Sahil Salathia is an Indian actor.

Early life and education

Sahil hails from a Dogra family in

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city. He studied at

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and worked as a software engineer.

Modeling

Sahil represented India at

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2012 in

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and was a finalist (Top 5) amongst 32 Asian and Euro-Asian countries. Sahil has been the face 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,

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, Big Bazaar and Mercedes Benz, etc. He has also appeared in all the leading magazines such as ''

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'', '' GQ'' and ''Hello'' to name a few, as well as on the cover of ''

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'' and ''Men's Health India''. He has done around 20 commercials in

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and abroad. His latest television commercials include Tata Tetley Green Tea, Lava Mobile Phones,

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, Samsung laptops, Loop mobiles and is continuing.

Career

He made his acting debut, as the male lead in

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's Everest, where he gets to play an extremely layered character of a celebrated mountaineer called '' Arjun Sabharwal''. He was particularly excited to be represented by the great combo of ace director

and

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, the Oscar-winning music director who has done the background score for ''Everest''. 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, he made his Bollywood film debut on the big screen with

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Filmography

Films

Television

Web series

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,

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during Christmas. He also flagged off the "Chal Kar Pahal" walkathon to support gender equality, women empowerment in

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and

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"the lead actors of Everest initiate the walkathon for gender equality"

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References

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