Adjudged Femina Miss India in 2009 and having won the Beauty with a Purpose award at Miss World 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Pooja Chopra is an Indian model and actor. Although she made a guest appearance in Madhur Bhandarkar's Fashion, playing herself, Pooja made her acting debut with the 2011 Tamil movie, Ponnar Shankar, opposite Prashanth Thiagarajan. Since then Pooja has been a part of movies like Heroine (2012), The World Before Her (2012), Commando (2013), Ranbanka (2015), Great Grand Masti (2016) and Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya (2016). In 2018 Pooja starred alongside Manoj Bajpayee, Rakul Preet Singh and Sidharth Malhotra in Neeraj Pandey's action-drama, Aiyaary.