Born
Kriti Kharbanda
29 October 1988 (age 28)[1]
New Delhi, India
Nationality
Indian
Occupation
•Actress model
Years active
2009–present
In 2015, she was voted Bangalore's Most "Desirable Woman" and also as one of the "hottest" women in India.[4][5]
Early life
Kriti Kharbanda was born in New Delhi to Ashwani Kharbanda and Rajni Kharbanda.[6][7]She has a younger sister Ishita Kharbanda and a younger brother Jaiwardhan Kharbanda, who is a co-founder of Paper Plane Productions. She moved to Bengaluru in the early 1990s with her family. After completing her high school in Baldwin Girls High School, she attended Bishop Cotton Women's Christian College before graduating from Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College.[7] She holds a diploma in jewel designing.[8]
According to herself, she was very active in cultural activities during school and college.[7]As a child, she was also featured in a number of advertisements and she continued modelling while in school/college, stating that she "always loved doing TV commercials".[9]Her prominent modelling campaigns during her college days were for Bhima Jewellers,Spar, and Fair and Lovely. Her photo on the Spar billboard caught the attention of NRI director Raj Pippala who was looking for a heroine for his film, and that paved the way for her acting career.[7] She said that she had initially no plans of becoming an actress and that it was only because of her mother's encouragement that she considered it seriously.
