Years active: 1994 - present (started around 18 years old; 30 years in the business)
Tattoos: None
Piercings: None
About Poonam Jhawer
Poonam Jhawer is a Bollywood film maker, singer, actress and glamour model. She started her career in a super hit Hindi film Mohra. Her work also includes few successful projects in the South Indian film industry.
Poonam Jhawer was born on 14 August 1976 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was born in a business class family. Her mother's name is Poojashri and she is a Hindi poetess who has written many books and done a lot of live Kavi sammelan. Her family is originally from Rajasthan. She had done her schooling and college education in Mumbai.
Poonam started her career as a fashion model doing various assignments for brands like Killer Jeans, Dove soap, Paneri sarees and dress materials etc. She also appeared on the cover of Debonair Magazine in 1995.
Poonam Jhawer made her debut in Bollywood in Mohra, a movie starring Akshay Kumar, Raveena Tandon, and Sunil Shetty. She was noticed by the film producers while doing an ad shoot which landed her the role of Priya Agnohotri, wife of Suniel Shetty's character. Her role in the film was largely appreciated as being one of the cue points to the main story. She had also done work in few superhit South Indian movies. She has also appeared in a music video for the song "Chand Sa Mukhda" by Ali Haider.
Her later work includes the 2003 film Aanch directed by Rajesh Kumar Singh starring Nana Patekar, Paresh Rawal, Ayesha Jhulka. She turned producer with this film which saw great critical acclaim and did moderate business at the box office being more popular in northern part of India with niche audience. She also started her music career with the song "Sun Meri Raani" as a singer for the soundtrack of this film. Her role as Lata Thakur was one of the film's highlight. She has also acted in Bhuppy Lahri's film Deewana Hoon Main Tera and The Black and White Fact.
She is also active in regional cinema with roles in South Indian films to her name. She recently completed a Marathi film called Sansarch Maya which is said to be complete and up for release soon into theatres.
She is also working in an upcoming project titled 2G Radia-Tion based on the latest 2G Spectrum Scam playing the lead role based on Niira Radia. She said that playing Nira Radia is a role of a lifetime. She added that the makers of the film felt that her personality matches with that of Nira Radia. It is reported that UK based Hiten Group would produce the film with Alpesh Shah and Vijay as the directors and Matthew R Blute as the cinematographer.
She also starred in Muthbhed A Planned Encounter, staring Mukesh Tiwari and Sanjay Sharma, produced by Kumar Mangat and Suraj Bhardwaj, directed by Suraj Bhardwaj. It was released earlier this year.
Poonam started to appear in music videos early in her career though it was not till 2003 when she started taking singing as something more than a hobby with her first solo for her home production Aanch. Jhawer has 9 music videos and 3 music albums to her name titled "Poo4u", "Take me home Baby", “Poo Kya Jalwa".
Poonam Jhawer speaking in support of Jan Lokpal Bill Poonam recently appeared alongside Anna Hazare vowing her support during his hunger strike to curb corruption in India supporting the jan lokpal bill for the establishment of Lokpal Offices in India. Poonam is presently working with various women groups and NGOs.
I think she was the first Indian actress I ever saw the nipple of (you can see it in some see through outfits she wears in some wallpaper images). Even though Indian cinema has had moments like the wet sari scenes in 1970s classics like Ram Teri Ganga Mali and Satyam Shivam Sundaram, nudity has always been and actually still is rare in Indian films. Now there's Sunny Leone (if you count her), Sherilyn Chopra, Poonam Pandey, and some others, but in the late 90s and early 2000s it was a hard thing to find (at least not a hot Indian woman like Poonam Jhawer). Instead, Indian films are full of lengthy sexy dance numbers of women gyrating, multiple times throughout the films, sometimes wearing very little or drenched in water (as opposed to films from other countries where there might be a few sexy outfits and a short sex scene or nude scene or two).
