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31 Things You Didn’t Know About Bollywood Superstar, Anushka Sharma

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31 Things You Didn’t Know About Bollywood Superstar, Anushka Sharma

Recently, Sharma inked a deal with Netflix to produce original movies. As a rising force in Hollywood, here’re some things we didn’t know about her

November 20, 2018

While Priyanka Chopra may be one of Bollywood’s biggest names to make a historic crossover to Hollywood in recent history, there is another star who also had a similar career trajectory minus the engagement to a Jonas brother. With 20 million Instagram followers and 19 movies under her belt, this bonafide global superstar is no other than Anushka Sharma.

Recently, Sharma inked a deal with Netflix to produce original movies. As a rising force in Hollywood, here are the 31 facts that we didn’t know about her.

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31 Things You Didn't Know About Bollywood Superstar, Anushka Sharma
Priyanka Chopra starred in the same movie with Anushka Sharma
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  1. Both of them were in Dil Dhadkne Do, a dramedy about a dysfunctional family who go on vacation to celebrate a wedding anniversary.
Acting wasn’t a top aspiration for Anushka Sharma
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  1. She originally wanted to become a journalist prior to becoming a model and actress.
Her parents don’t have Bollywood roots
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  1. Her father, Ajay Kumar Sharma, is an army colonel and her mother, Ashima, is a homemaker.
She moved around a few times before she turned 18
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Although she was born in Uttar Pradesh, Sharma grew up in Bangalore. Then, she moved to Mumbai in 2007 to pursue a modeling career.

“I take pride in saying that I am an army officer’s daughter even more than being an actor,” says Sharma to Times of India.

Karnesh Sharma, a film producer, is Anushka’s older brother
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He was a former under-19 cricket player before he served in the navy. Now, he is a co-founder of Clean Slate Films, a production company he founded with Anushka.

At 25, Anushka became the youngest actor turned producer in 2013
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  1. The project she produced was a movie called NH 10.
She doesn’t like to be photographed by the paparazzi
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  1. The notoriously press-shy actress once jumped over a railing to avoid the paparazzi.
One of her favourite movies is In The Mood For Love
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Sharma nearly got a role in a Steven Spielberg movie
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  1. She was shortlisted to star in Spielberg’s movie about Kashmir, which previously featured Bradley Cooper, Denzel Washington and Richard Gere in the project. However, the movie has never been in production.
She answered a phone call during a press conference
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  1. While Sharma was being interviewed, a journalist’s phone accidentally rang. So, Sharma answered it. The phone call was from the journalist’s mum.
She is an animal rights activist
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In 2014, Sharma tweeted to ban horse-drawn carriages in Mumbai. A year later, she spoke up against Yulin, a festival in China where dogs are slaughtered for consumption. On her birthday in May 2018, she pledged to build a home for stranded animals.

Sharma and her husband live with a dog named Dude
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Sharma is named as Person of the Year by PETA
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In 2015, she was previously named as PETA’s Hottest Vegetarian Celebrity.

Sharma is a vegetarian
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“Going vegetarian was one of the best decisions I ever made. I have more energy, I feel healthier, and I’m so happy that no animals had to suffer for my meals,” says Anushka.

She’s a designer, too
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Sharma’s clothing line, Nush, is named after herself. The line carries cruelty-free casual staples of graphic tees, loose dresses and printed slacks.

She is married to Virat Kohli
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Kohli is a cricketer for the Indian national cricket team.

She is not a big fan of parties
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“I’m not very social by nature; I don’t have the time to. I’d rather use that time to relax and prepare for my work. I can’t have futile conversations. After I come back from a party, I feel drained emotionally and intellectually that I actually have to do something to feel better so I watch TV or read something. At parties, the music is so loud. You can’t really have conversations with people” she said to India.com.

She was hidden during the filming of Zero
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Sharma plays a scientist with cerebral palsy. Since her character was supposed to be a surprise for her fans, Sharma’s co-star Shah Rukh Khan had to keep her under wraps while she exited her trailer.

Shah Rukh Khan was her co-star in two movies
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Like Hollywood, Bollywood often casts the same co-stars in multiple projects. Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma starred in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and again in Zero.

Sharma won a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress
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The award was for her role in Jab Tak Hai Jaan in 2010. Her first nomination as Best Actress from the Filmfare Awards was for her debut role in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi in 2007.

She was discovered by fashion designer Wendell Rodricks
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Rodricks was the man who convinced Sharma to model after he spotted her at a denim shop in Bangalore.

She is scared of lizards
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She admitted it in an interview for Cosmopolitan India.  “Oh my god, I’m SO terrified of them!” says Sharma.

Her dream dinner guests are A-listers
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Her dream dinner guests are Ryan Gosling, Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman, Benazir Bhutto and Roger Federer.

She auditioned for 3 Idiots, but lost to Kareena Kapoor
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In the comedy, Kareena Kapoor portrays Pia, a doctor who falls in love with an eccentric engineering student.

Sharma rejected a role in Tamasha because the film focused on a male protagonist
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The role went to Deepika Padukone.

She’s the brand ambassadors to Fujifilm and Polaroid
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Sharma was tapped to appear on a campaign for Fujifilm’s Instax Square. For Polaroid, she did a commercial for the brand’s eyewear campaign.

Sharma prefers acting over modeling
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“I don’t think I was a good model. I think I was born to emote and act. I would walk down the ramp and smile and they used to say, ‘give us a blank look.’ It was really difficult, not to smile,” she said to Times of India.

She once compared a box office bomb to a sudden death of a family member
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Among all the box office hits she made, the only film that flopped was Bombay Velvet in 2015. In an interview, Sharma says, “I have never faced… a flop. My films have done average well or they have done really well. It has never been like what happened with Bombay Velvet. And it’s really painful. I was feeling like some death has happened in the family.”

Sharma auctioned a leather jacket on eBay to raise funds for Kashmir flood victims
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The jacket was worn in Jab Tak Hai Jaan.

The trailer for Phillauri broke the Internet with 10 million views
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Sharma thanked her 20 million followers on Instagram for their support.

Fortune India named Sharma as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women
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Thanks to a decade-long illustrious career, Sharma’s impact on the fashion and acting worlds got her to where she is today.

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