Malti Chahar

Timeline

1. 1990Born on 15 November in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, according to Bharat Fast.Her father, Lokendra Singh Chahar, was a retired Indian Air Force officer and her mother, Pushpa Chahar, is a homemaker.
2. 2010sStudies software engineering at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Lucknow, and competes in sport at school level.
3. 2014Reaches the finals of Femina Miss India and takes the Miss Photogenic title at the Delhi round of the same pageant.At least one outlet has described her instead as runner up at Miss Delhi 2014, which is a different result.
4. 2018Appears in Genius, the Anil Sharma film that starred Utkarsh Sharma and Ishita Chauhan, in the role that profiles list as her Bollywood debut.
5. 2020sBecomes an internet name after the broadcast shows her in the stands supporting her brother at a Chennai Super Kings match.
6. 2022Appears in Sada Viah Hoya Ji, one of the Punjabi and Hindi projects that fill out her filmography.
7. 2024Appears in 7 Phere: A Dream Housewife, a Hindi film that the Bigg Boss 19 cast list names among her credits.
8. 2025Enters Bigg Boss 19 on day 42 as the second wildcard of the season, on a Weekend Ka Vaar episode, with Deepak Chahar on stage to support her.
9. 2025Is evicted on day 102, the thirteenth housemate to leave, when a cauldron of smoke slips reveals the fewest viewer votes.

Who Malti Chahar is

Malti Chahar is an Indian actress and model from Agra who is better known for two things than for any single role: she was a Femina Miss India finalist in 2014, and she is the elder sister of Deepak Chahar, the India seam bowler. Both facts are true, and the second one has followed her through every profile written about her.^[1][3]

That is an awkward position for anyone with acting ambitions, because a family connection is easier to write about than a filmography. Her actual credits are a set of supporting parts in Hindi and Punjabi films, a pageant record, and some work behind the camera on short films. None of it is negligible and none of it is a starring career, which is the honest description of where she was before Bigg Boss 19.^[1][2]

The season changed the balance. Her Bigg Boss run lasted sixty days and ended a week before the finale, and it put her in front of an audience that does not watch Punjabi films or read pageant coverage. It is the largest audience she has had, and it came at thirty four.^[2][1]

Agra, the Air Force household and engineering

She was born in Agra into a family with a service background. Her father, Lokendra Singh Chahar, is a retired officer of the Indian Air Force, and her mother, Pushpa Chahar, is a homemaker. Bharat Fast describes a disciplined household, which in an Air Force family usually means transfers, a strict routine and children who learn to make friends quickly.^[1]

The household also produced two professional cricketers. Deepak Chahar, her younger brother, has played for India across formats and for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League, and a cousin, Rahul Chahar, is a leg spinner who has also played for India. Whatever else the family did, it raised athletes.^[1][3]

She took the academic route first. She has a Bachelor of Technology in software engineering from the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Lucknow, a state government engineering college, and the profiles that cover her consistently name the subject and the institution, which is more than most celebrity pages manage.^[3][1]

The sport did not stop at the boundary rope. StudyBizz records that she was an active sportsperson through school and college who represented her school in national level competitions, without naming the sport. That is a reported detail rather than a documented one, but it fits the family pattern and it explains why she looks comfortable in the physical tasks that Bigg Boss sets.^[3]

Femina Miss India 2014 and the pageant years

Her entry into public life was the 2014 pageant season. Bharat Fast records that she was a finalist at Femina Miss India 2014 and won the Miss Photogenic title at the Delhi round of the same competition. Femina Miss India is the largest pageant in the country and reaching the finals is a genuine achievement, though it is worth being precise: a finalist is one of the shortlisted contestants, not necessarily a title holder.^[1]

The record gets muddled after that. A widely shared clip describes her as the runner up at Miss Delhi 2014, which is a different result from Miss Photogenic at the Delhi round of Femina Miss India, and StudyBizz does not settle it. Both claims are repeated here as claims.^[1][3]

Pageants in India function as an audition circuit as much as a competition. Contestants who reach the finals get called for brand shoots, casting calls and magazine work, and the modelling career that follows is the actual prize. Her modelling work after 2014, including fashion campaigns and magazine features, follows exactly that path.^[1][3]

The IPL stands and the internet

The moment that made her a search term had nothing to do with acting. She was at a Chennai Super Kings match watching her brother play, the broadcast found her in the stands, and the clip circulated widely enough that she became an internet sensation. Circle of Cricket covered the aftermath, including a reply she posted when Deepak tried to tease her about it online.^[4]

This is a familiar mechanism in Indian sport and it is worth naming plainly. A woman in the crowd at a cricket match is filmed, the clip is shared, and a stranger becomes a minor celebrity in a week. It happened to her, and the coverage that followed treated it as the origin of her public profile even though she had been modelling since 2014.^[4][1]

She has handled it the way most people in that position do, by using the attention rather than arguing with it. Her social accounts mix fitness, fashion, family and project updates, and the cricket connection is part of the content rather than something she hides. Her Instagram following, reported at over a million by Bharat Fast, is the practical result.^[1]

Genius and the films

Her film debut is listed as Genius, the 2018 Hindi film directed by Anil Sharma, which launched his son Utkarsh Sharma opposite Ishita Chauhan and was built around a spy plot and a score by Himesh Reshammiya. StudyBizz records that she played a role in it without naming the character, and the profiles repeat the credit as her Bollywood debut.^[3][1]

The later credits are smaller and more scattered. Sada Viah Hoya Ji in 2022, 7 Phere: A Dream Housewife in 2024, and Maa O Meri Maa, which the Bigg Boss 19 cast list names first among her known works. The spread across Hindi and Punjabi productions is typical of an actor working the northern circuit rather than the Mumbai studio system.^[2][3]

She has also worked behind the camera. Bharat Fast describes her as an independent filmmaker with short films to her name, and StudyBizz records short films, music videos and brand collaborations alongside the features. Direction is a harder claim to check than acting, because short films often exist only online and are not catalogued, but the profiles agree on it and it is the part of her record that distinguishes her from a pure pageant to screen career.^[1][3]

Bigg Boss 19: the second wildcard

Bigg Boss 19 began on 24 August 2025 on JioHotstar and Colors with Salman Khan hosting, ran 105 days, and ended on 7 December 2025 with Gaurav Khanna as winner and Farrhana Bhatt as runner up. Eighteen housemates were listed for the season, and Malti was not one of the original eighteen.^[2]

She entered on day 42 as the second wildcard, during a Weekend Ka Vaar episode, and the show brought her brother on stage. The season's record notes that Deepak Chahar entered the house as a guest, was welcomed by Bigg Boss, attached his photograph to hers, and left in the evening. The makers do not spend a segment on a guest for a contestant they do not intend to feature.^[2]

A wildcard entry in the middle of a season is structurally hard. The house has already formed its groups, the audience has already chosen its favourites, and the new arrival is a stranger to both. Contestants who survive that handicap usually do it by being useful in tasks rather than by being liked immediately, and her run suggests she managed it.^[2][1]

Sixty days in the house

She entered on day 42 and left on day 102, which is sixty days in a season of a hundred and five. For a wildcard that is a long stay. The season's own notes put her in the middle of the house's business almost immediately: in the ration task that had housemates conducting sessions for the group, her palm reading and Tanya Mittal's motivational session together earned up to forty per cent of the weekly ration.^[2]

She was also on the wrong side of the ledger at times. In a task built around a teddy bear that the housemates had to hold, her handling produced three challans, including an incident where she threw the bear on the floor and the house lost eleven kitchen items as a penalty. Bigg Boss penalties are counted in groceries, and a contestant who costs the house its rava and its Nutella is remembered for it.^[2]

Her closest on screen relationship was with Tanya Mittal, a fellow contestant who reached the finale. The season's coverage repeatedly pairs them in tasks and voting, and Bharat Fast notes their interactions as one of the things that drew attention to her entry. In a house of eighteen, one strong pairing is usually the difference between being edited into the show and being edited out of it.^[2][1]

She was nominated repeatedly, as everyone was. In one week she was named alongside Amaal Mallik and Shehbaz Badesha for the weekend eviction, in another with Gaurav Khanna, and in the last stretch she was in a group of eight nominees that included every eventual finalist. She survived all of those, which is the part of a Bigg Boss run that does not show up in a highlights package.^[2]

The eviction on day 102

The end came in the last week before the finale, in a task that turned eviction into theatre. Housemates wrote their names on slips, burned them, and the colour of the smoke decided their fate: green meant saved and a finalist, red meant eviction. Malti's slip produced red smoke, which the show presented as the fewest viewer votes, and she left through the garden gate.^[2]

The season's record calls her the thirteenth housemate evicted, and the timing is the cruellest in any reality show: out one week before the final, close enough to the end that the audience had begun to picture her there. The finalists were Gaurav Khanna, Farrhana Bhatt, Tanya Mittal, Amaal Mallik and Pranit More, and Gaurav won.^[2]

She had been part of the ticket to finale race earlier and was eliminated from it along with Amaal, so the route to the final had already narrowed before the smoke task finished it. That is how the format works. A contestant can survive six nominations and still be removed by one bad afternoon.^[2]

What has not been confirmed

Her date of birth is given as 15 November 1990 by Bharat Fast and by every profile that has copied it, and no interview that this entry could find has her stating it. The age of 34 used in the 2025 coverage rests entirely on that date.^[1][3]

Her pageant result is reported two ways. Bharat Fast says she was a Femina Miss India 2014 finalist and Miss Photogenic at the Delhi round, while a widely shared clip calls her the runner up at Miss Delhi 2014. Those are different competitions and different outcomes, and neither is documented in a way that settles it.^[1]

Her role in Genius is listed as her debut by the profiles but is not named in any cast list that this entry could reach, and the same applies to her parts in Sada Viah Hoya Ji and 7 Phere. The credits are real in the sense that the films exist and the profiles agree, but the size of each role is not published.^[2][3]

Her net worth is estimated by Bharat Fast at three to four crore rupees, a figure the outlet itself labels as indicative and derived from typical industry ranges. It is not a disclosure and is treated here as an estimate. The same goes for her reported height of 165 cm and weight of 50 kg.^[1]

Her fee for Bigg Boss 19 has not been disclosed by her or by the makers, and the marital status field in her profiles is left as not publicly disclosed rather than as a confirmed single status.^[1]