Pratibha Ranta

Ranta was born on 17 December 2000 in a Pahari Rajput family hailing from Tikkar in Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh. She later shifted to Shimla for her education.^[2][3] She did her schooling at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Chelsea, Shimla and graduated in filmmaking from Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Management in Mumbai.

Ranta made her acting debut in 2020 with Qurbaan Hua, where she played Chahat Baig Bhatt Dhyani opposite Karan Jotwani. The series ended in 2021.^[4][5] Following this, she made her web debut with the romantic drama web series Aadha Ishq, where she played Rene Bhardwaj opposite Darsheel Safary and Gaurav Arora.^[6] In her review for Times of India, Archika Khurana praised her performance but found her character to be "cliched" and "confusing".^[7]

Ranta made her film debut in 2024, with Laapataa Ladies, where she played a swapped bride Jaya / Pushpa. The film was released in India in 2024.^[8][9] Saibal Chatterjee termed her a "show-stealer", while Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express noted, "The more worldly-wise yet not-as-independent-as-she-would-like-to-be Ranta, who has the more difficult role to pull off, wins the day."^[10][11] Laapataa Ladies earned her several nominations and she won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress and IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year – Female.^[12] In the same year, she played Shama, a courtesan's daughter, in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's series Heeramandi.^[13] Bollywood Hungama stated that Ranta doesn't have "much to do".^[14]