Richa Panai (born 24 February 1993) is an actress who appears in

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, Tollywood, Mollywood and various ads. Richa Panai came to prominence as a model in advertisements for the Indian

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company Bhima Jewellery.

Career

Richa was born 24 February 1993 and brought up in

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. Since her school days, she wanted to be an actress. After completing her 12th Standard she won the Miss Lucknow title after which she decided to get into modelling. However, initial days of modelling was a struggle. After she did a

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and graduated from

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, she became an air hostess with

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. Jabbar Kalarakkal gave her first ad film. She starred in a few Malayalam ads and soon, she made her film debut too. She made her debut in the 2011

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film ''

Vaadamalli ''Vaadamalli'' is a 2011 Indian Malayalam thriller film directed by Alberrt Antoni after his critically acclaimed debut film ''Kanne Madanguka''. The film featuring some fresh faces in the lead was shot at various locations in Kochi, Alappuzha ...

''. In the same year, she starred in two other Malayalam films, ''

Bangkok Summer ''Bangkok Summer'' is a 2011 Malayalam film directed by Pramod Pappan Team. It features Rahul Madhav, Unni Mukundan and Richa Panai. The main themes of the movie are love, betrayal, money and race. Plot The film tells the story of Shrihari who ...

'' and ''

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'' opposite

Unni Mukundan Unnikrishnan Mukundan (born 22 September 1987), commonly known as Unni Mukundan, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. He has also acted in a few Telugu and Tamil films. Unni Mukundan made his acting debut with the Ta ...

and

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respectively. Richa won the

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for Best New Face of the Year '12 (Female). She was next seen with Allari Naresh in her first Telugu film '' Yamudiki Mogudu''. She made her debut in Kannada film industry in 2015 and was cast along with Golden Star

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in Buguri. She made her ''

'' debut with ''

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''. Ensemble cast of ''

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'', ''

Jimmy Shergill Jimmy Sheirgill (born Jasjit Singh Gill; 3 December 1970), also credited as Jimmy Shergill, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi and Punjabi films. Sheirgill began his film career with the 1996 thriller ''Maachis''. His bre ...

'', ''

Divya Dutta Divya Dutta (born 25 September 1977) is an Indian actress and model. She has appeared in Hindi and Punjabi cinema, in addition to Malayalam and English-language films. She has received many awards including a National Film Award, a Filmfare Aw ...

'' and others. She was also seen in Telugu movie, '' Eedu Gold Ehe'', starring '' Sunil''. She also filmed a multi cast Malayalam movie '' Crossroad (Lakehouse)'' that hit theaters in 2017.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Panai, Richa Living people Female models from Uttar Pradesh Actresses in Telugu cinema Actresses in Malayalam cinema Indian film actresses 21st-century Indian actresses Actresses from Lucknow Actresses in Kannada cinema Actresses in Hindi cinema 1993 births