Neha Sharma Hot Stills

Neha Sharma, 23, may have done fashion designing and is an actor today, but in many ways she still remains a small town girl from Bhagalpur. While she took a break from Telugu films after her first film Chirutha with Ram Charan, she would love to do a Telugu film today as she enjoys the dancing, travelling and money that comes with it. Ahead of her upcoming film Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 with the Deols, she talks to TOI about her first co-star Ram Charan, the tech-savvy Sunny Deol and why box office performance is more important than looks and talent. 

Neha Sharma (born 21 November 1987) is an Indian film actress. A native of Bihar, Sharma attended the Mount Carmel School inBhagalpur and pursued a course in fashion design  from the National Institute of Fashion technology (NIFT), New Delhi.

Sharma's first role was in the Telugu film Chirutha, released in 2007. Her first Hindi film was Mohit Suri's Crook, released in 2010.Sharma made a cameo appearance in Kunal Kohli's Teri Meri Kahaani, and was cast in a full fledged role in Ekta Kapoor's Kyaa Super Kool Hai Hum.

Her hobbies are cooking, listening to music, reading and dance.Sharma is trained in Indian classical dance form called Kathak. Apart from that she has also learned street hip hop, Latin dancing-salsa, merengue, jive and jazz in London. She considers Kate Moss as her style inspiration. Sharma also aspires to launch her own clothing label.

Placed at fifth in the List of Fastest Rising People (2010) in India. List was published by Google Zeitgeist.

Featured at no. 31 in Times of India's 50 Most Desirable Women.

Featured at No.1 in the Times Poll of Hottest Female Debut.

How did you get into films?

I was born and brought up in Bhagalpur. My dad is a businessman who owns petrol pumps there. I moved to Delhi in Class XI and studied at Carmel Covent School, after which I did my fashion designing from NIFT where I was a rank holder. Right from my childhood, I wanted to be a fashion designer and was obsessed with Armani and Versace and simply loved clothes. I was fit and tall and was used as a model by my seniors to showcase their clothes to the jury for judging them. I did my internship at Canada and was offered a job at Coach, but thankfully I didn't do it. I used to go to this gym in GK II where my gym instructor Maria would always tell me to get my photoshoot done. I got that done and was called to Hyderabad based on my pictures to meet Ram Charan, Chiranjeevi's son, for his launch film Chirutha. My director told me that a part of the film would be shot in New Zealand and Vikram Phadnis would design the clothes. It sounded like a paid holiday and even though I was just in my fourth year, I said yes to it.