Gayatri Joshi

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Gayatri Joshi गायत्री जोशी
Birth name	Gayatri Joshi
Born	March 20 1977 (1977-03-20) (age 32) Image:Flag of India.svg Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Years active	2004 - present
Spouse(s)	Vikas Oberoi (27 August, 2005 - present)

Gayatri Joshi (Marathi: गायत्री जोशी born 20 March, 1977 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a model turned Bollywood actress. Her first and only film, is the 2004 released, Swades.

1 Biography
2 Filmography
- 2.1 Swades
3 Awards
4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Gayatri Joshi is a graduate of Sydenham College, Mumbai. She began her modeling career in 1996 while still in college. She studied at the JB Vachha High School in Dadar in Central Mumbai. She studied in Mt. Carmel High School when she was in Nagpur, thus she is native of Nagpur.

[edit] Career

She was one of the final five candidates in the 1999 Femina Miss India beauty pageant, and was crowned Sony Entertainment Channel's My Miss India-voted by viewers, and was chosen to represent India at the 2000 Miss International event in Japan. She has worked as an advertising model in addition to making appearances in several music videos: She appeared in music videos of Jagjit Singh’s Kaghaz Ki Kashti and Hansraj Hans’ Jhanjaria.

While she was still in college, she modeled for Bombay Dyeing, Philips, Ponds, Godrej, Sunsilk, LG as well as the Hyundai ad with Shahrukh Khan. She has also modeled for Seasons Catalogue and Calendar during 2001.

She made her Bollywood debut in December 2004 in Ashutosh Gowarikar’s film Swades opposite Shahrukh Khan.

Dark-haired Gayatri stands approximately 5'9" tall, weighs 49 kilos, and measures 35-26-35.^[1]

[edit] Personal life

She got engaged to Vikas Oberoi on June 23, 2005 in Las Vegas [1]. They married in Mumbai on 27 August, 2005. Present during the wedding were Isha Koppikar, Twinkle Khanna (Akshay Kumar, who is Vikas' friend, could not attend as he was filming in Canada), Bhushan and Kishen Kumar of T-Series, Rakesh Roshan and Abbas-Mastan. ^[2]

She gave birth to a baby boy on 1 September, 2006. [2]

[edit] Filmography

Swades (2004) ... Gita/Gitlee
Chako apna saman (2004) ... Fafisha Lotak Chinkund/flc

[edit] Swades

Gayatri [pronounced: Gaayatree] made her Bollywood debut in December 2004 in Ashutosh Gowarikar’s film Swades opposite Shahrukh Khan. Gowarikar specifically wanted someone relatively unknown but with demonstrable acting potential to play the understated role of the village schoolteacher Gita [prounounced: Geetaa] opposite the NRI hero, Mohan Bhargava, so that audiences would not project the overwhelming persona of some celebrity actress onto this supporting character. Despite little background in acting, dancing, lip syncing to songs, or even in conducting dialogs, she has, in the opinion of her growing circle of fans, delivered a stellar performance. Even the occasional "stiffness" (that some, including women, critics have noted) suits the reserved idealistic character very well, and serves, by contrast, to highlight all the more the spirit of self-surrender that starts to take over once Gîtâ admits to herself the depth of her feelings for Mohan. To overcome the emotional distance established by the plot between Gita and Mohan, the director has especially exploited the suggestive possibilities and aesthetics of the (love-) gaze (nazar) in Swades, an approach to which Gayatri's expressive eyes have lent themselves remarkably well. It's relevant to note, in this context, that Gowarikar had been vainly auditioning many (would-be) actresses as prospects for the heroine's role, before he happened to recall having met Gâyatrî at a party. Apparently, he had retained something of that innocent encounter, the aesthetic possibilities of which did not occur to him immediately, in much the same way that we come to appreciate Swades for all that it is only after having repeatedly looked at Gayatri's and, in the movie, through Gita's eyes.

Gayatri also faced the formidable challenge of depicting not only the Western-educated English-speaking self-sufficient emancipated Gita but also the traditional model of the chaste devoted Hindu wife, Sita [pronounced: Seetaa], who pines to be rescued by her royal husband Rama [pronounced: Raama] from captivity within the regressive darkness of the island of Lanka. Though Gita assumes this role explicitly only while dancing for the edification and entertainment of the village Ram Lila, these two feminine characters are subtly superimposed, and mutually transformed, throughout the narrative (as underlined by the various associations of the contemporary couple with the mythical time of the Charanpur temple). Gita increasingly takes on the values, attitudes, and sensibility of the heroine of the Ramayana, while Sita assumes a refreshing reincarnation as a strong-willed modern Indian woman who awakens her loyal Rama to the call of duty and thereby helps him discover his deeper self. It's relevant to recall, in this regard, that the meeting of the eyes also plays a vital role in the epic narrative, when Sita and Rama suddenly fall into each other's gaze for the first time on the occasion of his arrival to win her hand as a suitor (svayamvara). It is to Gayatri's great credit that she has succeeded so well in merging these two distinct roles so naturally into a unified and convincing character: she has thereby endowed Gowarikar's vision of (Gandhi's) Ram-Rajya (the ideal polity) with a powerful aesthetic appeal.