Sanjeeda Shaikh celebrates her 40th birthday: “Bahut saari duas, pyaar chahiye” |

As she celebrated her 40th birthday on Friday, the actress Sanjeeda Sheikh said she needs a lot of love and prayers.
Sanjeeda took to her Instagram, where she shared a series of photos of herself posing with her homemade sponge cake.
For the caption, she wrote, “Ok start wishing #happybirthday… Bahut saari #duas aur #pyaar chahiye (Need lots of prayers and love.)”
Sanjeeda made her acting debut as Nimmo in the television series Kyaa Hoga Nimmo Kaa in 2005. After that, she appeared as a vampire in the 2007 series Kayamath. The same year, she participated in a dance competition titled After Baliye 3with her former husband Aamir Ali. They won the trophy.
In 2008, she appeared in the series Kya Dill Main Hai alongside Aamir Ali. In 2014, Sheikh appeared as Durga Thakur, an ambitious and confident young woman, who seeks justice for her sister, in Ek Hasina Thi and was considered the breakthrough of his career.
She appeared in “Ishq Ka Rang Safed”, which was the first time she played the mother of a 5-year-old child on screen. The actress was later seen in shows like Gehraiyaan and Love Ka Hai Intezaar.
Sanjeeda did it Debut in Hindi cinema with Taish, playing Jahaan opposite Harshvardhan Rane in 2020. She was later seen as the character Priya in the horror film Kaali Khuhi, opposite Shabana Azmi, Hrithik Roshan-starrer “Fighter” and received critical acclaim for playing a courtesan named Waheeda in Sanjay. Leela Bhansali’s series “Heeramandi:: The Diamond Bazaar”.
Talking about ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’, the series chronicles the lives of tawaifs in the red-light district of Heera Mandi in Lahore during the Indian independence movement against the British Empire.
Along with Sanjeeda, the show also stars Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Richa Chadha, Sharmin Segal Mehta, Taha Shah Badussha, Shekhar Suman and Adhyayan Suman.