Sahil Salathia

Sahil Salathia is an Indian supermodel turned actor, with his acting debut as the main lead with Ashutosh Gowariker's Everest.

Sahil hails from a Rajput family in Jammu city,the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Sahil did his schooling at Apeejay,Sheikh Sarai in Delhi and is a software Engineer from the Panjab University,Chandigarh. Sahil is also a trained actor from Barry John Acting School.

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 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, Mercedes Benz etc! He has also appeared in all the leading magazines such as Maxim, GQ, 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 continuing!

He made his acting debut, as the male lead in Ashutosh Gowariker's Everestwhere 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 Ashutosh Gowariker and A R Rahman, 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 is still waiting to make his right film debut on the big screen. He is the pride of Jammu and an inspiration to many that hard work and perseverance pays off.

Apart from acting and modeling, Sahil is also involved in social causes. Last year (2014) Christmas, he arranged for a fun filled day for the underprivileged kids from a NGO, Smile Foundation.

He also flagged off the "Chal Kar Pahal" walkathon to support gender equality, women empowerment in Bhopal, lucknow and chandigarh