Flora Saini

Flora Saini, also known by her screen name Asha Saini or Mayuri, is an Indian actress and model. She predominantly works in Telugu and Hindi films, and has also appeared in a number of Kannada and Tamil films.
She has done more than 80 projects as an actress. Since her debut in Prema Kosam, 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.

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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.

Career

Flora made her acting debut in the 1999 Telugu film Prema Kosam. 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.
The actress subsequently played supporting roles in more than a dozen Telugu-language films, such as Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, in the next three years.
She appeared in the film Narasimha Naidu, It was for some time the most notable film in her filmography, and it led to her being referred to as "Lux Papa" thereafter.
In 2002, Flora made her first Hindi-language film, starring in the T. P. Aggarwal-produced Bharat Bhagya Vidhata. Her second Hindi film, Love in Nepal, also produced by Agarwal, saw her paired with Sonu Nigam.
Flora has appeared in several Kannada-language films, too, including Giri, starring Srinagara Kitty, and Nammannna, starring Sudeep.
In March 2008, she was arrested in Chennai for supposedly having forged visa documents, and was subsequently banned from the Tamil film industry. She claimed innocence, and the ban was lifted a couple of weeks later.
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.
She received The Great Daughter of Soil Award in Mauritius for her anti-poverty work there in 2010.
She was then seen in season 2 of web-series Gandii Baat with Anveshi Jain, 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 appeared in MSG: The Messenger starring Gurmeet Ram Rahim. She played the role of a daughter, Muskan, with Jayshree Soni as Kasam and Olexandra Semen as Alice.
In October 2019 Flora Saini made her debut in Bengali web series Dupur Thakurpo on hoichoi. In the 3rd season of the series, she played the iconic role of Phulwa Boudi.
In 2023, she appeared as Rani Gulkanda in Khichdi 2: Mission Paanthukistan.
In 2025, Flora would make an appearance on Star Maa, with her participation in [Bigg Boss (Telugu TV series) season 9|Bigg Boss Telugu 9]. However, she would be evicted on Day 35, after completing a month in the show.

Filmography

Web series

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

Year	Series	Role	Platform	Notes
2016	Maid in India	Maid	Webtalkies
2016	A.I.SHA My Virtual Girlfriend	Mariyam James	Arre OTT
2018	Gandii Baat	Sajelli	ALTBalaji	S02E01
2018	X.X.X	Rukmani Lalwani	ALTBalaji	S01E01
2018- 2019	Inside Edge	Ayesha Dewan	Amazon Prime	Season 1 Recurring; Season 2 Main
2019	Wanna Have A Good Time		Ullu
2019	Bombers	Minister's Wife	ZEE5
2019	Dupur Thakurpo	Phulwa Boudi	Hoichoi	Bengali webseries
2019	Mayanagari: City of Dreams	Mystery Woman	Hotstar
2020	Aarya	Radhika "Rads"	Hotstar	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 (Indian TV series)	Anisha Menon	Disney+Hotstar