![]() That year she was featured in Y-Films's four part mini web series Man's World. A moderate success, Dum Laga Ke Haisha won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi and Pednekar was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. ![]() Rajeev Masand reviewed, "Pednekar steals the film with an assured turn, effortlessly making you care for Sandhya, without ever reducing her to a slobbering, self-pitying caricature." After filming, she began losing weight and shared methods and tips of the process through her social media and lost significant weight before the release of the film. In preparation before filming, she gained close to 12 kg g. Pednekar's acting debut came opposite Ayushmann Khurrana as an overweight wife in Sharat Katariya's rom-com Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015), backed by Yash Raj Films. ![]() She went on to work with the company for six years under Shanoo Sharma. Within a year and a half, she joined Yash Raj Films as an assistant film director, and paid off the loan. At the age of 15, her parents took out a study loan for her to study acting at Whistling Woods International, but she was expelled due to poor attendance. She did her schooling from Arya Vidya Mandir in Juhu. She is of Konkani and Haryanvi descent her father, Satish, was a former home and labour minister of Maharashtra, and her mother, Sumitra, worked as an anti-tobacco activist after the death of her husband from oral cancer. Pednekar was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 18 July 1989. 2.2 Success and rise to prominence (2019–present).
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