• Ananya Panday is an Indian actress who has a net worth of $1 million.
• She was born in Mumbai and attended Dhirubhai Ambani International School.
• She made her debut in the movie “Student of the Year 2”, and has since appeared in “Pati Patni Aur Who” and “Angrezi Medium”.
• She is also the founder of the So Positive Initiative, which aims to make social media more positive.
• Her father is actor Chunkey Pandey, who has a net worth of more than $20 million.

 

Who is Ananya Pandey?

Born on October 30, 1998 in Mumbai, India, Ananya Panday is an actress but also known as the daughter of actor Chunkey Pandey. She appeared in several films, including “Pati Patni Aur Who” and “Student of the Year 2” for which she won a Filmfare Award. She is best known for her work in Hindi films.

The net worth of Ananya Pandey

As of early 2020, Ananya Pandey’s net worth is estimated to be over $1 million earned through a successful acting career despite being in the business for just one year.

She has landed valuable contracts and probably benefited from the success of her father’s contacts, who is said to have a net worth of more than $20 million.

Beginning of early life, education and career

At a young age, Ananya aspired to a career in the entertainment industry and wanted to follow in the footsteps of her father, who had become a star in India. However, her parents were more inclined for her to finish her education first, and the experiences that came with it.

She attended Dhirubhai Ambani International School, a private school in Mumbai named after the founder of the conglomerate Reliance Industries, who owns the school.

After completing her high school education, she started to train and develop her skills. She made her first public appearance in the Le Bal des Debutantes covered by “Vanity Fair”. The fashion ball event has 25 women from over 12 countries participating and the event is by invitation only. The invited women often come from well-known families and usually wear clothing from high-profile designers and fashion houses.

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The event is held to raise money to support Seleni and Enfants d’Asie, organizations that promote programs to help young women in need.

Acting career

In 2019, Pandey made her foray into the acting world and made her debut in “Student of the Year 2” in which she teamed up with Tara Sutaria and Tiger Shroff. The film is a sequel to the 2012 film “Student of the Year”, which follows the life of a college student who attends a better college to rekindle the love of a childhood sweetheart, before finally deciding to return to his former university. The film received mostly negative reviews and was pannedonly earn a little bit at the box office.

Despite the negative reviews, many critics praised Ananya’s acting ability, which was noted as a far cry from the poor script, story and other performances in the film. Her career took off and she was next cast in the movie “Pati Patni Aur Who” along with Bhumi Pednekar and Kartik Aaryan which was later released in 2019. The movie is a remake and the original was released in 1978. In the movie, she plays a secretary who gets involved in an affair with a married man. The film was commercially successful and remained so to build on her reputation.

Recent projects and other endeavors

In 2020, Pandey made a special cameo appearance in the movie “Angrezi Medium”, a comedy film starring Irrfan Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan.

A spiritual successor to ‘Hindi Medium’, the film tells the story of a father and daughter who go on an unusual adventure as he tries to fulfill her dream of studying in London. She is also working on the movie “Khaali Peeli”, a romantic action movie in which she will appear alongside Ishaan Khatter. The film also stars Jaideep Ahlawat in an antagonistic role; the film will be released at the end of 2020.

Besides acting, Ananya helped launch an initiative called So Positive, which aims to bring people together in a conscious effort to make social media a more positive place. The initiative is against online bullying and negativity, and received a lot of attention for the effort she put into it and the vision she put forward.

As a result, So Positive was named the Initiative of the year at the Economic Times Awards hosted by the titular magazine, which focuses on government, business and corporate affairs.

Private life

Ananya is single and apparently not interested in pursuing a long term romance yet as she is still young and focused on developing her career. Outside of work, she is mostly a laid-back person, although her passion is expressed when it comes to acting roles. She has been active online in recent months, promoting the work of various medical professionals and law enforcement around the world as efforts are made in many countries to combat the coronavirus outbreak.

She’s been promote an online message encouraging people to stay home.

Father – Chunkey Pandey

Chunky Pandey aspired to be an actor at a young age, first working as an instructor before eventually pursuing a career in the profession. In 1987, he got success and appeared in several Hindi films like ‘Aag Hi Aag’, ‘Paap Ki Duniya’ and ‘Tezaab’ which helped increase his stock but after some mixed success in the field as the lead actor of Na several movies, he took a long break from acting because he didn’t find a role that would suit him. After that, he started appearing in numerous Bengali films and got very few opportunities in Bollywood.

In 2003, he returned to Bollywood and established himself again, mainly in supporting roles in several films such as “Qayamat: City Under Threat” and “Apna Sapna Money Money”. Two years later, he started taking on more villainous roles as seen in “Darwaaza Bandh Rakho” and “D – Underworld Badshah”. In 2010, he worked on the comedy film “Housefull”, which became a hit and led to numerous sequels. However, in recent years he has turned down comedic work and established himself more as a character actor, disliking being typed as a comedian.

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