Richa Pallod Biography and Photo Gallery

Birthday: August 30, 1980 (age 31)
Birthplace: India
Occupation: Model, Actress

Richa Pallod is an Indian model and film actress who has featured in Indian films. After appearing as a child artiste, she appeared in an award-winning role in Nuvve Kavali, her first film in Telugu. She has appeared in several low-budget Hindi films with her most notable appearance being in Yashraj Films' Neal 'N' Nikki. Her roles in Tamil films Shahjahan, Alli Arjuna and Unakkum Enakkum are noted whilst she has also featured in Kannada and Malayalam language films. She belongs to Marwari Maheshwari family.

Richa made her entry into films with a minute role as a child artiste in the film Lamhe (1991) and then Pardes (1997). She started modeling at the age of 16, has featured in over five hundred commercials and appeared in Falguni Pathak’s music videos "Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi" and "Piya Se Mil Ke Aaye Nain".Richa made her film debut in the Telugu film, Nuvve Kavali (2000), opposite Tarun, whom she had previously appeared with in a commercial shot by Rajiv Menon. The film, which portrayed love between two childhood friends in college, became a large commercial success and won favourable reviews with claims that Richa "did not seem like a debutant" in her role.

She made her debut in Tamil cinema, playing the lead role opposite Vijay in Shajahan. The film was panned by critics and Richa's performance was noted to have "done little but look good".Her second Tamil film was Alli Arjuna, an A. R. Rahman musical, directed by noted film maker Saran featuring Manoj Bharathiraja. Richa played the role of an independent girl being romantically pursued by Manoj, but once again received little acclaim with reviewers citing that "you do not feel for Richa".

Her first film as a senior artiste in Hindi films was opposite Fardeen Khan in Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein with the film becoming a failure, with Richa claiming that the promotion of the project let the film down. Her subsequent Hindi films within the next two years were low-budget projects and failed to take big openings, with the two films opposite actor Rakesh Bapat being large financial failures.Similarly her projects in Kannada Cheppale and Jootata opposite Sameer Dattani also failed commercially, with reviews criticizing Richa's performance in the latter film.Richa went on to appear in Yashraj Films' Neal 'N' Nikki featuring Uday Chopra and Tanisha, playing the role of Sweety. After several of her previous ventures failed to succeed, Richa was forced to appear in a supporting role in Unakkum Enakkum.