Rachana aka Bhumika Chawla was born in New Delhi. She spent her childhood at a lot of places as her dad worked for the Indian Army.

Bhumika was into modelling before she got into movies.

Actress Bhumika made her debut in movies through Yuvakudu along side Sumanth.

Her movies include

Yuvakudu with Sumanth
Kushi with Pawan Kalyan
Snehamante Idera with Nagarjuna
Roja puvulu with Sriram
Okkadu with Mahesh Babu
Missama with Sivaji
Simhadri & Samba with NTR Jr.
Naa Autograph with Ravi Teja
Jai Chiranjeeva with Chiranjeevi
Maya Bazaar with Raja
Anusuya with Ravi Babu & Abbas
Swagatam with Jagapathi Babu

Actress Bhumika has a movie " Mallepuvvu " awaiting release shortly. Ilayaraja has composed the music.

She is compared with veteran telugu Actress Vijaya Shanti often for the kind of heroine oriented movies she acts in.