Rakul Preet Singh
Rakul Preet Singh is an Indian actress and model who works mainly in the south Indian film industry. She has also appeared in some Tamil, Bollywood and Kannada movies. In a short space of time, Rakul Preet Singh has established herself as one of the leading Telugu film actresses. Rakul Preet Singh was born on October 10, 1990, in New Delhi, India to Rajender Singh an Army Officer and Kulwinder Singh. Rakul did her schooling from Army Public School in Dhaula Kuan and later on completed her Honors' Degree in Mathematics from Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. She has been an active golf player and played at national levels. Rakul Preet Singh started her career as a model while she was in college and did several commercial flyers. She made her film debut with Kannada movie 'Gilli' directed by Raghava Loki in 2009. In the film, Rakul played the lead role as Arati opposite of Gururaj Jaggesh and her performance was well received by the audience. In 2011, Rakul participated in the 'Femina Miss India Pageant' where she was placed fifth and won five pageant titles including 'Miss India People's Choice'. That year, she entered into Telugu film with 'Keratam' as Sangeetha. Next year, Rakul kicked off her journey in Tamil film industry with Thadayara Thakka (2012) in which she acted as Gayathri Ramakrishnan opposite of Arun Vijay. Rakul Preet Singh starred in Bollywood film with director Divya Khosla Kumar's romantic adventure movie Yaariyan (2014) in 2014.In her short career she was part of many commercially successful 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: The Fighter (2015), Nannaku Prematho (2016), The Right Guy (2016), Dhruva (2016), Rarandoi Veduka Chudham (2017) & Jaya Janaki Nayaka (2017) In 2017, Rakul Preet Singh has won many awards of which some of them are 64th Filmfare Awards South, Zee Telugu Apsara Awards & Zee Cinemalu Awards for the category of best actress Her upcoming Bollywood movies in February 2018 will be seen in Neeraj Pandey's action-romance movie Aiyaary (2018) opposite Sidharth Malhotra and Manoj Bajpayee. She has been appointed as the brand ambassador for Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao programme by Telangana State Government, India.