- His parents wanted him to become an engineer, but he had no interest in studies, instead, he was inclined towards sports.
- He used to play rugby for a club in Delhi.
- He auditioned for Anubhav Sinha’s film and got selected, for which he shifted to Mumbai, but the film got shelved.
- He has faced a lot of struggle in his life; as he also worked as a clapper boy in the making of film Ra.One.
- He is so much addicted to hot chocolate that he used to take money from his granny by telling a lie that he wanted it for something and used to spend it on hot chocolate every time.
- He told in an interview that chocolate is his weakness. He can workout more, but can’t live without it.
- He is a dog lover and has a pet boxer, and he also campaigns for the animal welfare NGO, PETA.
- He was chosen as Abhimanyu Singh, a financially limited scholarship student, who competes with his best friend Rohan to win an annual school championship.
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Interested in pursuing an acting career, he auditioned successfully for a film to be directed by Anubhav Sinha. However, the film was sidelined, following which he worked as assistant director of Karan Johar on the 2010 film My Name Is Khan.
In 2012, Malhotra made his acting debut with Johar's student of the year alongside Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt. CNN-IBN film critic Rajeev Masand said Malhotra's performance was "serious", adding that he had "a pleasant presence". Student of the Year was a financial success that earned in the domestic market.
Malhotra was later paired with Parineeti Chopra and Adah Sharma for the romantic comedy Hasee Toh Phasee , which tells the love story of a scientist and an underconfident businessman. Mohar Basu of Koimoi found his performance "restrained" and described his chemistry with Chopra as "living" and "sincere"; NDTV's Saibal Chatterjee praised her on-screen presence and compared it to Amitabh Bachchan's early works.The film recorded a moderate box office performance, with global revenues of 620 million.
The second release of Malhotra in 2014 was the romantic thriller directed by Mohit Suri, Ek Villain. Malhotra was cast as Guru, a hardened criminal whose terminally ill woman trial killer . Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express has reviewed: "Sidharth Malhotra is watchable even though he has a hard time making threats - he just looks so kind and healthy all the time, even when he rocks bones." to be plagiarized from the Korean film I Saw the Devil, although Suri rejected the allegations.
The film finally emerged as a major commercial success with domestic revenues of more than 1 billion .The box office performance of the film established Malhotra as one of the most successful among the new generation of Bollywood actors.
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