Juhi Chawla is ready to shock us with her digital debut

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Prime Video’s upcoming mystery drama Hush Hush will see Juhi Chawla make her big digital debut, and we can’t wait for the new suspense series!

The movie’s trailer has already shown us a bit about the lives of Ishi Sangamitra, Saiba Tyagi, Zaira Shaikh and Dolly Dalal, who are all friends.

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However, another clip gives us a look at Juhi Chawla’s character, Ishi Sangamitra, who is a powerful and dynamic lobbyist who hides secrets from everyone. In the commercial, she says goodbye to her childhood best friend, Meera, and then disappears. On the other hand, Ishi’s friends are worried about her, but Geeta, a police officer, tells them that she’s not as easy as she seems.

Juhi Chawla

With more characters appearing in the clip, she seems to wonder why men often try to scare women.

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Starring a strong cast of women, this drama is sure to hit us where it hurts as it tells the story of four friends whose lives have turned dangerous and dark. With the tension building just before the film’s release, we can’t wait to find out what’s going on with these women who seem ready for a fight.

Tanuja Chandra directed and co-produced the crime drama Hush Hush, which also stars Soha Ali Khan, Kritika Kamra, Shahna Goswami, Karishma Tanna and Ayesha Jhulkha. On September 22, the film will only be available on Prime Video in India and 240 other countries around the world.

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Hush Hush is on Prime Video’s list of holiday shows for the 2022 Great Indian Festival, which begins September 23 and lasts a month. There are also “Diwali Special Discounts” from partners through Prime Video Channels and a range of other original series and blockbuster films in multiple languages.

early years

Juhi Chawla was born on November 13, 1967 and grew up in Ambala, Haryana, India. The Indian Revenue Service was her father’s job (IRS). She attended Fort Convent School in Bombay, now called Mumbai, and then graduated from Sydenham College, Bombay. [needs citation] In 1984, Chawla won the title of Miss India. She also won the Best Costume award at the Miss Universe 1984 pageant.

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Career

In 1988, she starred with Aamir Khan in Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, which was her first major role in Bollywood. The film, which was a modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, was a huge hit with critics and audiences alike, and Khan and Chawla became “stars overnight”. It won the Filmfare Award for Best Picture, and Chawla became the first actress to win the Filmfare Award for Lux New Face of the Year. She also received her first nomination for Best Actress. The media often said that Chawla and Aamir Khan worked well together and that they had good chemistry on screen. Since then, the film has become a cult classic. The Times of India included it on its list of ‘Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films’, calling it ‘one of Hindi cinema’s seminal films’ and saying it made Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla famous. Looking back on the past, First Post’s Premankur Biswas wrote: “Juhi Chawla was an early example of the sexually liberated Bollywood heroines we see today. She wore a flounced ghagra and had a calm but confident demeanor. She wore what she wanted and started dating the man she wanted.

1990–1999: Fame and Success

She was featured in the 1990 film Pratibandh. She was also nominated for the Best Actress Award at Filmfare for the second time. That same year, she also starred with Rajesh Khanna and Govinda in the family drama Swarg, which marked her first collaboration with director David Dhawan. In 1992 she was in Bol Radha Bol with Rishi Kapoor. This was the third time she was nominated for Best Actress at the Filmfare Awards. In Daulat Ki Jung, where Aamir Khan was paired with another actor, the results were not good.

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Chawla appeared in four films in 1993. Lootere, directed by Dharmesh Darshan and starring Sunny Deol, Naseeruddin Shah, Chunkey Pandey and Anupam Kher, was her first film to come out. She played a young woman who is protected by Deol’s character, a bodyguard she falls in love with, as a witness. She has appeared in two Yash Chopra films. The first was Aaina, in which Chawla and Amrita Singh played sisters who both liked Jackie Shroff’s character. Mahesh Bhatt’s romantic comedy Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke, in which she starred opposite Aamir Khan, was her third film of the year. Both critics and audience liked it. Her role as a Tamil runaway, for which she had to learn the Tamil language and dialect, was well received and helped her gain notoriety as a comedic actress. Udaya Tara Nayar wrote in The Indian Express that she did her part “perfectly”. She received the Best Actress Filmfare Award for her work. The last film she starred in that year was the Yash Chopra-directed thriller Darr. The film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, becoming Chawla’s fourth consecutive hit at the box office. Darr was also a huge hit with critics. It has won several awards, including the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. She played Kiran, a young woman about to marry Deol. Khan, who was also young, became obsessed with her.

She worked with Rishi Kapoor in Saajan Ka Ghar, Shah Rukh Khan in Ram Jaane, Ajay Devgn and Anil Kapoor in Naajayaz and Anil Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor in Loafer. She was nominated for a Filmfare Award for her role as the battered wife in Abbas Mustan’s thriller Daraar. Her performance in the film was praised by critics. In 1997, Chawla directed three romantic comedies, all of which were big hits at the box office: “Yes Boss,” “Deewana Mastana,” and “Ishq.” Ishq was one of the highest-grossing films that year.

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    Juhi Chawla
Juhi Chawla

In the romantic comedy Yes Boss, she played a model who falls in love with Aditya Pancholi, who played the owner of an advertising agency, and Shah Rukh Khan, who played his ambitious employee. Yes Boss opened to good reviews and did well at the box office. Chawla’s performance, which Screen called “spirited,” earned her a seventh Filmfare nomination. [26] In a 1998 review for The Times of India, Khushboo Tiwari called the film “the perfect ’90s romantic comedy” and spoke about how well Chawla and Khan worked together. Chawla played Dr. Neha Sharma in the comedy Deewana Mastana. She was interested in both Kapoor and Govinda but ended up marrying Salman Khan. The film did well at the box office. Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi, which she directed with Akshay Kumar, was her other film out this year. The film did about as well as expected at the box office.

In 1998 she worked again with Shah Rukh Khan in a film called Duplicate which was produced by Yash Johar and directed by Mahesh Bhatt. When it came out, the film didn’t do well at the box office. That same year, she and Anil Kapoor starred in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s final film, Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate. Critics liked the film because it reminded them of Mukherjee’s other films; one called it a “classic comedy”. In the same year she also worked with Arvind Swamy in Priyadarshan’s rural drama Saat Rang Ke Sapne. The film did not do well at the box office, but Khalid Mohamed said it was “only grace can save us. She’s as personable as ever because she’s beautiful and a natural actress.” The same year, she starred in the Malayalam comedy Harikrishnans alongside Mohanlal and Mammootty. Harikrishnans did well in the market.

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In 1999 she was in the movie Arjun Pandit with Sunny Deol which most people didn’t like. In the film, she played a woman out for revenge, which she called “a role with negative shades.” The film’s reviews were about the same, but Chawla’s work was better received. That same year, she also starred with Sanjay Dutt in Safari, an adventure film that critics didn’t like. She was not paid for her work on the Punjabi language film Shaheed Udham Singh based on the life of Udham Singh.

Production and parallel films, 2000–2009

She started a production company called Dreamz Unlimited in 2000 with Shah Rukh Khan and Aziz Mirza. The first film Chawla and Khan starred in together was the romantic comedy Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani. The film didn’t do well at the box office when it was released, but over the years its bold theme about media wars has made it a favorite. Critics liked how Chawla played journalist Ria Banarjee. Swapna Mitter, a Rediff critic, wrote, “This is probably one of the best things Juhi has done. She’s never looked better and just like Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke, she’s funny.” Rakesh Roshan’s Karobaar: The Business of Love, which took over five years to make and was not doing well when it came out, was the other film , which she released earlier that year. She had a small role in the film Gang.

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In 2001 she starred in the action comedy One 2 Ka 4 with Shah Rukh Khan and Jackie Shroff. It was their seventh collaboration, but the film did not do well at the box office. Chawla played a Haryanvi maid, a bar dancer and an undercover cop in the film. A lot of people talked about how serious the film was, but many critics liked how funny she was in it. Vinayak Chakravorty wrote, “But here’s the winner Juhi. Hum Hain Raahi Pyaar Ke’s old-fashioned sense of humor is almost coming back from the dead.” Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India said: “In this sea of ​​chaos, Juhi is the only thing that makes sense. As a vocal Haryanvi who has a crush on her ‘Ricky Martin’ (Shahrukh), she’s a real treat.” The Hindu agreed on this point, also saying that “few with her “flawless sense of humor” and “timing can keep up”. Aamdani Atthani Kharcha Rupaiyaa, a comedy starring Govinda, was another film released this year. Around the same time, she agreed to star in the Kannada film Adhishesha with V. Ravichandran, with whom she had already worked in Premaloka. But for strange reasons, the film was shelved.

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