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Riya Sen (born 24 January 1981) is an Indian film actress and model. Riya, who comes from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen, began her acting career in 1991 as a child actress in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercially successful role was in N. Chandra's Style, a low-budget Hindi sex comedy released in 2001. Some of her other films include producer Pritish Nandy's musical, Jhankaar Beats (2003) in Hinglish, Shaadi No. 1 (2005) and the Malayalam horror film Anandabhadram (2005). 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, commercials, fashion shows, and on magazine covers. Riya has worked as an activist and appeared in an AIDS awareness video with the aim of dispelling common myths about the disease. She has also helped raise funds for pediatric eye-care. Riya has faced controversies such as an MMS clip with actor Ashmit Patel, her semi-nude photograph on Dabboo Ratnani's annual calendar and her on-screen kisses in a conservative Indian film industry.