Ananya panday

Panday made her acting debut in 2019 with the teen film Student of the Year 2, co-starring Tiger Shroff and Tara Sutaria, which was produced by Dharma Productions.^[

Writing for Scroll.in, Nandini Ramnath felt that Panday showed potential in an unremarkable film.

The film underperformed at the box office.

Panday next starred in Pati Patni Aur Woh (2019), a remake of the 1978 film of the same name, alongside Kartik Aaryan and Bhumi Pednekar. She played a secretary who indulges in an affair with a married man, which was portrayed by Ranjeeta Kaur in the original.

Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV found her to be "perfectly cast as the wide-eyed girl" but Jyoti Kanyal of India Today dismissed her as "bland and boring with no spice 

 With a worldwide gross of ₹1.15 billion (US$16 million), it emerged as a commercial success.

Panday won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her performance in Student of the Year 2.