Shenaz Treasurywala

The daughter of a merchant marine engineer,she was born to a middle class Gujarati-speaking Parsi family.At age 14 Shenaz was enrolled in school at Mumbai,where she also later attended St. Xavier's College.In 2001, Shenaz moved to New York City where she studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.While in New York, she also took a writing course at NYU.Her favourite hobbies include jet skiing,travel,and photography.Shenaz Treasurywala is an Indian model, travel writer, and actress. Discovered by a photographer during her first year in college, her first modelling assignment was for the soft drink Gold Spot.She also did advertising work for Akai and Philipsbefore MTV Networks Asia hired her to work as a VJ on the MTV's Most Wanted program. Her acting debut was in the 2003 Bollywood film Ishq Vishk,which earned Shenaz a nomination for the best supporting actress award by the Filmfare Film Awards. With her life-long love of travel,she has written travel articles for Cosmopolitan, EL...

The daughter of a merchant marine engineer,she was born to a middle class Gujarati-speaking Parsi family.At age 14 Shenaz was enrolled in school at Mumbai,where she also later attended St. Xavier's College.In 2001, Shenaz moved to New York City where she studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.While in New York, she also took a writing course at NYU.Her favourite hobbies include jet skiing,travel,and photography.Shenaz Treasurywala is an Indian model, travel writer, and actress. Discovered by a photographer during her first year in college, her first modelling assignment was for the soft drink Gold Spot.She also did advertising work for Akai and Philipsbefore MTV Networks Asia hired her to work as a VJ on the MTV's Most Wanted program. Her acting debut was in the 2003 Bollywood film Ishq Vishk,which earned Shenaz a nomination for the best supporting actress award by the Filmfare Film Awards. With her life-long love of travel,she has written travel articles for Cosmopolitan, ELLE, and Femina.Shenaz currently resides in Mumbai, India and serves as the host of Culture Shock on the Travel Channel.In 2003 she made her debut in Bollywood with Ishq Vishk with Shahid Kapoor and Amrita Rao. Her performance as Alisha one of Shahid’s love interest in the movie earned her a nomination for Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.In 2004, she had a part in Hum Tum and in 2009 she has two movies and she is playing the lead roles in both. In Aage Se Right (2009) she plays Pearl, a dancer in a bar. She will also be starring opposite Imraan Khan in the comedy Delhi Belly.