For Shweta Bharadwaj, skin cream paved the way to Bollywood.

New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) Shweta, who will make her debut on the big screen with Apoorva Lakhia's 'Mission Istaanbul', believes her ad for a skin cream paved the way to Bollywood.

'It was Suniel Shetty who had first noticed my commercial and thought I would be the perfect face for the role of Lisa Lobo in 'Mission Istaanbul'. I met Suniel Shetty and Apoorva and that meeting sealed the deal,' she said.

The film is an action movie starring Vivek Oberoi, Shriya Saran, Suniel and Zayed Khan besides her.