Newcomer Anushka Sharma has much in common with Deepika Padukone. Both are Bengaluru girls, both have been models, and both have made their debuts with Shah Rukh Khan

Anushka Sharma is a 19-year-old Bangalore based elite model. Newcomer Anushka Sharma debuting opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Aditya Chopra directed, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi has left the King Khan mightily impressed. Anushka was picked to be Wendell Rodrick's finale model at the last Fashion Week. Since then the demure looking model has done campaigns for Silk and Shine, Whisper and Fiat Palio. Anushka comes from a very disciplined army family background. Her father is an army officer and mother is a housewife.

Bangalore based modeling agency and the style and image consultant Prasad Bidapa discloses that Anushka always had the makings of a superstar. At the age of thirteen she used to walk the ramp like a seasoned model. Her cool confidence and attitude made her shine during her modeling days.

A trained bharatanatyam dancer, Anushka is playing a dancer who gets married to a nerd in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.

What follows is a journey filled with laughter, tears, joy, pain, music, dance and a lot of love. A journey that makes us believes that there is an extraordinary love story in every ordinary jodi.