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Rakul Preet Singh

Birth Name Rakul Preet Singh
Date of birth 10-10-1990
birth place Delhi
spouse(s) -
children -
debut year 2011
debut movie Keratam

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Overview

Rakul Preet Singh’s life can be best described in a single line ‘Playing golf to modeling, modeling to Miss India contest and from there to the films’. She is today one of the most promising fresh faces down the South.

Personal Life

Rakul Preet Singh was born 10^th October, 1990 in New Delhi, India. Her father Rajender Singh is a colonel in army. She completed the final years of her schooling in Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan. She is a very good player of golf and even played nationals.

Rakul Preet Singh is a mathematics graduate; she has studied financial management in Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi.
Career

Modeling:

Rakul Preet Singh did modeling and ramping for about 2 years after her college. She applied for Miss India 2011 contest and is the finalist there. She won four titles there - Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Face, Femina Miss Talented, Femina Miss Beautiful Smile and Femina Miss Beautiful Eyes title. She also appeared in number of print ads for a lot of major brands, couple of TV commercials and a few ramp shows.

Filmy Career:

In 2009, Rakul Preet Singh first donned the grease paint for a Kannada movie, Gilli, a remake of 7/G Brundavan Colony. While signing the film, she was not so serious about her career but treated films as a source of extra pocket money. After the film she returned to college to complete her studies and also later competed in Miss India contest.

Her filmy journey resumed once again in 2011 in a Telugu film, Keratam opposite Siddharth Raj Kumar, a distant relative of Prabhas. But the movie bombed miserably at the box office. She did not get any offers in Telugu after that and she shifted her focus to Kollywood and did two films there.

The major break for her career came in 2013 with Telugu movie, Venkatadri Express. The movie went on to become a big hit and turned the table for her in Tollywood. Offers started flowing to her after the movie success. She also made her Bollywood debut with Yaariyan opposite Himansh Kohli recently.

2014 has witnessed a furry of offers for Rakul Preet Singh. She has acted in Gopichand’s Loukyam, Manchu Manoj’s Current Teega and Aadi’s Rough. While Loukyam is a big hit, both Current Teega and Rough failed at the box office. Despite the movie results, she is cruising in her career and is one of the busiest heroines in Telugu today.
Trivia
- Rakul Preet singh is always proud of her Army background which puts her in a unique league of Bollywood beauties like Preity Zinta, Priyanka Chopra, Sushmita Sen, Anushka Sharma, Chitrangada Singh and Lara Dutta who hail from the similar background.
Upcoming Movies
- Opposite Ram in Pandaga Chesko directed by Gopichand Malineni.
- Jagathjentri starring opposite Jagapathi Babu.
- Kick-2 opposite Ravi Teja directed by Surendra Reddy.