Yami Gautam is one of the top actresses in the industry today. She has a timeline of hits and a fan following of millions. Her strong expressions and dialogue delivery amaze fans. As the actress turns a year older today, let's list her best movies one can watch on OTT.
Yami Gautam is one of the Bollywood actors who enjoys doing stories that are content-rich. Her latest release 'OMG 2' alongside Akshay Kumar and Pankaj Tripathi is proof of the same. The film was released on August 11, the same date when ‘Gadar 2’ made it to the big screen.
Yami Gautam plays the role of a young woman crime reporter working on a story about the sudden disappearance of a young theatre activist (Tushar Pandey). The layered story aims to represent the idea of lost values and integrity.
As Naina Jaiswal, Yami is the heart and soul of Behzad Khambata’s hostage thriller film A Thursday. Naina is a kindergarten teacher in Mumbai, who takes the children hostage to settle a personal score and give an important message to society.
Ginny Weds Sunny In this breezy rom-com by debutant director Puneet Khanna, Yami played Ginny Juneja, a spunky, straightforward and charming professional on whom Vikrant Massey’s Sunny has a huge crush.
In this military action film directed by Aditya Dhar — whom Yami got married to later — she played RAW analyst and undercover agent Pallavi Sharma, who isn’t afraid to work in the field.
Bala belonged to Balmukund Shukla aka ‘Bala’, played by Ayushmann Khurrana, but Yami stole a lot of the thunder as Bala’s wife Pari in this black comedy directed by Stree helmer Amar Kaushik. Yami plays a caricature of a stereotypical beauty pageant winner from a small town in North India.
In Sanjay Gupta’s 2017 romantic action film Kaabil, Yami played the female lead opposite Hrithik Roshan. Yami’s Supriya is an independent working woman who is blind since birth. She falls in love with Rohan (Hrithik Roshan), a voiceover artist who’s also blind.
Yami played a small but crucial role in Sriram Raghavan’s 2015 neo-noir revenge thriller Badlapur. Yami’s Misha Purohit is a loving mother and a caring wife who gets caught in the crossfire between two bank robbers (played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vinay Pathak) and the police, along with her son.
After a few Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films, Yami Gautam made her Bollywood debut in Shoojit Sircar’s 2012 romantic comedy film Vicky Donor. Yami played Ashima Roy, a Delhi-born Bengali banker who is divorced. She falls in love and later marries a loud Punjabi carefree man, Vicky Arora.