Born in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, Ragini Nandwani is an Indian actress made her first big screen appearance in the Tamil film industry with the action thriller Thalaivaa. She then went on to star in Krupa Swaminchi, a 2013 Marathi film, Peruchazhi, a 2014 Malayalam movie, and Siddhartha, a 2016 Telugu film. Her 2017 release includes the Malayalam language film Hadiyya. Directed by Unni Pranav, the movie co-stars Nishan and Sudheer Karamana as lead characters.