Career
After making her film debut with a minor role in the 1995 drama Rangeela, she played a supporting role in the crime film Satya. She starred in the 2015 dramedy Dil Dhadakne Do, receiving several nominations for Best Supporting Actress. Shefali Shah (née Shetty) was born in July 1972 and is the only child of Sudhakar Shetty (former Reserve Bank of India employee) and Shobha Shetty (a homeopathy doctor, from Marathi family).
She spent her early childhood at the Reserve Bank of India quarters in Santa Cruz, Mumbai where she attended Arya Vidya Mandir, Santacruz, Mumbai.
Shah made her film debut with Rangeela (1995), although she only had a few scenes in the film. She ventured into television with the serial Kabhie Kabhie.
Shah starred in the hit Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005) as Amitabh Bachchan"s wife. Her performance was appreciated by the critics.
Shefali Shah"s break through performance was as Ria Verma in the internationally acclaimed Monsoon Wedding.
She graduated to mature roles as Kasturba Gandhi in Gandhi, My Father and as Anil Kapoor"s wife in the 2008 film Black & White. In 2010 she took to the stage opposite Kiran Karmarkar in the Hindi version of Chandrakant Kulkarni’s play Dhyanimani, Bas Itna Sa Khwab.