This is an accepted version of this page Paoli Dam (born 1980) is an Indian actress[2] who started her career with the Bengali television serial Jibon Niye Khela (2003).

She then worked in Bengali television serials such as Tithir Atithi and Sonar Harin; the former ran for six years on ETV Bangla.

She won the Viewers' Choice Award for Best Actress for her performance in Natoker Moto at the Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival in 2016.

[8] Dam was admitted to Vidyasagar College for Women, affiliated with the University of Calcutta, graduating with a degree in chemistry.

[12] Dam's debut Bengali film Teen Yaari Katha, (directed by Sudeshna Roy and Abhijit Guha), began in 2004, but was not released until 2012.

[12] In its review, The Times of India appreciated: "Pauli, who plays Madhabilata with such integrity that the pain in her eyes and the romance in her voice charms viewers to believe that she has it in her to lend her face to everything that Madhabilita has epitomised".

[18] The actress played Paoli, a Bengali girl, and the film triggered controversy in India when an explicit unstimulated no-body-double sex scene with Dam and Anubrata Basu was leaked on the Internet.

[citation needed] Bedroom's story line revolved around the lives of Kolkata urban couples; Dam played Priyanka, a bored and irritable housewife.

Her acting was praised; The Indian Express found Dam's characterization of Ela "wonderful"[22] and The Times of India wrote: "Those who thought Paoli's "Hate Story" outing was all about being bold will be pleasantly surprised by her sheer maturity in reinterpreting boldness in the context of an era long left behind".

[28] Her next releases were the drama film Sada Canvas[29] and the romantic comedy Hercules, directed by Abhijit Guha and Sudeshna Roy.

[31] Her first 2015 release was Anjan Das' Ajana Batash, in which she played Deepa, who works in an ad agency in Kolkata, "lost in depression amongst all the affluence".

[32] Dam's upcoming films include Debesh Chattopadhyay's Natoker Moto - Like a Play which, according to Dam, was a "fictional biopic of a famous actress of the Bengali stage during the 1970s",[31] Auroni Taukhon by Saurav Chakraborty, which is a love story set against the background of communal riots,[31][33] and Swarup Ghosh's rom-com Tobuo Aparichito.

[31][34] In 2012, Dam made her Bollywood debut in Hate Story, directed by Vivek Agnihotri and produced by Vikram Bhatt.

The Times of India in its review:[37] Paoli Dam doesn't disappoint one bit on the latter aspect, she is not bad in terms of her acting abilities either.

But though her act is not accomplished, she manages to pull off her role quite well.After the film's commercial success, producer Vikram Bhatt planned a sequel, in which Dam was replaced by Surveen Chawla.

The film, directed by Sohail Tatari, is based on the true story of a young boy who died in an operating room due to medical negligence.

[45] In 2017, she made her Bangladeshi with Hashibur Reza Kallol's tragic romance Swatta, in which she played a prostitute co-starring with Shakib Khan.