Sahil Salathia

Sahil Salathia
Sahil Salathia: an interview photo
Born	(1990-04-13) 13 April 1990 (age 35) Jammu, India
Alma mater	Punjab University, Chandigarh
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2015–present

Sahil Salathia is an Indian actor.

Early life and education

Sahil hails from a Dogra family in Jammu city. He studied at Punjab University, Chandigarh and worked as a software engineer. ^[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.^{[ citation needed ]}

Career

He made his acting debut, ^[3] as the male lead in Ashutosh Gowariker's Everest, ^{[4] [5] [6]} where he played the character ^[7] of a celebrated mountaineer ^[8] called Arjun Sabharwal . He shared about being 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 had done the background score for Everest. ^[12]

Sahil was recently^{[ when? ]} awarded the Best Fresh Face by the Lion Gold Awards for his portrayal of Arjun on screen. ^[13] He made his Bollywood film debut on the big screen with Ashutosh Gowarikar's Panipat. ^[14]

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 ALTBalaji and ZEE5
2020	Kaun Banegi Shikharwati		Released on ZEE5, Special Appearance
2023	Adhura	Suyash Verma	Prime Video
2024	Honeymoon Photographer	Adhir	JioCinema
2025	The Traitors India	Contestant	20th place

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. ^[15]

He also flagged off the "Chal Kar Pahal" walkathon to support gender equality, women empowerment in Bhopal, Lucknow and Chandigarh ^[16]

References

1. "Software engineer from Jammu bags key role", Times of India
2. The Amazing Models Directory
3. "Newcomers as leads", by The New Indian Express
4. "The cast of Everest", Times of India
5. "sahil on his Everest shooting journey", Times of India
6. "Jammu boy in a lead role in Everest", 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. "excited to be part of a great combo", zee news
13. "New faces rule prime time", Times of India
14. "Sahil looking to make his right film debut", Times of India
15. "A fun-filled day with underprivileged kids", Times of India
16. "the lead actors of Everest initiate the walkathon for gender equality", The Tribune