Raisa Padamsee is a French actress, who acted in the Indian auteur

Mani Kaul Mani Kaul (25 December 1944 – 6 July 2011) was an Indian director of Hindi films and a figure in Indian parallel cinema. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later be ...

's 1973 Hindi film '' Duvidha''.

Early life

Raisa is the only daughter of an Indian-French couple, the painter

Akbar Padamsee Akbar Padamsee (12 April 1928 – 6 January 2020) was an Indian artist and painter, considered one of the pioneers in modern Indian painting along with S.H. Raza, F.N. Souza and M.F. Husain. Over the years he also worked with various mediums ...

and Solange Gounelle. She was named by M. F. Hussain, whose daughter is named Raisa, as well.

Career

She played the female protagonist in the critically acclaimed film ''Duvidha'' that won best director's national award and Critics Award for Best Film at the 1974

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. Raisa did not know a word of Hindi and only spoke French, when she played the role of the silent bride in the movie.

Personal life

Raisa did not act in any more movies after her debut movie, and went back to

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where she now lives with her family. Her husband Laurent Brégeat is a filmmaker. Theater personality and ad film maker

Alyque Padamsee Alyque Padamsee (5 March 1928 – 17 November 2018) was an Indian theatre personality and ad film maker. He played Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the 1982 British period film ''Gandhi''. He was conferred with Padma Shri in 2000. Besides being involved ...

is her paternal uncle. He was married to the singer and actress

Sharon Prabhakar Sharon Prabhakar (born 4 August 1955) is an Indian pop singer, actress and public speaker. Personal life Prabhakar was born to a Punjabi father who was a public servant, and a Christian mother who was a music teacher. Along with her brother an ...

. Their daughter and Raisa's cousin

Shazahn Padamsee Shazahn Padamsee (born 18 October 1987) is an Indian actress and model who primarily works in Hindi and Telugu language, Telugu films. Daughter of noted actors Alyque Padamsee and Sharon Prabhakar, she made her first film appearance in the 2009 ...

too is an actress.

References

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