India, Aug. 4 -- Shalin Bhanot and Nia Sharma are both TV actors, and best friends. Ahead of Friendship Day on August 4, Sharma recalls she met Bhanot after one of their mutual friends got hurt. "Shalin hosted all of us and made her (the friend who got hurt) stay in the house and ordered food for all of us. He was such a warm host and he was so welcoming. That's what impressed me about him," says Sharma.

"I thanked him like 100 times for letting us be there. It was like a small picnic. We kept coming and going to his house for two days to take care of our friend. So through that Shalin and I became friends. Then Naagin happened and he did the first episode where through him I was born. I happened to be his daughter in that show. That is ...