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The actress Bhumika Chawla’s real name is Rachna Chawla.
On hearing the name of the actress Bhumika Chawla, I remember the character of her film ‘Tere Naam’ with Salman Khan in Jehan.
The role of ‘Nirjara’ in the film gave the role an overnight identity and she made a special place in the hearts of the audience.
After this, he was offered many films. However, he was replaced with some films on a career peak, including films like ‘Lage Raho Munna Bhai’ and ‘Jab We Met’.
Today, on the special occasion of Bhumika Chawla’s birthday, let’s touch his life closely-
Bhumika Chawla was born on 21 August 1978 in a Punjabi Hindu family in Delhi. His father was an army officer. The family has an elder brother and an elder sister.
Bhumika started her career with Ed films and music videos. He then worked in Zee TV’s shows ‘Hip Hip Hurray’ and ‘Star Best Sellers Fursat Mein’.
Bhumika worked in Adnan Sami’s album Teri Kasam’s song ‘Mahia’.
Career starts with South Industry in films
Bhumika had made Kadam in films from Telugu industry. Her first film was ‘Yuvaudu’ (2000), in which she appeared with actor Sumant. The second film ‘Khushi’ (2001) was with Pawan Kalyan. The film was a hit.
Pawan Kalyan and Bhumika Chawla’s film ‘Khushi’ was a superhit. It was re -released on 31 December 2022.
After this, Bhumika worked in ‘Okkhadu’ (2003) and ‘Sinharadri’ (2003). Meanwhile, he also entered Tamil films. Her first Tamil film was ‘Badri’ (2001), in which she appeared with Vijay. He then worked in ‘Roja Kotam’ (2002).
Entry and hit film in Bollywood
Bhumika entered Bollywood after acting in South’s films. Her first Hindi film was ‘Tere Naam’ (2003), in which she appeared with Salman Khan.
The film was one of the highest -grossing films of that year.
Bhumika received the Best Debut Award at Zee Cine Awards for ‘Tere Naam’.
How did the role get a role in ‘Tere Naam’?
In an interview on the YouTube channel of the waves, Bhumika Chawla had told that she had done an ed film with ‘Tere Naam’ producer Sunil Manchanda. At the same time, the director of the film Satish Kaushik saw the role of Bhumika’s South film ‘Khushi’ and liked his acting. He then approached Bhumika for the lead role in ‘Tere Naam’.
After this, Bhumika acted in Hindi films ‘Run’ (2004), ‘Dil Ne Joe Apna Kahana’ (2004), ‘Silsia’ (2005) and ‘Dil Jo Jo Kahe’ (2005). Also appeared in Telugu films ‘Na Autograph’ (2004) and ‘Jai Chiranjeeiva’ (2005).
Bhumika played the role of Dhanisha Chakraborty (Dhani) in the Salman Khan starrer film ‘Dil Ne Joe Apna Kahana’.
M.S. Dhoni’s sister played the role
After 2005, the role appeared in less films. She did not appear in more films between 2006 and 2015.
Then in 2016, he did the film ‘M.S. Dhoni played the role of Dhoni’s sister in ‘The Untold Story’. He caught people’s attention with his performance in the film.
The special thing was that Bhumika played this role without meeting Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s sister Jayanti.
Bhumika worked with Sushant Singh Rajput in ‘Dhoni: The Untold Story’.
In an interview given to Bollywood Hungama, when he was asked how he prepared for the role, he told that director Neeraj Pandey had already done the entire research.
Neeraj met Dhoni, his sister Jayanti and the whole family. He talked to him several times and collected all the necessary information.
Bhumika had said that it was not difficult for him to play the role of Jayanti, as he simply followed Neeraj Pandey’s guideline.
After this, the role appeared in films like ‘Middle Class Abbai’, ‘Operation Romeo’ and ‘CTM’.
At the same time, in the role of Salman’s film Kisi Koi Koi Koi Jaan ‘in the role 2023. Salman’s heroine became the role of Salman’s heroine i.e. Pooja Hegde’s sister in this film.
Bhumika has raised questions on age -based casting pattern
Bhumika Chawla has several times talked about casting patterns for actor and actress in commercial films according to her age.
In an interview to ABP News, he said that a change in commercial films is necessary. According to the script, a woman of 30-40 years old also leads, the way actors of the same age play the lead.
At the same time, in a conversation with Siddharth Kannan, he said that it happens in the industry that the hero romances with his half -age heroine. Then he jokingly said that if this is the case, then I should also romance a child.
‘Tere Naam’ surprised everyone at the audio launch
Salman’s heroine in ‘Tere Naam’ said on stage during the audio launch of the film, “I am very happy to work with Salman Bhai, which people were shocked to hear. At the same time, Salman said, “What is happening?”
By the way, the role in interview often calls Salman as brother or sir.
The role on career peak was replaced by films
Bhumika received many offers after the film ‘Tere Naam’, but she always did only select films. He signed a big film, but the production changed, the film changed and the heroine also changed. Because of this, the film got out of his hand. For this, he waited for a year and did not sign any other Hindi film. Later another film signed, but she did not even become.
Regarding replacement from films, Bhumika said that she felt bad only once, when she was removed from the film Jab We Met. That role was later done by Kareena Kapoor.
Bhumika told
I felt bad only when I signed ‘Jab We Met’ and it did not happen. Me and Bobby (Bobby Deol) were in the film, then the film was named ‘Train’, then the film was making HMV, then Ashtavinayak took the film. Then Shahid (Shahid Kapoor) and Main, then Shahid and Ayesha (Ayesha Takia), then Shahid and Kareena (Kareena Kapoor) and similar things happened. I felt bad only once; Never felt bad after that.
At the same time, he was removed from the film ‘Lag Raho Munna Bhai’ due to someone else’s mistake. He was to play the role, which was later played by Vidya Balan.
Regarding not doing ‘Lage Raho Munna Bhai’, Bhumika had said that only director Raju Hirani can tell the reason why not taken in the film. However, Raju had told him that you were removed from the film due to someone else’s mistake.
Role was very rarely talking to Salman on the set
During the shooting of the film ‘Tere Naam’, Bhumika Chawla used to talk very rarely to Salman on the set.
Salman had told that the role of Bhumika was often limited to formal words -“Hello sir, you are good? Lunch? No … Packup … Bye …”
Salman laughed and said, “Maybe I was afraid of my character of ‘Tere Naam’. It seemed that if I speak more, it will fall behind me.”
Salman’s hairstyle and look in the film ‘Tere Naam’ was very much liked by the people, but the role did not like it.
When Salman asked Bhumika how his style seems, Bhumika said, “I don’t think I like it.”
In response, Salman said, “Look, it will soon be very popular.” But Bhumika still said, “I don’t think.”
The role was scared of strange incident during the shooting of ‘Run’
Bhumika was shooting for the film ‘Run’ in Delhi, in which she and Abhishek Bachchan had to do an action scene on a bike.
Near a hospital, a man came to him with an IV bottle in a stretcher and asked, “Where is Radhe?” He looked quite upset.
However, the man left for some time. The incident scared the role.
Bhumika Chawla’s personal life
Bhumika Chawla and her husband Bharat Thakur’s love story began in 2005 with dating. Then both of them got married in 2007.
Bhumika had reported that she had decided to marry on her career peak. She was busy shooting until just ten days before the wedding and arrived directly from there to the wedding.
After marriage, he signed a Telugu film, but returned the signing amount as it was decided not to work for a few months after marriage.
Bhumika and India have a son.
Rumors of divorce in 2011 spread to the media
Bhumika Chawla was quite upset in 2011. The reason was that rumors of her and her husband’s divorce were revealed in the media at that time.
After which, while talking to the Mumbai Mirror, the rumors of divorce, Bhumika said, “It all started with an event where I was seen without India. I keep traveling between Mumbai, Dubai and Hyderabad, do I mean that India will always live with me? It was said that he was said to be with a soundlight, then he was said that he has taken my money and then rumor that I am a domestic violence.”
Bhumika also said, “It was also said that I lodged a complaint with Bihar Police. In which police station lodged this complaint?”
Rumors On the advice of India, Bhumika started a production house and made the film ‘Tiredness Tiredness’, which flopped and lost crores.
Regarding this, Bhumika had said, “Two more big films were also released at that time and they also flopped. If I leave my husband just because of being a film flop, it would be the most ridiculous thing.”
Bhumika was offered the film Bajirao Mastani
Sanjay Leela Bhansali took many years to make the film ‘Bajirao Mastani’.
Bhumika Chawla was also offered the film ‘Bajirao Mastani’. He had a screen test immediately after ‘Tere Naam’. He also did a photoshoot.
There was also an accident during the screen test. Bhumika had reported that her silk saree caught fire due to falling oil and ghee. This incident happened while lighting the lamp.
However, he did not get this role as the film was made after many years and Ranveer Singh was cast as Bajirao, Deepika Padukone as Mastani and Priyanka Chopra as Kashibai. The film was released in 2015.
Yash Chopra had said that she could become Madhuri Dixit After marriage, when the role was met by producer-director Yash Chopra, she often used to say that she would feel that she would become a big Bollywood actress.
Bhumika had told in Siddharth Kannan’s interview that once Yash Chopra asked him, “Why did you marry?”
To which Bhumika replied that she married at her wish. When Yash Chopra asked about her husband, she told. After this Yash Chopra said, “You could have become Madhuri Dixit.”
In 2024, he worked in the Comedy-Drama film Brother. The film was directed by M. Rajesh.
‘Name – The Missing Identity’ was directed by Anees Bazmee.
At the same time, in the year 2024, Bhumika’s film ‘Naam – The Missing Identity’ was released. Ajay Devgan was in the lead role in the film.
The film was completed in 2004 and was scheduled to be released in 2005, but due to production related problems, it could not be released for almost 20 years.
It was eventually released in theaters on 22 November 2024.
Talking about this year, the role appeared in the Tamil film ‘School’. The film was directed by R.K. Of. Vidyaadharan has done. In the film, Bhumika plays the role of Ambirasi.
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