Riya Deepsi


Riya Deepsi is an Indian film and television actress and model.

Career

In 2013, at the age of 17, Deepsi made her first serious tv appearance in Mahabharat one of the most successful show of Star Plus at that time. Where she essayed the role of blindfolded queen Gandhari; one of the lead character of the show. Although entertainment portal like Tellychakkar has considered it her debutant performance and applauded it; before Mahabharat she appeared on Mata Ki Chowki for an uncredited brief role.
After Mahabharat she appeared in Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap, Razia Sultan and Begusarai for supporting roles. She has also participated in celebrity sports reality television show Box Cricket League.
From 2017-2018 she played as a parallel lead role of Princess Barsine, second wife of Alexander the Great in Porus.
Deepsi made her Bollywood debut through Praful D.S. Tiwari's movie, Bhaagte Raho; in the movie she played the lead role of Gungun.The movie was released at December 14, 2018. The movie performed poorly at box office and was declared "disaster" Johnson Thomas published a negative review of the film in Free Press Journal noting "actors together create a sorry mess on screen" Negative review also has been published by Jyothi Venkatesh in Bollyy.com for not having a coherent plot though Venkatesh praised Deepsi's performance by noting that Deepsi shows "some promise though her role needs her to pout all the time"
In 2019, she appeared in episodic lead role of an YouTube web series Be Safe as Nidhi. In 2020, she appeared in a supporting role of Roma in ALTBalaji original web series It Happened in Calcutta.

Filmography

Film

Television