Richa Chadda

The film premiered at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.

She reprised her role as Nagma Khatoon in the sequel Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2.

The film premiered in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival with its prequel.

Chadha won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics), in addition to a Filmfare Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category.

It was screened out of competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.

Her next movie was a biopic of Charles Sobhraj, Main Aur Charles.

Richa Chadha (born 18 December 1986) is an Indian actress, producer and political activist who works in Hindi cinema.

Chadha was born on 18 December 1986 in Amritsar, Punjab, India into a Sikh family to a Punjabi father and a Bihari mother.

She was educated at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and then at the St. Stephen's College in New Delhi.

Her father owns a management firm and her mother, Kusum Lata Chadha, is a professor of political science at PGDAV College of Delhi University, who has authored two books and also works with Gandhi Smriti.

Chadha began her career as a model and then she moved to theater.

She has performed plays touring in India under Barry John.

After debuting in a small role in the comedy film Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), Chadha's breakthrough came in 2012 with a supporting role in the noir gangster saga Gangs of Wasseypur, where her role as the bellicose and foul-tongued wife of a gangster earned her a Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics).

Chadha made her acting debut in a supporting role as Dolly in Dibakar Banerjee-directed 2008 film Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!.

She appeared in the 2010 comedy film Benny and Babloo as Fedora.

In the meanwhile, a Kannada movie in which she had acted, titled Nirdoshi was released in 2010 after a delay of almost three years.

In 2012, she acted in Anurag Kashyap's crime drama Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1.

She stated in an interview that this role as Nagma Khatoon helped her get 11 film roles.

Chadha's first release of 2013 came in the Mrighdeep Singh Lamba-directed coming-of-age comedy film Fukrey, in which she portrayed a tough-talking female don Bholi Punjaban.

She then appeared in one of the segments in the Anurag Kashyap-produced anthology film Shorts titled "Epilogue".

Chadha and Shirvastav play a dysfunctional couple who seem extremely unhappy with each other.

Chadha next appeared in a supporting role as Rasila in Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directed drama film Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela, an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.

She received a nomination for the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film.

After that, she reprised her role as Bholi Punjaban in Fukrey Returns, a sequel to 2013 film Fukrey.

Richa Chadha worked in Sudhir Mishra's version of the Devdas saga, entitled Aur Devdas as Paro.

Chadha next appeared in Navneet Behal-directed 2014 film Tamanchey in the role of Babu, a criminal.

In 2015, Chadha made her debut in a leading role with the drama Masaan (2015).

In January 2016, Chadha appeared as a journalist in the social-drama Chalk n Duster.

She later appeared in Sarbjit, a biographical-drama film based upon the life of Sarabjit Singh.

She portrayed the role of Sukhpreet, and share screen alongside Aishwarya Rai and Randeep Hooda.

Her performance in the film earned her a second nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 2017, Richa acted in an Indian web-series Inside Edge, playing the lead character of a struggling actress.

The series was positively received by both critics and audience.

In the same year, Jia Aur Jia was released.

The film received unfavorable reviews from critics and did not perform well at box office too.

The film had its world premiere at the London Indian Film Festival on 21 June 2018.

The film was released in India on 14 September 2018.

Her much-delayed film with Pooja Bhatt, Cabaret, released on 9 January 2019.

Chadha also worked for David Womark's Indo-American production Love Sonia.

Her two films, Section 375 a courtroom drama produced by Kumar Mangat Pathak, Abhishek Pathak and directed by Ajay Bahl, co-starring Akshaye Khanna was released on 13 September 2019.