{"id":37948,"date":"2024-05-24T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T01:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/?post_type=story&#038;p=37948"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T07:36:53","slug":"banita-sandhu-the-british-indian-star-in-season-3-of-bridgerton","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/old.globalindian.com\/youth\/story\/cover-story\/banita-sandhu-the-british-indian-star-in-season-3-of-bridgerton\/","title":{"rendered":"Banita Sandhu: The British Indian star in season 3 of Bridgerton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>(May 24, 2024) <\/strong>\u201cSo grateful to have had the opportunity to immerse myself in the <em>Bridgerton<\/em> universe, dressing up and joining the world of Julia Quinn\u2019s incredible characters. Thank you, Netflix and Shondaland, for a wonderful experience that I will forever cherish,\u201d British-Indian actress Banita Sandhu shared with her fans, announcing her Hollywood debut in the eagerly awaited third season of Netflix\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bridgerton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first episode of the Season 3 premiered this month, with Banita sharing the screen with British actors like Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan. Banita\u2019s character, Miss Malhotra, introduces a fresh dynamic to the social scene of the show&#8217;s fictional Regency-era London, challenging the established norms among its eligible bachelors.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37960\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37960\" class=\"wp-image-37960 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Banita-Sandhu-799x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Indian Actor | Banita Sandhu | Global Indian\" width=\"614\" height=\"787\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 614px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 614\/787;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37960\" class=\"wp-image-37960 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Banita-Sandhu-799x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Indian Actor | Banita Sandhu | Global Indian\" width=\"614\" height=\"787\" \/><\/noscript><p id=\"caption-attachment-37960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banita Sandhu on the sets of <em>Bridgerton<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Bridgerton<\/em>, adapted from Julia Quinn&#8217;s novels, has mesmerised audiences in all its seasons with its lavish production design, captivating storylines, and diverse casting bringing the story of the nobility of the early 1800s in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>From UK to India<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banita Sandhu hails from Wales, UK. She began her acting journey on the local stages in the UK before getting an opportunity to play roles on the screen &#8211; in TV commercials and short films. The English Literature student had started working in short films even before she turned 18, and later worked in ads for Vodafone India and Wrigleys.\u00a0 Very early on in her career, at the age of just 20, Banita got an opportunity to work in Bollywood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was while working for Wrigley\u2019s ad which was being directed by Bollywood director Shoojit Sircar that she caught his attention and earned the Bollywood break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 26-year-old made her Indian cinema debut in 2018 in \u2018October\u2019, a Shoojit Sircar film opposite Varun Dhawan. She was a second-year student of English Literature at the King\u2019s College, London at that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"October | Official Trailer | Varun Dhawan | Banita Sandhu | Shoojit Sircar\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7vracgLyJwI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following year Banita went on to star in a Tamil production \u2018Adithya Varma\u2019 (remake of Telugu film Arjun Reddy) and the sci-fi series for Netflix, \u2018Pandora\u2019. Banita also worked with singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh in his track \u2018Jind Mahi\u2019, a love ballad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acting across continents the British-Indian actress went on to work at the British Dark Comedy, \u2018Eternal Beauty\u2019, and later Shoojit Sircar\u2019s historical drama \u2018Sardar Udham\u2019 starring Vicky Kaushal.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>The India connection<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy grandparents came to Britain from Punjab, northern India, shortly after World War II. Both my parents were born here and my sister and I were raised in a middle-class existence in Caerleon,\u201d Banita told <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BBC<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although she grew up with an interest in acting, low representation of South Asians on screen in the UK made her ambitions seem unreal. Also, coming to terms with her cultural identity was challenging. There were very few Asian girls in her small town which predominantly had only white people. \u201cI really struggled with my identity as a kid. I used to hate my skin colour and wished I was the blond girl who all the boys liked,\u201d she said in an interview with the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guardian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CvuhIW8Io9I\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CvuhIW8Io9I\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Banita Sandhu (@banitasandhu)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>India calling<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banita did not have any known relatives in India, nor had she travelled to the country before. However when an opportunity to work in Bollywood fell in her lap, she was more than happy.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working in Indian films helped her learn about her country of origin. \u201cI loved learning more about the culture, my family\u2019s lives, struggles and traditions,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In preparation for her debut in Bollywood, the UK-born actor, who could speak only a smattering of Punjabi, had to learn Hindi, and took lessons for a year before the filming began. It was a challenging task and she was nervous about her delivery in a new language, but luckily most of her lines were a hybrid of English and Hindi, and things went well.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Making strides in acting beyond boundaries<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, Banita has worked in many film projects across continents. Her recent film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mother Teresa and Me<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> went to earn the Best Film Award at the Mirabile Dictu International Film Festival. Sardar Udham starring Vicky Kaushal has won awards in the categories of Best Hindi Film (feature), best cinematography, best audio, best costume design and best production design at the 69th National film awards held in 2023.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CwVIATto0eF\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CwVIATto0eF\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Banita Sandhu (@banitasandhu)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banita has several brand promotion projects in her kitty. She has wrapped up her work in India\u2019s spy sequel \u2018Our Agent 116\u2019 before immersing herself in the world of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bridgerton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Hollywood. \u201cWish I could keep the costumes,\u201d the actor joked, talking about the grandeur, glitz and glamour of the regency era that the historical romance series offers.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Follow Banita Sandhu on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/banitasandhu\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 24, 2024) \u201cSo grateful to have had the opportunity to immerse myself in the Bridgerton universe, dressing up and joining the world of Julia Quinn\u2019s incredible characters. Thank you, Netflix and Shondaland, for a wonderful experience that I will forever cherish,\u201d British-Indian actress Banita Sandhu shared with her fans, announcing her Hollywood debut in the eagerly awaited third season of Netflix\u2019s Bridgerton. The first episode of the Season 3 premiered this month, with Banita sharing the screen with British actors like Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan. Banita\u2019s character, Miss Malhotra, introduces a fresh dynamic to the social scene of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":37950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","story-category":[215,2514],"story-tag":[9157,37,4481,3381,8451,1200,1068,4547,9158,4436,4435,4438,4887,38,4483,4440,4548,4482,9162,9161,9160,1429,139,4520,9163,9159,9164,4437,4439],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Banita Sandhu | The British Indian Actress stars in Bridgerton<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"British-Indian actress Banita Sandhu joined the cast of the Netflix series Bridgerton in its third season.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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