1. Shweta, known by her stage name Rakshita, is an Indian television personality, film producer and former actress known for her work in Kannada films, addition to a few Telugu and Tamil films.
10 Facts About Rakshita
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Rakshita's father BC Gowrishankar was a cinematographer and mother Mamatha Rao, an actress, both of whom worked in Kannada films.
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Rakshita underwent an acting course under Krishnamurthy Kavathar's tutelage for about 15 days before entering films.
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Rakshita started her career with the Kannada movie Appu with Puneeth Rajkumar.
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Rakshita acted in remakes of the same movie in Telugu titled Idiot and in Tamil titled Dum alongside Silambarasan.
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Rakshita became a top Kannada heroine when Kalasipalya became a big hit.
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Rakshita has acted with big time heroes such as Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna Akkineni, Mahesh Babu, Jr NTR, Jagapathi Babu, Vishnuvardhan, V Ravichandran, Shivarajkumar, Vijay, Ravi Teja, and Silambarasan.
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Rakshita announced that she had joined the Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress in March 2012, after politician B Sriramulu announced of founding it, which eventually happened in 2013.
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Rakshita served as the President of the women's wing of the BSR Congress till April 2013, when she quit the party citing differences with the party members over contesting elections from a constituency of her choice at the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election.
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Rakshita again had differences with the party over its ignoring her plea for a ticket to contest from Mandya at the 2014 general election, and quit in March 2014, joining the Bharatiya Janata Party.