She is also an interior designer and is the younger sister of Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty Kundra. Shamita has made her bollywood debut with 2000 super hit film Mohabbatein. She was also seen in some Telugu and Tamil films. She was last seen shaking her legs in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 8 which aired on Colors. Shamita Shetty was born on 2 February 1979 in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. She has completed her degree in Commerce from Sydenham College in Mumbai and has also completed a diploma course in Fashion Designing from SNDT. Shetty was born and brought up in a traditional family which hails from the Bunt community. She is the younger daughter of late Surendra and Sunanda Shetty, who are the manufacturers of tamper-proof caps for the pharmaceutical industry. Her elder sister Shilpa Shetty is a popular bollywood actress and Shetty sisters shares a great bond with each other.