Ritika Mohan Singh is an Indian actress and former MMA fighter who appears primarily in Tamil films as well as Hindi, Telugu, and Malayalam films. After boxing for India at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games and then taking part in the Super Fight League, she was cast in a leading role in Sudha Kongara Prasad's Tamil film Irudhi Suttru, which was also simultaneously filmed in Hindi as Saala Khadoos. She shared the screen with R. Madhavan in this film. As a result of her work in the movie, she was honored with a Special Mention at the 63rd Annual National Film Awards. She was honored with three Filmfare Awards for the same role in three different languages: Tamil (for the film Irudhi Suttru), Hindi (for the film Saala Khadoos), and Telugu (for the film Guru). She is the recipient of a National Award, a SIIMA Award, and three Filmfare Awards in their respective categories.
Age
Ritika Singh was born on 16 December 1993. She is 29 years old as of 2023. Her zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Education
Ritika Singh received her education at the Smt. K.C. Gandhi English School in Kalyan, which is located in the state of Maharashtra.
Career
Mixed martial arts career
Ritika Singh has been a kickboxer and mixed martial artist since she was a child, because of her father's guidance. She participated as a mixed martial artist in the debut season of the Super Fight League and made an appearance in the competition.
Acting career
Ritika Singh started her acting career in 2013. She was spotted in an advertisement for the Super Fight League by director Sudha Kongara Prasad, and she later auditioned for a leading role in her bilingual film, Saala Khadoos (2016), after the makers managed to contact her through the competition's chairman, Raj Kundra. The producers of the film wanted a professional boxer to act in the role of Madhi, a Marwari girl who grows up in the slums of Chennai. They did not want an actress to play the role of a boxer. That is why they signed Singh. Singh phonetically learned her part in the Tamil version of Irudhi Suttru by writing down the dialogues in Hindi first and then translating them into Tamil. The movie was released at the end of January 2016, and it was co-produced by the two main actors in the film, R. Madhavan and Rajkumar Hirani.
Ritika is the first actress to be recognized at the National Awards for a role that she did not dub, as she won the Special Mention award for her performance in Irudhi Suttru and became the first recipient of the award at the 63rd Annual National Film Awards. Singh made a subsequent appearance in Manikandan's Aandavan Kattalai, which was first shown to the public in September 2016. His next movie will be a remake of the Tamil film Irudhi Suttru called Guru (2017), which will be released in Telugu. After that, she had roles in the Telugu film Neevevaro (2018) and the horror comedy P. Vasu's Shivalinga (2017). Oh My Kadavule was a film that she appeared in alongside Ashok Selvan and Vani Bhojan in the year 2020. She played the role of the female protagonist.
Best Performances of Ritika Singh
Irudhi Suttru
Irudhi Suttru is a sports drama movie from India that came out in 2016. It was written and directed by Sudha Kongara. The movie was shot at the same time in Tamil and Hindi. The Hindi version is called Saala Khadoos, and it stars R. Madhavan as a boxing coach who is ignored by the boxing association. He tries to achieve his dream by training an amateur boxer, Madhi, who is played by Ritika Singh in her first role. Both the Tamil and Hindi versions were made by S. Sashikanth for YNOT Studios and UTV Motion Pictures. The Tamil version was distributed by C. V. Kumar's Thirukumaran Entertainment and Dream Factory, and Madhavan's Tricolour Films and Rajkumar Hirani Films worked together to distribute the Hindi version.
Early in 2011, Kongara wrote the script for the movie. He then asked Madhavan to play the main role. This is Madhavan's first movie in Tamil in four years. The film's pre-production work started in 2013, and Sashikanth officially announced it in May 2014. The filming of the movie started in July 2014 and ended in December of the same year. The whole movie was shot in fifty days. The music was written by Santhosh Narayanan, and the background score was written by Sanjay Wandrekar and Atul Raninga (for the Hindi version). Sivakumar Vijayan shot the movie, and Sathish Suriya edited it.
Neevevaro
Neevevaro is a 2018 Telugu romantic action thriller film directed by Hari Nath and produced by Kona Venkat and M.V.V. Satyanarayana. Taapsee Pannu, Ritika Singh, and Aadhi are the film's leading ladies. This movie is an adaptation of Rohin Venkatesan's 2017 Tamil film Adhe Kangal. In this movie, Kalyan (Aadhi Pinisetty), a blind chef, runs a very successful restaurant in Hyderabad. He has a nice family and is respected by the people who work for him. Anu, his neighbor and childhood friend, is in love with him. After his restaurant closes, he plays the guitar there for a while and then walks back to his house. One night, just as he is about to close the restaurant and leave, Vennela (Taapsee Pannu) comes in and asks him to help feed a homeless person. When they first meet, she makes Kalyan feel good. Vennela comes to his restaurant often for the same reason, and over time, Kalyan starts to like her. One day, he asks her to marry him. To his surprise, Vennela cries when she hears this and tells him that she loves him too, but she came here to say goodbye. Vennela says that a few years ago, she borrowed two million rupees from a gang to pay for her father's heart surgery, but she can't pay it back now. The gang has threatened her family more than once, and they have told her they will take her away if she can't pay back her debt by tomorrow. Kalyan agrees to pay back Vennela's debt because he loves her.
Oh My Kadavule
Oh My Kadavule is a romantic fantasy movie that will be released in India in the year 2020. It was written and directed by Ashwath Marimuthu, who was making his debut as a director. The lead roles in the movie are played by Ashok Selvan, Ritika Singh, and Vani Bhojan. Sha Ra and M. S. Bhaskar also appear in the movie in supporting roles. Cameo appearances on the part of Vijay Sethupathi and Ramesh Thilak are quite lengthy. The movie was first shown in theatres on February 14, 2020, which is also known as Valentine's Day. Oh My Kadavule has been chosen to have an official screening at the International Indian Film Festival, which will take place in Toronto in August of 2020. Both the Kannada film Lucky Man (2022) and the Telugu film Ori Devuda (2022) are adaptations of the original.
In this movie, the plot shows that Anu, Arjun, and Mani have been best friends since they were young. During a party to celebrate Arjun passing his Engineering backlog exams, Anu tells the other two that her father, Paulraj, is looking for a husband for her. She asks him out of the blue if he would like to marry her, and he says yes. After a year, Anu and Arjun can be seen in family court for their final divorce hearing. A man sits behind Arjun and tells him that he won't get his divorce that day because his wife will pass out and have to be taken to the hospital. He then gives Arjun a business card and leaves. To Arjun's surprise, everything this strange man said would happen did happen, and the case was moved to the evening. Arjun runs as fast as he can to the address on the card. There, he meets the man, who tells him that he is God. Arjun tells God about his problems.
Career Timeline
Films and Web Series
Year
Title
Role
Language
2023
InCar
Sakshi Gulati
Hindi
2023
Kolai
Sandhya Mohanraj
Tamil
2023
King of Kotha
To Be Announced
Malayalam
2023
Story of Things
Shurthi
Tamil
2020
Oh My Kadavule
Anu Paulraj
Tamil
2018
Neevevaro
Anu
Telugu
2017
Guru
Rameshwari Ramulu
Telugu
2017
Shivalinga
Sathya
Tamil
2016
Irudhi Suttru
Saala Khadoos
Ezhil Madhi
Tamil and Hindi
2016
Aandavan Kattalai
Karmegha Kuzhali
Tamil
Net Worth
Ritika Singh has an estimated net worth of $1 million which she has earned through her work in films and boxing.
Awards
In 2016, her role in Irudhi Suttru won her the National Film Award - Special Jury Award, the Ananda Vikatan Cinema Award for Best Actress, and the IIFA Utsavam for Best Actress.
She also won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut and the Zed Cine Award for Best Female Debut for her first movie, Saala Khadoos, in the same year.
Ritika's talent kept shining in 2017 when she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress in Tamil and the SIIMA Award for Best Debut Actress for her role in Irudhi Suttru.
In 2018, she won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress - South and the Zed Golden Award for Best Find of the Year for her role in Guru.
Interesting Facts about Ritika Singh
In the movie Saala Khadoos, Ritika played a boxer and she is a national-level boxer in real life, too.
She was chosen out of about 100 athletes who tried out for the movie Saala Khadoos.
She started learning Karate and Kick boxing when she was 7 years old.
She was on the show Super Fight League Challengers, which was about real fights.
She won many international contests in Vietnam, Iran, and Portugal, among other places.
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Ritika Mohan Singh is an Indian actress and former MMA fighter who appears primarily in Tamil films as well as Hindi, Telugu, and Malayalam films. After boxing for India at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games and then taking part in the Super Fight League, she was cast in a leading role in Sudha Kongara Prasad's Tamil film Irudhi Suttru, which was also simultaneously filmed in Hindi as Saala Khadoos. She shared the screen with 
Ritika Singh started her acting career in 2013. She was spotted in an advertisement for the Super Fight League by director Sudha Kongara Prasad, and she later auditioned for a leading role in her bilingual film, Saala Khadoos (2016), after the makers managed to contact her through the competition's chairman, Raj Kundra. The producers of the film wanted a professional boxer to act in the role of Madhi, a Marwari girl who grows up in the slums of Chennai. They did not want an actress to play the role of a boxer. That is why they signed Singh. Singh phonetically learned her part in the Tamil version of Irudhi Suttru by writing down the dialogues in Hindi first and then translating them into Tamil. The movie was released at the end of January 2016, and it was co-produced by the two main actors in the film, R. Madhavan and 
In the movie Saala Khadoos, Ritika played a boxer and she is a national-level boxer in real life, too. 
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