Indian Actress rides wave of success

Anushka Sharma was born in 1988 in Ayodhya and raised in Bangalore. Influenced by her father who served as an army officer, she was educated at the Army School and later got education from the Mount Carmel College. Later, she moved to Mumbai for her modelling career.

She began her career at the Lakme Fashion Week as a model for Wendell Rodrick’s collection in 2007. Sharma’s first movie was Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi in 2008. She acted as a young bride married to a middle-aged man. The reviews of her acting in the film were positive and consequently made a commercial success. After two years, she acted in Badmaash Company which is a crime comedy. Later in 2010, Sharma played a middle class lady who starts her business as a wedding planner in Band Baaja Baaraat directed by Maneesh Sharma. This also made a great success and Sharma received Int. Indian Film Academy Award(IIFA) for best actress.

In 2014, she acted as a helper who assists an alien who came to the earth with a research mission in PK. The film got sensational reviews both in positive and negative ways due to its satirical message toward diverse religious dogmas and went on to be the highest grossing Indian movie of all time. Lho Ji-young Reporter