Birthday Wishes to Gracy Singh - Gauri of Lagaan

Gracy Singh made her big screen debut with the Oscar-nominated film, 'Lagaan.' She went on to do many meaty roles in Bollywood, having starred with the likes of Sanjay Dutt in 'Munnabhai MBBS' and Anil Kapoor in 'Armaan.' 

Gracy Singh (born 20 July 1980) is best known for her role of Gauri in the 2001 epic sports-drama Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India. Singh is also a trained Bharatnatyam and Odissi dancer.

Born in Delhi, India, Singh began her career touring with the dance group "The Planets". Her first acting role was in the television soap, Amanat, which was telecast on Zee TV. She then appeared in supporting roles in the films Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain (as Kajol's younger sister) and Hu Tu Tu. This finally led her to star opposite Aamir Khan in Ashutosh Gowariker's epic sports-drama Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, where she played a village belle. She was nominated in this role for the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut, and won the Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female.

Post Lagaan, Singh appeared in a few successful films in Hindi and Telugu including Munnabhai M.B.B.S. and Santosham. 

She has also starred in Punjabi films such as Lakh Pardesi Hoye and a Malayalam film Loudspeaker directed by Jayaraj.

In 2015, Singh returned to television, playing Goddess Santoshi in the series Santoshi Maa on &TV.

Awards

• 2002: Won - IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year – Female - Special Award for Lagaan

• 2002: Won - Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female for Lagaan

• 2002: Won - Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut for Lagaan

• 2002: Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for Lagaan

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Gracy Singh is a celebrated film actress and Bharata Natyam dancer, creating and performing Indian classical and contemporary works. Her dance has been lauded as an undeniable language of self-expression that is dynamic and continuously evolving, naturally, gracefully and inevitably, able to connect with audiences across the board, from the specialist to the layperson.

Having trained under the legendary guru, Sri Deepak Mazumdar, she made her debut on stage in 2001 proving her inherent gift as a fine dancer. Since then she has continued to perform to audiences of connoisseurs both in India and abroad. She has evolved a distinctive style of dance that has been described as, "Classical and yet contemporary, precise and poetic, blurring the boundaries between tradition and the individual talent, inheritance and invention."