Actress and former MTV VJ Rhea Chakraborty turned 29 on this birthday. The actress made her way to television in 2009 with MTV India's TVS Scooty Teen Diva where she was the first runner-up. After this, she went on the audition to be a VJ at MTV and hosted several MTV Shows, including Pepsi MTV Wassup, TicTac College Beat, and MTV Gone in 60 Seconds. Rhea paved her way to acting with her stint at MTV and made her debut with the Telugu movie Tuneega Tuneega.
Rhea made her debut with this MS Raju directorial. The romantic movie starred Sumanth Ashwin as Karthik & Rhea's love interest. Tuneega Tuneega also stared veteran Telugu actors like Prabhu & Naga Babu. Rhea plays the role of Nidhi, Karthik's childhood friend who leaves for the US for higher studies. When she comes back, Nidhi becomes Karthik's subject of infatuation.
Rhea made her Bollywood Debut with Y-films' comedy-drama starring actors Saqib Saleem, Ram Kapoor, and Prabal Panjabi. Rhea played the role of Jasleen, a popular college girl while Saqib played the role of Sameer who wants to impress her.
Directed by Charudutt Acharya and produced by Ramesh Sippy & Rohan Sippy, Sonali Cable shows Rhea playing the lead role of an internet cable service provider in Mumbai Te movie also starred Ali Fazal as Raghu, Rhea's romantic partner in the movie and marked the debut of Raghav Juyal in acting.
The actress also starred in this YRF Production next to actors Riteish Deshmukh and Vivek Oberoi. In this bank robbery movie, Rhea played the role of a crime reporter Gayatri Ganguly aka Gaga who practices yellow journalism.
Produced by Mahesh Bhatt, this romantic drama starred Rhea opposite, Varun Mitra. Rhea plays the role of Aisha, a writer a career-oriented woman who falls in love with a more traditional man named Dev. The movie depicts how the two explore the balance between opposing world views.
Chakraborty met the Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput in 2013. They were shooting for their respective YRF films as the film sets were in the vicinity. They started dating each other in April 2019. She founded an artificial intelligence company called Vividrage Rhealityx in partnership with her brother and Rajput in September 2019. The couple moved in together in December 2019. On 14 June 2020, Rajput died by suicide at his home in Bandra, Mumbai, six days after she moved out.
