Riya Sen

Acting

Riya Sen

Born 1981-01-24 · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Riya Sen (born Riya Dev Varma; 24 January 1981) is an Indian film actress and model. Riya, who comes from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen, began her acting career in 1991 as a child actress in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was with Style, a 2001 Hindi low-budget comedy directed by N. Chandra. Some of her other notable films include producer Pritish Nandy's musical film, Jhankaar Beats (2003) in Hinglish, Shaadi No. 1 (2005) and Malayalam horror film Ananthabhadram (2005). Riya was first recognised as a model when she performed in Falguni Pathak's music video Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi at the age of sixteen in 1998. Since then, she has appeared in music videos, television commercials, fashion shows, and on magazine covers. Riya has worked as an activist and appeared in an AIDS awareness music video with the aim of dispelling popular myths about the disease. She also helped raise funds for pediatric eye-care.

Acting credits

Nadaaniyan poster
5.9

A privileged Delhi socialite hires a middle-class student to pose as her boyfriend to maintain her social status. Their pretense becomes complicated when genuine feelings develop between them.

Nadaaniyan

2025

Taj Mahal poster
7.3

Even though Maayan and Machakanni are deeply in love with each other, her brother decides to get her married to someone else. So, Maayan's friends resolve to unite the couple.

Taj Mahal

1999

Style poster
6.3

Chantu and Bantu are a couple of scam-artists trying to woo rich girls for easy money. In the process, they get embroiled in a murder case and become the prime suspects.

Style

2001

Nenu Meeku Telusa...? poster
8.0

Aditya (Manoj Manchu) has a strange disorder. His memory keeps refreshing every night he sleeps, but he wakes up with a blank mind every day. Only two people (his uncle and his personal doctor) know about his problem. He falls in a situation where he is accused of a murder. The rest of the story is all about how he rescues himself.

Nenu Meeku Telusa...?

2008

3 Bachelors poster
9.0

Story of 3 Bachelors wandering for girls

3 Bachelors

2012

The Easiest Way to Slim Down poster
NR

Ranjana Sen, a straightforward, young woman, starts feeling that her husband will stop loving her since she has been putting on weight, which forces her to adopt unconventional ways to attract him.

The Easiest Way to Slim Down

2015

Paying Guests poster
5.0

Four friends' attempts to find employment and accommodation pits them against landlords and gangsters in Bangkok.

Paying Guests

2009

Dark Chocolate poster
4.8

The film is based on the real life murder mystery of Sheena Bora. Bollywood actress Mahima Chaudhry makes her debut in Bengali film as Ishani Banerjee, a character based on Sheena's mother and alleged murderer Indrani Mukherjea. Riya Sen will play the part of Rina Bardhan, inspired by Sheena Bora. Media baron Peter Mukherjea, Sheena's stepfather, will be portrayed by Sudeep Mukherjee.

Dark Chocolate

2016

Anandabhadram poster
7.5

To honour his mother's final wish, Ananthan returns to his ancestral village from America and attempts to light a lamp at the family temple. However, his quest is thwarted by an evil magician named Digambaran who seeks to harness the temple's hidden powers.

Anandabhadram

2005

Family Album poster
2.0

This is a movie that exposes the not-so picture-perfect Family Album...a hilarious and sad and eccentric concoction of the truth.

Family Album

2015

Apna Sapna Money Money poster
5.3

Kishan is a young man from Goa whose brain is full of every conceivable trick to make a quick buck. He cons people by slipping into different outfits and by assuming many guises. Julie, is a sexy club dancer with quite a local reputation, but behind her raunchy exterior is a compassionate, kind-hearted woman who goes out of her way to help the needy...

Apna Sapna Money Money

2006

Benny And Babloo poster
5.3

Benny and Babloo is a 2010 Bollywood satirical comedy film, produced by Umesh Chouhan and directed by Yunus Sajawal. The film was released in October 2010 under the Chamunda Films banner. The film stars Kay Kay Menon, Rajpal Yadav, Riya Sen, Shweta Tiwari, Rukhsar, Natassha, Richa Chadda, Maushumi Udeshi, Hiten Paintal and Aasif Sheikh in prominent roles

Benny And Babloo

2010

Dil Vil Pyar Vyar poster
5.6

Three friends, who have known each other for a long time, decide to enter a singing and musical competition. The events that lead to this competition, and their personal lives, including their romantic ties, is the theme of this movie. Included are popular Burman Movie songs, a delight to hear any time.

Dil Vil Pyar Vyar

2002

Silsiilay poster
5.2

An account of the lives of three women who are not connected to each other.

Silsiilay

2005

Tum... Ho Na! poster
4.5

It's love at first sight for Anjali and Jai Walia. However, after Anjali gets an anonymous tip-off about Jai's alleged infidelity, cracks begin to appear in their once happy marriage.

Tum... Ho Na!

2005

Senapati poster
NR

This is the debut Bengali film of columnist cum author Suhel Seth.

Senapati

2020

Jhankaar Beats poster
6.4

Deep and Rishi, best friends and passionate musicians, navigate the challenges of their personal and professional lives while preparing for the annual music contest, "Jhankaar Beats." Deep enjoys a stable life with his wife, Shanti, and young daughter, but faces pressures from a demanding job, a quirky client, and a meddlesome mother-in-law. Rishi, on the other hand, is grappling with a failing marriage to his headstrong wife, Nicki, and the emotional toll of living apart. When Neel, a talented guitarist with his own romantic troubles, joins their advertising agency, he becomes an unlikely ally. Together, the trio juggles work chaos, relationship conflicts, and their unyielding dream of winning the competition. Set against a backdrop of music, camaraderie, and laughter, their journey is one of self-discovery, forgiveness, and the pursuit of harmony both on and off the stage.

Jhankaar Beats

2003

Arasatchi poster
6.0

Siddharth has suffered at the hands of corrupt lawyers and decides to kill all lawyers who help criminals evade the law. He doesn't even refrain from going against a lawyer who turns out to be family.

Arasatchi

2004

Shaadi No. 1 poster
5.3

In their misguided pursuit of happiness outside of marriage, three husbands end up in the crosshairs of a man who is like an elder brother to their wives.

Shaadi No. 1

2005

Vishkanya poster
8.0

Inspector Rakesh Verma has been assigned the case of the mysterious deaths of Zoravar and his associate. His investigations take him to meet the other two associates namely Thakur Dhurjan Singh, and Lala Lachiram Chaudhary - both fearful for their lives. While Rakesh is aware that both are connected to the criminal underworld, he is required to provide protection to them. His investigations make him conclude that the suspects could be Wali Khan, a former jailbird; Trilokchand, another former jailbird, in jail for murder, but who is now crippled and confined to a wheelchair; and a mysterious woman who was fed venomous poison as a child - and is quite capable of administering it in lethal doses. Rakesh must now find who the real killer is - before he/she kills the Thakur and Lala.

Vishkanya

1991

Heroes poster
6.0

Havaldar Balkar Singh, Captain Dhananjay Shergill and Lieutenant Sahil Naqvi are amongst numerous fatalities on India's side in the 1999 Kargil war against Pakistan. All 3 men had written their last letters to Kuljeet Kaur, Squadron Leader Vikram Singh, and Dr. Naqvi respectively. These letters were located 3 years later by IBN Reporter, Avinash Sarin, who entrusts them to two Indore-based slackers, Ali Shah and Sameer Suri, and asks them to deliver them to Chandigarh, Manali, and Leh respectively. Ali and Sameer set out to film this journey in order to get a graduation degree so that they can re-locate to America as well as televise it widely in order to convince the youth not to join any of India's armed forces.

Heroes

2008

Rabba Main Kya Karoon poster
6.0

Rabba Main Kya Karoon is a roller coaster ride, which centres around a big - lavish Delhi wedding.

Rabba Main Kya Karoon

2013

Zindagi 50 50 poster
2.8

Zindagi 50 50 has three stories of common people's special dreams. And to fulfill those dreams they have to struggle hard. Sometimes few get it easily, where most of them must struggle very hard with lots of sacrifice, values, principals to achieve their dreams. Among them only few get it after long struggle time where most of them have to loose everything with a failure tag.

Zindagi 50 50

2013

Zor Lagaa Ke... Haiya! poster
NR

Children build a tree-house to spy on a beggar, than seek his help against a builder.

Zor Lagaa Ke... Haiya!

2009