Rayya Labib posts video for Salman Khan, Insta deletes it within 5 minutes

MUMBAI: Popular Instagrammer, model and actress, Rayya Labib who is known for her funny videos and posts, recently posted a selfie video for Bollywood superstar Salman Khan praising his stand on the Lawrence Bishnoi threats case, which has caught the nation’s attention.

Unfortunately for Rayya, Instagram was not amused with the video and promptly deleted it. However, Rayya was not deterred and shared the video with her friends on WhatsApp and other peer sharing platforms like Snapchat.

Finally the video picked up enough traction and eventually went viral. She received hundreds of messages from her friends and fans praising her stand, while a few thought otherwise and even critiqued her.

Who is Rayya Labib?

Rayya Labib hails from Nalbari, Assam where she was born on 10 December,  1996. After finishing her schooling, she went to Guhahati for higher education and also came to Mumbai for modeling and acting assignments now and then.

Rayya Labib is originally of Turkish-Iranian descent or ancestry, but was born and brought up in Assam in North East India. Her great, great grandparents were from Turkey and Iran, she has claimed in media interviews in the past.

She completed her schooling and college in Assam with her schooling in Nalbari where she was very active in cultural activities and also did modeling and ramp shows in nearby towns. Her hobbies include singing, dancing, cooking and sports.

After completing her education, she moved to Mumbai permanently where she is now based, but often travels to Assam to meet her family.

In Mumbai, she started with print shoots and smaller modeling assignments doing various campaigns and even episodic roles in serials like CID, Crime Patrol and the like.

She acted in Sanjay Khandelwal’s venture Lakme and worked with director Maneesh F Singh in the festival film Green Terror, which was partly shot in Pakistan. She has also featured in director Dhiraj Kumar’s film “It’s Over” and is doing a series of mythological web series for an OTT APP.

Hollywood director Lynn Baxter signed her on for an untitled project on the “City of Joy” in Kolkata. The project is at an initial stage and not much information is available right now.

Rayya is currently single. Her hobbies include listing to music, watching movies and sports.

In the year 2014, she participated in the Ms Bikini Asia pageant and was selected among the Top 5. Later on, she went on to win the Ms Bikini Asia-Pacific title a year later in 2015 in a special category and was ranked the first runner up winner. She would have made it to the first spot, but her height was a handicap and she was placed as the first runner up in the international pageant.

But a week later, as fate would have it, the original winner was disqualified on technical grounds and the first runner-up was declared the winner.

She is also active on the social work scenario and conducts fund-raising drives for street children.