On February 26, Mumbai Mirror broke the news about Sallu and his new friend Hazel. So for all the curious cats out there, here's the juice on Hazel Keech.
For starters, Hazel was actually christened Rose Dawn. No, she is not an undercover cop, just a 24-year old of Indian-British parentage hailing from London and currently pursuing a career in acting and modelling.
Born in Essex, north-east London, Hazel took inspiration from her Indian mother's roots and enrolled into a local Bollywood dance academy.
Rose Dawn, aka Hazel, was an extra on Harry Potter's second, third and fourth series of films. Probably that's where she learnt how to cast her spell on Bollywood's most eligible bachelor, Sallu!
While holidaying in Mumbai six years ago, she chanced upon several opportunities to pursue her acting career. Ever since then she has appeared in the Tamil film, Billa (2007) and in some of the top commercials on air, garnering a lot of popularity in the ad-film circuit.
Our Londoner has also trained in kathak, bharatanatyam, jazz, tap dance, ballet, hip-hop and the basics of belly dancing (hmmmm...). At the age of 19 she earned praise for gyrating to Kahin Pe Nigahen (the Suga Candy version, for all you chartbuster fiends out there).
Hazel, like Sallu's ex-flame Katrina Kaif, is currently taking Hindi diction classes from Vidur Chaturvedi for Sallu's brother-in-law Atul Agnihotri's remake of the Malayalam super hit Bodyguard; she plays the second lead opposite Sallu.
When contacted, Chaturvedi tells us, "Yes, I am training Hazel who is in Bodyguard. It has been a week since I have been coaching her at Atul Agnihotri's office." Will our pardesi girl also make it big a la Kaif?
