me the teachers there were all strong independent wellread and opinionated ladies so they became my role models weekend outings to elloras president restaurant and mussoorie on asking sukhmani her favourite spots where she would go for weekend outings she says we were a huge group of girls and would go to president restaurant at rajpur road to eat butter chicken there was a new baskin robbins where every weekend we would just slip in to have our favourite flavours then there was elloras where we would relish tarts and sandwiches ghantaghar mein latest movies dekhne jaate the there were some weekends where we all would visit mussoorie and then have coffee at jaypee kyunki sirf coffee hi hum afford kar paate the and yes finally momos at rajpur road have made me so momolover that anywhere i go to eat momos i would search the taste of dehradun wala momos walking down the doon rain memory lane doon might have several unforgettable aspects but the citys rains submerge all in its charm sukhmani says in mumbai when i stand in my balcony to feel the rain drops i am carried away to my school years in doon where the entire school campus used to be covered with bajri and during rains it would be wet and the aroma of the bajris would spread throughout the campus rains for me is the wet bajri in my doon school the chowmein that i used to have in dehradun would be so spice and yummy that i put on 5 kilograms of weight when my school ended i realized that i had got good exposure to teachers kind of friends that i made books that i read and so on when i joined lsr i thought i will become a nun sukhmani says after all girls school in amritsar dehradun and now all girls college in delhi i thought that i will surely become a nun as i was studying in lsr i volunteered to teach the kids of cry every weekend i also took part in the western music society and the youth parliament which sort of vanished my little bit stage fears i had this habit that while watching tv i would desperately wait for the advertisements to come people would wait for their serials to come and i used to wait for the advertisements to come so by the time i came to my final year i could realize that my interest was in writing scripts once during the fest of our college garnier was the sponsor and it was searching for the garnier face of the year i also got some pics clicked and as luck had it all i won the contest also they flew me to mumbai where i was given a princesslike treatment and got a portfolio made that was my first stint with modelling when i saw myself on magazine i was ecstatic and decided to go to tv line only web based shows