Pooja Hegde is an Indian actress and model who appears predominantly in Telugu films, in addition to a few Hindi and Tamil films. Pooja is a recipient of the SIIMA Award and was also crowned as the second runner-up at the Miss Universe India 2010 competition. She made her debut in Tamil film Mysskin’s Mugamoodi (2012) and her Telugu debut film was Oka Laila Kosam (2014) alongside Naga Chaitanya. In 2016, she went on to make her Hindi film debut opposite Hrithik Roshan in Ashutosh Gowariker’s Mohenjo Daro.