Ayesha Raza Mishra

Ayesha Raza Mishra
Born	Ayesha Raza (1977-09-26) 26 September 1977 (age 47)[1] India
Nationality	Indian
Occupations	Model Actress
Years active	2003–present
Spouse	Kumud Mishra ​ (m. 2008)​
Relatives	Ismat Chughtai (grand-aunt) Rashid Jahan (grand-aunt) Begum Khurshid Mirza (grand-aunt) Hajrah Begum (grand-aunt) Uzra Butt (grand-aunt) Zohra Segal (grand-aunt) Kiran Segal (cousin) Khawar Mumtaz (aunt) Samiya Mumtaz (cousin) Salman Haider (cousin) Navina Najat Haidar (niece)

Ayesha Raza Mishra (born 26 September 1977) is an Indian actress.

Career

Ayesha Raza Mishra began her career by working in theatre, advertisements, and television shows.^[2] She went on to portray motherly roles in several films including Madaari (2016),^[3] Befikre (2016), Toilet – Ek Prem Katha (2017) and Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety (2018).^[2][4][5] She received acclamation for her portrayal of a noisy, comical Punjabi mother in the 2018 film Veere Di Wedding.^[2] She went on to play Gunjan Saxena's mother in Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl.^[6]

Personal life

Ayesha is married to actor Kumud Mishra.^[7] They have a son named Kabir.^[8] Her grand aunts include Zohra Sehgal and Uzra Butt.^[9]

Filmography

Films and web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Raghu Romeo	News Reader
2004	Dhoom	Journalist
2007	Return of Hanuman	Maruti's mother	Animated film; voice role
2008	Mumbai Meri Jaan	Sejal Agarwal
2010	Thanks Maa	Motwani's wife
2015	The Exile	Sudha Sharma	short film
	Das Capital Gulamon Ki Rajdhani	Pansokha
	Dil Dhadakne Do	Indoo Mehra	[10]
2016	Happy Bhag Jayegi	Rifat Bi
	Befikre	Shyra's mother
	Madaari	Goswami's wife
2017	Khaane Mein Kya Hai	Mother	short film[11]
	Toilet: Ek Prem Katha	Vidya
2018	Love per Square Foot	Poonam Tiwari	Netflix film
	Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety	Manju Sharma
	Veere Di Wedding	Rishabh's mother
	Babbar ka Tabbar	Mrs. Babbar	ZEE5
2019	Student of the Year 2	Archana Singh
	Bharat	Jamuna Kumari
	Chappad Phaad Ke	Vaishali Gupchup
2020	Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl	Kirti Saxena	Netflix film
	Ginny Weds Sunny	Shobha Juneja
	Laxmii	Ratna Rajput	Disney Plus Hotstar film
2023	Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar	Mrs. Malhotra

Television

Year	Title	Role
2014	Yudh	Nayantara Sikarwar
2015	Bang Baaja Baarat	Roli Sharma
2016	Permanent Roommates	Ila
2019	Made in Heaven	Renu Gupta
2021	The Married Woman	Babbo
2022	Sutliyan	Supriya
2023	The Freelancer	Sabeena

References

1. "Kumud Mishra's (husband) interview". YouTube.
2. "Veere Di Wedding actor Ayesha Raza Mishra: Bollywood mothers have evolved". The Indian Express. 24 June 2018.
3. "'Madaari' review: Powerful and thought provoking". Sify. Archived from the original on 25 July 2016.
4. Joshi, Namrata (23 February 2018). "'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety' review: Men are from Mars". The Hindu.
5. "'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety': A light-hearted tug of war". TheQuint. 23 February 2018.
6. "Gunjan Saxena actor Ayesha Raza Mishra: Janhvi Kapoor is an old soul". The Indian Express. 17 August 2020.
7. "A PARTY OF FIVE". Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
8. "Life in the times of love-jihad". Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
9. "Ayesha Raza artist detail". Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
10. "'Dil Dhadakne Do' - pulsates with fine performances". Deccan Herald. 5 June 2015.
11. "Watch: How a mother and daughter talk about sex without even referring to it". Hindustan Times. 11 July 2017.

External links

• Ayesha Raza Mishra at IMDb