Sujata Mehta of 'Pratighat' fame, also known as The Queen of Gujarati Theater

Sujata Mehta is a versatile actress, be it films, television or theater. She is a celebrated name in Gujarati theater and is appropriately bestowed the title of ‘The Queen of Gujarati Theater’ as she leaves no stone unturned in exploring innumerable variations of each of the nine rasas and carve out minute perfections in all her characters and roles.
The first projection of this giant talent happened early with her debut as a child artist at the tender age of 11. Since then there is no looking back. She has done it all – stage plays, ad films, modeling, television series and movies.
With marvelous 800 shows, her Gujarati drama ‘Chitkaar’ reached the zenith of success and became an epitome for all others. Even now, it is one of the few Gujarati dramas that traveled US twice and has been awarded a certificate by the Los Angeles Doctor’s Association for authentic and real script, direction and performance of the central character of paranoid schizophrenia patient (played by Sujata herself). Sujata's performance was applauded tremendously and people went to the extent of buying tickets in black at a ten-fold higher price to watch her.
Besides, her performance as a cancer patient in ‘Ame Barafna Pankhi’ which inspired reputed director Hrishikesh Mukherjee to turn it into a film called ‘Mili’. This drama marked the beginning of her stardom. Apart from these her wagon of superhits include landmark dramas like ‘Mrugjal Seenchine Ame uccheri veil’ (theme of surrogate mother, where Sujata played the role of a hired prostitute who sacrifices her baby) Taare mann hoon, Maare mann tu (played role of foreign returned daughter-in-law who transformed her mother-in-law.)  A thriller Resham Dankh with Homi Wadia,  ‘Salge Liluda Vansvan’ (played a role of a rebel orphan girl) ‘Jujve Roop Anant Bhase’ – adaptation of classic Japanese film Roshomon, " Mansi " , a play adapted from english classic drama ' Veronica's room '

She has been the leading lady in all the dramas and given complete justice to all the vital roles with her outstanding performances.
This is not all. Her debut Hindi film ‘Pratighat’ celebrated silver jubilee and was released in 150 theatres which was a rare and unusual phenomenon at that time. This multi-talented actress has added colors to amazing roles in many other movies like Yateem, where she played negative role of a bitch, Dhartiputra (played a tavaif mujrewaliye-hai sanamkhana ) Pratigyabadh by B.R.Chopra opposite mithun chakraborty, Hum Sab Chor Hai,Gunah – Gunehgar Kaun, Gunahon ka Devta, Jung with Aditya Pancholi, Kanwarlal with Raj Babbar and Jitendra, Meri mohobat mera Naseeba ( played a role of a bar girl ,  bottle main band hai ) and many others.

Pratighat

Dharatiputra

She has modeled for many top-notch photographers, ad-filmmakers and ad-agencies featuring in hair and beauty products, fashion and saris.
Her soap opera performances include  DD channel’s –Classic of Sharad Chandra’s ‘Srikant’ with Farooq Shaikh,  First soap opera – ‘khandan’ (character of Pratibha Premchand) Himesh Reshammiya’s ‘Andaaz’,         Balaji’s Kya Hoga Nimoh Ka