Ritu Varma
Biography
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 the Nandi Award for Best Actress and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress – South.
Ritu Taran Varma was born and brought up in Hyderabad. Her father is from Madhya Pradesh. She is fluent in Telugu and does her own dubbing for her Telugu films.
She did her intermediate from Villa Marie College for Women, Hyderabad, and holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Malla Reddy Engineering College. After completing her graduation, she took part in the Miss Hyderabad Beauty pageant and was declared the first runner-up.
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. The short film was later screened at the Cannes Short Film Corner in 2013.
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, and her film Dhruva Natchathiram which has been long pending is said to be released this year.
