1. Niharika Singh is an Indian film actress, producer and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Earth India and represented India at Miss Earth 2005.
20 Facts About Niharika Singh
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Niharika Singh made her acting debut with the critically acclaimed drama Miss Lovely, which competed in Un Certain Regard at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
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Niharika Singh's father worked in the Tourism department for Uttar Pradesh and later Uttarakhand state government, her mother ran a design institute in New Delhi and she is the elder of two sisters.
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Niharika Singh did her major part of schooling in an all-girls boarding school in Nainital.
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Niharika Singh started working as a model in 1999 when she first walked the ramp for a design institute in Dehradun.
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Niharika Singh featured in several print campaigns, fashion magazines, music videos and decided to drop out of college and move to Mumbai to pursue a full-time career in the entertainment business in 2003.
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Niharika Singh appeared in several television commercials and ad campaigns for various brands across the country and hosted a reality TV series Banungi Main Miss India with the Femina Miss India contestants of 2006.
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Niharika Singh featured in Times of India's 2005 list of Most Desirable Women and continued her modeling career until she started getting offers to act in Bollywood films.
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Niharika Singh attended an acting course with Barry John before filming A New Love Ishtory.
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Niharika Singh started shooting for her second film Mudh Mudh Ke Na Dekh Mudh Mudh Ke opposite Reshammiya which was shelved mid-way.
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Niharika Singh played a mysterious ingenue with a shadowy past, for which she earned rave reviews for her performance and a nomination for the most promising newcomer at the 21st Screen Awards.
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Niharika Singh rediscovered cinema after her experience with Cannes and other international festivals and she joined a course at the Film and Television Institute of India in 2013 to expand her understanding of the medium.
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Niharika Singh took a break from public life and made rare appearances in a few independently produced art house films over the next decade.
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Niharika Singh actively chose to keep a low profile in the media and refused to participate in promotional activities for any film during this period.
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In 2019, Niharika Singh joined Mumbai-based Future East as a director of the film production company.
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Niharika Singh co-founded Future East Digital with filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia and creative director Amit Basak in 2020.
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Niharika Singh turned producer with the young-adult drama Class for Netflix in 2023.
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Niharika Singh was given a rousing welcome and declared the state guest in Uttarakhand after she was crowned Miss Earth India.
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Niharika Singh issued a public statement in 2017 when her name was used to garner publicity to sell actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui's memoir An Ordinary Life written by Rituparna Chatterjee and published by Penguin Random House with a fabricated account of their relationship.
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In November 2018, Niharika Singh wrote an essay addressing the Me Too movement as a dalit woman in the entertainment business which was posted by journalist Sandhya Menon on Twitter.