Early Life of Sakshi Tanwar Born on 12th January, 1973 in Alwar, Rajasthan Sakshi Tanwar completed her graduation from Delhi. Sakshi Tanwar was all set to appear for mass communication and administrative services entrance exams after completing her graduation. As destiny would have it she was suggested by a close friend to go for the auditions of a film songs based programme titled 'Albela Sur Mela' to be broadcasted in Doordarshan. She got selected and thus her journey in the television world started. Career of Sakshi Tanwar Sakshi Tanwar was the president and secretary of dramatic society of her college. Although she had an experience of theatre but facing the camera was entirely different for her. Further, after her short stint as an anchor, she got inspired to follow an acting career in television. Initially, she started acting because of money and fame but eventually she honed up her acting skills and today she is considered as one of the fine actresses of Indian television. Some of the soaps of her initial days include 'Dastoor', 'Bhanwar', 'Ehsaas' and 'X-Zone'. Her major break was in the serial 'Rajdhani' where she played the central character. But, the most important turning point of Sakshi Tanwar's career was portraying the role of Parvati in 'Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki' produced by Balaji Telefilms. Initially, she was a bit apprehensive when Ekta Kapoor offered her the role of 'Parvati'. However, after listening to the script Sakshi Tanwar decided to do the role and as they say it the rest is history. She won several awards and a lot of appreciation for portraying this role. As per this actress, she prefers to be a director's actor as it helps in bringing out the best performance. Further, it also improves her performance level. Sakshi Tanwar is a spontaneous actress and she says that she would like to do any kind of challenging role. She looks for the scope of portraying emotions as well as the comfort level of portraying that character before selecting any script. Sakshi Tanwar believes that acting is depicting any character with 100 percent passion. Some of the popular serials that she has to her credit are Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki, Devi, Viraasat, Kkavyanjali, Kutumb, and more. However, after her tremendous success in the soap Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki, she has somehow taken the back seat in terms of her career. She has done several cameo roles. She played the role of 'Teepri' in the popular show 'Balika Vadhu'. She has done the job as an anchor in popular dance reality show, Yeh Hai Jalwa. Besides acting in television serial Sakshi has also acted in certain Bollywood films such as Coffee House, Saluun, C.Kkompany. Her upcoming movie is Mohalla Assi. Awards Sakshi got several Star Parivar Awards As favourite Bhaabi and favourite Maa in the years 2003,2004,2006,2007,2008 and Indian Telly Awards as Best Actor-Female and Best TV personality in the years 2003,2004,2005,2006,2007. On the personal front, Sakshi Tanwar is searching for a partner with whom she believes can develop and share a strong mental bond. This chirpy and vivacious actress has come a long way and achieved a great level of recognition throughout the country and thereby created a mark for herself in the Indian television industry within a very short span of time. |