Actress Richa Chadha on Friday dropped a couple of never-before-seen maternity shoot photos with husband Ali Fazal following the birth of their baby girl on July 16.

“Women - the sacred vessel of this divine cosmos,” the 37-year-old actress wrote on Instagram alongside the monochrome pictures. “So much can change in a month. We shot this a month ago, @stormshivajisen came over on a stormy day, with his sweet team. It rained so much that the electricity was out. We sat nursing hot cups of tea in the power cut. Thanks @alifazal9. You’re an anchor. RiALI cute,” she added.

In the pictures clicked on a beach, Richa sports a black dress and keeps her hair open. She can be seen standing on the sea shore and breathing in the fresh air. Another photo shows Ali and Richa twinning in black and enjoying a light-hearted moment.

A day before the birth of their child, Richa shared a set of monochrome maternity shoot photos with Ali. “What can a love so pure bring forth into the world, but a beam of light ? Thank you for being my partner on this incredible journey @alifazal9 , through this lifetime and many more, through starlights and galaxies… thank you for getting genius @ridburman to shoot us in our natural habitat @gulati.kanika,” she wrote alongside the pictures on Instagram.

Richa also recently opened up about the emotional journey of her pregnancy. “The discomfort is lonely, but it’s because (I) am not alone. I have constant reminders in the form of a tiny wave of a movement, a knee, a sudden kick, a feeling of someone listening in... Waiting for a bud to blossom. Aaja yaar,” she wrote alongside pictures of herself.

The celebrity couple announced their pregnancy on February 9. “A tiny heartbeat is the loudest sound in our world,” Ali wrote in the caption, revealing the news alongside two images.

After having met on the sets of the 2012 film Fukrey and dating for 10 years, Ali and Richa had tied the knot in October 2022.