Riya Sen Profile

Birth Name: Riya Dev Varma
DOB: 24 January 1981
Status: Single
Dated: Ashmit Patel, John Abraham
Debut film: Vishkanya as a child artiste and as an adult in Style (2001)
Famous pairing: With Shayan Munshi in Jhankaar Beats
Marriages: None
Most remembered for: For her dare-bare photo in Dabboo Ratnani’s 2004 Calendar and her controversial MMS clip with former boyfriend Ashmit Patel.


Biography:

Riya Sen is yesteryear’s actress’ Moon Moon Sen’s daughter, Suchitra Sen’s granddaughter and current actress Raima Sen’s sister. Her father, Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the Royal Family of Tripura. Ila Devi of Coochbehar, whose younger sister is Gayatri Devi, is Riya’s grandmother. Both sister’s use their maternal grandmother, Suchitra Sen’s surname. Riya Sen is a student of Loreto House and Rani Birla College and she also did a stint at the National Institute of Fashion Technology. She designs most of her clothes in commercials and films.
Riya Sen was first noticed as the delicate beauty in Falguni Pathak’s video, Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi, though she made her film debut in Vishkanaya in 1991. She has appeared in many other music videos like Shaan’s Sutta Maro and Sonu Nigam’s Jeena Hai Tere Liye.



While Riya Sen does not have a good film career to boast of, she has established herself as a sex symbol. She wore a bikini in Shaadi No.1; she also kissed her co-stars Sharman Joshi and Ashmit Patel in Style and Silsilay respectively. She has appeared on magazine covers such as Savvy, Femina, Cosmopolitan and Elle and walked the ramp with her sis Raima at the Wills and Lakme Fashion Weeks from 2005 to 2007. Jhankaar Beats and Shaadi No. 1 are the only notable hits of her career. Riya Sen is often compared to her mother Moon Moon Sen because of her sex symbol status.



Favourites:
Actor: SRK, Salman Khan and Keanu Reeves
Actress: Aishwarya Rai

Causes associated with: Riya has helped raise funds for pediatric eye care through appearances at McDonald’s and has worked as an activist, appeared in an AIDS awareness music video called haath Se Haath Mila with the aim of dispelling popular myths about the disease.

Endorsements: Limca, Colgate, Nirma, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Dabur Vatika and Reliance Industries