani and Paresh Rawal in the multi-starrer comedy Aankh Micholi.[26] Following this, she will be seen with Ishaan Khatter in the war action film Pippa.[27] She also completed Maddock Films Pooja Meri Jaan alongside Huma Qureshi.[28]

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

• All films are in Hindi unless otherwise noted.

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
2014	Vitti Dandu	Sandhya Jain	Marathi film	[35]
	Surajya	Dr. Swapna	Marathi film	[36]
2018	Love Sonia	Sonia Gupta		[37]
2019	Super 30	Supriya Singh		[38]
	Batla House	Shobhna Yadav		[39]
2020	Ghost Stories	Irawati Kapoor		[15]
2021	Toofaan	Dr. Ananya Prabhu		[40]
	Dhamaka	Saumya Mehra		[41]
2022	Jersey	Vidya Rao Talwar		[42]
	Sita Ramam	Sita Mahalakshmi/ Princess Noor Jahan	Telugu film; Telugu debut	[43]
2023	Selfiee	Unnamed	Special appearance in song "Kudiyee Ni Teri"	[44]
	Gumraah	Shivani Mathur		[45]
	Pooja Meri Jaan	Pooja	Completed	[46]
	Pippa	Radha	Completed	[47]
	Aankh Micholi	TBA	Filming	[48]
	Nani 30	TBA	Telugu film; Filming	[49]