Flora Saini

Flora Saini, also known by her screen name Asha Saini or Mayuri, is an Indian actress and model.^[1] She predominantly works in Telugu and Hindi films, and also appeared in a number of Kannada and Tamil films.

Flora Saini
Flora in 2017
Born	Flora Saini Chandigarh, India
Occupations	Actor model
Years active	1999–present
Partner	Gaurang Doshi

She has done more than 80 projects as an actress. Since her debut in Prema Kosam (1999), she has acted in over 50 films and co-starred with noted actors like Venkatesh, Balakrishna, Sudeep, Shivarajkumar, Vijayakanth, Prabhu, Karthik, Jagapati Babu and Rajasekhar.^[2]

Early life

Born in Chandigarh to an army officer, Flora began her schooling in Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir. She continued her education in the Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, Delhi. Her family then moved to Kolkata, where she started pursuing a modeling career. She participated in the Miss Kolkata beauty pageant.^[3]

Career

Flora made her acting debut in the 1999 Telugu film Prema Kosam.^[4] The producer of the film rechristened her as Asha Saini; some years later she would adopt a new screen name, Mayuri, as per the advice of an astrologer, before eventually reverting to her original name.^[5]

The actress subsequently played supporting roles in more than a dozen Telugu-language films in the next three years. She appeared in the film Narasimha Naidu (2002), which went on to become highly successful.^[6] It was for some time the most notable film in her filmography, and it led to her being referred to as "Lux Papa" thereafter.^[7] In 2002, Flora made her first Hindi-language film, starring in the T. P. Aggarwal-produced Bharat Bhagya Vidhata.^[8] Her second Hindi film, Love in Nepal (2004), also produced by Agarwal, saw her paired with popular playback singer Sonu Nigam.^[3]

Flora has appeared in several Kannada-language films, too, including Giri, starring Srinagara Kitty, and Nammannna, starring Sudeep.^[9]

In March 2008, she was arrested in Chennai for supposedly having forged visa documents,^[7] and was subsequently banned from the Tamil film industry.^[10] She claimed innocence,^[11] and the ban was lifted a couple of weeks later.^[12]

Three films in which Flora Saini stars – the Telugu-language Broker, and two Kannada-language films, Vismaya Pramaya and Vah Re Vah – were released on 31 December 2010, a rare occurrence that secured her an entry in the Limca Book of Records for the most film releases on one day.^{[citation needed]} In 2010, Flora Saini was honoured with the Uttarakhand Ratna Award.^[13] She has also received The Great Daughter of Soil Award in Mauritius for her anti-poverty work there.^[4]

She is last seen in a web-series called Gandii Baat season 2 with Anveshi Jain,^[14] where she played a lead role. Recently, Saini was seen in many web series and notably worked in Mayanagari-City of Dreams of Hotstar.

In 2015, Flora Saini played the role of Muskan in MSG: The Messenger starring Gurmeet Ram Rahim. She played the role of a daughter with Jayshree Soni as Kasam and Olexandra Semen as Alice.

In October 2019 Flora Saini made her debut in Bengali web series through Dupur Thakurpo hoichoi web series. It was the 3rd season of the series and she played the iconinc role of Phulwa boudi.^[15]

She also was chosen as a face of short video app "Firework", while being managed by "Celeb Connex".^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
1999	Prema Kosam	Aishwarya	Telugu
2000	Antha Mana Manchike	Nisha
2000	Sabse Bada Beiman		Hindi
2000	Yeh Hai Green Signal
2000	Manasunna Maraju		Telugu
2000	Chala Bagundi	Ganga
2001	Cheppalani Vundi
2001	Sardukupodaam Randi	Nisha
2001	Timepass
2001	Akka Bavekkada	Shilpa
2001	Navvuthu Bathakalira
2001	Narasimha Naidu	Sandhya
2001	Prematho Raa	Anitha
2001	Rowdysheeter
2001	Subhakaryam
2001	Nuvvu Naaku Nachav	Asha
2002	O Chinnadana	Asha
2002	Adrustam	Smita / Pinky
2002	Kodanda Rama	Sangeetha	Kannada
2002	Sontham	Asha	Telugu	Cameo appearance
2002	Bharat Bhagya Vidhata	Shabnam	Hindi
2003	Ottesi Cheputunna		Telugu	Cameo appearance
2004	Love in Nepal	Maxi	Hindi
2004	143	TV reporter	Telugu
2004	Swamy			Special appearance
2004	Gajendra	Kausalya	Tamil
2005	Giri		Kannada
2005	Mr. Errababu		Telugu	Special appearance
2005	Nammanna	Rani	Kannada
2005	Sorry Enaku Kalyanamayidichu	Manju	Tamil
2006	Kusthi	Abhi
2008	Michael Madana Kamaraju	Mandira	Telugu
2008	Swagatam	Deepthi	Telugu
2008	Kuselan		Tamil	Special appearance
2008	Dheemaku	Indira Devi	Kannada
2008	Chedugudu		Telugu
2008	Dindigul Sarathy		Tamil	Special appearance
2009	Aa Intlo	Pallavi	Telugu
2009	Junction			Special appearance
2010	Comedy Express
2010	Naane Ennul Illai		Tamil
2010	Kanagavel Kakka			Special appearance
2010	Broker	Ganapathi's wife	Telugu
2010	Vismaya Pramaya	Meera	Kannada
2010	Vaare Vah	Adi's boss
2011	Chattam		Telugu	Special appearance
2011	Money Money, More Money
2012	Dabangg 2		Hindi	Cameo appearance as reporter
2013	CID Eesha		Kannada
2013	Aakasamlo Sagam	Vasu	Telugu	Main Lead
2013	Sahasra			Special appearance
2014	Paisa Yaar N Panga	Meera	Punjabi
2014	Ya Rab		Hindi
2014	Lakshmi	Swarna
2015	MSG: The Messenger	Muskan
2015	Dhanak	Gypsy Woman
2015	Guddu Ki Gun	Nurse
2016	Do Lafzon Ki Kahani	Natasha
2017	Begum Jaan	Maina
2018	Stree	Stree
2019	Fraud Saiyaan	Shraddha
2020	Bahut Hua Samman	Sapna Rani
2020	Darbaan	Charul Tripathi
2021	12 'O' Clock	Maya D'Souza		Earlier titled as Geher
2021	200 Halla Ho	Poornima
2021	Chaddi	Mrs.Chaddha
2022	36 Farmhouse	Mithika Singh
2023	Khichdi 2: Mission Paanthukistan	Rani Gulkanda - Queen of Paanthukistan

Television

Year	Series	Role	Language	Notes
2019	Apna News Aayega		Hindi
2020	Mere Sai – Shraddha Aur Saburi	Suvarna Bai, a female singer and dancer	Hindi	A mythological TV serial, show premiered in Sony Entertainment Television.[16]

Web series

All web series are in Hindi language, otherwise noted the language.

Year	Series	Role	Platform	Notes	Ref.
2016	Maid in India	Maid	Webtalkies		[17]
2016	A.I.SHA My Virtual Girlfriend	Mariyam James	Arre OTT
2018	Gandii Baat	Sajelli	ALTBalaji	S02E01	[18] [19]
	X.X.X	Rukmani Lalwani		S01E01	[20] [21]
2018- 2019	Inside Edge	Ayesha Dewan	Amazon Prime	Season 1 Recurring; Season 2 Main	[22]
2019	Wanna Have A Good Time		Ullu		[23]
	Bombers	Minister's Wife	ZEE5		[24] [25]
	Dupur Thakurpo	Phulwa Boudi	Hoichoi	Bengali webseries	[citation needed]
	Mayanagari: City of Dreams	Mystery Woman	Hotstar		[26] [27]
2020	Aarya	Radhika "Rads"		Season 1 Recurring
2020	Paurashpur	Nayantara	ZEE5, ALTBalaji	Recurring
2021	Akkad Bakkad Rafu Chakkar	P.C	Amazon Prime
2023	Rana Naidu	Kavya	Netflix
2023	The Trial	Anisha Menon	Disney+Hotstar