Gabriela Bertante

Gabriela Bertante notes that as a teenager aged 17, she used to help her parents at their store in her hometown in Matias Barbosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil before she moved to São Paulo to begin a career in modelling. Bertante also took her football seriously and played in regional soccer leagues, while her brother Glelberson Luís Leopoldino Bertante has played football professionally for several Brazilian teams including Palmeiras.^{[citation needed]} She moved to India in 2010 and took part in the Lakme Fashion Week and was featured in several magazines which caught the attention of MTV who cast her as a VJ in MTV Grind.^[1]

Bertante had a meeting with Puri Jagannadh in Mumbai and the director suggested that she should do a test shoot, so she went to Hyderabad to meet him, and subsequently received an offer to dance for an item number in Devudu Chesina Manushulu alongside Ravi Teja. She shot for the song in Bangkok, Thailand.^{[citation needed]} The actress was seen in Chakri Toleti's Tamil film Billa II alongside leading actor Ajith Kumar. She had met director Chakri Toleti, when he was casting for an earlier movie and he promised her this role. The song, which has been composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, was picturised in Goa and a studio in Mumbai.^[2][3] She debuted in Bollywood with the movie "Balwinder Singh Famous Ho Gaya" alongside the actors Mika Singh and Shaan. This movie was released on 26 September 2014.^{[citation needed]}