Pratyusha Banerjee- Anandi (Balika Vadhu)

Pratyusha Banerjee was born in Jamshedpur. This 19 year old young lady currently lives in a paying guest accommodation in Mumbai. Balika Vadhu is going to be her first acting assignment. Initially when Pratyusha Banerjee decided to take acting as career her parents got into the state of shock. But slowly they understood that she should be allowed to do whatever she thinks best for her. In fact now Pratyusha Banerjee is getting lot of support from her parents. Pratyusha Banerjee is the only child of her parents.

Though Pratyusha Banerjee is new to acting, she is filled with talents she sings, she is a classical dancer and was associated with many cultural activities. During her school and college days Pratyusha Banerjee took part in many theatre dramas and plays but it was her drama called ‘Kalidas’ which made her think seriously about acting as career. On the education side Pratyusha Banerjee is pursuing graduation through distance education program.

Career
Since 2010, Banerjee is appearing as the protagonist, Anandi, on the television series Balika Vadhu, first aired on the Colors channel. She won the role — to appear as an older Anandi because of a five-year leap in the program's storyline — through an SMS poll.

Ref:
http://indian-television.webyam.com/?p=221
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratyusha_Banerjee