Narayani Shastri is one of the most versatile actresses in the world of tellydom. She is basically from Mumbai and born in a family of five sisters and one brother. Her father is a doctor and her mother is a housewife. She started her journey to fame and popularity with Kahani Saat Phero Ki on DD1 some years back. But her first daily soap was Kyunki Saans Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. She placed the role of sister of the main protagonist of the serial named Tulsi Virani.

After leaving that she took up another two projects titled Kabhie Na Kabhie and Beauty Parlour. Acting happened to her by sheer chance and coincidence. A director friend of hers was doing a play where he asked her to help him out and momentarily step in the actress who has dropped out at the last time. She agreed to do the role and found herself getting attracted to this profession. After that acting went on to become a part of her life.

She never went hunting for roles. In fact she also stated in a recent interview that if she had not been into acting she would have been a housewife. Now the condition is such that she gets restless if she does not have work in her hand. She is also a fitness freak and lives strictly on vegetarian diet. She also likes to party and one of her other passions is dancing. She is an ardent reader and is very much interested in astrology, numerology, tarrot card reading and occult sciences. This extremely talented actress saw the light of the world on 16th April 1978. She completed her education at Symbiosis College in Pune and then later moved on to Government Law College in Mumbai.

Her favorite pastimes include reading, shopping and sleeping. She has appeared in many Hindi plays but her first English play was titled Mad About Money. She has worked with Rajpal Yadav in a number of Hindi plays like `Ghulam`, `Begum` and `Badshah`. She has also worked in other serials like Koi Apna Sa, Kkusum, and Mamta. In all the soaps her roles are entirely different from the ones, which she played in the other. This crave for being different has made this actress so popular onscreen. She depicts positive and negative shades with equal flexibility and does not mind playing the role of a mother to a son who is the age group of mid-twenties. But she would not portray any role, which is not aimed towards a specific direction. According to her at the end of the day it is the character that matters more rather than the age. She is also dying to be a part of a comedy so her fans can expect her to see in a comic role.

This popular actress makes more for her personal life rather than for her shows and performances on television. In her personal life Narayani Shastri is dating another popular actor of the small screen Gaurav Chopra. She was also linked up for sometime with Anuj Saxena though they claim that they are only good friends. About her personal care regime she concentrates a lot on her diet and drinks at least seven liters of water everyday. She avoids eating after 8 in the evening and drinks a lot of fresh fruit and vegetable juices. About her work she believes that the industry has become too crowded and she refuses to be casted in stereotype roles.

According to her professionalism has plummeted and the sorry state of affair persists as everyone wants to do television. She also does not like to take feminism too seriously. She also aims to appear in Bollywood movies if she gets a suitable role. As of her now her fans can expect her to see in some good roles in television and they are also sure that she will rise to great heights in the years to come.