If looks could kill, this Mumbai girl who started out as a model would be lethal. Tall, beautiful, talented, the Khallas girl, Isha Koppikar shot to fame with her song number in
Ram Gopal Verma's movie Company. Born in 1976, Isha had never imagined that she would become an actress. Instead, she had hoped to walk in her father's footsteps and become a doctor. "I did not get enough marks to enroll for MBBS," says Isha, who graduated in life sciences from Ruia College. Modeling assignments trickled in after she did a photo shoot with Gautam Rajyadhyaksha when she was still in junior college. Besides some prominent assignments for Ponds, Camay, Rexona, Synergy, Coke, L'Oreal and Tips & Toes, she did a few ramp shows. "I did only five or six ramp shows," she says, "as I used to be plump in those days." Such candid admissions make her the person she is. In 1995 she won the Miss Talent crown at the Miss India. She debuted in a Tamil film,
En Swasa Katre opposite
Arvind Swamy, who was at the peak of his fame at that time following the success of Roja and Bombay. The film got rave reviews and she was expected to be a big hit in the south.
