The FABULOUS Life of Shalini Passi

In its new season, the Bollywood Wives are joined by the Fabulous Lives!

Yes, it's titled Fabulous Lives VS Bollywood Wives, and we have new faces joining the original cast of Maheep Kapoor, Bhavana Panday, Neelam Kothari and Seema Sajdeh.

Shalini Passi is the latest addition along with Riddhima Kapoor Sahni and Kalyani Saha, and she has got everyone talking on social media, thanks to her quirky personality.

Just how Fabulous is she in real life? Namrata Thakker finds out.

 

Born and raised in Delhi, Shalini is an art collector and connoisseur along with being a philanthropist.

She's a former state-level gymnast who loves music, singing, painting, archery and scuba diving.

 

Here's Shalini with the famous Serbian conceptual artist and performer Marina Abramović in London.

 

Looking gorgeous in blue while exploring the Thiksay monastery in Ladakh.

 

She is married to Sanjay Passi, chairman of the Pasco Group, a Rs 2,690 crore (Rs 26.90 billion) company, according to DNA. They live in a luxurious 20,000-square-foot mansion in Delhi, which is shaped like a boomerang and is filled with expensive, rare artwork from around the globe.

 

Also a fashion enthusiast, Shalini is often spotted making grand appearances at events in her couture outfits.

 

Shalini attends the most star-studded art event, Serpentine Summer Party in London, looking like a vision in her designer white gown.

 

Enjoying summers in snow-clad Almaty in Kazakhstan.

 

Shalini says orange is the new pink as she stuns in a custom Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla creation for a wedding in Udaipur.

 

Raising the temperature in Monte Carlo.

Shalini runs a digital platform called MASH and also heads the Shalini Passi Art Foundation, both of which, aim to encourage local artists from India.

Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com