Shahana Goswami (born 6 May 1986) is an Indian actress who works in the Indian Film Industry.
Shahana Goswami was born in New Delhi to a Bengali Origin. She attended Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi and Sophia College, Mumbai. Goswami was the house captain and sports champion in her school. She secured second position at the National Artificial Wall Climbing Competition and has represented her school in athletics, badminton, basketball and volleyball at the zonal level.She also trained in Odissi for 10 years under Guru Padmashri Kiran Segal and has travelled and performed extensively with her dance troupe.
Shahana had a single-minded focus on professional acting since childhood. She moved to Mumbai to complete her graduation and to explore the possibility of taking up acting as a career. In Mumbai, her first steps in acting were at Jaimini Pathak’s theatre group Working Title. There, she started off as a production assistant and then acted in their productions Seagull and Arabian Nights.
Goswami’s first international project is Deepa Mehta’s Winds of Change, an adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize winning novel Midnight’s Children. The film is expected to release in spring 2012.
Shahana also featured in the Chivas Studio 2011-12, which was held in Delhi and Mumbai in November and December 2011.
Shahana is playing the female lead in Vara (The Boon) directed by Khyentse Norbu (director of The Cup and Travellers & Magicians), which will be shot in Sri Lanka From Mid Dec 2011 to mid February 2012.
Shahana also features in Madhur Bhandarkar’s “Heroine” starring Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Randeep Hooda.
Shahana was in a relationship with noted Indian model/actor Milind Soman.
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