Richa Ahuja

Richa Ahuja was born and brought up in New Delhi. She is a prolific actress, who has been in the industry since 1992. Daughter of a vocalist Shushma Ahuja and a Pakistani Hindu, Richa has had a very liberal background during her childhood. She has been active in the field of theater since childhood. She first appeared in “Praying with Anger.” The movie released in 1991.  It is a demonstrative English film, directed by M. Night Shyamalan Manoj Shyamalan was born on August 6th 1970. His p >> Read More... . It was the debut movie of Shyamalan when he was a student.

Richa moved to Chennai, where she acted in many Hindi and English theater projects. Trained by Ebrahim Elkazi, who founded the National School of Drama in New Delhi, she was associated with him as well as his projects for the longest time. Ebrahim formed the Living Theatre Academy for Drama, and Richa worked in six productions of the academy. After featuring in his plays, she started getting offers from Hindi television series. She got offers to work in some series like “ Parampara Click to look into! >> Read More... ” “Safar” “Sathya” and “ Shanti Shanti – Ek Aurat ki Kahani is a popular Indian dr >> Read More... ”. Subsequently, she got offers to work on the small screen again, but now with the Tamil industry. She collaborated with a Tamil serial called “ Suzhal Suzhal (the vortex) is an Amazon Original series i >> Read More... ,” then went on to feature in “Oviyam” and “Panam Penn Pasam”.

Bored with her small-screen presence, Richa wanted to try her luck on the big screen. She had been expecting things to materialize with Mani Ratnam Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker deeply rooted t >> Read More... , which did not work out for her eventually. 

In 1998, Richa featured in her mother’s directorial debut opposite Ajith Kumar Ajith Kumar is a prominent Tamil film actor, model >> Read More... . It was a romantic film, “Uyirudo Uyiraga” based on a real-life story of the 1990’s. Richa could only take up the role because one leading actress had problems fixing the date. Richa was disheartened that she was not the first choice for the role but one of her mother’s colleague, with who she had worked in one of the movies, motivated her to take up the project. Later the film got a lot of appraisals from the audience. 

Richa was also involved with a French theater that did an adaptation of Girish Karnad’s “Hayavadana”. She later went on to become a part of the stage plays, moved to France, and learned the language. In total, she did more than 45 stage shows of the play. She later worked in a French film named “Le Mystere Parasuram.” The production worked on the project for two years.