Swara Bhaskar is an Indian film actress who appears in the Hindi language films. She has received two Filmfare Award nominations, and her prime achievements have made her one of the most noticed contemporary actresses of the Hindi cinema. Swara was born in Delhi to a Telugu Naval officer Chitrapu Uday Bhaskar and his Bihari wife Ira Bhaskar who is a professor of cinema studies in Jawaharlal Neh...Swara Bhaskar is an Indian film actress who appears in the Hindi language films. She has received two Filmfare Award nominations, and her prime achievements have made her one of the most noticed contemporary actresses of the Hindi cinema. Swara was born in Delhi to a Telugu Naval officer Chitrapu Uday Bhaskar and his Bihari wife Ira Bhaskar who is a professor of cinema studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her maternal grandmother was from Varanasi. Bhaskar grew up in Delhi, where she did her schooling from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and subsequently studied English literature at Delhi University's Miranda House where she was classmate with another actress Minisha Lamba. She did her masters in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).