Background
Chaudhry was born Ritu Chaudhry in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Her father is a Hindu Jat from Kakripur village in Baghpat, Western Uttar Pradesh. Her mother is of Nepali origin and hails from Darjeeling.
Chaudhry was born Ritu Chaudhry in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Her father is a Hindu Jat from Kakripur village in Baghpat, Western Uttar Pradesh. Her mother is of Nepali origin and hails from Darjeeling.
During her acting career, Chaudry has played a variety of roles, starting with a village girl in “Pardes” (1997). Her other variety of roles include: “Daag: The Fire” (1999), where she played a nasty prostitute; in “Pyaar Koi Khel Nahin” (1999) she played a widow forced to marry her brother-in-law; in “Dhadkan” (2000) she is a loving friend of a man who is madly in love with another woman; in “Deewane” she plays a singer in love with a thief; in “Kurukshetra” she plays the stubborn wife of a police officer; in “Lajja” she plays a young bride forced to fight dowry; in “Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar” (2001) she plays a stubborn tenant who will not give up her home at any cost; in “Om Jai Jagadish” she is the loving homemaker; in “Dil Hai Tumhaara” she is the loving sister who would do anything for her sister's happiness; in “Dobara” she is the frustrated housewife; in “Zameer: The Fire Within” she's a paralytic dancer, in “Film Star” she is an uptight arrogant fading actress; in “Home Delivery: Aapko... Ghar Tak” (2005) she is an actress who will do anything to get into a big movie; and in “Souten: The Other Woman” (2006) she plays a desperate housewife who has an affair with her stepdaughter's boyfriend. Next to doing a variety of films, she has also worked with numerous talented actresses, including Kajol, Shilpa Shetty, Urmila Matondkar, Manisha Koirala, Raveena Tandon, Rekha, Preity Zinta,Tabu, Padmini Kolhapure, and Hema Malini.
She believes in one of the best-known and most widely worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon Lord Ganesha.
