{"id":213206,"date":"2025-12-03T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213206\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:15:14","slug":"dubai-girl-kashvi-majmundar-triumphs-at-toifa-with-best-debut-win-in-samantha-ruth-prabhu-spy-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213206\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai girl Kashvi Majmundar triumphs at TOIFA with Best debut win in Samantha Ruth Prabhu spy show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For context: Kashvi won for portraying the younger version of Nadia, the character played by Priyanka Chopra Jonas in the global Citadel franchise. It wasn\u2019t a cameo. It was legacy casting \u2014 a role most actors chase for a decade. Kashvi didn\u2019t have to wait.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEver since I saw PeeCee take on the world, I knew I wanted to be like her,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>The beginning wasn\u2019t Mumbai. It was Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Kashvi\u2019s Bollywood entry didn\u2019t come through family connections or movie studios. It started when actress and dancer Nora Fatehi spotted her in Abu Dhabi and handpicked her to perform on stage at IIFA. That moment became her professional ignition \u2014 one performance away from casting director Mukesh Chhabra, and then to Raj &amp; DK, the showrunning duo behind Citadel: Honey Bunny.<\/p>\n<p>Dubai hasn\u2019t turned her into a diva.<\/p>\n<p>She still goes to school. Classmates often ask if she\u2019s \u201cthat girl from the ad.\u201d Some search her name during lunch breaks. Her Instagram \u2014 monitored by her mother \u2014 recently crossed 176,000 followers, a number that doesn\u2019t just reflect curiosity. It reflects an audience waiting to see what she does next.<\/p>\n<p>Kashvi insists she was born to dance \u2014 a child who learns choreography the way other kids learn multiplication. But she won\u2019t be a dancer who occasionally acts.<br \/>\u201cMy dream is always to become an actor. I don\u2019t want to be just any other actor; I want to be a good actor \u2013 an all-rounder.\u201d<br \/>Gymnastics, singing, acting \u2014 she treats them as skills to master, not hobbies that fade with age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/author\/manjusha-radhakrishnan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gulfnews\/2025-04-24\/iq3y8zu1\/Untitled__1___2_.png\"  alt=\"Manjusha Radhakrishnan\" class=\"qt-image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manjusha Radhakrishnan has been slaying entertainment news and celebrity interviews in Dubai for 18 years\u2014and she\u2019s just getting started. As Entertainment Editor, she covers Bollywood movie reviews, Hollywood scoops, Pakistani dramas, and world cinema. <\/p>\n<p>Red carpets? She\u2019s walked them all\u2014Europe, North America, Macau\u2014covering IIFA (Bollywood Oscars) and Zee Cine Awards like a pro. She\u2019s been on CNN with Becky Anderson dropping Bollywood truth bombs like Salman Khan Black Buck hunting conviction and hosted panels with directors like Bollywood\u2019s Kabir Khan and Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh. She has also covered film festivals around the globe. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and did we mention she landed the cover of Xpedition Magazine as one of the UAE\u2019s 50 most influential icons? <\/p>\n<p>She was also the resident Bollywood guru on Dubai TV\u2019s Insider Arabia and Saudi TV, where she dishes out the latest scoop and celebrity news. Her interview roster reads like a dream guest list\u2014Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Shah Rukh Khan, Robbie Williams, Sean Penn, Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt, Joaquin Phoenix, and Morgan Freeman. <\/p>\n<p>From breaking celeb news to making stars spill secrets, Manjusha doesn\u2019t just cover entertainment\u2014she owns it while looking like a star herself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For context: Kashvi won for portraying the younger version of Nadia, the character played by Priyanka Chopra Jonas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[2157,434,3819,18,117,19,17,116300,3818],"class_list":{"0":"post-213206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bollywood","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-dubai","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-stories-of-success","16":"tag-uae"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115655824421246568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}