Sanya Malhotra

Sanya Malhotra is a Hindi film actress best known for strong leading roles in streaming films that won wide praise from critics. Audiences know her best from Dangal, Ludo and Pagglait, and her biggest honours are two Filmfare OTT Awards, won for Kathal and Mrs. Her film career began with Dangal (2016), a sports drama in which she played a supporting part and which became one of the biggest earners in Indian cinema. She followed it with the hit comedy Badhaai Ho (2018) and Pataakha (2018), then took the lead in Photograph (2019). In 2020 she starred in the black comedy Ludo and the biopic Shakuntala Devi, and in 2021 she headlined Pagglait and Meenakshi Sundareshwar. Love Hostel (2022) and Kathal (2023) came next, along with two box office successes in 2023, the action film Jawan and the biopic Sam Bahadur. She then led Mrs. (2024), and her 2025 releases were Thug Life and Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari. Malhotra works across large commercial films and smaller, character-driven stories, and many of her most praised roles have come in films made for streaming. Her lead performances in Photograph and Ludo each earned her a nomination for the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.