Ragini Dwivedi (born 24 May 1990) is an Indian film actress and model. She is working in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu cinema.
Dwivedi was born to a Punjabi family on May 24, 1990 and brought up in Bangalore, Karnataka. An avid sportswoman, she was a state level volleyball and basketball player. She was recognized by fashion designer, Prasad Bidapa in 2008 and introduced her to modeling. She was the first runner-up of the 2009 Femina Miss South India contest held in Hyderabad, while she won the Miss Beautiful Hair title at the Femina Miss India contest.
Dwivedi made her acting debut with the Kannada film Veera Madakari in 2009. The action-comedy was a remake of the Telugu film Vikramarkudu and she was cast opposite Sudeep. The film became a major commercial success of the year. In the same year, she appeared in the film Gokula in a brief role. In 2010, she featured in five films out of which her Malayalam debut, Kandhahar, was one.
Dwivedi's career break came in 2011, with the action film, Kempegowda, with Sudeep as her co-star. She earned a nomination in the South Filmfare awards as a best female leading actress. The same year saw her in comic-capers such as Kalla Malla Sulla and Kaanchaana. The song Thuppa Beku Thuppa in Kalla Malla Sulla shot on her became a rage and one of the biggest hits of the year.
The year 2012 saw her featuring in films alongside leading male actors of Kannada cinema, with Upendra in Aarakshaka and with Shivarajkumar in Shiva. She received the award for the best actress in the critics' category for her performance in Shivaas well as in Arakshaka her role was highly appreciated. Her other film Villain also released in the same year. She then appeared in a Malayalam language film titled Face2Face with Mammootty as her co-actor. She made special appearances in the films Victory and Prabhu Deva's R... Rajkumar.
Dwivedi's first release of 2014 was a bilingual film known as Nimirndhu Nil in Tamil language and Janda Pai Kapiraju in Telugu, her first film in Telugu. Her second release of the year was Ragini IPS, the long delayed film and the first Kannada film to be named after an actress.
As of March 2014, Dwivedi has the following projects in development for a 2014 release. She is filming with director Srinivasa Raju's Basavanna with Upendra and has said that her character has a mafia connect. She also bagged roles in Yogaraj Bhat's next untitled film, the remake of the Telugu film Missamma and Ravindra H. P. Das' Ragini Superstar.
Since 2011, Dwivedi has been endorsing for Nandini Milk which is a product of Karnataka Milk Federation.
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