Nusrat Jahan

Nusrat Jahan (born 8 January 1990)^[4] is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Bengali cinema.^[5][6] She joined active politics in 2019 and elected as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Basirhat constituency as a Trinamool Congress candidate.^[7][8] Jahan's screen debut was in Raj Chakraborty's Shotru. She then appeared in the film Khoka 420, under the banner Eskay Movies. Her other notable films include Khiladi, with Ankush Hazra, Sondhe Namar Agey, with Rahul Bose and Power, with Jeet under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films.

Early Life[]

Jahan was born in a Bengali Muslim family in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India to Muhammed Shah Jahan and Sushma Khatun on 8 January 1990.^[9] She completed her schooling from Our Lady Queen of the Missions School, Kolkata and then went to college in Bhawanipur College, Kolkata graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree.^[9]

Personal Life[]

Nusrat's personal life has been a subject of speculation and of keen interest in the media in the recent years, mostly because of her romantic life and relationships post her marriage.

She has been in a relationship with businessman Nikhil Jain since 2018 and they had a grand marriage ceremony on 19 June 2019 in Turkey followed by a reception attended by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her actress friend and co- Member of Parliament Mimi Chakraborty, among other celebrities.^[10][11][12]

Nusrat later has claimed that the marriage was not legal, "Being on foreign land, as per Turkish Marriage Regulation, the ceremony is invalid. Moreover, since it was an interfaith marriage, it requires validation under Special Marriage Act in India, which did not happen". As per Nusrat, "it was nothing more than a live-in relationship".^[13] Nikhil Jain has stated that they lived together as husband and wife and introduced themselves as a married couple in the society. He has claimed that "I devoted all my time and resources being a faithful and responsible husband."^[14] Their marriage was never legalised in India.

Nusrat and Nikhil have allegedly seperated in November 2020, but they made it public in June 2021. The reason for their seperation was rumoured to be Nusrat's "SOS Kolkata" co-star Yash Dasgupta whom Nusrat was rumoured to be dating. Around the same time in June 2021, Nusrat's pregnancy news broke out in public amid all the rumours and speculations of her pregnancy which have already been floating around. Reacting to her pregnancy news, Nikhil Jain declared publically that the child is not his and that he isn't the father of Nusrat's to-be-born child. Since then, speculations began that Yash Dasgupta whom reportedly Nusrat has been dating for a while, was thought to be the father of the child.

In August 2021, she gave birth to a boy, Yishaan J Dasgupta at a private hospital in Kolkata.^[15] The birth of Nusrat's child "Yishaan" was also confirmed by Yash Dasgupta on his Instagram story, which made everyone believe the rumour of Yash being the father of Nusrat's child, even stronger. After a few days, the birth certificate of Nusrat's son was made public by the media, in which the name of the father was seen as "Debashish Dasgupta", which is the birth name of Yash Dasgupta. This has put all the rumours and speculations to an end and confirmed that Yash is the father of the child.

Nusrat and Yash since then have made their relationship public. They are co-parenting their son Yishaan. Nusrat feels that her son is also having a "normal father and mother" like all other children, and that she is happy about it.

Acting career[]

She started her modelling career after winning the beauty contest, Fair One Miss Kolkata in 2010.^[16][17] She made her Tollywood debut in film, Shotru alongside Jeet. After a year of hiatus, she starred in her second film, Khoka 420, with Dev. Her next release of that year was Khiladi, opposite Ankush Hazra. After that, she appeared in two item songs, namely "Chicken Tandoori" from Action and "Desi Chhori" from Yoddha - The Warrior, both of which were instant hits and became chartbusters. She was then seen in Sondhe Namar Agey, with co-star Rahul Bose. In 2015, she featured in the comedy film, Jamai 420, opposite Ankush Hazra and an ensemble cast including Payel Sarkar, Mimi Chakraborty, Soham Chakraborty and Hiran. She was also a part of the theme song of BCL (Bengal Celebrity League) for the team "Midnapoor Mighities", with Dev and Sayantika Banerjee. Her next and last film of 2015 was Har Har Byomkesh, released in December 2015. The movie was a huge box office success. In 2016, she appeared in director Rajib Biswas' film Power, with Jeet and Sayantika Banerjee. That same year, she starred in the comedy film Kelor Kirti, with Dev Adhikari, Jishu Sengupta, Ankush Hazra, Mimi Chakraborty, Koushani Mukherjee and Sayantika Banerjee. Later that year, she was seen in Love Express, opposite Dev and after that in Zulfiqar, directed by Srijit Mukherjee. Zulfiqar was among the top earning films of 2016. She ended the year 2016 with the comedy film Haripada Bandwala, with Ankush Hazra under the direction of Pathikrit Basu. In 2017, she was first seen in One, with Prosenjit Chatterjee and Yash Dasgupta, which was directed by Birsa Dasgupta. In May 2017, her next film Ami Je Ke Tomar was released. On 22 September 2017, her next movie Bolo Dugga Maiki was released. 2018, she acted in Uma as a guest, then she took place in Crisscross directed by Birsa Dasgupta and after that Rajiv Kumar Biswas selected her for the film Naqaab with Shakib Khan and Sayantika Banerjee. Next she danced in the song (Joy Joy Durga Maa) composed and featured by Jeet Gannguli, cricketer Sourav Ganguly, actress Subhashree Ganguly, Mimi Chakraborty, Nusrat Jahan and actor Bonny Sengupta were shown in the screen. This was released on the behalf of Captain TMT Bar advertise.^[18]

In 2020, she appeared in Asur^[19] and then in an action film on hostage rescue operation SOS Kolkata, as ATS technical head Amanda Jones.^[20]

Political career[]

On 12 March 2019, West Bengal Chief Minister and president of Trinamool Congress party Mamata Banerjee announced that Jahan would contest the upcoming general election of 2019 from Basirhat Lok Sabha Constituency.^[21][22] She emerged as the winner by a margin of 350,000 votes against BJP candidate Sayantan Basu.^[23]

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