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Roopa Panesar
Roopa (Hindi: रूपा) is a female given name in many languages of India, which means "blessed with beauty". Roopa may refer to: Notable people named Roopa *D. Roopa, Indian police officer *Roopa (actress) (born 1960), South Indian actress. *Roopa Farooki (born 1974), British writer. *Roopa Ganguly (born 1966), Indian actress, playback singer and politician. *Roopa Iyer (born 1985), Indian film director, actor, dancer, choreographer, model and businesswoman. *Roopa Nagraj (born 1983), Emirati cricketer. *Roopa Pai (date of birth missing), Indian computer engineer, journalist and children's author *Roopa Ram (born 1954), Indian politician, member of Bharatiya Janata Party. *Roopa Rao (born 1981), Indian director. *Roopa Revathi (born 1984), Indian playback singer and violinist. *Roopa Sree (born 1970), Indian film and television actress. *Roopa Unnikrishnan (date of birth missing), Indian-born American sports shooter. See also *Rupa Rupa may refer to: Places *Rupa, Croati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa (actress)
Roopa, known as Roopa Devi is an Indian actress who has acted in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. She is the daughter of Kalyanam Raghuramaiah and veteran actress Advani Lakshmi Devi. She became famous as the debutante heroine of the tragic romantic film ''Oru Thalai Ragam'' in Tamil that ran for 365 days in which she was paired with newcomer Shankar. For her performance in the movie Avala Antharanga, Roopa won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress in 1984–85. Career Devi mainly worked in Kannada movies during the 1980s. She debuted in the experimental film ''Kamala'' in 1979 and her role of a prostitute brought her wide critical appreciation. She entered commercial cinema in 1980 with ''Simha Jodi'' in which she played the role of Vishnuvardhan's sister. She was the first choice for second lead and supporting roles in Kannada movies during 1983–87. Her prominent Kannada movies include ''Haalu Jenu'', ''Mullina Gulabi'', ''Bandhana'', ''Avala Antharanga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa Unnikrishnan
Roopa Unnikrishnan is an Indian-born American sports shooter and innovation consultant, based in New York City. In 1998, she was the first Indian woman to ever win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, in the 50m rifle prone position event. Biography Unnikrishnan won the Arjuna Award, India's highest sporting prize (equivalent to sports hall of fame) presented by India's President in 1999. The award recognized her multiple global medals, including gold medal and record in the XVI Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1998, in women's prone sports rifle; Silver medal at the World Shooting Grand Prix, Ft. Benning, Georgia, 1998; hold several records at the South Asian level. She has been a strong advocate for increased support for athletes in India, where they continue to be resource constrained. Though Shooting is a "Half Blue" sport at Oxford, Unnikrishnan was awarded an Extraordinary Full Blue, since she had won the Commonwealth medal, helped the Oxford team win in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa Sree
Rupa Sree is an Indian film and television actress who appeared in Tamil and Malayalam films and television soap operas. She made her acting debut with the Malayalam film ''Kallanum Polisum'' (1992) with Mukesh in the lead. The Malayalam serial ''Chandanamazha'', aired on Asianet, rose her into fame, and she was well accepted by Malayali audience as "Urmila Devi" (her character in Chandanamazha). She is one of most sought out actress in Tamil and Malayalam television serials. Biography Sree hails from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She has four sisters. She started her acting career, at the age of 13 years, as a heroine. later she moved to character roles and supporting roles. She appeared in glamorous roles as well. She took a break from movies after marriage. Her husband is also in film field. Again she made a comeback through serials, and now she is appearing in Tamil and Malayalam serials. As of November 2015, she is participating in a popular reality show on Flowers TV titled ''Kut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa Revathi
Roopa Revathi ( ml, രൂപ രേവതി), also known as Roopa K.R., is an Indian Musician, violinist & playback singer from Kerala. She started her career as a playback singer in the Malayalam movie ''Madampi'' in 2008. She has also recorded songs for Tamil and Kannada films. She was the winner of the reality show Amrita TV Super Star Global, a musical talent hunt show hosted by Amrita TV. Personal life Revathi was born in Ernakulam, Kerala. She started learning Carnatic music when she was five years old under Malini Hariharan and Tamarakkadu Govindan Namboothiri. Now, she is continuing it under P Unni Krishnan and M. Jayachandran. Career Revathi debuted as a playback singer in 2008 with the song "Ente Sharike" in B. Unnikrishnan's Malayalam film ''Madampi'' under music director M. Jayachandran. In 2011, she debuted as a violinist in the Malayalam film industry through the Prithviraj Sukumaran-starrer ''Urumi''. Deepak Dev Deepak Devraj Komath (born 30 April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa Rao
Roopa Rao (born May 18) is an independent Indian film-maker from Bangalore. She is the writer and director of India's first same-sex love story web series, '' The Other Love Story'' (2016). Rao is also known for directing critically acclaimed award winning Kannada film '' Gantumoote'' (2019). Early life Rao completed Masters in Commerce with Personnel Management as a specialization and discontinued Masters in Finance. For a span of six Years, she worked at Infosys. Later, with a persistent desire to make movies, she quit her job to pursue film making. She completed a course in film direction and production from Asian Academy of Film and Television, Delhi. After this, she moved to London, UK to assist a documentary filmmaker. Career She returned to India, where she made documentaries and short films in order to improvise her craft. After co-directing ''Vishnuvardhana'', a Kannada feature film and ''Kurai Ondrum Illai'', an independent Tamil feature film, she began to work o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa Ram
Roopa Ram (born 15 November 1954), also known as Roopa Ram Muravatiya, is an Indian politician from Rajasthan and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is an elected Member of 15th Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan from Makrana. Early life Roopa Ram was born in Makrana to Andaram Murawatiya. He passed higher secondary from Higher Secondary School of Makrana in 1975. He was a state level football player and a member of ''City Club of Football'', Makrana and still plays football daily in Syed Kidwai Football Stadium Makrana. Political career Roopa Ram was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly from Makrana constituency in 1993 as a Non Partisan and defeated Indian National Congress candidate Abdul Aziz, former Minister of State, Government of Rajasthan by 4,931 votes and secured 30,400 votes. In 1998, he contested Bhartiya Janta Party candidate but was not able to secure his seat and got only 24,912 votes and Abdul Aziz won that election by 19951 votes. After that he retire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa Pai
Roopa Pai is an Indian computer engineer, journalist and children's author living in Bangalore, India. She has over 20 published books which include the India's first fantasy-adventure series for children '' Taranauts'' and the national best seller ''The Gita for Children'' which also won the 2016 Crossword Award for children's writing. Biography Roopa was born in a Lingayat family in Bangalore. She started writing during her 11th standard, first writing articles for the ''Deccan Herald''. She went on to complete her Engineering degree and moved to Delhi after her marriage. Here she started writing for the children's magazine ''Target''. The couple eventually shifted to London where she wrote articles covering Indian restaurants in London, for the ''Travel Trends'' magazine. She was also commissioned by the British Tourism Authority to cover hotels and accommodations for Indian tourists across the UK. The couple eventually moved back to Bangalore. Bibliography * 2004 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa Nagraj
Roopa Nagraj (born 2 January 1983) is an Indian-born cricketer who plays for the United Arab Emirates national cricket team. In July 2018, she was named in the United Arab Emirates' squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament. She made her WT20I debut against Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ... on 7 July 2018. References External links * 1983 births Living people Emirati women cricketers United Arab Emirates women Twenty20 International cricketers Indian emigrants to the United Arab Emirates Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates Place of birth missing (living people) {{UnitedArabEmirates-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa Iyer
Roopa Iyer is a film director and actor. Career She played the lead actress in the movie "Daatu". She directed and wrote the movie '' Mukhaputa''. In 2013, she directed & produced her bilingual big budget film ''Chandra'' in Kannada and Tamil.https://www.deccanherald.com/content/341513/a-touch-royalty.html Filmography *''Note: All films are in Kannada unless otherwise noted.'' References Sources * Bringing Modi on screen''The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...'' External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Iyer, Roopa Female models from Karnataka Kannada film directors Tamil film directors Living people 1982 births Indian women film directors Film directors from Karnataka People from Mandya district Women artists from Karnataka Film producers from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa Ganguly
Roopa Ganguly is an Indian actress, playback singer and politician. She is best known for her portrayal of Draupadi in B R Chopra's hit television series ''Mahabharat''. Often promoted as the Tollywood's answer to Bollywood's Shabana Azmi, she is known for her versatility and accent adaptation. She has worked with directors such as Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen, Goutam Ghose and Rituparno Ghosh. She is a trained Rabindra Sangeet vocalist and a classical dancer. She received several awards including a National Award and two BFJA Awards. In October 2016, she was nominated as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, by the President of India. She served as the President of BJP Mahila Morcha in West Bengal. She served as the General Secretary and the Vice President for the West Bengal Motion Picture Artistes' Forum, a body representing cine artistes. Her films have commulatively grossed more than US$100 million worldwide. Her first acting assignment was Bijoy Chatterjee's Hindi short film ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa Farooki
Roopa Farooki is a British novelist and medical doctor. Born in Lahore, she lives between France and Great Britain. Her first novel, ''Bitter Sweets'', was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Award for New Writers. Early life and education Farooki was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1974 to a Pakistani father and Bangladeshi mother, who moved to London when she was seven months old. Her father was the late Nasir Ahmad Farooki, a Pakistani novelist and a prominent figure in Pakistani literary circles in the 1960s. Roopa's father abandoned her when she was 13, later marrying a Chinese American. Her mother, Niluffer, later had a long term relationship with an English-Iraqi of Jewish descent. She had a sister, Kiron, who became a solicitor. Despite being of both Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent, she speaks only English, because her parents were keen on assimilating into London and spoke to her in only English. She won a scholarship to a private girls’ school, but on the condition she c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |