SRK's Fan co-star on serving as nurse during COVID-19, recovery from paralysis

Shikha Malhotra was living the glamorous life of an up and coming Bollywood actor in India with several movies under her belt. From working with industry superstar Shah Rukh Khan in 2016, to playing the lead role in the 2020 release Kaanchli: Life in a Slough, Malhotra had well and truly arrived on the Bollywood scene. But when the coronavirus pandemic struck India, she worked as a nursing officer at a government hospital, serving and treating COVID-19 patients of all ages. But seven months later in October, she herself tested positive for the infectious disease and spent a month recovering alone in a hospital. Soon after her recovery, she suffered a stroke and the right side of her body was paralysed.