Mehreen Kaur Pirzada (born 5 November 1995) is an Indian actress and model who predominantly appears in Telugu,
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Tamil
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family to an agriculturist and realtor father Gurlal Pirzada and a housewife mother Paramjit Kaur Pirzada.Mehreen_Pirzada Mehreen Pirzada looks like a girl next door magzter.com. Her only sibling is a brother named Gurfateh Pirzada who is also a model and actor.
Pirzada did her first ramp walk at the age of ten and won the title of Kasauli Princess at a beauty pageant. She was later crowned Miss Personality South Asia Canada 2013 in
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. Pirzada later got a lot of advertising and modelling work.
Career
Debut and early success (2016-2017)
Pirzada made her acting debut with the 2016 Telugu film '' Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha'', in which she played Mahalakshmi opposite Nani. The film was a major box office success. A reviewer of ''
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'' stated that she came up with "decent performance" in her first film. Suresh Kaviryani of ''
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'' noted, "Mehreen has done an excellent job as the female lead and doesn’t look like a debutante at all."
Pirzada had five releases in 2017. She played Anu in her Hindi film '' Phillauri'' opposite
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. The film received mixed reviews and was a commercial failure. Andy Webster of ''
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'' stated that she brings the "spark". Next, she played Meghana in '' Mahanubhavudu'' opposite
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. Hemanth Kumar of ''
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'' said, "Mehreen makes quite an impression." Pirzada then played Lucky opposite
Ravi Teja
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, a major success at box office. After this, she appeared as Janani in the bilingual '' Nenjil Thunivirundhal'', opposite Sundeep Kishan. Lastly, she played Bhargavi opposite
Sai Dharam Tej
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In 2018, Pirzada first played Akshara opposite Gopichand in '' Pantham''. Next, she appeared opposite Vijay Deverakonda in '' NOTA'' as Swati. She then played Lavanya opposite Bellamkonda Sreenivas in '' Kavacham''. All the three films were commercial failures.
In her first film of 2019, Pirzada played a dominating wife Honey, opposite
Varun Tej
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, in '' F2: Fun and Frustration''. It was a huge commercial success. Krishna Sripaada from ''
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'' stated, "While accents are a huge problem, the leading ladies, are funny, especially Mehreen, who gets a lot of mileage out of her role." Next, she made her Punjabi debut with '' DSP Dev'', playing Kirat opposite
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. She reunited with Gopichand in ''
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'', playing Aishwarya. In the same year, she played Shruti opposite
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''. Manpriya Singh of '' The Tribune'' said that she plays her role "remarkably well".
In 2020, Pirzada played Nandhini opposite
Nandamuri Kalyan Ram
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Dhanush
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Pattas
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'', which became a commercial success. ''
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'' found her performance to be "lifeless". Her last film of the year saw her playing Neha, opposite Naga Shaurya in '' Aswathama''. ''
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'' wrote "Mehreen doesn’t get much scope to stamp her identity in this film, though she looks at ease in the songs."
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'', Murali Krishna Ch stated, "Mehreen fails to impress and her expressions are not in sync with the dubbing." In 2022, Pirzada reprised Honey in '' F3: Fun and Frustration'', reuniting with Varun Tej. It emerged as one of the year's highest grossing film.
In 2023, Pirzada made her web debut with ''
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'' noted, "Mehreen looked good and performed well according to her role."
Personal life
Pirzada was engaged to politician Bhavya Bishnoi 2021, after being in a relationship for an year. However, the engagement was called off after four months.