00:00Tara Sutaria was born on 19 November 1995 in Mumbai.
00:05Her father, Himanshu Sutaria, is a Hindu, and her mother, Tina Sutaria, is a Zoroastrian
00:12belonging to the Parsi community.
00:14Her name means, Star, in Sanskrit.
00:17She has a twin sister named Pia.
00:20Both trained in classical ballet, modern dance and Latin American dancers at the School of
00:25Classical Ballet and Western Dance, Royal Academy of Dance, United Kingdom and the Imperial
00:31Society for Teachers of Dancing, United Kingdom.
00:35She has been a professional singer since she was seven years old, having sung in operas
00:40and competitions since then.
00:42She received a bachelor's degree in mass media from St. Andrews College of Arts, Science and
00:48Commerce.
00:49Sutaria started her association with Disney Channel India as a video jockey and continued
00:54to be associated with them, having two successful sitcoms to her credit.
01:00She has also been recording music in India and abroad for films, advertisements, and her
01:05own original work.
01:07Her song, Slippin' Through My Fingers, is part of the Ashwan Gidwani production of Bharat Dhabhulkar's
01:13Blame It on Yashraj.
01:15She has also played the lead role of Sandy in Real Padamsi's production of the musical
01:20Greece.
01:21She has recorded and performed solo concerts in London, Tokyo, Lavasa and Mumbai.
01:27She has performed with Laos Banks and Mikey McCleary and has also been a soloist for the
01:32Stop Gap's Choral Ensemble, singing at the NCPA for over a decade.
01:38She was one of the top seven finalists of the 2008 Pogo Amazing Kids Awards, in the singer
01:44category.
01:44She received recognition for her roles of Winnie in The Sweet Life of Karan and Kabir
01:50and Jesse in Oi Jesse.
01:52Sutaria was among two actresses selected for the part of Princess Jasmine in the American
01:57fantasy film Aladdin, 2019, which lost the role to Naomi Scott.
02:03She made her film debut later that year with Kunit Malhotra's coming-of-age teen film student
02:08of the year to alongside Tiger Shroff and Ananya Pandey.
02:12Produced by Karan Johar, it served as a standalone sequel to Student of the Year, 2012, and narrates
02:18the story of a college student, portrayed by Shroff, who competes to win an annual school
02:24championship.
02:25Reviewing the film for the Indian Express, Shubra Gupta wrote, Tara Sutaria is perfectly put
02:31together and yet looks assembly line produced.
02:35She received a nomination for the Film Fair Award for Best Female Debut.
02:39It did not perform well commercially.
02:42Later in 2019, Sutaria played the role of Zoya, a mute music teacher, alongside Siddhartha Malhotra,
02:50Ritesh Deshmukhan Rakulpreet Singh, in Mila Zaveri's action film Marjavao.
02:55The film had a worldwide gross of Rs. 65.35 crore.
03:00In a scathing review for the Hindu, Namrata Joshi found the film to be loud, overcooked
03:06and overdone, and wrote that Sutaria was reduced to smiling and weeping alternately.
03:12In 2021, Sutaria and debutant Ahan Shetty starred in the Milan Laturia-directed romantic
03:18thriller Tarap, a remake of Telugu film RX100, 2018.
03:22It received mixed reviews from critics.
03:26Rachana Dube of Times of India wrote, Tarap unabashedly plays to the gallery with action,
03:32music, and well-shot visuals.
03:34She further praised the performances of Shetty, Sutaria and Shukla.
03:39The film underperformed at the box office.
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