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Role of Gandhari
Riya Deepsi is popular for her role as Gandhari, in Mahabharat (2013) where she enacted the mother of the Kauravas and handled the fine nuances of the character with a maturity beyond her years.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Riya is very close to her father, whom she calls her superhero and has a younger brother Rishab Deep who is a student in a popular city college
- She is friends in real-life with Pankhuri Awasthi, who played the titular character in Razia Sultan and with Balika Vadhu fame Veebha Anand, her co-star from Begusarai.
- She bonds extremely well with Shafaq Naaz who played her on-screen sister-in-law Kunti in the television serial Mahabharat.
- Holds a very popular Twitter (now called X) account where she interacts with her fans and has an eye-popping 55K followers.
- On Instagram she regularly gives glimpses of her professional and personal life which again is lapped up by her 8050 followers.
Gandhari in Mahabharat
- Taking on a role of Gandhari that is difficult to execute because of its sheer magnificence and yet brilliantly portraying it takes courage!
- And if it is your career’s very first assignment as you foray into the world of Television, then you are special. It is exactly this which defines Riya Deepsi more than anything else.
- Riya Deepsi claims it was scary to emote wearing the blindfold. However, viewers of the show will vouch for the fact that she essayed the role of one of the most important characters in the show with the poignancy it deserved.
- This model turned actor, who made her acting debut with Mahabharat, one of Star Plus’s most successful shows is here to stay.
TV Acting Career :
- Besides Gandhari, she portrayed another powerful character of Fatima, a slave of Nizamuddin turned a best friend to Razia in the hit television show Razia Sultan (2015) on &TV.
- Another of her popular roles was Soni Thakur, from the Indian Daily Soap Begusarai set in the hinterland of Bihar. She handled the tricky role and carved an unforgettable character etched in the minds of the Indian television aficionado.
- Deepsi was also a part of the popular historical drama based on the life of one of India’s greatest kings Maharana Pratap in the show “Bharat ka Veer Putra- Maharana Pratap”.
- She played the role of Salima, a lady with a beautiful voice who sings ‘Nazm.’ Salima is introduced to Akbar by Mahamanga and goes onto become one of the wives of Akbar.
Life Outside Work :
- Part of Chennai Swaggers, a celebrity box cricket team owned by Sunny Leone in Season 2 of the Box Cricket League. She participated with other television and film actors in BCL which is India’s first Sports Reality Entertainment show.