Soumya Bollapragada

Soumya Bollapragada is an Indian actress, writer, director and a model.

Life and career

She is the niece of actress Gautami and great-granddaughter of the Indian thinker U. G. Krishnamurti and has acted in Telugu films primarily. She is also related to Nirmala Sitharaman through her mother. Soumya is also the rakhi sister (sworn sister) of Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil.

Her father Divakar was an engineer in the Merchant Navy, her mother a housewife. She ran a monthly magazine Evoke for three and half years in Vizag. She has a bachelor's degree in English literature and Psychology from Andhra University She was one of the six finalists in Miss South India where girls from Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and AP had participated. Soumya secured the Ms Photogenic and Ms Perfect 10 rounds in the contest. She made her debut in Tamil in Thozha with the stars of Chennai 600028. She also played a role in Netru Indru Naalai (Ninna Nedu Repu in Telugu). She was part of Mugguru produced by Movie Mogul D Ramaniadu and directed by V N Aditya. She acted in the horror thriller Poga and in Ramadandu and played a journalist in the latter.

She is the founder of the theatre group Applause – The Theatre People. She has also hosted TV shows like Jollywood Express, a comedy show with actor AVS on Gemini TV and Zee Sound Party on Zee Telugu. She was the winner of the country-wide Lucky 13 contest held by author Ashwin Sanghi. In addition to this she has worked as a writer for Chhota Bheem, Mighty Raju, Arjun, Chimpoo Simpoo.