Riya was first recognised as a model when she performed in Falguni Pathak's music video Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has appeared in music videos, television commercials, fashion shows, and on magazine covers.
Riya first appeared as a child artist in the film Vishkanya in 1991, where she played the role of the young Pooja Bedi. At the age of fifteen, she was cast in a major role in multiple National Film Awards winning director Bharathiraja's Tamil film, Taj Mahal (2000), which did not achieve commercial success. She was scheduled to make her Bollywood film debut in Love You Hamesha, opposite actor Akshaye Khanna; however, the film was stalled, and she ultimately made her debut in N. Chandra's Style (2001). This low-budget sex comedy was the first commercial success in over a decade for the director, whose previous successes included Ankush (1986) and Tezaab (1988). A launch pad for Riya, cast in the female lead along with fellow-newcomers, Sharman Joshi, Sahil Khan and Shilpi Mudgal, the film pioneered a trend of commercial success for small budget films in India. Riya and the second female lead of the film were replaced by aspirant actresses Sunali Joshi and Jaya Seal in Xcuse Me, the sequel of Style.
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Filmography
Year Film Director Role Co-artists Language Other notes
1991 Vishkanya Jag Mundhra Young Nishi Pooja Bedi, Kabir Bedi, Moon Moon Sen Hindi As a child artist
1999 Taj Mahal Bharathi Raja Heroine Manoj Bharatiraaja Tamil
Good Luck Manoj Bhatnaghar Priya Prashanth, Raghuvaran, Suhasini Mani Ratnam Tamil
2001 Style N. Chandra Sheena Sharman Joshi, Sahil Khan, Shilpi Mudgal, Tara Deshpande Hindi
2002 Dil Vil Pyar Vyar Anant Mahadevan Gaurav's girlfriend R. Madhavan, Sanjay Suri, Namrata Shirodkar, Jimmy Shergill, Sonali Kulkarni, Hrishitaa Bhatt Hindi Cameo appearance
2003 Saazish Rajat Rawail — Milind Soman, Aryan Vaid, Reshmi Ghosh, Usha Bachani, Suhas Khandke, Rajpal Yadav Hindi
Qayamat: City Under Threat Harry Baweja Sheetal Ajay Devgan, Sunil Shetty, Sanjay Kapoor, Arbaaz Khan, Isha Koppikar, Neha Dhupia Hindi
Jhankaar Beats Sujoy Ghosh Preeti Sanjay Suri, Rahul Bose, Juhi Chawla, Shayan Munshi, Rinke Khanna Hinglish The language of the film was a mix of Hindi and English
2004 Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa Atul Agnihotri Kamini Salman Khan, Preity Zinta, Bhoomika Chawla, Helen, Rati Agnihotri, Renuka Shahane Hindi Cameo appearance
Plan Hriday Shetty Shalini Sanjay Dutt, Sanjay Suri, Dino Morea, Priyanka Chopra, Sameera Reddy Hindi Item number
Arasatchi N. Maharajan Iruvathu Vaisu Arjun Sarja, Lara Dutta, Raghuvaran, Vivek, Lakshmi Tamil Item number
2005 Ananthabhadram Santhosh Sivan Bhama Kavya Madhavan, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Manoj K Jayan, Kalabhavan Mani, Biju Menon, Revathi Malayalam
Shaadi No. 1 David Dhawan Madhuri Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Zayed Khan, Sharman Joshi, Esha Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Ayesha Takia Hindi
Tum... Ho Na! N.S. Raj Bharath Reema Preeti Ganguly, Sumit Nijhawan, Nethra Raghuraman, Jackie Shroff Hindi
James Rohit Jugraj — Mohit Ahlawat, Mohan Agashe, Snehal Dabi, Nisha Kothari Hindi Item number
Silsiilay Khalid Mohammed Anushka Tabu, Bhoomika Chawla, Jimmy Shergill, Rahul Bose, Celina Jaitley, Ashmit Patel, Divya Dutta Hindi
It Was Raining That Night Mahesh Manjrekar — Riyaz Ahmed, Victor Banerjee, Mahesh Manjrekar, Dawn Moeller, Moon Moon Sen, Sushmita Sen English
2006 Apna Sapna Money Money Sangeeth Sivan Shivani Ritesh Deshmukh, Celina Jaitley, Anupam Kher, Koena Mitra, Sunil Shetty, Jackie Shroff Hindi
The Bachelor Ajay Sinha Nisha Sharman Joshi, Raima Sen, Manoj Pahwa, Himani Shivpuri, Manish Nagpal Hindi Unfinished
Rokda Ramesh Kotar — Arshad Warsi, Ashmit Patel, Aashish Chaudhary, Shamita Shetty, Tanushree Dutta Hindi Unfinished
Love You Hamesha Kailash Surendranath Meghna Rishma Malik, Sonali Bendre, Akshaye Khanna, Nirupa Roy Hindi Originally scheduled for release in 1999, credited as Rhea Dev Varma
2007 Heyy Baby Sajid Khan — Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Vidya Balan Hindi Item number
2008 Love Khichdi Srinivas Bhashyam — Randeep Hooda, Rituparna Sengupta, Divya Dutta, Rakhi Sawant Hindi Announced
Zor Lagaa Ke... Hayya Girish Girija Joshi — Mithun Chakraborty, Mahesh Manjrekar, Seema Biswas, Gulshan Grover Hindi Unfinished
Misspelled- Rea San, Ria Dev Verma, Reea Sen, Reyaa Sin.
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