West End chorus girl strikes Bollywood gold

My Account
Logout

Create an Evening Standard Account

Use your social network

Save time by using your existing account to sign in to Evening Standard

We'll never share your information or post anything to your account without your permission

Welcome! Sign in here

Use your social network

Save time by using your existing account to sign in to Evening Standard

We'll never share your information or post anything to your account without your permission

Forgot your password ?

Registration

* indicates fields that are mandatory

Email *

Password *

Confirm Password *

First name *

Surname *

Postcode *

Country *

Mobile phone number

Username *

Gender *

Year of birth *

When you sign up...

You will have access to all our online competitions, discounted offers and can post comments on our site.

You will also receive The Weekender newsletter sent every Thursday - it’s full of fantastic offers and ideas for the weekend. You can update your email preferences in your account page when you log in.

Other newsletters and emails

Homes & Property Newsletter - Yes I want to receive the weekly email with all the latest news on property in the capital

Occasionally we would also like to send you relevant emails detailing specific offers either from ourselves or carefully selected partners. If you would prefer not to receive these then please tick the appropriate boxes below. We will never pass on your details.

I do not want to receive additional offers and information from the Evening Standard

I do not want to receive additional offers and information sent by Evening Standard on behalf of carefully selected partners

Terms and Conditions

* I have read, understood and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of Evening Standard

Registration

Mail Sent for Registration Confirmation.

A confirmation email has been sent. Please activate your account by clicking on the activation link sent in your mail box.

Bodyguard, with Hazel Keech and Salman Khan, has been seen by millions after becoming one of Bollywood's highest grossing films in its opening week.

But 24-year-old Keech, from Ilford, had been set to abandon her dreams of making it big before she was contacted by the film's producers.

A chance meeting with Khan on the set of his one of his films in London in 2008 led to his taking her number and passing it on.

Keech, a former pupil at Beal High School in Redbridge, met the producers and was cast as Maya, the best friend of a woman Khan's character Lovely Singh is hired to protect.

The film has had mixed reviews, but The New York Times described the Londoner as "beguiling".

Reviewer Andy Webster wrote: "In Keech's supporting presence, understated yet palpable, we sense a performer of emerging, and remarkable, star power."

Keech, half English, half Indian, has been living for the past five years in India and has featured in music videos and adverts there.

In London she sang in the West End version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and has been a Harry Potter film extra. She now hopes to get film work in Britain or the US.