Athiya Shetty (born 5 November 1992)[2] is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films of Bollywood. She debuted in the romantic action film Hero (2015). She was born to actor Sunil Shetty and Mana Shetty. Since a young age, she wanted to follow her father's step in acting after accompanied him to various shooting locations. During her visit to the set of Umrao Jaan, she grew an inspiration from Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to become an actress on seeing her adorning herself into the character of Umrao Jaan.

Shetty was born and brought up in Mumbai and she attended American School of Bombay. In her institute, she was schoolmate with Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor and all the three of them participated in dance and acting shows.[3] Later, she enrolled at New York Film Academy to study acting in order to fulfil her endeavours as an actress. In 2015, she marked her acting debut in Hero alongside Sooraj Pancholi, produced by Salman Khan Films, the film performed well and collected around ₹33.37 crore (US$5.0 million) nett.[4] Bollywood Hungama give her a fair review ″Athiya Shetty is too decent in her part but will need more time to find her comfort zone
Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (born 27 December 1965)[5] better known as Salman Khan (pronunciation : [səlˈmaːn ˈxaːn];) is an Indian film actor, producer and television personality. He has a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide, and is cited in the media as one of the most popular and commercially successful actors of Hindi cinema.[6][7]

The son of screenwriter Salim, Khan began his acting career with a supporting role in Biwi Ho To Aisi (1988) and achieved breakthrough with a leading role in his next release — Sooraj Barjatya's romance Maine Pyar Kiya (1989). Khan went on to establish himself in Bollywood in the 1990s with roles in several top-grossing productions, including the romantic drama Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994), the action thriller Karan Arjun (1995), the comedy Biwi No.1 (1999), and the family drama Hum Saath-Saath Hain (1999). For his role in Karan Johar's romantic drama Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Khan was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. After a brief period of decline in the 2000s, Khan achieved greater stardom in the 2010s by playing the lead role in several successful action films, including Dabangg (2010), Bodyguard (2011), Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Kick (2014) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015), Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015). Nine of the films he has acted in, have accumulated gross earnings of over ₹1 billion (US$15 million),[8][9] and he has starred in the highest-grossing Bollywood films of nine separate years which is a Bollywood record.[10] For his contributions to film, the Government of India honoured him with the 2008 - Rajiv Gandhi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment.