Her long legs, full red lips, curvaceous body and striking deep pools of pitch black eyes, make Kim Sharma seem to melt any man's heart. With a beauty like hers she does not even need the benefit of a family name to make it big in Bollywood. Born on January 21st 1980, she was doing her schooling from a boarding school in Panchgani, when on a trip to Mumbai she decided to audition for the close-up ad. Luckily she was selected and after that there was no looking back for her. In the high-octane world of modeling she proved her mettle by developing fast. Her close-up ad was followed by other commercials for big companies such as Sunsilk, Pepsi, Tata Safari, Ponds, Fair & Lovely, Clean-n-Clear and Liril.

While completing her modeling assignments she also tried her hand on music videos like Lata Mangeshkar's Paayoji and Ali Haider's Purani Jeans. Kim's movie break came, when she bagged a lead role in the film Mohabbatein. Lucky for her, the movie turned out to be a super hit and Kim's performance drew rave reviews from appreciative audience as well as critics. From there her career has germinated at an astonishing speed. Her memorable lead roles in films like Kehta Hai Dil Bar Bar and Tumse Achha Kaun Hai have immortalized her as a Bollywood heroine. The brainy sex appeal and old-fashioned glamour that Kim brings to the screen, has directors and producers salivating to cast her in their films.

The most commendable fact about this doe eyed beauty is that she plans to progress in Bollywood on strength of her acting talent and not by indulging in burlesque skin show. To be featured in an international men's magazine like Maxim isn't anything small, but when asked to pose in some revealing pictures she adamantly refused. Almost similar is her attitude about exposing in films. If her role requires her to expose, then she will do it, but she will not strip only to the sake of a voyeuristic skin show.

When quizzed about the basis on which she decides to do a particular film Kim says, "For me the most important is the director. It doesn't have to be a big director, it can be a new director, but somewhere down the line mentally I have to feel a connection because I'm more of a director's actress. I would perform for the person; unless the person doesn't get it out of me I couldn't care less. Second comes the role. I'm not saying I want to do arty roles where I am the central focus of the film. It may as well just be six songs, it may be like a David Dhawan film which is fine with me." Her recently released film Tom, Dick and Harry, may not have done that well at the box office but it certainly won her accolades for her memorable role. In the movie, Kim plays the role of a fisher woman called Bijlee. Bijlee is a funny and completely loud character, who abuses everyone, talks in Marathi and picks up fights on the smallest of pretexts. Dino plays her love interest in the film. The grapevine has it that before the shooting of the film began the director, Deepak Tejori, made Kim visit the fish market everyday just to let her have an idea about the mannerisms of a typical fisher woman. It is completely like her to heap fulsome praise on Deepak Tejori, "I had a wonderful time with him," she says. "He is very sweet person and I got along with him well. He really used to pamper me on the set. He gave me a lot of scope. He is a fabulous director. I am really fond of him."

With a spate of big banner films lined up for release, Kim's career can only move in one direction – upwards. But it is the graph of her love life that is making as much news as her film career. It is being reported that the cricketing sensation Yuvraj Singh is besotted to Kim and the two are planning to tie the knot in near future.