Koel Purie Rinchet is an Indian film actress who made her debut with Rahul Bose's

Rahul Bose

Rahul Bose is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player.Bose has appeared in Hindi films such as Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats. Time magazine named him "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema" for his work in parallel cinema films like English,...

 directorial venture Everybody Says I'm Fine!

Everybody Says I'm Fine!

Everybody Says I'm Fine! is an Indian English language film, released on 12 September 2001 at the Toronto Film Festival. It marks the directorial debut of Indian actor Rahul Bose...

in 2001 and later featured in Road to Ladakh starring alongside Irrfan Khan. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...

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Purie hosts a talk show On The Couch With Koel on the Indian news channel Headlines Today

Headlines Today

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. Purie is the daughter of media tycoon Aroon Purie

Aroon Purie

Aroon Purie is an Indian businessman who is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of India Today and the Chief Executive of the India Today Group. He is also the Managing Director of Thomson Press Limited and the Chairman and Managing Director of TV Today...

. She married her French boyfriend Laurent Rinchet on 12 April 2009.
Rumours abound that Purie has just landed the lead part in a Scottish based movie spectacular. Set in the southern Highlands Koel plays the part of a vertically challenged woman with a propensity to exaggerate everything but her age.

Filmography

• Road to Ladakh (2010).... Sharon
• Rock On!
  Rock On!! (2008 film)
  Rock On !! is a 2008 Bollywood rock musical film written and directed by Abhishek Kapoor, produced by Farhan Akhtar, and with music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy...
  
  (2008) .... Devika
• Secrets of the Seven Sounds (2008)
• The Great Indian Butterfly
  The Great Indian Butterfly
  The Indian Butterfly is a 2010 Bollywood film, written and directed by Sarthak Dasgupta. It is about finding peace, love, happiness in our life, which is within lies within our self according to the movie. Its a story of a typical modern class Indian couple and their journey to Goa where they had...
  
  (2007)
• It's Breaking News
  It's Breaking News
  It's Breaking News is a Bollywood movie released in October 2007. Its a story about corrupt police officers, exploitation of an innocent girl and media's fight to expose the facts. A girl seeks help after her father's death from the Higher-ranking officer. He takes advantage of the girl and makes...
  
  (2007) .... Vidya
• Amal
  Amal (film)
  Amal , 2007, is a Canadian drama film directed and written by Richie Mehta. Set in modern-day New Delhi, India, it tells the story of a poor autorickshaw driver, Amal Kumar....
  
  (2007) .... Pooja Seth
• Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee (2007) .... Richa Gupta
• The Lookalike (2006) .... Kavita/Kohinoor
• Mera Dil Leke Dekho (2006)
• Mixed Doubles (2006) .... Kalpana
• Nazar (2005) .... Sub-Inspector Sujata Deshmukh
• White Noise (2004) .... Gauri
• American Daylight (2004) .... Sue/Sujata
• Everybody Says I'm Fine!
  Everybody Says I'm Fine!
  Everybody Says I'm Fine! is an Indian English language film, released on 12 September 2001 at the Toronto Film Festival. It marks the directorial debut of Indian actor Rahul Bose...
  
  (2001)

TV

• Trial & Retribution: Sins of the Father (2006) (TV) (uncredited) .... Margaret Dawes
• Fairy Tales .... Shekeelia (1 episode, 2008) - "The Empress's New Clothes" (2008) TV
• Losing Gemma (2006) (TV) .... Coral
• The Afternoon Play .... Sonia Bhose (1 episode, 2005) - "Reverse Psychology" (2005) TV
• Dirty War (2004) (TV) .... DC Sameena Habibullah
• As If .... Travel Agent (1 episode, 2004) - "Jamie's POV" (2004) TV
• Indian Dream (2003) (TV) .... Neeraj
• The Vice .... WPC Charlie Carter (1 episode, 2003) - "Gameboys" (2003) TV episode .... WPC Charlie Carter
• Holby City .... Seleena Chowdhury (1 episode, 2003) - "For Better, for Worse" (2003) TV