Firstpost At IIFA 2025 EXCLUSIVE | Netflix's 'Fabulous Lives vs Bollywood Wives' fame Shalini Passi on Bollywood debut: 'I first have to learn how to...'

Netflix’s Fabulous Lives vs Bollywood Wives is creating a lot of waves and the one wife who emerged with maximum impact this time is Shalini Passi.

Passi is a design collector, art patron, and fashion figure based in Delhi. Born in 1976 in Delhi, she married businessman Sanjay Passi in the late-90s. They live in a palatial 20,000-sq-ft house in Delhi’s Golf Links.

She also came on Netflix’s ‘The Great Indian Kapil Show’ and told the host and comedian, “When I saw your show for the first time, memories of my grandparents washed over me because I used to watch Krishi Darshan with them."

And while talking to Firstpost on the green carpet of IIFA 2025, Passi spoke about her Bollywood debut and said, “I first need to learn how to act” and laughed.

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Food for Netflix’s Fabulous Lives vs Bollywood Wives fame Shalini Passi is not an important part of her life. It is just for is for sustenance, not for taste. 49-year-old Shalini takes her fitness very seriously.

Shalini  mentioned in one of her interviews that she did not want to be a burden on anyone, which prompted her to take certain steps to maintain the vitality of a 20-year-old. “I started manifesting, exercising and strength training.” Food for her is like a fuel to keep going and continue with her work and chores throughout the day and she doesn’t indulge in good food.

Shalin i made a revelation that previously she limited her raw food consumption till a certain timing, which she later extended. She said, “I take my meals at room temperature, because I sort of gave up that taste, that food part… to be able to focus on my work, because sometimes food becomes a hindrance. We wait for our lunch time and we waste half-an-hour and then we are waiting for dinner. So, for me food is for sustenance, not for taste.”