


"Priyanka Upendra's Mummy sequel is set in Manali". ^ Suresh, Sunayana (27 December 2019).

Archived from the original on 13 April 2005. ^ a b Srinivasa, Srikanth (21 September 2003).^ "Priyanka Upendra remembers her mentor Basu Chatterjee - Times of India".Critic Prathibha Joy wrote for that the film lacked "execution" despite having an "intriguing narrative" and " best efforts, most notably by lead actress Priyanka Upendra." Filmography Year It was released on the OTT platform Namma Flix on 15 October 2021. The film explored the concept of an alternate universe. In her first release after Devaki, a period film 1980, set in the same year as the title, Priyanka played a novelist. Thankfully, she makes it up in the final scene." We wonder if she could have brought out other facets like anxiety, fear and the pain of a single mother separated from her daughter. of Deccan Herald wrote of her performance, "Priyanka is earnest but for the most part, she is in tears. Lohith's crime-thriller Devaki (2019), who also directed Mummy, Priyanka played a mother who frantically searches the streets of Kolkata for her kidnapped daughter (played by real-life daughter, Aishwarya) with the help of a police officer. Being the central focus of the film, she has ample scope to perform and does justice to her role." In H. Critic Sharadhaa felt, "Priyanka carries a lot of responsibility on her shoulders. Sharadhaa of the New Indian Express called the film "technically brilliant" and that "Priyanka carries the film on her shoulders with ease." In 2nd Half, her only release of 2018, she played Anuradha, a police constable, who takes it upon herself to solve a case after receiving no support from her superiors. Her performance was received well by critics. Viswanath of Deccan Herald felt that Priyanka turned in "with a polished show as the doting, Facebook-addicted wife." In her second release of the year, the horror film Mummy, Priyanka played a widow and a mother to a young girl and pregnant with a second child, who move in to a haunted villa. Released in 2016, the film was received well by critics and her performance received praise. In 2015, she starred in Priyanka, a film based on a real-life incident involving a murder where a 27-year-old man killed another man whose wife he was in love with. She then began receiving offers for South Indian films, and went on make Telugu films Soori and Raa, the former of which was remade in Hindi as Durga with Priyanka acting in that too H2O and Kotigobba in Kannada and Raajjiyam, Raja, Kadhal Sadugudu and Jananam in Tamil. Priyanka subsequently moved to Mumbai and acted in the Hindi film Mujhe Meri Biwi Se Bachaao (2001). She went on to make two more films with him, Chupi Chupi (2001) and Tak Jhal Mishti (2002). During this time, she was cast by director Basu Chatterjee in his first Bengali film, Hothat Brishti (1998). She described herself as "little introverted, pretty flexible as a person, a good listener and overtly sensitive." She appeared in television commercials for brands such as Britannia, Orient Electric and Pillsbury in the late 1990s. She spent ten years of her schooling life in the US and about three years in Singapore, before graduating with a commerce degree from a college in Kolkata. Her mother is from West Bengal and father from Uttar Pradesh. Priyanka was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) into a Bengali family.
