She failed her first audition and was given a backstage job instead. That job introduced her to the writer of Little Things — and a Marathi cup song did the rest. Two Filmfare OTT Awards later, 3.9M follow her.
He taught himself music off YouTube, played bars and weddings, then became Anmol in Mismatched — and wrote two of the show's songs himself. Actor, singer, songwriter and composer, all at once.
An Auckland student uploading Hindi covers from her bedroom won a T-Series contest and got a nickname she never shook off. Shirley Setia now has 7.4M on Instagram, 3.78M on YouTube and three films.
Spotted on Facebook, cast on a hunch, trained at RADA — and now running four brands. Parul Gulati acts in Girls Hostel and Silence 2, and founded the hair-extensions company she took to Shark Tank India.
He moved to Mumbai alone at fifteen to finish his late father's dream of making him an actor. Ten years later: Dear Zindagi, Hichki, Ludo, Mismatched, a Hindi lead, and Forbes Asia's 30 Under 30.
She played Kareena Kapoor's childhood in 2002 and has been working ever since — twenty-four years, three careers: child actor, web-series lead in Please Find Attached, and a travel channel with 465K subscribers.
She spent the first four years of her career being cast as a boy. Two decades on, Ahsaas Channa is one of the faces of India's web-series generation — Girls Hostel, Kota Factory, Hostel Daze, Half CA — with 3.6M followers on Instagram.
The Delhi history student who parodied a callous news interview on a phone camera in 2015 and built BB Ki Vines into a 26.5-million-subscriber universe — playing every character in it himself.
The Thane girl who went from an FM radio internship to MostlySane, a Daytime Emmy, Netflix's Mismatched, a #1 bestselling novel and the TIME100 Creators list — 8.7M on Instagram, 7.24M on YouTube.
The NIFT graduate who invented Billi Maasi at her day job and turned a South Delhi aunty impression into a screen career — 4.4M on Instagram, 1.57M on YouTube, and a shapewear label of her own.
