Rhea Chakraborty

Rhea Chakraborty

Rhea Chakraborty was born into a Bengali family in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 1 July 1992. She started her career as a VJ on MTV India in 2009. She made her acting debut with the 2012 Telugu film Tuneega Tuneegas. She later appeared in the Hindi film Mere Dad Ki Maruti. In 2018 she appeared in Jalebi opposite debutante Varun Mitra. She founded an artificial intelligence company called Vividrage Rhealityx.

About Rhea Chakraborty in brief

Summary Rhea ChakrabortyRhea Chakraborty was born into a Bengali family in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 1 July 1992. She started her career as a VJ on MTV India in 2009. She made her acting debut with the 2012 Telugu film Tuneega Tuneegas. She later appeared in the Hindi film Mere Dad Ki Maruti. She met the Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput in 2013 when they were shooting for their respective YRF films as the film sets were in vicinity. In 2018 she appeared in Jalebi opposite debutante Varun Mitra. She founded an artificial intelligence company called Vividrage Rhealityx in partnership with her brother and Rajput.

On 14 June 2020, Rajput died by suicide at his home in Bandra, Mumbai, six days after she moved out. On 27 August 2020, BBC News reported that in the wake of Rajput’s death, Rhea had found herself at the centre of a vicious hate campaign led by some of India’s most high-profile journalists and social media trolls. She was described by television hosts as a woman who had ‘performed black magic’ and a purported fan of a purported conservative fan of the actor. After Rajput threatened her on Instagram to commit suicide, she sought help from the police.