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Maanvi Gagroo recalls getting ‘ ₹1 Lakh plus compromise’ offer for role: ‘This is what happens to non-nepo kids’

Maanvi Gagroo recalls getting ‘ ₹1 Lakh plus compromise’ offer for role: ‘This is what happens to non-nepo kids’

Actor Maanvi Gagroo recently revisited a disturbing incident from her early days in the entertainment industry, revealing that she once received a text message which read “ ₹1 lakh plus compromise.” Maanvi said she was so new to the industry at the time that she had no idea what the term “compromise” implied, adding that a star kid would never face such a situation. Maanvi Gagroo made her debut with Disney TV series, Dhoom Machao Dhoom (DMD), in 2007. Maanvi Gagroo on her initial struggles Recently, Maanvi appeared on the Two Girls & Two Cups podcast, where she recalled some uncomfortable situations that she faced during the early years of her career. She recalled that she once received a text message which read, “ ₹1 lakh plus compromise” for a project. She was new to the industry at the time, and admitted that she had no clue what it meant, and the text left her confused. Maanvi said, “And this was in the beginning of my career, so I was like… I replied, saying ‘compromise?’ …

‘I keep telling Amazon to make spinoff on Siddhi like Marvelous Mrs Maisel’: Maanvi Gagroo | Web-series News

‘I keep telling Amazon to make spinoff on Siddhi like Marvelous Mrs Maisel’: Maanvi Gagroo | Web-series News

4 min readMumbaiJun 10, 2026 08:21 AM IST After a run of over six years, Amazon Prime Video’s popular International Emmy Award-nominated show Four More Shots Please! finally wrapped up with the fourth season. Maanvi Gagroo, who played the budding stand-up comedian Siddhi Patel in the series, feels she’s not exactly done with the beloved character, and has even pitched to the streaming platform an idea for a spin-off. Siddhi spin-off in the making? “I keep joking with the Amazon people that we should have a spin-off of Siddhi, and do a Marvellous Mrs. Maisel kind of a thing. I don’t think they like that idea too much because nothing’s happened on that front,” Maanvi says, laughing, in an exclusive interview with SCREEN. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, starring Rachel Brosnahan in the titular role of a rising stand-up comic in New York City of 1958, also ran for six years from 2017 till 2023, and five seasons. It even fetched a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award. Four More Shots Please! wasn’t the first …

Maanvi Gagroo slams trolls body shaming Patralekhaa: ‘It’s ridiculous’

Maanvi Gagroo slams trolls body shaming Patralekhaa: ‘It’s ridiculous’

Patralekhaa stepped out for the first time after giving birth to a baby girl during Toaster promotions. However, the actress was trolled for gaining postpartum weight. Reacting to the online trolling of Patralekhaa, Maanvi Gagroo has slammed the body-shaming culture surrounding new mothers. The actress said she advised her Heer Sara co-star not to give attention to such negativity. Maanvi Gagroo on Patralekhaa getting body shamed In an exclusive interview with Screen, Maanvi expressed disappointment and said, “It’s so ridiculous. It’s 2026, I can’t believe we’re still talking about it. I had a chat with Patra about it. I said, ‘Don’t even dignify it with a response. It doesn’t even need your attention. You’ve got so much going about it in your life. Don’t even give it any mental space.’” Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

‘It’s so ridiculous’: Maanvi Gagroo on trolls fat-shaming Heer Sara co-star Patralekhaa | Bollywood News

‘It’s so ridiculous’: Maanvi Gagroo on trolls fat-shaming Heer Sara co-star Patralekhaa | Bollywood News

Travel has been at the heart of the acting journey of Maanvi Gagroo. Whether it’s her The Viral Fever (TVF) show Tripling to parts of her popular Amazon Prime Video series Four More Shots Please!, Maanvi has always been on the move. Her new film, Kartik Chaudhry’s buddy road movie Heer Sara, is no different. Her fellow passenger this time is not her siblings or BFFs, but a strange bedfellow in Patralekhaa. While the film has been ready for one-and-a-half years now, it’ll finally see light of the day this Friday. Maanvi’s co-star Patralekhaa has been keeping busy all this while, turning producer alongside actor-husband Rajkummar Rao with Toaster on Netflix to giving birth to their daughter Parvati. During the promotions of Toaster a couple of months ago, Patralekhaa took to social media to slam those who have been fat-shaming her for not losing weight after delivering her daughter last November. Maanvi Gagroo on Patralekhaa’s body-shaming “It’s so ridiculous. It’s 2026, I can’t believe we’re still talking about it,” Maanvi Gagroo tells SCREEN in an …

Maanvi Gagroo on her 20-year friendship with Kumkum Bhagya’s Sriti Jha: ‘We’ve been through everything’ | Interview

Maanvi Gagroo on her 20-year friendship with Kumkum Bhagya’s Sriti Jha: ‘We’ve been through everything’ | Interview

For many millennials, TV show Dhoom Machaao Dhoom was a big part of growing up. The Disney Channel musical sitcom introduced viewers to the lively Pink Band and a young cast that would go on to build successful careers in the entertainment industry. Among them were Maanvi Gagroo and Sriti Jha, whose journeys eventually took very different directions. Sriti Jha and Maanvi Gagroo via Instagram. Over the years, Maanvi became a familiar face in both the OTT space and Bollywood with projects like Four More Shots Please!, Tripling and TVF Pitchers, while Sriti established herself as one of Indian television’s most loved stars through Kumkum Bhagya. While their careers evolved in different ways, one thing has stayed constant through it all—their friendship. A bond built long before fame Long before the fame, premieres and red carpets, Maanvi Gagroo and Sriti Jha were just two young actors starting out in the industry together. Over the years, they have stood by each other through every major phase of life, making their friendship one of the longest-lasting relationships …

‘Men aren’t going to do s**t’: Heer Sara star Maanvi Gagroo on why women must change the system | Interview

‘Men aren’t going to do s**t’: Heer Sara star Maanvi Gagroo on why women must change the system | Interview

For many millennials, actor Maanvi Gagroo first appeared on their screens through the Disney Channel series Dhoom Machaao Dhoom. Nearly 20 years later, she is now one of the most recognisable faces of India’s streaming era, with popular shows like Four More Shots Please!, Tripling, and TVF Pitchers to her name. After a six-year gap from theatres, as her last big-screen release was Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, Maanvi is returning to cinemas with Heer Sara. The film is a female-led road-trip drama co-starring Patralekhaa. Set in Pondicherry, it follows two very different women whose unexpected journey together becomes a story of friendship and self-discovery, releasing on June 12, 2026. Maanvi Gagroo poses for photographs during a promotional event. (PTI) In a conversation with Hindustan Times, Maanvi spoke about playing her character Heer, how OTT platforms gave her career more freedom, and why stories made for women deserve the same seriousness as any other genre. Finding the right balance for Heer Although Maanvi has portrayed lively and energetic characters before, she admits Heer required a much …

Four More Shots Please Stars Sayani Gupta And Maanvi Gagroo Pose For A Fun, Candid Beach Photoshoot | Web-series News

Four More Shots Please Stars Sayani Gupta And Maanvi Gagroo Pose For A Fun, Candid Beach Photoshoot | Web-series News

Last Updated:January 08, 2026, 10:45 IST Sayani Gupta shared fun beach photos with Maanvi Gagroo from a Four More Shots Please! shoot, capturing candid moments. The actresses last starred in Four More Shots Please. Actress Sayani Gupta shared a candid glimpse from a photoshoot morning with her Four More Shots Please! co-star Maanvi Gagroo that was equal parts fun and focus and spoke about the unspoken rules that come every time while getting clicked. Sayani took to Instagram, where she shared a string of photographs of herself with Maanvi at the beach dressed in swimsuits. Calling it a “glorious morning,” Sayani shared that she wanted to “eat” Maanvi up. “Just two girls doing a photo shoot & a conversation while remembering to not fall flat, catch light, suck in stomach & give their ‘same’ better profile. Always a blast with @maanvigagroo What a glorious morning this was. I wanted to eat this cutie up cause she was looking soooo cute! @4moreshotspls,” Sayani wrote as the caption. Sayani’s latest includes the ultimate season of “Four More …

Prateik Smita Patil says ‘film industry isn’t a man’s world’; Maanvi Gagroo explains men have brought the ‘male loneliness epidemic’ upon themselves | Web-series News

Prateik Smita Patil says ‘film industry isn’t a man’s world’; Maanvi Gagroo explains men have brought the ‘male loneliness epidemic’ upon themselves | Web-series News

After a run of six years, Prime Video India’s buddy drama Four More Shots Please! has come to a conclusion with season 4. In an exclusive interview with SCREEN, the primary cast — Sayani Gupta, Kirti Kulhari, Maanvi Gagroo, Bani J, Prateik Smita Patil, and Dino Morea open up on the instances when they judged their characters and their takes on the viral phenomenon termed the male loneliness epidemic. Sayani and Prateik, a lot of Ross and Rachel from Friends-kind of back and forth was  going on between your characters Damini and Jeh respectively. Did you never get exhausted by that? Sayani: I feel very close to Jeh and Damini. But also, for the audience, they take it very personally. There are people who are Team Jeh and there are people who are Team Damini, but after season 3, a lot of people have walked up to me and started scolding me. “How could you do this to the best boy in the world?” Dino, this has been your year, with Housefull 5, The Royals, Rana …

Maanvi Gagroo Says The Cast Cried After Four More Shots Please 4 Finale: ‘It Was Pretty Emotional’ | Web-series News

Maanvi Gagroo Says The Cast Cried After Four More Shots Please 4 Finale: ‘It Was Pretty Emotional’ | Web-series News

Last Updated:December 18, 2025, 09:18 IST Maanvi reflected on her dynamic with her co-stars and whether the friendship with flourish beyond the show. Four More Shots Please season 4 is releasing on December 19. (Photo Credit: X) The fourth and final season of Four More Shots Please is all set to premiere this week, bringing back the fan-favourite quartet, Sayani Gupta, Kirti Kulhari, Bani J, and Maanvi Gagroo, for one last time. As fans gear up for the final season, Maanvi opened up about the final season and her bond with her co-stars. Maanvi told Hindustan Times, “When initially we found out that we were doing the finale season and all of that, we were very excited. We were like, let’s do it one last time. There was a lot of enthusiasm. We came in with this insane level of energy.” She recalled, “I remember on the last day of the shoot, when I was driving to the location, it suddenly hit me — oh my god, I will never play Siddhi again. There will …

‘We were laughing and crying’: Maanvi Gagroo says Four More Shots Please put her on the map, recalls emotional last day

‘We were laughing and crying’: Maanvi Gagroo says Four More Shots Please put her on the map, recalls emotional last day

After three long years, Four More Shots Please is finally returning with its fourth and final season. While fans are gearing up for one last ride with Damini, Anjana, Siddhi and Umang, the reality of saying goodbye has hit the cast just as hard. As Four More Shots Please prepares to bow out, one thing is certain, Siddhi and her girls are leaving behind a legacy of friendship, flaws and fierce self-love that fans won’t forget anytime soon. Maanvi Gagroo talks about what’s new in Four More Shots Please season 4. Created by Rangita Pritish Nandy and Ishita Pritish Nandy, the show also stars Bani J, Sayani Gupta and Kirti Kulhari and is scheduled to release on Prime Video on December 19. In an exclusive chat with Hindustan Times, Maanvi Gagroo opens up about the emotional farewell, Siddhi’s journey of self-love, her real-life bond with her co-stars and why the finale promises a sense of closure. ‘It hit me on the last day that this was it’ Talking about the moment she realised the show …