Rishika Singh (born Rohini Singh) is an Indian actor who appears in

Kannada-language Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native sp ...

films. She is the daughter of film director

Rajendra Singh Babu S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu (born 22 October 1952) is an Indian filmmaker and occasional actor who works primarily in Kannada cinema. He was born and brought up in Mysore. His father Shankar Singh produced many films under the banner Mahatma Pict ...

and granddaughter of Mysore-based film producer Shankar Singh and former Kannada actress Pratima Devi. Her brother

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also appears in Kannada films.

Early life

Rishika Singh was born as Rohini Singh to film director

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. She was born to a family of film personalities with her grandfather Shankar Singh being a film producer and grandmother Pratima Devi, a Kannada film actress. She is the niece of Sangram Singh and actors

Vijayalakshmi Singh Vijayalakshmi Singh is an Indian actress, director, costume designer and producer in Kannada. She has acted in more than 50 Kannada films and is actively involved in television projects. Early life Vijayalakshmi was born in Mysore to film pe ...

and

Jai Jagadish Jai Jagadish (born 29 June 1954) is an Indian actor, director and producer in the Kannada film industry. Starting his career as an actor in '' Phalitamsha'' (1976), he went on to feature in over 300 films as an actor. In 1998, he turned producer ...

. She completed her graduation from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, in the year 2008.

Career

Rishika Singh made her debut in films in the 2011

film ''

Kanteerava ''Kanteerava'' is a 2011 Kannada-language action drama film directed by Tushar Ranganath and produced by Ramu. It is a remake of the Telugu film '' Simhadri'' (2003). The film features Duniya Vijay, Shuba Poonja and Rishika Singh in the lead ro ...

''. She then appeared in the multi-starrer comedy film ''

Kalla Malla Sulla ''Kalla Malla Sulla'' is a 2011 multi-starrer Kannada film in the comedy film, comedy genre starring V. Ravichandran, Ramesh Aravind, Vijay Raghavendra in the lead roles. The film has been directed and written by Udhaya Prakash and produced by K. ...

'' in the same year. In 2012, Singh hosted a talk show titled ''Ragale with Rishika'' that aired on

Zee Kannada Zee Kannada is an Indian Kannada pay television GEC that was launched in the year 2006 and owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It is also being as the first mainstream satellite channel in Kannada. History Zee Kannada was launched in 2006 ...

. In 2013, she got into a controversy after her morphed obscene video clip was uploaded on a social website by the actor-director S. K. Basheed of her film '' Benki Birugali'', against whom she filed a case. She was one of the contestants in the reality TV show ''

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'' in its first season. She appeared in an item song for ''

Maanikya ''Maanikya'' () is a 2014 Indian Kannada-language action drama film directed by Sudeepa featuring himself, V. Ravichandran, Ranya Rao, Ramya Krishna, Varalaxmi Sharathkumar and P. Ravi Shankar in the lead roles. The film is a remake of 2013 Te ...

'' (2014).

Personal life

Rishika Singh was engaged to Sandeep, a businessman from

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in December 2012. However, the wedding was called off, following which Singh was hospitalized due to a nervous breakdown in March 2013.

Filmography

Television

References

External links

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