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Niharica Raizada

Luxembourger actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ26210638 ↗
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Niharica Raizada (born 18 April 1990) is a Luxembourgish actress. She was crowned as Miss India UK 2010 and was runner-up at Miss India Worldwide 2010. She is the granddaughter of former Bollywood musician O. P. Nayyar. She has worked in films like IB71, Masaan, 6-5=2, Damadol, Total Dhamaal (2018) and Sooryavanshi (2021).

Early life

Niharica is the granddaughter of music composer O. P. Nayyar. She was born to Indian parents and was raised in Luxembourg. Her mother tongue is French and she also speaks Luxembourgish, German, English, Spanish, and Hindi. She has a sister Nirekhna Raizada and a brother Avneesh Raizada. She is a Medical Scientist by qualification and studied MRes in Translational Medicine at Imperial College London, and then did research in Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), under a Fulbright scholarship. She got training in acting from New York Film Academy.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Niharica Raizada” as luxembourger actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2010, 2018, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-04-18. The account is most persuasive where Niharica, Raizada and Luxembourger can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as luxembourger actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26210638. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990, 2010, 2018 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Niharica Raizada” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.