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actor , writer & director . www.youtube.com/soumya visakhapatnam , andhra pradesh , india 1.78 m 0 on soumya bollapragada / soumya divakar 26th june 2006 -- present soumya bollapragada.jpeg soumya bollapragada
 soumya film actress , model
soumya bollapragada

soumya bollapragada is an indian film actress , writer , director and model .
she is the niece of actress gouthami and great grand daughter of the indian thinker u.g.krishnamurti and has acted in telugu films primarily .
her father divakar is an engineer in the merchant navy , her mother a housewife and she has a younger brother .
she graduated from st. joseph 's college for women .
she has studied journalism and dreamt of becoming a journalist .
she holds a bachelor 's degree in english literature and psychology from andhra university .
she was one of the six finalists in the miss south india contest in which girls from karnataka , kerala , tamil nadu and ap had participated .
she secured the ms photogenic and ms perfect 10 rounds in the contest .
she had also won the ms. personality round in the miss andhra contest held in hyderabad in january 2005 and the miss nifd organised by the national institute of fashion design in visakhapatnam in april 2005 .
she started with modelling in college and got trained under koushik ghosh .
she modelled for kpl coconut oil ad in kerala and also acted in sun flower shopping mall ad , anarkali boutique ad and others .
she ran a monthly magazine evoke for three and half years in vizag .
she made her debut in the cross over film `` the angrez '' .
she has a theatre background and that helped her to get in films .
she acted in a play in andhra university and was spotted by kuntaa nikkil , director of `` the angrez '' .
she also acted in the english film `` stalemate '' and played the assistant surgeon .
she made her debut in tamil in `` thozha '' with the stars of `` chennai 600028 '' .
she also played an important role in ravi krishna starring `` netru indru naalai '' -lrb- `` ninna nedu repu '' in telugu -rrb- .
she was part of `` mugguru '' produced by movie mogul d ramaniadu and directed by v n aditya .
she is awaiting the release of `` poga '' which is a 4d horror film , and `` ramadandu '' .
she is the founder of the theatre group applause -- the theatre people .
she also hosted jollywood express , a comedy show with actor avs on gemini tv .
she also hosted zee sound party on zee telugu .
