Pallavi Joshi

Known for Acting

4/3/1969(Age 56)

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Biography

Pallavi Joshi is an Indian actress, writer, and film producer. In a career spanning across films and television, Joshi is the recipient of such accolades as two National Film Awards, and a nomination for the Filmfare Awards. Writer-director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is her husband.

Known For (26 credits)

Movie

The Bengal Files: Right to Life

2025

Hiding truth, denying justice and no value of human life are blots on our democracy.

Movie

Tanvi the Great

2025

Tanvi Raina, a woman with autism learns of her deceased Indian Army father's dream to salute the flag at Siachen Glacier. Despite barriers facing those with autism in military service, she resolves to complete his mission.

7.7

Movie

The Vaccine War

2023

Faced with the catastrophic challenge of fighting a global crisis like no other, Indian scientists take on the mantle of producing vaccine despite not having enough resources and infrastructure to save the nation's sixteen million citizens.

5.0

The Kashmir Files: Unreported

2023

The series captures the story of Kashmir, highlighting the events leading up to the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in the 90s, the abrogation of Article 370, and its impact on the former state.

7.3

Movie

The Kashmir Files

2022

Based on a true tragedy, the emotionally triggering film sheds light on the plight of Kashmiri Pandits (Hindus), a religious minority in the 1990s Kashmir valley, who were compelled to flee their homes by the Islamic militants.

7.4

Movie

The Tashkent Files

2019

The Tashkent Files is a thriller that revolves around the mysterious death of India's 2nd Prime Minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri and attempts to uncover if he had actually died a natural death, or, as alleged, was assassinated.

6.7

Movie

Buddha in a Traffic Jam

2016

Vikram is a happy-go-lucky management student from a top Business School of India. He becomes an overnight sensation after a successful internet campaign against the radical fundamentalism of moral policing in India. This prompts his university teacher - Professor Ranjan Batki, to throw him a challenge for yet another internet campaign that would help raise money via a non-profit Pottery Club for poor people living in Maoists areas of India. Little does Vikram know that he is about to become a part of a plot that would risk his life and the nation. He gets entangled between two corrupt facets of India - Socialism and Capitalism, both of which are deeply rooted in India. It's a story inspired from true life incidents of Underbelly India.

4.0

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Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asta

2013

The film grapples with multiple issues, but primarily the changing nature of love and its impact on the twin institutions of marriage and family.

6.0

Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai

2002

Host Farooq Shaikh interviews many well-known Bollywood faces as well as television celebrities and gives a peek into their private and professional lives.

5.5

Movie

The Making of the Mahatma

1996

The struggles of Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa.

Movie

Ilayum Mullum

1994

This is a film on moral policing. When this film was produced, the term `moral policing' was not in the public use by the activist circles or intellectual circles. It was produced in 1993. Perhaps, the film was a bit ahead of its time . More and more cases of moral policing were discussed decades later.. The victims and survivors of moral policing in India include women, religious minorities, sexuality minorities, Dalits, Adivasis, marginalized nationalities, marginalized linguistic cultures, marginalized regions and marginalized skin colours in India. Ilayum Mullum is based on certain real incidents that took place in Kerala.

7.0

Movie

Woh Chokri

1994

Woh Chokri (वह छोकरी) is a Hindi movie starring Pallavi Joshi, Neena Gupta, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri and is directed by Subhankar Ghosh .