The most popular actress of Bhojpuri cinema Antara Biswas is better known by her stage name Monalisa. The actress has done over hundreds of Bhojpuri films and has also appeared in Hindi,

Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu films. Antara was born to a Bengali Hindu family and studied at Julien Day School in Elgin Road, South Kolkata. She completed her graduation from

Ashutosh College from the University of Calcutta.But did you know that she adopted the stage name of Monalisa at the behest of her uncle? After getting a BA degree in Sanskrit, she also

worked as a part-time TV actress and model in Oriya videos albums. In 2017, Monalisa married to her longtime boyfriend Bhojpuri actor Vikrant Singh Rajput.