Mahima Chaudhry

Mahima Chaudhry
Mahima Chaudhry
Born	13th September; Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1997 - Present
Spouse(s)	Bobby Mukherji (m. 2006; div. 2013)
Children	2

Mahima Chaudhry (born 13 September) is an Indian actress and model who worked in Hindi films. During the 1990s, Chaudhry did a few modelling assignments and appeared in several television commercials before venturing into films. She made her acting debut in the 1997 film Pardes, for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She established a career with several roles in films including Daag (1999), Dhadkan (2000), Kurukshetra (2000), Dil Hai Tumhaara (2002), and received critical recognition for her performances in Dil Kya Kare (1999) and Lajja (2001).

Early and personal life[]

Mahima Chaudhry was born in Darjeeling. She attended Dow Hill in Kurseong till class X and later moved to Loreto College in Darjeeling.^[2] She appeared in several TV ads, of which the 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. Subhash Ghai gave her a break in the movie Pardes, which was released in 1997. The movie was successful and won many awards including the Filmfare award for best debut.

She dated Indian tennis player Leander Paes before she broke up with him due to his affair with then-married Rhea Pillai.^[3] She married architect businessman Bobby Mukherji in 2006. She has an 8-year-old daughter Ariana from her marriage. In 2013, she separated from Mukherji. Their hush hush wedding was steady until 2011 when reports came that the couple are staying separately due to incompatibility and differences. In a recent interview, Mahima Chaudhry opened up about her accident where media called her scar face,^[4] divorce, her daughter custody.

Acting career[]

Chaudhry has played a variety of roles, starting with a village girl in Pardes (1997). Her other roles were in Daag: The Fire (1999),^[5] where she played a dual role; 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 (2002) she is the sister who would do anything for her sister's happiness; in Dobara she is the frustrated housewife; in The Film she is a desperate struggling screenwriter; in Zameer: The Fire Within she's a paralytic dancer, in Film Star she is an uptight arrogant fading actress; in Home Delivery (2005) she's a South Indian superstar; and in Souten: The Other Woman (2006) she plays a desperate housewife who has an affair with her stepdaughter's boyfriend.

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,^[6] directed by Assad Raja, also starring comedian Mani Liaqat. She also worked in the thriller Mumbhaii - The Gangster, co-starring Om Puri and Sanjay Kapoor.

Filmography[]

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1997	Pardes	Kusum Ganga	Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress
1999	Manasulo Maata	Priya	Telugu film
	Dil Kya Kare	Kavita Kishore	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Daag: The Fire	Kajri Verma / Kajal
	Pyaar Koi Khel Nahin	Nisha
2000	Dhadkan	Sheetal Varma	Nominated — Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Deewane	Pooja
	Kurukshetra	Anjali P. Singh
	Khiladi 420	Ritu Bhardwaj
2001	Lajja	Maithili
2001	Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar	Saraswati
2002	Om Jai Jagadish	Ayesha
2002	Dil Hai Tumhaara	Nimmi
2003	Saaya	Tanya
	Tere Naam		Special appearance in song "O Jaana"
	Baghban	Arpita Alok Malhotra
	LOC Kargil	Reena Yadav
2004	Dobara	Dr. Anjali Sehgal
2005	Zameer: The Fire Within	Supriya Maheshwari
	Kuchh Meetha Ho Jaye	Gulab Khan
	Sehar	Anamika Kant
	Film Star	Heera Pandit
	The Film	Sushmita Banerjee
	Home Delivery	Maya
	Bhagmati	Bhagmati	Voice-over
2006	Souten: The Other Woman	Mitali 'Mita' R. Singh
	Sandwich	Sweet Singh / Sweety Shekar
	Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamana	Anjali
	Mr 100%	Shilpa
	Hope and a Little Sugar	Saloni
	Sarhad Paar	Simran
2008	Gumnaam – The Mystery	Ria
2010	Pusher	Anita
2015	Mumbhaii - The Gangster	Gangster's wife
2016	Dark Chocolate	Ishani Banerjee

TV shows[]

Ticket to Bollywood (judge) (NDTV Prime)

Awards and nominations[]

Awards and nominations
Year	Film	Award	Category	Result
1998	Pardes	Filmfare Award	Best Female Debut	Won
		Filmfare Award	Best Actress	Nominated
		Zee Cine Award	Best Female Debut	Won
1999	Dil Kya Kare	Filmfare Award	Best Supporting Actress	Nominated
2000	Dhadkan	Filmfare Award	Best Supporting Actress	Nominated
		IIFA Awards	IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award	Nominated
		Star Screen Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Nominated
		Bollywood Movie Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Won
		Sansui Award	Best Supporting Actress	Won
2005	Dobara	Stardust Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Nominated
2005	Dobara	Zee Cine Award	Best Supporting Actress	Nominated

References[]

^ Chhetri, Vivek (21 December 2011). "Hills smile to conquer 'camera' & hearts". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
^ "Hills smile to conquer camera & hearts". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
^ "Leander cheated!". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
^ "EXCLUSIVE: Mahima Chaudhry RECALLS nasty remarks by media post horrific accident: They called me a 'scarface'". Bollywood Bubble. 5 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
^ Chopra, Anupama (22 February 1999). "Film Without Fire". India Today. Archived from the original on 21 November 2000. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
^ "www.pushermovie.com". pushermovie.com. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2015.

External links[]

Mahima Chaudhry at IMDb
Mahima Chaudhry on Twitter

[1] Chhetri, Vivek (21 December 2011). "Hills smile to conquer 'camera' & hearts". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2016.

[2] "Hills smile to conquer camera & hearts". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2015.

[3] "Leander cheated!". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2015.

[4] "EXCLUSIVE: Mahima Chaudhry RECALLS nasty remarks by media post horrific accident: They called me a 'scarface'". Bollywood Bubble. 5 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.

[5] Chopra, Anupama (22 February 1999). "Film Without Fire". India Today. Archived from the original on 21 November 2000. Retrieved 10 May 2020.

[6] "www.pushermovie.com". pushermovie.com. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2015.

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show v t Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut
1989–2000	Juhi Chawla (1989) Bhagyashree (1990) Pooja Bhatt (1991) Raveena Tandon (1992) Divya Bharti (1993) Mamta Kulkarni (1994) Sonali Bendre & Tabu (1995) Twinkle Khanna (1996) Seema Biswas (1997) Mahima Chaudhry (1998) Preity Zinta (1999) Nandita Das (2000)
2001–2009	Kareena Kapoor (2001) Bipasha Basu (2002) Esha Deol (2003) Lara Dutta & Priyanka Chopra (2004) Ayesha Takia (2005) Vidya Balan (2006) Kangana Ranaut (2007) Deepika Padukone (2008) Asin (2009)
2010–present	Not awarded (2010) Sonakshi Sinha (2011) Parineeti Chopra (2012) Ileana D'Cruz (2013) Vaani Kapoor (2014) Kriti Sanon (2015) Bhumi Pednekar (2016) Ritika Singh (2017) Not awarded (2018) Sara Ali Khan (2019) Ananya Panday (2020) Alaya F (2021)