Background
Chaudhry was born Ritu Chaudhry in Darjeeling to a Punjabi Jat father and a Nepali-origin mother from Darjeeling.
Chaudhry was born Ritu Chaudhry in Darjeeling to a Punjabi Jat father and a Nepali-origin mother from Darjeeling.
She attended Dow Hill in Kurseong till class X and later moved to Loreto College in Darjeeling.
Initially in the 1990s, she appeared in television ads of which most famous was for Pepsi with Aamir Khan and Aishwarya Rai. She was a VJ on music channels where she was noticed by Subhash Ghai. Ghai gave her a break in the movie Pardes, which was released in 1997.
She dated Indian tennis player Leander Paes before she broke up with him due to his affair with then-married Rhea Pillai.
In early 2015 she was in the news for having a Swiss bank accountant During her acting career, Chaudhry has played a variety of roles, starting with a village girl in Pardes (1997).
Next to doing many films, she has worked with talented actresses, including Kajol, Shilpa Shetty, Amisha Patel, Urmila Matondkar, Manisha Koirala, Raveena Tandon, Rekha, Preity Zinta, Tabu, Padmini Kolhapure, and Hema Malini. When she was asked about this, she responded by saying that she enjoyed working with other actresses, and she expressed her opinion to work with Juhi Chawla, her favorite actress.
In 2010, Chaudhary starred in a Knightsbridge Media Production film, Pusher, directed by Assad Raja, also starring comedian Mani Liaqat.
She is currently shooting a thriller, MumBhai - The Gangsters, co-starring Om Puri and Sanjay Kapoor.