Meet the hottie who left her job to star in Salman's film

One glance at actor and model Shalini Sahuta is enough to know why she has created a buzz in the film, TV and advertising world.

The twinkling eyes, the extremely expressive face and her voice bubbling with a youthful vigour are enough to impress even hardened filmmakers.

And that is precisely what Shalini appears to have done, with an important role against Arya Babbar in T-Series’ Ready, a parallel lead in the popular TV serial, Ganga Ki Dheej on Sahara and another film Chhoo Ley Aasman in the pipeline.

This is in addition to her major roles earlier, in the TV serial Naaginn on Zee TV, the lead role in Sab TV’s Gupshup Coffee Shop and numerous TV ads including that of medical abortion pills, Facia soap, Norton anti- virus, HDFC Bank, Maggi Noodles, Newscorp, ADD Achiever gel pen, Rajshree Pan Masala etc.

And that’s not all. The versatile actor has also done a stint as an anchor on the TV channel, Zoom and played the female lead in the legendary Jagjit Singh’s music video, Inteha Ishq Ki, from his latest album, Inteha.

In fact, the expression, “full of beans” is what aptly describes this Punjabi stunner from Mumbai. So it is hardly surprising when a single question put to her draws a torrent of breathless lines in the form of an answer.

The entry of this IT Graduate in showbiz was as rapid as her answers. But Shalini’s dream of making it big under the arc lights took seed in her childhood itself. The insatiable desire to face the camera was born when, in school, she came across an ad featuring a good-looking model.

“There was something about that ad that made me decide that this is what I want to do,” Shalini says. But unlike several other child-like dreams, Shalini chose to nurture it into an ambition. And the result was a slew of ad films when she was still in college.