Poonam Bajwa

Poonam Bajwa

Poonam Bajwa is an Indian actress, who predominantly appears in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. She started her acting career in the year 2005 and her debut movie is Modati Cinema which is a Telugu movie, after that movie she featured in more Telugu movies which include Boss (2006). Her debut Tamil movie is Seval (2008). She exposed her talent by her acting in various movies in different languages.

A Punjabi and Iyengar by birth, she was born in Mumbai to Amarjit Singh Bajwa, a Naval Officer and Jayalakshmi Bajwa. She has a younger sister, Deepika Bajwa. She was crowned Miss Pune in 2005, after which she started modeling part-time while studying. When she went to Hyderabad for a ramp show, the director of Modati spotted her and asked her if she was interested in films. She had finished her 12th then and had a five-month gap before college and hence agreed to star in his film, despite excelling in academics. She pursued a degree in Literature from SIMC, Pune, which too she excelled in.