Vidya was born on 2 March 1973 in Maharashtra, India. She has a younger sister, Darshana Maitra, who lives in New Jersey.Vidya started her career with Vikram Bhatt's Inteha (2003) which failed at the box office. After a string of unsuccessful movies and several advertisements, she acted in Chak De India in the year 2007, playing the role of a goalkeeper and captain of the Indian women's national hockey team. Her most recent movie was 1920: Evil Returns.