Rakul Preet Singh

Rakul Preet Singh
Rakul Preet Singh
	; Rakul Preet in 2018
Born	10 October 1990 (age 28); New Delhi, India
Residence	Hyderabad, Telangana
Nationality	Indian
Education	Bachelor of Science Honours in Mathematics
Alma mater	Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi
Occupation	Actress; Model;
Years active	2009–present

Rakul Preet Singh (born 10 October 1990) is an Indian South Indian film actress and model who predominantly works in the Telugu and Tamil film industries. She has also appeared in a number of Hindi and Kannada movies.

Currently, she is appointed as the brand ambassador for Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao programme by Telangana State Government.

She started career as a model while in college, during which she also made her acting debut in the Kannada film Gilli(2009). In 2011 she participated in the Femina Miss India pageant, in which she was placed fifth and won five pageant titles including People's Choice Miss Indiatimes, Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Face, Femina Miss Talented, Femina Miss Beautiful Smile and Femina Miss Beautiful Eyes.

She subsequently opted to become a full-time actress, making her Telugu debut in Keratam the same year and her Tamildebut in Thadaiyara Thaakka, the following year. In 2014 she also made her Bollywood debut in Yaariyan in which her performance was better received.

She was part of the commercially successful films like Venkatadri Express (2013), Current Theega (2014), Loukyam(2014), Kick 2 (2015), Bruce Lee - The Fighter (2015), Nannaku Prematho (2016), Sarrainodu (2016), Dhruva (2016), Rarandoi Veduka Chudham (2017), Spyder (2017) and Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017) and established herself as one of the leading actresses in Telugu Cinema.

Early life

Born in a Punjabi family in New Delhi, Rakul did her schooling from Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan and later studied Mathematics at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi.

Career

Debut (2009–2014)

Rakul Preet Singh at Mehboob Studio

Rakul Preet Singh, who said that she had always dreamt of being an actress, began her career in modelling at age 18 while she was still in college. In 2009 she made her acting debut in the Kannada film, Gilli, a remake of Selvaraghavan's 7G Rainbow Colony.^[ She stated that she signed up the film "with the aim to earn a little extra pocket money" and that she was unaware "how big south Indian films were". She won critical acclaim for her role in the film before returning to complete her degree and compete in the 2011 Femina Miss India pageant. Apart from the People's Choice Miss Indiatimes, she won four subtitles at the pageant including Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Face, Femina Miss Talented, Femina Miss Beautiful Smile and Femina Miss Beautiful Eyes.

She returned to films in 2011, featuring opposite Siddharth Rajkumar in Keratam which was released both in Telugu and Malayalam languages, though critics noted that "she got very little screen time".The film was also made in Tamilsimultaneously titled as "Yuvan" with the same cast but different director. In 2012, she appeared in a supporting role in the Tamil film Thadaiyara Thaakka.

In Jan 2013 she appeared in a Tamil film titled Puthagam. In November 2013 she was seen in Venkatadri Express in Telugu, the latter becoming a commercial success and earning her first ever Best Actress nomination at the 61st Filmfare Awards South.

In 2014, she debuted in a starring role in Bollywood with Divya Kumar's directorial debut Yaariyan after which her third Tamil film Yennamo Yedho released. By mid-2014, she was working on three Telugu films simultaneously, which were directed by Sriwass,G. Nageswara Reddy, and Gopichand Malineni. Sriwass's Loukyam and G. Nageswara Reddy's Current Theega were her next releases. She received positive reviews for her performances in both films, with 123telugu.com going on to claim that she was "slowly becoming a star actress".She received her second Best Actress nomination at 62nd Filmfare Awards South. Her next released film was Pandaga Chesko in which she was starred opposite Ram Pothineni and directed by Gopichand Malineni.

Public recognition and success (2015–present)

Singh at an event in 2018

Rakul Preet Singh was then selected as the female lead in half-a-dozen, four of which are high-profile Telugu films: Surender Reddy's Kick 2 opposite Ravi Teja, Srinu Vaitla's Bruce Lee opposite Ram Charan,Sukumar's Nannaku Prematho opposite Jr. Ntr and Boyapati Srinu's Sarrainodu opposite Allu Arjun.She was greatly praised for her movie Nannaku Prematho as she dubbed first time ever for herself in this film and earning her first ever Best Actress award at Jio SIIMA 2017. In January 2016 she signed the film Jaya Janaki Nayaka under the direction of Boyapati Srinu opposite Bellamkonda Sreenivas for which she charged ₹1.5 crore (US$210,000). In February 2016 she signed Surender Reddy's Dhruva starring opposite Ram Charan for the second time.

In early March 2016 she signed Gopichand Malineni's film Winner starring with Sai Dharam Tej for the first time. In early July 2016, she signed to AR Murugadoss' bilingual film opposite to Mahesh Babu, titled Spyder. In September 2016 she signed another Telugu film titled Rarandoi Veduka Chudham directed by Kalyan Krishna starring opposite Naga Chaitanya. The movie was released on 26 May which was a huge blockbuster. She later has received a lot of applause for her look and character as Bramaramba in Rarandoi Veduka Chudham.

In Dec 2016, she signed her next film titled Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru to pair opposite Karthi.

After a small sabbatical in Hindi films, she signed Neeraj Pandey's Aiyaary starring opposite Sidharth Malhotra.

In early January 2018, she signed her next Tamil film opposite to Suriya under Selvaraghavan direction. In 2018, Rakul Preet Singh to star with Ajay Devgn and Tabu in Luv Ranjan's next Bollywood film romcom.

In March 2018, she signed another Tamil film starring opposite Karthi for the second time after the success of Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru.^[

Other works

She has an active franchise of three functional training gyms named Functional 45. Two of them are in Hyderabad located in Gachibowli and Kokapet and one in Visakhapatnam. She also bought a new apartment in Hyderabad of worth ₹3 crore (US$420,000) to stay with her family. She has an official app called the

Year	Title	Role	Director	Language	Notes
2014	Yaariyan	Saloni	Divya Khosla Kumar	Hindi
2018	Aiyaary	Sonia Gupta	Neeraj Pandey	Hindi
2019	De De Pyaar De	TBA	Akiv Ali	Hindi	Filming
2019	Marjaavaan	TBA	Milap Zaveri	Hindi	Filming
2009	Gilli	Arati	Raghav Loki	Kannada
2011	Yuvan	Sangeetha	R. N. Saran	Tamil
2012	Thadaiyara Thaakka	Gayathri Ramakrishnan	Magizh Thirumeni	Tamil
2013	Puthagam	Divya	Vijay Adhiraj	Tamil
2014	Yennamo Yedho	Nithya	Ravi Tyagarajan	Tamil
2017	Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru	Priya Theeran	H. Vinoth	Tamil
2019	NGK	Neha Pandian	Selvaraghavan	Tamil	Filming
2019	Dev	TBA	Rajath Ravishankar	Tamil	Filming
2019	SK 14	TBA	R. Ravikumar	Tamil	Filming
2011	Keratam	Sangeetha	Gautham Patnaik	Telugu
2013	Venkatadri Express	Prarthana	Merlapaka Gandhi	Telugu	Nominated- Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu
2014	Rough	Nandu	C. H. Subba Reddy	Telugu
2014	Loukyam	Chandrakala "Chandu"	Sriwass	Telugu	Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu Nominated - SIIMA Awards for Best Actress
2014	Current Theega	Kavita	G. Nageswara Reddy	Telugu
2015	Pandaga Chesko	Divya	Gopichand Malineni	Telugu
2015	Kick 2	Chaitra	Surender Reddy	Telugu
2015	Bruce Lee - The Fighter	Riya Bharadwaj	Srinu Vaitla	Telugu
2016	Nannaku Prematho	Divyanka / Divya	Sukumar	Telugu	Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu SIIMA Awards for Best Actress
2016	Sarrainodu	Jaanu / Mahalakshmi	Boyapati Srinu	Telugu
2016	Dhruva	Ishika	Surender Reddy	Telugu
2017	Winner	Sitara	Gopichand Malineni	Telugu
2017	Rarandoi Veduka Chudham	Bhramarambha	Kalyan Krishna Kurasala	Telugu
2017	Jaya Janaki Nayaka	Janaki / Sweety	Boyapati Srinu	Telugu
2019	N. T. R. Kathanayakudu	Sridevi	Krish	Telugu	Special appearance in the Song "Aaku chatu"
2017	Spyder	Charlie	AR Murugadoss	Telugu / Tamil	Bilingual fil

Awards and Nominations

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
2014	61st Filmfare Awards South	Best Actress – Telugu	Venkatadri Express	Nominated
2015	CineMAA Awards	Best Actress (Jury)	Loukyam	Won
	62nd Filmfare Awards South	Best Actress – Telugu		Nominated
	4th South Indian International Movie Awards	Best Actress – Telugu		Nominated
2016	Zee Telugu Apsara Awards	Most Popular Heroine of the Year	Pandaga Chesko, Bruce Lee - The Fighter	Won
2016	Sakshi Excellence Awards	Most Popular Actor (Female)	Pandaga Chesko, Kick 2, Bruce Lee - The Fighter	Won
2017	Zee Cinemalu Awards	Golden star of the year	Dhruva, Winner	Won
	Zee Cinemalu Awards	Fittest star of the year		Won
	Zee Telugu Apsara Awards	Style Icon of the Year		Won
	64th Filmfare Awards South	Best Actress – Telugu	Nannaku Prematho	Nominated
	6th South Indian International Movie Awards	Best Actress – Telugu	Nannaku Prematho	Won
	South Indian Fashion Awards	Fashion Icon (Female)		Won
	Radio City Cine Awards	Best Actress	Dhruva, Rarandoi Veduka Chudham, Jaya Janaki Nayaka, Spyder	Won
	Zee Golden Awards	Favorite Heroine of the Year	Rarandoi Veduka Chudham	Nominated

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