Mona Singh (born 8 October 1981) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films and series. Having first gained prominence in 2000s for playing the eponymous heroine in the soap opera series Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin (2003–06), she has since appeared in several other television and film roles. Singh is the recipient of two Indian Television Academy Awards.
Mona Singh was born on 8 October 1981 in a Sikh family in Chandigarh.[2] Her father was an Army officer, so she shifted to many place and she is now a prominent alumni of Kendriya Vidyalaya Vayusena Nagar, Nagpur. On December 27, 2019, She married Filmmaker Shyam Rajagopalan in a traditional Sikh ceremony.
By returning to fiction shows, she entered Sony Entertainment Television's Kya Huaa Tera Vaada (produced by Kapoor) in 2012 as Mona, a wife whom her husband leaves and divorces due to an extramarital affair with his former girlfriend.[9] The show ended in 2013, and she took a break from television afterwards also.[10]
Two years later Singh made a comeback to television in October 2015 with Pyaar Ko Ho Jaane Do, her third consecutive show to be produced by Kapoor where she played Preet Singh, a woman who lost her parents.[11] Due to low TRPs, Pyaar Ko Ho Jaane Do went off air within three months in January 2016.[12] Later in 2016 she featured in Kapoor's supernatural production Kavach...Kaali Shaktiyon Se as Paridhi, a married woman attempting to protect her husband from his former lover who has turned into a spirit post death and arrived to haunt the couple, and hosted Comedy Nights Bachao.[13]
In 2023, Singh appeared in the Zoya Akhtar created Made In Heaven as Bulbul Jauhari. Singh played the role of an auditor attempting to bring the company out of debt whilst simultaneously handling a police case against her son. She received critical acclaim for her role from critics and audiences alike.[19][20] Singh next appeared in a brief but pivotal role as a doctor in Netflix's Kaala Paani.[21] Her performance was well received by critics.[22]
In 2022, she appeared in Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha, where she played the protagonist’s mother.[33] Despite being 16 years younger than Khan, Singh defended her role and stated, ''I’m not playing Aamir Khan’s mother, I’m playing Laal’s mother.''[34]
^Kya Huaa Tera Vaada (Drama), Mona Singh, Mohit Malhotra, Pranav Misshra, Mouli Ganguly, 30 January 2012, archived from the original on 14 February 2017, retrieved 8 October 2020((citation)): CS1 maint: others (link)
^Dwivedi, Chandra Prakash (28 November 2014), Zed Plus (Comedy), Vinod Acharya, Adil Hussain, Ravi Jhankal, Ekavali Khanna, WisdomTree Productions, archived from the original on 11 August 2018, retrieved 8 October 2020
^Kya Huaa Tera Vaada (Drama), Mona Singh, Mohit Malhotra, Pranav Misshra, Mouli Ganguly, 30 January 2012, archived from the original on 14 February 2017, retrieved 8 October 2020((citation)): CS1 maint: others (link)
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