Niharika Singh

Niharika was selected for Berlinale Talents in 2016. Born on August 31st, 1982 in New Delhi, Niharika spent her childhood in various north Indian towns and hill stations, moving homes every few years. Her father worked in the Tourism department for Uttar Pradesh and later Uttarakhand state government, her mother ran a design institute in New Delhi and she is the elder of two sisters. Singh did most of her schooling in an all-girls boarding school in Nainital. Singh started working as a model in 1999 when she first walked the ramp for a design institute in Dehradun. She went on to pursue a degree in B.Com. (Hons) at Shri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi and continued taking modelling assignments alongside to earn a little income. Niharika featured in several print campaigns, fashion magazines, music videos and decided to drop out of college and move to Mumbai to pursue a full-time career in the entertainment business in 2003.