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Nitu Chandra is an Indian actress, film producer and theatre artist.[1] She is also a classical dancer and a sportsperson, involved in the promotion of basketball in the country through her close association with the NBA and Taekwondo, being a fourth Dan black-belt.[2] She has her own production house named Champaran Talkies, winning the National Award for the film Mithila Makhaan.[3] The national award-winning film was directed by her brother Nitin Chandra.

Nitu Chandra
Chandra in 2019
Born	1984 (age 37–38) Patna, Bihar, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress, film producer
Years active	2005–present

Early life and education

Nitu Chandra was born in 1984 in Patna, Bihar in India. Her mother tongue is Bhojpuri.[4] She was educated at the Notre Dame Academy, Patna and completed her undergraduate education at Delhi's Indraprastha College.[5] She started modelling and Nitu gives credit of her success to her mother, a native of East Champaran in Bihar.[6] She has appeared in several advertisements and videos for firms since her graduation. She holds two Dan black belts in Taekwondo and represented India in the 1997 World Taekwondo Championships in Hong Kong.[7]

Nitu Chandra's brother is Nitin Chandra who directed the movie Deswa.[8]

Acting career

Chandra debuted in the Hindi film industry in 2005 with Garam Masala in which she portrayed the role of Sweety, an air-hostess. She also acted in Godavari, a Telugu film, in 2006. In 2007 she appeared in Madhur Bhandarkar's film, Traffic Signal.

In 2008, she had four releases, being directed by Dibakar Banerjee, Rahul Dholakia, Ashwini Dheer and Vikram. Her Tamil film, Yavarum Nalam with Madhavan, released in 2009, was declared a major hit. In 2010 she was seen in four Hindi films, Rann, Apartment, No Problem, in which she made a special appearance, and Sadiyaan, and one Tamil film, Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011 Deswa, a Bhojpuri film which she produced and which was directed by her brother, was released.[9]

In 2013, she acted in the Tamil-language action film Ameerin Aadhi-Bhagavan alongside Jayam Ravi. She has completed filming for a Greek film Home Sweet Home,[10] in which she plays an Indian girl.[11] She had to learn Greek for the film and also dubbed herself.[12] She has two Hindi films, Kusar Prasad Ka Bhoot and Shooter, coming up.[4]

In 2020, she appeared in the Hollywood show Gown and out in Beverly Hills with Bollywood actor Sammy John Heaney.^{[citation needed]}

Other work

Chandra became the brand ambassador for the Hoop, a Gitanjali brand.[13] She also took part in a commercial for Mysore Sandal Soap. Nitu Chandra also appeared in music director Ismail Darbar's music video "Rasiya Saajan" along with Zubeen Garg.[14] She was also seen in the music video of Bombay Vikings' singer Neeraj Shridhar's hit single "Aa Raha Hoon Main".[15] She also appeared in a successful remix of Sajna Hai Mujhe from D.J. Hot Remix Vol.1 (and the song appeared in 7 other albums after that), and the super hit song Mera Babu Chhail Chhabila (CD - Sophie & Dr.Love, DVD - D. J. Hot Remix Vol.2 & The Return Of Kaanta Mix) alongside Sophie Choudry (the song appeared in 9 other albums after that).^{[citation needed]}

In 2013, Chandra made her debut in theatre,[16] in a play, called Umrao, which featured her in the title role. The Times of India".[17] She has been hosting Rangoli on DD National since May 2017. In 2018, Chandra became Community Ambassador for Patna Pirates in pro kabbadi league.^{[citation needed]}

In the media

In 2008, 7Seas Technologies launched a 3D mobile game, Nitu — The Alien Killer, with Nitu Chandra as the lead character.[18]

Nitu was featured on the cover of the January 2009 issue of Indian Maxim.[19]

Filmography

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As Actress

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2003	Vishnu	Teju	Telugu	Telugu debut film
2005	Garam Masala	Sweety	Hindi	Hindi debut film
2006	Godavari	Raji	Telugu
2007	Traffic Signal	Rani	Hindi
2008	One Two Three	Inspector Mayawati Chautala
	Summer 2007			special appreance in song
	Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!	Sonal
2009	Satyameva Jayate	Basara Papa	Telugu
	Yavarum Nalam	Priya Manohar	Tamil	Tamil debut
	13B		Hindi
2010	Mumbai Cutting
	Rann	Yasmin Hussain
	Apartment	Neha Bhargav
	No Problem	Sophia
	Sadiyaan			special appreance in song
	Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai	Tejaswini	Tamil
2011	Yuddham Sei	Cabaret Dancer		Special appearance in song "Kannitheevu Ponna"
	Kucch Luv Jaisaa	Ria	Hindi
	Deswa		Bhojpuri	Special Appearance
2013	Aadhi Baghavan	Rani Sampatha / Karishma	Tamil	SIIMA Award for Best Actress in Negative role
	Settai	Herself		Special appearance in song "Laila Laila"
2014	Manam	Air hostess	Telugu	Cameo appearance
	Power		Kannada	Special appearance in song "Why Why (YY)"
2015	Thilagar	Village Dancer	Tamil	special appreance in song
2016	Block 12	Indian Goddess	Greek
2017	Singam 3	Bar Dancer	Tamil	Special Appearance in song "O Sone Sone"
	Vaigai Express	Radhika/ Jyothika		Dual Role
	Brahma.com	Nitu Chandra
2021	Never Back Down: Revolt		English	Hollywood Debut[20][21]

As producer

Year	Film	Language	Notes
2011	Deswa	Bhojpuri
2016	Mithila Makhaan	Maithili

Television

Year(s)	Show	Role	Channel	Notes	Ref.
2017–2018	Rangoli	Host/presenter	DD National		[22]

References

External links

• Nitu Chandra at IMDb 
• Nitu Chandra at Bollywood Hungama

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