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Bollywood has witnessed many successors for the established actors and actresses trying their luck on sliverscreen. It’s really challenging to impress the audience as they keep lot of expectations even before they showcase their acting skills and abilities.

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One such actress who made big is Shraddha Kapoor. Though she failed to meet the expectations during her initial days, Shraddha has proved her skills and made her place prominent in the list of big league actresses.

She made her debut as the daughter of veteran actor Shakti Kapoor, Shraddha made her debut as an actor in 2010 with Teen Patti and followed it with her first leading role in the teen drama Luv Ka The End (2011). She has struggled for offers during these days as both the movies could not make any impact at the box-office.

Shraddha was born and raised in Mumbai into a mixed ethnic family. On her father’s side, Kapoor is of Punjabi descent, and on her mother’s side, she is of predominantly Marathi ancestry. Like her mother, Kapoor has stated that she is a complete Marathi. Kapoor’s family members, including her parents, Shakti Kapoor and Shivangi Kapoor, her older brother, Siddhanth Kapoor and her two aunts Padmini Kolhapure and Tejaswini Kolhapure are actors in Hindi films. She did her schooling at Jamnabai Narsee School and then enrolled in the American School of Bombay. While there she played soccer and handball competitively. Later, she went to Boston, but subsequently left to appear in her debut film after she was seen on Facebook by producer Ambika Hinduja who cast her for a role in Teen Patti.

She made her acting debut in the 2010 drama Teen Patti alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley and R Madhavan. She played the role of a college girl. The film received negative reviews though her performance was well received. Kapoor was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut, however, the film failed to do well at the box-office. The critics and reviewers have praised her performance in the movie and called an impressive debut.

After her debut, she signed a three-film deal with Yash Raj Films and featured in their 2011

teen comedy Luv Ka The End with Taaha Shah. Kapoor portrayed the lead role of a teenage student who plots against her boyfriend after he cheats on her. The film underperformed at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics. However, Kapoor’s performance received a positive critical reception.Then came Aashiqui 2 which changed her life. This was the best decision in her life and the movie had Aditya Roy Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor in the main leads. Directed by Mohit Suri, the movie went on to collect Rs 100 crores at the box-office.

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Her next movie Ek Villain in the direction of Mohit Suri ended as a huge hit at the box-office. Siddarrth Malhotra and Ritesh Deshmukh played the male leads in the movie. Her second release of 2014 was Vishal Bhardwaj’s critically acclaimed drama Haider,

an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet set during the Kashmir conflict of 1995.The movie not only received critical reception, it collected huge money. She has recently

wrapped up the shoot of her latest movie ABCD 2 which is a sequel for super hit movie ABCD. Prabhudeva, Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor played the main leads in the movie which has been directed by Remo DSouza. ABCD 2 has been slated for release on June 19th all over. Hope Shraddha will live up the expectations with her upcoming

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