Occupation Actress, Model Height 1.73 m Role Film actress | Name Rakul Singh Years active 2009–present | |
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Parents Kulwinder Singh, Rajender Singh Movies Bruce Lee ‑ The Fighter, Kick 2, Pandaga Chesko, Yaariyan, Loukyam Similar People Ram Charan, Himansh Kohli, Rashi Khanna, Srinu Vaitla, Kajal Aggarwal Profiles | ||
The Untold Story of Rakul Preet Singh | Bollywood & Tollywood Actress | Next Movi : De De Pyaar De
Rakul Preet Singh (born 10 October 1990) is an Indian film actress and model who predominantly works in the Telugu film industry. She has also appeared in a few Tamil, Hindi, and Kannada movies.
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- The Untold Story of Rakul Preet Singh Bollywood Tollywood Actress Next Movi De De Pyaar De
- Actress rakul preet singh exclusive interview dialogue with prema celebration of life 24 339
- Early life
- Debut and struggles 200914
- Public recognition and success 2015present
- Other work
- References
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 'Miss India People’s Choice'. She subsequently opted to become a full-time actress, making her Telugu debut in Keratam the same year and her Tamil debut 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 Telugu films like Venkatadri Express (2013), Current Theega (2014) and Loukyam (2014), leading her to land in bigger projects in the industry like Kick 2 (2015), Bruce Lee (2015), Nannaku Prematho (2016), Sarrainodu (2016) and Dhruva (2016). In a short span of two years she established herself as one of the leading actresses in Telugu Cinema.
Actress rakul preet singh exclusive interview dialogue with prema celebration of life 24 339
Early life
Born in a Punjabi family in New Delhi, Singh did her schooling from Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan and later studied Mathematics at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. She has been an active golf player and played at national level.
Debut and struggles (2009–14)
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 Miss India Poll, 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, though critics noted that she "got very little screen time". The film was also made in Tamil simultaneously with the same cast but a different director as Yuvan, though the film is yet to release. In 2012, she appeared in a supporting role in the Tamil film Thadaiyara Thaakka. 2013 she was seen in two films, Puthagam in Tamil and 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 four Telugu films simultaneously, which were directed by Sriwaas, G. Nageswara Reddy, Srinivas Reddy and Gopichand Malineni, respectively. Sriwaas' 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. She was recently awarded Jio SIIMA 2017 Best Actress award for her performance in Nannaku Prematho.
Public recognition and success (2015–present)
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 as she dubbed for herself in the movie Nannaku Prematho. She also has a Hindi film, Ramesh Sippy's Shimla Mirchi, coming up.
In January 2016 she signed a film under the direction of Boyapati Srinu opposite Bellamkonda Sreenivas for which she charged ₹1.5 crore (US$230,000). 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 untitled film starring opposite Sai Dharam Tej for the first time. In early July 2016, she signed AR Murugadoss bilingual film opposite Mahesh Babu, which is titled as SPYDER. In September 2016 she signed another Telugu film directed by Kalyan Krishna starring opposite Naga Chaitanya.. The movie was released on 26th May which was a huge blockbuster. She later has received a lot of applause for her look and character as Bramaramba in Rarandoi Veduka Chuddam.
In Dec 2016, she has signed her next film titled Theeran Athikaram Ondru to pair against Karthi..Her next Telugu movie Jaya Janaki Nayaka is under the process of filming, in which she has paired against Bellamkonda Sreenivas and directed by Boyapati Srinu.
Other work
On 20 February 2016 she started her own gym called F45 in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. She also bought a new apartment in Hyderabad of worth ₹3 crore (US$470,000) to stay with her parents.