Richa Chadda Biography
- Born on 18 December 1986, Actress Richa Chadda is known for her breakthrough performance in film Gangs of Wasseypur and Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela.
- Chadda is also seen playing a lead role in the film Masaan screened at the Cannes film festival.
- In a multi-starrer comedy movie Fukrey and Fukrey 2, Richa is seen playing the role of Bholi Punjaban.
- She is famous for “Ms. Fire” name for playing the amazing character of Nagma Khatoon in the movie Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 and Part 2.
Family & personal details
- Richa was born in Amritsar and is the daughter of Somesh Chadda who runs a management firm.
- Her mother Kusum Chadda is a professor at Delhi University and has written books and often works with Gandhi Smriti.
- Richa has one younger brother named Pranav Chadda who is a trained musician.
- Chadda is in a relationship with Fukrey co-actor Ali Fazal from the year 2016.
Education & qualification
- She has completed her schooling from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi in the year 2002.
- After schooling, Richa went for pursuing her Bachelors in History from St. Stephen College, Delhi.
- Later, from Sophia College in Mumbai, Chadda pursued PG Diploma in Social Communication Media.
Physical appearance
- Richa is a good-looking actress with an attractive personality.
- She weighs almost 57kg and is 5’5” or 165cm in height.
- Chadda has a perfect figure measurement of 34-26-35.
- She has got beautiful dark brown eyes and black colored hair.
Acting Career
- Though, Richa first started her career as a model but gradually switched to the theatre.
- From Barry John Acting School, Richa did her training in acting.
- With a short role in film Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! Richa began her career in Bollywood film and surprisingly got compliments as a confident debut.
- In the year 2012, Richa got a golden chance to perform in movie Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 and Part 2 directed by Anurag Kashyap.
- This movie was box office hit and she was appreciated by all because of her fiery performance.
- For the movie Gangs of Wasseypur, Richa received the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.
- The pivotal role of Nagma Khatoon in Anurag Kashyap’s crime drama movie turned out to be a stepping stone towards success for Richa.
- In 2010, she is also seen in the comedy movie Benny and Babloo.
- Richa was seen playing a supporting role in Goliyoon Ki Rasleela Ram Leela in 2013 directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
- After this movie, Chadda got nominated for the IIFA Awards for Best Supporting Actress.
- Richa also played the role of female don Bholi Punjaban in Mrighdeep Singh Lamba’s comedy movie Fukrey.
- For this movie also she received the award of Best Performance in a Comic Role in Screen Awards 2014.
- After this movie, Richa’s career took many turns and she was seen performing in a Mexican-American anthology film Words with Gods.
- She was also seen playing role in Indian French Film Massan which turned out to be a milestone for her career.
- After her immense popularity, Chadda represented Indian at the 18th Marrakech International Film Festival a jury member.
- She is also seen performing excellently in Main Aur Charles, a biopic of Charles Sobhraj.
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In this biopic film, she is playing the role of law student and Charles’s girlfriend.
- Later in January 2016, Richa did the acting of journalist in a social drama Chalk and Duster.
- She is also seen playing the role of Sukhpreet in Sarbjit which is the biography film of Sarabjit Singh.
- In the movie Sarbjit, Rich shared the screen with some popular celebrities Aishwarya Rai and Randeep Hooda.
- However, Richa is seen playing the lead character of a struggling actress in an Indian web-series Inside Edge in the year 2017.
- Chadda is also spotted in Jia Aur Jia but unfortunately, this film was not able to perform well at the box office.
- She is seen performing in Aur Devdas as Paro in Sudhir Mishra’s version of Devdas Saga.
- Richa has successfully worked for Love Sonia which is David Womark’s Indo-American production.
- Chadda is also seen performing in Section 375 which is a courtroom drama directed by Ajay Bahl.
- As the main lead, Richa is seen acting in the movie Panga which is directed by Kangana Ranaut and Ashwin Iyer Tiwari.
- Being a talented actress, Richa was seen posing as a mermaid for an ad campaign People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
- In this ad, she is encouraging the public to go vegetarian and stop eating fish.
- Richa in the year 2014 also walked the ramps of Lakme Fashion Week.
- Being a multi-talented actress, Chadda is seen performing in a number of advertisements like Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate, Minute Maid, and Virgin Mobile.
Interesting facts about Richa Chadda
- Richa was in a relationship with French actor-director Franck Gastaambide but broke up with him in 2016 and started dating Ali Fazal (Fukrey co-actor).
- Richa’s estimated net worth is almost $1 million to $5 million.
- Chadda speaks the Tamil language fluently and is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer.
- For Kalki’s role in Dev D, Richa was the foremost preference of Anurag Kashyap.
- Richa’s movie Fukrey Return was a super hit and became a huge success, earning 70 crores in just 12 days.
- Chadda has a great fan following on social media platforms. She has 560.9k followers on Twitter and 2.1 m followers on Instagram.
- In the year 2008, Richa also participated in the Gladrags Mega model competition.
