Janki Bodiwala

Bodiwala was born on 30 October 1995^[3] in Ahmedabad to Bharat and Kashmira Bodiwala.^[4][5] She has a brother Dhrupad Bodiwala.^[6] She has done her schooling from M K Secondary & Higher Secondary School, Ahmedabad. She graduated with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree from Goenka Research Institute of Dental Science, Gandhinagar. She participated in Miss India 2019 where she was in the top 3 finalist of Miss India Gujarat.^[7]

Bodiwala made her acting debut in the Gujarati film, Chhello Divas, written and directed by Krishnadev Yagnik.^[8] The film released on 20 November 2015 in 231 screens worldwide with positive reviews from critics and commercial success.^[9]

In 2017, she acted in O! Taareee,^[10] Tamburo^[11] and Daud Pakad.^[12] She later appeared in films like Chhutti Jashe Chhakka,^[13] Tari Maate Once More (2018) and Bau Na Vichaar (2019).^[14] She appeared in Krishnadev Yagnik's Naadi Dosh (2022) along with Yash Soni.^[15][16] In 2023, she starred in Vash, which was a blockbuster film, and Bodiwala's performance was applauded by the audience.

In 2024, she made her Hindi cinema debut alongside Ajay Devgn, Jyothika, and R. Madhavan in Vikas Bahl's Shaitaan, the remake of Vash, where she reprised her role as Aarya in the film, but under the new name Jahnvi Rishi.^[17]

Bodiwala was ranked in The Times Most Desirable Women at No. 50 in 2019.^[18]

All films are in Gujarati unless stated otherwise.