There are two versions of Trisha Kar Madhu online. One is a working Bhojpuri actress with a decade of films, music videos and a hit song behind her. The other is a search term attached to something that was done to her without her consent in 2021.
The second version has almost entirely buried the first, and much of what is written under it is not even about her. Here is the actual record, and what she has said about 2021 in her own words.
Trisha Kar Madhu: Quick Facts
| Screen name | Trisha Kar Madhu |
| Reported birth name | Trisha Khan |
| Born | 2 September 1994, reported |
| Age | 32 |
| From | Konnagar, near Kolkata, West Bengal |
| Profession | Actress, dancer and model |
| Works in | Bhojpuri films and music videos |
| Best known song | “Raja Tani Jaayi Na Bahariya” |
Profile details
| Height | Not reliably documented; circulating figures have no traceable source |
| Education | Graduated from Ashutosh College, Kolkata |
| Languages of work | Bhojpuri, with early work in Bengali |
| Frequent collaborators | Pawan Singh, Khesari Lal Yadav, Arvind Akela Kallu, Rakesh Mishra |
| Work formats | Films, music videos, television, short-form video |
| Active since | Mid-2010s |
Who is Trisha Kar Madhu?
Trisha Kar Madhu is an Indian actress, dancer and model working primarily in Bhojpuri cinema and music videos. She was born in Konnagar, a town near Kolkata in West Bengal, and her reported birth name is Trisha Khan. She graduated from Ashutosh College in Kolkata before moving into modelling and then screen work.
She is a Bengali performer who built her career in the Bhojpuri industry rather than her home industry, which is less common than it sounds and required learning to work in a language and market that were not her own.
Career
She began with modelling and television, making her small-screen debut with Hum Hai Hindustani. Opportunities in Bengali cinema were limited, and she moved towards the Bhojpuri industry, where she found significantly more work.
Her strongest ground has been Bhojpuri music videos, a format that reaches enormous audiences on YouTube and which has become a career in its own right rather than a sideline to film. She has appeared opposite most of the industry’s leading names, including Pawan Singh, Khesari Lal Yadav, Arvind Akela Kallu and Rakesh Mishra. Her best-known track is “Raja Tani Jaayi Na Bahariya”, which has drawn hundreds of millions of views.
She has also worked in Bhojpuri films across the last several years. Her film list is where reporting on her becomes unreliable: different sites publish substantially different filmographies for her, with titles appearing on one and not another, and no single authoritative credit listing exists. Titles attributed to her across sources include Rani Weds Raja, Balamua Tohre Khatir, Dabang Sarkar, Dulhan Ganga Paar Ke and Mukaddar. Treat any complete-looking filmography for her with caution, including ones that look official.
2021, and what she has said about it
In August 2021, a private video of Trisha was circulated online without her consent. What followed was not a scandal she created. It was a crime committed against her, and then a second wave of harm as the footage spread and she was publicly blamed for it.
She spoke about it at the time, saying the material had been made public by people trying to damage her. She returned to it in detail in 2025, on actress Nidhi Jha’s podcast, and her account there is the clearest first-person record available. She said the video was taken without her knowledge in her early days in the industry, that the person who leaked it was someone she lived with and trusted, and that she believes influential people in the Bhojpuri industry were involved in circulating it.
She also addressed the accusation that she had orchestrated it for publicity, which was widely repeated at the time and is still printed on many pages about her. Her response was direct: why would she destroy a career she had only just built. She has said the episode pushed her out of the industry for a period and that she struggled badly in its aftermath.
Belloria is not linking to, describing or naming that material, and does not treat it as an entertainment story. It is included here only because the false version of it, the one blaming her, is still the dominant account online, and correcting the record is the only reason to write about it at all.
Where she is now
She has continued working in Bhojpuri films and music videos and is active on social media, where she posts performance clips and short-form video. Coverage of her still routinely leads with 2021 rather than her work, which is a reasonable measure of how difficult that period has been to move past professionally.
Social media
| Platform | Handle | What she posts |
|---|---|---|
| X | @TrishaKarMadhu | Statements and updates; the handle she used to respond publicly in 2021 |
| Active, handle not independently verified here | Reels, song promotions and photoshoots |
No verified follower counts are available from a dated, named source. Verify the Instagram handle against her live profile before relying on it.
Fact check: what is published about Trisha Kar Madhu, and what holds up
Her online biography is one of the most corrupted of any working Indian actress. A substantial part of it belongs to somebody else.
| Claim | What the record shows | Status |
|---|---|---|
| She debuted in the 1999 Tamil film Jodi | This belongs to the Tamil actress Trisha Krishnan. If Trisha Kar Madhu was born in 1994, she would have been about five years old in 1999. | Wrong person |
| She won Miss Salem, Miss Chennai and Miss Madras in 1999, and Miss India Beautiful Smile in 2001 | Also Trisha Krishnan’s record. A five-year-old cannot win a beauty pageant. | Wrong person |
| She wanted to become a criminal psychologist | The same detail, from the same confused source. It has been repeated even by mainstream Hindi outlets. | Wrong person |
| She leaked the 2021 video herself for publicity | She has publicly and repeatedly rejected this, saying the recording was made without her knowledge and leaked by someone she lived with. No evidence has ever been produced for the publicity claim. | Unsupported accusation |
| Her home town is Patna, Bihar | Sources consistently place her origin in Konnagar, near Kolkata in West Bengal. The Bihar connection is professional, through the Bhojpuri industry, not personal. | Incorrect |
| Her height and physical statistics | Figures circulate with no agency listing or first-party source behind them. | Unverified |
| Her net worth | One site publishes a range in crores while citing nothing. No disclosure supports any figure. | Unverified |
| Her religion | Different pages assert flatly contradictory things about her family’s faith. Belloria publishes none of it, as it is both unverified and irrelevant to her work. | Contradictory and not published |
Why this matters: when the same paragraph about a 1999 Tamil film debut appears on a dozen pages about a Bhojpuri actress born in 1994, none of those pages did any checking. That is the same standard of care behind the claims made about her in 2021.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is Trisha Kar Madhu?
A Bengali actress, dancer and model from Konnagar in West Bengal who works in Bhojpuri films and music videos, best known for the song “Raja Tani Jaayi Na Bahariya”.
What is Trisha Kar Madhu’s real name?
Reported as Trisha Khan. Trisha Kar Madhu is her professional screen name.
Did Trisha Kar Madhu act in the Tamil film Jodi?
No. That film, and the pageant titles frequently listed alongside it, belong to the Tamil actress Trisha Krishnan. The two have been confused on a large number of biography pages.
What did Trisha Kar Madhu say about the 2021 video?
She has said it was recorded without her knowledge early in her career and leaked by someone she lived with and trusted, and she has rejected claims that she released it for publicity.
What is Trisha Kar Madhu’s age?
32, based on a reported birth date of 2 September 1994.
Is Trisha Kar Madhu still working?
Yes. She continues to work in Bhojpuri films and music videos and remains active on social media.