Hardik Pandya has seen immense growth in his cricketing career. Once sold to Mumbai Indians for 20 lakhs in what was his first IPL season, Hardik today he is paid 12 crores for a season by the same franchise. Top-notch performances helped him make way for the Indian cricket team. Hardik is currently a core member of the Indian cricket team in all formats, his ability to score quickly and bowl at a good pace is praised highly by the greats of the game.
Hardik has been out of the team due to back injury and is all set to make a comeback with the India A team. Meanwhile, he is currently celebrating his new year with his girlfriend Natasa Stankovic in Abu Dhabi. Reportedly, the youngest Pandya brother has been dating her since August last year, as they have been spotted together at various places.
On 1st January 2020, the couple made their relationship public official as Hardik proposed her on a yacht in Abu Dhabi on 1st January 2020. Both Natasa and Hardik posted about their engagement pictures on their respective Instagram handles. The news was quite a shock to many as it wasn’t expected at all and even Virat Kohli was surprised seeing it.
Hardik’s fiancee Natasa has been in India for quite a while she began her career with advertisements as later came in with item songs and cameo’s in Bollywood movies. She has had quite a journey here and some interesting facts about Hardik Pandya’s fiance have been mentioned below.
TOP 9: Interesting facts about Hardik Pandya’s Fiancee
1. Natasa Stankovic is Serbian and was born in Pozarevac in Serbia. She was born on the 4th of March 1992 and is 27 years old.
2. Natasha began to learn dancing from the age of three. This instigated her to move to Modern Ballet Dance School and she has learned dancing for 17 years almost. Natasa has also been awarded the title of “Miss Sports of Serbia” in the year 2010.
3. Natasa came into limelight with her appearance in Badshah’s music video, DJ Waley Babu. It was a big breakthrough for her considering the popularity of Badshah’s music videos in the country. DJ Waley Babu song has over 250 million views on Youtube.
4. Hardik Pandya’s fiancee Natasa’s ex-boyfriend was Aly Goni who is an Indian actor and model. He is currently playing the main role in Star Plus’s show Kuch Toh Hai Tere Mere Darmiyaan. Natasa alongside her ex-boyfriend participated in the ninth edition of Nach Baliye last year. Interestingly, they were ranked third in the reality dance show. The show was won by real-life couple Prince Narula and wife Yuvika Chaudhary.
5. During one of Aly and Natasa’s performances on Nach Baliye season 9, Natasa forgot her steps mid-way through the performance and got extremely upset and walked out of the stage in tears. Her reaction to walking away post her performance was something that did not go well with the judges Ahmed Khan and Raveena Tandon. The judges felt offended by her action as she did not wait for them to comment on her performance which is the format followed in every dance show.
6. Hardik Pandya’s fiancee Stankovic has recently appeared in a special dance number titled Jhalak Dikhlaja Reloaded in Emraan Hashmi’s film, The Body. It is a recreation of Emraan Hashmi’s song Jhalak Dikhlaja from his 2006 film, Aksar. The Body was a murder mystery, which also starred Rishi Kapoor, Sobhita Dhulipala and Vedhika in lead roles.
7. Natasa has played a cameo in a film of one of the greatest Bollywood actors of all time, Shah Rukh Khan. She had a cameo in Shah Rukh Khan’s 2018 film, Zero. She played the role of Abhay Deol’s other girlfriend in the film. The film also featured two of the biggest female actors in the industry, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma.
8. Natasa over the years has performed quite a few special dance numbers in Bollywood films including Aiyo Ji in Amitabh Bachchan’s Satyagraha in the year 2013, Mehbooba in Fukrey Returns in the year 2017 and Zindagi Meri Dance Dance in Arjun Rampal’s Daddy in 2017.
9. Another interesting fact about Hardik Pandya’s fiance Natasa is that she has also participated in one of the biggest reality shows in the Indian television industry, Bigg Boss. She was a part of the show in its 8th edition(Bigg Boss 8). She was evicted from the house on the 28th day. The show was won by Gautam Gulati. It went on air from September 2014 and ended in January 2015.
