Richa Chadda is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. After debuting with a bit role in the comedy film Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), she worked as a supporting actress in several films. Her major breakthrough was a supporting role in the film noir gangster saga Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), where her role as the bellicose and extremely foul-tongued wife of a gangster earned her a Filmfare award. Her sole foray into mainstream cinema has been as a supporting character in Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela (2013). In 2015, Chadda made her debut in a leading role with the drama Masaan, playing a girl caught after indulging in casual sex. The film got a standing ovation when screened at the Cannes film festival. The film has been cited as a milestone in Chadda's career and through it she is said to have created a niche for herself in the Hindi film industry. Chadda has also worked in theatre, essaying the role of a married Delhi-based woman in Trivial Disasters (2014).

Filmography

• 2025Secret of a Mountain Serpent — Producer
• 2024Girls Will Be Girls — Producer
• Heeramandi — Lajjo
• Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley — Lovely Chopra
• 2023Fukrey 3 — Bholi Punjaban
• Farzi Mushaira
• The Great Indian Murder — Sudha Bharadwaj
• Call My Agent Bollywood — Special Appearance, Richa Chada, Richa Chadha
• Candy — Ratna Sankhwar
• 2021Lahore Confidential — Ananya
• 2021Madam Chief Minister
• 202055 km/sec — Srishti
• 2020Ghoomketu — Pagaliya
• 2020Panga — Meenu
• 2020Shakeela — Shakeela
• 2020Unpaused — Devika Khanna (segment "The Apartment")
• 2019Cabaret — Roza
• 2019Section 375 — Hiral Gandhi
• 20183 Storeys
• 2018Daas Dev — Paro
• 2018Ishqeria — Kuhu
• 2018Love Sonia — Madhuri
• 2017Fukrey Returns — Bholi Punjaban
• Inside Edge — Zarina Malik
• 2017Jia aur Jia — Jia
• 2016Chalk N Duster
• 2016Raakh
• 2016Sarbjit — Sukhpreet Kaur
• 2015Main Aur Charles — Mira Sharma
• 2015Masaan — Devi Pathak
• 2014Tamanchey
• 2013Fukrey — Bholi Punjaban
• 2013Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela — Raseela
• 2012Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 — Nagma
• 2012Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2 — Nagma
• 2008Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! — Dolly
• 2006Ahista Ahista — Interviewer
• Abhi Toh Jung Hona Baaki Hai
• Delhi 2021
• The Last of Them Plagues — Producer
• Untitled Ali Fazal - Richa Chadha Film

Appearances as themselves (8)

• Conan O'Brien Must Go — Self
• The Great Indian Kapil Show — Self
• One Mic Stand — Herself
• The Drama Company — Self
• The Kapil Sharma Show — Self
• Comedy Nights Bachao — Self
• Son of Abish — Herself
• 2013Gangs of Wasseypur - Making Uncut - The Roots of Revenge from Wasseypur — Self