Sidharth Malhotra

Sidharth Malhotra
He was born 16 January 1985 and he is an Indian film actor and former model who appears in Bollywood films. At the age of 18, Malhotra began a career as a model. Dissatisfied with the profession, he quit and subsequently assisted Karan Johar on the 2010 film My Name Is Khan. He made his acting debut with Johar's comedy-drama Student of the Year (2012), for which he received a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut nomination. In 2014, Malhotra portrayed leading roles in two commercially successful films the romantic comedy Hasee Toh Phasee and the thriller Ek Villain.

Sidharth Malhotra

Life and career

Malhotra was born on 16 January 1985 in Delhi to Sunil, a former employee of the Indian Merchant Navy, and Rimmi Malhotra, a homemaker. He was schooled at Delhi's Don Bosco School and Naval Public School, and later attended the Bhagat Singh College.At the age of 18, Malhotra dabbled in modelling “just for fun and easy pocket money”; he performed several photo shoots and fashion shows but decided to quit after four years as he was dissatisfied with the profession. Interested to pursue an acting career, he successfully auditioned for a film to be directed by Anubhav Sinha. However, the film was shelved, following which he worked as an assistant director to Karan Johar on the 2010 film My Name Is Khan.
Malhotra was next paired opposite Parineeti Chopra and Adah Sharma for the romantic comedy Hasee Toh Phasee (2014), which tells the love story of a drug-abusing scientist and an under-confident aspiring businessman. Mohar Basu of Koimoi found his performance to be "restrained" and described his chemistry with Chopra as "lively" and "heartfelt"; Saibal Chatterjee of praised his screen presence and compared it to the early work of Amitabh Bachcha..His second release in 2014 was the Mohit Suri-directed romantic thriller Ek Villain. Malhotra was cast as Guru, a hardened criminal whose terminally-ill wife (played by Shraddha Kapoor) is murdered by a serial killer (played by Riteish Deshmukh). Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express reviewed: "Sidharth Malhotra is watchable even if he has a hard time doing menace he just seems so nice and wholesome all the time, even when he is crunching bones.The film was generally perceived to be plagiarised from the Korean film I Saw the Devil, although Suri dismissed the allegations.The film eventually emerged as a major commercial success with domestic revenues of over INR1 billion (US$16 million).The box office performance of the film established Malhotra as one of the most successful among the new generation of Bollywood actors.