How Sneha Ullal became Lucky

Eighteen-year-old Sneha Ullal did not have any wish to act in Bollywood films until the day she got a call from Salman Khan.

Sneha was doing her graduation in B.Com from Mumbai’s MMK College when she was spotted by Salman’s sister Arpita in the college campus. In those days Salman was looking for a fresh face to play his heroine in Lucky - No Time For Love and when Arpita insisted him on calling Sneha, the handsome Khan obliged.

At first, Sneha thought that Salman’s phone call was a prank. But later when the film’s directors Vinay Sapru and Radhika Rao called her for an audition, Sneha knew it wasn’t a joke. She went for the screen test and was on the verge of writing her own destiny.

A shy girl who had never thought of acting in films got a plum assignment and went to shoot with Salman in Russia. And her very first shot required her to roll down from a snow-clad mountain with Salman.

“I didn’t know how to do that so Salman curled his legs around mine. Shooting in Russia wasn’t easy. I tore a ligament, bruised my feet,” a report quotes Sneha as saying.

Sneha takes the comparisons of her looks to Aishwarya Rai in her own stride. She says while she feels flattered “to be compared with such a beautiful woman”, still she would “like to be known as Sneha and not Ash-lookalike”.

And Sneha is all praise for Salman whom she calls “gem of a person”.

Sneha has also been signed to play the love interest of Sohail Khan in a boxing drama titled ‘Aryan’.