Ritu Varma

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Ritu Varma
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Born (1990-03-10) 10 March 1990 (age 34) [1] [2]
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (present-day Telangana), India
Alma mater Malla Reddy Engineering College
Occupations
  • Actress
  • model
Years active2013–present

Ritu Varma (born 1990) is an Indian actress who works in Telugu and Tamil films. After appearing in short films and supporting roles, Varma played the lead female role in the Telugu film, Pelli Choopulu (2016) for which she received Nandi Award for Best Actress and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress – South.

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Early life

Ritu Taran Varma was born and brought up in Hyderabad. [3] [4] Her family is originally from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. She is fluent in Telugu and does her own dubbing for her Telugu films. [4]

She did her intermediate from Villa Marie College for Women, Hyderabad and holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Malla Reddy Engineering College. [2] After completing her graduation, she took part in the Miss Hyderabad Beauty pageant and was declared the first runner-up. [5]

Career

Varma rose to fame with her performance in the Telugu short film Anukokunda. The short film won the Best Film award at the 48HR Film Project competition in 2012 and also fetched Varma the Best Actor (Female) award. [6] The short film was later screened at the Cannes Short Film Corner in 2013. [7]

Her first feature film was Baadshah where she played a supporting role named Pinky. She signed her next film as a lead Prema Ishq Kaadhal in which she played the role of a costume designer opposite Sree Vishnu. [8] [9] Sebsequently, she appeared in Naa Rakumarudu (2014), which was followed by Yevade Subramanyam , [10] for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Female) award at IIFA Utsavam. [11] Her next release, Pelli Choopulu , was a romantic-comedy Telugu film starring Vijay Deverakonda. [12] [7] The film went on to be commercially successful and won the Best Feature Film in Telugu at the 64th National Film Awards as well as the Filmfare Award for Best Film - Telugu. [13] She received critical praise for her performance and eventually won the Nandi Award for Best Actress and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress - Telugu for her performance. [14] [15]

Her next release was Keshava along with Nikhil Siddharth. [16] She did an advertisement for Amazon Pongal 2017 alongside Aari. Impressed with her performance in Pelli Choopulu , director Gautham Vasudev Menon chose her as the lead in his upcoming Tamil film with Vikram, Dhruva Natchathiram . [17] In 2019, she was signed to star opposite Nani in Tuck Jagadish , marking the second collaboration between the two actors. [18] She later played the leading role in Desingh Periyasamy's Tamil-language romantic film Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithaal (2020) alongside Dulquer Salmaan which went on to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. [19]

In 2021, Varma starred in Ninnila Ninnila alongside Ashok Selvan and Nithya Menen. [20] It had a direct OTT release on ZEE5 and received positive reviews especially for Varma's portrayal. The film had an OTT release on Amazon Prime Video, and her last release of the year was Varudu Kaavalenu .

In 2022, her first release was the anthology Modern Love Hyderabad in the segment "Fuzzy, Purple and full of Thorns" which streamed on Amazon Prime Video. Her next release was the bilingual Oke Oka Jeevitham /Kanam, followed by Nitham Oru Vaanam .

In 2023, she starred alongside Vishal and S. J. Suryah in the film Mark Antony [21] and her film Dhruva Natchathiram which has been long pending is said to be released this year.

Filmography

Key
†Denotes films that have not yet been released

Films

YearTitleRoleLanguageNotesRef.
2013 Baadshah Pinky Telugu
Prema Ishq Kaadhal Sameera
2014 Naa Rakumarudu Bindu
2015 Yevade Subramanyam Riya
2016 Pelli Choopulu Chitra
2017 Keshava Sathyabhama
Velaiilla Pattadhari 2 Anitha Tamil cameo appearance
2020 Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithaal Meera / Madhumitha / Ishita / Jessie
Putham Pudhu Kaalai KhannaSegment: Avarum Naanum-Avalum Naanum [22]
2021 Ninnila Ninnila TaraTelugu
Tuck Jagadish Gummadi Vara Lakshmi
Varudu Kaavalenu Bhoomi [23]
2022 Oke Oka Jeevitham VaishnaviBilingual film [24]
KanamTamil
Nitham Oru Vaanam Subhadra [25]
2023 Mark Antony Ramya [26]
TBA Dhruva Natchathiram: Chapter One – Yuddha Kaandam †AnupamaCompleted [27]
TBASwag†Queen Vinjaamara Rukmini DeviTeluguRaja Raja Chora's prequel [28]

Web series

YearTitleRoleLanguageNotesRef.
2022 Modern Love Hyderabad RenukaTeluguUnder segment "Fuzzy, Purple and full of Thorns" [29]
2023 Modern Love Chennai MallikaTamilUnder Segment "Kaadhal Enbadhu Kannula Heart Irukkura Emoji" [30]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryTitleResultRef.
2016 IIFA Utsavam Best Supporting Actor - Female Yevade Subramanyam Nominated [31]
2017 Nandi Awards Best Actress Pelli Choopulu Won [14]
Filmfare Awards South Best Actress (Critics) – South Won [32]
Best Actress – Telugu Nominated [33]
IIFA Utsavam Best Actress – Telugu Nominated [34]
South Indian International Movie Awards Best Actress – Telugu Nominated [35]
2021Best Debut Actress – Tamil Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithaal Won [36]

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