Model, Actress. Over a brief career she became one of the more familiar faces of her native land. The child of a well off family, she was born and raised in Ludhiana and educated privately. Spotted at a mall while in her mid-teens, she won a number of increasingly important beauty contests including Miss Cosmos of 2007, began a modeling career, and was crowned Hairomax Miss South India 2010. Seen regularly in television and print advertisments, she became the image of a number of products and businesses including Honda, Fastrack, Nalli Silks, Kalyan Jewelers, and Rasi Silks. Popular on the runway, she modeled the new designs of Raj Shroff, Michele Salins, and others, earned a degree in computer science from Dayananda Sagar College, was a magazine covergirl, and in 2012 made her Bollywood debut as a Moslem girl in “Maalai Pozhudhin Mayakathilaey”, an effort that required her to learn Tamil in three months. Shubha died in a Bengalru hospital of renal disease with which she had been ill over her final months. (bio by: Bob Hufford)