Happy Birthday Anushka Sharma: Interesting facts about the Band Baaja Baaraat Actress

Anushka was born in Ayodhya to an Army officer father and a homemaker mother, Anushka grew up in different parts of India, thanks to her father's postings.

While shopping at a mall in Bangalore, well-known fashion designer Wendell Rodricks spotted her at a denim shop and she got her first break as a model.

After getting a break as a model, she never wanted to be an actress. She just wanted to be a successful model.

She had never planned to be a model or an actress and her initial choice of career was journalism.

Anushka had a dream Bollywood debut with Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. She was well appreciated by everyone, however little known to people that she had her own set of struggles to achieve this feat. According to reports, she took a day to prepare for her screen test for YRF's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and refused to do an impromptu one. She was even told by Aditya Chopra that she was not the best-looking girl around but that she was talented.

Cricket and Anushka Sharma go back a long way. Her brother was a state-level cricket player.

Anushka Sharma is the only actress to be directed by both father Yash and son Aditya Chopra in Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Only Shah Rukh Khan had that privilege before her.

In December 2014, Anuhska Sharma auctioned the leather jacket she wore in ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’ on eBay, with proceeds going to the redevelopment of the flood-ravaged states of Kashmir and Assam.