Vidya Malvade

Malvade was born on 2 March 1973 in Maharashtra, India. She is the niece of veteran actress Smita Patil. She has two sisters .Vidya started her career as an air hostess. She then began modelling and was chosen by ad filmmaker Prahlad Kakkar for some advertisements. Her acting debut was with Vikram Bhatt's Inteha (2003) which failed at the box office. After a string of unsuccessful movies and several advertisements, she acted in Chak De India in the year 2007 playing the role of a goalie and captain of the Indian women's national hockey team. Her most recent movie was Yaara Silly Silly.