CURRENT DREAM GIRL,SARA ALI KHAN

Khan's debut came in 2018 with the Abhishek Kapoor-directed inter-faith romance Kedarnath, in which she played a Hindu girl who falls in love with a Muslim porter played by Sushant Singh Rajput.[21] In preparation for her role, Khan improved her knowledge of Hindi vocabulary with help from Rajput.[22] In February 2018, a dispute between Kapoor and KriArj Entertainment, the producers, led to the latter losing the film's rights to RSVP Movies, who produced it alongside Kapoor.[23][21] A few weeks before release, priests of Kedarnath Temple demanded the film's boycott as they believed it promoted Love Jihad, and a Bharatiya Janata Party leader also urged for a ban.[24][25] As a result, the film was banned in the state of Uttarakhand.[26] Kedarnath received mixed reviews with praise directed to Khan's performance.[27] Kunal Guha of Mumbai Mirror found it to be a rehash of 1980s Hindi films but appreciated Khan's act: "When her Mukku is angry, hopeful, desperate or coltish, she often conveys it through her eyes alone — giving us a taste of the diverse faces she can throw on."[28] Meena Iyer of Daily News and Analysis similarly wrote, "It is hard to believe that this is [Khan's] first film because she is so spectacular".[29] Kedarnath grossed over ₹966 million {US$13 million} worldwide against a budget of ₹350 million {US$4.9 million} to emerge as a commercial success.[30][31]

A few weeks after the release of Kedarnath, Khan starred in Rohit Shetty's action film Simmba, alongside Ranveer Singh, which was loosely based on the Telugu-language film Temper {2015}.[32] She began work on it when filming of Kedarnath was temporarily suspended.[33][34] This led to Abhishek Kapoor suing Khan; they later settled out of court when she agreed to split her time between both films.[35][36] Reviewing the film for The Times of India, Ronak Kotecha opined that Khan had "precious little to do besides looking breathtakingly beautiful" and disliked the chemistry between her and Singh.[37] With worldwide earnings of ₹3.85 billion {US$54 million}, Simmba emerged as the third highest-grossing Hindi film of 2018.[38]