Sahil Salathia

Sahil Salathia is an Indian model[1][2] turned actor,[3] with his acting debut as the main lead with Ashutosh Gowariker's Everest.[4]

Sahil Salathia
Sahil Salathia in an Interview
Born (1991-04-13) 13 April 1991
Jammu, India
Alma materPunjab University, Chandigarh
OccupationActor
Years active2011–present

Early life and education

Sahil hails from a Rajput family in Jammu city, the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Sahil did his schooling at Apeejay, Sheikh Sarai in Delhi and is a software Engineer from the Punjab University, Chandigarh. Sahil is also a trained actor from Barry John Acting School.[5]

Modeling

Sahil represented India at Mr. Asia 2012 in Hong Kong and was a finalist (Top 5) amongst 32 Asian and Euro-Asian countries. Sahil has been the face[6] for many popular brands and has also done brand campaigns for almost fifty leading brands in India, some of the brands are; Idea Cellular, Tata Indicom, Kingfisher, Big Bazaar and Mercedes Benz, etc. He has also appeared in all the leading magazines such as Maxim, GQ and Hello to name a few, as well as on the cover of India Today and Men's Health India. He has done around 20 commercials in India and abroad. His latest television commercials include Tata Tetley Green Tea, Lava Mobile Phones, Tata Indica, Samsung laptops, Loop mobiles and is continuing.

Career

He made his acting debut,[7] as the male lead in Ashutosh Gowariker's Everest,[8][9][10] where he gets to play an extremely layered character[11] of a celebrated mountaineer[12] called Arjun Sabharwal. He was particularly excited[13] to be represented by the great combo of ace director Ashutosh Gowariker[14][15] and A. R. Rahman, the Oscar-winning music director who has done the background score for Everest.[16] Sahil was recently awarded the Best Fresh Face by the Lion Gold Awards for his extremely appreciated portrayal of Arjun on screen. A sought-after face in the Indian entertainment circuit,[17] he is still waiting to make his right film debut on the big screen.[18] He is the pride[19] of Jammu and an inspiration to many that hard work and perseverance pays off.

Filmography
Year Film Role Awards By
2014 Everest Arjun Sabharwal Best Fresh Face Lion Gold Awards
2016
 P.O.W.- Bandi Yuddh Ke Yusuf
2019 Panipat Shamsher Bahadur

Social causes

Apart from acting and modeling, Sahil is also involved in social causes. Last year (2014) Christmas, he arranged for a fun filled day for the underprivileged kids from a NGO, Smile Foundation.[20]

He also flagged off the "Chal Kar Pahal" walkathon to support gender equality, women empowerment in Bhopal, lucknow and chandigarh[21]

References
  1. "Supermodels", by Yahoo India
  2. Supermodel Sahil Salathia, by Hindustan Times
  3. Four and a fantasy, by The Hindu
  4. "Sahil on his big TV debut", 22 November 2014 Times of India
  5. "Software engineer from Jammu bags key role", Times of India
  6. The Amazing Models Directory
  7. "Newcomers as leads", by The New Indian Express
  8. "The cast of Everest", Times of India
  9. "sahil on his Everest shooting journey", Times of India
  10. "Jammu boy in a lead role in Everest", Times of India
  11. "Sahil talks about his character" by In.com
  12. Interview with MissMalini, by Miss Malini
  13. "SRS: 3 musketeers", Ahmedabad Mirror
  14. "Ashutosh Gowariker casts", by India TV News
  15. "Scale TRPs", by Hindustan Times
  16. "excited to be part of a great combo", zee news
  17. "New faces rule prime time", Times of India
  18. "Sahil looking to make his right film debut", Times of India
  19. "Engineer who made his way to small screen through modeling" Archived 19 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  20. "A fun-filled day with underprivileged kids", Times of India
  21. "the lead actors of Everest initiate the walkathon for gender equality", The Tribune
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