Mehreen Pirzada

Mehreen Kaur Pirzada (born 5 November 1995) is an Indian actress and model who predominantly appears in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Punjabi films. Pirzada made her acting debut in 2016 with the Telugu film Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha. She made her Hindi debut with Phillauri and Tamil debut with Nenjil Thunivirundhal both in 2017.

Pirzada has appeared in successful Telugu films including Mahanubhavudu (2017), Raja the Great (2017) and F2: Fun and Frustration (2019). She made her Punjabi film debut with DSP Dev in 2019.

Mehreen Pirzada was born on 5 November 1995 in Bathinda, Punjab, India in a Sikh family to an agriculturist and realtor father Gurlal Pirzada and a housewife mother Paramjit Kaur Pirzada. Her only sibling is a brother named Gurfateh Pirzada who is also a model and actor.

Pirzada did her first ramp walk at the age of ten and won the title of Kasauli Princess at a beauty pageant. She was later crowned Miss Personality South Asia Canada 2013 in Toronto, Canada. Pirzada later got a lot of advertising and modelling work.

Pirzada made her acting debut with the 2016 Telugu film Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha, in which she played Mahalakshmi opposite Nani. The film was a major box office success. A reviewer of Sify stated that she came up with "decent performance" in her first film. Suresh Kaviryani of Deccan Chronicle noted, "Mehreen has done an excellent job as the female lead and doesn’t look like a debutante at all."

Pirzada had five releases in 2017. She played Anu in her Hindi film Phillauri opposite Suraj Sharma. The film received mixed reviews and was a commercial failure. Andy Webster of The New York Times stated that she brings the "spark". Next, she played Meghana in Mahanubhavudu opposite Sharwanand. Hemanth Kumar of Firstpost said, "Mehreen makes quite an impression." Pirzada then played Lucky opposite Ravi Teja, a major success at box office. After this, she appeared as Janani in the bilingual Nenjil Thunivirundhal, opposite Sundeep Kishan. Lastly, she played Bhargavi opposite Sai Dharam Tej in Jawaan, a commercial failure.

In 2018, Pirzada first played Akshara opposite Gopichand in Pantham. Next, she appeared opposite Vijay Deverakonda in NOTA as Swati. She then played Lavanya opposite Bellamkonda Sreenivas in Kavacham. All the three films were commercial failures.

In her first film of 2019, Pirzada played a dominating wife Honey, opposite Varun Tej, in F2: Fun and Frustration. It was a huge commercial success. Krishna Sripaada from The News Minute stated, "While accents are a huge problem, the leading ladies, are funny, especially Mehreen, who gets a lot of mileage out of her role." Next, she made her Punjabi debut with DSP Dev, playing Kirat opposite Dev Kharoud. She reunited with Gopichand in Chanakya, playing Aishwarya. In the same year, she played Shruti opposite Ninja in Ardab Mutiyaran. Manpriya Singh of The Tribune said that she plays her role "remarkably well".