Neetu Chandra was born in Patna, Bihar. A resident of Patliputra Colony, Neetu graduated from the Notre Dame Academy, Patna in 1997, and dreamt of entering the modeling world. Neetu's father, a businessman, was initially reluctant to let her pursue a career in showbiz but her mother, Neera, stood by her. Not surprisingly, Neetu attributes her success to her mother, a native of East Champaran in Bihar. She has done dozens of ads and videos for reputed firms since her graduation days in Delhi's IP College, University of Delhi. Before entering the Hindi film Industry, Neetu was an avid sportsperson. She is a black belt holder in Taekwondo. She has represented India in two different games, which is very rare. She has represented India in International Taekwondo Championship at Hong Kong in 1996 and represented India in World Korfball Championship in 1995 at New Delhi. She is a national games Silver Medal winner in Taekwondo. After completing her basic education, she started her work with small print ad campaigns in Delhi. But her hard work and perseverance took her to the Hindi film Industry. She entered films in 2005 and made her debut in 'Garam Masala' in which she portrayed Sweety, an airhostess. In 2007 she appeared in Madhur Bhandarkar's film, 'Traffic Signal'. Neetu, in order to enter her character spent a whole week living on the streets of Mumbai and living by a traffic light. Neetu Chandra also danced gracefully in a video album 'Rasiya Saajan' for music director Ismail Darbar along with Zubeen Garg. In the year 2008, she had four releases by Directors, Dibakar Banerjee, Rahul Dholakia, Ashwini Dheer and Vikram. Her Tamil film, 'Yavarum Nalam' with Madhavan released this year and was declared a major hit. Currently, Neetu is doing two major projects, one is 'Rann' with Ram Gopal Varma and another one is Jag Mundhra's 'Apartment'. In 2008, a company named '7Seas Technologies' announced that they will develop a 3D mobile game with Neetu Chandra playing the lead character. The game titled on her name Neetu (The Alien Killer), is based on a unique game story and revolves around the lead character killing different aliens. Neetu Chandra is the Life Member of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy Of Film & Television. Neetu was on the cover of Maxim India on the January 2009 issue of the magazine. In a recent interview with Delhi Times, she was quoted as saying "I'm ready to go nude for a James Cameron movie". Her moment of fame, or notoriety if you will, came when she posed intimately with another female model for the cover of 'The Man' magazine, a leading men's lifestyle magazine in India. The shoot was objected by bystanders at Juhu beach in Mumbai where it was progressing, some of whom were said to belong to the right wing MNS, who raised slogans and said the shoot was 'promoting lesbianism' and 'against Indian culture'. The magazine insisted on carrying the pictures, which appeared in its June issue. Neetu herself milked the controversy dry for publicity, appearing in city supplements like Bombay Times countless number of times and claiming the shoot was a 'male fantasy shoot' based on Khajuraho sculptures and not 'lesbian' in nature. She even declared that she was not a lesbian. Her website scored hits above 500,000 during the controversy.