Vidya Malvade is an Indian actress who started her career as an air hostess and later became a model and actress. She made her acting debut in the 2003 thriller drama Inteha, directed by Vikram Bhatt. The movie that gave her recognition was the 2007 multi-starrer sports film Chak De! India. She has also acted in movies like Kidnap (2008), Tum Milo Toh Sahi (2010), Striker (2010), 1920: Evil Returns (2012), Yaara Silly Silly (2015), Ruslaan (2024) etc. In 1997, she married Arvind Singh Bagga, a pilot who died in a plane crash in 2000. Later, in 2009, she married screenplay writer Sanjay Dayma.