Adah Sharma

In this Indian name, the name Sharma is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Adah.

Adah Sharma
Sharma at the CCL Hundred Hearts charity dinner in January 2015
Born	Adah Sarma (1989-05-11) 11 May 1989 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2008–present

Adah Sharma (born 11 May 1989) is an Indian film actress. After finishing her schooling, she made her acting debut with a leading role in the 2008 Hindi language horror film 1920, a box office success. Her portrayal of a possessed woman in the film was critically praised and earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut nomination. By the release of her critically and commercially successful romantic comedy film Hasee Toh Phasee (2014), she ventured into the South Indian film industries, with her first three films—two in Telugu language Heart Attack (2014) and S/O Satyamurthy (2015) and one in Kannada—Rana Vikrama (2015), achieved commercial success and garned her critical appreciations for her performances.

Early life and education

Adah Sharma is a Tamil Brahmin born and raised in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her father S. L. Sarma, who hailed from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, was a captain in the merchant navy and her mother, a native from Nattupura (bordering Palakkad, Kerala), is a classical dancer. Adah did her schooling from Auxilium Convent High School in Pali Hill, Bandra, Mumbai. When she was in Class X, she had already decided to become an actress. She wanted to drop out of school but her parents insisted that she at least complete her schooling. After finishing her Plus Two, she stopped studying.

Adah 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. She also learned salsa for four months in the US, besides jazz and ballet and has stated to be "very good" at belly dancing as well.

Career

Sharma at a Bridal show in 2011

Trying to enter the film industry, Sharma auditioned for several roles in Mumbai, but was rejected either because of her curly hair or because the makers felt that she looked too young. She eventually landed the lead female role in the 2008 Hindi horror film 1920 opposite Rajneesh Duggal and 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", while Ashok Nayak from nowrunning.com wrote that she "rocks in her debut with a great performance". Other reviewers labelled her performance as "excellent", "(exceptionally) brilliant", and "incredibly convincing". The film was a commercial success, too, Bhatt's first box office hit after six years and 10 films, 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, and failing at the box office, 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", Sify's Sonia Chopra stated that she was "the only one in the film who can act". Her third film, the romantic comedy Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke, released another two years later and was a critical and financial failure.

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. She described her character in the former as "vulnerable, yet extremely sexy" and worked for two months on her Telugu diction. 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". Both films were commercially successful, with Hasee To Phasee ending up as one of the highest-grossing Hindi films of 2015. 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, alongside Puneeth Rajkumar and Anjali, her first Kannada project, released on consecutive days in April 2015. Both films were financial successes as well, with the former, having collected over ₹ 80 crore, emerging one of the highest-grossing Telugu films of all time in spite of mixed reviews. 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 was proved to be a moderate success, and Sharma received good reviews for her performance.

As of 2015, Sharma has several projects at various productions, which includes the Telugu romance flicks Kshanam and Garam. She is filming Untitled Project, which will mark her debut in Tamil films, the film is scheduled to release by 2016.

Filmography

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2008	1920	Lisa Singh Rathod	Hindi	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut
2011	Phhir	Disha	Hindi
2013	Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke	Sanjana Mehra	Hindi
2014	Hasee Toh Phasee	Karishma Solanki	Hindi
2014	Heart Attack	Hayathi	Telugu
2015	S/O Satyamurthy	Pallavi Kolasani	Telugu
2015	Rana Vikrama	Paaru	Kannada
2015	Subramanyam For Sale	Durga Goud	Telugu
2016	Jagga Jasoos		Hindi	Filming
2016	Garam		Telugu	Filming

See also

• List of Indian film actresses

External links

• Official website
• Adah Sharma at the Internet Movie Database
• Adah Sharma on Facebook

• Namasthe telangana gallery "Adah Sharma Saree Photos "