K
iara Advani was born
to Jagdeep Advani,
Businessman and
Genevieve Jaffrey, a teacher of
Punjabi, Scottish, Irish, Portu-
guese, and Spanish ancestry.
Born as Alia Advani, Advani
changed her first name to Kiara
prior to the release of her first
film, Fugly. The elder of two
children, Advani has a younger
brother, Mishaal. She is also
related to several celebrities
via her maternal family. Actors
Ashok Kumar and Saeed Jaf-
frey are her step-great-grand-
father and great-uncle, respec-
tively, whereas model Shaheen
Jaffrey and actress Juhi Chawla
are her aunts.
Advani made her acting debut
with Kabir Sadanand's comedy-
drama Fugly, in which she fea-
tured alongside an ensemble
cast including Mohit Marwah,
Arfi Lamba, Vijender Singh,
and Jimmy Shergill. Advani's
next film role was in the Neeraj
Pandey-directed biographical
sports drama M.S. Dhoni: The
Untold Story, about the life of
MS Dhoni, an Indian cricketer
who was the former captain of
the Indian cricket team. Cast
opposite Sushant Singh Ra-
jput, Advani played the real-life
character of Sakshi Rawat. Her
performance and chemistry with
Rajput was well appreciated by
critics.
appeared opposite newcomer
Mustan Burmawalla in Machine,
an action romantic thriller from
the director duo Abbas–Mustan,
narrating about two racing enthu-
siasts, Sarah & Ransh, who fall
in love and get married after the
death of Sarah's friend. Machine
met with mixed to negative reac-
tions, and Advani's performance
was also largely criticized.
2018 was a critically and com-
mercially successful period in
Advani's career, as she was cast
in two successful films, the first
of which was the anthology film
Lust Stories, a Netflix film consist-
ing of four segments dealing with
woman sexuality. She featured
in Karan Johar's segment, play-
ing Megha, a newly married wife
whose husband fails to recognize
her sexual dissatisfaction.
Later that year, she made her de-
but in Telugu cinema with Korat-
ala Siva's political thriller Bharat
Ane Nenu, about the story of a
student (played by Mahesh Babu)
who unexpectedly becomes the
chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
Advani was cast opposite Ram
Charan in Vinaya Vidheya Rama,
a Telugu film. She then signed a
bunch of Bollywood films and she
recently featured in the female
lead's role in Kabir Singh that has
Shahid Kapoor in the lead role.
Her recent offering Good Newwz
is a smashing hit and it is collect-
ing massive numbers all over.
The following year, Advani
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