Before making her debut, Bengali film actress Nusrat Jahan participated in a beauty pageant, winning the Fair One Miss Kolkata title in 2010. Following this, she was cast opposite
Jeet in the 2011 action movie Shotru, which is the Bengali remake of the Tamil film
Singam. Since then, she has appeared in movies like Har Har Byomkesh, Kelor Kirti, Zulfiqar, and One.
Early Life Nusrat hails from a Muslim family based in Kolkata, West Bengal. She studied at the Queen of the Mission School before graduating with a bachelor`s degree in commerce from Bhawanipur College. While studying, she pursued modeling and had also participated in the Fair One Miss Kolkata pageant in 2010, which she went on to win.
Movie Career After winning the beauty pageant in 2010, Nusrat made her acting debut opposite
Jeet in the 2011 Bengali remake of the Tamil action film
Singam titled Shotru. The movie received critical acclaim and was declared a blockbuster hit. Next, she was seen in the romantic comedy
Khoka 420 alongside
Dev and
Subhashree Ganguly, and the slapstick comedy
Khiladi opposite
Ankush Hazra, both of which released in 2013.
Despite a superlative cast, comprising
Biswajit Chatterjee,
Rituparna Sengupta,
Rahul Bose, and
Palash Sen, the murder mystery
Sondhye Namar Aage opened to mixed, mainly negative, reviews with critics calling out the actors on their mediocre performance. Her next,
Jamai 420, was also met with negative reviews, however, Nusrat`s performance was praised but the movie failed to impress. She replaced
Aditi Rao Hydari in
Arindam Sil`s mystery thriller
Har Har Byomkesh, playing the role of Shakuntala, the wife of a painter who was found dead under mysterious circumstances after a party thrown by him. The movie, starring
Abir Chatterjee,
Ritwick Chakraborty, and
Sohini Sarkar, opened to mixed reviews but was still a runaway hit at the theaters.
Playing the role of Urvashi in the Bengali remake of the Tamil romantic comedy
Charlie Chaplin, Nusrat was seen in
Kelor Kirti, which saw an ensemble cast of
Dev,
Jisshu Sengupta,
Ankush Hazra,
Mimi Chakraborty,
Koushani Mukherjee, and
Sayantika Banerjee. Seen in another remake, Nusrat was cast alongside Dev in
Love Express, which is the Bengali remake of the Telugu movie
Venkatadri Express. National Film Award-winning director
Srijit Mukherji signed her to play the part of Cleopatra in his adaptation of two of William Shakespeare`s tragedies Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra, titled
Zulfiqar. Although the movie was panned by critics, it was a commercial success with the music of the movie topping the charts.
In 2017, she was seen in the action thriller
One, which, yet again, in an official remake of the Tamil movie
Thani Oruvan. Nusrat Jahan was cast alongside
Yash Dasgupta,
Prosenjit Chatterjee, and
Rachel White. Her other projects of the year include
Ami Je Ke Tomar alongside
Ankush Hazra, Joy, and
Sayantika Banerjee. Her other releases includes Crisscross (2018), Naqaab (2018), Asur (2020), SOS Kolkata (2020) and Dictionary (2021).