Happy birthday Gul Panag: Gul Panag, known for her charming smile and tough fitness regime, turns a year older on Monday, January 3.
Born on January 3, 1979, Gul began her Bollywood career with the 2003 film Dhoop. Since then, she has never looked back and worked in several movies and series including Dor, Manorama Six Feet Under and Kashmeer.
The evergreen actress knows how to fly a plane but also how to drive a Formula one car and with each passing day she has managed to surprise and inspire us and we can’t be more thankful to her. So as turns a year older, we are bringing you some of the unknown facts about the multi-talented actress and you just can’t miss it.
- The real name of Gul Panag is Gulkirat Kaur Panag. Her father was in the army and thus she lived in different parts of the country and has studied in 14 different schools.
- Gul Panag became Miss India in 1999 and after that, she also took part in the Miss Universe contest.
- She also holds a degree in political science and she also contested elections in Chandigarh on behalf of the Aam Aadmi Party in 2014. She is pretty much active on social media and keeps on voicing up on issues related to politics and protests.
- Gul tied the knot in 2011 with her boyfriend Rishi Atri and the fun part was that she arrived at her wedding on a bullet.
- Gul is also a Formula One racer driver. She runs the M4 Electro in the circuit The Calafat, Catalonia Spain.
Happy birthday Gul Panag: Here are five of her best performances
Dor (2006)
The story is about two women who come from different backgrounds and how fate brings them together. Meera (Ayesha Takia), a young woman who becomes a widow shortly after marriage, is trapped by tradition. Zeenat (Gul Panag), on the other hand, faces the daunting task of saving the life of her husband, who is on trial for murder. A bahuroopiya (Shreyas Talpade) helps her reach Meera, who holds the “string” to Zeenat’s hope. The companionship that develops between Meera and Zeenat results in redemption for both.
Ab Tak Chhappan 2 (2015)
The film is a sequel to ‘Ab Tak Chhappan’. The story revolves around Inspector Sadhu Agashe (Nana Patekar) from the Mumbai Encounter Squad. It is inspired by the life of Police sub-Inspector with Mumbai Police force Daya Nayak. Gul plays the character of a crime reporter Shalu Dixit who accompanies Sadhu in finding the culprit.
Student of The Year 2 (2019)
It is a standalone sequel to the 2012 film ‘Student of the Year’. The story is about Rohan Sachdev, a college student in his quest to become the Student of the Year. Gul plays the role of the coach Kuljeet.
The Family Man (2019)
This is a Amazon Prime Video series and features Manoj Bajpayee as Srikant Tiwari, a middle-class man secretly working as an intelligence officer for the Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell (TASC), a fictitious branch of the National Investigation Agency. Gul plays the character Saloni Bhatt who is Shrikant’s commanding officer.
Paatal Lok (2020)
Loosely based on Tarun Tejpal’s 2010 novel ‘The Story of My Assassins’, the series is about a disillusioned cop who lands the case of an assassination attempt gone wrong. Gul plays the character Renu Chaudhary the wife of the main character Hathiram Chaudhary, a policeman.
As she turns a year older, let us also have a look on some of her stunning pictures.
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We wish her love, luck and a very happy birthday Gul Panag!
