Sahil Salathia

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Sahil Salathia
Punjab University, Chandigarh
OccupationActor
Years active2015–present

Sahil Salathia is an Indian actor.

Early life and education

Sahil hails from a Dogra Rajput family in

Punjab University, Chandigarh. Sahil is also a trained actor from Barry John Acting School.[1]

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[2] 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,[3] as the male lead in Ashutosh Gowariker's Everest,[4][5][6] where he gets to play an extremely layered character[7] of a celebrated mountaineer[8] called Arjun Sabharwal. He was particularly excited[9] to be represented by the great combo of ace director Ashutosh Gowariker[10][11] and A. R. Rahman, the Oscar-winning music director who has done the background score for Everest.[12] 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,[13] he made his Bollywood film debut on the big screen with Ashutosh Gowarikar's Panipat.[14] He is the pride[15] of Jammu and an inspiration to many that hard work and perseverance pays off.

Filmography

Films

Year Film Role Notes
2019 Panipat
Shamsher Bahadur

Television

Year Film Role Notes
2014 Everest Arjun Sabharwal Protagonist
2016
P.O.W.- Bandi Yuddh Ke
 		Yusuf Wali Muazzam Antagonist
2020 Hasmukh Rahul Kapoor Special Appearance

Web series

Year Film Role Notes
2020 Paurashpur Bhanu Released on
ZEE5
2020 Kaun Banegi Shikharwati Released on
ZEE5
, Special Appearance

Social causes

Apart from acting and modeling, Sahil is also involved in social causes. In the year 2014, he arranged for a fun filled day for the underprivileged kids from a NGO, Smile Foundation during Christmas.[16]

He also flagged off the "Chal Kar Pahal" walkathon to support gender equality, women empowerment in Bhopal, Lucknow and Chandigarh[17]

References

  1. Times of India
  2. ^ The Amazing Models Directory
  3. ^ "Newcomers as leads", by The New Indian Express
  4. Times of India
  5. Times of India
  6. Times of India
  7. ^ "Sahil talks about his character" by In.com
  8. ^ Interview with MissMalini, by Miss Malini
  9. ^ "SRS: 3 musketeers", Ahmedabad Mirror
  10. ^ "Ashutosh Gowariker casts", by India TV News
  11. ^ "Scale TRPs", by Hindustan Times
  12. zee news
  13. Times of India
  14. Times of India
  15. ^ "Engineer who made his way to small screen through modeling" Archived 19 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  16. Times of India
  17. The Tribune
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