Acting
Jul 19, 1972
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Shefali Shah
Acting
Biography
Shefali Shah nee Shetty (born 22 May 1972), is an Indian actress who works in Bollywood films. After making her film debut with a minor role in the 1995 drama Rangeela, she played a supporting role in the crime film Satya. Her performance in Satya received critical praise and won her the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress and a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the 44th Filmfare Awards. She was later nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the family drama Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005). In 2007, she received critical acclaim and won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Last Lear. She starred in the 2015 dramedy Dil Dhadakne Do, receiving several nominations for Best Supporting Actress. She, along with the main cast won the Screen Award for Best Ensemble Cast for the film. Shah was married to television actor Harsh Chhaya. After their divorce, she married director Vipul Amrutlal Shah. She has two sons with Shah.
Feature Films (29)
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
Monsoon Wedding
At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.
Mohabbatein
A chronic illness leaves Ishwar with only a few months to live. His son Aditya is extremely reckless. To make him realise his responsibilities, Ishwar throws his son out of the house.
Waqt
A much abused loner achieves success, and even wins the heart of his gorgeous co-worker, after getting early morning mysterious phone calls from someone.
Karthik Calling Karthik
Unable to live in his father's gigantic shadow, Mahatma Gandhi's eldest son, Harilal, gets distraught and resorts to alcoholism.
Gandhi, My Father
After getting bored with her love less marriage life, a wife decides to get a breathe of fresh air and meets a hit man.
Kucch Luv Jaisaa
A hit and run of an 18-year-old girl becomes the hub of a wheel that sets into motion many a spoke - a journalist, a raging mother, a cop and a system all caught in an ethical dilemma. Questions are raised only to realize that the truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Jalsa
When an exiled billionaire mysteriously dies at his birthday party at a Scottish castle, the prime suspects are his close family and friends, each with a motive to kill him. CBI officer Mira Rao must use all her skill to unravel the mystery where nothing is what it seems and everyone hides a secret or two.
Neeyat
Uday Gupta, a medical college student wanted to specialise in Orthopaedic, but is stuck in an all-female class of Gynaecology. Will he change his department, or will the department change him?
Doctor G
Shailaja embarks on a confrontational journey with her husband and childhood-love as she finds herself at the cusp of her past, present and future. Stitched with a very delicate thread of emotions, this film is about love, loss, healing, awareness and liberation.
Three of Us
On a cruise to celebrate their parents' 30th wedding anniversary, a brother and sister deal with the impact of family considerations on their romantic lives.
Dil Dhadakne Do
Television & Series (9)
In the race to make the next money-spinning drug, saving lives takes a backseat and people become less than human. Step into the murky world of drug trials.
Human
Kabhie Kabhie is an Indian television drama directed by Mahesh Bhatt and written by Anurag Kashyap, Akash Khurana and Vinta Nanda; Anil Sharma directed 25 episodes of the series. The series was produced by Amit Khanna's Plus Channel and was telecast on Star Plus.
Kabhie Kabhie
Following the police force as they investigate high-profile crimes in Delhi, this series has seasons inspired by both real and fictional events.
Delhi Crime
Hasratein is an Indian television soap opera that was telecast on Zee TV in the mid 1990s. It is the story of Savi, a woman who leaves her husband and maintains an extra-marital relationship with another married man, with both their spouses being aware of the situation. Hasratein was one of the most popular television shows of the 1990s. According to Shubhra Gupta, film and television critic, the popularity of the serial "had made it a catalyst for the discussion of issues of marital discord, in spite of the embarrassment the serial generated for many people." Seema Kapoor played the character of Savi for the first 99 episodes. She was then replaced by Shefali Chhaya, whose her work earned her the Zee Woman of the Year award in 1997.
Hasratein
The focus of the series was college life. Flirtation, romance, the campus, teachers getting teased - all typical scenes from college– were shown. Hence many youngsters, school and college going students, became avid viewers of the show. The transition from college to professional life was shown for most of the characters. Simultaneously, contemporary business life was also showcased. How the rich oppress the poor, and how housewives and working women have different perspectives of life, formed some of the other themes of the narrative.
