From Lunch Box to The Test Case: Birthday girl Nimrat Kaur’s must-watch films

Lachi Gola

Mar 13, 2023

The Lunchbox

Starring the late Irrfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Nimrat Kaur in the lead, The Lunchbox revolves around a young, who tries everything to put romance back into her marriage

El’ayichi

In the short film El'ayichi, Nimrat plays a wife whose husband (played by Divyendu Sharma) is dead but continues to live with her as a ghost

Airlift

Airlift tells the story of the 1990s when a successful businessman Ranjit Katyal (Akshay Kumar) carries out the evacuation of Indians based in Kuwait during the Invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nimrat played his wife in the film

Dasvi

In Dasvi, Nimrat played the role of Bimla Devi Choudhary, who becomes a chief minister after her husband Ganga Ram Chaudhary, played by Abhishek Bachchan, lands up in jail

Peddlers

The Anurag Kashyap film was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Nimrat played the role of Kuljeet in the movie that revolves around 20-year-old destitute boys who get trapped in the drug trade

Yahaan

Directed by Shoojit Sircar, Yahaan is based on the Kashmir conflicts where a young Muslim woman meets and falls in love with a Hindu man. Nimrat played a journalist in the movie

The Test Case

This 2017 web series, inspired by the 1997 Hollywood movie G.I. Jane, follows the training of the lead character Shikha Sharma (played by Nimrat) to become the Indian Army's first woman test subject in a combat position