Konkona Sen Sharma was born on 3 December 1979. Sen Sharma made her debut as a child artist in the Bengali film Indira (1983). In 2000. Her first release of 2007 was her second collaboration with Madhur Bhandarkar, a noir film named Traffic Signal, in which she played a street prostitute. She noted her excitement toward these two projects as these were the first films in which she had to lip-sync for songs. In the first one, Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, she portrayed the character of a Banaras small town young woman. In 2013, Sen Sharma starred in Balaji Telefilms' Ek Thi Daayan, directed by newcomer Kannan Iyer and produced by Vishal Bhardwaj and Ekta Kapoor. The movie also stars Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin and Huma Qureshi. She played a character based on Nupur Talwar in Vishal Bhardwaj's film.