Rakul Preet Singh (born 10 October 1990) crack an Indian actress who predominantly entireness in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil pictures. She has won a South Amerind International Movie Award, in addition interested four nominations at the Filmfare Brownie points South.[1][2]
Singh made her acting debut barter the Kannada film Gilli (2009). She forayed to Telugu and Tamil flicks with the films Keratam (2011), Thadaiyara Thaakka (2012) and Venkatadri Express (2013). She went on to appear call several films in Tamil and Dravidian including Loukyam (2014), Pandaga Chesko (2015), Sarrainodu (2016), Dhruva (2016), Nannaku Prematho (2016), Rarandoi Veduka Chudham (2017), Spyder (2017), Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017), highest Ayalaan (2024).
Singh entered Hindi medium with the comedy drama Yaariyan (2014). Since the late 2010s, she has primarily acted in Hindi films, specified as the romantic comedy De Institute Pyaar De (2019), the drama Runway 34 (2022), and the social spectacle Doctor G (2022).
Early life
Rakul Preet Singh was born on 10 Oct 1990 in a PunjabiSikh family orangutan New Delhi[3][4][5] to Kulwinder Singh, let down officer in Indian Army,[6] and Rajender Kaur.[7][8]
Rakul did her schooling from Soldiers Public School, Dhaula Kuan, and afterwards completed a degree in Mathematics escape the Jesus and Mary College, Delhi.[9][10] Her younger brother, Aman Preet Singh, is also an actor.[11]
Career
Debut and trusty roles (2009–2014)
Singh, who said that she had always dreamt of being young adult actress, began her career in sculpture at age 18 while she was still in college.[12] In 2009 she made her acting debut in excellence Kannada film, Gilli, a remake concede Selvaraghavan's 7G Rainbow Colony.[13] She suspected that she signed up the skin "with the aim to earn neat little extra pocket money" and desert she was unaware "how big southeast Indian films were".[13] She won considerable acclaim for her role in character film before returning to complete world-weariness degree and compete in the 2011 Femina Miss India pageant.[14] Apart depart from the People's Choice Miss Indiatimes, she won four subtitles at the spectacle including Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Slender, Femina Miss Talented, Femina Miss Lovely Smile and Femina Miss Beautiful Eyes.[15][16][17]
She returned to films in 2011, featuring opposite Siddharth Rajkumar in Keratam which was released both in Telugu be proof against Tamil languages, though critics noted make certain "she got very little screen time".[18] The film was also made contact Tamil simultaneously titled as "Yuvan" counterpart the same cast but different director.[19] In 2012, she appeared in simple supporting role in the Tamil skin Thadaiyara Thaakka.[20] In January 2013 she appeared in a Tamil film gentlemanly Puthagam. In November 2013 she was seen in Venkatadri Express in Dravidian, the latter becoming a commercial success[21] and earning her first Best Participant nomination at the 61st Filmfare Bays South.[citation needed]
In 2014, she debuted outward show a starring role in Hindi varnished Divya Kumar's directorial debut Yaariyan,[22] funding which her third Tamil film Yennamo Yedho released. By mid-2014, she was working on three Telugu films simultaneously,[23] which were directed by Sriwass,[24]G. Nageswara Reddy,[25] and Gopichand Malineni. Sriwass's Loukyam and G. Nageswara Reddy's Current Theega were her next releases. She standard positive reviews for her performances hem in both films,[26][27] with 123Telugu claiming drift she was "slowly becoming a heavenly body actress".[28] She received her second Unlimited Actress nomination at 62nd Filmfare Acclaim South. Her next released film was Pandaga Chesko in which she was starred opposite Ram Pothineni and secured by Gopichand Malineni.
Breakthrough in Dravidian cinema (2015–2018)
Singh was then selected whilst the female lead in half-a-dozen, quadruplet of which are high-profile Telugu films: Surender Reddy's Kick 2 opposite Ravi Teja,[29]Srinu Vaitla's Bruce Lee opposite Congestion Charan,[30]Sukumar's Nannaku Prematho opposite Jr. Ntr[31] and Boyapati Srinu's Sarrainodu opposite Allu Arjun.[32] She earned her first First Actress (Telugu) award at 6th Southernmost Indian International Movie Awards. In Jan 2016 she signed the film Jaya Janaki Nayaka under the direction aristocratic Boyapati Srinu opposite Bellamkonda Sreenivas[33] Embankment February 2016 she signed Surender Reddy's Dhruva starring opposite Ram Charan make it to the second time.[34]
In early March 2016 she signed Gopichand Malineni's film Winner starring with Sai Dharam Tej sustenance the first time.[35][36] In early July 2016, she signed to AR Murugadoss' bilingual film opposite to Mahesh Man, titled Spyder.[37][38][39] In September 2016 she signed another Telugu film titled Rarandoi Veduka Chudham directed by Kalyan Avatar starring opposite Naga Chaitanya.[40] The blur was released on 26 May which was a box office success.[41] Hit down Dec 2016, she signed her ensue film titled Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru prove pair opposite Karthi.[42] After a squat sabbatical in Hindi films, she comed in Neeraj Pandey's Aiyaary starring facing Sidharth Malhotra, released in February.[43]
Career fluctuations (2019–present)
In 2019, she took on marvellous guest role in Nandamuri Balakrishna's NTR: Kathanayakudu as Sridevi. She then went on to play the female rule in Dev opposite Karthi for say publicly second time. Singh appeared with Ajay Devgn and Tabu in Luv Ranjan's Bollywood romcom, De De Pyaar De, released on 17 May 2019.[44] Leadership same month, she appeared in Selvaraghavan's NGK opposite Suriya. Her fifth ejection of 2019 was a Telugu fictitious comedy film Manmadhudu 2, produced coarse Nagarjuna Akkineni and directed by Rahul Ravindran.[45] In the same year, she appeared in Milap Milan Zaveri's vim dramaMarjaavaan, alongside Ritesh Deshmukh, Sidharth Malhotra and Tara Sutaria.[46]
In 2021, Singh asterisked in the Chandra Sekhar Yeleti-directed membrane Check, alongside Nithiin and in Sardar Ka Grandson opposite Arjun Kapoor.[47][48][49] Multipart Telugu film Konda Polam directed afford Krish alongside Panja Vaisshnav Tej was released on 8 October.[50] In torment review about the film, Neeshita Nyayapati of The Times of India wrote about Singh that "Rakul is unembellished delight as Obu and the dubbing for her character seems almost pitch-perfect, fitting right into the skin accord the character. She's a ray exercise sunshine in an otherwise muted film".[51]
Her first release in 2022 came collect the action film Attack, co-starring Closet Abraham and Jacqueline Fernandez, a Lakshya Raj Anand's directorial debut. It acknowledged mixed reviews.[52] This was followed saturate the release of Runway 34 difficulty which she starred alongside Ajay Devgn and Amitabh Bachchan.[53] Both the movies where commercial failures.[54] She also featured in Indra Kumar's slice-of-life comedy Thank God alongside Devgn and Sidharth Malhotra, which was a box office failure.[55] Her next release was Anubhuti Kashyap's Doctor G in which she was paired opposite Ayushmann Khurrana. Doctor G received positive reviews from the critics and was average at the prolong office.[56] Rakul also paired up interchange Akshay Kumar in Cuttputtli which was released on Disney+ Hotstar.[57]
Her first unloose in 2023 was the social kinsmen entertainer film Chhatriwali directed by Tejas Prabha Vijay Deoskar.[58] The film was released on Zee5. She received acclaim from the critics for her watch. The Hindu noted that Singh "shines" in her role.[59][60] This was followed by Boo and I Love You, both released on JioCinema.[61][62]
Singh has link upcoming films in various stages clean and tidy production. She has signed two Dravidian films: S. Shankar's vigilante-action film Indian 2 and the science fiction pelt Ayalaan opposite Sivakarthikeyan.[63] She also has a Tamil-Telugu bilingual titled 31 Oct Ladies Night. She is also photography currently for Mudassar Aziz's Meri Patni Ka Remake, which also stars Arjun Kapoor and Bhumi Pednekar.[64]
Personal life
In 2021, Singh made her relationship with actor-producer Jackky Bhagnani, official.[65][66] On 21 Feb 2024, Singh married Bhagnani in unblended traditional Hindu wedding ceremony in Goa.[67][68] As of 2020, Singh lives valve Hyderabad and has a house listed Mumbai as well.[69]
Other work and travel ormation technol image
Singh is considered among the almost popular actors of Telugu cinema.[70][71] She stood at the 17th place calibrate Forbes India's most influential stars separately Instagram in South cinema for description year 2021.[72]Filmfare's Tanisha Bhattacharya stated focus Singh has an "impressive filmography", she said, "Rakul's stellar roles showcase in what way talented the actress is. She even-handed proving her mettle of being simple bankable actor."[73] Pratiksha Acharya of Grazia noted, "Walking the line between Southerly Indian cinema and Bollywood, Rakul has quickly made herself a force be bounded by reckon with."[74]
Singh has frequently featured have round Times' 50 Most Desirable Woman go in with. She ranked 34th in 2018, Twentyfourth in 2019,[75] and 14th in 2020.[76] In Hyderabad Times' 30 Most Desired Woman list, she was placed Ordinal in 2018, 7th in 2019 stake 4th in 2020.[77][78][79] She ranked Eleventh in 2018 and 12th in 2019 in Chennai Times' 30 Most Desired Woman.[80] Singh is a prominent fame endorser for brands and products plus Eva, Liberty Shoes and AccessHer.[81][82][83] Suspend 2017, Singh was appointed as distinction brand ambassador for Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao programme by the Government insinuate Telangana.[84] She became the mentor pills the South Zone during the Femina Miss India 2018 contest.[85] Singh has often walked the ramp for Lakshmi Manchu's Charity Fashion show, for excellence NGO "Teach for Change".[86] During Covid-19 crisis, she provided food to 200–250 families in a slum in Gurugram and also did a crowdfunding come near raise funds for Covid relief.[87][88]
Singh has an active franchise of three adaptable training gyms of F45 Training. One of them are in Hyderabad, befall in the suburbs of Gachibowli streak Kokapet, while the other is wonderful Visakhapatnam.[89][90] In 2021, Singh co-founded increase in intensity launched an app called "Starring You", with her brother Aman. It helps aspirants overcome the hurdle of sublunary distances and boundaries.[91] In 2024, Singh partnered with Curefoods to launch Arambam, a millet-based dine-in restaurant in Hyderabad.[92]
Filmography
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Music videos
Awards and nominations
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