Introducing Sonakshi Sinha : Bollywood News

Friends:

I dont have any friends from the film industry. They are mere acquaintances. I have my own set of friends with whom I hang out with. Yes, my parents took me out to parties but it mainly used to be for them. They were thrown for the older bunch. The lifestyle of film industry children is something I wouldnt relate to right now. May be later when I absolutely have to socialise, I will. Right now I am keeping well in my own little world.

Fashion World:

Four years ago I used to be this round chubby child with spectacles. I was nowhere thinking to enter films. I was planning to enter the fashion world instead. I did my fashion designing for three years from SNDT. I did extremely well in that. I was the Student Of The Year and wanted to pursue fashion designing. Then I started going as a volunteer at the Lakme Fashion Week. While doing all this, I became conscious of myself and wanted to walk the ramp too. Thats when I started losing weight and landed up walking for six designers. I picked up modelling from my mother who was a model in her days and won the Miss India crown too. She has been and will always be an inspiration. I wanted to break the mould because I felt that all the models were skinny, whereas the normal Indian woman isnt like them. At the moment, I am healthy, fit and trying to shed more kilos for my role. My dream would be to walk the ramp for the international designer Valentino.

The Khan brigade:

Salman bhai and family are very close friends since childhood. Salman bhai was the one who encouraged me while I was losing weight. He kept telling me, Lose some weight and well do a film together. He further added, Lose ten kilos. Well, I ended up losing thirty. Sohail Khan saw me at Amrita Aroras wedding and said, I am going to call you soon. He did end up calling me and came to my house for the narration with Arbaaz Khan and Abhinav, the director of Dabang. I had this thing in mind before I did my first Bollywood film. I never wanted to do something that I am in real life. Dabang has me transformed into the village. Its a different side of me. I took it up as a challenge.