Known For: Indian actress
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, model
Country: India
City: Punjab
Date of Birth: Friday, 07 October 1983
Language Malayalam
Pooja Gandhi is an Indian actress and model, who mainly works in Kannada and Tamil language films. After starring in the commercially successful 2006 film Mungaru Male, she became one of the most popular and highest paid actresses in Kannada language films and also the recipient of several awards, including an honorary doctorate. Gandhi is popularly referred to as Male Hudugi in the media and Kannada film industry. Gandhi has acted in over five languages and 50 films in a decade. The Banglore Times placed her in the list of "25 Most Desirable Women of 2012".
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Gandhi was born in Meerut and brought up in Delhi into a traditional Punjabi family. Her father, Pawan Gandhi, is a businessman and her mother, Jyothi Gandhi, is a housewife. She studied at Sophia Convent and Dewan Public School in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. She has two younger sisters – Radhika Gandhi, who is also an actress in Kannada films, and Suhani Gandhi, a tennis player. Gandhi started her career as a model by acting in advertisements and television series with Awaz – Dil Se Dil Tak (a remake of Lost in Hindi language) and a serial Zameen Se Aassman Tak, directed by Aruna Irani. Gandhi had got engaged to industrialist Anand Gowda (in November 2012) and ended the relationship the following month. In 2023, Gandhi married her longtime friend, the Bangalore-based businessman Vijay Ghorpade, in accordance with Kuvempu's Mantra Mangalya concept.
