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Vishakha Singh is an Indian actress, producer and entrepreneur who gained popularity as Neetu Singh, Zafar's girlfriend in Fukrey Series.

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Vishakha Singh
Singh in 2017
Born	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates[1]
Nationality	Indian
Education	Business Studies, Communications, Delhi University
Occupation	Actress, Producer, Entrepreneur
Height	1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)

She has appeared in many South Indian language films before starring in Bollywood projects with director Ashutosh Gowariker's 2010 period piece Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, alongside Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone. She got her breakthrough in Tamil with Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya (2013).

Career

She did her schooling from Abu Dhabi Indian School (ADIS) and Delhi Public School.[2] She completed her graduation in business studies from Delhi University.[3] She said that she wanted to be a teacher and did her post graduation in Advertising and Public Relations from Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi (1998-1999 batch).[2] She started modelling in 2007 and appeared in many television and print commercials.[4] She made her feature film debut with a Telugu film Gnaapakam in 2007, which did not do well.[4] After that, she starred in one Tamil, and two Kannada films, |House Full and Antaraatma.

She made her Hindi film debut with Hum Se Jahan, which was never released on DVD and only in theatres, in 2008.[4] However, she got noticed in director Ashutosh Gowarikar's Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, for which she received a "Best Breakthrough Performance – Female" nomination from Stardust Awards (2011).[5][6][7][8] She acted in Abhijeet Sengupta's Do Aur Do Paanch, which did not release.

In 2012 Vishakha ventured into film production by co-producing Peddlers, a film directed by Vasan Bala. The other producers were Guneet Monga and Anurag Kashyap Films. Peddlers was selected at the critic week at the Cannes Film Festival.,[9][10] She has also co-produced Haraamkhor, directed by Shlok Sharma, with Guneet Monga and AKFPL.[11] The film is set to release in 2015. After three years, she made a comeback to acting in Tamil films. Vishakha's second Tamil film Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya released on 13 January 2013 and which went on to become the first blockbuster of the Tamil film industry in that year. Back in Bollywood, she signed on three films that released in succession in 2013. Her first two films were Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani's Fukrey and Vikram Bhatt's Ankur Arora Murder Case; both the films released on 14 June 2013. Her third film was director Shahant Shah's Bhajathe Raho, which released the next month. She said that Fukrey made a lot of difference and changed people's perceptions and that she turned down nine films after Fukrey.[11]

Vishakha also made her Malayalam debut in director Rajesh Pillai's forthcoming film Motorcycle Diaries, and her next Tamil film is with Vaaliba Raja, with the same team that worked on Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya.[12] She returns to Telugu films with Rowdy Fellow, opposite Nara Rohit[3] and has stated that she plays "a girl who looks like an angel but is a devil in disguise".[4] She is also acting in The Maya Tape, a horror thriller, directed by Nikhil Alag, in which she plays a journalist.[11] She was signed for an important role in the film, albeit a cameo role, in R. Kannan's Oru Oorla Rendu Raja.[13] She released her own startup, also She currently works at WazirX as Vice-president, NFT section.

Social activism

Vishakha Singh along with Gopi Shankar Madurai launched multiple complaints on behalf of athlete Santhi Soundarajan in National Commission for Scheduled Castes and National Human Rights Commission of India also initiated Justice For Santhi Campaign which was instrumental in fetching her a permanent job at Tamil Nadu Sports Development Authority.[14][15][16][17][18][19]

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role(s)	Language(s)	Notes
2007	Gnaapakam	Sarangi	Telugu
2008	Pidichirukku	Manju Mariyadas	Tamil
	Humsey Hai Jahaan	Esha Singh	Hindi
2009	House Full	Aishwarya	Kannada
2010	Antharathma	Mahi Shyam
	The Genius of Beauty		English
	Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey	Pritilata Waddedar	Hindi	Nominated, Stardust Award for Breakthrough Performance – Female
2013	Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya	Sowmiya	Tamil
	Ankur Arora Murder Case	Dr. Riya	Hindi
	Fukrey	Neetu
	Bajatey Raho	Manpreet
2014	Rowdy Fellow	Meghana	Telugu
	Motorcycle Diaries	Swathy	Malayalam	Unreleased[20]
	Oru Oorla Rendu Raja	Kalpana	Tamil	Guest appearance
2016	Vaaliba Raja	Shalu
	Bayam Oru Payanam	Abhinya
2017	Fukrey Returns	Neetu Singh	Hindi	Guest appearance[21]
2021	The Maya Tape	TBA	Hindi	Filming[22]
	Thuram	TBA	Telugu	Filming[23]

As producer

Year	Title	Producer	Notes
2018	Mehram	Co-producer	Short film[24]
2020	Atkan Chatkan	Producer	Released on ZEE5[25]

References

External links

• Vishakha Singh on Facebook
• Vishakha Singh at IMDb
• Vishakha Singh at Bollywood Hungama
• 'Chak De! India' dropout happy playing lead, Daily News & Analysis (India)

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