萨迪亚·哈提卜，Sadia, born in 1997, hails from the valley of J&K. She had no plans of entering the film industry, and was, in fact, pursuing an engineering course in GCET (Government College of Engineering and Technology). In the year 2017, when she was just 20 years old, a casting director from Mumbai named Indu Sharma phoned her. A couple of weeks later, Sadia was chosen to play 'Shanti' opposite the other freshly-cast lead of Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 'Shikara', Aadil Khan.