Isha Talwar was born on 22 December 1985[2] to Indian film actor Vinod Talwar.[3][4]
Born and brought up in Mumbai, she graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.[5] She joined choreographer Terence Lewis's dance school in 2004, where she learned various dance forms like ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and salsa and went on to become a tutor in the dance studio.[6] She stated that her choreographer Terence Lewis, was "one person who changed me completely".[6]
Acting career
Talwar worked as a model and appeared in more than 40 commercials for brands like Pizza Hut, Vivel Fairness Cream, Kaya Skin Clinic, Dulux Paints, and Dhatri Fairness Cream,[7] besides a music video with Hrithik Roshan for the Just Dance competition.[3] She says she spent two years preparing for her film debut.[8] Although she had worked as a child actress in the 2000 Bollywood film Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai,[9] her full-length film debut was with the Malayalam film Thattathin Marayathu,[10] for which she took a four-month voice training class, went through a course to learn the language,[8] and learned to play the guitar.[7] The film which saw her play Aisha, a Muslim girl who falls in love with a Hindu boy,[10] became a blockbuster and was listed by Rediff.com in their "Top five Malayalam films of 2012" list.[11] Critics noted that she "looked beautiful",[12] but had "nothing much to do" in the film.[3] In a later interview, she stated that the role of Aisha had given her "a lot of recognition" and that she was "really happy with" her girl next-door image from the film.[13] Her second film I Love Me by B. Unnikrishnan had her playing the female lead alongside Asif Ali and Unni Mukundan.[14] She said that her character in the film Samantha had "shades of grey".[15]
^Vijay George; P. K. Ajith Kumar; Saraswathy Nagarajan (20 December 2012). "Stars at the marquee". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Retrieved 20 December 2012.