Adah Sharma

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Adah Sharma
Sharma in 2019
Born (1992-05-11) 11 May 1992 (age 31)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationActress
Years active2008–present

Adah Sharma (born 11 May 1992)[1] is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Hindi and Telugu cinema. Sharma, after finishing her schooling, made her acting debut with a leading role in the 2008 Hindi horror film, 1920, a box office success. Her portrayal of a possessed woman in the film was critically praised and earned her a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut nomination.[2][3] After the release of her romantic comedy film, Hasee Toh Phasee (2014), she ventured into the South Indian film industry, playing the leading lady in the Telugu film, Heart Attack (2014). Her other major Telugu films include, S/O Satyamurthy (2015) and Kshanam (2016). She also starred as the lead actress in the movie The Kerala Story (2023).

Early life and education

Sharma[a] was born in Mumbai. Her father S. L. Sharma (d. 2014) was a captain in the Indian Merchant Navy.[6] Her mother Sheila Sharma, is an Indian classical dancer and mallakhamba yoga practitioner.[4][7][8]

Sharma was educated at Auxilium Convent High School, Bandra.[9] When she was in tenth grade, she had decided that she wanted to become an actress. She wanted to drop out of school but her parents insisted that she should complete her schooling at least.[10] After completing her twelfth grade, she stopped studying.[11]

Sharma is a gymnast. She has been dancing since the age of three, and has completed her graduation in Kathak from the Natraj Gopi Krishna Kathak Dance Academy in Mumbai.[12][13] She had learnt salsa for four months in the US, besides jazz and ballet, and has claimed to be "very good" at belly dancing.[10] She is also a practitioner of Silambam, an Indian weapon-based martial art.[14] She has been a vegetarian since childhood.

Sharma can speak Marathi and Hindi.

Career

Sharma in 2018

Trying to break into the film industry, Sharma auditioned for several roles, but was rejected either because of her curly hair or because the casting directors felt that she looked too young.[15] She eventually landed the lead female role in the 2009 Hindi horror film 1920 opposite Rajneesh Duggal which was directed by Vikram Bhatt. Her portrayal of a possessed woman was unanimously praised by critics. The Times of India's Nikhat Kazmi commented that she "delivers a consummate performance",[3] and labelled her performance as "excellent",[2] "[exceptionally] brilliant",[16][17] and "incredibly convincing".[18] The film was a commercial success, Bhatt's first box office hit after six years and 10 films,[19] and earned Sharma a Best Female Debut nomination at the 54th Filmfare Awards. Three years later, she had her next release, Phhir, again a horror film, which saw her collaborating with Vikram Bhatt, who wrote the film, and her, 1920 co-star Rajneesh Duggal. Phhir, however, was not as well received as, 1920, opening to negative reviews,[20][21][22][23] and failing at the box office,[24][25] with Sharma getting mixed response for her performance. While Sujata Chakrabarti wrote that "not even for a minute does she exude the intensity of being a psychic",[26] Sify's Sonia Chopra stated that she was "the only one in the film who can act".[22] Her third film, the romantic comedy Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke, released another two years later and was a critical and financial failure.[27][28]

In 2014, Sharma had two releases: Puri Jagannadh's romance Heart Attack opposite Nithiin, that marked her Telugu debut and a Hindi film Hasee Toh Phasee alongside Sidharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra, which released seven days later and featured her in a supporting role.[29] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama stated, "Adah Sharma is a natural. One strongly feels she hasn't got her due, despite leaving an impression in every film she's featured in."[30] She described her character in the former as "vulnerable, yet extremely sexy" and worked for two months on her Telugu diction.[13] Sharma received positive remarks for her performance in Heart Attack, with The Times of India writing that she "looks like a natural actress and does a decent job" while 123telugu.com felt that she had made a "stunning debut".[31] Both films were commercially successful,[32] with Hasee To Phasee ending up as one of the highest-grossing Hindi films of 2014.[33]

Her next two films, the Telugu family drama S/O Satyamurthy, in which she was cast opposite Allu Arjun and Samantha Ruth Prabhu, and was directed by Trivikram Srinivas, and the Pavan Wadeyar's action thriller Rana Vikrama,[34] alongside Puneeth Rajkumar and Anjali, her first Kannada project, released on consecutive days in April 2015.[35] Both films were financial successes as well,[citation needed] with the former, having collected over ₹ 80 crore, emerging as one of the highest-grossing Telugu films of all time, in spite of receiving mixed reviews from critics.[36] For her next film, she was paired opposite Sai Dharam Tej in Subramanyam for Sale, a Telugu romantic comedy. Directed by Harish Shankar, the film proved to be a moderate success, and Sharma received good reviews for her performance.[32] At the 5th edition of Indian Federation for Fashion Development's India Runway Week, Sharma dazzled in a beautiful lehenga as she walked the ramp for Shravan Kumar. The designer kept the collection region-specific and showcased the lesser known handlooms of the south.[37]

Sharma had three releases in February 2016, two of which were in Telugu language. Her first film, the romantic comedy Garam was directed by Madan and she was cast as the love interest of the character played by Aadi. Her next film was the acclaimed thriller Kshanam where she played the central role of Swetha, who seeks help from her ex-boyfriend (Adivi Sesh). Her final release of the year was the romantic comedy Idhu Namma Aalu, her first Tamil film, in which she had a small role and also performed an item number on the song "King Kong", which topped the charts in South India and her dance moves as well as pairing with Silambarasan was praised.[32][38] Her next release was the thriller Commando 2, a sequel to the 2013 film Commando: A One Man Army, where she plays the female lead role of an inspector opposite Vidyut Jammwal. Commercially, the film was an average-grosser.[39][40] In 2020, she played the role of a transgender woman in a MX Player webseries titled Pati Patni Aur Panga.[41]

In 2023, she starred in the lead role in The Kerala Story, in which she played the role of Shalini Unnikrishnan / Fathima Ba, who was radicalized and converted to Islam, eventually joining the terrorist organization ISIS.[42] Anuj Kumar of The Hindu noted, "Adah Sharma delivers an earnest performance and captures the pain of the vulnerable Shalini who is robbed of her innocence but retains her spine." The film turned out to among the highest grossing films of the year.[43]

After the huge success of The Kerala Story, she has also confirmed working on her first international film, playing the role of a female superhero in an action film.[44] Her project Basstar also received negative reviews and her performance was criticized . [45] [46]

Filmography

Films

Key
† Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year Title Role Language Notes
2008 1920 Lisa Singh Rathod Hindi Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut
2011 Phhir Disha Malhotra
2013 Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke Sanjana Mehra
2014 Heart Attack Hayati Telugu
Hasee Toh Phasee Karishma Solanki Hindi
2015 S/O Satyamurthy Pallavi Kolasani Telugu
Rana Vikrama Paaru Kannada
Subramanyam for Sale Durga Telugu
2017 Garam Sameera
Kshanam Swetha
Idhu Namma Aalu Unnamed Tamil Special appearance in song "Maaman Waiting"
Commando 2 Inspector Bhavna Reddy Hindi
2019 Charlie Chaplin 2 Saara Tamil
Kalki Dr. Padma Telugu
Bypass Road Radhika Nair Hindi
Commando 3 Inspector Bhavna Reddy
2022 Question Mark Swapna Telugu
2023 Selfiee Meera Hindi
The Kerala Story Shalini Unnikrishnan / Fathima Ba
2024 Bastar: The Naxal Story I.G. Neerja Mathur
The Game Of Girgit † Gayatri Bhargav Pre-Production[47]

Web series

Key
† Denotes series that have not yet been released
Year Title Role Platform Ref.
2014–2015 Pukaar Aarti Life OK [48]
2019 The Holiday Mehek Amazon Prime [49]
2020 Pati Patni Aur Panga Shivani Bhatnagar MX Player [50]
2021 Aisa Waisa Pyaar Sweta Sahu JioCinema [51]
2022 Meet Cute Shalini SonyLIV [52]
2023 Commando Bhavana Reddy Disney+ Hotstar [53]
2024 Sunflower (S2) Rosie Mehta ZEE5 [54]

Short films

Year Title Role Language Ref.
2019 Tindey Sridevi Hindi [55]
Moh Shruti [56]
2020 Soulsathi Preeti / Soul [57]
2021 Chuha Billi Kats [58]
2022 Which Side Are You? Reeva
2023 Kofuku Sadaf [59]

Music videos

Year Title Singer(s) Ref.
2017 Life Akhil [60]
2020 Tu Yaad Aya Adnan Sami [61]
2021 Drunk N High Aastha Gill, Mellow D [62]
Sorry Sorry Raashi Sood [63]
Aashiq Mud Na Jaawe Akhil [64]
2022 Piya Re Piya Yasser Desai [65]
2023 Raabta Jubin Nautiyal [66]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ In a Times of India interview she stated that her original name was Adah Sarma, the surname being changed to Sharma keeping inline with the standard spelling in Mumbai.[4] Though in a 2023 interview with Hauterrfly she stated her original name to be Chamundeswari Iyer, the change to Adah Sharma being due to the perceived difficult pronunciation of the name.[5]

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