She had a London School of Economics (LSE) degree, a well-paying consulting job in London and what looked like a conventional corporate career ahead of her. But Tara Sharma chose a path not many would take when they have a comfortable job and a salary that allows them to live well in London.
When Tara replaced Katrina Kaif in a film
In her second film, Tara replaced Katrina Kaif in Anurag Basu’s 2003 film Saaya. Later, speaking to Bollywood Bubble in 2022, Katrina herself admitted that she was replaced by Tara and recalled how she felt her career was over at the time. In a 2023 interview with The Times of India, she revealed that acting offers started drying up when she was pregnant with her elder son. The show first premiered in 2011 on TV channel Colors before moving to different channels including NDTV Good Times and Star World, and eventually to YouTube.
But I always wanted to act in films, so I quit my job and came to Mumbai. After shooting one shot, not one day but just one shot. At that time I thought my life was over. I thought my career was over. It went on to become a long-running platform featuring conversations around parenting, family, children and women’s experiences.
In an old interaction with Hindustan Times, she said, “I was doing a corporate job at Accenture in London, after studying at the London School of Economics. She said, “I got thrown out, not thrown out, let’s say replaced, in a film called Saaya, which was an Anurag Basu film with John Abraham and Tara Sharma. “When I was pregnant with our older son who is now 14 (the younger one is 12), I stopped getting acting offers,” she said.
