Deepshikha Deshmukh

Deshmukh was born on 29 October 1983, in Kolkata, West Bengal, to film producer Vashu Bhagnani and his wife, Pooja Bhagnani. She has a younger brother, Jackky Bhagnani, who is an actor and film producer.

Deepshikha Deshmukh leads the strategy and production efforts at Pooja Entertainment.^[3]She is noted for backing films centering on social issues. She debuted as a producer in 2016 with the Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Randeep Hooda starrer Sarbjit.^[4] She has also opted for subject-oriented films like Madaari starring Irrfan Khan.^[5][6][7] She also partnered with Priyanka Chopra as a producer for Pooja Entertainment's first Punjabi film Sarvann.^[8][9][10]

In 2018, she produced the film Welcome to New York.^[11] The film starred Sonakshi Sinha, Diljit Dosanjh, and Karan Johar.^[12][13] In the same year, she also produced Dil Juunglee starring Taapsee Pannu and Saqib Saleem.^[14]

In 2020, she produced the film Jawaani Jaaneman, starring Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, and Alaya F in the lead. The film also marked Alaya's debut in the film industry.^[15] At the end of the same year, Coolie No. 1, which was a remake of the 1995 film of the same name, was released on Amazon Prime Video. The original film and the remake were both produced by Pooja Entertainment.^[16]

Deshmukh's next film as a producer was a spy thriller called Bell Bottom starring Akshay Kumar as the lead alongside Vaani Kapoor, Lara Dutta, and Huma Qureshi, released in 2021.^[17] It turned out to be a commercial failure.^{[citation needed]} She worked as a producer on an action drama, Ganapath starring Tiger Shroff and Kriti Sanon,^[18] and her upcoming project as a producer is a multilingual historical drama Suryaputra Mahavir Karna, directed by R.S. Vimal.

She is married to Dhiraj Vilasrao Deshmukh, MLA from Latur Rural constituency, Maharashtra and has two children.^[19][20][21] Her husband is the younger brother of actor Riteish Deshmukh and the younger son of late politician Vilasrao Deshmukh.^[22] Her nickname is Honey.^[23]

As Producer