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Adah Sharma Biography – an Indian Actress and a trained Gymnast

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Real Name: Adah Sarma
Profession: Indian actress
Birthplace: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Famous for: Gymnast
Age: 30

Adah Sharma (born as Adah Sarma; 11 May 1992), is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil language films. Sharma, after finishing her schooling, 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 a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut nomination. After the release of her romantic comedy film Hasee Toh Phasee (2014), she ventured into the South Indian film industry, doing films in Telugu.

Adah Sharma Biography
Adah Sharma Biography
Adah Sharma Biography
Born
Adah Sarma

11 May 1992 (age 30)

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupations
  • Actress
  • model
Years active 2008 – present

Early Life and Education

She was born as Adah Sarma in Mumbai to a Tamil Brahmin (Palakkad Iyer) family. Her father, S. L. Sharma (d. 2014), hailed from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, and was a captain in the Indian Merchant Navy. Her mother, Sheila Sharma is a Malayali. Her mom is also an Indian classical dancer and mallakhamba yoga practitioner.

When she was in tenth grade, she decided that she wanted to become an actress. She wanted to drop out of school but her parents insisted that she complete her schooling at least. After completing her twelfth grade, she stopped studying.

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. She had learned salsa for four months in the US, besides jazz and ballet, and has claimed to be “very good” at belly dancing.

Adah Sharma Biography
Adah Sharma Biography

Career

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. She eventually landed the lead female role in the 2009 Hindi horror film 1920 opposite Rajneesh Duggal, directed by Vikram Bhatt. Her portrayal of a possessed woman was unanimously praised by critics. The Times of Indias Nikhat Kazmi commented that she “delivers a consummate performance”, and labeled her performance as “excellent”, “[exceptionally] brilliant”, and “incredibly convincing”. The film was a commercial success, 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 responses 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, was 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, which 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 2014.

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 crores, emerging as one of the highest-grossing Telugu films of all time, in spite of receiving mixed reviews from critics. 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. At the 5th edition of the 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.

Sharma had three releases in February 2016, two of which were in the 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 dance moves as well as pairing with Silambarasan was praised. 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. In 2020, she played the role of a transgender woman in an MX PLAYER web series titled Pati Patni aur Panga.

Adah_Sharma with her Grandma
Adah Sharma with her Grandma

Filmography

Films

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 the song “Maaman Waiting”
2017 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
2023 Selfiee Meera Hindi
The Kerala Story Not yet released Shalini Unnikrishnan / Fathima Ba Filming

Web series

Year Title Role
2014–2015 Pukaar Aarti
2019 The Holiday Mehek
2020 Pati Patni Aur Panga Shivani Bhatnagar
2021 Aisa Waisa Pyaar Sweta Sahu
2022 Meet Cute Shalini
Adah Sharma Biography
Adah Sharma Biography

Short films

Year Title Role Language
2019 Tindey Sridevi Hindi
Moh Shruti
2020 Soulsathi Preeti / Soul
2021 Chuha Billi Kats
2022 Which Side Are You? Reeva
2023 Kofuku Sadaf

Music videos

Year Title Singer(s)
2017 Life Akhil
2020 Tu Yaad Aya Adnan Sami
2021 Drunk N High Aastha Gill, Mellow D
Sorry Sorry Raashi Sood
Aashiq Mud Na Jaawe Akhil
2022 Piya Re Piya Yasser Desai

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