Riya Sen

Date of Birth : 24 January 1981, Kolkata, India
Height : 5' 1" (1.55 m)

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Daughter of actress Moon Moon Sen and Bharat Dev Varma, a descendant of the royal family of Cooch Behar. Her maternal grandmother is the legendary actress Suchitra Sen.
Sister of actress Raima Sen.

First stepped into the limelight at the age of 15 when she faced the camera for the Tamil film 'Taj Mahal' directed by 'Bharati Raja'.
She studied at the Rani Birla College in Calcutta.
Has starred in a number of music videos in the Indipop circuit.

Riya Sen is the grand daughter of Suchitra Sen, a legend in Bengali cinema, and daughter of Moonmoon Sen, a former actress. Before moving to Mumbai, she lived with her mother and sister Raima Sen, also an actress, in Kolkata. Her father Bharat Dev Varma belongs to the illustrious royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch Behar, whose younger sister Gayatri Devi is the Maharani of Jaipur.

Before entering show business, she studied at Loreto House and Rani Birla College, both in Kolkata, but dropped out of both institutions. She also briefly studied at the National Institute of Fashion Technology. Since her Bollywood debut, she has moved from Kolkata to Juhu in Mumbai.
While in Mumbai she had a relationship with male model and actor John Abraham. After breaking up with him, she started a relationship with actor Ashmit Patel. She also briefly dated actor Akshaye Khanna.
Many have commented on the strong resemblence between her and her mother, Moonmoon Sen, a sex symbol in her time. Both have worked in films in different languages, and both were involved in numerous scandals. Her sister, Raima Sen, has a very different image from them both, however.
In keeping with her image as a sex symbol, Riya has found herself embroiled in a number of scandals.
Though the depiction of kissing on screen was (and still is, to some extent) considered inappropriate in India, Riya has regularly shared on-screen kisses with her co-stars, and has been a strong advocate of changing people's attitudes in this regard.
Shortly before the release her film Silsiilay in which she starred alongside boyfriend Ashmit Patel, a clip was circulated through Multimedia Messaging Services and the Internet, that showed the two having sex. This was one of a number of such scandals that erupted where celebrities were caught in compromising situations through cameraphones