Apna Sapna Money Money showed her as Shivani and danced to an item song in Heyy Babyy . She tried her hand in Telugu movies with Neenu Meeku Telusa and Heroes with Salman Khan and Preity Zinta that was a moderate success.She has worked with her sister Raima Sen in a Bengali movie The Bachelor, which is yet to be released.
Riya Sen’s tantalizing looks and a lineage that boasts of royals and actors like Suchitra Sen and Moon Moon Sen made sure that she sashayed into tinsel town. Riya Dev Verma is an Aquarian born on 24th January 1981 in Kolkata, West Bengal. Her father is Bharat Dev Verma belonging to the royal family of Tripura and her mother is Moon Moon Sen, a former actress.
Riya played the character of Nishi as a child in the movie Vishkanya which starred her mother Moon Moon Sen. she acted in two Tamil movies Taj Mahal and Good Luck both of which fell flat. She appeared in the comedy Style which did pretty well. Jhankaar Beats, a tribute to R.D.Burman was popular. she appeared in item numbers in Plan and the Tamil movie Arasatchi. she played Bhama in Santhosh Sivan’s Ananthabadram, a Malayalam movie, which won awards and commercial success. She was seen in Shaadi No.1, Silsilay and an English language movie It Was Raining One Night. 