She got a break when she was asked to pose for the Kingfisher 2005 calendar.
And like other models before her, Sheetal was bitten by the acting bug too.
"I can act," Sheetal says confidently, adding, "I had joined acting classes when I was modelling in Mumbai. When I got the opportunity, I just could not say no. Plus, the downside about modelling is that you have a very short career."
Sheetal decided to give modelling a try, and got her portfolio made.
She tells us more about herself.
"My father, Mukundan Menon, was a military official. He passed away in 1988 during a routine exercise. That came to us as a shock. But being an army man's daughter, I knew how to be tough, and my family overcame that crisis," Sheetal tells us.
"After my father's death, my mother, Premlatha, took up a job with the army in Nashik where my father was posted," she adds.
| MUMBAI: This is Bollywood, Channel [V] style. In a bid to woo viewers, the channel has come up with an idea of making the first "live" Bollywood movie titled Andaz Apna Very Hatke. The 20-minute film is scripted, directed and produced by the channel. Bollywood actress Neha Dhupia, along with an international celebrity whose name is yet to be revealed, will be in the lead. It will also cast artists chosen through a nation-wide talent hunt. All this will culminate into a live flick on 2 March and will also be released on the same date, making it the fastest-produced film in Bollywood history.
Channel [V] VP and creative director Sheetal Sudhir said, "We wanted to make something different. There are so many reality shows, but nothing is different, so we thought lets do Bollywood in [V] style." |
The story of Jodhaa and Akbar has also been challenged by historians as fictional. According to experts, Akbar had three historians appointed in his court, each of whom have chronicled that time period and there is no mention of Jodhaa. The movie has been banned in Rajasthan due to fear of riots by Rajputs claiming to have been insulted with the depiction of an alliance between Rajputs and the mughals out of fear. There are other claims that Jodhaa was in fact Akbar's daughter in-law and not his wife.
Even with all these controversies, I truly enjoyed the movie and thought it was an amazing sensory treat!
Starting from the yesteryears romance like Sunil Dutt and Nargis, Dharmendra and Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan to Shahrukh Khan and Gauri Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Sussane Khan, Bollywood love stories are always liked and they never stale away. With every passing day they flourishes enormously. But there are also examples of some stars that failed to keep their promise to their beloved ones and split up in the mid-way. Citing some of the break off Bollywood couples are Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh, Aamir Khan and Reena and the list goes on.
There are some couples that ablaze the silver screen with their on-screen chemistry and entertained the masses. Shahrukh Khan and Kajol's pair is always appreciated and their film likes Kuch Kuch Hota Hain, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Kabhie Alvida Na Kehna etc able to make an everlasting mark in the memory of the cine-lovers. Those films are masterpieces and remain evergreen for the life-time. They go so much in dept in their reel roles that they look very real love pair on the celluloid. Another notable on-screen pair is Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha.The duo got huge accolades for their performance in Silsila. It is even said that the movie is inspired by their real life story.
Love stories and lovers are never out of bloom from Bollywood. With every passing day more numbers of lovers are adding to the lover's list. Some love stories successfully reach its final destination while most of them get vanished in the midway. There are also some notable Bollywood couples that in spite of having a strong feeling for each other failed to bloom and goes astray. Sometimes their emotions and feelings also remained unveiled .And finally they had to bury their feelings.
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