Shahana Goswami

Shahana Goswami is an Indian actress who grew up in New Delhi and moved to Mumbai to finish her degree while testing whether acting could become a career. She took her first steps at Jaimini Pathak's theater group Working Title, joining as a production assistant before appearing in its stagings of Seagull and Arabian Nights. A talent consultant, Shaanu Sharma, sent her to audition for Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota, Naseeruddin Shah's first film as director, and she later picked up a small part in Reema Katgi's Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. She played the lead opposite Randeep Hooda in Arjun Bali's Ru Ba Ru, shot while she was still studying, and won the role of Debbie in Rock On, which brought her the Filmfare Best Actress (Critics) award. Her first international project was Deepa Mehta's Winds of Change, adapted from Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. She also appeared in a music video for Dido and in a Fevicol commercial.