Raai Laxmi Biography – an Indian Actress and Malayali Model

Lakshmi Rai, professionally credited as Raai Laxmi, is an Indian actress and model who predominantly works in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi languages.

Early life

Raai Laxmi was born in Belgaum, Karnataka to Ram Rai and Manjula Rai. She belongs to the Saurashtrian Kutchi community.

Many people search for Lakshmi Raai’s husband’s name but she is not yet married and her marital status is single. Also, although there are many rumors circulating about her relationship and boyfriend, she has not confirmed it yet.

Acting career

Early career (2005–2010)

In 2005, Laxmi made her film debut in the Tamil-language Karka Kasadara after director R. V. Udayakumar saw her performance in the Kannada short film Valmiki. Subsequently, she appeared in a number of Tamil films, including the comedy film Kundakka Mandakka (2005) opposite R. Parthiban, Perarasu’s action-masala flick Dharmapuri (2006) and the romance film Nenjai Thodu (2007).

In 2008, she began working in more serious films such as the drama film Velli Thirai, in which she played herself, and the action thriller Dhaam Dhoom, directed by Jeeva. She received positive feedback for her portrayal of a lawyer in the latter. A review from Behindwoods wrote: “The latter (Raai Laxmi) sizzles even as she is supposed to play the court professional who is caught in the web of smuggling drugs”. She won her first Filmfare Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category.

She made her debut in Malayalam in 2007, starring in Rock n’ Roll, opposite Mohanlal. She followed it up with several successful films such as Annan Thampi (2008), 2 Harihar Nagar (2009), Evidam Swargamanu (2009) opposite Mohanlal, and Chattambinadu (2009) opposite Mammootty. She appeared in three Tamil films in 2009, Muthirai, Vaamanan, and Naan Avanillai 2.

In Vaamanan (2009), she played a glamorous supermodel. In 2010, she was seen in three films. She made special appearances during song sequences in two of them, In Ghost House Inn and Pen Singam, and portrayed a cowgirl in the Tamil film Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam.

Public Recognition and Success (2011–2014)

Raai Lakshmi’s first 2011 release was Christian Brothers. Her next two films were Tamil projects, the comedy horror Kanchana and the Venkat Prabhu-directed action thriller Mankatha, starring Ajith Kumar. She played a negative character in the latter, which was received positively by critics. Following Kanchana‘s success, she was signed on to reprise the role in its Kannada remake, Kalpana (2012). Her 2014 films were Irumbu Kuthirai, Aranmanai in Tamil and RajadhiRaja in Malayalam.

Recent work (2016–present)

In 2016, she signed two Tamil films, Bangalore Naatkal and Sowkarpettai. After a brief gap, she performed her second item number opposite Pawan Kalyan in his Telugu film Sardaar Gabbar Singh (2016). She debuted a Hindi film Akira.

She signed to perform her fourth item number with Chiranjeevi in his 150th film Khaidi No. 150 (2017), and later in Motta Shiva Ketta Shiva (2017) in Tamil with Raghava Lawrence. Raai Laxmi portrayed the lead role in her second Hindi film Julie 2 (2017).

In 2018, she made her comeback to Malayalam cinema with the Mammootty starrer Oru Kuttanadan Blog.

In 2019, she starred in horror movies Where Is the Venkatalakshmi in Telugu and then Neeya 2 in Tamil which were failures. She also starred in the Bollywood film, Officer Arjun Singh IPS Batch 2000.

Filmography (Raai Laxmi Biography)

Film

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

List of Raai Laxmi film credits

Year	Title	Role(s)	Language	Notes
2005	Karka Kasadara	Anjali	Tamil	Tamil debut
	Kanchanamala Cable TV	Sireesha / Kanchanamala	Telugu	Telugu debut
	Kundakka Mandakka	Roopa	Tamil
	Valmiki	Lakshmi Deshpande	Kannada	Kannada debut
2006	Neeku Naaku	Saranya	Telugu
	Dharmapuri	Valarmathy	Tamil
2007	Nenjai Thodu	Aishwarya	Tamil
	Rock n’ Roll	Daya Sreenivas	Malayalam	Malayalam debut
	Snehana Preethina	Lakshmi	Kannada
2008	Velli Thirai	Herself	Tamil	Cameo appearance
	Annan Thampi	Thenmozhi	Malayalam
	Minchina Ota	Lakshmi	Kannada
	Parunthu	Rakhi	Malayalam
	Ragasiya Snehithane	Jennifer	Tamil
	Dhaam Dhoom	Aarthi Chinappa	Tamil
2009	2 Harihar Nagar	Maya / Christina Honai / Serina	Malayalam
	Muthirai	Kavya	Tamil
	Vaamanan	Pooja	Tamil
	Naan Avanillai 2	Deepa	Tamil
	Oru Kadhalan Oru Kadhali	Charanya	Tamil
	Chattambinadu	Gouri	Malayalam
	Ividam Swargamanu	Adv. Sunitha	Malayalam
2010	In Ghost House Inn	Serina	Malayalam	Special appearance in the song “Ole Ole”
	Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam	Pakki	Tamil
	Pen Singam	Herself	Tamil	Special appearance in the song “Adi Aadi Asaiyum Edupu”
2011	Christian Brothers	Sofia	Malayalam
	Kanchana	Priya	Tamil
	Mankatha	Sona	Tamil
	Oru Marubhoomikkadha	Meenakshy Thampuran, Manasi Thampuran	Malayalam
2012	Casanovva	Hana	Malayalam
	Mayamohini	Maya / Katrina	Malayalam
	Adhinayakudu	Deepthi	Telugu
	Kalpana	Priya	Kannada
	Thaandavam	Geetha	Tamil
2013	Attahasa	Vijetha Vasisht	Kannada	Guest appearance
	Onbadhule Guru	Sanjana	Tamil
	Aaru Sundarimaarude Katha	Fouzia Hassan IPS	Malayalam
	Balupu	Herself	Telugu	Special appearance in the song “Lucky Lucky Rai”
2014	Irumbu Kuthirai	Christina	Tamil
	RajadhiRaja	Radha	Malayalam
	Aranmanai	Maya	Tamil
2016	Bangalore Naatkal	Lakshmi	Tamil
	Sowkarpettai	Maya	Tamil
	Sardaar Gabbar Singh	Herself	Telugu	Special appearance in the song “Tauba Tauba”
	Akira	Maya	Hindi	Hindi debut
2017	Khaidi No. 150	Herself	Telugu	Special appearance in the song “Ratthaalu”
	Motta Shiva Ketta Shiva	Herself	Tamil	Special appearance in the song “Hara Hara Mahadevaki”
	Julie 2	Julie	Hindi
2018	Oru Kuttanadan Blog	Sreejaya	Malayalam
2019	Where Is the Venkatalakshmi	Venkatalakshmi	Telugu
	Neeya 2	Malar / Nagaraani	Tamil
	Officer Arjun Singh IPS Batch 2000	Durga Dayal Singh	Hindi
2021	Mirugaa	Lakshmi	Tamil
	Jhansi I.P.S	Jhansi I.P.S	Kannada
	Cinderella	Thulasi / Akira	Tamil	Dual role
2022	The Legend	Herself	Tamil	Special appearance in the song “Vaadi Vaasal”
2023	Bholaa		Hindi
	Anandha Bhairavi	TBA	Telugu	Filming
	Gangster 21	TBA	Tamil	Filming

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Awards and Nominations (Raai Laxmi Biography)

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