Eleven years ago, as a teenager, she performed in national award winning Marathi film ‘Uttarayan’. Surprisingly, she played the young Neena Kulkarni’s role in this film; while Sharad Kelkar, who played young  Shivaji Satam in this film, was her hero in few scenes in the flashback of this film. Gauri later completed her masters’ degree in science and got busy with offers from Hindi television. Two years ago, she did a film ‘Sanshaykallol’ opposite today’s leading Marathi hero Ankush Choudhari and had made her intentions clear that she would do Marathi films, provided there was a good role.

In between Gauri got married; but had not said ‘no’ to acting. Last year, when director Shankh Rajadhyaksha had an offer to direct a suspense filled thriller, inspired by a true story, he only thought of Gauri, to play the lead role of Kavya Dixit . And, Gauri immediately said ‘yes’ to this offer, after hearing the story of this film. The film suitably titled ‘702 Dixits’ is now ready for release and Gauri is eagerly waiting for the film’s release, scheduled for 15^th January 2016.

The return of Gauri to Marathi cinema, is at the most appropriate time, when Marathi cinema is going for a  big change, with ‘out of the box’ scripts, attempted by new film makers. The maker of ‘702 Dixits’, Shankh Rajadhyaksha is from editing field and this being his debut film, as a director, he seems to have worked very hard, in presenting this interesting story, so as to keep the audience engaged to their seats for 2 hours. Even Gauri feels that the director has done an excellent job. If this film does good business, it will certainly benefit Gauri to find still better roles in Marathi. She already has a big fan following, as a TV actress on Hindi television.