Ali Fazal and his fiancé Richa Chadha were pictured at the Mumbai airport on Wednesday, a week ahead of their wedding. The couple reportedly flew down to Delhi.

Actors Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal, who have been dating since 2015 are to get married in October this year. The pre-wedding festivities are set to begin in late September and the wedding is scheduled to be held in the first few days of October at the iconic The Great Eastern Home in Delhi. The couple will also host a reception a day after their wedding for close family and friends.

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Who is Ali Fazal?

Ali Fazal was born on 15th October 1986 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh into a middle-class Muslim family to Feroz Fazal and Late Uzma Saeed. Fazal was 18 when his parents got divorced and he was brought up by his maternal grandparents.

He attended a number of schools before moving to the all-boys boarding school, The Doon School in Dehradun. He graduated in Economics from St. Xaviers College, Mumbai.

During his second year of graduation, he earned a small role in the final scene of the English romantic comedy The Other End of The Line (2007). In 2009, Fazal made his Bollywood debut as Joy Lobo in the National Award-winning cult 3 Idiots directed by Rajkumar Hirani. In 2013, he earned one of the lead roles in the comedy film Fukrey which went on to become a critical and commercial success. He starred in several acclaimed films such as Bobby Jasoos (2014) and Happy Bhag Jayegi (2016), and in successful web series like Mirzapur (2018-present) and Ray (2021). He also appeared in the Hollywood films Furious 7 (2015) and Death on The Nile (2022). He is filming a number of Bollywood and Hollywood projects at the moment including Ric Roman Waugh’s Kandahar.

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In 2014, Fazal was listed as one of the ‘Most Desirable Men’ by The Times of India.

Ali Fazal met actress Richa Chadha in 2012 and they started dating a few years later. The couple got engaged in 2019.