Archive · 1 Sep 2026
Raaz Actress Malini Sharma Thanks Fans Amid Viral Farmstay Fame
Malini Sharma was an actress in the movie Raaz.
She later left the entertainment industry and began living a quieter life at a farmstay near Pune.
Her farmstay, called The Slow Local, focuses on food, nature and locally made products.
People recently discovered her new life and shared it widely online.
Her Instagram followers increased from 644 to more than 28,000 in a week.
Many fans then called and messaged the farmstay.
Malini thanked them but explained that her small team could not answer so many calls.
She asked people to use WhatsApp for bookings and said she would slowly try to answer Instagram messages.
Malini Sharma’s quiet life and farmstay near Pune recently went viral on social media.
The Slow Local’s Instagram following grew from 644 to more than 28,000 in one week.
Fans flooded the farmstay’s business number with calls and sent Sharma many Instagram messages.
Sharma thanked supporters and asked them to use WhatsApp for farmstay bookings instead of calling.
The former actress said she would try to respond to the many messages she received on Instagram.
- Who
- Malini Sharma, a former actress who runs The Slow Local farmstay.
- What
- She thanked fans for the viral attention and asked them to contact the farmstay through WhatsApp for bookings.
- When
- The renewed attention and follower increase occurred over one week, more than two decades after her 2002 film debut.
- Where
- The Slow Local farmstay in the Sahyadri Hills near Pune.
- Why
- Fans recognized Sharma as the actress from Raaz after stories and images about her quieter life circulated online.
- Person
- Malini Sharma
- Farmstay
- The Slow Local
- Location
- Sahyadri Hills near Pune
- Instagram growth
- Followers increased from 644 to more than 28,000 in one week.
- Fan response
- People made multiple calls to the farmstay and sent Sharma many Instagram messages.
- Request to visitors
- Use the farmstay number for WhatsApp messages, only for bookings.
- Film debut
- Sharma appeared in Vikram Bhatt’s 2002 horror film Raaz.
- Other work
- She appeared in C.A.T.S. and was featured in the song “Aapke Pyaar Mein.”
