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Richa Gangopadhyay is a Actor Indian born on 20 march 1986 at New Delhi (Inde)
Richa Gangopadhyay (born Antara Richa Gangopadhyay on 20 March 1986) is an Indian film actress, model and former beauty queen. After appearing in commercials, she made her film debut in the 2010 Telugu political drama Leader. Since then she has starred in several commercially successful Telugu films, including Mirapakaay and Mirchi. In 2011, she starred in her first Tamil film, Mayakkam Enna, earning positive reviews for her performance.
In a short span of her film career she acted with star heroes of Tollywood like Venkatesh , Ravi Teja , Prabhas and Nagarjuna .
In October 2013, Richa announced, on her microblogging site, that she would take a temporary hiatus from films and moved back to the USA to pursue her MBA.
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Richa Gangopadhyay
Birth name Antara 'Richa' Gangopadhyay
Nationality Inde
Birth 20 march 1986 (38 years) at New Delhi (Inde)
Nationality Inde
Birth 20 march 1986 (38 years) at New Delhi (Inde)
In a short span of her film career she acted with star heroes of Tollywood like Venkatesh , Ravi Teja , Prabhas and Nagarjuna .
In October 2013, Richa announced, on her microblogging site, that she would take a temporary hiatus from films and moved back to the USA to pursue her MBA.
Biography
Richa Gangopadhyay was born on 20 March 1986 to Utpal and Paula Gangopadhyay, in New Delhi. Her father works as the Vice President of Netshape Technologies, while her mother works as a Director of Education at The Henry Ford Museum in Detroit and in March 2012 has been nominated Member of the prestigious National Museum and Library Services Board by president Obama . Her parents settled in the USA in 1989 after spending her first year in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, with Richa being brought up in Pennsylvania and Michigan. While attending Okemos High School, as a Junior, she was featured in the local media for founding a youth-tutoring program for at-risk children in Lansing, which she ran for four years. She went on to major in Dietetics and Health Administration at Michigan State University.Usually with
Filmography of Richa Gangopadhyay (12 films)
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Courier Boy Kalyan (2015)
, 2h25Genres Action, Romance
Actors Nithin Reddy, Yami Gautam, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nassar, Richa Gangopadhyay, Ashutosh Rana
Rating54%
Mirchi (2013)
, 2h40Directed by Koratala Siva
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Prabhas, Sathyaraj, Anushka Shetty, Richa Gangopadhyay, Nadhiya, Adithya Menon
Roles Manasa
Rating72%
The movie begins with Jai(Prabhas) practicing guitar when a girl runs to him and asks him to save her from a gang of goons chasing her. Then Jay, without fighting, resolves the conflict. The girl introduces herself as Manasa (Richa Gangopadhyay). They slowly become friends. But one day she asks Jai to leave her and go as she cannot stand the separation from him if their relationship develops any further. He then goes back to India and changes the mind of Manasa's brother and when they give a vacation he goes with him to his village. There, where everyone are conservative in nature, he changes their nature and makes them more lovable.
Biriyani (2013)
, 2h30Directed by Venkat Prabhu
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Karthi, Prasanna, Hansika Motwani, Sneha, Premgi Amaren, Ramki
Rating56%
The movie starts with Sugan(Karthi) and his friend Parasuram(Premgi Amaren ) being chased by cops. The flashback shows Sugan as a playboy who has a weakness for Biryani and Parasuram who is his childhood friend. Sugans playboy attitude always gets him into a fight with his girlfriend Priyanka(Hansika Motwani). Sugan and Parasuram attending a function for branch opening of one of their offices where they meet Varadharajan(Nassar), who is the chief guest for the ceremony. In the meantime, its shown that a CBI officer Riyaz Khan (Sampath Raj) has been deputed to track Vardharajan's illegal activities. Varadharajan gets impressed with Sugan and decides later to make him his son-in law and this decision gets him into an argument with his other son in law Vijayakrishna(Ramki).
Bhai (2013)
, 2h34Directed by Veerabhadram Chowdary
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Prasanna, Richa Gangopadhyay, Adithya Menon, Kamna Jethmalani, Sonu Sood
Roles Radhika
Rating34%
Bhai (Akkineni Nagarjuna) is the most skilled and trusted enforcer of a Hong Kong-based Don, named David (Ashish Vidyarthi). David is heavily dependent on Bhai for his day-to-day operations and this is resented by David’s sons, James (Sonu Sood) and Tony (Ajay). David sends Bhai to Hyderabad, to finish off an undercover police officer who is disrupting the mafia operations in the city. In the due course, Bhai bumps into Radhika (Richa Gangopadhyay), a horticulturist who falls in love with Bhai after few incidents. However, Bhai never accepts her proposal. Bhai begins hunting down the undercover officer and uncovers his identity. The cop is none other than Arjun (Prasanna) and Bhai decides to finish him off. On the day of the trial, Bhai finds out that Arjun is his brother after seeing his father Raghava along with Arjun. He drops the plan and tries to walk out from the place. But the visuals of Bhai aiming Arjun with a gun are recorded about which Bhai is not aware of. However, Arjun is attacked by a few disguised armed men and all of them are killed by Arjun. Much to the shock of Bhai, one of the deceased is Tony, who sets out to India on the suggestion of James in order to kill Arjun and gain David's appreciation. David is taken aback after realizing the truth and is hell bent on killing Arjun.
Genres Action
Themes Films about families
Actors Prosenjit Chatterjee, Richa Gangopadhyay, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Mahek Chahal
Roles Madhu
Rating68%
Gupi (Prosenjit Chatterjee) is a small time conman in love with Madhu (Richa Gangopadhyay), a pretty girl whom he met at a wedding he wasn't invited to. Into this picture perfect world enters six-year-old Osmita (Baby Titli), who inexplicably believes Gupi to be her dad! And if this wasn't bad enough, Gupi also becomes the object of a series of life-threatening attacks by a gang of deadly criminals who seem to know something he doesn't. While trying desperately to save his life and love, Gupi stumbles upon a deadly secret. A secret that will take him to a small town named Debgarh; a town terrorized by its ruthless MLA and the mafia he controls; a town whose inhabitants' only hope for redemption is.
Sarocharu (2012)
, 2h18Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Ravi Teja, Kajal Agarwal, Richa Gangopadhyay, Rohit Nara, Jayasudha Kapoor, Chandra Mohan
Roles Vasudha
Rating47%
Sandhyaa Arun(Kajal Aggarwal) is a student who is madly in love with Karthik (Ravi Teja), a techie based in Italy. She decides to travel with him to India, confident that the travel time would be enough for her to get Karthik to fall in love. Karthik reciprocates her gestures in a friendly way, but finally reveals that he is married to Vasudha (Richa Gangopadhyay) but is waiting to seek Divorce.
Mayakkam Enna (2011)
, 2h31Directed by Selvaraghavan
Genres Drama, Musical theatre
Actors Dhanush, Richa Gangopadhyay, Sunder Ramu, Raviprakash, Pooja Devariya, Ravi Prakash
Roles Yamini
Rating76%
Karthik Swaminathan (Dhanush), referred to as 'Genius' by his friends, is a freelance photographer who aspires to become a wildlife photographer like Madhesh Krishnasamy (Raviprakash). His close friends Sundar (Sunder Ramu), Shankar (Mathivanan Rajendran), Padmini (Pooja Devariya) and Vindhya (Shilpi Kiran) support him and his sister after the death of their parents. One day, Sundar introduces Yamini (Richa Gangopadhyay) as his girlfriend to Karthik and his friends. On their first meeting, Karthik and Yamini have a bitter experience but they slowly develop a special bond. Karthik tries to stay away from the girl since he does not want to break his friend's heart, but a sequence of events brings them closer. Eventually, Sunder's dad arranges for Karthik and Yamini to be married.
Mirapakay (2011)
Directed by Harish Shankar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Ravi Teja, Richa Gangopadhyay, Deeksha Seth, Prakash Raj, Rao Ramesh, Kota Srinivasa Rao
Roles Vinamra
Rating62%
Rishi (Ravi Teja) is an inspector in the Intelligence Bureau. His colleagues fondly call him 'Mirapakaay'. The chief of the IB, Narayana Murthy (Nagababu) gets information that Kittu Bhai (Prakash Raj), a mafia don, is trying to spread his tentacles in India and is targeting Delhi first. During the course of the investigation, ACP (Sanjay Swaroop) is killed by Shankar (Kota Srinivasa Rao), a local goon with the help of his son (Supreet).
Osthe (2011)
, 2h35Directed by Dharani
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Silambarasan, Ramesh Choudary, Richa Gangopadhyay, Santhanam, Sonu Sood, Saranya Mohan
Roles Neduvaali
Rating37%
Velan, a young boy, lives with his younger half-brother Balan, stepfather (Nassar) and mother (Revathi) in Kattuppakkam in the Tirunelveli district. His stepfather is always partial towards Balan which constantly angers Velan.
Leader (2010)
, 2h51Directed by Sekhar Kammula
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Rana Daggubati, Richa Gangopadhyay, Priya Anand, Suhasini Maniratnam, Tanikella Bharani, Rao Ramesh
Roles Archana
Rating79%
This movie starts off with the assassination of Sanjeevayya (Suman), the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and the subsequent turmoil in the organization of the state government. The last wish of Sanjeevayya is for his son, Arjun Prasad (Rana Daggubati), to become the next Chief Minister. However, Arjun's cousin Dhanunjay (Subbaraju) has his own dreams of becoming the Chief Minister. Arjun is approached by Ali (Harsha Vardhan) who has given 10 Crores to Sanjeevayya to resolve a land dispute in Ali's favour. Ali pleads Arjun to remind his father about the cash, once he is out of coma, as he has given his entire savings to resolve the issue. Ali also requests Arjun not to disclose it to anyone as he doesn't trust anyone. Arjun speaks to Dhanunjay about Ali but Arjun is somehow convinced that Ali's money would be returned. After Sanjeevayya's death a number of people approach Arjun, saying that his father has given them a huge sum of money and it's their duty to return it to Arjun. Arjun doesn't seem to be too interested until he talks to his mother, Rajeshwari (Suhasini Maniratnam). Arjun's mother tells him that the people who approached him are all corrupted ones, who have looted public's money and also reveals that his father is one among them. Arjun is shocked upon hearing this but his mother tells him that his father wanted to build a corrupt free state and also abolish the caste system but his Peddaina (Sanjeevayya's elder brother) (Kota Srinivasa Rao) doesn't approve of his plans and his only aim was to rule the state along with the family members. Arjun reads his father's diary and finds out how his Pedainna set their whole village on fire due to a small clash with the dalits. His father has also mentioned that only Arjun can make a difference.
Nagavalli (2010)
, 2h39Directed by P. Vasu
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Anushka Shetty, Richa Gangopadhyay, Shraddha Das, Poonam Kaur, Jyothika
Roles Gowri/Chandramukhi alias Nagavalli (present)
Rating45%
An ancient painting of Chandramukhi, alias Nagavalli (Anushka Shetty), floats away to a distant place, where it finally comes into the hands of a village painter. The painter takes it home to restore it. When his wife asks him to sell the painting, he becomes furious, saying that he wouldn't sell it off even at the cost of his life. The next day, the painter is shown to be dead under mysterious circumstances, possibly being a suicide. The painting is then sold off to a dance competition, which was distributed as a prize to Bharatanatyam dancer Gayathri (Kamalinee Mukherjee), her husband and her family. Gayathri lives in a palatial house in Tirupathi with her husband, father Shankar Rao (Sharat Babu), mother Parvathi (Prabha), sisters Geetha (Shraddha Das) and Gowri (Richa Gangopadhyay), maternal uncle Appa Rao(Dharmavarapu Subramanyam), his wife and maternal cousins Pooja(Poonam Kaur) and Hema(Suja) happily.