Aditi Rao Hydari – Famous Bollywood actress from Hyderabad

Aditi Rao Hydari is a famous Bollywood actress best known for her roles in Padmaavat, Murder 3, Wazir, Rockstar, Fitoor, Yeh Saali Zindagi, Bhoomi etc. Her role as Sanjay Dutt’s daughter and a rape victim in Bhoomi and Ranveer Singh’s wedded wife in Padmaavat were well received. Kaatru Veliyidai in 2017 is one of her major works in Tamil film industry, followed by Chekka Chivantha Vaanam in 2018 and she has also worked in Malayalam and Telugu films. In 2020 she played female lead of an RJ & victim in Tamil psycho-thriller, Psycho. 

Aditi was born in Hyderabad in 1986 and both her parents belong to Royal families. Her mother Vidya Rao is a renowned Tumri singer and disciple of Naina Devi. Her parents legally separated when Aditi was 2 years old though they had love marriage. While her father remarried, her mother moved to Delhi where she concentrated on to her singing career, and brought Aditi as a single mother. She started learning Bharatanatyam from Leela Samson at the age of six.

She dreamt to become an actress and started off with south Indian films before moving to Bollywood. Since the age of 11, she performed as a Bharatnatyam dancer as a member of her guru’s troupe. She played the role of a Devadasi in 2007 Indian Tamil period-drama film, Sringaram which won numerous honours. Delhi-6 was her debut Bollywood film.

After playing a few supporting roles, she graduated to lead roles. Lead role inYeh Saali Zindagi gave her a major break in Bollywood. Wazir, Yeh Saali Zindagi, Bhoomi and Padmavat are her major works in Hindi. She also appeared in Rockstar, Fitoor, Murder 3, Boss etc.

Aditi Rao Hydari – Some interesting facts

1. She is the great granddaughter of Akbar Hydari, and also holds the royal lineages of Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari and J. Rameshwar Rao from father and mother side.

2. Born as a Hindu, Aditi practises Buddhism.

3. She kept her marriage with actor Satyadeep Mishra under wraps when she got into films. They legally separated in 2013 and later remained good friends. She married the actor when she was 21.

4. There were rumours of her relationship with Wazir co-star Farhan Akhtar, who was then married. Farhan later divorced his wife, and his linkups with Aditi also died soon.

5. Kiran Rao, Aamir Khan’s wife and a screenwriter and director is her maternal cousin. Both are members of Royal family and granddaughters of J. Rameshwar Rao, the Raja of Wanaparthy.

6. Aditi is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer who started her career as a dancer before moving to films.

7. She marked her film career with Malayalam film, Prajapathi in 2006 where she shared screen space with Mammootty.

8. For her role in Yeh Saali Zindagi, she had 22 lip lock scenes with her co-star Arunoday Singh and her intimate scenes got attention from public and media. It broke the record created by Mallika Sherawat and Himanshu Malik for 2003 movie, Khwahish where the lead pair had 17 lip locks.

9. She has also done playback singing in Bollywood for her movies like ‘London Paris New York’.

10. She is a selfie queen who loves to take her selfies. She is a pet lover too. Aditi is also a member of PETA.

11. During the promotion of Bhoomi, she revealed that she was molested in a temple at Kerala at the age of 15, and she responded by giving him a tight slap.