Rashami Desai

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hool days she aspired to be a doctor or an air-hostess.  Becoming an actress was never on her cards because she was born in a small village in Nagaon in Assam, where cinema and glamour are a distant dream.

She did her schooling from Ulubari High School and J B Khot High School in Assam and graduation from Assam University. While studying she also learnt classical dances Kathak and Bharatnatyam.

After learning dance Rashami Desai decided to pursue Choreography

When Rashami Desai started learning classical dance form Kathak and Bharatnatyam,  she fell in love with dance and for that phase of her life she wanted to become a Choreographer in films. But her Dance Guru advised her to try a career in films.

Rashami Desai made debut in Bollywood with Shah Rukh Khan film 

Readers will be shocked to know that Rashami Desai made her debut in Bollywood with a Shah Rukh Khan film, Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke (2004).

 The film had Shah Rukh Khan and Raveena Tandon in key roles. Rashami Desai had a small role. Like the film went into oblivion so was Rashami Desai’s career from Bollywood. Heartbroken she joined TV

Television made Rashami Desai a star  overnight

Dejected in Bollywood,   Rashami Desai tried her luck in television and interestingly the silver screen audience welcomed her with open hands and she was soon a favourite among the household especially the women who watched the daily soaps.

 She made her debut with Zee TV’s serial Raavan, (2006). In this serial she played the role of Mandodri, which was widely appreciated.

Later she got the opportunity to play a dual role of Nikki and Pari in a popular serial Pari Hoon Main (2008) aired on Star One show.

What followed next were an array of TV serials like ‘Meet Milla De Rabba’ (2008-2009) on Sony TV;  ‘Ssshhhh. . .Phir Koi Hai’ on Star One but the TV serial that made her Queen of the television is   the popular serial ‘Uttaran’that ran for many years on the colours channel.

In Uttaran she portrayed, Tapasya, a vamp role for the first time and she hit the bull’s eye. Aired on Color Channel she became a household name from 2008 and ruled up to 2014. The serial is still on air but Rashami has sidelined from the serial due to unexplainable reasons.  

Desai has taken part in numerous dance TV shows including Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5 which aired on Colors TV. In Nach Baliye 7 she danced with husband Nandish Sandhu and even reached finals and was First Runner-up in the show.

Besides this she has also done reality shows like Comedy Circus ka Maha Sangram, Zara Nachke Dikha, Crime Patrol, Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi.

Currently, she is engaged in Color’s daily soap Dil Se Dil Tak opposite her latest beau Siddharth Shukla.

Rashami Desai foray in Bhojpuri films

Rashami Desai made her foray in Bhojpuri films and became a huge star with her debut film Balma Bada Naadan (2010). The film was produced by Bollywood actor and Bhojpuri film superstar of the 70’s Sujit Kumar.

Interestingly Rashami Desai worked in Bhojpuri film with her real name Divya Desai.

As per the tradition of Bhojpuri films she daringly did bold and hot sexy scenes and thus became darling of the masses. She did over 20 Bhojpuri films most popular being Gazab Bhail Rama, Gabbar Singh, Hum Hai Gawaar, Kab Hoi Gauna Hammar, Shahar Wali Jaan Mareli, Tohse Pyar Ba…. Etc. In fact she even did many Assamese, Bengali, Manipuri movies.

Milestones

Rashami Desai has high hope from Bollywod film Superstar

After a dull start in Bollywood actress Rashami Desai is excited because after over a decade she has got another golden opportunity to make a comeback in Bollywood with her latest Bollywood film Superstar!

The reason why she is most excited is because the movie is a remake of a Gujarati film by same name and has done extraordinary business in Gujarat hence she is expecting the movie to create same magic in Bollywood.

The film has broken box –office record by successfully running for 50 days in multiplexes in Gujarat state and has registered mind-blowing numbers.

The film is a taut suspense thriller depicting the tragic tale about how a film superstar’s life goes haywire due to the anatomist. 

The Hindi remake has retained the original Rashami Desai and Dhruvin Shah lead pair of the Gujarati film 'Superstar'