Aditi Rao Hydari Biography

Aditi Rao Hydari is an Indian film actress and singer, who works in Tamil and Bollywood industry, she made her acting debut with the 2007 Tamil film Sringaram, in which she enacted the lead character, as a devadasi. The movie received critical acclaim and fetched several accolades, including three National Film Awards. Her first film to release in theatres, however, was the 2006 Malayalam film Prajapathi, in which she starred alongside Mammootty.

She was born in Hyderabad, into two royal lineages, that of Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari and J. Rameshwar Rao of erstwhile Raja of Wanaparthy family.

She gave a re-entry to Tamil movie with Kaatru Veliyidai, her first collaboration with director Mani Ratnam. Kaatru Veliyidai garnered mixed reviews; though critics predominantly praised the performance of Aditi.