Keerti Gaekwad Kelkar is an Indian television actress and model. She is primarily known for playing the leading character of Simar Prem Bharadwaj in the television series Sasural Simar Ka. She began her career in 2002 with her first television debut in Kammal, where she gained quite the popularity. She met her future husband, Sharad Kelkar on the sets of ‘Aakrosh’ (2004), which aired on DD1, and they also appeared in one of the episodes of CID, where they came close to each other and fell in love and got married in 2005. Together Keerti and Sharad Kelkar have appeared in a few more TV series including ‘Saat Phere’ and also participated in the TV reality show ‘Nach Baliye 2’ (2006). Keerti had taken a 6-year long break in 2011 from her career. In 2017, she joined the long-running show ‘Sasural Simar Ka’ , in which she replaced Dipika Kakar.