Actress turned away from films, became businesswoman
Riya Chakraborty is one of the Bollywood actresses who have been in discussion about their personal life more than her professional life. Riya had an affair with the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, with whose death Riya was surrounded by controversies. She was accused of abetment from committing suicide to the actor to consume drugs and then she also went to jail. Along with him, his brother Shovik Chakraborty was also arrested. Although Riya has now got a clean chit in this case, but due to this entire case, her film career was completely destroyed. Riya has now become a business woman away from films and the actress has been in a lot of discussion about Roadies.
Birth of Riya Chakraborty
Riya Chakraborty was born on 1 July 1992 in a Bengali family. His father was a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army. Riya’s father’s name is Indrajit Chakraborty and mother’s name is Sandhya Chakraborty. Riya Chakraborty, who started her career as a VJ, has no less than a film. He traveled from small screen to films, but an incident reversed his entire life. Riya’s career and personal life was full of ups and downs and controversies.
Riya Chakraborty’s career
Riya did in 2009 with MTV India reality show ‘TVS Scooty Teen Diva’, after which she appeared in many other shows. He then turned to films in 2012 and made his debut with the Telugu film ‘Tuniga Tuniga’. The film proved to be a big flop at the box office. After this, he made her Bollywood debut in 2013 with ‘Mere Dad Ki Maruti’ and it was also a flop. After this, she was a part of about 8 films from Sonali cable, half girlfriends to face and all these films proved to be a flop.
Wasted career
Riya Chakraborty’s name was the most discussed after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput in 2020. Riya faced several allegations including giving Drugs to Sushant, abetment for suicide. In the drugs case, the actress also had to spend 27 days in jail, along with her brother Shovik also hit the entire case, which impressed the actress’ career. During this time his name was also associated with well-known filmmaker and director Mahesh Bhatt. Although Riya got a clean chit in the case, her career had completely derailed.
Crores of company
After the film’s career was ruined, Riya started a new start and became a business woman from the actress. He started a brand of clothes named Chapter 2 and today is the owner of a 40 crore company. In an interview with CNBC TV18, Riya talked about the manufacture of her brand with brother Shovik and also revealed the reason behind the erecting of it.
Life became hell after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput
Riya had said during the conversation- ‘When we went through that case (Sushant Singh Rajput Suicide case), we lost our career. I stopped working in films and Shrovi’s MBA career, Future’s planning was all over. There were 96 percentile in his CAT, but was arrested at the same time. It was difficult for him to get a job in any corporate.
Business women are earning crores
Now Riya Chakraborty is running a business with her brother Shrovik Chakraborty. His Chapter 2 is a clothing brand, whose value is around 40 crores. Shortly before, Riya also launched her first store in Mumbai, in which many stars arrived. Apart from this, she was also a gang leader in MTV Roadies and is now slowly engaged in bringing her life on track.
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