Hi, I'm Daisy

From Coorg to the big screen

Daisy Bopanna grew up in a Kodava family from Kodagu (Coorg), in Karnataka, and studied fine art at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath in Bengaluru. She started on stage, presented Top Drive on Star World, and made her film debut in Kavitha Lankesh's Kannada film Bimba (2004).

Many viewers know her as Deepti in Priyadarshan's Hindi comedy Garam Masala (2005) and as Sowmya in Yogaraj Bhat's Kannada hit Gaalipata (2008). Her films span Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam. After a long break to live life on her own terms, she returned to the screen in the Telugu filmRush (2024), and she plays the antagonist in the Kannada thriller Birbal Trilogy: Case 2.

Why she turned to natural living

Away from the camera, Daisy went looking for gentler, more honest ways to care for her body. She found them in Ayurveda, in the Indian kitchen and in a fully plant-based life. Today she lives in Mumbai and travels across India and the world to meet healers, farmers, cooks and practitioners, and to learn the natural techniques they use for beauty, health and long life.

Every remedy on this site is something she has tried herself: DIY oils for glass skin, hair rituals for DHT and PCOS hair fall, fermented amla beet kanji for the gut, millet breakfasts for steady blood sugar, and daily practices like oil pulling, nasya and abhyanga. She explains the traditional reasoning, looks at what research says, and shows exactly how she does it.