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Today is the 36th birthday of Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma. The actress worked in 19 films in her 16-year career, out of which 13 films were hits. These also include the year's highest grossing blockbuster films like 'Piku' and 'Sanju'.
Anushka's acting career took a break after marrying Indian cricket team's star cricketer Virat Kohli in 2017. He has been away from acting for the last 6 years.
However, despite this, Anushka's social media fan following is more than that of superstars like Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan.
On the 36th birthday of the actress, know some stories related to her career records and personal life…
Anushka herself has shared pictures of her childhood birthday celebrations many times on her social media account.
Anushka was born on May 1, 1988 in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. His father Colonel Ajay Kumar Sharma is an army officer and mother Ashima Sharma is a homemaker. There is an elder brother, Karnesh Sharma, who was earlier in the Merchant Navy, but is now a film producer.
Dhoni's wife Sakshi and Anushka were classmates.
Most of Anushka's studies took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai. Sakshi Dhoni, wife of cricketer and former captain MS Dhoni, was also Anushka's classmate.
Since her father was in the army, Anushka has been very disciplined since childhood. In an interview given to The Times of India in 2012, Anushka had said – 'I feel more proud to say that I am the daughter of an army officer than to call myself an actress.'
Anushka in school time picture. MS Dhoni's wife Sakshi Dhoni stood behind him.
Neither did she watch films, nor did she want to become an actress.
Anushka herself had told in an interview that neither she had watched films growing up nor did she want to become an actor. She wanted to make a career in modeling or journalism. After graduation, Anushka shifted to Mumbai to focus on her modeling career.
After doing several ads in the beginning of her career, Anushka made her runway debut at Lakme Fashion Week in 2007. She was chosen by famous fashion designer Wendell Rodricks as the final model for his Spring Summer Collection 2007. It was from here that Anushka started getting ads for hair oil, shampoo and jewellery.
Audition clip from the early days of Anushka's career.
While modeling, Anushka was also seen in some TV ads.
Karan Johar was against Anushka's casting in her debut film.
In 2008, Anushka started her acting career with Yash Raj banner's film 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi'. However, at that time filmmaker Karan Johar did not want him to be cast in this film.
After seeing Anushka's photo, he told the film's director and producer Aditya Chopra that he should not cast Anushka in the film. Karan wanted Aditya to give a chance to some other actress in this film.
However, Aditya trusted Anushka and he signed a deal with the actress for not just one but 3 films.
Anushka later worked with Karan in films like 'Bombay Velvet' and 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil'.
5 out of the first 6 films with Yash Raj
The first 3 films of Anushka's career were of Yash Raj banner. While 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi' was a hit, 'Badmaash Company' and 'Band Baaja Baaraat' were average.
Anushka's first film outside the Yash Raj banner was 'Patiala House', which flopped.
After this, the actress again worked in Yash Raj's two films 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' and 'Ladies vs Ricky Bahl' and both were hits.
Anushka with Yash Raj Films founder and filmmaker Yash Chopra. Yash was also the director of Anushka's film 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan'.
She was in the news for dating Ranveer Singh.
After coming to Bollywood, Anushka's name was linked to Ranveer Singh, co-star of the film 'Band Baaja Baaraat'. Both of them dated each other for some time, but soon they separated. Although both of them never said anything about this publicly.
'NH10' was a hit, while 'Bombay Velvet' was the biggest flop.
The year 2015 was one of mixed emotions for Anushka. This year the actress released her first film 'NH10' made under her production house Clean Slate Films. In this, Anushka herself played the lead role and the film was a hit at the box office.
The film 'NH10' was the first solo hit film of Anushka's career. Made for Rs 18 crore, this film had earned Rs 49 crore.
At the same time, Anurag Kashyap directed 'Bombay Velvet', released this year, proved to be the biggest flop of Anushka's career. Made with a budget of Rs 120 crore, this film did a business of only Rs 23.71 crore in the country.
Gave big hits of career with Aamir, Salman and Ranbir
Apart from this, Anushka also did films like 'PK' with Aamir Khan, 'Sultan' with Salman Khan and 'Sanju' with Ranbir Kapoor in her career. All these three films made many big earning records and were the highest grossing films of the year.
Her last film as an actress 'Jeera' was a flop
Meanwhile, Anushka also gave hit films like 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil' and 'Sui Dhaaga' in her acting career. However, Anushka's last film as an actress was Shahrukh Khan starrer 'Jiraay' released in 2018. It was a flop at the box office. Since then, Anushka has produced OTT projects like 'Bulbul', 'Paatal Lok' and 'Kala'.
Virat-Anushka's love story started with shampoo ad
Talking about love life, Anushka met cricketer Virat Kohli during the shooting of a shampoo ad in 2013. In an interview, Virat had told- 'When I met Anushka for the first time, I was very nervous. However, after the first conversation I started feeling comfortable with him.
After 4 years of dating, Anushka and Virat got married on 11 December 2017 in Lake Como, Italy. After marriage, Anushka gave birth to daughter Vamika in January 2021 and son Akay in February 2024.
Virat and Anushka dated each other for 4 years before marriage.
Combined net worth is Rs 1300 crore, bodyguard is given salary of Rs 1.2 crore
According to the report of GQ, the combined net worth of Virat and Anushka is Rs 1300 crore. Out of this, Kohli's net worth is Rs 1050 crore while Anushka's net worth is around Rs 255 crore.
Anushka earns Rs 7 crore for a project and Rs 5 to 10 crore from brand endorsement. Whereas Anushka gets Rs 95 lakh for making a post on Insta.
Apart from this, the actress also earns from her production house and clothing line Nush. Virat-Anushka's earnings can be estimated from the fact that the couple pays an annual salary of Rs 1.2 crore to their personal bodyguard Prakash alias Sonu.
Haven't done any film for 6 years, still popularity hasn't reduced
Even though Anushka has been on an acting break for the last 6 years, there has been no decrease in her fan following. Anushka has 67.4 million followers on the social media platform Instagram, which is more than superstars like Amitabh Bachchan (37.5 million) and Shahrukh Khan (46.7 million).
The actress is going to make a comeback with the film 'Chakda Express' after 6 years of marriage. This is the biopic of female cricketer Jhulan Goswami.
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